Chelsea's technical director, Michael Emenalo, has stepped down. I'd never heard of him but apparently he's been really important for them.

Qwiss! wrote:

I think Moyes is still worth a punt for a club like WHU. People seem to forget the job he did at Everton.

That was 5 years ago now. His stock has fallen considerably and football has moved on.

People often talk about the fact that young english coach isn't given a chance, but its these old british coaches that is blocking their pathway. More than half of the new appointments past few years has been old british coaches.

Irish gunner wrote:

Chelsea's technical director, Michael Emenalo, has stepped down. I'd never heard of him but apparently he's been really important for them.

We don't even have a technical director...Arsenal Women do, mind, so I guess that's a bit unfair.

banduan wrote:

Hammers should be going for Fat Sam. Good manager for a mid-table club.

He's been there already.

It seems like many ex footballers suffer dementia or some sort of brain injuries and it's absolutely horrible that very little help is given from the clubs. I don't like Bayern but the way they helped out Gerd Muller from Alzheimer is class. English clubs need to learn fast

9 days later

Salah is doing the damn thing for Liverpool. He has 16 goals in mid November. 2-0. I think they're back above us as things stand.

Coutinho's vision and execution for that 2nd goal, brilliant.

I'm bored of De Bruyne. Best player in the league. Every week he just does it. What a hit today.

Tony Montana wrote:

What do people make of Burnley?

They'll tire. There's always a team like this without resources that falls away post January. 

Chelsea also looking special again. So much for the fall of Conte. And Hazard enjoying his football.

I'm just glad that we are still within striking distance of the majority of contenders even after our rubbish start to the season. If we get our shit togethre, we can compete for the top 4.


Pretty scary, and yet I feel we should have gotten a result at Eittihad.

I think that's 8 goals and 4 assist for Morata in his first 11 Premier League games. We should have signed him at any point in the last two seasons. This flick was ridiculous:

Lindelof is one of my favourite footballers

How embarrassingly sorry can you be Newcastle?

High visibility for the premier league stars this weekend

just watched city highlights, kompany couldl've been sent off in the first 2 minutes easily. Refs earning their keep from city once again.

The referee will argue that there was another defender, but Vardy was goalside of him. I remember thinking it was a red in real time as well.

Three against arsenal and three this week. Imma keep count of their bought up points. Fuck that bald cunt and fuck city.
Waiting on a kdb injury for that fraud to be shown up.

Claudius wrote:

I'm bored of De Bruyne. Best player in the league. Every week he just does it. What a hit today.

It's not only his overall influence and performance in games, his stats is blowing the competition out of the water as well. And not to mention he is playing in CM. Mourinho is an idiot for not rating him.

Salah, Lukaku, De Bruyne, Filipe Luis....

Mata too. You could put together a league winning team with Mourinho rejects. He's a crazy checkbook manager.

Is there a better signing than Salah for 35m this season? Forget us, but how did no one else go for him?

I'm at a loss to explain it. It's not like any of this was news to people who have watched him either. He scored 50 goals from the wing in 2.5 years in Italy.

Anyone seen MOTD? Never liked that fat fuck Jonathan Pearce but it's mind numbing how biased he was yesterday for Spurs. You'd be forgiven for thinking we were battered by them listening to his drivel, had to turn it off after his rant over how controversial Mustafi's goal was

Klaus wrote:

I'm at a loss to explain it. It's not like any of this was news to people who have watched him either. He scored 50 goals from the wing in 2.5 years in Italy.

it doesn't always translate like this though. i doubt even the most optimistic scouser expected him to hit the ground running the way he has

jones wrote:

Anyone seen MOTD? Never liked that fat fuck Jonathan Pearce but it's mind numbing how biased he was yesterday for Spurs. You'd be forgiven for thinking we were battered by them listening to his drivel, had to turn it off after his rant over how controversial Mustafi's goal was

I only caught the end and the post match analysis and they were generally pretty emphatic about our eventual dominance, but it did grate me when the younger Neville suggested the first decision changed the game. At least Sky acknowledged at the time that we clearly deserved the lead on the balance of play. 

Gazza M wrote:
Klaus wrote:

I'm at a loss to explain it. It's not like any of this was news to people who have watched him either. He scored 50 goals from the wing in 2.5 years in Italy.

it doesn't always translate like this though. i doubt even the most optimistic scouser expected him to hit the ground running the way he has

Aye, but I feel that's a different issue. It's one thing to express surprise over just how quickly he started to produce in Premier League. But Clrnc wondered why no one was in for him except Liverpool, and I can't figure that out either. A bloke who scores 50 goals from the wing should be one of the hottest playes on the market in an era with 4-3-3 variations everywhere you look. Based on what he was like at his previous club, which is surely the main criteria when scouting players, you'd think big clubs all over Europe would have been fighting for his signature last summer.

If you run down the list though, Chelsea and United (Mourinho) are probably out of the picture due to past experiences while City and most the other big European clubs can't guarantee him the game time. Probably narrows down the list quite a bit.

Not too dissimilar to how we ended up with Sanchez and Ozil.

Pulis sacked. Glad his stone age brand of football is going out the window.

Saw Martin O'Neill was favourite to take over so it'll most likely just be more of the same from them.

Hope they go down with West Ham and Swansea. All terrible teams.

Gotta say I like having Pulis around, despite his ridiculous little Arsenal vendetta. His approach works in the medium term for a lot of clubs that don't have the means or ambition to play visually pleasing football. He's a bit like Mick McCarthy in that sense.

goon wrote:

Pulis sacked. Glad his stone age brand of football is going out the window.

This saddens me. Like Klaus says, we need variety. In the WWE, they have heels. We need bad guys that we can boo like Pulis and that other little fellow who insists on shaking everybody's hands like he's insistent on spreading plague. 

I dunno, I reckon we'd get over it pretty quickly. I don't think I've ever watched a West Brom game and have been thankful for seeing something different.

That being said, while they've been pretty terrible this season he's always been a team that's historically tough to beat, which we need more of.

He'll be back next time someone is sacked. Part of that old boys group who just continually cycle around the teams whenever there's a vacancy (Moyes, Allardyce, Hodgson, Bruce etc).