heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Four out of the last five. Six* out of the last ten. So this is how it feels to be Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga? To be fair, Liverpool is a much better rival than Borussia Dortmund. Without Liverpool's competitive challenge, I doubt City would have reached as many 90+ season point totals.
With Erling's goal scoring next season, we can build on our domestic dynasty and finally secure the Champions League trophy that City's owners and all but the most deluded fans crave.
*One more PL trophy than Chelsea. 5/22/2022 7:49:19 PM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
^How many CL Trophies you got? 5/23/2022 11:34:14 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Rome wasn't built in a day lol 5/23/2022 3:17:55 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Former Oasis rock star Noel Gallagher received stitches in his face after being accidentally headbutted by Ruben Dias' father as the pair celebrated Manchester City's thrilling comeback to clinch the Premier League title on Sunday.
The musician and City fan said he was "covered in blood" moments after Pep Guardiola's side fought back from 2-0 down against Aston Villa to win 3-2 at the Etihad in a dramatic final game of the season." |
5/23/2022 3:35:04 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
City fans also assaulted Villa GK 5/23/2022 4:25:59 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
Pitch invasions are stupid. and someone is going to get hurt. They should deduct points from the home side. 5/23/2022 4:51:23 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
I mean I'm all for court/field storming in college so I can't be hypocritical there. Have to protect players somehow though so I don't know 5/23/2022 8:29:31 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Sounds like the work of TWW. Anyone remember the News14 school closing free-for-all?
Quote : | "The BBC has apologised after a message appeared on screen reading “Manchester United are rubbish”.
The line popped up on the BBC News ticker at the bottom of the screen during a tennis update on the 9am to 10am broadcast. Later in the morning, the presenter Annita McVeigh apologised to any Manchester United fans who may have been offended, saying the mistake had occurred as someone was learning how to operate the ticker and was “writing random things not in earnest”. " |
5/24/2022 11:18:54 AM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
Well its the truth at the moment so why apologize.
Translated- We are sorry ManUre supportersbut the truth hurts you're shit and everyone knows it, but we'll apologize because you're a bunch of toddlers who can't stand the slightest bit of criticism. 5/24/2022 3:05:11 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Fascinating, but they don't mention that Ancelotti paid Liverpool back in the 2007 final.
Quote : | "The Last Team to Defeat Real Madrid in The Champions League Final: ?????????????????? (1981)
The Last Team to Defeat Liverpool FC in The Champions League Final: ???????? ???????????? (2018)
The Last Team to Defeat Carlo Ancelotti in The Champions League Final: ?????????????????? (2005)
The Last Team to Defeat Jurgen Klopp in The Champions League Final: ???????? ???????????? (2018)
The Last Time Real Madrid Played at The Stade de France in The Champions League Final: ???????? ???????????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???????????? (2000)
The Last Time When The Champions League Final was Played on 28th May: ???????? ???????????? ?????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???????????? (2016)" |
5/28/2022 7:23:07 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Apologies for the formatting issues.
Quote : | "The Last Team to Defeat Real Madrid in The Champions League Final: Liverpool (1981)
The Last Team to Defeat Liverpool FC in The Champions League Final: Real Madrid (2018)
The Last Team to Defeat Carlo Ancelotti in The Champions League Final: Liverpool (2005)
The Last Team to Defeat Jurgen Klopp in The Champions League Final: Real Madrid (2018)
The Last Time Real Madrid Played at The Stade de France in The Champions League Final: Real Madrid won (2000)
The Last Time When The Champions League Final was Played on 28th May: Real Madrid won (2016)" |
Predictions for today's game? I predict a 3-2 Real Madrid victory, with Benzema scoring an 89th minute winner.5/28/2022 8:12:34 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Only 63 days until City and Liverpool battle for silverware again in the Community Shield. 5/28/2022 8:03:11 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
I blacked out what happened 5/28/2022 10:18:03 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
City got Haaland and the Prem. Liverpool got zero goals in three finals. 5/29/2022 7:48:26 AM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
City also got zero goals in those 3 finals. And zero hardware from them, unlike Liverpool 5/29/2022 10:30:30 AM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
Really good about Nunez
https://dilksmused.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-darwin-nunez 6/13/2022 2:33:41 PM |
JeffreyBSG All American 10165 Posts user info edit post |
I hear that neither Haaland nor Nunez likes to press. here's hoping Haaland has a hissy-fit meltdown in response to Pep's demands for a high workrate, and ends up getting benched for half the season.
it could happen. Pep is capable of some idiotic decisions, like playing de Bruyne up top in the 2021 champions league final with Gundogan as the CDM. and big City transfers have been known to underperform - the club doesn't seem to mind wasting $100 million since they're sitting on a huge mountain of oil money. so it could happen. whereas I generally trust Klopp to spend money intelligently.
I'd rather have Haaland, but I hold out hope that his potential will go up in flames whereas Nunez will once again vindicate Klopp's transfer judgment. 6/28/2022 11:08:29 PM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
Chelsea are close to signing Raphinha from Leeds, transfer fee has been agreed and close on personal terms.
Said to be close on getting Raheem Sterling from City.
Their primary CB target is Matthijs de Ligt from Juventus, they are said to be keen on Pulisic (with McKennie there thats not a surprise) but Chelsea prefer sending them Werner since he wages are higher. 6/29/2022 7:50:26 AM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
7/1/2022 11:36:45 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | " big City transfers have been known to underperform" |
Like Aguero, KDB, Silva, Toure, Sterling, and Ederson? 7/2/2022 6:05:26 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Chelsea have been told Cristiano Ronaldo could be willing to join them this summer, but the club are yet to decide whether to make a formal offer, sources have told ESPN." |
The plot thickens.7/4/2022 3:21:55 PM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
^The way this window is going that will be the one signing Chelsea make, a guy who won't press playing for a manager that pretty much only presses.
Chelsea's new owners especially the person who is the face of the group is getting bullied by the European blue bloods. They are trying to make the club overpay for players and pay insane wages primarily because that was how they used to do business. I know they want 6 signings and 2 need to be Central defenders. So far they have no official transfers in.
On another note it appears Benjamin Mendy and Gylfi Sigurrdson have company on the PL Rapist team. Some foreign player in the North London area has been accused of sexual assault of 3 different persons. All thats known is he is 29, has a residence in Barnet (North London), and is on a national team that Qualified for World Cup. The only players that meet the criteria are Granit Xhaka, Thomas Partey, Heung-Min Son, Ben Davies, Lucas Moura. I am sure they name will get out eventually and these are big named players so if any are missing it won't be hard to put 2 and 2 togther. But Sigurrdson pretty much got memory holed last season. 7/5/2022 3:30:29 PM |
FriendlyFire . 3753 Posts user info edit post |
The rumor is Partey. 7/5/2022 3:50:48 PM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
Thats who I have seen as well, but some sources say he was in Germany at the time the person was supposedly in police custody. 7/6/2022 7:36:17 AM |
FriendlyFire . 3753 Posts user info edit post |
That report was retracted. It's him, I'm almost certain. 7/6/2022 1:22:36 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Man Utd crushes Liverpool, 4-0, today in Thailand. Welcome to the future 7/12/2022 5:13:10 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
no. 7/13/2022 12:07:52 AM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
Time for the pundits to overeact to a preseason result in Thailand. 7/13/2022 7:53:25 AM |
scotieb24 Commish 11088 Posts user info edit post |
Going to the Chelsea game tomorrow in Charlotte. Anyone else going? Super stoked as this will be my first game. 7/19/2022 9:12:22 AM |
Wolfey All American 2680 Posts user info edit post |
Go to Latta Arcade a few blocks away. There are some bars over there, including the Upper Deck (which is a Chelsea bar) 7/19/2022 10:31:45 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Liverpool's third choice goalkeeper, Adrian, is starting for the Community Shield. Could be a bloodbath with Haaland in front of goal. 7/28/2022 7:44:09 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
nah. 7/29/2022 11:02:36 AM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
Why did they decide not to play Haaland today?
CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!! MOST IMPORTANT TROPHY! 7/30/2022 1:59:31 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Too bad it's a cursed trophy.
Quote : | "Only one of the last ten Community Shield winners went on to lift the Premier League that same season." |
7/30/2022 6:09:15 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
8/1/2022 8:28:20 AM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "The great/insane @rwohan devised his own player rating system, applied it to the Premier League and came up with the best players for 2022-23. (E+)
Part one (explainer, 97-71): https://t.co/ScfRYmk4sd Part two (70-1): https://t.co/U5cWptqfZB" |
ESPN+8/5/2022 3:30:47 PM |
hey now Indianapolis Jones 14975 Posts user info edit post |
^ 48. Christian Pulisic: 23, FW, Chelsea
He's yet to play more than 51% of the Premier League minutes in a given season for Chelsea. But being a rotation attacker on a top-4 and Champions League-winning team still earns you a spot in the top 50. To move up, he'll need to stay healthy and increase his attacking production when he does get out there. In Pulisic's first season with Chelsea, he averaged 0.61 expected goals+assists per 90 minutes, but that's slumped down to 0.44 (slightly above average for his position) over the past two seasons. Like we said with Rashford, though: development is almost never linear.
1. Mohamed Salah: 30, FW, Liverpool
It's not that, over the past year, he leads all wingers across Europe in non-penalty xG, shots, xG+xA, touches inside the penalty area, and progressive passes received. Nor is it that no one in the Premier League scored more goals or created more assists than he did last season. No, the main thing is that he's just always out there.
Since joining Liverpool in the summer of 2017, Salah had played 85% of the available league minutes. To put that into context, he's played 14,901 league minutes over that stretch -- nearly 500 minutes more than any other attacker in Europe's Big Five leagues. So, you're getting a player who's been available to impact matches more often than any other attacker, and despite the massive minutes load, he's averaged 0.88 goals+assists per 90 minutes across his entire Liverpool career -- roughly equivalent to Son's career-best and Vinicius Jr.'s breakout-season at Real Madrid rates from this past year.
You could argue that there are a couple of players who impact matches more than Salah when they're on the field. But in terms of being on the field and being able to provide that impact? No one else comes anywhere close.
[Edited on August 5, 2022 at 11:41 PM. Reason : Nm] 8/5/2022 11:39:25 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
Mitrovic real bitch energy out there 8/6/2022 2:39:16 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Points dropped on day one. Liverpool title challenge on life support. Chaotic dressing room scenes.
Source: Manchester Daily Mail 8/6/2022 3:58:29 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
The last one league champs in a row dropped points, Liverpool on track for the title
- whatever Liverpools paper is called 8/6/2022 7:33:22 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
ETH MUST GO 8/7/2022 11:16:27 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Long live EBH! 8/7/2022 1:03:55 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
Imagine if that United fan was still here, what they would say 8/13/2022 1:21:05 PM |
FriendlyFire . 3753 Posts user info edit post |
Wazza please report in if you’re out there. 8/13/2022 1:45:53 PM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Man U schadenfreude is the gift that keeps on giving. 8/13/2022 2:14:00 PM |
rwoody Save TWW 37695 Posts user info edit post |
It's a tough one bc I don't really want to hear from him, but I want to hear from him 8/13/2022 3:08:53 PM |
Dynasty2004 Bawls 5859 Posts user info edit post |
Wazza suicide alert 8/13/2022 4:02:16 PM |
V0LC0M All American 21263 Posts user info edit post |
https://twitter.com/ConorSketches/status/1558521226141859842?t=xNeXp8FGU_7chhB8byiHjw&s=19
LMAO 8/14/2022 8:30:54 AM |
heelfan All American 3268 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Erik ten Hag cancelled a planned day off for his Man United players after losing 4-0 to Brentford.
He ordered his players to cover 8.5 miles during extra training, pointing out that Brentford had run 8.5 miles more than they had during the game." |
8/15/2022 7:13:13 AM |
scotieb24 Commish 11088 Posts user info edit post |
Apparently it's okay to just rip someone down by their hair now. Cool...
8/15/2022 9:04:11 AM |