It was an effective system. Maybe the players didn t like it, but for most of them United was the most succesful club they could play on.
The aftermath of this is current United, where Managers have little authority, and if an expensive enough player wants it, the club sacks the manager instead of the players
Vardy.
He was relatively old, and on the edge of being a Championship striker and a below average PL player.
But than the miracle season happened, scored in 11 consecutive matches. That performance was to some extent due to Mahrez and Kante being insane
But after that season Vardy was pretty consistent, and Leichester was a comfortable mid table team, even after Kante and Mahrez left, and Vardy was a huge factor in that
People forget that after neymar left Barcelona, the management absolutely piss griefed the transfer market, yet Barcelona was still able to win a lot in spain (over real Madrid, whose weak spell came after Ronaldo left later)
In that time Messi and Suarez carried Barcelona, and made a bunch of disfunctional players win actual games.
Although i think the Ballon dor is a fake trophy, messi and ronaldo were by far the best players in the past 10-15 years with their dedication, team and individual achievements with a rarely seen longevity, BUT outside of benzema and modric there were definately other players who had a better season than messi and ronaldo
A lot of ppl (me too) were suprised by the signing of Robertson.
He got relegated with Hull, and had a slow start in the Liverpool team.
I thought he will be just a wasted 15 mill
He had an ass form around the 2014 WC (he was around 30 at that point) get benched for Lopez, than it turned out RM is shit, not him. They sold him to porto where he played pretty solid, played in CL quarters
Before all that he was an insane keeper for like 12 years, both WC and euro winner with spain too
Out of the two i think Ronaldo is the only one who would try coaching at all. He would probably be bad at it, but he is the one who couldn t quit the game even after he retires.
Although it would be fun to watch his antics on the sidelane and press conferences. I would imagine him to be similar to Mourinho in that regard.
“4 Champions league, how many the other managers have? 0. Thank you”
If there are managers who are only hired to escape relegation, than Emery is the same but with Europa league. There are a few certain things in life, but Emery in the EL is one of them
If your country is horrible, you hate it, if your country is too good you hate it too (who tf cares about germany vs macedonia or bulgaria) but if you have a national team in the middle, basically all international matches are exciting and have more on the line.
my country had times when they managed to lose against Andorra or Khazastan, but made the past 2 euro s, so basically every match could go either way
Being good at free kicks has requires abilities more common in midfielders than strikers.
In current football the good free kick takers are the players with good passing accuracy. Wingers fall into this category, but Mbappe is not a “true” winger
Dunno if he s “street will never forget” or just “normally never forget” player, but Aaron Ramsey for me
His whole horror injury, the goal/celebrity death ratio all makes him a fun one to remember