Magic Lamps

dafuq. read some 2nd rate sources on that too but did not pay it any attnetion. Thought it was BS. That is so out of character. He usually goes out of his way to state his love for the club and now he is basically dumping us for our ugly cousin out of nothing? Not that I would be too mad, his best days are behind him but I really had a different picture of him. Why would he do this? He is one of the first names on our teamsheet (for better of for worse) and even Arsenal fans would admit right now that they are a downgrade.

I think Lamps knows exactly what to do with Kante. He just said Kante is a doubt for ManUre as a smokescreen to give OGS more to think about.

It was stupid from a financial point of view. Marina would not have hesitated a second. But Bayern had their reasons. They said it was not their style to treat a player as cash cow but what they meant is that Madrid gave them special conditions in the first place based on their club friendship and they would not want to waste that. But yeah both clubs are absolute twats

ah damn. would have given him a nice 10-15m plus in sale value I guess.

It is imaginable he has lost a bit of pace but what I noticed is that he is sprinting more often. Like always. Even in preseason almost all of his off the ball and pressing movement was conducted in full sprint. Most players do not have the endurance for that but his guy is crazy fit. As for formation, I do not really trust Tammy. He is wasteful and slow in his pressing. What i could imagine is some kind of a double-false 9 with one of Barkley and mOunt always falling back to receive the ball. Requires a lot of pracice obviously but would confuse the shit out of oppositions. -------------Kepa------- Azpi---AC--Luiz--Emerson --------Kante-----Jorginho--- Pedro-Barkley-Mount-Pulisic This way we could feature all of our better players and empahsis our strength (midfield). RLC could easily drop in for Mount or Barkley when fit again. So the 3 players for one position problem would be solved as well. But obviously not gonna happen. Still worth a thought.

I actually thought about Pedros contributions vs big 6 in the past years. It really is not much. I remember that he always performed well vs Everton when they still were a top 6 club. Last season he scored a vital goal away at frankfurt and generally did good in the cup conpetitions away. 2 seasons ago he assisted for our win at Tottenham. He also scored when we lost to arsenal away in the edl cup semis. Anyway, the sample maybe is too small to establish a general rule that pedro is shit vs big 6 sides away. Also i do believe that thisb eason he should be back up to CHO or Pulisic if the perform well enough sooner or later. We can not continue to rely on 32 y.o. wingers

It is Old Trafford the refs will obviously give their best. The number of times Mike Dean and friends have robbed us vs Utd. The only time we got lucky vs them was in 2010 when Drogba was a yard offside before scoring what proved to be a title winning goal. The season before we were not given 2 clear pens and in 2011 we also should have gotten a pen. Not to mention how the refs robbed us at the bridge in 2011 and 2012 with those ridiculous penalties for them, the res for torres which was a joke and the offside winner from hernandez afterwards. The new ref darling is now liverpool obviously but i am sure they will be a few Manu fans left in the ref squad.

Is he not homegrown btw? He joined us months after his 19th bd but was registered in FA affiliated clubs since then. Given the season he starts at age 21 still counts full he should be homegrown or am i wrong?

How are city always so damn lucky on pens tho. Hate it when teams thatcare not us get more than their fair share of pen wins esp in finals.

Really sorry but all our 3 strikers are average at best. I could not even say who is best. All have more weaknesses than strengths. Michy is a deadly finisher and a good physical all rounder but has no idea about linkup play and awareness, can't hold up a ball and has no game intelligence. Abraham is super tall a good finisher but has no acceleration, lacks sharpness and hunger, games pass him.by and he can't make his own chances. His interplay is also far from stellar. Giroud is strong and good in the air, great holdup and combination play but super slow, wasteful in front of goal, a but clumsy, cant press and is inefficient in position play. Putting their strengths together would give a good but still not world class striker. I am the biggest opponent of false 9 but if we have so many midfielders in top form, I would not mind it from time to time

Tbf Tolisso has looked bang average whenever on the pitch for Bayern. he has been wrecked by injury tho

He was surely better than Luiz but he was ill positioned more often than not. And that aggressive striker Haaland really gave him a tough ride. I don't think we can afford to let him go but I hope that Rüdiger comes back soon and Christensen can fill out the Luiz role. But a zouma Luiz partnership is a disaster.

Not the best athlete or most talented but an intelligent guy with top notch attitude.

tbf of the goals conceded only one was from open play which was indeed a cascading of errors. We defended corners poorly. Also our attacking set pieces were absolute rubbish. We kept giving away the ball easily under their relentless pressing, just too many errors. But they were a much fitter, sharper team. Their 23 shots were inflated because they literally shot from any distance into the stands. They never outplayed us and our tackling was quite ok. Yes there are worryign signs but we should not fail to see the promise in this performance. WE dismantled an average European side quite easily with our best 3 players missing. Whenever we managed to play out from the back or launched those deadly diagonals we looked deadly. There was such beautiful, elegant directness about our play I have not seen for a long long time. There will be painful moths ahead but if we get through them I think we are gonna see spectacular football next year.

It helps getting your confidence up. Like DCosta when he was ripping teams apart in pre season and then started the season with 9 goals in 7 games or so.

It is wrong He won it 3 times after each of his cl wins

Wooooot aave those goals for the actual season

We just keep giving the ball away. Really need to be more composed playing out from the back.

Emerson is such a best..very attentative in defense and full of running.

Corner defending has been suspect so far. Typical rookie errors

No gladbach play a similar high energy and pressing style.

Usain bolt has a worse acceleration than many footballers. In fact it was meausred often how Bellerin, Walcott, boli traore etc etc all take less time for the first 40min Plus I don't buy Tammy is only 1,90 he looks so super tall. Maybe it's because he is skinny but he looks at least my height

Only abraham has been a completely non-entity in this game. Shame but he is just a but slow in acceleration which is no wonder given his forever legs

Amazing pass as well. But when you have a player with that absurd pace you can always hit a diagonal and hope for the best. I didn't know Pulisic was such a composed finisher. I also like how he is basically jogging and those RB dudes were sprinting their lungs out still not catching him

Omg Pulisic is so good