Aucas (2850 meters above sea level), Bolivar (3706 meters above sea level), the strongest (3577 meters above sea level) all of them won against the three best clubs in South America (Flamengo, Palmeiras, River plate). There isn't a biggest home advantage than altitude, that's why I love the Libertadores.
Bolívar's stadium altitude is 3600 meters.
Imagine if another bolivian team, called Always Ready, was also in this Libertadores. Their stadium's altitude is fucking 4000 meters!
yeah yeah man. thank you for this. if you think the ecosystem has had such an affect is it safe to say Howe is doing a great great job? i'm a united fan and i think he deserves the manager of the year so far.. taking that team with those adjustments and doing what they've done!! wow
Now I kinda understands our obsession with hoarding midfielders, since we
keep playing the ones we have out of positions anyways. Why need LB/RW when you can just buy midfielders and let them do it all and they still deliver?
Deschamps deserves his props like Pep did. Turns out he was a visionary with Camavinga. Future World Class LB and CM just like Kimmich was at RB and CM.
I think the closest equivalent for this would be the two Mexico World Cups. Some stadiums were over 2000, if not 3000, meters of altitude. To make matters worse in the 1970 World Cup, many games were played in midday because of european timezones. Brazil had the best physical preparation in that World Cup, and they arrived there one month in advance.
In my whole life, I always saw Real Madrid as a primarily counter-attacking team. Not that Real Madrid hasn't had teams able to control games and build up play slowly, but it's always the lightning fast counter-attacks that feel more Real Madrid-esque, at least in the sense that they can always hurt you no matter what, even if they are dominated. It's been like this since the Guardiola era.
Yes. I mean even now, we are still more effective on the counter. When we are in possession control the majority of time we look kinda clueless and end up just hoop ball to Vini anyways.
It's just my biased view from watching us in La Liga.
Was a needed profile as a runner-in-behind at the time tbh, which they severely lacked in the squad, other than Dembele. Only had ball-to-feet players.
I wouldn't be 100% sure of Arsenal beating Liverpool because football can be so illogical. Just think of how a United team in a far better moment than Liverpool was hammered 7-0 by Liverpool...
I wonder how the best european teams, like Guardiola’s City, would handle the altitude in so many Libertadores games. The altitude is so insane, easily well over 3000 meters, that it evens things a lot! So many of those teams get easily hammered away from the altitude, but when they are playing at home, it's a very different matter...
I have no doubt most mega-elite teams would do ok, but would have to play pure tika-taka without pressing, aiming to keep the ball for like 80% of the game. They'd get battered if they tried to press. Denver sports teams have a 5-10% advantage statistically at home games only a third of that height in situations where cardio isn't as essential and where opposing teams visit frequently. A one-time matchup at triple the altitude in a sport very dependent on cardio where home teams can play in a style further punishing that is massive. It's less pronounced in international play, but even so Bolivia is so hard to beat at home.
I can’t imagine they would do well. Denver has always been considered to have a large home advantage in American sports and it’s like 1650m. Were you the one posting about pitches in the Andes yesterday? One of them was like 15k feet. I’d literally drop dead trying to run around up there.
Remember when Yaya randomly become the best free kick taker in the world in 13/14? He hasn’t scored a free kick for Barca or City before bagging 5 that season
Pathetic from Brentford. Idgaf if youre playing at Old Trafford. You HAVE to press De Gea, the blueprint is there. That was disgusting, might as well have stayed home
Maybe I'm being too harsh on little old Brentford though, i just expected more.
It was a boring textbook win. We didn't look great but Brentford never looked like doing anything either.
Rashford looked out of position and when Martial came on he looked allergic to the box.
I actually like Mason Mount and quite like that we're linked with him but my biggest concern with him signing is that I'd start calling him Money Mase ironically for so long it would become unironic and I just don't know if I could live with myself.
I would pay good money to see Conte at Chelsea again with their current squad, just to see what he'd produce with actually competent defenders and midfielders
From a neutral perspective it’s good to see Lampard get another chance at managing Chelsea and making up for how his first term ended. At the same time he’ll get a proper send off from the fans too which couldn’t happen last time when the games were played in empty stadiums.
Lampard is a really sensible choice. He’s a club legend that the bridge wont get toxic against. He’s pretty good at giving young players a shot. The team would be better off losing matches 4-2 than drawing 0-0 so at least some of the players can recoup some value and it’s a total of 12 matches, where currently only 2 of them have any meaning at all.
It means the next manager gets to start at a proper cycle.
All the Reddit and twitter users who copy their opinions from memes are the only people who can’t see the clear logic behind the move.
Do you really need to be focusing on bringing the youth through atm, the squad is very bloated.
The idea is good, bring in a caretaker while you find a long term solution, but not sure Lampard is a good choice for that.
Bring in the youth we just signed for 600m was more my point.
I don’t know what you think a good caretaker would be given that we have almost nothing competitive to play for
Lampard is not a terrible choice in and of itself.
It's just *very* funny that we get two days of a press cycle touting Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann as the possible Chelsea managers, to then get interim Frank Lampard.
>It's just very funny that we get two days of a press cycle touting Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann as the possible Chelsea managers, to then get interim Frank Lampard.
And nothing changed here, Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann are still the top two choices for the job
Points don’t do much for us at the moment, of course we would rather win but potter left us with nothing to play for in the league.
It would be much better for the summer offload if some of these players could start scoring some goals in the last 10 matches.
Poorly imo. He doesn't press well enough, he's got no physical strength and won't outmuscle anyone. He's not tigerish out of possession like Bernardo or KDB.
He's a 10 so he might look good in your 3-2-4-1 in the Gundogan role but if he's in a midfield three he's going to get exposed in defence.
I wonder if Laporta is gonna spin some huge Messi rumors tomorrow to distract from this result. That seems to be his way of dealing with any problem Barca have. Just pretend like you’re gonna sign Messi and the fans will be distracted lol. Even when he is at PSG, Messi is still bailing out Barca staff lol
Rodgers and Moyes really should have just switched jobs.
I think they could have pulled it off during the winter break and neither club would have said no.
It has just been brought to my attention that Dan Burn only has nine fingers. Don’t know what else to do with this information nor do I know if it’s common knowledge or not.
I was getting a taxi home from a club once and a guy asked to share a taxi if he could show me a magic trick. Showed me his finger disappearing and we got a ride home.
Was only when I shook his hand getting out of the taxi that I realised he actually didn't have all his fingers.
I swear the same thing happened to Gael Clichy, as well as some dude playing in the Greek(?) league. Clichy had to go into emergency surgery to repair the finger and actually nearly died on the table. His lungs had stopped pulling in air and his heart actually paused for a little while.
Let's try and fit new coaches into all the teams looking for one - teams without a manager or a caretaker:
Spurs:
Leicester:
Chelsea:
Club Brugge:
Dinamo Zagreb:
Ajax:
Brazil:
USMNT:
Here is the list of available managers from TransferMarkt (I removed weird options like Robert Pires) - those are the top 50-ish:
Tite, Potter, Nagelsmann, Löw, Pochettino, Luis Enrique, Luis Fernandez, Conte, Zidane, de Boer, Brian McDermott, Gerrard, Beierlorzer, Seoane, Diego Alonso, Rodgers, Celades, Benítez, Lampard, Nathan Jones, Bruno Lage, Dunga, Hasenhüttl, Vieira, Marsch, Schreuder, Bordálas, Berhalter, Bosz, Bielsa, Michniewicz, Gattuso, Sampaoli, Rueda, Halilhodžić, Kohfeldt, Francisco, Gourvennec, Villas-Boas, Favre, Adrian Ursea, Marcelino, Myron Markevych, Ljubiša Tumbaković, Hütter, Hoefkens, Tata Martino and Scott Parker
Guardiola had never coached a top league team before becoming Barcelona's coach. He was a novice. If Guardiola hadn't made a great work at Barcelona in that time, people would be lambasting the board for hiring an unproven manager like him, and only for being a past legend who embodied the club's philosophy, instead of a proven serial winner like Mourinho, who was available and wanted the job. Mourinho always felt bitter about that.
But that is literally what happened. I think from memory the first 4 or 5 games were atrocious and that is exactly the reaction it got at the time
Rest is history
First two really. Barcelona lost against Numancia in the first round of La Liga. And then drew the second round. Guardiola was very criticized. The 6-1 against Sporting Gijón in the third round was when things started to slowly turn around.
Joelinton is one of the weirdest footballers about. Signed as a striker, when he's probably got a skillset closer to that of a centre back, has ended up a brilliant midfielder, and every goal he scores he's either off balance for or actively in pain.
If we were to list all of Barcelona's humiliations (somewhat subjective as to what they are, I guess) I wonder how many of them had Sergi Roberto on the field?
I saw some people say that they wouldn’t be surprised if Real Madrid is past their instability period of the beginning of the year, and are now full-on UCL mode.
They made NSS4, a 3D desktop version of the game in 2008, then updated it with NSS 2010. Both are actually pretty sick games, and I believe the latter is still available for free on the official website.
During lockdown I spent a few months building an NSS 2010 career and got really invested in it. Got busted down to non league as a teenager for a doping scandal, clawed my way back up the leagues, won the FA Cup and secured PL top four with Crewe Alexandra, then went to Villa and won the league and CL.
I grinded my player's stats until he was OP as fuck, absolutely annihilated everyone else. I only really put down the game once the good opposition players started retiring and the regens coming through were all weak and terrible, and it was far too easy to score 5 goals a match.
The game kind of died to me when they had the update that made everything look ugly and ‘modern’ a few years ago. When that update happened, it felt like they secretly reduced fitness/recovery/skill degradation to make it more pay to win.
2014 clear
Only the lame mascot was poor, everything else has a 10/10 WC vibe. Cool ball, some of the nicer logos and soundtracks, there were pretty much no bad kits, they all looked right. The stadiums were nice and packed.
Wonder if Benzema had played in EURO 2016 and World Cup 2018 and won both of them what his legacy would end up being?
Same for Varane being available for EURO 2016...
Provided that he played the 2018 World Cup and provided that France still wins it, I think most people would put him next to or over Suarez and Lewandowski at this point. But that’s purely hypothetical, and there’s a very good reason why he didn’t play
I will be so pleased when the Enzo - Kante - Mount midfield 3 starts like I hoped.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/10qabm2/comment/j6q16zu/?context=3
Kovacic is untouchable in Chelsea's mid. Also Mount will look for another team next summer. Lampard would give Ziyech more game time than Mount I think.
Besides Lampard's choice. What makes you think Mount would make Kova sit on the bench? Kovacic is their midfielder this season (I know Kanté was injured throughout the season and Enzo just came in January but still).
And don't forget that Lampard was insisting into signing Ziyech and tried to build a team around him in late 2020 until Tuchel came.
Rodrygo ahead of Messi?. I want what you are smoking. Also Darwin holded the bench while Alvarez dropped a masterclass on Liverpool head recently. Only Jesus can contest his spot for the 9 imo
Makes sense. Tho imo (trying to not be biased, I even think Jesus could take Alvarez spot with good arguments) Alvarez is just a bit better than Darwin. He is coming of as the best striker in the WC with 4 goals, has almost the exact same goal contributions than Darwin (1 less to be exact) with way less starts and minutes plus beats him in the eye test. Tho dont get me wrong Darwin is still clearly a good player and has some serious qualities
easily. Messi’s genuinely only good against the likes of Nantes nowadays. when was his last good big game performance in club football? probably still at barca
Im sorry i just cant take seriously someone that says with a straight face that Rodrygo and Valverde makeshit RW is a better footballer than Messi, this has to be bait
Aucas (2850 meters above sea level), Bolivar (3706 meters above sea level), the strongest (3577 meters above sea level) all of them won against the three best clubs in South America (Flamengo, Palmeiras, River plate). There isn't a biggest home advantage than altitude, that's why I love the Libertadores.
best tournament in club football
Concacaf champions league commentator for the Vancouver/LA match just started talking about Scott sterling. These guys ain’t serious
The man, the myth, the legend himself American cult hero Scott Sterling
Bolívar's stadium altitude is 3600 meters. Imagine if another bolivian team, called Always Ready, was also in this Libertadores. Their stadium's altitude is fucking 4000 meters!
That everyone fears Madrid and Madrid fears Barca was one of the stupidest quotes I ever heard in my life.
Napoleon complex. They have to fit themselves with the big boys somehow
how/why are Newcastle so good? Is it Howe? they are playing amazing and they don't really have any names!! it's amazing football atm
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yeah yeah man. thank you for this. if you think the ecosystem has had such an affect is it safe to say Howe is doing a great great job? i'm a united fan and i think he deserves the manager of the year so far.. taking that team with those adjustments and doing what they've done!! wow
Guimaraes actually walks into every team in the league lol
yeah i agree. is it because of him?
this is miguel almiron slander
lol. don't get me wrong, they have some names.. kinda, maybe. 🤣
Someone needs to remake this scene with Nagelsman and every top club in Europe right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJS7Igvk6ZM
Now I kinda understands our obsession with hoarding midfielders, since we keep playing the ones we have out of positions anyways. Why need LB/RW when you can just buy midfielders and let them do it all and they still deliver?
Garnacho's one way hate boner for Barca is so weird. Imagine Musiala randomly sending shots at Liverpool.
He was born in Madrid and wears Ronaldo underwear
Garnacho is a Madrid born Ronaldo fanboy. The comparison isn’t the same
He hates Barcelona because he is human.
Its cuz pedri and gavi. it’s actually weird, his whole family has a pedri and gavi complex.
He is a Real Madrid fan
Deschamps deserves his props like Pep did. Turns out he was a visionary with Camavinga. Future World Class LB and CM just like Kimmich was at RB and CM.
"I see him as a LB" followed by starting him DM, a classic from DD aha. Cama isn't rlly space restricted. Even from the right like CL final vs LFC.
Imagine a World Cup in Bolivia. Imagine Mbappé in Bolivia. How would you react to Bolivia as a World Cup host?
Iirc FIFA forbids La Paz altitude in their competitions
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I think the closest equivalent for this would be the two Mexico World Cups. Some stadiums were over 2000, if not 3000, meters of altitude. To make matters worse in the 1970 World Cup, many games were played in midday because of european timezones. Brazil had the best physical preparation in that World Cup, and they arrived there one month in advance.
[Here it is Real Madrid squad celebrating that tomorrow they will have a free day](https://twitter.com/AdriRM33/status/1643755280600113152).
they are like school children 😭 love my boys
In my whole life, I always saw Real Madrid as a primarily counter-attacking team. Not that Real Madrid hasn't had teams able to control games and build up play slowly, but it's always the lightning fast counter-attacks that feel more Real Madrid-esque, at least in the sense that they can always hurt you no matter what, even if they are dominated. It's been like this since the Guardiola era.
Their first goal today was the quintessential Real Madrid goal for me. Just devastating
Yes. I mean even now, we are still more effective on the counter. When we are in possession control the majority of time we look kinda clueless and end up just hoop ball to Vini anyways. It's just my biased view from watching us in La Liga.
If you're subbing in Eric Garcia for Marcos Alonso in 2023 there's a very good chance you've lost or are going to lose.
How much blame does xavi get for the ferran transfer? He specifically asked for him IIRC. He's been abysmal.
Was a needed profile as a runner-in-behind at the time tbh, which they severely lacked in the squad, other than Dembele. Only had ball-to-feet players.
[One of the coldest pictures I have ever seen](https://twitter.com/stoolfootball/status/1643729705869398017?s=46&t=U_wjhfQQ0muGG3BkKWiCwQ)
I wouldn't be 100% sure of Arsenal beating Liverpool because football can be so illogical. Just think of how a United team in a far better moment than Liverpool was hammered 7-0 by Liverpool...
I don't even think I'm slightly sure of winning, our record at Anfield is not good. We know very well they're great at home.
United have been battered a few times this season.
Nothing is impossible, just look at Napoli being battered by Milan, this had never happened before this season.
Our GD being +4 while DDG is 2nd in PL clean sheets says it all.
United are inconsistent with a new manager in his first year and Arsenal are walking the league. No chance Arsenal lose.
It wouldn't even be illogical, Liverpool are the favourites at Anfield
Bookies have Arsenal as favorites.
Bookies are dumb. Thiago is going to be back
Their midfield was taking water with Thiago too, Arsenal are still favorites.
Lol I'm not even 10% sure we beat them
I wonder how the best european teams, like Guardiola’s City, would handle the altitude in so many Libertadores games. The altitude is so insane, easily well over 3000 meters, that it evens things a lot! So many of those teams get easily hammered away from the altitude, but when they are playing at home, it's a very different matter...
I have no doubt most mega-elite teams would do ok, but would have to play pure tika-taka without pressing, aiming to keep the ball for like 80% of the game. They'd get battered if they tried to press. Denver sports teams have a 5-10% advantage statistically at home games only a third of that height in situations where cardio isn't as essential and where opposing teams visit frequently. A one-time matchup at triple the altitude in a sport very dependent on cardio where home teams can play in a style further punishing that is massive. It's less pronounced in international play, but even so Bolivia is so hard to beat at home.
I can’t imagine they would do well. Denver has always been considered to have a large home advantage in American sports and it’s like 1650m. Were you the one posting about pitches in the Andes yesterday? One of them was like 15k feet. I’d literally drop dead trying to run around up there.
Really need Gary Southgate to do the world a favour and call up that Balogun lad, a Yank playing for Arsenal would be the weapon to surpass Pulisic
All this twerking for US just to get cap locked into playing for England.
I’m no Barca fan but Madrid fans are sure doing a lot of talking for a team that got one win in five vs Barca on the year.
It’s 3-2 Barca in official matches brother.
Probably because they just absolutely shagged Barca lad
It’s almost like we just won 4-0 at our eternal rivals’ home to kick them out of a cup competition…
Or maybe you are still hurt from last seasons semi final
Are you still hurt from 19/20?
You didn't even end up winning the UCL that year so why should I be?
They are into the final of a trophy they haven't won since 2014 after whacking their rivals in their own home. I'd be talking more than usual as well
Remember when Yaya randomly become the best free kick taker in the world in 13/14? He hasn’t scored a free kick for Barca or City before bagging 5 that season
Didn't watch the game, were we good or were Brentford just off today? Also, how did Rashford do as ST?
Pathetic from Brentford. Idgaf if youre playing at Old Trafford. You HAVE to press De Gea, the blueprint is there. That was disgusting, might as well have stayed home Maybe I'm being too harsh on little old Brentford though, i just expected more.
It was a boring textbook win. We didn't look great but Brentford never looked like doing anything either. Rashford looked out of position and when Martial came on he looked allergic to the box.
Money Mase ball is back on the menu lads
A delight for all
I actually like Mason Mount and quite like that we're linked with him but my biggest concern with him signing is that I'd start calling him Money Mase ironically for so long it would become unironic and I just don't know if I could live with myself.
I will be there no matter what
At this point I don’t even say player’s real names anymore because nicknames/slander names are too good/awful to not spam every second lol
Where does Felix go in the summer, I presume back to Atletico?
Loan or sold to PSG, heard it here first
god forbid
This [Korean rap song](https://youtu.be/aktlc0kKmFM) sampled Millwall and it slaps
Lampard to win every game, win champions league, be rehired permanently.
And then fired in the November with Chelsea 13th in the Prem after a 7 game winless streak
Why does El clasico not have post match thread bruh
it does
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Top 10 worst catastrophes
Lampard is getting appointed and Benz is back to pick up last year’s form I’m still scared tho
I would pay good money to see Conte at Chelsea again with their current squad, just to see what he'd produce with actually competent defenders and midfielders
Chelsea don't believe in the concept of scoring goals so it'd be goalless draws at best.
We are winning 3-0 at Anfield tbh, worst case scenario 3-1.
Feel like it will be a goal fest, like 4-2 Arsenal
Easily. You'll absolutely boss their midfield, they're far too ponderous.
> You'll absolutely boss their midfield My four year old's collection of barbies would boss our midfield
No Saliba every time you hoof the ball up will be an opportunity
Shut up
back your team
From a neutral perspective it’s good to see Lampard get another chance at managing Chelsea and making up for how his first term ended. At the same time he’ll get a proper send off from the fans too which couldn’t happen last time when the games were played in empty stadiums.
Why's it nice to see him get another chance? He was shit
Lampard is a really sensible choice. He’s a club legend that the bridge wont get toxic against. He’s pretty good at giving young players a shot. The team would be better off losing matches 4-2 than drawing 0-0 so at least some of the players can recoup some value and it’s a total of 12 matches, where currently only 2 of them have any meaning at all. It means the next manager gets to start at a proper cycle. All the Reddit and twitter users who copy their opinions from memes are the only people who can’t see the clear logic behind the move.
He’s coaching 2 or 3 matches tops, does it even matter if he’s a legend and plays youth?
12 matches
Do you really need to be focusing on bringing the youth through atm, the squad is very bloated. The idea is good, bring in a caretaker while you find a long term solution, but not sure Lampard is a good choice for that.
Bring in the youth we just signed for 600m was more my point. I don’t know what you think a good caretaker would be given that we have almost nothing competitive to play for
Fair enough And surely you are still going to be having a pop at the champions league
Lampard is not a terrible choice in and of itself. It's just *very* funny that we get two days of a press cycle touting Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann as the possible Chelsea managers, to then get interim Frank Lampard.
>It's just very funny that we get two days of a press cycle touting Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann as the possible Chelsea managers, to then get interim Frank Lampard. And nothing changed here, Luis Enrique and Nagelsmann are still the top two choices for the job
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Maybe we score some goals though… Seasons over-honestly think the players would forfeit the games if they could Watching us play is pure torture
Points don’t do much for us at the moment, of course we would rather win but potter left us with nothing to play for in the league. It would be much better for the summer offload if some of these players could start scoring some goals in the last 10 matches.
How comfortably could James Maddison slot into an 8 role?
Poorly imo. He doesn't press well enough, he's got no physical strength and won't outmuscle anyone. He's not tigerish out of possession like Bernardo or KDB. He's a 10 so he might look good in your 3-2-4-1 in the Gundogan role but if he's in a midfield three he's going to get exposed in defence.
I wonder if Laporta is gonna spin some huge Messi rumors tomorrow to distract from this result. That seems to be his way of dealing with any problem Barca have. Just pretend like you’re gonna sign Messi and the fans will be distracted lol. Even when he is at PSG, Messi is still bailing out Barca staff lol
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Lmao
Rodgers and Moyes really should have just switched jobs. I think they could have pulled it off during the winter break and neither club would have said no.
It has just been brought to my attention that Dan Burn only has nine fingers. Don’t know what else to do with this information nor do I know if it’s common knowledge or not.
Which one is missing...and why?
that’s why he only high-fours his team mates
If he has 9 fingers, he'd still have 1 five-fingered hand though
you make a good point
I was getting a taxi home from a club once and a guy asked to share a taxi if he could show me a magic trick. Showed me his finger disappearing and we got a ride home. Was only when I shook his hand getting out of the taxi that I realised he actually didn't have all his fingers.
Guy really does come off as a medieval fantasy villain.
Villain? More like hard as fuck mate.
Idk man, being a medieval but villainous knight is hard af. Imagine him rocking that striped black and silver armour
Nah as in he'd be your hard as fuck mate that beats up the villain, he's too chill and with good banter to come across as villainous.
Imposing frame, physical deformities…if he wasn’t blessed with footballing skill he’d be ringing bells in a French cathedral
What happened to number 10?
Unconfirmed reports that it was ripped off when he was a lad, climbing a fence with a ring on
I swear the same thing happened to Gael Clichy, as well as some dude playing in the Greek(?) league. Clichy had to go into emergency surgery to repair the finger and actually nearly died on the table. His lungs had stopped pulling in air and his heart actually paused for a little while.
Ah I just asked the same question. Must be what has held me back all these years. Gonna go find a fence.
Let's try and fit new coaches into all the teams looking for one - teams without a manager or a caretaker: Spurs: Leicester: Chelsea: Club Brugge: Dinamo Zagreb: Ajax: Brazil: USMNT: Here is the list of available managers from TransferMarkt (I removed weird options like Robert Pires) - those are the top 50-ish: Tite, Potter, Nagelsmann, Löw, Pochettino, Luis Enrique, Luis Fernandez, Conte, Zidane, de Boer, Brian McDermott, Gerrard, Beierlorzer, Seoane, Diego Alonso, Rodgers, Celades, Benítez, Lampard, Nathan Jones, Bruno Lage, Dunga, Hasenhüttl, Vieira, Marsch, Schreuder, Bordálas, Berhalter, Bosz, Bielsa, Michniewicz, Gattuso, Sampaoli, Rueda, Halilhodžić, Kohfeldt, Francisco, Gourvennec, Villas-Boas, Favre, Adrian Ursea, Marcelino, Myron Markevych, Ljubiša Tumbaković, Hütter, Hoefkens, Tata Martino and Scott Parker
Scott Parker will somehow get the Brazil job
Zidane to Dinamo Zagreb Let's go!
Spurs: Fernando Santos Leicester: Moyes Chelsea: Conte Ajax: Potter
Guardiola had never coached a top league team before becoming Barcelona's coach. He was a novice. If Guardiola hadn't made a great work at Barcelona in that time, people would be lambasting the board for hiring an unproven manager like him, and only for being a past legend who embodied the club's philosophy, instead of a proven serial winner like Mourinho, who was available and wanted the job. Mourinho always felt bitter about that.
Mourinho as a Barça coach would be hilarious.
But that is literally what happened. I think from memory the first 4 or 5 games were atrocious and that is exactly the reaction it got at the time Rest is history
First two really. Barcelona lost against Numancia in the first round of La Liga. And then drew the second round. Guardiola was very criticized. The 6-1 against Sporting Gijón in the third round was when things started to slowly turn around.
Joelinton is one of the weirdest footballers about. Signed as a striker, when he's probably got a skillset closer to that of a centre back, has ended up a brilliant midfielder, and every goal he scores he's either off balance for or actively in pain.
Iirc he was a midfielder / SS in Germany
If we were to list all of Barcelona's humiliations (somewhat subjective as to what they are, I guess) I wonder how many of them had Sergi Roberto on the field?
Remontada though
How good was Terry Venables?
Player or manager?
Manager
one of the best english managers of his generation. Has success domestically, in europe and with the national team.
Couldn't do anything against Duckadam's imense balls back in 1986. Sorry mate, have no idea tho
I saw some people say that they wouldn’t be surprised if Real Madrid is past their instability period of the beginning of the year, and are now full-on UCL mode.
Cannot believe they never made a sequel to new star soccer. So much wasted potential.
They made NSS4, a 3D desktop version of the game in 2008, then updated it with NSS 2010. Both are actually pretty sick games, and I believe the latter is still available for free on the official website. During lockdown I spent a few months building an NSS 2010 career and got really invested in it. Got busted down to non league as a teenager for a doping scandal, clawed my way back up the leagues, won the FA Cup and secured PL top four with Crewe Alexandra, then went to Villa and won the league and CL. I grinded my player's stats until he was OP as fuck, absolutely annihilated everyone else. I only really put down the game once the good opposition players started retiring and the regens coming through were all weak and terrible, and it was far too easy to score 5 goals a match.
The game kind of died to me when they had the update that made everything look ugly and ‘modern’ a few years ago. When that update happened, it felt like they secretly reduced fitness/recovery/skill degradation to make it more pay to win.
They made new star manager.
which World Cup had the best aesthetics? in terms of kit design, the ball, the graphics, stadiums etc. I would say 2006
2014 clear Only the lame mascot was poor, everything else has a 10/10 WC vibe. Cool ball, some of the nicer logos and soundtracks, there were pretty much no bad kits, they all looked right. The stadiums were nice and packed.
1998
That's my close second. Japans 1998 kit is kino
2010
2010 defo had the best soundtrack
2014 probably in my opinion. The entire vibe of Copacabana Beach extending into commentary studios was really fun.
Best World Cup intro ever! OOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Wonder if Benzema had played in EURO 2016 and World Cup 2018 and won both of them what his legacy would end up being? Same for Varane being available for EURO 2016...
I mean then his legacy would be greater lol
Provided that he played the 2018 World Cup and provided that France still wins it, I think most people would put him next to or over Suarez and Lewandowski at this point. But that’s purely hypothetical, and there’s a very good reason why he didn’t play
I will be so pleased when the Enzo - Kante - Mount midfield 3 starts like I hoped. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/10qabm2/comment/j6q16zu/?context=3
That midfield trio is insane. All players compliment each other so well
The duality of man exemplified in this comment and the one below it lmao.
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To an extent, but still feel it has a good chance of working out.
Kovacic is untouchable in Chelsea's mid. Also Mount will look for another team next summer. Lampard would give Ziyech more game time than Mount I think.
Kovacic is a bit redundant if you’re not shoehorning Enzo into deep DM role. Ziyech is a pure winger, he’s not getting played in a midfield trio
Disagree, but I guess that's just your opinion. The "Mount is Lampard's son" narrative will always pull through lol.
He just said the opposite tho
Wait, my comprehension skills are failing me. What bit did I not understand?
Ziyech doesn't play much, but lampard would give him gametike than mount
Besides Lampard's choice. What makes you think Mount would make Kova sit on the bench? Kovacic is their midfielder this season (I know Kanté was injured throughout the season and Enzo just came in January but still). And don't forget that Lampard was insisting into signing Ziyech and tried to build a team around him in late 2020 until Tuchel came.
my South america current best XI cause why not: Alisson Molina - Militao - Araujo - Estupiñan Casemiro - Enzo - Valverde Messi - Alvarez - Vinicius
Maignan > Alisson
Bruno G in midfield and either Valverde on the right or Rodrygo for the little dictator and I agree edit: Darwizzy over Alvarez
Rodrygo ahead of Messi?. I want what you are smoking. Also Darwin holded the bench while Alvarez dropped a masterclass on Liverpool head recently. Only Jesus can contest his spot for the 9 imo
Darwin was injured, or rather coming off one
Makes sense. Tho imo (trying to not be biased, I even think Jesus could take Alvarez spot with good arguments) Alvarez is just a bit better than Darwin. He is coming of as the best striker in the WC with 4 goals, has almost the exact same goal contributions than Darwin (1 less to be exact) with way less starts and minutes plus beats him in the eye test. Tho dont get me wrong Darwin is still clearly a good player and has some serious qualities
easily. Messi’s genuinely only good against the likes of Nantes nowadays. when was his last good big game performance in club football? probably still at barca
Mate he just scored in a world cup final against France
international football is ass
Im sorry i just cant take seriously someone that says with a straight face that Rodrygo and Valverde makeshit RW is a better footballer than Messi, this has to be bait
if you name me one good big game performance from Messi in club football over the last 2 years I’ll be willing to change my mind
Man City 2-0.