The 'Couldn't think where to put this' thread part 2 or 'does my comment merit a NEW THREAD?'

grey_til_I_dye

Baz

Did you mean :stats:

Bazshuayi

A subtle hint to bring the new emoji out

BubblesNeverDies

Bet he was popular in the dressing room.

Kuchinghammer

With 10% of the team, not with the other 90% (Stats can be made up - can we have a Trump & Johnson emoji saying that?)

grey_til_I_dye

For any stats propeller heads out there mourning the passing of statto.com for historic league tables and results, I bring you the joy of https://www.11v11.com/

:stats:

SuzanneClaret

I use them for 'the last time we played them the first goal was scored in this minute' info.

:stats:

MIAHammer

Premier League clubs to vote on ending early summer transfer window closure

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49562023

MrsGrey

'could vote' :ok:

Adam

I think it worked well this year. We did our business early. The only club who really suffered were Spurs...So even better!

OldCastleSwift

We could yet suffer. Letting Hernandez go without being able to replace him could come back to hurt us.

MIAHammer

Freak accident

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9870071/football-manager-finger-ripped-off-hykeham-town/

IronHerb

Easily avoided, don't get married :run:

grey_til_I_dye

And I thought Bellers was a nutter...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49665419

MIAHammer

grey_til_I_dye said:

And I thought Bellers was a nutter...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49665419

"I learned lessons from these events," he wrote.

Yes, how about not taking a gun along when you are going to beg someone for forgiveness. :doh:

MIAHammer

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49683036

Foul on Haller, one of 4 mistakes that VAR should have caught.

In addition, a meeting of all 20 clubs in London earlier had a discussion about the merits of moving the transfer window back towards the end of August, in line with most other European countries, but decided more talks were required at their next gathering in November.

I guess there’s no rush to make a decision right now but not sure there’s much to talk about. My thought is why not suspend transfers within the UK at the start of the season but leave the international window open until end of August in line with Europe. Is that feasible?

alderz

MIA

Apparently that was City’s proposal

MrsGrey

MIAHammer said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49683036

Foul on Haller, one of 4 mistakes that VAR should have caught.

In addition, a meeting of all 20 clubs in London earlier had a discussion about the merits of moving the transfer window back towards the end of August, in line with most other European countries, but decided more talks were required at their next gathering in November.

I guess there’s no rush to make a decision right now but not sure there’s much to talk about. My thought is why not suspend transfers within the UK at the start of the season but leave the international window open until end of August in line with Europe. Is that feasible?

Isn't that what happens already?

alderz

MrsGrey

I thought MIA meant that domestic deals end before the season, but clubs can buy from European clubs til the end of August (seeing as they can already sell to them)

MrsGrey

Oh, Ok. That makes more sense :ok:

MrsGrey

BUt then, you might as well just have the window opening dates re-aligned with the European ones like they used to be. The motive for changing it was to have a settled squad before the season starts.

If you are going to give that up, and be bringing players in after the start of the season, there's no reason to limit that to only certain categories of player. imo.

buffybegood

Just enjoyed the singles in the Solheim Cup, for most of the afternoon Europe looked out of it, but turned a couple of matches around and it came down to 2 puts on the 18th green. USA missed, Europe holed. Europe won 14.5 v 13.5, needed to win as USA would have retained the cup at 14 all.

IronHerb

Manchester United legend Gary Neville has said he would "run a mile" if he were ever offered the managerial position at Old Trafford. (Manchester Evening News)

No need to worry there then. :doh:

MIAHammer

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2019/09/expert-analysis-shows-the-huge-impact-of-liverpools-throw-in-coach-thomas-gronnemark/

Do we have a throw-in coach? I am fed up with watching our pathetic throw-ins!

Bazshuayi

Liverpool is the only team Ive heard of having one (just saying, honest). Youd think that with all the years players play (from kids onward) that throw ins are hardly a new/foreign concept. When you have one, you make yourself available and mobile to give your teams options. Is it really that tricky?

alderz

There was an article on BBC about that last year and the guy works as a consultant with a number of clubs.

Baz - it’s the same as any other set piece and you train for those!

grey_til_I_dye

Klopp said he was a bit doubtful, but after speaking to the guy he was convinced he could make a difference.

MIAHammer

alderz said:

Baz - it’s the same as any other set piece and you train for those!

But do we? We appear to very rarely retain possession. But maybe it’s just my misperception. Does anyone have stats on this?

Hammerwombat

Well done to the Sun for a wonderful piece of front page journalism.
Scumbags should be ashamed of themselves. I hate that disgusting rag.

MrsGrey

tbh, that description could apply to almost anything they've published in the last ... well ... forever.

SuzanneClaret

Just when you thought they had plumbed the deepest of depths over the Hillsborough tragedy.... It turns out they can go deeper still.

Disgusting.