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"Jose plays pragmatic football built on defense. Look at everybody that's successful now; it's built on a press, on possession, on chance creation."
"Veg Horst offers something that is a little bit more old-fashioned and is able to hold up the ball and let others run through him."
"Complimentary football means running the football efficiently, not turning the ball over."
"Good teams find ways to win football matches when you know situations are in ideal we've left ourselves a ridiculous Branford they're in an ideal situation."
"Liverpool have got a very good dog keep it so Liverpool have got a brilliant back four."
"He's a nightmare to block on the field... he was just running around like a freaking Maniac."
"A big reason for the strength of Leverkusen's press is that much like club teams, Alonzo's Leverkusen use a zonal approach."
"Danny Alves did what Roberto Carlos did... made other teams play differently."
"He's doing too much. So what I'm saying is, right, if Bruno came into a team that was well-drilled in when to press, he wouldn't have to run around like a blue-ass fly if that system already existed as he arrived at the football club."
"We don't need a first eleven and a second eleven. We need two first elevens, two alternates, and an alternate eleven."
"If he came in to be entertaining football, we know that it wouldn't be boring free at the back with Nagelsmann."
"If he ever picks Lindelof over Eric Bailly again, I think we're in trouble. And scary thing is, I think he'll do it. And now it'll cost Oli his job."
"The passing offense in Tampa, we expect big things."
"DeAndre Swift was definitively the third down back last week."
"For me, I'm saying, well, you can't because Juan Mata is not a proper winger, Mason Greenwood's not a proper winger, Marcus Rashford's not a proper winger."
"Zinchenko is teaching us a new way of football."
"But once Robin, you're Nigel de Jong are playing together, then you can go and get the next one, Edin Dzeko and so on and from there you build."
"Nines need to make music." - Discussing the role of strikers in modern football.
"If you haven't seen his formation please watch the 5 3 2 video."
"If Arsenal had got a forward in January... they would have walked forth."
"Our number one priority this transfer window is a striker then I'm gonna tell you well done."
"Pep Guardiola doesn't pick Rashford. Jurgen Klopp doesn't pick Rashford. He makes the change that everybody knows needed to be changed."
"It's absolutely obvious that if you're going to play Van de Beek, you've got to put him into a team with people like Bruno and Pogba."
"Brilliant game, an absolutely spectacular advert for fearless attack in football."
"Against Wolves, if we start Daniel James on the right wing, he'll bring that directness and push their defensive line."
"Teams like City have one brain and eleven bodies executing each decision. It's almost like a machine."
"Patrick Surtain is a really, really good corner, perfect feet, perfect technique for a press man corner."
"My top three suggestions would be Bruno, Martial, and Sancho when it happens."
"He's one of the best ball-control defenders in the game."
"Play action is a very funny thing because it just always works, and teams need to be using it far more often." - Mike
"Salah's new role as an inside 10 would see his role move away from scoring as many goals as possible to being a bit of a facilitator."
"In that striker position under Alonzo at Liverpool, Darwin Nunes fits the profile."
"I think credit to Arteta I think we criticize the way he overcoaches us or he has done in the past in attack but clearly this is so well coached now."
"I've been saying for a long time that I want to see Arsenal give teams other things to worry about."
"Rebuild this team to beat the likes of Real Madrid, to beat the likes of Barcelona, to beat the likes of... of course, Atletico Madrid."
"Sancho is exactly what this club needs and what Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants."
"Liverpool won't win the league without a number 10... just imagine Liverpool with Bruno or De Bruyne."
"I genuinely think Arsenal can win the Europa League and I think that needs to be their priority of course it does."
"If we get Blanc and he does well, will he be permanent? Well, the thing about Laurent Blanc is, I did a video on Laurent Blanc three years ago, it might be worth going and finding it, I'll tweet it whenever I find it."
"Brandon cooks my start of the week at the wide receiver position."
"For set pieces, it should be either James Ward-Prowse or Mount. Spot on."
"Nuno's approach was entertaining, Spurs were excellent today."
"For me, a good summer for Manchester United is a top quality centre-back, a top-quality CDM, and Jadon Sancho. That to me is realistic, tangible, and acceptable for development."
"He's key to their tactics and I think he's key to Southgate's modern-day England tactics."
"With Dobbins, he is going to be in a pseudo running back by committee... it still should be a great offense in a hyper-efficient running game with Lamar Jackson."
"You got to hire a great OC... if you're able to do everything you did last season and you get a great quarterback, great things are happening." - "I am the most excited this year that I have been in a very long time."
"The anticipation and desire to win the ball back and get on the front foot, it wasn't win the ball back and recycle it, it was right I'm going to go straight forward him and he went for the jugular."
"Fortunes can change very quickly... Chelsea be a team capable of making a quick transition."
"Rangnick could fill quite a lot of gaps there; he needs some freedom, though."
"Manchester United need to sign that striker. Kane is the player that I want."
"Paris Saint-Germain obviously the superstars they got there."
"Football will always be the search for space."
"Emre Can would be a good signing for Manchester United. He ticks every single box that we need in midfield."
"Why do you think City are not in for Harlan? He is much younger than Kane."
"They've redefined football, they've redefined success."
"I think what Solskjaer is building is a fluid forward line. That's what we're building, you know? You look at people say, 'Oh, you need an out-and-out number nine to do well at a big club in Europe.'"
"Ronaldo already looked to have developed a degree of understanding with the likes of Mason Greenwood and Jadon Sancho."
"Surely it's got to be midfield. We cannot go through another transfer window and not buy a midfielder. It would be criminal of this football club to ignore the biggest issue that we've had over the last what 10 years."
"I want someone who plays in central center midfield who's played there he's a master of that position and is the best that we can get in that position. That's what united should be going for."
"What signing that is for Manchester United what a statement it is as well to go out there and sign a player who Manchester City were desperate to sign."
"I think Griezmann had time, he should have taken his time, but anyway, positive signs now from the team."
"We have the audacity to think that we could be down the whole game, going to the fourth down 19, and win the thing in the last two minutes."
"Offense number two in points per game, thank you Chiefs Playbook."
"If you're Liverpool, you're really, really confident going into these last nine games."
"What you saw last night is that you saw a guy that was in complete control of the offense."
"It's just very different to anything that England have got in United."
"The Brazilian revelation has just paved a new way forward for City."
"If we can get De Gea to stay, that's massive."
"Touchdown check down. A lot of the throws are in the end zone for the touchdown and if you like it you take it but you got to be smart especially on early downs."
"To play this dominating, dictating football, I need the players to do it, I need the players to be able to do it, and I need the players to want to do it."
"If you actually know how Manchester United work, the reason we've been linked to Anana is because we've scouted him."
"Joe Montana and Roger Craig were a lethal one-two punch."
"The best thing for us is to buy Bissouma. He's the most similar thing to Kante."
"It is not rocket science to have a style of football, and we don't really have one."
"Thomas is my highest goalscorer for the season. Look, all three defenders felt like we're trying to cut off Thomas from cutting it back or something and then they were just chasing the gap is there he has fired that in brilliantly."
"I think it was the right move. I think I criticized Chelsea board for not doing this earlier. It made no sense the whole time."
"We need to be doing permanent deals, not loan deals."
"Trevor Lawrence is the guy you build around in the future."
"We had a whole bunch of like Draymonds like everyone was ready for the [ __ ] at all times you know I mean everyone was that passionate about the game."
"For me, one-nil is the best result in football."
"Sancho or Harry Kane, very big decision because I think we need Sancho's creativity but Harry Kane is a Premier League proven striker."
"There won't be another summer when midfielders of the quality of Saul, Neves, Kamavinga, Basuma, Zakaria are all available."
"A coach should still have an identity. I guarantee you if Pep Guardiola was managing this United side, you'd see us playing tiki-taka football."
"Our style of play needs to start from the youth to the first team, not individuals."
"Liverpool remind me of Sir Alex Ferguson's football. They get crosses into the box, press, play risky football."
"John Brown is going to be minimum their primary deep threat."
"But basically, are there to be creative in score goals and that's what Fernandes and Pogba would bring."
"Real Madrid bodies up the pitch and just need to be careful not to leave it open at the back."
"Signing Harland gives them the kind of guarantee of winning the league."
"There's a ready-made excuse there, and I think sometimes that benefits United."
"He's got as much intelligence that he could just like I would not be surprised to see a forty-year-old Messi playing as defensive midfielder for Barça."
"Arteta and Ten Hag's two-cam tactics are tough to implement."
"Crystal Palace and especially Roy Hodgson... got that team ticking."
"We always know with Pep there's always something exciting on the way and we've got two great signings."
"I honestly think if they hired Conte in the summer, they'd have one of the five or six best coaches in the world."
"A good midfield protects your defense and supports your attack."
"Spurs need more than anything else a guy who can mop up everything in the base of midfield and ping it forward to those forwards."
"Whatever you think about Arsenal, they are a club that knows how to win or get a point when they're playing badly."
"Counter-attacking football is the easiest way to play football in the world."
"I plan to tell a complete story with Manchester United, and the series is likely to go on beyond the beta."
"If they keep Pogba, it'll be a real statement, but you don't actually have to spend that much money to do it."
"Even when he's not open, he's open... can push down the football field."
"Ruben Diaz is in that category of like you could just play a cam, Ruben Diaz, and watch the game."
"We play a way that your mindset needs to change to play towards. We're not changing to play your game, come and you change to play like Man United."
"If Josh Allen can play smart football consistently, that's when people will begin to think they're starting to get it."
"Since Sir Alex Ferguson, this is the most sensical decision they've made around the managers."
"Tight ends... they're the Pinnacle of football players and that they do everything."
"Opponents weren't the only ones afraid of our number three most feared tackler."
"If it works, we've just found a false nine for nothing; if it works, Eric ten Hag is a genius."
"Villa start moving like a big club, which would mean sticking in a fat 60 million pound bid for James Madison in January."
"Jaden Daniels ends up being the selection... the Saints future franchise quarterback."
"What really separates him from the majority of the pack is his end zone work and his deep ball threat."
"I think the extension of Aubameyang's contract was massive."
"Bruno and Erickson as a pair, if you watch a Man United game, one thing that just becomes abundantly clear is how well these two play together."
"Son, he's a big game player, he does well against the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool."
"If we don't get Sancho, Grealish, center back, and striker, we're not challenging for the title."
"The injuries have definitely changed arsenal's transfer strategy and they now can't spend as much money on a wide forward if they're gonna sign one."
"Every Premier League club would take Jadon Sancho," states Mark.
"It's the sneak. 92 percent of the time, it works every time. Smartest decision in football might be the sneak."
"Iron sharpens iron; the better the 53rd guy is, the better the team is."
"The goal that Martin Braithwaite scored was preceded by 33 passes."
"Teams will be playing West Ham and looking at them very differently."
"They're really going to be giving Lamar the weapons to get into 11 personnel with three or even four wide receivers out there potentially."
"He's their most dangerous player and in Tom Brady's mind the most valuable player on this offense"
"Football people in football media and the narrative around football would much rather have Bernardo Silva be a CAM and attacking midfielder for 10 years straight."
"What outstanding play design looks like when you only get two people out on a route, eight-person protection, and one of them is wide-ass open for a touchdown inside the red zone."
"Sometimes a really good defense is also backed by its offense. It's complimentary football."
"The 49ers and Brock Pie are the most efficient deep passing team in the league."
"I'm in on Ryan Fitzpatrick. I mean, look at the stats of the Turner offense."
"Every single reputable outlet has linked Arsenal to this guy as a serious target."
"We're a holding midfielder away from a team that should be challenging for the title."
"It's not a big blitzing defense but Robert Salah, he will bring it at times and when he brings it they're usually pretty effective."
"Portugal won the Euros Mourinho won the bloody champions league is still born parts to the boss and win things playing boring football stop being so bloody anti about it."
"With us having Champions League football, I want to sign at least one Greek talent in this rebuild."
"Our front three is almost like Liverpool's from a few years ago."
"Inter Milan have done the best business the world of football has seen in a long time."
"He's not just a great defender, he can play and drive the defense."
"I think Sancho will be on the right-hand side, I think Rashford should go back on the left, and yes, Vinicius should go back up front with Bruno behind."
"The chemistry between players, it's there. As soon as Bruno's got the ball, you can see it, Rashford knows he's running him behind."
"Winning free kicks... can honestly win you games."
"That's a very intelligent long ball for Ansu Fati who looks for that pass for Pedri Maldonado. Big chance first time and he's managed to score, are you kidding me?"
"I think Tuchel is a known quantity and is probably much better than Lampard, Arteta, and Pirlo."
"Liverpool and Man City sign players on the upward curve, while United goes for established talent."
"Jurgen Klopp's tactics completely broke the league."
"Cleveland Furl, speed rusher. Max Crosby, speed rusher. Maurice Hurst, very close to a speed rusher. He's got finesse moves as his main trait other than power moves right so he's a finesse rusher so I really just need two edge guys."
"If England are to have any luck, we will owe an awful lot of it to Pep Guardiola."
"To me, the right wing and the center back and the CDM are the three positions that are priority for Manchester United."
"Man United should go for top two and both Europa and the FA Cups."
"We need players with Rooney's intensity; that's one of the factors that's been missing."
"Why not put Telles left wing? I think it's a very intelligent point."
"We're doing things properly, signing the right profile of players to support and complement the version of football we're trying to produce."
"Jordan Love had countless throws off his back foot that hit guys in stride way down the field. Dak Prescott, if the timing is a little off, he's way off."
"We need to dominate possession and create more chances."
"The only thing that's gonna get him back in good books with United fans is entertaining football."
"It's all in a good plan for Arsenal, so well in good going to Liverpool, so well and good going to Chelsea...but Man City are the market leaders in Premier League football right now."
"If you think he's the right manager for Man United, you go and get him, you go pay the money, whatever it might be."
"Manchester United are crying out for a center defensive midfielder."
"Transfer windows are chaotic, don't stress yourself about it."
"Marcus has been respected across Europe... Bayern Munich losing Lewandowski so they're going to want a forward player."
"Ronaldo or Harland? Rangnick would probably go for Harland."
"We've got a huge issue around homegrown players, United have got to look at British players."
"Signing Pogba's contract, getting Varane, let's get it done and then Sancho. What a transfer window that would be."
"Pogba's consistency is remarkable, liberated by Bruno and Matich."
"Arteta's got a clearer idea of what he wants to do with the team."
"Every option with Pogba is a lose or every option's a win."
"I think Camavinga is the most likely midfielder for us."
"Build up play is all about how your team performs when they're in possession of the ball in your own half."
"The legacy of Johan Cruyff: changing football forever."
"The reason why we have two DMs is because our center backs are trash."
"Russell Wilson absolutely has to be the pick for us here. Cannot, cannot pass on him."
"Guardiola added the ability to pull off devastating counter-attacks."
"He knows Manchester United well, he knows the DNA of Manchester United. But first and foremost, he is a very, very good coach." - Paul
"Ronaldo, Neymar, Sterling, the lit at the back, and maybe a midfield player, Chelsea could achieve anything next year with players like that."
"Luka Modric would be able to do everything you required in that midfield."
"Sancho or Harland? I'd rather have Sancho because you could use the rest of the money on something else."
"I think Conte is a real important factor for Spurs."
"I've managed to navigate a career where I can match the goals of building football teams that play a certain way with success at the same time."
"Liverpool have enjoyed their most successful era since the 1980s thanks to a mix of modern coaching, cutting-edge tactics, and top-notch recruitment."
"We love unnecessarily challenges at our club, keep it bloody simple, create the triangle and slot the ball into the back of the nets."
"The most successful play in the history of the NFL, the QB knee, as the Vegas Raiders have done it."
"JJ Watt is still a mammoth problem for any offense."
"The main thing about what the future will be and what Klopp and Guardiola have developed is courage."
"I'd love to see a 4-3-3... a real attacking midfielder."
"Ollie is the right man for the job, his football that he's played is not part of the bus."
"I hope we learn our mistake from Bellingham and sign Camavinga. We cannot miss out on a player like him."
"What Tottenham have is a world-class manager. Antonio Conte is in that conversation."
"Offensive power: We know the Bills are going to be top five in passing this season."
"We've spent 44 million pounds on one of the best ball playing Modern goalkeepers in the game at the moment."
"Bayern Munich will make the best place for Kane."
"Inverted wingers are really, really important in the modern game now."
"He's a proven winner, renowned for his team's attractive attacking football and commitment to youth." - Manchester United Football Director
"Good weekend: Arsenal manager May Emery finally listened to me by starting Alexandre Lacazette up high, and it worked to terrific effect with each player scoring important goals in Arsenal's 3-2 win away from home over Cardiff."
"If I could have three signings this transfer window: Ndidi, Sancho, Werner."
"Travis Kelce is Patrick Mahomes' safety button. If nobody's open, if he's under pressure, if he can't find anybody, he looks for one person and that is Travis Kelce."
"He's been spectacular as a rookie. He's really helped to guide this offense to be not just competent but actually pretty good, and he's only started 11 games."
"He's a manager that wants to give supporters the brand of football that Elland Road wants."
"Eric Ten Hag's coaching that he's put on into this team in just a few months is outstanding."
"Trippier and Shaw would do great with Calvert-Lewin."
"Absolutely not. If I had the chance to get Ronaldo back at Old Trafford, absolutely I would go for it."
"Messi playing it to De Bruyne, De Bruyne playing into Sterling, Sterling playing it back to Messi, Messi plays it out wide to Foden, Foden cuts inside, plays it through to Aguero, Messi's picking up the scraps. Does it get much better than that?"