Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

or Bruce! have to say this news has really made my morning.

holy shit I might be able to enjoy a game of football again

Happy Christmas, Jose.

Truly this is a Christmas miracle.

just checked the odds of them coming after Nuno are comfortably long

Poch in.

RODGERS

https://i.redd.it/f8s9bnjs4yry.gif

cunt

Sean Dyche knows how to get the best out of this type of lumpen squad

Moysey is available iirc

surely the former Manchester United man will have a point to prove

Gerrard is doing OK @ Rangers.

What a terrible day for football:(

they've confirmed the caretaker will be an external appointment

which is interesting

How is Michael Carrick odds-on favourite lol

they've confirmed the caretaker will be an external appointment

which is interesting

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Bah nothing that good can last i guess

Rafa in

#WengerIn

i have turned on my work phone

Excellent.

poch at end of season is i suppose a slim possibility

poch now is none

Steve Bruce and Mark Hughes are available, both real football men who understand the club from top to bottom.

this feels right

Was it @ketaminedrams who predicted Mourinho to lead Qatar in 2022

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mou
goes to real madrid and wins european cup

Think Poch would rather go to Madrid at the end of the season tbf

In my wildest dreams he goes to Real and runs them into the ground too

^^ all i want for xmas really

Was it @ketaminedrams who predicted Mourinho to lead Qatar in 2022

Not sure the Qataris will be ready for such a joylessly oppressive regime.

hiyoooo

zidane til summer intrigues me

it'll probably be Blanc

someone's definitely put a tenner on Blanc, he just went odds on in one refresh.

zidane would be good for the announcement video retweets and merchandise and prob a total disaster in the job. which seems in keeping with the decisions being made there.

the bookies have him as absolutely red hot favourite.

Do United have even a single defender who's at the level they require? I haven't seen enough of Luke Shaw this season to really comment but there isn't a single other option in either CB or fullback options that inspires confidence. Bailly looked good for a while but I guess he's thoroughly broken now.

every one of them could be coached into a system im pretty sure pretty much every professional manager still attempting to prove themselves in football now admits they should at least pretend to try this

Zidane is totally drifting out in the market now (on a swan gondola enigmatically smoking a fag) - 6/1.

Dalot looks promising. Shaw is...fine

the best CB at the club is probably playing for Villa

That caretaker role will last until the end of the season but this will not be Carrick, Nicky Butt or anyone from within the club. Instead, following a thorough and extensive process will have Mourinho’s permanent successor in place for next season.

says the guardian.

already seems in the realms of strange and stupid. appointing an external caretaker, presumably a biggish name, then finding a replacement immediately. why create such confusion?

not least when the likes of nicky butt is ready and waiting to prove he is not the leftover stain of the class of 92.

I feel like there has been such a depression all around the club that it’s hard to say how good most of the players really are. Ken Early the other day suggesting that the United squad is no worse than Liverpool’s - it’s just that Liverpool have had 3 years of very focussed development toward a particular style, from a coach who clearly engenders a good feeling amongst his players, and United... haven’t.

xxp yeah what darragh said

The Liverpool squad have mostly all been signed by the same people with Klopp's football in mind. United's squad is the residue of like four different managerial regimes and there's no coherence in how those attacking players might fit together.

It's like you look at the Arsenal team and it feels like none of them were even there a year and a half ago but they're clearly clicking. United have cycled through more starting players than anyone else this season without once finding an XI that looked like a particularly coherent team.

it's having a system as well - a clear identity and a clear system makes every player look better, not least when someone has to come in and replace an injured player or whatever. if it's a case of 'this is how we play' and that's working you're so far ahead. i agree fully man u's squad is as good as liverpool, give or take. or at the very least you could come in and form an attacking identity built around it. second captains used the example of luke shaw v andy robertson to good effect.

always struck by how di maria went to shit at united and has been fine since

Yeah, there's definitely talent there if utilised properly

These all need to go though:

Matic, Fellaini, Lukaku, Jones, Valencia, Young, Rojo, McTominay

Oh come on, putting Lukaku in that list is ridiculous.

still lots of love for rojo here

Good on his day, never good enough for a club with aspirations of winning trophies. There are just too many limitations in his game

This season's version is the worst striker I've ever seen play for Utd

blinding fury is my fav utd trait, i see you have already forgotten macheda, smith, falcao, bellion, obertan, depay and... alexis

Alexis is the worst major EPL signing in years and may turn out to be one of the worst ever, especially given that even Mkhitaryan, who was thrown in as a makeweight, has outperformed him this year.

Oumar Niasse and Lewis Dunk have as many goals in that time.

Alexis actually did better than Lukaku in his two games up front this season

Smith was alright til he became a midfielder. Macheda played about five games. Bellion, Obertan, Depay not strikers

Falcao was never actually at the club imo