Brewster, Williams, Elliott and Jones look like potentially good players that need to get more exposure next year for sure. They’ll have more impact next year you’d imagine. The key to staying on top isn’t to say “our guys are great” or to buy 2 or 3 bargains, it’s to go out and make a statement signing that makes the rest of them go “bloody hell I’d better step it up again to keep him out of the team!”
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Brewster, Williams, Elliott and Jones look like potentially good players that need to get more exposure next year for sure. They’ll have more impact next year you’d imagine. The key to staying on top isn’t to say “our guys are great” or to buy 2 or 3 bargains, it’s to go out and make a statement signing that makes the rest of them go “bloody hell I’d better step it up again to keep him out of the team!”
You're probably right but I trust Michael Edwards and Klopp. We didn't buy much last season except for Minamino and it worked out. FSG will probably take a conservative approach because their pockets aren't as deep. I could see them making a splash but when they passed on Werner, it seemed they were going to take things slowly this transfer window.
You weren’t top dogs last year. Winning a cup competition, even the biggest one, isn’t the same. The target is on your backs. From a position of strength you have to strengthen for two reasons, one to blow complacency out of the squad and two to break the spirit of the challengers. Unless you have a significant weakness or a top player that might be at the crest, or just over it, it’s more beneficial to make one statement signing than a few squad players.
wokeupnew
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oh boy
wokeupnew
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I'M HYPED
One of Leipzig/Atalanta/Atletico/PSG are going to make the final. Reminds me of the stacked one side of the bracket that was in the 2018 World Cup.
Leipzig = Sweden
Atletico = England
Atalanta = Croatia
PSG = Spain
One of Leipzig/Atalanta/Atletico/PSG are going to make the final. Reminds me of the stacked one side of the bracket that was in the 2018 World Cup.
Leipzig = Sweden
Atletico = England
Atalanta = Croatia
PSG = Spain
This game was terrible. I cannot believe they had a draw with Bournemouth. Relegation worthy Bournemouth...
wokeupnew
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It’s going to be United/Inter but I’d love to see Wolves win it.
Their passing is off target and lethargic. And they seem to have no answer to shef's back line.
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Leicester are going to be missing out on CL, who would have thought it? Collapse from them is basically the same as Spurs of last season. Amazing first half and mid-table form in the second half.
Hopefully Chelsea get pumped by Liverpool and that bunch of fuckers miss out instead. Rogers is a criminally overrated bluffer but Chelsea fans are a really hateful bunch.
wokeupnew
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I would 100% rather see Leicester in there instead of Chelsea. Chelsea will probably beat Norwich and then lose to Liverpool, the. Idk what they may do against Wolves. It’ll be an interesting last few games that’s for sure.
Fingers crossed here that we can win the three games we should, Southampton and West Ham at home and Palace away and be in a strong position before the final day away at Leicester! Also maybe Norwich will play with freedom now that they are down and then we can beat Chelsea at Wembley and knock their confidence...
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Would love that.
It’s not impossible for Spurs to still grab that 5th place spot. We face Newcastle, Palace and Leicester. We need Leicester to lose 2 more (Hopefully Spurs and United, and then Sheffield either a lose or a Draw against them ideally). It’s very unlikely but I’m much more confident now, compared to after the Bournemouth game. I would be over the moon with a 5th place finish, but I’m looking forward to Europa actually. I don’t think we’re ready for CL again and Europa is something that we can win and will give our youth some real experience.
Not a chance sorry, Bore-inho got lucky against an attacking Arsenal side with a leaky defence. Watching the game I thought that they were the better team, they just made factual mistakes. I can’t see you doing anything against anyone who is even half organised at the back...
Also, Sheffield United, there are two sides in the steel city and whilst they may be going through a rough patch right now Wednesday have won double the amount of league titles that Spurs have
wokeupnew
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We didn’t have as much possession but Arsenal did not play well today. We had one of our better performances under Mourihno. I factually disagree with your assessment. Could have easily been, 3 or 4-1 at the end of the game.Not a chance sorry, Bore-inho got lucky against an attacking Arsenal side with a leaky defence. Watching the game I thought that they were the better team, they just made factual mistakes. I can’t see you doing anything against anyone who is even half organised at the back...
Also, Sheffield United, there are two sides in the steel city and whilst they may be going through a rough patch right now Wednesday have won double the amount of league titles that Spurs have
Semantics, you know I mean Sheffield United...
Not semantics. It’s diesrespectful to a big historic club. I hate hate hated it in the past when foreigners used to refer to us as Manchester before the city emergence. There isn’t a Sheffield United fan in existence who would call themselves Sheffield, it’d be United or the Blades or maybe Sheff United.
Sitting deep and waiting for arsenal to make mistakes was always likely to yield results given their defenders. You had absolutely no creativity on show, they were much more creative, Aubameyang in particular was unkindly not to score, they are just hamstring by their centre halves. You won’t catch and pass the teams above you playing like that.