@BrunelGunner said over on the other thread that he could see this coming a mile off. If so, that is impressively astute from him. Granted, they aren't enjoying their traditional sleepwalk to the Bundesliga title, but I'd have thought the CL - which they've only won once in a decade iirc - should surely be the priority? And this season, Nagelsmann has (so far) produced not just the best record of the current competition, but one of the best in the competition's entire history. 8 wins out of 8, 7 clean sheets (weirdly Plezn so far the only team to score agains them) and 21 goals scored. Seems mad to sack him now.
Beat PSG twice without conceding a goal, too. Still in the domestic cup. A point behind Dortmund, but with 21 better goal difference. They made some good signings in the summer. Mazraoui, Gravenberch, Mane, de Ligt and Tel, plus Sommer and Cancelo in January. They failed to replace Lewandowski, though. A Stoke reject just doesn't cut it, for me.
like us with Kane…we can’t replace him you can’t replace a world class attacker unless you buy Mbappe or Haaland and that is not happening
This tweet caused me an alarming mix of emotions. First I laughed that a club as big as Bayern thinks we have the foggiest clue what we're doing. As if we have some sort of cohesive plan we'd actually follow up on promptly Then I panicked that we were genuinely stupid enough to be considering Tuchel Then I relaxed because now Bayern have him and his collection of mismatching hats Then I panicked again because our Plan B is probably Alan Pardew
If only to give Pep the false messiah the Citeh spanking he has been denied by Munich this season in the CL,
I’ve had a little think about it and I’m saying we go in balls deep for Nagelsmann From what I’m reading he’s quite flexible with his tactics and tbh our squad with the type of characters it has within it we seem like a good fit Levy please just do your ****ing job for once
The problem is that Munich have superior squads. I am not talking "galacticos" , but what I consider expected core competence from a pro (passing accurately fast and forward, keeping the ball in the tussle etc) . When you come to a club where you cannot even assume that baseline, hmm. At the worst I guess we would get attacking Spurs teams from him (only Pep was able to stifle that in the Munich machine - perhaps that is why he is deemed by some to be a football messiah ) .
you always liked to tell me it was cycles of 5 years. Well i can tell you it's a downward cycle in your 5 year spiral
This 53 trophies stat has got a lot of traction this week and has been shared via various people on twitter, mainly by the usual anti spurs brigade and yes as a headline it looks great, but of those 53 how many have been at clubs that where money is no object, or in less competitive environments than the ones that we play in. I haven't done any actual research into this but from memory, Sherwood and Mason were caretakers and have won nothing elsewhere (as managers), Jose has won trophies at Porto, Chelsea Inter, Real, Man U and Roma, Conte at Juventus, Chelsea and Inter, Pochettino at PSG, Nuno may have won the championship, and Harry an FA cup at Portsmouth. So out of the 53, the the trophies won by Jose and Conte at Inter, Jose, ECL at Porto and conference league win at Roma and Harrys FA cup are of note, all the rest are at clubs where that level of success is paid for and expected, or in Portugal/ championship.
6 years seems to hold as a rough time period, if you set falling out of persistent PL top 4 finishes as the "low watermark" . You get : Them lot : 6 years min (2016-17 to this season) Man Utd : 9 years min (2013-15 to this season) The Poool : 6 years (2009-10 to 2016-17)
The Pathetic are claiming that Conte and Levy's falling out began last January, when Levy wouldn't sanction a move for Adama Traore Errrm, it's a little hard to side with Conte on that one...
