Football (Soccer)
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Liverpool and City should be an example to Man United on how to recruit properly. Don't just buy any player because your rivals are looking at them.
Bernado Silva for around 40m and Sadio Mane for 34m have to buy the top bargains of the decade.. especially when you consider Utd forked out 50m for Fred
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Black day for the Bayern hater. Of course the arrogant bastards won it (the German league championship) again, after having been second to Borussia Dortmund for most of the season. Seriously annoying.
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the whole game was overshadowed by political unrest. especially for miki and the fans… i don't think having it there brought out the best for arsenal..
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Good run-about, would have been a trophy and worth anything only if the other team won it, now the media will rightly consider it a pre-season friendly which it of course is. City should have been several goals up by the half time if not for some Sterling-esque finishing by Sterling and Sane's injury was an unfortunate early turn of events, still an ok effort considering no Aguero, no Laporte and no Ederson. City could use a real left back as well, this trick of playing wingers and midfielders there for 2 seasons now has sort of lost its novelty. I don't agree with Pep's policy of no substitutions when it was obvious the midfield was playing with no legs in the 2nd half but apparently he wanted to "build up their conditioning".
One (non-)trophy in the bag then, roll on next weekend and the real stuff.
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Thoughts on the upcoming season? @louisbosco
Is Harry Maguire worth 80m? Another United panic buy?
@neph93 Have Liverpool done enough in the transfer window?
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I’ll answer that when the window closes… and again when the season’s over. I think Liverpool have gotten back to doing business quietly, so it wouldn’t surprise me if one or two more show up over the next day or two. That being said, Klopp has always maintained it would be quiet this summer.
I wouldn’t say no to another back as support for TTA and Robbo, but a healthy Gomez/Milner/Fabinho can all do a job there. Nor would I say no to an attacking midfielder but we were without Ox and Lallana for most of last season and barely used Shaq, so it isn’t like we’re ribbed for choice as it stands.
I’ll chip in re Maguire, it’s a good signing but he isn’t VVD. He won’t rejuvenate a dodgy back line on his own and then there’s the rest of the squad. Still seems like Utd lack a unifying plan to me.
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Thoughts on the upcoming season? @louisbosco
Is Harry Maguire worth 80m? Another United panic buy?
i reckon the only reason why he's worth £80m is because he's holding an english passport. given any other EU passport, we'll pay much less. nonetheless citizenship aside, i do believe he can do well. he doesn't have to be VVD but this can be the start of OGS' rebuilding. thinking about the back 4: wan-bissaka, maguire, lindelof, shaw; is a very young back 4. if they do well this season, good on them. if not, they've got the couple years to gel together and make the class of
19922019.they've got a team worth challenging for something. definitely no panic buys this year. i've managed to meet the new boys last month, good bunch of humble lads.
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@louisbosco I fear for OGS running out of ideas. Some truly awful performances from your lot at the end of last season.
@neph93 I agree and expect Liverpool to challenge City for the title again to be honest. If Arsenal can land Coutinho could give them some decent attacking options this season though
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@AdamJ i don't think he's ran out of ideas. i felt that towards the end of the season, the team as a whole ran out of steam. this will be his first full season in charge and his own prep for pre season to change what he wants, implement his transfer and training policies and playing style. it's too early to judge him or to criticise him based on the half season he had last year..
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@louisbosco I hope he does well! Nobody likes seeing chopping and changing of managers every season.
Hope Mason Greenwood can fill the void left by Lukaku..
