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Timing. All of the top clubs have recently changed managers. They can't all fire their current managers to make way for Klopp and if that were to happen, it just means there is another top manager out there without a club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Over the last few years I've made the point that a quick team isn't simply the by product of quick players. I never thought signing Welbeck and Sanchez would be a quick fix....and so it proves. We need to set up like a team who wants to play to quickly if we are to play like that.
I also remember suggesting shortly after we signed Ozil that Cesc is a better player than Ozil. It was almost like I was claiming Welbeck is Ian Wright to quite a few people. I thought that then and I think that now... (the bit about Cesc-Ozil, not Welbeck-Wright) but Ozil is more mobile and there is still a lot that can come from him.
We should also not be blind to the fact that we ourselves have helped break the taboo of players leaving the club and/or joining rivals by the regularity with which we have allowed it to happen. We overplayed the 'we were forced to' card one too many times and now we are increasingly pointing fingers at the old goat at the helm. All while we curse the very ground any player walks on as they get out the fire exit, off the ship and into a lifeboat whilst we watch the band in our front row seats as the ship sinks.
The captain goes down with the ship and the manager has signed a new deal so don't expect a change. Fasten your seats and enjoy the band.
This performance wasn't just shit, it transcended shit, it was a rancid shit served on a bed of turds marinaded in diarrhoea.
Dortmund weren't weakened by injury, it barely mattered, they have a strategy, a tactical plan, an ethos.
It should not have come as any surprise. You always know what you get from a Klopp team - high pressing in large numbers, prodigious workrate, smart closing off of passing lanes and fast counters.
What do we have by comparison? The vague idea that 4-1-4-1 let's us shoehorn Ozil, Ramsey and Wilshire into the same side? Arteta can't hold that position on his own, not against good opposition, Flamini couldn't either. This team still has no identity.
Hummels looked like he was watching live at the Apollo or at the comedy store.
Got sent a Vieira highlight from youtube today.. watched it all...
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Wow :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann
Hard to argue though. There were literally no positives to come out of it.
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Originally Posted by Letters
It didn't rain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=0b2k6wNBZYU
Bergy > Ozil/ Cunt Fabregas
I just cannot stand this team anymore and the only thing worse than getting wooped by the big teams is the player's reaction afterwards. I remember reading Arteta's reactions last season after the big defeats to the big 5 and he sounds exactly the same each fucking time. "we let ourselves down and cannot do this again" or " we didnt start well and didnt deserve anything" FFS this is the captain saying the exact same shit after each loss and it shows that there is anothing being learnt or done behind the scenes.
Fuck the lot of em.
Arteta is our captain says it all :ilt:Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller