On Monday The New York Times reported that UEFA investigators were seeking to ban Manchester City from the Champions League for a year for breaching Financial Fair Play laws. I'll skip the nitty gritty here. City are guilty of doing this. You don't need to read the documents. I know it, you know it, everyone …
Deadspin: Manchester City crowned champions of tightest Premier League title race ever: Considering that Deadspin is a website that has been around (and bankrupt) for several years I would think they know the definition of simple words like "tight." In case they, or you, don't, here's the definition. Tight: (when used as an adverb) very …
Continue reading Deadspin apparently has no idea what the word “tight” means
United's dismal season finally came to a close with an embarrassing 2-0 loss at home to Cardiff on Sunday. In the coming days and weeks I hope to do a lot more in depth breakdowns regarding the players and the massive task ahead of the club this summer. But for now I just wanted to …
In the month of April only Scott McTominay and Juan Mata scored goals from open play for Manchester United. Therefore it was no surprise when McTominay won the team's player of the month award because, well I guess because they wanted to tweet something. Last week when McTominay scored against Huddersfield I tweeted the following. …
Continue reading Maybe United just shouldn’t have a goal of the month this month
Friday morning Sky Sports News reported that Manchester United were close to signing Swansea City winger Daniel James for £15 million. https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1126760750742032384 This would be a fantastic start to United's summer re-build, which will be lengthy. James is a 21 year old winger who scored four goals and nine assists for Swansea in the Championship …
Anthony Martial's season has come full circle. It started over the summer, when Jose Mourinho showed an open disdain for him and wanted to sell him. It's ending with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer dropping him from matchday squads and reportedly looking to sell him. Somehow somewhere between these two points Martial signed a new five year …
When I woke up this warning I did not expect I'd be going to war for Luke Shaw today but here we are. This morning the excellent people over at @UtdArena directed their ire at Luke Shaw. https://twitter.com/utdarena/status/1125735759317798913 There's a lot to unwrap here. Is Luke Shaw overpaid? Absolutely. There are certainly better left backs …
The season is drawing to a close which means transfer rumors are going to be springing up everywhere. Dybala seems a little different if only because I hadn't heard it yet, but stumbled across it after googling his name. What do you know, both the Daily Mail and The Daily Express pop right up linking …
At this point "Director of Football" is just a buzz word Ed Woodward uses to get the fans and media off his back. He's talked about hiring one since last summer, but when asked about a timeline he always brushes it off. With the season coming to an end, the pressure is on for Woodward …
Continue reading It’s unfathomable to me how Ed Woodward isn’t trying to hire Jon Rudkin
Over the past few weeks I've been doing a lot of research with advanced stats in soccer. I'm excited to finally start posting the results of this, as I spoke about here. One of the biggest things I've been doing has been creating radars, which are great for visualizing stats. Now let's make this disclaimer …
