Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

congratulations to the wolves lads here on the wolves thread.

Traoré has been mince for my fantasy team, think I better get rid soon.

Spurs thread surely?

they've also got the Chipper Villans™ and the transatlantic Wolves posse challenging them for thread domination these days

losing darraghmac has probably cost them at least a 47% loss in thread possession

am awkwardly avoiding the lower league proles thread after poor Naby had his first nightmare for Huddersfield the other day

ah no biggie - shit happens etc, the consensus still is generally a back line with him, Pipa on the right and Toffolo on the left is a work in progress and bodes good for the future

best guess is Traore or Saiss aren't gonna be regular starters bar injuries, and i love both of them but just observation

this is almost catatonically shit, as it always was going to be

playing both McTominay and Fred is rank awful cowardice

i don't care how many streaks they go on Ole will always be a shit manager

man utd are so weird.
mctominay and fred together is to get pogba and bruno in team. pog/bruno plus only one of mctom/fred would get killed by a competent team imo.

the diamond worked against Leipzig but it's been a disaster here

McTominay doesn't know where he is on the pitch

I'd push Rashford and Greenwood wide and get Cavani and van de Beek on

McTominay can only have a clause that he has to play a minimum of matches or else the club have to pay him 100m. Otherwise I don't know why he's still playing.

he is a wretched footballer, I said it last weekend

pogba seal dribble

rashford not above a little simulation I see

gary neville 'a mistake might decide this'

3 seconds later lol

surely now United have to idk try?

glory glory

A reference to (the 2004) ‘pizzagate’ threw me for a second earlier today. A more innocent time.

united were extremely awful

i don't care how many streaks they go on Ole will always be a shit manager

Agreed. We'll turn up now and again, there's too much talent in the squad not to, but so much of what he does is counterintuitive and he's fundamentally a coward

can't even enjoy it really, they were that bad

p sure there was a time the prem wouldnt let players have their first name on their shirt, now every team has at least a couple of first name onlys. the games gone brian

lol if there's ever a Brian then it will kind of rule tbh

Bryan Ruiz did it. Does that count?

gonna say yes

He wanted Bryan bcz he thought his dad (surname Ruiz) was a cunt. That's gotta count for something.

That chip over the wall was so good they should award us a goal for it.

VAR rewarding pretty almost goals as actual goals could be an interesting development.

I wonder what % of games this season have had a penalty in them

Oh that is absolute bullshit.

that shot of the ref looking at a split-screen image of himself five yards away from the foul was peak VAR

ruling on the pitch = I am incapable of officiating match, I am therefore going home for the night

Gareth!

The kind of cross we’ve been lacking too.

It's like watching Real Madrid.

idk why a team that fundamentally screws up at the back at least a couple of times a game is content to sit on a one-goal lead and give the opposition two thirds of the possession but I’m sure it won’t come back to bite them again.

my US team does the same thing

kinda feel like the best defense is consistent possession with creation of chances to score but idk

Uh guys, forgotten who's the manager of this lot?

Gonna be so angry if we concede during the six minutes racked up during that bullshit VAR call.

still got absolutely no idea how good a manager ol' brendan really is

His lack of honesty and integrity undermines his undoubted cmotivational qualities

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his undoubted coaching and (short term) motivational qualities

"Lack of honesty" feels harsh on Brendan, but then I was trying to describe it and I was like "He's sort of a bullshitter" so... yes. I think he produces a football man face that's smarmy.

As for how good he is: I think for a long time the only "locally produced" manager of high quality was Ferguson. Up with him were foreign imports and then there was a gulf to Bruce, Moyes, Allardici and so on. Brendan wandering that lonely void in between the managerial-round-abouters and the top top echelon.

His European record at Liverpool and Celtic was atrocious. Needs to really work on that. And needs to capitalise with Leicester if Utd and Arsenal are as shit as they look this year.

I can't work out if Saints are legitimately good this year or whether they're just the next in the cycle of 'due a few good games'. The latter, I suspect, but it would be nice to see us have a good season.

Look bless him he's very entertaining but has Saint-Maximin ever done anything

cursed club

utd actually looked decent for 20m but