I'm in the midst of reading the original version of Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski's Soccernomics, which let me tell ya, is an absolutely fascinating read 10 years later. Anyway, they dive into a chapter about whether it's good or bad that Manchester United win every year (remember, it's 2009). They remind us that back …
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Last week you couldn't look at any English publication without seeing headlines about Paul Pogba going to Real Madrid. The way the newspapers were speaking, it almost seemed inevitable (hyperbole is one of the English media's strong suits after all). Over the past five days there's been almost nothing written about Paul Pogba. That's weird. He's …
Pep Guardiola has one job at Manchester City. Win the Champions League. The Premier League wins are nice, the cups are nice, but everyone and their mother knows the club's main ambition is to conquer Europe. Pep has now gone three years at City, and six years without Messi, without winning the Champions League. That's …
When the Paul Pogba to Real Madrid rumors first started my initial reaction was to just ignore them. Pogba was with France on international duty, France star Zinedine Zidane had just been named manager of Real Madrid. Of course Pogba was going to say it would be a dream to play for him. He's with …
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 …
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 …
