Premier League January 2021: 21 for Utd in 21?

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Eau de MacGowan: May 12, 2009; BRASIL HEXA
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Bundy posted:

I forever count my blessings that I was sat behind the goal for that. The entire Stretford end jeered and made wanker signs at him lol

didnt your heart break at least a little though

its one of the saddest things i think ive ever seen in PRO FOOTBALL

# ? Jan 17, 2021 11:41

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NinpoEspiritoSanto: Oct 22, 2013

# ? Jan 17, 2021 11:48

britishbornandbread: Jul 8, 2000; You'll stumble in my footsteps

Gerrard�s face when Torres was subbed off at Birmingham was A Thing That Happened I Liked.

# ? Jan 17, 2021 12:09

Dudley: Feb 24, 2003; Tasty

As was Gerrard's slip.

Which isn't related at all to this conversation I just want us all to remember it again.

# ? Jan 17, 2021 12:11

Eau de MacGowan: May 12, 2009; BRASIL HEXA
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remember gerrards last united game and the heatmap lol

# ? Jan 17, 2021 12:17

tarbrush: Feb 7, 2011; ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO

Eau de MacGowan posted:

remember gerrards last united game and the heatmap lol

Good lord that was hilarious

# ? Jan 17, 2021 12:22

NinpoEspiritoSanto: Oct 22, 2013

Eau de MacGowan posted:

remember gerrards last united game and the heatmap lol

e: apparently there's a real one lol

# ? Jan 17, 2021 12:45

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Lol Newcastle are so awful I've just fully stopped paying attwntion. At least McLaren managed the odd win

# ? Jan 22, 2021 01:15

Shrapnig: Jan 21, 2005

NBCSN is being killed by NBC before the end of the year. No word on what that means for Premier League coverage yet other than obviously more games on Peacock.

# ? Jan 22, 2021 22:56

ozmunkeh: Feb 28, 2008; hey guys what is happening in this thread

Shrapnig posted:

NBCSN is being killed by NBC before the end of the year. No word on what that means for Premier League coverage yet other than obviously more games on Peacock.

That would have been a big loss a few years back when they actually showed games.

# ? Jan 23, 2021 02:10

ScooterMcTiny: Apr 7, 2004

They�ll just put everything on Peacock except a game a week on NBC I�m assuming. Between CNBC, MSNBC, USA they�ve got plenty of places for dump things like the olympics if they really need the extra TV coverage.

# ? Jan 24, 2021 15:46

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Everything on NBCSN is just getting moved to USA for the most part. It's channel consolidation that's being blown wildly out of proportion. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they don't have enough content to justify 100 channels anymore.

# ? Jan 24, 2021 17:02

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

Advanced stats

https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1353425966580838400

# ? Jan 25, 2021 10:28

oliwan: Jul 20, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

TUCHEL IS COMING TO CHELSEA LOL

bye Frank lmao

edit:
https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1353640638860951554?s=19

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:14

Loving Africa Chaps: Dec 3, 2007; We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Rip lampard you were fat and fail

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:17

oliwan: Jul 20, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

very nice of chelsea football club to leak the sacking of their club legend before it actually happened

oliwan fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jan 25, 2021

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:17

Literally Lewis Hamilton: Feb 22, 2005

Lmao Chelsea are so poo poo

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:19

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

oliwan posted:

TUCHEL IS COMING TO CHELSEA LOL

bye Frank lmao

edit:
https://twitter.com/brfootball/status/1353640638860951554?s=19

To steal a joke I saw on Twitter - finally a Tory faces consequences.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:21

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/_jasminebaba/status/1353649776802332673?s=19

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:33

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

There�s a job going north of the border...

# ? Jan 25, 2021 11:42

NinpoEspiritoSanto: Oct 22, 2013

goddamnedtwisto posted:

To steal a joke I saw on Twitter - finally a Tory faces consequences.

Lol

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:09

kecske: Feb 28, 2011; it's round, like always

winston bogarde would give it a go I reckon

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:13

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/1353665331731066887

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:28

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Lmao. Didn't even get a chance to go bald before he hit fraud status

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:34

Frankston: Jul 27, 2010

He wasn't doing a particularly good job at Derby in the Championship, definitely wasn't ready for Chelsea.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:37

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

He did well with the transfer ban in place

But then spaffed a load of money on poo poo players that didn't fit his system or didn't know how to use them.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:40

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

Frankston posted:

He wasn't doing a particularly good job at Derby in the Championship, definitely wasn't ready for Chelsea.

Yes he did, their squad was poo poo apart from Mount and Tomori. Getting that shower to the playoffs was a cracking first season in management.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:44

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

CyberPingu posted:

He did well with the transfer ban in place

But then spaffed a load of money on poo poo players that didn't fit his system or didn't know how to use them.

Acording to that very long athletic article on his sacking, the signings were all Marina and he only wanted chillwell out of the lot of them

# ? Jan 25, 2021 12:51

FullLeatherJacket: Dec 30, 2004; Chiunque pu� essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

TheRat posted:

Advanced stats

https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1353425966580838400

https://twitter.com/CursedFootball/status/1353420235349626880

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:09

FullLeatherJacket: Dec 30, 2004; Chiunque pu� essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

Also highly looking forward to the wailing at the moon that's going to come from the press over the next few days

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:11

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

FullLeatherJacket posted:

Also highly looking forward to the wailing at the moon that's going to come from the press over the next few days

The use of t�riffic is gonna skyrocket

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:19

Bape Culture: Sep 13, 2006

Get hosed chelsea

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:20

blue footed boobie: Sep 14, 2012; UEFA SUPREMACY

Chelsea�s summer basically sealed Lampard�s fate. Working that many players into a team is hard and the amount of money Chelsea spent was insane. Also

Bape Culture posted:

Get hosed chelsea

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:39

Loving Africa Chaps: Dec 3, 2007; We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Imagine spending £200m to be as fail as arsenal

# ? Jan 25, 2021 13:50

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

There are seasons where teams are just sensational and the competition is immense. This season it seems like everybody's a bit poo poo

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:05

Loving Africa Chaps: Dec 3, 2007; We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1353687828086075392?s=19

Lol replacement isn't in the country and Chelsea are scrambling to get an quarantine exemption

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:10

the sex ghost: Sep 6, 2009

Can't wait for bielsa to go round his house and just stand in front of his living room windows doing the binoculars

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:10

Blasmeister: Jan 15, 2012; 2Time TRP Sack Race Champion

Vegetable posted:

There are seasons where teams are just sensational and the competition is immense. This season it seems like everybody's a bit poo poo

this and the Chels canning a manager after a loss to Leicester are some good omens for this season.

(it could never happen again)
((but could it?))

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:33

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

I stole this from Reddit because I don't have an Athletic subscription:

quote:

Summary :

- Lampard�s relationship with influential director Marina Granovskaia deteriorated

- Ralf Rangnick was offered interim job last week for four months but turned it down

- Calls were made in recent weeks to sound out Leipzig�s Julian Nagelsmann

- Leicester game was tipping point and morning after spent trying to finalise successor

- Lampard shook players hands and thanked them for efforts under him after Leicester match

- Petr Cech involved in talking to new stars� agents as form dipped

- Some players complained about lack of tactical instruction and not being spoken to for months

- Desire to re-sign Declan Rice annoyed his bosses

- The dressing room felt manager showed no empathy and were hurt by his public criticism

- Lampard would have walked out had he been working for any club other than Chelsea

EDIT : More big info from the piece :

- tensions behind the scenes really began to emerge during the January transfer window 12 months ago. Lampard asked for Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who was considering leaving Emirates Stadium at that juncture, and Ajax�s attacking midfielder Hakim Ziyech. Neither arrived that month

- it was at this juncture that Mauricio Pochettino, who had been fired by Tottenham in November 2019, and RB Leipzig coach Nagelsmann were being mentioned as a potential �plan B�.

- things were becoming more tense with Granovskaia and one of the biggest points of contention was the treatment of goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. �They clashed over Kepa. Lampard put in a request for a replacement and was told he should try putting his arm around Kepa, to help build his confidence. Lampard was insistent though.�

- Lampard wanted the club to sign West Ham midfielder Declan Rice and pushed for him again ahead of January. But some at the club had reservations about re-signing the player who was released from the academy as a teenager.

- In December The Athletic were told: �He needs to stop pushing for Rice or he�ll lose his job. The hierarchy are very wary about the potential embarrassment of buying back an academy reject at huge expense.�

- of the six players to join, only Ben Chilwell was a Lampard target.

- plan was not only to acquire Rice, who Lampard felt could be converted into a top centre back as well as using him as a defensive midfielder, but also to buy James Tarkowski from Burnley. Defenders earmarked to go were Fikayo Tomori, Marcos Alonso, and Rudiger. There was even talk that Lampard was open to the idea of captain Cesar Azpilicueta departing.

- after the Manchester City game, Roman became �very, very unhappy�. ( After the season relationship between Roman and Lampard was "strong"

- Tuchel was reluctant to come midway through the season initially but was eventually persuaded, having almost taken the Stamford Bridge job before Antonio Conte a few years ago. He felt it was too good a job to turn down.

- �The problem was, the manager didn�t talk to the players � well only the ones he liked"

- One senior player told The Athletic that Lampard staying on for the rest of the season would have been a �catastrophe�, with the levels of tension in the dressing room to high to recover from and players comparing his criticism of performances to Jose Mourinho in his final days at the club.

- By the Fulham game in early January, players were expecting Lampard to be sacked if they didn�t win

- Lampard warned everyone, including the hierarchy, that a title bid was unlikely in 2020

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Hashtag Banterzone: Dec 8, 2005; Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM

Chelsea looked lost the last few months under Lampard. Hopefully Tuchel can get the team playing at the level their talent suggestions and get back in the race for top 4.

# ? Jan 25, 2021 14:42

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