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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
My guess will be Newcastle's winter business will involve them trying to take key players off competing sides in the relegation battle rather the big names like Mbappe thrown around who will have no interest in that.

Sarr from Watford, Tarkowski from Burnley, Toney of Brentford
Douglas Luiz from Villa. Guys like that.

Building will come in stages. They won't be aiming for a side to win the Champions League while struggling to stay in the league.
To be clear - the reason for this is two-fold. To strengthen of course - but to destabilise sides around them. In the same way City did with Villa, Everton, Arsenal, etc back at the start of their journey.
For those debating the merits of the named individuals...

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29 Nov
Let me introduce you to my old friend - the hierarchy of disagreement.

Whenever people attack you or your character rather than refuting what you say, it is because they know whatever they have to counter whatever you said is piss-weak and therefore their best approach is to
attack your credibility rather than attack what you have said.

Defence lawyers do this ALL THE TIME in trials. Attack the character of the witness not the evidence presented. Get the jury to doubt the evidence by making them doubt the person providing it.
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29 Nov
Just remember when watching this that Roy Keane was given managerial roles at the highest level.

Carra is absolutely spot on. Who succeeds in top-level sports is whoever can impose their will on the opposition. Ronaldo reduces United's chances of doing so because he is only
alive in one phase of play.

City have nobody can scoring goals like Ronaldo. But it doesn't matter because they control almost every team they face, dominate almost every metric and therefore win most games.
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Not scoring goals. And that was always interesting to me. When clubs moved away from 2 strikers to 1 it was seen as defensive. Adding another body to midfield.

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28 Nov
My very fucking early new years resolution.

I will not click on any more clickbait headlines. Doesn't matter if I always read your content. If there is enough in there to entice.

This is something that is killing written media and creating distrust with readers & needs to die.
"Liverpool need to make this one change to win the league"

Cool title bro. You got that shit all figured out, eh? I'll leave you to it then.
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27 Nov
Sorry I am only replying to this now. Just recorded a long podcast with Seb where we talked about this very thing which I recommend (when it comes out) because I talk a lot more about stuff than I write (my fingers are fucking tired ya'll).
In short though - played out exactly how I thought. It created a lot more open game. We had less control than we did last weekend. But an open game is fine here as we have far more quality than them. Variance will fuck us though if we keep giving up that many good situations to
teams. And variance looks like Brentford, Brighton, West Ham.

We were doing FAR too much fire fighting at the back today. Good defending isn't fire fighting it is in seeing no fires to begin with. Once you have fires there is always the risk you get burned.
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27 Nov
"All Jota does is score"

Here is a non-exhaustive lists of 60 other things he ranks in the 75th percentile and above in.

Ball Recoveries
Carries
Carries into Final Third
Dribblers Tackled
Dribbles Attempted
Dribbles Contested
Fewest Miscontrols
Interceptions
Key Passes
Non-Penalty Goals
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npxG+xA
Nutmegs
Offsides
Passes Attempted
Passes Attempted (Long)
Passes Attempted (Short)
Passes Completed
Passes Completed (Long)
Passes Completed (Short)
Passes into Final Third
Passes into Penalty Area
Passes Received
Passes Received %
Players Dribbled Past
Pressures
Pressures (Att 3rd)
Pressures (Def 3rd)
Pressures (Mid 3rd)
Progressive Carries
Progressive Carrying Distance
Progressive Passes
Progressive Passes Rec
Progressive Passing Distance
SCA (Def)
SCA (Drib)
SCA (Fld)
SCA (PassLive)
SCA (Sh)
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27 Nov
Thoughts on the XI.

Feb & Hendo together. Hendo as an 8. Two things that have been a recurring problem in poor performances this season.

Depends how the game goes. If Southampton are going to press up on us and leave space to exploit then should work.

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Hoping we get some more Taki minutes against his former club.
We see different traits of players, not different roles. Hendo is Hendo. He does what he can do and is best doing. Just as Ox is Ox. They play the role differently because they are very different players. Not because the system changes based on who is #8
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