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Nov 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I have mentioned before that Haaland scores in clumps. This isn't a problem - it is true of pretty much ALL players (Messi's peak is probably the exception to the rule, as with most rules).

This is important because at the start of the season, Haaland's insane scoring form was crucial to taking the lead in games. In each of the first 5 Premier League games this year, he was the first Man City player to score AND scored the goal that put them ahead in the game (even in the ARS game, where they subsequently equalised).

Obviously, getting ahead in games
Oct 30 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Felt the same way about him tonight.

I also think while I like Endo and Morten as players, I don't think either of them can play in a Slot midfield at the level he would need them to. The drop off in quality in possession from Grav, Mac and Jones to them both is severe. Which is fair enough because I suspect that would be true of a lot of midfielders if they were asked to replace either Grav or Mac right now.

I feel for Bradley. Had a breakout season last year. This year when faced with wingers with pace and quick feet he is getting done very easily
Aug 13 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Negotiations with player don't work this way.

I have seen countless situations where a player says yes but then the paperwork doesn't get signed. Because its a very different thing to say yes and then literally signing a document that is unbreakable and commits you to it. There will almost always be in every instance a period of time between 'lets do this' and 'paperwork signed'.

And it is exactly for this reason. All parties will want the player to take a pause, think about this, talk it through with his family, really grasp how big the decision is
Aug 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I love this. Its good analysis too of the deception and the objective.

I actually first saw this when scouting Rhode Island, who are a new team to the USL this year.

You are looking at where players will be, not where they will start. And how many there will be left in there
Image What is most interesting though - and its something I mentioned before - there will always be space left when a player makes a run FROM somewhere.

So when watching Rhode Island, guess where a big void appears after after corner - the penalty spot. 2nd balls are HUGE there then.
Jul 25 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Not sure why people struggle with this.

Its not that teams didn't see world class potential with Mane pre-Southampton, it's that they couldn't give that guy minutes to keep progressing. Southampton could.

And there are lots of players at that age and level that don't progress. Image Huijsen needs to play football. Coming to Liverpool and watching Virg, Quansah, Gomez and Konate eat all the minutes and getting run outs in the cup will do nothing for him.

So far in his career, almost all his minutes bar ~5 x 90s is at youth or Italian 3rd tier level. That is
May 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I'll keep saying it.

From a squad building POV, Nunez is the last forward Liverpool have that the nerd team will see as a problem to solve.

His age and underlying numbers is something you look to acquire.

Forwards aged 28+, regular soft tissue injuries, declining physical related performance metrics - they are big issues.

You are trying to find the point at which their value to you starts to dip below their cost. When their body can no longer perform at this level consistently.

Those are problems you can't give time to or solve later.
Jan 26, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
The amount of pathetic false equivalence I am seeing from people desperate for the club to be used to wash away the blood of a genocide or civilians being disappeared or executed for being dissidents of a despotic regime is depressing.

Yes, billionaires likely aren't entirely ethical.

No, they are not all the fucking same. People who are committing genocide, dismembering journalists, executing kids, imprisoning/murdering people for being gay - these people are worse.

I don't know how absolutely morally bankrupt and repugnant a human being you need
Jan 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I can only answer on the level he is at right now - but he is one of the best passers of the ball in Brazil, is exceptionally busy in games and has more to his game that simply keeping the ball but also stays behind the ball so isn't appearing in goals & assists too often. There is a tonne of quality there. Looks a lot like Arthur before he left Brazil - and I say that as both a compliment and a warning. It is a very different style and speed of play in Europe compared to Brasileirao matches. He definitely has the talent to step up a level but
Jan 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Selling Kelleher is a good thing. I'll explain why.🧵

It says to young players that we won't hold back your career. If you break through and are ready to play and we can't clear a path into the first team for you - we won't get in your way.

But, you make the deal in a way that we can get him back (if we want) when Ali needs to start winding down his career. And he will remember fondly the club that didn't stand in his way instead of the one that held him back, stunted his development and now carries around resentment for them.

You can't think about
Dec 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I have two lines of thought on this.

1. He isn't because they don't profile alike. Caicedo would be a controller. A guy to eat Thiago minutes and eventually replace him. He keeps it simple in the main but can pick those dangerous passes when they are there to be played. But he won't waste possession forcing when it isn't there either in the way maybe a Gerrard did in the past. Bellingham is the opposite, doesn't like the simple pass. If he can't hurt a team with the pass then he is going to beat someone to open up a better angle to do so. And he is
Nov 30, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
So, Pep Ljinders in his book talks about 'first pass forwards'. It is a rule at the club that whenever we win it back the first pass has to be forward.

It is clear at this point that England will get the ball. There are two forwards there who can anticipate and run in behind but England don't play that way. Move off the ball? Run ahead of the ball. The fuck would you do that for?

So they just stay where they are and Hendersons attempt at a ball over the top here ends in nothing.

Should Hendo be aware having worked under Southgate that this would
Nov 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The official betting partner of Man City.

With their 54 followers.
Their "restricted" website.

All totally legit. DEFINITELY not just a shell company pumping money into Lancechester City to financially dope their way to the top. Nope. They would never.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Rigged elections is one of the big things on the fascism checklist. We had the police cause appx 5m vote swing between the first and second round of elections here in Brazil through voter suppression and intimidation.

This is what happens when you tolerate the party of intolerance.

Nov 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Until you can think of a rational explanation for why FSG would put the club up for sale yet not publicly express this is the case (maybe even possibly disagreeing with it), I would treat the media saying it is up for sale with a LARGE pinch of salt. I'm not going to reply to people's opinions of why they think it is true. Or those purposely avoiding the question and strawmanning their own to answer. That is just a waste of time.
Nov 3, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Just so we are absolutely clear on what happened with Lula in Brazil.

A fascist judge conspired to have him arrested to remove him as an obstacle from Bolsonaro`s path. Once this was proven WITH EVIDENCE, the charges were annulled.

Some of you seem to struggle to work out who the baddies are in situations so here is some help.

Did you see the police beating people and preventing them voting for Lula on election day? Do you see guys doing Nazi salutes while demanding a democratically elected president is prevented taking
Nov 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Neither has to be an option.

If in your heart you genuinely believe Liverpool need to have a major rebuild... that won`t happen by spending over 100m on one midfielder.

And if you DO think our midfield can be solved with 1 midfielder, then have you said that out loud. Because most of what I read on here is people saying we need to sign 3+ midfielders in the next 6 months.
Nov 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Klopp nails it here.

But it is also just a pattern in society now where we have just accepted that governments are corrupt and useless, corporations are corrupt and useless, organising bodies are corrupt and useless... so the onus is on everybody else to deal with it.

Demand better from those at the top. Always. Hold them accountable. Fight for change. Demand accountability and transparency always in every step of the way.

Once it was known the election was rigged and the top people at FIFA were removed, did those who replace them do anything to
Nov 2, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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There is a mountain of threads of me trying to explain that the fundamental aim of Gini Wijnaldum was to give the team tactical balance. To pay the tactical debts of those around him. To take care of the principles of play that would dictate whether or not we can impose our game on the opposition because he was playing with midfielders who either didn't understand it or didn't care for it (or in Coutinho's case, were released from them).

There are two performances
Nov 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Seriously... if you think immigration is a problem now, just WAIT until the middle band of the planet becomes practically uninhabitable because the fascists you keep voting for ignored climate change. Where you think those 1 billion people will go? If you destroy countries you create a migration of people.

It is Newton's third law. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

When you "regime change" a country by installing a fascist dictator creating instability - people leave it and move to the now more stable
Nov 1, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I do sometimes wonder what peoples expectations are of a kid whose two seasons as a fixture in the first team squad have been heavily interrupted by freak injuries.

Klopp has it nailed. He has nurtured through plenty of young talent - and often ignoring the voices of idiots who didn't see the talent or would prefer to just sign some one to fill that place due to a fixation with transfers as being the sole means to improve a team.

Had the same shit with Clyne v Trent when he was breaking through. Seems wild now to think back but it's true. Clyne was
Nov 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Just to be clear... I don't see the toxicity as a 'right now' issue. I remember one of the bizarre AFTV wannabees pointing out that we league title win season wasn't that great because we have similar points and a UCL the year before

Moaning after winning the league. IMO abusive people will always be abusive. It isn't the situation that makes them abusive, it is just the vehicle they chose to use for it today. Tomorrow it will be something else. They are pieces of shit. They will always be pieces of shit every day of the week no matter the weather.