Manchester Utd 2-2 Leeds Utd - Match Debate

[CHAPELALLMAN]

I had forgotten the bee in your bonnet about Bielsa's wages.

You used to be very angry when he was on a reported £8 million, I see you've upped it to £11 million. You may be confusing it with the numbers your favourite will get as a pay off!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... mpard.html

£11m is a lot to pay for the privilege of being thrashed 6 or 7 nil. Maybe that's why they sacked him.

[billysboots]

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[BlackHillsPaul]

This is what i was looking for from ya, i know jack about the guy, am way too lazy to go watching stuff coz it means fck all to me now he's at Leeds with different players around him, i use my eyes going forward

I'm not looking to have a dig here, but if he's the type of player you say and has all those attributes, it'll do him and his game in the Prem a world of good if he gets himself into tip top 100% fit shape, not only be good for us but he'll catch the eye of the big clubs really fast if he wants to progress, he strikes me like he'd thrive under and with a Bert type obsessive regime till he's absolute tip top, i can then imagine him being a cracker, Roca's another but he seems the sort that wants the easylife route (typical Spanish i want my siesta during a game type)

I get it. And it's true that players coming from other leagues often need to improve fitness. Spain and Italy in particular have a reputation for softer players. Maybe it's that wonderful Mediterranean lifestyle. But we also see it all the time with players moving from South America to MLS. They are just not up to the fitness standards required to play through the summer heat and humidity. So it often takes them some time too get acclimated. And I think you are correct that McKennie, like all players, would be well served by getting a bit more fit. Not sure how much we can expect with him. He's never going to have a body like Tyler Adams or Jackie Harrison.

[andrewjohnsmith]

Great result

Anyone know if Cooper and Roca were injured as not even on the bench

Skubz said they were injured and not included in the prematch interview

[1964white]

[Mountain]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... mpard.html

£11m is a lot to pay for the privilege of being thrashed 6 or 7 nil. Maybe that's why they sacked him.

It seems like you may not have read the article you linked.

If you read it, you'll see where you're going wrong when you tack on another few million.

Either way, your hero, our losingest manager ever in the PL, will be getting a rather huge payout.

[The Subhuman]

What would you define as a free hit?

Little pressure not much chance of a result.

[Cjay]

Although reports of Munich chants aren't funny

[Cjay]

Little pressure not much chance of a result.

Does that go for all fixtures against teams having good seasons or in terms of recent history out of our league?

Arsenal
Fulham
Brighton
Tottenham
Manchester City
Liverpool
Chelsea
Newcastle
Manure again

All fall into one of those categories.

That leaves us with only 8 fixtures to get probably somewhere in the 15-20point range.

[The Subhuman]

Does that go for all fixtures against teams having good seasons or in terms of recent history out of our league?

Arsenal
Fulham
Brighton
Tottenham
Manchester City
Liverpool
Chelsea
Newcastle
Manure again

All fall into one of those categories.

That leaves us with only 8 fixtures to get probably somewhere in the 15-20point range.

No

[Cjay]

No

But based on history or this season we have little chance of a result as your definition says . . . .free hit

[The Subhuman]

But based on history or this season we have little chance of a result as your definition says . . . .free hit

Yep ....

[Cjay]

Yep ....

Hate that term.

No team in the same league should be a free hit.

Such a defeatist doff your cap attitude

[The Subhuman]

Hate that term.

No team in the same league should be a free hit.

Such a defeatist doff your cap attitude

No it isn't..

[mentalcase]

Hate that term.

No team in the same league should be a free hit.

Such a defeatist doff your cap attitude

I have to be honest, I use that term, not in a defeatest way, merely a pragmatic view of where we are against the money boys, also gives me greater pleasure when we get points out of our "free-hit" games

[Cjay]

I have to be honest, I use that term, not in a defeatest way, merely a pragmatic view of where we are against the money boys, also gives me greater pleasure when we get points out of our "free-hit" games

Fair enough

Just reminds me of being a lower league team

Plucky underdogs in a cup competition.

[mentalcase]

Fair enough

Just reminds me of being a lower league team

Plucky underdogs in a cup competition.

Just what we are tbh, plucky underdogs in a PL cash laden competition

[Irish Ian]

Just what we are tbh, plucky underdogs in a PL cash laden competition

Underdogs?

Underdogs?????

Leeds we are.

Name says it all.

As soon as the opposition hear we are playing them they write their game off as a free hit.

That's how good we are and always will be.


We had Don Revie and then we had Wilko and after that we had um.... erm well you know what I mean, and our sense of self importance carries us high above the rest of the scummers who have been winning Champions League, have day trips to Wembley on an annual basis and even have soft seats with leg room in their grounds.

Pfft..

We don't need PL cash, no sireee players pay us to sign on. No wage bill

Managers the world over write letters begging to be put on a waiting list to serve.

In fact this week we proved we are so good now we don't even need a manager.

Or so it seems.

[mentalcase]

Underdogs?

Underdogs?????

Leeds we are.

Name says it all.

As soon as the opposition hear we are playing them they write their game off as a free hit.

That's how good we are and always will be.


We had Don Revie and then we had Wilko and after that we had um.... erm well you know what I mean, and our sense of self importance carries us high above the rest of the scummers who have been winning Champions League, have day trips to Wembley on an annual basis and even have soft seats with leg room in their grounds.

Pfft..

We don't need PL cash, no sireee players pay us to sign on. No wage bill

Managers the world over write letters begging to be put on a waiting list to serve.

In fact this week we proved we are so good now we don't even need a manager.

Or so it seems.

Can just imagine a euro spot with no manager, that would piss off the establishment Ian

[Irish Ian]

Can just imagine a euro spot with no manager, that would piss off the establishment Ian

Wouldn't it?

Reminds me of the episode of HIGNFY where they replaced John Prescott with a tub of lard.