European Football Leagues 2012-13 [Spain/France/Italy/Germany/other]

Pigeon_Killer said:
Real have just drawn away from home to the bottom side Osasuna. How much time has Mourinho got left?
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Hoping he'll be gone by the time we have to play them, maybe that's his game plan? Get sacked so he doesn't have to knock out his potential next employers?
 
Tom84 said:
Hoping he'll be gone by the time we have to play them, maybe that's his game plan? Get sacked so he doesn't have to knock out his potential next employers?
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I'm not sure what the advantage to having him sacked before they play us would be, they are a total mess at the moment and a new manager would help a long way to easing that mess.
 
Tom84 said:
Hoping he'll be gone by the time we have to play them, maybe that's his game plan? Get sacked so he doesn't have to knock out his potential next employers?
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Why on earth would you hope the team gets a new manager and a chance to fix itself BEFORE they play you? Honestly half the problem is going to be Mourinho himself, he's pee'd off half the squad and they don't want to play for him, but they want to win, put another manager in that is probably half the battle and short term form will likely improve hugely.

Didn't see the game though, looking at the info on the game, Ronaldo dropped, not even on the bench, injury, some proper rest, Mourinho trying to fix the team by removing what he thinks is the problem, I have no idea.

A few stories have been written on the likelyhood of Mourinho trying to get fired, from the level of how bad he's doing, to doing things that will so obviously anger the fanbase and everyone above him at the club. Singling out Casillas is madness, both because he's still an excellent keeper, he's the captain and everyone loves him at the club. It really does come across like he's trying to get fired these days.
 
Current form will go right out of the window for a fixture as big as a Real Madrid v Man Utd, as I've said before I'd feel a lot more confident of beating Real Madrid whatever their form without Mourinho in charge as oppose to with

Mourinho hasn't become a bad manager overnight and with the league gone the UCL will be Madrid's priority
 
Tom84 said:
Current form will go right out of the window for a fixture as big as a Real Madrid v Man Utd, as I've said before I'd feel a lot more confident of beating Real Madrid whatever their form without Mourinho in charge as oppose to with

Mourinho hasn't become a bad manager overnight and with the league gone the UCL will be Madrid's priority
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Usually I'd agree but currently Mourinho is absolutely imploding and they are utterly woeful.

Who knows what bonkers decisions he'll make next.
 
Somnambulist said:
Lulz, even Barca won't do an Arsenal any time soon - 3-2 Real Sociedad at the death, all Pique's fault for getting sent off.
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Potentially, Sociedad were all over Barca well before the sending off, Barca weren't playing well in the second half at all and really from after the goal. Early on the commentators remarked that its odd that Messi was making so many runs and turning the CB's which was giving them options for passes, he did this less and less. Really every team needs a striker making those runs, for long periods of games in the past couple years Barca easily keep posession but look less threatening as Messi drops deep for long spells of games.

They look better when he does this and Villa or Fabregas are on as they are the next best players at making those runs at the defence. They just looked mostly toothless in the second half, Messi rarely getting beyond the defence, making Barca relatively easy to defend against. Defensively Barca were poor, again, and Iniesta was very lucky to stay on the pitch as that cynical foul was so clearly worth a second yellow, no where near the ball. Both that and Pique's second foul was so blatant and so utterly stupid. In the dying seconds you might do that, with so much time to go Pique doing that tackle was beyond stupid.
 
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