Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 16, 2019 Paid Members Posted August 16, 2019 Just watched that after flicking through the channels and noticing ITV4 were showing it. Cracking goal. Barca's midfield looked toilet. No Busquets, no Arthur, no Vidal and Rakitic came off the bench. A lot of pressure heaped onto De Jong who had a midfielder even younger than him in Alena and Sergi Roberto alongside him. Their attacking options aren't particularly deep either, unless they do bring back Neymar (which isn't looking that likely). Griezmann in, but Coutinho and Malcolm out. They're going to have a big fight on their hands this season. Quote
AdamTH17 Posted August 16, 2019 Posted August 16, 2019 7 minutes ago, Little Johnny said: Yeah, when I saw Barcelona finish the game with an attacking axis of Ousmane Dembele, Thiago Alacantara's younger brother and a winger from the B Team, my immediate reaction was also "too many cooks in the kitchen". Not the point I was making, but good one. Completely forgot that they'd shipped Malcolm out. Took me a while to remember they'd signed him. Think tonight demonstrated the importance of Busquets in that side. De Jong's got all the technical ability in the world, but it's a tall order asking him to be the pivot in that midfield as you say PunkStep alongside Roberto (who I don't rate very highly) and Alena. Certainly a role he might have to be eased into. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted August 17, 2019 Members Posted August 17, 2019 Nothing against you Adam, but your post has just reminded me how much I hate the term “pivot”. Or “double pivot”. Absolutely wanky term. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted August 27, 2019 Posted August 27, 2019 533rd, I'll take that! Kool Keith posts yet another link from FiveThirtyEight that will interest nobody. Well, maybe @Devon Malcolm and @Fog Dude https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/global-club-soccer-rankings/ Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted August 27, 2019 Members Posted August 27, 2019 Brentford in 145th place warms my dirty little Hounslow heart Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 27, 2019 Author Paid Members Posted August 27, 2019 (edited) Salzburg's the interesting one there, in the top 20. Always piss the Bundesliga but rarely do much in Europe. Edited August 27, 2019 by Devon Malcolm Quote
Otto Dem Wanz Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 Saw this thread bumped with Keith Houchen and I knew it would be this for some reason Top trolling isn't it haha Quote
Keith Houchen Posted August 29, 2019 Posted August 29, 2019 I'm glad that I'm associated with top shithousery in the beautiful game! Quote
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Daaaaaad! Posted September 1, 2019 Posted September 1, 2019 Fuck Cagliari and their racist, monkey-chanting fans. And fuck the Italian FA for persistently turning a blind eye to it. Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted September 11, 2019 Author Paid Members Posted September 11, 2019 I like international breaks now. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted September 19, 2019 Paid Members Posted September 19, 2019 Somebody has suffered another concussion then Quote
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