On September 26 2024 18:30 aseq wrote:
Yes, but the other 2 will play their round 2 next week too. 9 CL matches on tue and wed, most of EL and ConfL on thursday (34 total!)

Conference will be wild!

evilfatsh1t

Australia8656 Posts

September 26 2024 18:08 GMT

#227

interesting event happening in korea for those who dont know. nexon (huge korean game developers) are hosting an event match in collaboration with shoot for love (youtube channel).

the fun thing about the match is that its going to be defenders vs attackers. the lineups have got a large number of former world class players.

defenders (Shield United)
head coach: cannavaro
assistant coach: lee young pyo
players: van de sar, puyol, bonucci, yaya toure, vidic, ferdinand, mascherano, riise, seedorf, pirlo, adilson, park joo ho, kim nam il

attackers (FC Spear)
head coach: thierry henry
assistant coach: park ji sung
players: kaka, shevchenko, figo, del piero, michael owen, tevez, berbatov, fellaini, drogba, hazard, lee chun soo, ahn jung hwan, kim byung ji

a few korean players sprinkled in and a good number of utd/epl players because its korea and youd expect them to have the most fans. overall a very attractive roster and a more interesting set of teams! defenders team probably gonna win imo

on the off chance that anyone here considers going to watch here are the details. personally id love to go but too short notice to take time off work.

ticket sales: https://ticket.interpark.com/Contents/Sports/GoodsInfo?SportsCode=07006&TeamCode=PF001
event match: 19 Oct 6pm KST
main event: 20 Oct 6pm KST

not sure exactly what the first event match is going to be but i think the main event is where the above line ups will play

sharkie

Austria18412 Posts

September 27 2024 17:17 GMT

#228

With Klopp's retirement I am pretty confident to say that Seb Hoeneß is the best German coach right now. Its crazy how he has made almost a full team of nobodies top2 team in Germany and with two of their best players leaving still the only team that is anywhere close to Bayern and Bayer in Germany with a much much smaller budget

WombaT

Northern Ireland25396 Posts

September 27 2024 17:23 GMT

#229

Rodri out for the season, that is a tough blow to Man City despite their reserves of talent

WombaT

Northern Ireland25396 Posts

September 27 2024 17:24 GMT

#230

On September 28 2024 02:17 sharkie wrote:
With Klopp's retirement I am pretty confident to say that Seb Hoeneß is the best German coach right now. Its crazy how he has made almost a full team of nobodies top2 team in Germany and with two of their best players leaving still the only team that is anywhere close to Bayern and Bayer in Germany with a much much smaller budget

Weird way to spell Tommy Tuchel like

DropBear

Australia4353 Posts

September 28 2024 08:46 GMT

#231

Finally made an FPL team, better late than never. Challenging myself to not use Haaland all season.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25396 Posts

September 29 2024 11:19 GMT

#232

Man Cole Palmer isn’t a bad player is he?

Best 10 in Europe on the form of the past 14 months or so?

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51487 Posts

September 29 2024 12:29 GMT

#233

Yeah the guy is nuts, don't think Pep's made many mistakes in his career, but letting him go is a HUGE one.

That freekick he scored yesterday one of bests i ever seen and i watched Zola do it for fun for us.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25396 Posts

September 29 2024 13:41 GMT

#234

On September 29 2024 21:29 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah the guy is nuts, don't think Pep's made many mistakes in his career, but letting him go is a HUGE one.

That freekick he scored yesterday one of bests i ever seen and i watched Zola do it for fun for us.

I don’t know if it was a mistake, it’s a move that ended up suiting all parties.

Palmer has really flourished as being that main man, Chelsea needed a player who could knit things together.

City don’t really give the keys to the kingdom to a player in that manner, so maybe Palmer’s just a good cog in that machine rather than running games.

You can only have so many top players before one of them has their noses put out of joint or stops performing to their level motivation wise.

There are some better at running with the ball, some can match him at passing and few are as lethal a shot as he is. Averaging out those 3 areas he may be the best around on form at the minute.

sharkie

Austria18412 Posts

September 29 2024 16:30 GMT

#235

I am a huge fan of Saka but I think Cole Palmer has the shot of becoming one of the best English players of all time.

On September 26 2024 07:49 GTR wrote:
his refusal to bench bruno will be his ultimate downfall

Bruno helps ten Haag

gTank

Austria2567 Posts

September 29 2024 17:20 GMT

#236

I have not seen the game but why does United suck so much right now?

evilfatsh1t

Australia8656 Posts

September 29 2024 17:31 GMT

#237

what do you mean right now? weve been like this for a year already

Harris1st

Germany6931 Posts

September 30 2024 08:52 GMT

#238

On September 30 2024 02:31 evilfatsh1t wrote:
what do you mean right now? weve been like this for a year already

A year? Feels much much longer

EDIT:
Was just checking ManU's placements for the last 30 years. You see those years with Sir Alex and then the drop off with only the Special One managing to lock in more than 80 points 17/18

Liquid`Drone

Norway28672 Posts

September 30 2024 08:56 GMT

#239

Fergie retired in 2013, no?

evilfatsh1t

Australia8656 Posts

September 30 2024 09:52 GMT

#240

i was under the impression the question was more in the context of why does united suck so bad currently under ten hag. the first year of ten hag was a decent season and showed promise for progress. then last season we sucked bad and it seems to be continuing so yeah, weve been as shit as this for about a year.

obviously if the question is asking relative to peak united, then weve been shit for 10 years straight now. but everyone knows weve been shit since fergie left so i think the question being asked is probably in the context of new, lower expectations.