Recent content by MadDogg

I'd say both Rashford and Bruno reached higher highs that season, but Martial was our best over the course of the entire season. He was never far behind either of them, and indeed Rashford didn't have his great period (the best of his entire career) until directly after Martial returned from...

I think (hope) he's moved ahead of Antony now, but Rashford returning is the issue for Amad. Garnacho is clearly our first choice winger atm, but his ability to play on either side means Amad is competing with both Antony and Rashford for the remaining spot. If Rashford does well (either from...

He's been better this season than most make out. There seems to be this idea that he's been shit all season, which really isn't the case. Don't get me wrong he's certainly had some shit performances, but overall I'd say he's been average rather than terrible. However, I do think it's a bit...

It's something I've always noticed with him. While he's obviously never going to be great in the air, he does seem to win more than you'd expect him to.

So you think that the players just suddenly decided to play a completely different way in preseason all on their own, going against what ETH wanted? That we signed Mount with the intention of playing him deeper than he ever had before, that McTominay just decided to start pushing much further...

Emery has just signed a new contract, and is being set up with a lot of power at Villa where he is increasingly the one making the sporting decisions. Basically the opposite of what we are doing where we want to get away from the manager wielding a lot of power. I can't find any links so I'm not...

In the Arsenal match? The two biggest issues that everyone has repeated over and over ever since preseason weren't there in that match. The team was more compact with a smaller gap between the attackers and the defenders, and the third midfielder (Mainoo) was playing more as a normal #8 instead...

There's been reports for weeks that they want him to stay as they realised they fecked up, and it's him that's decided that he doesn't want to stay anymore. That might depend on having a decent job in England to walk into though; if nothing comes up he might stay there for another season or so.

He's pretty much the last option that I'd want, yet I still find myself thinking there's a fair chance he would have done better this season than ETH has done.

We played much better against Arsenal than we normally do, which actually makes ETH look worse. We obviously played quite differently than the way he's set us up the rest of this season, with the team being much more compact and Mainoo actually playing as an #8 instead of a #10. It meant that...

This was his first game back from injury. We were starting him the couple of games before that, and now that he's back I'd say there's a fair chance he'll be picked ahead of Casemiro again for the next few games.

It is a bit of a worry, but it does have to be mentioned that this is the weakest Bayern squad in a decade and they are up against an undefeated team that was on track to have the greatest Bundesliga season in history before they took their foot off the pedal a couple of games ago (even with...

Last season there were some promising signs and some worrying signs. It was enough that we were hoping we'd continue moving the right way, but we certainly weren't 'on the brink of something special'. The managers tactics have put a stop to it more than the injuries have. As seen by the fact...

The issue is that the performances are somehow worse than the results. If we were developing a decent playing style and it was just unsuitable players and the injuries that had cost us a lot of points, I'd be much more forgiving and open to him staying on even if we'd had the exact same...

Depends what player it was...