Ian Nacho Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Enjoy the replies. These kids base players ability of their fifa ratings because they never go to any games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paninistickers Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 13 minutes ago, hejammy said: I have to totally agree with this, manure fans have this elitist mentality they they feel they deserve to be better than anyone else... Heard so many fans/players and even Ole say 'we are man utd!' Leeds were one day a huge club.. As we're Shef Weds. Times change and fergie isn't your manager anymore! Deal with it and inevitably you'll move over to the next 'bestest' club anyways! I agree with your point, but I like to mention that sheff weds are shite and haven't been a big team since the 1920s They've won one trophy(League cup in 1990) in 90 odd years and spent over half of the post war years languishing in the second and third tiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillippaT Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 13 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said: These kids base players ability of their fifa ratings because they never go to any games They're still thinking having Maguire back would be an improvement for the back four? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basildon Fox Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 Tweet Is there actually a United player who gets in the Leicester team? De Gea? Martial? No way Pogba does ahead of Replying to @markgoldbridge Well Maguire presumably would. And I'd certainly take Rashford over Vardy. 11:54 PM · Nov 9, 2019·Twitter Web App Thicko glory hunting bellends. Rashford over Vardy. Needs the stupid beating out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmono84 Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 If Mersons logic was considered there would be a 6 team premier league and to get promoted you’d have to win over a hundred years of football!!! Leicester should know their place and read the history books!!! How dare we upset the apple cart!! ****ing fat twat!! Worrying thing is millions of people watch that nob and think he knows what he’s taking about! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 Rashford over Vardy top trolling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerrytaggart Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 Jesse Lingard would definately get a game for our under 16s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 Rashford, who's never scored more than 10 goals in a season for Man Utd. Vardy, scorer of 91 Premier League goals across 4 and a bit seasons. Yeah, good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 4 minutes ago, StanSP said: Rashford, who's never scored more than 10 goals in a season for Man Utd. Vardy, scorer of 91 Premier League goals across 4 and a bit seasons. Yeah, good one. ok Sunil - how about I offer you a straight swap at the end of this season of rashford for vardy ??? No money involved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 1 minute ago, st albans fox said: ok Sunil - how about I offer you a straight swap at the end of this season of rashford for vardy ??? No money involved No? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 4 minutes ago, StanSP said: No? I would consider it .......over the next five years I would expect rashford to offer a better return ....... assuming we don’t have to pay his wages though !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobyfox Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 Those Man Utd fans seem to rate Maguire don’t they? I suppose it’s true that if Maguire had stayed he would probably be starting games over Soyuncu, but knowing what we do now would anyone start Maguire? I wouldn’t and I really don’t think it’s just me being parochial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HybridFox Posted 10 November 2019 Share Posted 10 November 2019 8 minutes ago, Jobyfox said: Those Man Utd fans seem to rate Maguire don’t they? I suppose it’s true that if Maguire had stayed he would probably be starting games over Soyuncu, but knowing what we do now would anyone start Maguire? I wouldn’t and I really don’t think it’s just me being parochial. I also think we'd have conceded more goals. Soyuncu is by far a better fit to this system 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanya Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 Merson is a narrow minded elitist twit. By his convoluted logic, no team can ever break into the established order, despite Spurs and Chelsea and Man City and us doing so to a greater or lesser extent over the last two decades. Why would Rodgers leave this exciting prospect to manage at Arsenal, which is such a poorly run club? And honestly, what does Merson mean BY BIG CLUB? League titles? Prem titles? Money? Fan base? Cause there isn't a standard definition and he seems to change the rules just to suit bigging up Arsenal over Leicester. He also said the only reason LCFC is successful is Rodgers like our owners and recruitment team didn't play a massive part or anything. I know I shouldn't care but that doozy hyprocit really annoys me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post urban.spaceman Posted 11 November 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 11 November 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/nov/10/brendan-rodgers-vision-leicester-city-sight-of-another-miracle-arsenal Brendan Rodgers’ vision keeps Leicester in sight of another miracle Nick AmesLast modified on Mon 11 Nov 2019 00.35 GMT Victory over Arsenal keeps Foxes in title hunt and shows how manager has brought light back into a club struck by tragedy Jonny Evans celebrates with his manager after the impressive victory over Arsenal. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA In a side room at the King Power Stadium, Brendan Rodgers was allowing himself to reflect. Only eight and a half months had passed since he joined Leicester City but the 90 minutes everyone had just witnessed felt among the most significant of that time. Leicester had just outmanoeuvred Arsenal, their claim to a Champions League spot looking increasingly hard to resist, and the atmosphere around the stadium bore resemblance to the near-disbelieving euphoria that helped sweep them to the title in 2016. “I felt the opportunity to hook into an emotion here for a number of reasons,” Rodgers said. Four months before his arrival the architect of Leicester’s lifetime high, the club’s owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was killed in a tragic helicopter crashoutside the ground. At that time Leicester, under Claude Puel’s management, were still trying to navigate the shift in landscape that came with topping the league. They were struggling for a fresh identity and it was a devastating blow to lose the leader regarded by so many as “The Possible Man”. “It must have been so difficult for Claude and everyone around the team because I felt the great values and the light [Srivaddhanaprabha] brought this club were blocked,” Rodgers said. “I felt I could maybe come in and bring that light into the team again, and use that legacy he left in a really positive way.” The line was a nice one, sensitively delivered, and brought to mind a briefing Rodgers had given journalists a few metres down the corridor during his first week in charge. Back then he said: “It just feels … as if I have been here longer. With everyone, with the connection.” He was convinced the fit felt right from the start, and nobody would disagree now. Rodgers has always been good for a soundbite, of course, but criticism of him in the past has tended to play the man rather than the ball. Opponents of his Leicester team have a relatable issue now: most of them spend large periods of a game chasing shadows as the spherical object is manipulated around them, or find themselves caught dozing as the Foxes’ front six hunt in packs. Even accounting for the excellence of Liverpool and Manchester City, it is hard to pinpoint a better-balanced unit in the top flight; nor a manager who has been able to instil his vision with such clarity in a time frame this narrow. It was instructive, in his analysis of Saturday evening’s 2-0 win, to hear Rodgers’ reasoning for introducing Demarai Gray on the hour. At that point the game appeared to be anyone’s and Arsenal could hold legitimate hope of at least stopping their rot with a point. “We became too ‘basketball’ and that’s not how we play,” Rodgers said of the second half’s early stages. That kind of slippage from the “how” could not be tolerated so Gray was brought on to get Leicester back up the pitch and, 15 vastly improved minutes later, they had scored twice. “It’s just having an idea and a plan beforehand of how the game might evolve; then, when you’re in the game, you have to make the quick decisions,” he explained. What would Arsenal give, at this point, for a manager with Rodgers’ lucidness? Their embattled head coach, Unai Emery, did not make a substitution until the game had been lost. There is a growing sense they missed the boat in 2018, when Rodgers would surely have been receptive to an approach after Arsène Wenger’s departure was made clear. Leicester’s opening goal on Saturday, a patient buildup of passes that sped up as it reached the box, culminating in a dazzling flick from Harvey Barnes and an ice-cool assist for Jamie Vardy by Youri Tielemans, would have blended into the scenery at Highbury and the Emirates until Wenger’s final few years. Instead Arsenal were reduced to counterattacks – a gameplan that at least looked logical – for the majority of the night. Ricardo Pereira said afterwards that is was “a sign things are going well, teams show respect for us”. Jonny Evans made a similar point, saying Leicester had needed to come up with a more assertive way of playing because they could not trade forever on catching teams napping as they did four seasons ago. That mistake is rarely made now; the problem is that few can live with the personality Rodgers has forged. “I think … the club have been trying to change, because they know it’s hard to sustain the kind of style they had,” said Evans, who played against them for West Bromwich Albion that year. “I think teams disrespected Leicester that season, in terms of not really realising how good they were, and kept being caught short.” While Mesut Özil spent the final moments being chastised by his teammate Matteo Guendouzi for shirking a 50-50 challenge, the home side’s playmaker and second goalscorer, James Maddison, was continuing to comb every blade of grass. With Wilfred Ndidi and Tielemans, Maddison caps the most exciting midfield three in the country. Their snap off the ball and control after winning it – the outstanding Ndidi showed both in the buildup to Maddison’s strike – are formidable and the composure with which Leicester pick their passes around the area resembles that of a team far longer in the making. To a small degree, that is what Leicester are. In Vardy, Kasper Schmeichel and the nowadays background presence of Wes Morgan, Rodgers inherited big personalities who were well aware of what it had taken to create history here. He needed to help them awaken that residual knowledge and graft it on to his long-term plan. “My idea was to open up the minds of the players and say: ‘Listen, you did achieve it [winning the league], and I’ll tell you why you didn’t go on and sustain it’,” he said. “But we’re here to try and create something that can be sustainable, and that’s about your mind as well as your quality.” Leicester are a point better off than at this stage in 2015-16. The light really is back, both for them and for Rodgers. Meanwhile, a few bulbs might belatedly be going off in the minds of those Arsenal executives who passed over him in their hour of need. 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hejammy Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 10 hours ago, Paninistickers said: I agree with your point, but I like to mention that sheff weds are shite and haven't been a big team since the 1920s They've won one trophy(League cup in 1990) in 90 odd years and spent over half of the post war years languishing in the second and third tiers. That's kinda my point though, they were once a big team, they've also been in Europe twice in the 90s but yeah anyways we digress. Man Utd fans - lame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 12 hours ago, Sir Shep said: It’s difficult as I can’t see me replacing any other teams player with one of our own, maybe it’s because it’s more down to how settled our team is though. A lot of teams have better individual players but we have a team, a well balanced team and after all it’s 11 players on the pitch. Not many teams......and not many players! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 19 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Careers get wrecked on the back of picking projects on the basis of those things. Yes Arsenal are a big club, with a worldwide following and a higher turnover. But. Of their current squad, how many actually get into our team. I'd say perhaps two, and both of them would have to play out of position to get in the Team as their striker spot is already taken by Vardy. Who has the better recruitment setup? Who has the better decision makers at the club? Who has the better owners? Too many of these big clubs are failing from the very top and not just having picked a bad manager. There are failings throughout the clubs whilst those people remain in charge then you have to think twice if you want a project that you can do something with in the short term. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 1 minute ago, Babylon said: Too many of these big clubs are failing from the very top and not just having picked a bad manager. There are failings throughout the clubs whilst those people remain in charge then you have to think twice if you want a project that you can do something with in the short term. Too right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 13 minutes ago, Babylon said: Careers get wrecked on the back of picking projects on the basis of those things. Yes Arsenal are a big club, with a worldwide following and a higher turnover. But. Of their current squad, how many actually get into our team. I'd say perhaps two, and both of them would have to play out of position to get in the Team as their striker spot is already taken by Vardy. Who has the better recruitment setup? Who has the better decision makers at the club? Who has the better owners? Too many of these big clubs are failing from the very top and not just having picked a bad manager. There are failings throughout the clubs whilst those people remain in charge then you have to think twice if you want a project that you can do something with in the short term. It isn't just a case of looking at the name of the club now. One positive of the increase in TV money is that the lesser clubs have the ability to spend a fair amount on players (although the top teams still have more) and can attract a better quality of player. Rodgers, or other managers, may get something here they want that they don't get at Arsenal. That could sway a decision. Football is about more than the brand name or size of stadium, especially for a manager. He could well go if offered the chance, but he came to us for a reason so we must be doing something right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babylon Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 2 minutes ago, Corky said: It isn't just a case of looking at the name of the club now. One positive of the increase in TV money is that the lesser clubs have the ability to spend a fair amount on players (although the top teams still have more) and can attract a better quality of player. Rodgers, or other managers, may get something here they want that they don't get at Arsenal. That could sway a decision. Football is about more than the brand name or size of stadium, especially for a manager. He could well go if offered the chance, but he came to us for a reason so we must be doing something right. Way I look at it, Rodgers has already been at a bigger club than Arsenal and he spent years getting his career back on track. He'll go, but he'll wait for the right project and I think he'll also wait until he's achieved here. Which could be after a champions league campaign. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koke Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 Something to ponder... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voll Blau Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 Quote Leicester vs Arsenal: The Patron Saint of Wind-up Merchants no more, introducing Jamie Vardy 2.0 https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/leicester-city-vs-arsenal-jamie-vardy-goal-score-final-latest-news-a9197541.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 As a manager why would you give two ****s if your club has fans in china Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil jack Posted 11 November 2019 Share Posted 11 November 2019 Yep, so Brendan to Arsenal is most definitely the new media agenda. Hot topic on Talk Shite this morning - here we go again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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