Sounds like he’ll be replaced by Marcus Bettinelli from Chelsea. He’ll never reach the levels of the GOAT though I’m afraid.
Ait-Nouri looks a good signing for City. Looks like the so called bigger clubs are hoovering up this season’s star players from the so called lesser clubs. Kerkez, Munoz, Semenyo, Eze, Sels, Murillo anyone? I’d take any of them. And Wharton too
I know you wrote this tongue in cheek, but players like Carson (and Whiteman/Austin) really pee me off. If I had the God given talent to be a professional footballer, I wouldn't waste away the briefest of careers not even making the bench of a big club. I'd drop down a division or two and play regularly. League One's average salary is £6k per week. That's more than enough for anyone to live extremely comfortably on.
1. < hate the game, not the player > (sic) 2. If Sugga Daddy FCs had to pay out a massive severance sum at the end based on NON-use, I suspect the rules of the game would change immediately.
That's actually not a bad idea. Would stop Chelsea hoarding 56 players every summer. But the severance should go to grassroots leagues, not a player already earning a fortune a week to do bugger all.
£6k a week playing in a league one or considerably more which will fund an even better life and all you have to do mtrain for City and get trophies. I can’t hate Carson for wanting to take it easy towards the end of his career.
The issue is less with the players, more with so many clubs using their backup keeper as a free hit to meet their HG numbers, with us using Hart and Forster for this Similar goes with Whiteman and Austin: we needed some CG players for European competition but there was a noticeable gap in our squad there due to Kane, Winks, Skipp and Tanganga leaving in the last couple of years yet the likes of Donley, Devine and Dorrington still count as Category B players
There’s no guarantee you’d be number one in League One or Two though. You’re also only likely to receive a 2 year contract at that level as most of those clubs can’t take the risk of going longer. I don’t believe anyone here - yourself included - would truly trade Austin’s £10k a week for the next 4 years for £5k-£6k a week for 2 years just to (potentially) play a bit more at a much lower level. In terms of Carson, he’s had a moderately good career that ended with him taking a back seat. And that back seat included £25k a week and adding a bunch of trophies to his CV. No brainer from his perspective.
For another example, look at Rob Green's late career club hopping: went habitually getting relegated from the PL as a starter to picking up an easy cheque at Chelsea without even getting on the bench let alone starting matches
Rob Green and Scott Carson England international goalkeepers who left an indelible mark on our international history Green for his part in the USAs equaliser in South Africa and Carson as the wally with a brolly's keeper v Croatia when we lost 3-2 and failed to qualify for the 2008 Euros.
Utd have apparently made an approach for Gyokeres. Big IF at the moment but if they bag him and Mbeumo, they’ll have gone from one of the most embarrassing front threes in the league with Rashford, Garnacho and Hojlund to one of the best with Cunha, Mbeumo and Gyokeres. Sort that shambolic keeper and a few defenders out and people aren’t gonna be able to laugh at Utd any more.
Why change the habit of a lifetime? For *years*, every time ManU win a game, buy a new player or change their manager, the discussion is always 'perhaps they've turned a corner now....' It's an argument based on lazy "journalism" and a false sense of entitlement that somehow ManU "deserve" to be in the top reaches of the league. And no matter how many years the underperforming goes on, the same discussions come up. So the discussion is how long will it be before they win the title, can they make top 4/5, can they make Europe etc. The discussion however isn't that ManU aren't underperforming, they are churning out performances appropriate to their abilities. Even the term underperforming implies they are entitled to finish higher. So what is they recent developments? ManU buy or are are linked to some forwards. This is apparently going to propel them up the league. Sounds logical? Well not according to the experience of years of failure. But of course it also doesn't take into account the one thing that people picked up on a lot last season but not mention at all in the current buying spree. That is Amorim plays a certain system and won't change. So it's been said he doesn't have the players to play his system. But apparently buying a couple of forwards suddenly means this problem with the defence isn't a factor any more. Also I haven't heard anything about Cunha having some "problem moments" last season. All I've heard is about his undoubted skill. But in an "underperforming" team, which already has a few players who don't pull their weight when the chips are down, is Cunha the best player to have on your team? What if he spots one of the opposition coaches wearing glasses?
"Langton's ant" can always be said to have "turned a corner" . Problem is, tis easy to make the ant walk the same path forever.
