Footy - 2018/19 & 19/20 & 20/21 etc

[Hassony]

Linked with Matic already, which is funny

[Nebraska Red]

Zlatan is out there just waiting for a team!!

[Barnesy_10]

New Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho will try to sign former Spurs forward Gareth Bale, 30, from Real Madrid, having wanted to sign the Welshman when he was at Manchester United. (AS - in Spanish)

 

Mourinho is also targeting Sporting Lisbon and Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, 25, as well as Benfica's Portuguese centre-back Ruben Dias, 22, and Manchester United's Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic, 31.

[Hus]

Interesting article on the whole Poch / Spurs situ.

 

https://www.espn.co.uk/football/tottenham-hotspur/story/3994589/how-mourinho-replaced-pochettino-inside-tottenhams-turbulent-day?src=com

[muleskinner]

Guardian reckon mourinho has been told there is no money for January window

[Flasher]

Poch to Bayern.

[Barnesy_10]

Poch to Bayern.

makes sense

 

Manc fans I know are all over the shop about it.... They are desperate for their board to get Pochettino in.... blind to the fact he's not all that great but know he's a much better option than one they already have who is contracted for a few years... it's lovely sitting back and seeing them go through the stages we went through going from manager to manager whilst we have the best one in the world managing us. 

[Tosh]

I thought the following article on funding transfers was interesting - obviously taking fortunes out of 'the game" at the top level but it means that buyers can pay in installments and sellers get their cash now. Explains how "broke" Barcelona managed to find 120m for Griezmann

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/21/xxiii-capital-football-transfers-antoine-griezmann-barcelona

 

It's not quite Leeds/Ridsdale but you can certainly see similarities.

[Barnes' left foot]

Poch to Bayern.

 

That should make the final CL group game between Bayern & Spurs interesting.

[Jarg Armani]

That should make the final CL group game between Bayern & Spurs interesting.

OooooOOOHHhhh

[kop205]

"I was always humble, in my way. The problem is you didn't understand that."

 

Ha ha.

[Swipe]

He followed that up by answering a question about how spurs have reacted badly since losing the CL final by saying “I don’t know about that, I’ve never lost a champions league final”.

[stressederic]

"I was always humble, in my way. The problem is you didn't understand that."

 

Ha ha.

 

That's basically a Trump quote

[Hightown Phil]

He followed that up by answering a question about how spurs have reacted badly since losing the CL final by saying “I don’t know about that, I’ve never lost a champions league final”.

Fantastic.

[Jarg Armani]

That's basically a Trump quote

I’ve always said mourinho lost his powers as soon as trump blew the whole playbook wide open.

[stressederic]

As if this wasn't the most inevitable moment of this whole Spurs/Mourinho arrangement: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/11/21/tottenham-linked-veteran-forward-zlatan-ibrahimovic-following/

[Swipe]

Fantastic.

Was good tbf.

[Barnesy_10]

As if this wasn't the most inevitable moment of this whole Spurs/Mourinho arrangement: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/11/21/tottenham-linked-veteran-forward-zlatan-ibrahimovic-following/

Haven't Spurs got a very rigid wage structure in place?

[DonRafa]

I think he'll do well at Spurs. Has had plenty of time to refresh his batteries, and the nucleus of what could be a very competitive squad. We'll see, I guess.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

he's 38 and has only played in America since totally f***ing his knee

 

 

can't see it myself

[Billy Talbot]

Rogers being a snake again.

 

Saying he’s happy at Leicester and looking forward to staying for a “number of years”.

 

He’d have been down WHL quicker than a rat down a grid given the opportunity.

[Nebraska Red]

Rogers being a snake again.

 

Saying he’s happy at Leicester and looking forward to staying for a “number of years”.

 

He’d have been down WHL quicker than a rat down a grid given the opportunity.

Almost every manager in the game would do, and say, exactly the same thing.

[Hassony]

Almost every manager in the game would do, and say, exactly the same thing.

Would do what? Go to WHL?

[DPD1973]

Given how he left Celtic, yeah Rodgers would have totally bailed on Leicester, he'd have been in WHL in a heartbeat. He's a massive me-me-me merchant. He was plotting and indeed telling people he was looking for his next move within months of arriving at Celtic.

 

I have no doubt he has eyes on a bigger job now he's at Leicester, be surprised if he starts next season there tbh.

[muleskinner]

Flip side of that is most clubs will fire managers very quickly so why wouldn't he look out for himself. Players do it all the time.