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just to spite me, reports are tüchel was in close exchange with spurs and really liked the project. we all know they would have talked to 50 others before committing, so it wouldn't have happened anyway, but still ... i'm not surprised bayern fired nagelsmann, like i've told this thread countless ti...

i find this situation less than interesting for the simple fact that conte never committed, never accepted any responsibility, never was part of the team. even if there's fire in his eyes you wonder what makes it burn. i bet he celebrates the same after scoring in fifa against his daughter. his time...

incredible press conference, there's no way conte can stay another day after that?

wow, the cl draw went exactly as requested!

perfect game for pep: being the much better team yet winning it kind of cheatingly (not that he's responsible for the ref's decision). grealish was still taking blatant dives at 3:0 up, city are really comically evil. i'm too lazy to search for what i said about rose going to leipzig (yeah okay meh ...

i was still single in 1975, so i haven't seen the boisset film. sounds ugly, so i won't alert anyone. rather unsurprisingly, i absolutely hated the piano teacher. my wife found it more interesting, but then she's a pianist, maybe that helps. over the last week we saw https://www.simbasible.com/wp-co...

i really hate railing against the refs but this is incredible

(of course rats are useless as expected, but ridic penalty, foul by haaland before the second goal, and kamikaze foul by ederson leading to a free kick for city instead of a (possibly red? probably not) card ... as if city needed this)

can't muster up any optimism, i'm afraid. with nkunku (and olmo) still sidelined, rats would have to offer an inspired performance, and they never manage to do that and stick to the plan at the same time. so there'll be a few mistakes too many and city won't even have to convince. (wouldn't mind thi...

My fear with Tuchel is that, whereas Poch would walk in with some banked goodwill that would allow time for the project to take form, Tuchel comes in, through no fault of his own, with negative equity in the bank. i absolutely agree and he might be a total disaster. i'd still want them to try. now ...

i want no second choice! that change of vibe would be a good thing, he's the only one where i'd actually still expect something to happen in the short run ... both the other german coaches might be an ok fit tactics-wise, favoring styles that focus on transitions etc. i remember schmidt as a pretty ...

p.s.the problem with rats for years now has been that they want to leave behind the rangnick-imprinted adventure football, they want to be grown-ups, play possession-based, be a well-oiled machine, eat with a knife and fork etc. now they're not doing worse than before, but they can't go the next ste...

yeah obviously chickenshit first half, totally unnecessary as city had no ideas, just mildly smotheringly waited for a mistake, which duly arrived (two others could have led to the same). what the hell was rose's plan, this looked wrong from the first second, just asking no questions at all. rats we...

real have the individual talent but also that much observed but undeniable collective swag even when they play seemingly hopeless stuff. really fun game though a bit more drama at the end would have been nice. kloppo is done for now, he should leave and then return in five years after three other co...

i need to see chanson de roland ... anyway, since our marriage contract obliges me to watch each and every isabelle huppert vehicle, i saw la daronne, 2020, by one jean-paul salomé. so this is isabelle breaking bad ... https://www.radiofrance.fr/s3/cruiser-production/2020/09/3d124221-7a2f-47f4-a365-...

conte back at the sidelines (looking like he still belongs in bed) so we get a truly abject performance again. if he has to try out porro instead of emerson after the latter's best game of the season, why can't he at least switch back at half time when it's clear it's not working. is this an educati...

hey we got tickets for the city game

so now we have the solution: keep conte as manager but keep him out of the dugout, he's just cramping up everybody's styles. yeah nothing will happen to city, it's a joke. but it's even funnier if they fail on the field. now everybody's saying haaland is the problem :-) to what extent is city's comp...

hey, they didn't lose! and conte might stay for the rest of the season. there was this strange article in the guardian that said he should go home to italy before all his friends there die, which read like he dropped some hints to the journalists, so he'll be gone after the season. we disagree tüche...

let us know when you change your mind :-) yes, conte is not responsible for lloris' own goals and you're better on tactics than me, but what we've strongly felt for some time (and what the guardian also writes about today) is that it's no help having a manager who always maybe wants to leave. (that'...

(actually i never minded the yuppie in naked at all, a) because i was in the first class dominated by the kind and as sombody who identified as a hippiesk post-punk jazzhead developed a proper hatred of them, and b) i thought he was an early british answer to american psycho the book, and as such wo...