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In our current situation, he will be of use...hopefully limited. He deserved the hate imo. He was making a blunder every other appearance and had 2-3 handballs and other stupid fouls/penalties- all while getting skinned regularly. If anyone earned the hate with bad performance after bad...

Raphinha won a lot of points with some very key actions and goals, but his performances overall were poor and frustrating. Most of that was due to Xavi's tactics holding both him and many of our players back. Watching him this season is night and day to watching him last season, anyone can see...

Pedri, Yamal, Lewa and Raphinha all look much better right now than they did last season under Xavi, especially Raphinha. Kounde had a stinker previous game, but had been solid otherwise. Cubarsi looks comfortable under Flick, considering over the course of last season his performances were...

I agree on this point too. He should of subbed more of the top performers earlier to avoid injury. Maybe not at half time, but at least by 65th.

Xavi played our wingers isolated on the wings against the sideline, had acres of space between our midfielders and then added a high defensive line playing an offsides trap to the recipe for an absolute disaster. The worst part is he did it for 2 years straight. Like, he didn't recognize the...

I remember some people, you know who you are, said nothing will change with Flick because the shit football wasn't all Xavi's fault. Well then. On a positive note, it's fun to watch us play again, win or lose.

We simply don't have the salary space to take them on. We barely registered Olmo after sending out Roque, Faye, Lenglet and Gundogan. The situation is much worse than Laporta let on. We have to believe in our youth and hope the remaining players stay healthy. With some luck and determination...

It doesn't make any sense at all. But it is entirely the clubs fault. Not the players. They didn't put a gun to his head and tell him to take all their money. They fucked up the clubs finances, they fucked up salaries for decades, then they fucked up with the deferred salaries. I could...

Man, responses like this crack me up. Little old Birdy getting a huge raise his boss OFFERRED him. A few years later the boss wants to tell him how to receive his money or villainizes him for not wanting to give it up. Little Birdy then says sure boss, I'll give up my money. Can I get a...

It's kind of weird seeing people flame another person for demanding to be paid what he is owed. If I was working for a company and they asked me to take a paycut because they were in trouble financially, but they'd pay it back to me later, I'd probably accept if we had a good working...

Honestly that is what I was thinking. Sub him in with 10 minutes left then be like woops, he's injured it worse, time for surgery!

Fernando Torres at Liverpool before the knee injury was a beast.

Depending on the player, you can come back earlier if it was just an ACL. A meniscus injury of any kind significantly worsens the prognosis. It's likely a year, at a minimum, before he is back to his new "normal". As a DM, he could still remain a very good player but he will lose a bit of pace...

I'm so happy we had 10 minutes of fucking extra time for no reason and he gets injured at the end of it. We legit have the worst luck with young players possible.

Tah is turning 29 in February. 20mil being quoted, we'd better hope he plays well in his 30s.

It's a tough call to make. Flick doesn't seem to trust Forte and Valle went on loan. There are only question marks regarding Martin. Then again our LW is Torres, and Fati if he can stay healthy. Chiesa may be an upgrade at LW, but I doubt whatever we can bring in at RB on loan will be much...

I think Flick for sure figured the wingers isolated out wide on both sides was ineffective, particularly with Raphinha. He's doing a good job so far playing the players to their strengths. I'm hoping he cooks up something good once all or most our players are healthy.

You're missing the point. I'm perfectly aware he was played out wide that season. My point is he was mostly ineffective WHEN out wide, and when actually securing us those points with key actions it was not from out wide- not from a wide dribble, not from winning a 1 vs 1 out wide etc It was...

When you recall many of his crucial plays that season, where were they done from? Towards the middle of the park and closer to goal, or out wide? He was not clutch from out wide and was mostly useless there. This is not debatable. Just because it says RW or LW on the line up sheet doesn't mean...

He will, but that's not where he's best utilized which is a waste.