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Since we haven't got any league football to look forward to for a while, anyone up for sharing some good goals they've enjoyed so far this season? Or otherwise good/funny/enjoyable moments?

I'll open the bidding with the goal that Anthony Elanga scored in our 1-0 win against Tottenham. Not because it was a particularly amazing goal, but because of the reaction of two of the Spurs fans afterwards.

After his goal, he went over and stood in front of the away section. One big guy amusingly dished out a hand signal, but the woman next to him was the funniest. She just looked absolutely furious! Like her blood was boiling and she wanted to say or do something but didn't dare! Remember someone on Twitter at the time saying she looks like your religious Nan that's found herself in the same room a family function with your gay cousin and his new boyfriend! 🤣

Goal from 30 seconds in, furious woman at 44 seconds.

 
Lord Tyrion said:
If you were Villa, assuming they are genuinely interested, you would ship him back at the end of the season and see if Utd blink. See if Utd want to pay someone £300k a week for sitting in the stands. It's a game of bluff at this point and I'm not sure Utd have too strong a hand. Plenty of other players out there.
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We literally already have a buy clause in the contract set at £40-45 million. Pre agreed in Jan.
 
PJ87 said:
Now the ball is in rashfords court. If you pay that (reasonable I think) he has to take a hit on wages or does he think oh another club will come now
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He's already said he wants to join permanently. Apparently so does Asensio.

No agreed fee for Asensio though, so negotiation in summer if we want him but rumoured to be around £15m.... Bargain
 
Bdill93 said:
He's already said he wants to join permanently. Apparently so does Asensio.

No agreed fee for Asensio though, so negotiation in summer if we want him but rumoured to be around £15m.... Bargain
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Players play a big part. Ferguson hasn't set the world alight yet but if he stays fit I 100% would welcome him staying ... Now we couldn't get a fee agreed as we wanted an option, Brighton wanted an obligation.. so it's just a loan. However if Ferguson decides he wants to go nowhere but us suddenly that's it. Other clubs can outbid us but that's that. It's why rice left for 100 million not 120 for example. Only arsenal he said. Why payet went for 27 million. He wanted masielle only.

Now Ferguson comes from a family run club and if we can give him a family feel with a manager who gave him his chance / knows him well can only be a good thing
 
Bdill93 said:
At some point clubs are going to learn great players aren't always great managers. Never should have got the job.
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True. Although I also think certain individuals are better suited to manage different levels of players.

I reckon some managers would be great managing top class players and getting them playing brilliantly, but would be terrible at managing a side that have really low quality players. Other managers could be awesome at inspiring the underdogs and making them horrible to play against, but would be lost with top class players and helping them play in such a way they can dominate games and score lots of goals.

I think it takes special managers that can do both, although I'm unsure if we ever get to see to many come through because of circumstances. It may have been a gamble for Leicester bringing in RVN. But, it was also a huge gamble for him. Had he gone to a side in any league, fighting at the top end of the table, he would be in a much better position to play the way he'd presumably want to play. Go into a side as bad as Leicester, huge risk you reputation will take one hell of a kicking. Even if he played really horrible, tough to break down, sort of football and kept them in the league, it could still be a bit of a kicking to his reputation, as he'd be typecast as a Dyche/Allardyce type manager. I wonder how the likes of Pep, Slot, Arteta, Klopp (managers with decent reputations) would have got on at Leicester?

Maybe he saw how Kompany was rewarded, despite relegation, and felt that all he needed to do was show some attacking style, despite being awful at the back, to reap similar rewards. But, sadly for him, Leicester were not coming off the back of a successful Championship season and bringing that attacking experience team work to the table, instead they are just very bad all over the pitch.
 
Swango1980 said:
Maybe he saw how Kompany was rewarded, despite relegation
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I was stunned at the time that he was given the Bayern gig and remain stunned to this day.

Just goes to show how much a name and reputation can do for you. So many great players have been bliddy awful at management.

Defo agree with you about certain managers being suited to the relegation fight and others only suited to the fight at the top. I'd wager that Pep, Slot, Arteta and Klopp would be useless in a relegation scrap while Dyche, Allardyce and the like would be useless at the top end.
 
Swango1980 said:
True. Although I also think certain individuals are better suited to manage different levels of players.

I reckon some managers would be great managing top class players and getting them playing brilliantly, but would be terrible at managing a side that have really low quality players. Other managers could be awesome at inspiring the underdogs and making them horrible to play against, but would be lost with top class players and helping them play in such a way they can dominate games and score lots of goals.

I think it takes special managers that can do both, although I'm unsure if we ever get to see to many come through because of circumstances. It may have been a gamble for Leicester bringing in RVN. But, it was also a huge gamble for him. Had he gone to a side in any league, fighting at the top end of the table, he would be in a much better position to play the way he'd presumably want to play. Go into a side as bad as Leicester, huge risk you reputation will take one hell of a kicking. Even if he played really horrible, tough to break down, sort of football and kept them in the league, it could still be a bit of a kicking to his reputation, as he'd be typecast as a Dyche/Allardyce type manager. I wonder how the likes of Pep, Slot, Arteta, Klopp (managers with decent reputations) would have got on at Leicester?

Maybe he saw how Kompany was rewarded, despite relegation, and felt that all he needed to do was show some attacking style, despite being awful at the back, to reap similar rewards. But, sadly for him, Leicester were not coming off the back of a successful Championship season and bringing that attacking experience team work to the table, instead they are just very bad all over the pitch.
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I agree with a lot of what you said - just feel Leicester should have gone down the tried and trusted route if they wanted to stay up. Unproven is much bigger gamble and its failed massively.
 
Bdill93 said:
I agree with a lot of what you said - just feel Leicester should have gone down the tried and trusted route if they wanted to stay up. Unproven is much bigger gamble and its failed massively.
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They had a tried and tested solution in their employ. When he was relieved of his duties, he left them in 16th position having won points from games that a newly promoted side would have been targeting. The football wasn't pretty enough though and Albert Steptoe didn't like him, so he was gone.
 
Don Barzini said:
They had a tried and tested solution in their employ. When he was relieved of his duties, he left them in 16th position having won points from games that a newly promoted side would have been targeting. The football wasn't pretty enough though and Albert Steptoe didn't like him, so he was gone.
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Biggest shame for them was going up under one manager and losing him straight away!
 
I enjoy the Overlap: Stick to Football. However, this week was a really tough watch. Their guest - Sol Campbell

I've never really listened to him speak in any depth, or had much of an opinion of him in the past. So, I started the episode fairly neutral. However, he has a habit of making the discussion feel really awkward, and he clearly has a very very high opinion of himself. I appreciate most elite sports people will be highly confident. But, most will also happily take the mick out of themselves, or you have someone like Zlatan that it is so over the top, with a twinkle in his eye and a smirk in his face, it is humorous. Not with Campbell though. His presence just felt to really subdue the room more often that not.

To me, it feels like he is one of those golfers that you sometimes play with, who spends the entire round telling you about all their greatest achievements on and off the golf course, all his longest drives, his lowest rounds, etc.

Perhaps I'm being harsh. However, when he started talking about his return to Arsenal later in his career and that he said Wenger was originally against it, I knew exactly where the story would end up long before it did. And I wasn't wrong. It ended in him explaining how he absolutely bossed Fabregas, upset Wenger because he was wrong about him, but ultimately believing he taught Wenger a valuable lesson.
 
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