Live Match Discussion 2022/23

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thomas Müller hasn't done too bad.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Only the very best teams can carry a player for 90% of games to make use of the other 10%, those teams can generally get more reliable players anyway so the 10%ers end up at lesser clubs chasing the fallacy of unlocking their potential.

Dave Edwards was not carried 90% of the time. Limited player by all means but not that limited!

Dele Alli played a big role in a Spurs team that challenged for the league before coming up short late on. Whether he can ever find that form again remains to be seen but he certainly was not a 10%er.

 

[Tredman]

Good read on a player who had a mid-career slump. I don't think we should sign Alli but I do hope he can salvage his career.

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[Templeton Peck]

I wish no ill to Everton but I'm finding toffees tv utterly compelling viewing this morning.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Thomas Müller hasn't done too bad.

Playing for the undisputed best side in the league for his entire career and a nation which has been in contention for winning almost every trophy he's entered with them.

There's a place for those players, but it's generally a luxurious one, even if Wolves had signed Alli at his peak how would they have gone about building a side around him as their best player? Ditto for Muller at a mid table side, how's he going to drag the rest of the team along with him?

 

[big mean bunny]

Nah. Been absolutely shite for about five years now.

He got 18 league goals in 16/17! I spotted that the other day when talking about goal scorers. That's a pretty remarkable drop off from that year to now struggling to get in a poor Everton side. He is only 26 next week too if what I read was right.

 

[Tony Towner]

I wish no ill to Everton but I'm finding toffees tv utterly compelling viewing this morning.

"Gang of shitebags"

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Grand Old Team is absolutely glorious reading.

 

[Carrotdude]

I’m not sure if it’s just attitude with Alli, I know Spurs fans say his injuries kind of ruined him a bit too. He’d do a job as a second striker in a 4-4-2 where he can get himself in the box and use his movement. No one really plays like that though these days.

 

[Tony Towner]

Ndombele will score against West Ham this week or next, because that's just how football works

 

[AndyWolves]

Ndombele will score against West Ham this week or next, because that's just how football works

And Emerson

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Very subdued start by West Ham. Thought they would be right out of the traps, but anything but.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Cresswell you helmet. Ridiculous to get a red there. Commentators talking bobbins about it not being a red for me.

 

[Jack Regan]

Stupid from Cresswell to make contact but it's an appalling decision. Barely any contact certainly not enough for him to go down and going away from goal too.

 

[BillyDee]

It's a red all day long. Yes the contact is minimal, but it's completely unnecessary and it has put the attacker off.

 

[YoungWolf]

Wow big goal for West Ham. They’d been stuck in their own half before that for a while

 

[YoungWolf]

Ndombele will score against West Ham this week or next, because that's just how football works

Ha

 

[Kenny]

Cyber Towner

 

[darlowolf64]

Nah, Tony got his prediction right...

 

[Kenny]

Nah, Tony got his prediction right...

Cyber gets them the right sometimes...

Now if I had called him Paddy Towner