The English Football Thread

[Pizy 18,538]

We’ve got to have our own recruitment super dialed in and spot on this summer. Because I think both Spuds and United will be having their biggest summers ever and both will be much better next season with top managers in position.

[Laylabelle 9,411]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

We’ve got to have our own recruitment super dialed in and spot on this summer. Because I think both Spuds and United will be having their biggest summers ever and both will be much better next season with top managers in position.

Hopefully won't have dragged out deals...and we have the same manager which is a change...

[Tomo 21,737]

 

[Vesper 29,231]

1 minute ago, LAM09 said:

Who's to say Conte will remain?

There's been plenty talk of PSG wanting him & probably the only manager of note (providing Zidane takes over the French NT).

IF Conte leaves (obviously it would likely be for PSG)

then the replacement will come from this group I wager (some would be hard as hell to pull)

Gian Piero Gasperini

Laurent Blanc

Urs Fischer

Poch

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Thomas Frank

Graham Potter

Simone Inzaghi

Marco Rose

Joachim Löw

 

these cannot come (World Cup)

Didier Deschamps

Luis Enrique

Kasper Hjulmand

 

 

[Pizy 18,538]

Don’t see any reason for Conte to leave. Not unless PSG immediately sack Poch. Then I think those two just swap jobs.

But with Kane & Son still there and with a couple more top signings he could solidify them as a top 4 side for a while.

[robsblubot 3,595]

19 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Don’t see any reason for Conte to leave. Not unless PSG immediately sack Poch. Then I think those two just swap jobs.

But with Kane & Son still there and with a couple more top signings he could solidify them as a top 4 side for a while.

Conte was a such an obviously good fit for them -- called it at the time they hired him.

Everything hinges on whether Kane is there and remains motivated. He's such a good player and reckon he's even better now moving about the pitch and not strictly as a positioned striker.

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

I listed him as a Jorginho replacement for ages

TBH, I think more as a replacement for Kova, but yeah if we stick 2 mobile rounded mids, then it works for sure. I like Jorgi, but I think Guimaraes has the potential to be better than him.

Started following him in Brazil still when he bossed the midfield against Internacional in the Copa do Brasil final in Porto Alegre. Inter were all pressure with 60K ppl but could not handle Guimaraes who bossed the midfield and was 19/20 then? 

Edited May 16, 2022 by robsblubot

[LAM09 6,846]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

IF Conte leaves (obviously it would likely be for PSG)

then the replacement will come from this group I wager (some would be hard as hell to pull)

Gian Piero Gasperini

Laurent Blanc

Urs Fischer

Poch

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Thomas Frank

Graham Potter

Simone Inzaghi

Marco Rose

Joachim Löw

 

these cannot come (World Cup)

Didier Deschamps

Luis Enrique

Kasper Hjulmand

 

 

I'd expect Poch or Potter to take over.

[Pizy 18,538]

1 hour ago, robsblubot said:

Conte was a such an obviously good fit for them -- called it at the time they hired him.

Everything hinges on whether Kane is there and remains motivated. He's such a good player and reckon he's even better now moving about the pitch and not strictly as a positioned striker.

TBH, I think more as a replacement for Kova, but yeah if we stick 2 mobile rounded mids, then it works for sure. I like Jorgi, but I think Guimaraes has the potential to be better than him.

Started following him in Brazil still when he bossed the midfield against Internacional in the Copa do Brasil final in Porto Alegre. Inter were all pressure with 60K ppl but could not handle Guimaraes who bossed the midfield and was 19/20 then? 

With Haaland at City, Kane is stuck at Spuds for good. Nowhere for him to go this summer. With United keeping hold of CR7 they have no room for him either and they were the only other possible destination.

[Strike 7,303]

Arsenal 😂

[Blue Armour 4,336]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

Arsenal 😂

Thank goodness your jinx didn't work....or did it?

[Strike 7,303]

2 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Thank goodness your jinx didn't work....or did it?

haha I'm just glad there's no last game nerves this year. Can play the youth

[Strike 7,303]

8 hours ago, Pizy said:

We’ve got to have our own recruitment super dialed in and spot on this summer. Because I think both Spuds and United will be having their biggest summers ever and both will be much better next season with top managers in position.

+ Newcastle could make a play for 4th too.

[Pizy 18,538]

4 hours ago, Strike said:

+ Newcastle could make a play for 4th too.

Think it’ll still be a season early for that, but can 100% see them being in the West Ham/Leicester/Wolves vicinity. A team that’ll give every big team a game.

[Nero 1,852]

Liverpool without Van Dijk, Salah, Mane, TAA, Thiago, Henderson, Diaz, Keita, Fabinho 😱

Come on Broja and Saints! 

Edited May 17, 2022 by Nero

[Fulham Broadway 16,982]

Klopp complaining to the media that they have to play tonight - ''straight after the final, no other team has to suffer this''. Probably because they were not in the final. Bitch.

[Laylabelle 9,411]

27 minutes ago, Nero said:

Liverpool without Van Dijk, Salah, Mane, TAA, Thiago, Henderson, Diaz, Keita, Fabinho 😱

Come on Broja and Saints! 

Hmmm...  they'll find a way.

[Laylabelle 9,411]

Southampton look shakey...Liverpool will win this..theyve got back into it sooo some stupid score incoming?

Their 'B' team isn't awlful..theyve been all over this.

Hopefully City don't do it..if they do they'll win it all for def!

Edited May 17, 2022 by Laylabelle

[Laylabelle 9,411]

And Liverpool won

Urgh you can see it now...

Tbf to them does should the squad depth they have. To have played every possible game this season league and Cup and champions league wise and still be in with a chance to win all 4...

Edited May 17, 2022 by Laylabelle