ETH can look at a partner for Casemiro in the January transfer window because right now they need a striker because they cannot rely on Rashford like they did last season. Get in a striker, get the goals going in which should hopefully have the team close to the top of the league by December THEN look for a partner for Casemiro in the January transfer window.
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Still waiting for the denoument on Henderson, but the current silence from the player and club speaks volumes...it's not a move he can conduct gracefully and in the open.
Liverpool are still looking for midfielders in spite of the arrival of Mac Allister and Szoboszlai, as Thiago may also depart. It feels like a near-total rebuild in the middle. Checik Doucoure and Romeo Lavia remain in the mix among the rumors.
The consensus is also that van Dijk does not have a partner who is both consistently good and consistently healthy enough, so a center back signing is possible. I hope Konate can step it up this season, but maybe what we see now is what we're going to get.
Midfield has historically been a weak spot under Klopp - not 'bad' but there has always been room for improvement. Last season saw a lot of shaky defensive performances, but perhaps a stronger midfield, rather than big changes at the back, will address that.
I couldn't agree more. Though when you consider the situation several relevant points emerge. First, regarding player attitudes; I have often stated that primarily blaming the players is contributing to the problem rather than addressing it. Players are highly public figures playing an elite sport and I have no problem with them earning large salaries. The point of departure from 'large' into 'stratospheric' is the responsibility pretty much everyone else in the game before the players. They are merely the most publicly exposed individuals and focus on them effectively shields the real malefactors (owners, club suits, agents, corporate interests, weak/corrupt governing officials).
Second, as to the reasonableness of the amount of money in the game, there is a very clear argument in favor of what is happening if you are looking at it from one of several points of view - namely, profit (agents, corporate sponsors), money laundering or tax evasion (asset-stripping owners/club suits), and sportswashing (we know who they are). Football is big business and politically valuable. Is that all morally damnable? Certainly. But it is also 'reasonable' within the confines of those selfish and / or nefarious purposes. Until we can make football unattractive for these purposes, especially the latter two, the money will continue to flow in torrents.
And anyway it's primarily our money they are flinging around, in the form of revenue from commodities, services, and TV subscriptions. Everything from oil to snack foods to banking to gambling.
Liverpool are still looking for midfielders in spite of the arrival of Mac Allister and Szoboszlai, as Thiago may also depart. It feels like a near-total rebuild in the middle. Checik Doucoure and Romeo Lavia remain in the mix among the rumors.
The consensus is also that van Dijk does not have a partner who is both consistently good and consistently healthy enough, so a center back signing is possible. I hope Konate can step it up this season, but maybe what we see now is what we're going to get.
Midfield has historically been a weak spot under Klopp - not 'bad' but there has always been room for improvement. Last season saw a lot of shaky defensive performances, but perhaps a stronger midfield, rather than big changes at the back, will address that.
I couldn't agree more. Though when you consider the situation several relevant points emerge. First, regarding player attitudes; I have often stated that primarily blaming the players is contributing to the problem rather than addressing it. Players are highly public figures playing an elite sport and I have no problem with them earning large salaries. The point of departure from 'large' into 'stratospheric' is the responsibility pretty much everyone else in the game before the players. They are merely the most publicly exposed individuals and focus on them effectively shields the real malefactors (owners, club suits, agents, corporate interests, weak/corrupt governing officials).
Second, as to the reasonableness of the amount of money in the game, there is a very clear argument in favor of what is happening if you are looking at it from one of several points of view - namely, profit (agents, corporate sponsors), money laundering or tax evasion (asset-stripping owners/club suits), and sportswashing (we know who they are). Football is big business and politically valuable. Is that all morally damnable? Certainly. But it is also 'reasonable' within the confines of those selfish and / or nefarious purposes. Until we can make football unattractive for these purposes, especially the latter two, the money will continue to flow in torrents.
And anyway it's primarily our money they are flinging around, in the form of revenue from commodities, services, and TV subscriptions. Everything from oil to snack foods to banking to gambling.
I still expect Rasmus Højlund inbound pretty soon.
We'll see if anything can happen with Harry Kane. Probably smart to hang back and watch things develop with Bayern or PSG, then come in with a bid at that time and see if he would rather stay in England. It would be ideal to have the readymade Kane starting and the young, still developing Højlund, as well.
Andy Hunter, writing in the Guardian last Friday (July 21st) had an interesting piece about how "Jürgen Klopp’s midfield plans (have been) thrown into disarray by big-spending Saudis".
So today we are linked with
Maguire and McTominay from Utd.
Gallagher from Chelsea
Ward-Prowse from Southampton.
Apparently 105 million goes a really long way!!
I think one of those might happen.
Maguire and McTominay from Utd.
Gallagher from Chelsea
Ward-Prowse from Southampton.
Apparently 105 million goes a really long way!!
I think one of those might happen.
Remember, many of these indviduals must fill blogs, articles, airtime, plus pen what used to be known as tweets.....
Not since the Saudis have added a whole new dimension to our understanding of the term "inflation".
While, in early summer, £105million sounded (and indeed, was and is) an absolute fortune, not to mention a British transfer record, now, £200 million seems a mere snip to those who fund the sportswashing world.
Which of them would you like to see happen?
I think they are all good players. But my preference is for younger players. Spending lots on a player in their 30’s with little or no resale value isn’t good business.
So Gallagher or McTominay I think would be good for us.
But only if the price is right.
It is - or can be - very good business as a well chosen one off emergency - staving off relegation, or seeking qualification for something such as a cup, or league.
Fair enough.
I think JWP would be a good fit at West Ham.
Only problem is, Hammers want to pay $25m and Saints want $40m
Somewhere in between seems fair - maybe $32m and we all walk away happy - but then we'd have to find a new set piece taker.
Saints are yet to lose a large number of "stars" that were mooted to be on the move this summer. Will be interesting to see who is still there at the close of the window. Likewise the other two sides to have been relegated.
Heartbreaking loss at the WWC for the Kiwi women
Offside by mere mm...could've, should've would've been a draw if this goal hadn't been disallowed for offside.
Then they hit the inside of the post and out...just wasn't their night.
Group A wide open now - any of the four teams could go through with one game left each.
Offside by mere mm...could've, should've would've been a draw if this goal hadn't been disallowed for offside.
Then they hit the inside of the post and out...just wasn't their night.
Group A wide open now - any of the four teams could go through with one game left each.
There has been worse decisions, some in the EPL and the men's recent world cup where just a hand or a knee or a boat has resulted in an offside decision.
As for transfers, the sports media need to fill their pages with something, even with made up rubbish. I mean look at United, everyone knows they have a very limited budget but yet the sports media were intent on linking them with a £300 million move for Mbappe, a £100 million move for Kane, a £80 million move for Mount and the list went on and on. Anyone would think United had a bottomless pit of money the way these sports writers go on about linking half the worlds transfers to United.
oh dear, I think the young United goalkeeper is going to feel the wrath of Wrexham fans for the rest of his life because you know how fans can be and especially when the incident involved their star goal scorer who is credited as getting them promoted to the football league 2.
metro.co.uk
I know the game was a friendly but my gawd, come on United, I know Wrexham have been promoted to the football league but for all intense and purposes they are still a non-league side due to the amount of players who are still in the team when they were playing non-league football and they beat United's U23 team 3-1 !!! These are players are expected to being pushing for first team places and they get beaten by a newly promoted non-league team in a friendly. On that performance ETH would be looking at all of those United players going 'nope, nope and nope'
Wrexham boss tells Man Utd goalkeeper to 'steer clear' after horror challenge
Paul Mullin was left with a punctured lung.
metro.co.uk
I know the game was a friendly but my gawd, come on United, I know Wrexham have been promoted to the football league but for all intense and purposes they are still a non-league side due to the amount of players who are still in the team when they were playing non-league football and they beat United's U23 team 3-1 !!! These are players are expected to being pushing for first team places and they get beaten by a newly promoted non-league team in a friendly. On that performance ETH would be looking at all of those United players going 'nope, nope and nope'
I dunno if its coming from the coaching staff. But they did a similar thing against Arsenal.
This could be why
Ten Hag doesn't do friendlies
The boss explains why he wants the matches in Spain to be competitive affairs for his players.
www.manutd.com
He doesn't do friendlies, he takes them as competitive games.
Fair enough. But some people do, and they may want to avoid Utd if there's a risk of breaking a player's legs before the season has even started.This could be why
Ten Hag doesn't do friendlies
The boss explains why he wants the matches in Spain to be competitive affairs for his players.
He doesn't do friendlies, he takes them as competitive games.
If you want to build a competitive, winning culture, you have to be competitive and aim to win every match you play. I don't have any problems with that at all, considering how detached and uninterested the United squad was just over a year ago under OGS and Rangnick. ETH has done an amazing job turning the squad's mentality around.
United's youth players couldn't deal with the physicality of the older, more experienced Wrexham side, a valuable lesson for them. True enough, most of them won't make the grade in the first team, but that's never unusual.
The heartbreaking loss for NZ in the WWC was, conversely, a famous victory for the Philippines.
[EDIT: in breaking news, Joe Lewis is no longer the owner of Tottenham Hotspur after being indicted in the US for insider trading.]
United's youth players couldn't deal with the physicality of the older, more experienced Wrexham side, a valuable lesson for them. True enough, most of them won't make the grade in the first team, but that's never unusual.
The heartbreaking loss for NZ in the WWC was, conversely, a famous victory for the Philippines.
[EDIT: in breaking news, Joe Lewis is no longer the owner of Tottenham Hotspur after being indicted in the US for insider trading.]
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His words could come to harm United because as you so rightly point out, other teams will want to avoid playing United because they will be worried players will get injured and thus when it comes to deciding who to play, United's CEO could be hearing lots of 'nope, not interested in playing a friendly with your team'.
The Wrexam forward Paul Mullin has been diagnosed with a punctured lung (ouch) and will miss the early part of the season.
Re- Lewis. Billionaire wants to make even more money due to perverse greed. I'd say i'm surprised but not really. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
Re- Lewis. Billionaire wants to make even more money due to perverse greed. I'd say i'm surprised but not really. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
Football is a funny ole game, Rep of Ireland score a cracker of a goal at one end and then cause a clanger of a goal at the other end. Now they are out.
Jordan Henderson has finally officially departed for Saudi Arabia.
I can still remember him as a fantastic (if often underrated) midfielder and captain for Liverpool during their most successful period in the Premier League era. But sadly the legacy ends today.
If I were a Wrexham fan I'd obviously be upset about Mullin, but given today's total lack of social civility I have no doubt the poor young goalie for Man Utd is probably already getting death threats. Sigh.
I can still remember him as a fantastic (if often underrated) midfielder and captain for Liverpool during their most successful period in the Premier League era. But sadly the legacy ends today.
It's a friendly. The result is meaningless, and you will never, ever, see that Man United XI in a 'real' match. So nothing to worry about.
If I were a Wrexham fan I'd obviously be upset about Mullin, but given today's total lack of social civility I have no doubt the poor young goalie for Man Utd is probably already getting death threats. Sigh.
I just hope Mullins being out does not affect Wrexham too much because his goals was of massive importance to getting Wrexham promoted and thus I hope Wrexham do not get relegated because of him because it will be a forgone conclusion that some Wrexham fans will take it out on the young United goalkeeper.
I don't really care. What I am looking forward to is the documentary epsiode of this incident.
And if Wrexham are already just one injury away from relegation, and the season hasn't even started yet...I would say they have not adopted a successful strategy.
The irony of the title of the doco is that Newcastle were unlikely to either win the title or be relegated, so I have no idea what they are alluding to with the 'All or Nothing' talk.
Maybe that's the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund mission statement...
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