League has really fallen off. Feel like its rep for being technical and skillful and a destination to play the beautiful game has turned into one of being slow, more tactical than expressive, defensive, and willing to use racism and the threat of injury for competitive advantages.
Finally just started rediscovering his form, scoring touch, and health. Wish him well. But it’s definitely a loss for RM’s depth. Not sure if Brahmin will be an improvement.
Who do y’all think was the actual best footballer over the last 365 days?
As in performed at the highest level. Not who y’all think is going to sweep awards. Feel free to rank a top 3 or 5.
Tebass goofed. Clearly this has gone global and with the Nike ad campaign (as opportunistic as the intentions truly are) other corporations will surely pick up on it and eventually threaten to pull sponsorship to not be affiliated with barbarism if this continues.
Seems like City doesn’t get in the way of players wanting to leave the club, but that said Alvarez seems pretty happy for the time being. If I were him if anything I’d ask for a loan for a year if I really wanted to start and see what happens with Haaland in 2024 before asking out.
Seems like competitive Mk is also possibly held back by the lack of interest in Asia and Europe. It seems like the most US dominated game of the major ones, whereas games like Tekken and SF are more global.
Feel like in footy so many coaches are reactive instead of proactive. I admittedly don’t watch City a ton but Pep seems to be one of the exceptions and is always trying to experiment to squeeze the most out of his squad.
RM could have a big problem at striker next season with Benz finally look his age. I’m not sure who they could even bring in, and the Rodrygo false 9 experiment has failed numerous times. They could go for an Osimhen or Leao but then what do you do the following season when Mbappe is expiring?
Seems like next season will be their last. So possibly a transitional one where their game time gets phased out as the season progresses. Could imagine Kroos could still start with the right pieces around him in the CL, and Modric could be a super sub.
They definitely can’t be starting CL KOs...
Although this performance sucked, we were one leg of footy from being big favorites to repeat. You can’t win the CL every season. So overall I’m proud of this squad for getting to another semi.
When you look at RM’s starting outfield today, we can realistically look back one day and say zero...
Differences were he’d start Valverde and bring Rodrygo off the bench. And we weren’t playing a 20 year old midfielder at LB. So with Fede and Mendy we were defensively tougher.
Benz played at a BdO level, Modric was still Godric. Modric got washed at an inopportune time where Carlo thought...