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  1. Saka vs Foden vs Palmer

    It wouldn't at all unless you judged them purely by team accolades which is by far the dumbest way to judge a player. Foden has had one single 'great' season in the prem. He has done nothing for England. Saka and Palmer have both won England player of the year, Palmer has also had a great PL...

  2. Saka vs Foden vs Palmer

    Saka is the most consistent out of all of them. He's also the least exciting on the ball and consistency is boring, so he will pretty much always get underestimated in these conversations. I think he's the best of the three overall, but Palmer has the obviously higher ceiling. Foden is a step...

  3. Premier League - Gameweek 12

    We're hilarious. Ange might be the most Spurs manager ever and this team might be the most Spurs team ever. Lose to bottom, beat the champions 4-0. Play our way no matter what and sometimes it'll be fun and other times it'll be tear your hair out shit. You can't be too angry with it as a Spurs...

  4. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    I struggle a lot with this. Feels like a player being awfully misremembered. Bale at us played multiple positions (LB, more traditional left midfielder, centre forward, ten, right winger) because he was very not one dimensional. And he was very much not a stats merchant, he didn't rely on set...

  5. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    Bale won the PFA player of the year and writers player of the year award in his final year in the premier league. Not Suarez. 4th but scored 84 goals. The main issue was defence. We scored 66 in Bales final season and he was responsible for a ridiculous portion of them. There's a reason 'that'...

  6. Nations League 24/25 | November Internationals (Matchday 5-6)

    England need to move on from Kane. He is still a productive footballer if you win enough penalties and have enough movement/service to get him in to shooting positions, but a liability in every other sense. Needs too much time to do anything now and for centre backs, everything he does is in...

  7. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    Probably an exaggeration. Salah is definitely an explosive player but Bale is probably the most explosive I've seen in the PL at his peak, other than someone like Adama who doesn't add any of the footbally stuff. But Salah's own acceleration and strength on the ball is pretty impressive. Bale...

  8. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    Got moved very central in his final season with us. And I doubt it tbh. We were a creative void under AVB. The system wasn't creating anything at all and the supporting cast were pretty bland/past it (Pochettino did his shake up a while later for a reason) so it was basically give it to the...

  9. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    At Spurs he was one of the best crossers of the ball I've ever seen, immensely powerful on the ball driving either on the wing or through the centre (yeah pace contributes here, but not all fast players can drive through teams and hold off challenges).and yeah he could smash a ball about as hard...

  10. Prime Bale or Prime Salah?

    In Bale's best season he played under AVB. In a boring side, in which the only expectation was that he would do essentially everything. Salah's huge numbers came within the context of a Klopp side scoring an insane amount of goals and attacking at breakneck speed. I can't overstate how insane...

  11. Jude Bellingham | Real Madrid player

    He's great. The opposite of a problem .. in the final he covered ground, won duels, had some really slick moments. I thought he just got frustrated being so damn isolated and with Spain having so much dominance in midfield. Hard to blame him for that at all. He's a very athletic midfielder with...

  12. England Euro 2024 Squad and Discussion

    Arsenal use Rice correctly. Arteta realised really quickly that he isn't an elite level 6 because his ability to receive the ball off the centre backs and turn/progress play is non-existent. He isn't press resistant or mobile at all. Where Arsenal used him is further up, with Jorginho or Partey...

  13. England Euro 2024 Squad and Discussion

    You don't need to be better than Spain at being Spain! You coach possession oriented football so that they don't absolutely wet themselves under any sort of pressure or rely on long kicks from Pickford because they're panicking so badly as Rice isn't capable of receiving the ball off defenders...

  14. Gareth Southgate resigns as England Manager

    Carsley played a very different brand to Southgate and unlike Southgate (who finished bottom of his group at the Euros before he got the seniors) he has won something. England won the U21 Euros without conceding a goal and he turned to very un-English players like Angel Gomes in order to...

  15. Gareth Southgate resigns as England Manager

    If it wasn't for a bicycle kick saving him in the 94th minute we'd have hilariously lost a round of 16 game .. against Slovakia. Southgate wasn't the difference between a final and a quarter. Individuals scoring wonder goals and a great selection of penalty takers was. Nothing about the...
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