Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [21st - 25th September 2018]

BT talking up what a quality keeper Gazzaniga is. He must have improved a lot in his time at Spurs because he was absolutely crap at Southampton.
 
Not sure how the Brighton players are complaining about that, absolutely blatant hand ball and penalty.
 
I sometimes wonder what goes through a footballers mind..."Ooh, I'm defending a free kick in the penalty area, I know, I'll block it with my arm!
 
lol @ Spurs, how naive can you be to concede like that. 2 up and go balls out trying to get a 3rd get hit on the long ball counter, schoolboy stuff.
 
A much better performance overall but we still look sloppy in places. Makes a change having an effective bench. Son for Lamela and Dele for Moura. Can't believe we conceded again after switching off. Poch needs to sort our concentration out.

3pts after 3 losses though and was a good result.
 
Good performance from Liverpool today, got the job done in the first 45 minutes then took the foot off the gas and managed the second half like a training session.

I thought Matip had a decent game considering it was his first start of the season but he lost his way a bit as soon as VVD went off which is a bit concerning. Gomez looked like a monster when he came on which evened things out a bit.

I can't imagine VVD would've played midweek, in fact I hope most of the first team regulars don't, so hopefully he'll be back for Chelsea at the weekend.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Good performance from Liverpool today, got the job done in the first 45 minutes then took the foot off the gas and managed the second half like a training session.

I thought Matip had a decent game considering it was his first start of the season but he lost his way a bit as soon as VVD went off which is a bit concerning. Gomez looked like a monster when he came on which evened things out a bit.

I can't imagine VVD would've played midweek, in fact I hope most of the first team regulars don't, so hopefully he'll be back for Chelsea at the weekend.
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Klopp has shown in past though he won't rest em all just cause its lower respected cup.

I don't think Chelsea will either, I'd like fabinho to well play for us at some point, Keita and Shaq start too that would still be a strong midfield.
 
As with a lot of our games this season, a very comfortable and convincing win without playing close to our best. Really pleased for Salah to get his goal and Shaq to get a start and with Chelsea in the League, Napoli away and City still to come, the League Cup game is another opportunity for him and the likes Sturridge, Fabinho, Clyne and Moreno.
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Surely Man U should be considering flogging Alexis? The guy is a disaster and costs a fortune.
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Who on earth is buying him? I know our resident Manc's don't like talking about how much he's getting paid but going off Utd's quarterly accounts, it looks like the talk of £400k+ per week weren't exaggerated.
 
BaZ87 said:
As with a lot of our games this season, a very comfortable and convincing win without playing close to our best. Really pleased for Salah to get his goal and Shaq to get a start and with Chelsea in the League, Napoli away and City still to come, the League Cup game is another opportunity for him and the likes Sturridge, Fabinho, Clyne and Moreno.

Who on earth is buying him? I know our resident Manc's don't like talking about how much he's getting paid but going off Utd's quarterly accounts, it looks like the talk of £400k+ per week weren't exaggerated.
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His salary is commonly referred to as being £350k pw ☹️
 
Hive said:
His salary is commonly referred to as being £350k pw ☹️
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Later reports were claiming it was £400k + a hefty appearance bonus on top of that and as I said, Utd's quarterly accounts certainly support these sort of figures. In the quarter to the end of March (which he was only there for just over 2 months) Utd's wagebill was over £5m more than the first 2 quarters of the season.

Given the ways he's performing, Utd aren't ever getting rid of him.
 
Skorpion said:
Wasn't it only Utd who were willing to meet his weekly mercenary demands wages ? :)
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Yes and when Utd got him over City the majority of Utd fans were crowing about how they can still attract the best players out (despite the fact that Sanchez's performances over the previous 12 months being well below any standard to be considered one of the best).

With his age and wages Utd are now stuck with him as not even PSG would touch him I don't think.
 
And because of how much they pay him they feel they have to play him dragging the team down even more. If he was some new 19 year old signing for £20m he would probably only have had 5 or 6 games because of the poor performances.

Who ever takes over from Jose is going to have a hard time cleaning shop. Lukaku and pogba on stupid money as well as others. I do love to gloat as a Liverpool fan but the only Manu player who could get in our starting 11 is DeGea and maybe not even him these days.

So much money spent on a truly awful squad.
 
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Skorpion said:
Wonder if there's something in Sanchez's Utd contract that gives Arsenal first refusal if they decide to sell ?
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Even if there was, I would say there’s a 0.01% chance of Arsenal re-signing him. He’s going well past his best, would want a massive wage and he’s hardly Mr Popular down the Emirates.

If you could guarantee he would recapture that Arsenal form, then there’s a chance, but I don’t think he’ll ever hit those heights again. Not worth the hassle of unsettling the squad and costing a fortune. We’re moving on.
 
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