The English Football Thread

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, Tomo said:

I know it's only one game but his approach and changes in the Norwich game was absolutely shocking.

aka nothing changed.  

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has dismissed signing another defender in January

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/12/02/manchester-city-manager-pep-guardiola-has-dismissed-signing/

Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City manager, has dismissed signing another defender in January - and rejected the notion of a major rebuild next summer.

He will instead maintain his faith in Fernandinho at centre back and await the return of Aymeric Laporte after his knee injury during the transfer window.

City have been linked with Leicester City’s Turkey international Caglar Soyuncu as they look to resolve problems in a rearguard shorn of captain Vincent Kompany, following a second successive Premier League title success, and then Laporte in August.

They are now without a clean sheet in seven games - a run deemed “not good enough” by Guardiola - as they head to Burnley on Tuesday, desperate for victory to cut Liverpool’s 11-point lead at the top.

But he said City’s transfer strategy has not changed. “No. Nope. I don’t want any players in January,” said Guardiola.

“If we cannot do it in summer, we cannot do in January. When they come for an incredible opportunity in January for the next four, five, six years, maybe we could think about it, but that is not possible.

“Normally the players we could think it would be interesting to add something for our squad, they are not going to sell it.

“We could not sign a centre-back [in the summer]. Nico [Otamendi] continued and we decided to adapt Fernandinho in this position and that’s all.

“Sometimes the club wants to try to do their best, but we cannot. We have to adapt and adjust with the players that we have and next season we will see.

“We don’t have to rebuild too much. Rebuilding the team is seven or eight players, which we did in the second season when seven finished their contract because 11 players were over 30. Buy two or three players is not rebuild, it’s just substituting positions.”

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Pep is fucking nuts

 

even with a healthy (and I am not at all convinced he will play till late spring) Laporte, they still need a CB

Fernandinho is shit there (and is 35yo in a few months), Otamendi (soon 32) is dire dregs, and Stones is extraordinarily overrated, and Pep seems to have little to no interest in playing Walker at CB (which has the added bonus of allowing Cancelo to start at RB most games)

 

I do not understand how a team worth around £1.2bn or so in players (real market buy/resale value) overall has been allowed to have such a fixable thing potentially destroy their season, and wilfully choose to do so. I think they were crazy to let Kompany go if they knew they were going to fail to sign a CB last summer.

 

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On 01/12/2019 at 6:50 PM, MoroccanBlue said:

So team based accomplishments have more bearing on an award that specifically honors the best individual performer. 

That makes complete sense.  

Not see who won last year or where Mahrez was placed yesterday?

You'll have your answer 

[Special Juan 27,597]

Drinkwater starts for Burnley 

Amazon Prime Video player proving good quality here so far

[Nicco 927]

Just now, Special Juan said:

Drinkwater starts for Burnley 

Amazon Prime Video player proving good quality here so far

Goodies someone will take him on loan next season as well.

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Burnley  v Shitty  HD Streams

http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2019/premier-league-burnley-vs-manchester-city-s1/

https://www.totalsportek.com/chelsea-live-stream/

 

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I am really interest in watching a lot of Dwight McNeil

20yo

left-footed pacy winger

 

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Drinkwater with a cheeky brace please

and a January sale

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and of course the twat kicks it sloppily out of play as soon as I type that, ffs

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McNeil just drew a yellow on Bernardo, blew past him

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I hope for a utd win tonight, they wont be an issue for us, spurs will.

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1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

I hope for a utd win tonight, they wont be an issue for us, spurs will.

or a draw

bonus is that OGS stays as manager

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4 hours ago, Vesper said:

or a draw

bonus is that OGS stays as manager

Hey as long as spurs drop pts im all in my friend.......lets hope we can do the shit ourselves tonight.

[Laylabelle 9,426]

Looking at it Man u aren't that bad.. They've lost as it stands atm the same amount of games as us just drew a few more... All it takes is a dodgy period and there they are... 

[NikkiCFC 8,102]

What a pass by Mane 

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Urghh blah blah Liverpool blah. 

[NikkiCFC 8,102]

Also Dele Alli is playing like 100m player since Mourinho overtook. 

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Bindippers v Everton streams

http://hdstreams.club/total/ch14.php

http://www.dubsstreamz.com/b.php