I'm not a massive fan of Carragher and Neville but people would do well to remember the days of Gray and Keys post match or Lawrenson and Hansen being sour faced pricks about anything other than Liverpool on MOTD for decades. Punditry has gotten...
Yeah. He'd be good for City. Anyone else, they don't spend 80% of the game in the opponents third, so he would struggle. Hopefully we get decent money for him
I can only recall two counter attack goals under LVG, both last minute when we were defending a lead (Wilson at QPR, Rooney at Arsenal). Maybe there were others.
But even beyond them we had guys like Suarez, Benzema, Neymar, peak Lewandowskis, peak Bale, and then midfielders like Iniesta, peak Modric, peak Kroos. Any of those would sweep this Ballon D'or. The only guy around who could be on the level of...
It'd really be a joke if he won Ballon D'or. Maybe next year or in the future if he improves but he'd be a worse winner than Owen was on this seasons (mostly very good) performances.
People can say this all they want, it will never happen. It would literally only ever happen for someone like Guardiola, who we can't get. Anyone else will be being called a fraud by the fans if they finished outside top 4 for two seasons. And as...
Chelsea would have won the league in 2014 if we had sold them Rooney, Jose wanted him badly. They would have made the CL final against that Atletico team too. That 2013/14 version of Rooney was the last vestige of him being world class and it was...