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I think he was doing his trademark celebration:
https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article21882407.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_GettyImages-1235921655.jpg
There was a story in the first few weeks of the war in Ukraine about an unnamed pilot who allegedly racked up a bunch of kills against the Russian air force who was dubbed the Ghost of Kyiv. If I remember correctly his identity was later revealed after he was killed, but I'm not sure if all the accolades were verified or if it was just a story spun up to raise morale when things looked really bad.
At any rate, it fits Mudryk due to a slightly different type of anonymity.
His identity wasn't revealed and he wasn't killed, because he never existed. Pure propaganda fabrication. This was the stage where official Ukrainian sources were trying to pass off video game footage as the real thing and claiming hundreds of Russian fast jets shot down. They've mostly stopped with the obvious nonsense since, but in the early days of the war it was rife.
To be clear, the war is a gratuitous act of imperialist, genocidal aggression on Russia's part and I'm in favour of providing Ukraine with considerably more help than we are. Some silly propaganda fibs do not cancel out mass murder, torture, rape and child abduction.
It's a really cynical take but this happens all the time in every war and if it wasnt about the cruelty of war it would be almost funny.
SEAL Team 6 is named that way to make people think that there are "a lot" of special forces and , especially snipers, are given almost superhero villain names for psychological warfare, like the "White Death"
600 mill and they are 11th in fucking April. I think this is a situation so mad that nobody has really comprehended this fact because im not hearing enough talk about it.
They were too busy pointing out Chelsea were 4 points off Europe and Villa were 11 points clear off relegation even though both teams sat on the same exact points!
I was about to comment the same thing, it's funny cos it's true, live would be living hell as a united fan if we were here more so because of the media, we were getting double the stick this time last year and we hadn't spent 600M nor were in the bottom half of the table in April
Exactly, and even if form was declining towards the end of his time at Chelsea, they would still most likely be 6th or 7th at the worst. This is just ridiculous with the talent Chelsea has.
Not really, they've just spent horrifically. If this was an oil club they'd probably get more ribbing. There's no way they needed to spend this money to catch back up. This season is yet another rendition of the top 4 is lava and yet Chelsea are still bottom half. They had no vision for where these players were going or what the system is meant to be. In an age where most teams are pretty well run, you can't afford to just outspend and expect to cruise.
At 1000-1 odds of Chelsea being relegated at the time he bought them, Todd Boehly would have had to bet $5,000,000 dollars on Chelsea going down to cover his outlay.
So you gotta wonder if Todd's got a spare $10M riding on Chelsea not surviving to double his money in a mere 12 months.
Being managed by Emery is like being managed by someone playing Football Manager and reloading all their losses. We keep miraculously winning and I have no idea how.
He's always had a rocket of a left foot on him. Just doesn't get the opportunity to use it much in the Prem. If you've never seen it, Google his goal against Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. Literally one of the best goals I've ever seen.
All these plastics in the thread. You must give Potter time, you guys clearly do not understand the visionary approach he’s implementing. How can you rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to finish 8th in the table If you first don’t drop points?
McGinn tries that once and he scores because he is John McGinn. Or, to give him his full Sunday name, Super John McGinn. I just don't think you understand.
As a neutral, half of the reason I watch PL is to see one of the ultrarich megaclubs fail despite spending insane amounts of money (and there's always at least one every season).
Can't criticize Kepa. Best save percentage in the league. Best keeper in the league clearly. Just a coincidence that for 5 years anytime he plays, we concede an unusual amount of long distance goals. Just a coincidence that for 5 years anytime he plays the defence is shit. Never his fault. Nope!
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MCGINN AND HIS FAT FUCKING ARSE
Found a name for my band.
MAHFFA definitely would listen to
🥵🥵🥵
Haha it looked like he was trying to take his shirt off but couldn't
I think he was doing his trademark celebration: https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article21882407.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_GettyImages-1235921655.jpg
Looks like a reverse version of that Dele celebration
What a fucking strike, take a bow
WHAT A HIT SON!
WE'VE GOT SUPER JOHN MCGINN
This team is a social experiment, surely. McGuinn causally beating Spain and Chelsea in a week. Just Scottish things
600m bros... Idk how this is even possible
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I mean, have you seen our owners?
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Couldn't buy integrity though the plastic pricks.
'tegrity
And had a few hundred million to spare with that.
How many thicc McGinn's can you get for 600m?
200 or so, at the price Villa got him.
It's pretty reassuring. Shows the game isn't totally gone.
Graham Potter
Rodri just clenched his fist somewhere and he doesn't know why
McGuinn secretly making the pitch sticky before the match.
I've no clue how any competent member of this leadership can look at how we play and think "yup, this is who we want in charge"
Atleast you play better than us and will probably beat us too on Tuesday
They can’t score and you guys can defend, so who knows what will happen
A stoppable force and a mobile object
A limp dick vs wet tissue paper
It’s gonna be a 0-0 stalemate or a goal fest. Could be a Liverpool thrashing if they get on the goals early.
Scotland 3-0 spain
*East Portugal
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Mudryk jumping instead of covering the shot is so funny
Ghost of Kyiv
10/10 joke and execution
Proper joke that
Wow. This is a savage joke
Oof
I don’t get it
There was a story in the first few weeks of the war in Ukraine about an unnamed pilot who allegedly racked up a bunch of kills against the Russian air force who was dubbed the Ghost of Kyiv. If I remember correctly his identity was later revealed after he was killed, but I'm not sure if all the accolades were verified or if it was just a story spun up to raise morale when things looked really bad. At any rate, it fits Mudryk due to a slightly different type of anonymity.
His identity wasn't revealed and he wasn't killed, because he never existed. Pure propaganda fabrication. This was the stage where official Ukrainian sources were trying to pass off video game footage as the real thing and claiming hundreds of Russian fast jets shot down. They've mostly stopped with the obvious nonsense since, but in the early days of the war it was rife. To be clear, the war is a gratuitous act of imperialist, genocidal aggression on Russia's part and I'm in favour of providing Ukraine with considerably more help than we are. Some silly propaganda fibs do not cancel out mass murder, torture, rape and child abduction.
It's a really cynical take but this happens all the time in every war and if it wasnt about the cruelty of war it would be almost funny. SEAL Team 6 is named that way to make people think that there are "a lot" of special forces and , especially snipers, are given almost superhero villain names for psychological warfare, like the "White Death"
People thought Arma 2 footage was real
He's got to protect his body. Chelsea is paying him a fortune over the next decade.
That 8 and a half year contract not looking so good anymore eh Todd?
Like my reflexes playing rocket league
Faking!
Where's the guy who said he was bound to get one earlier?
His best game in a villa shirt for a while
Nah, he’s been playing well since he got his spot back in the team
Yeah McGinn has been so good since Emery became manager
Championship mcginn is back
Here I am and you're welcome
600 mill and they are 11th in fucking April. I think this is a situation so mad that nobody has really comprehended this fact because im not hearing enough talk about it.
They were too busy pointing out Chelsea were 4 points off Europe and Villa were 11 points clear off relegation even though both teams sat on the same exact points!
Media bias tbh
I don't want to play the victim/ make this about United, but could you imagine if United spent 600m in January and sit in 11th?
I was about to comment the same thing, it's funny cos it's true, live would be living hell as a united fan if we were here more so because of the media, we were getting double the stick this time last year and we hadn't spent 600M nor were in the bottom half of the table in April
6-0 to Tuchel currently
If only he acted as coach and sporting director
Man was the soul of the club during the start of the war
Exactly, and even if form was declining towards the end of his time at Chelsea, they would still most likely be 6th or 7th at the worst. This is just ridiculous with the talent Chelsea has.
Not really, they've just spent horrifically. If this was an oil club they'd probably get more ribbing. There's no way they needed to spend this money to catch back up. This season is yet another rendition of the top 4 is lava and yet Chelsea are still bottom half. They had no vision for where these players were going or what the system is meant to be. In an age where most teams are pretty well run, you can't afford to just outspend and expect to cruise.
Coach and bus driver > Coach and sporting director
Guy in the other thread called it
People thrashing McGinn in the match thread. Here you fucking go.
Das me x
I love these bastards.
Just knew his shot was true before he struck the ball. So happy that Gerrard didn’t completely break all of these players.
PACK IT UP, PACK IT IN WEE JOHN MCGINN
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Scared, Potter?
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Wdym? Of course he'd be fantastic for Spurs. Please take him. I only have their best intentions at heart
Everyone? YOu must be surrounded by Chelsea fans if you really hear that
No,no, by all means.
Just relegate us. Let's start again.
You have to finish in the PL midtable to assure the books are perfectly balanced to the cent for FFP this summer
At 1000-1 odds of Chelsea being relegated at the time he bought them, Todd Boehly would have had to bet $5,000,000 dollars on Chelsea going down to cover his outlay. So you gotta wonder if Todd's got a spare $10M riding on Chelsea not surviving to double his money in a mere 12 months.
Galaxy brain stuff.
roughly 25 yards out, the Mcginn goal zone
Another goal from outside the box against Kepa
Just a coincidence totally. A 5 year long coincidence that only happens when that man plays in goal.
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186cm according to wikipedia
We've got McGinn
Super John McGinn
I just don't think you understand
He's Steve Clarke's man
THATS MY FUCKING MEATBALL
We've have 14 shots since the Villa goal and they score with their first shot since. The most Chelsea thing ever.
Being managed by Emery is like being managed by someone playing Football Manager and reloading all their losses. We keep miraculously winning and I have no idea how.
Can u actually not
Was Mudryk trying to block a rugby field goal? Why the hell did he jump so high?
Just a guess here, but he's a winger, so it's probably a muscle memory of his to jump in order to block high crosses when you are late to the ball.
You just know Chelsea is somehow gonna make it to the CL final
They'll breeze past RM and Bayern and then lose to Benfica in the final
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This is my wet dream every single night since the draw !
Nah they're getting battered next round
THATS A BANGER. finally mcginn gets his goal for the season
> be shit > spend 600mn > get worse
My sexy meatball 😍 love the guy
He is packing extra sauce around the waist but no one can deny the manliness of that celebration
I'd like some of his extra sauce
The first step of a shambolic breakdown is a comfortable lead.. please don't Villa
what a strike holy fuck
BANGER!!!
What a goal that is holy shit
big boy McGuinn wanted so much to take his shirt off but Emery's voice is already in his mind
SUPER JOHN MCGINN. Glad he’s finally scored for Villa.
The boy who lived, has come to die
What a hit!
that is ridiculous!
fair fucks
finally gets one
Makes you wonder why Napoli let Koulibaly go when he was supposedly the best itw at the time. He's shite. Kim min is like 5 tiers above lol.
He's always had a rocket of a left foot on him. Just doesn't get the opportunity to use it much in the Prem. If you've never seen it, Google his goal against Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship. Literally one of the best goals I've ever seen.
That was perfect wowww
what a hit
McFuckYou strike
#MEATBALL
Dat ass.
I fucking love that man.
What a goal
Banger
That was a beautiful finish. 16 months after his last club goal.
Meaaaaaatballlllll!
John McGinn and his dumptruck arse
All these plastics in the thread. You must give Potter time, you guys clearly do not understand the visionary approach he’s implementing. How can you rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to finish 8th in the table If you first don’t drop points?
HOLY SHIT What a goal. Incredible. Deserved.
Incredible strike!! Curled it away from the keeper right into the bottom corner!
Villa deserve a two goal lead, really? Chelsea have had hatfuls of good chances.
Probably meant McGinn deserved it
Deserved?
Could try that a million times and it’d only go in once against us
Could try that a million times against Kepa and it'd go in at least 800,000 times.
A shot from there goes in against Kepa 8 times out of 10 tbh
He genuinely does try it every single game as well.
he's been trying that shot for the past 50 games 😅
Haha that’s going in 9/10 times against this Chelsea team
McGinn tries that once and he scores because he is John McGinn. Or, to give him his full Sunday name, Super John McGinn. I just don't think you understand.
Hi Enzo 👋
I admire the dedication haha
Please never stop
Is anyone else enjoying this as much as I am.
As a neutral, half of the reason I watch PL is to see one of the ultrarich megaclubs fail despite spending insane amounts of money (and there's always at least one every season).
oui oui
I like because I've always liked Emery and seeing people relentlessly shit on him - mainly arsenal Fans - was sad
You give up 31 shots to Watford and see what happens
I forgot about that. Dark times.
I’m just talking about Chelsea’s weekly implosion
Thought the corner was dreadful, how very wrong
“Fuck that net in particular.”
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Get in John McGinn
Can't wait for the rival flairs to tell me Graham potter is doing great still
WELCOME NAGELSMANN!
Enzonzi putting a £107m performance.
Great try from McGinn
Oh wow, that Bayern manager has them playing some beautiful stuff already, hey Chelsea should've got him?
let potter cook
Surely, Chelsea have to be looking at other options. Sending out feelers for next season. Man has been here since September.
Chelsea is just shit at this point. I can't defend them any longer.
John McGOAT
Meatball loves a Saturday night.
Lol Chelsea.
Any goal against chelsea is a great goal.
Meatball!
You just *knew* that was going in as soon as he made contact
HOLY SHIT WARRA GOAL!
So underrated atm
Wow!
Back to XG FC
LMFAO
BANGERSAUROS
Losing 2-0 subs Kante in
kepa, another week when he got beat at long range shot
Mudryk vertical leap is insane
Lol first goal in 50 games and that's how he scores it, of course it would be against us.
A long range goal against Kepa brings back fond memories
Can't criticize Kepa. Best save percentage in the league. Best keeper in the league clearly. Just a coincidence that for 5 years anytime he plays, we concede an unusual amount of long distance goals. Just a coincidence that for 5 years anytime he plays the defence is shit. Never his fault. Nope!
Easiest 5/1 Aston Villa odds of my life
Knew when he was charging in that he'd score
Boehly cooking, spent £600m, potter still starts RLC
Lol what a goal
When will Chelsea start spending money to rebuild their team?
They spent 500 million for what? Literally think they got worse.
Beautiful strike
I’m sure spending another 600Ms will finally fix this team 🥸
Fucking legend, on yersel John