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Manager Ange Postecoglou

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Was sacking Ange a good idea?

  • Yes, I think it was a good idea.

    Votes: 72 64.3%

  • No, I think it was a bad idea.

    Votes: 40 35.7%
  • Total voters
    112
daveyboy88 said:
hes gone for the safe option to not rock the boat so hard. son wont even be here start of next year let alone captain. i get why hes given him the armband, its not because he thinks hes the best suited leader in that dressing room.

i cant remember an armband change and TWO vice captains being appointed in such a big deal before...that says it all!

if you think a bloke who ducks headers, avoids duals like the plague, and has shown a serious lack of respect for his previous captain, deserves to be captain of a football team. then you must be a fucking idiot. imagine going into war and the leader is scared of putting his head on the ball or getting into a dual LOL. how inspiring, would fire you right up for battle that. might get away with having a pansy as the 'leader' in a little mincers league. but in the premier league it is as weak as it gets.
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Ever wondered why people think little of you? It’s because of shit posts like these.

Delete your account DAVE
 
daveyboy88 said:
hes gone for the safe option to not rock the boat so hard. son wont even be here start of next year let alone captain. i get why hes given him the armband, its not because he thinks hes the best suited leader in that dressing room.

i cant remember an armband change and TWO vice captains being appointed in such a big deal before...that says it all!

if you think a bloke who ducks headers, avoids duals like the plague, and has shown a serious lack of respect for his previous captain, deserves to be captain of a football team. then you must be a fucking idiot. imagine going into war and the leader is scared of putting his head on the ball or getting into a dual LOL. how inspiring, would fire you right up for battle that. might get away with having a pansy as the 'leader' in a little mincers league. but in the premier league it is as weak as it gets.
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"Pansies"
"Mincers"

Let your hair down and use the words really you want to...... We can all see what you really mean anyway.
 
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FightingIllini said:
What was a debatable matter that needed to be qualified and specified ten years ago isn't anymore: at every level of the table the Premier League features stronger teams with better players than their counterparts in any other league in the world.

The combination of having much, much more money and having erased any tactical/technical deficit that used to exist has made this just an unambiguous fact of the football world. The PL is at the top of the heap.
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Sure, but I don't think many are arguing that the Premier League isn't the strongest League.
As has been noted though, being stronger doesn't necessarily make it any more competitive.

Man City will win it 4 out of 5 seasons regardless of the quality of the other teams top to bottom, as the quality they possess is still better than everyone else (and outside of a select handful of clubs, vastly better)
 
daveyboy88 said:
outside of madrid, barca, bayern, psg, maybe an italian side or 2. no other team in europe probably finishes top half of prem.
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This is a highly dubious claim. Fulham finished top half of the prem. Crystal Palace finished 11th.

You're telling me that the only clubs in Europe who could compete over a Premier League season with those two plus Brentford are the winners or very top teams of their respective leagues?
 
Fattynomates said:
The money makes it more competitive, even the lower teams can spend big, still with the amount City have spent and how well they are doing we are turning into a 1 team league!
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When Pep goes they will struggle, he has built a dynasty there now but an unfortunate side effect of a dynasty manager leaving is an inevitable wobble, United post-Fergie, Woolwich in the weeds for a few years after Wenger, whoever comes next has to get a tune out of players who would run through brick walls for Pep, they could easily drop out of title contention.
You can't discount any medium-large team in the PL coming under Saudi ownership at this point I reckon. In a sense it feels like the only way we'd ever have a "level" playing field again, if we fucked off FFP and every clubs owner has more 0s than they can be bothered to count on the end of their Bank balance.
 
daveyboy88 said:
yea sons only been about for one match hasnt he. you really are a simpleton if you havent worked him out by now.

i dont need to know him personally ive seen enough of his personality over the years to make judgement. just because the game and world has gone soft doesnt mean you can have pansies as captains. he wont be captain start of next season ill have money on it with you?

i assume youve never actually played football at any sort of competitive level? can you name me someone whos captained another big club that ducks out of the way of headers and is scared to get into duals? ill wait.....
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We have a no-nonsense, we-never-stop, lead-or-get-the-fuck-out-of-the-way manager who works with him every day and thinks he should be captain, but your "I've seen enough of his personality" assessment is more correct, eh?

The delusion of some people...
 
Mince Charming said:
Man City will win it 4 out of 5 seasons regardless of the quality of the other teams top to bottom, as the quality they possess is still better than everyone else (and outside of a select handful of clubs, vastly better)
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When Pep fucks off (please Pep, fuck off), the landscape is going to immediately be radically different.

I'm not even sure how strong of favorites I'd make them this season.

Mince Charming said:
You're telling me that the only clubs in Europe who could compete over a Premier League season with those two plus Brentford are the winners or very top teams of their respective leagues?
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There are a lot of clubs in Europe around the Brentford-Fulham-Palace level, but "a lot" is still only like 15 or so.

I feel like the sharpest way to put it is that in Transfermarkt's list of the clubs with the highest squad value, the Premier League has 8 of the top 12. Real Barca Bayern PSG, that's it until you get below Aston Villa.


That's only going to grow in the next 5 years.
 
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