The Football Thread 2017-18

[Preezy]

Anyone else planning on collecting the Panini World Cup stickers this year?

They're on my radar. I loved doing them for the 2014 World Cup, even though I gave up after spending about £80 on them and not getting close to completing it

[Winckle]

Anyone else planning on collecting the Panini World Cup stickers this year?

They're on my radar. I loved doing them for the 2014 World Cup, even though I gave up after spending about £80 on them and not getting close to completing it

Yeah it is harder than it first appears! Myself and some guys at work collected them for Euro 2016. I just discovered https://www.stickermanager.com/ which seems like a good site for managing your collection and organising swaps.

If anybody on GR does join on the sticker collecting, it could be good to list our collections there and compare our swaps.

This year's album is out on Thursday.

[bear]

- 2nd in the league
- sack the manager

God’s teeth.

Celtic 1999-2000?

[Corazon de Leon]

- 2nd in the league
- sack the manager

God’s teeth.

Celtic 1999-2000?

Not the same situation and you know it.

[gamerforever]

I hope Spurs swap Rose for Shaw plus about £30m in as Shaw could be the best left back in the world and Rose is clearly not bothered about playing for us anymore and wants a lucrative deal up north. I am sure he will be happy with playing in a defensive team and Shaw will benefit from having a better manager who instills belief and not fear.

[Photek]

Shaw should have left last summer, no idea why he stayed tbh.

[Buffalo]

I reckon he should be patient. Jose’s toast in about a year, 18 months tops. He’s good enough for Utd when he can be arsed.
Slightly related - every time I’ve seen him in action whether in video or photos he always looks so...dishevelled. Genuinely looks a bit unwell.

[gamerforever]

I reckon he should be patient. Jose’s toast in about a year, 18 months tops. He’s good enough for Utd when he can be arsed.
Slightly related - every time I’ve seen him in action whether in video or photos he always looks so...dishevelled. Genuinely looks a bit unwell.

I think he just lacks confidence and needs a better man manager. I suspect he probably needs a bit of defensive coaching too as he just isn’t playing to the best of his ability. I always feel its a risk for very young players to join a club that expects greatness straight away. What has happened to pogba? I genuinely thought that he would be the new vieira!

[Photek]

I dont' think it'd do Shaw any good to stick with a club and manager that doesn't want him and will sap his self confidence.

On the Pogba thing I don't know, I remember he played for France in an International after Manu signed him and I was thinking "balls this lad looks good" and if you remember that start of the season, he was, him and Matic worked perfectly together, no idea what's happened. He's been dropped but again, that has effected his confidence. Manu fans would know more though...

[jawafour]

I'd love to know where the referee was positioned when he decided that this was a penalty. .

[Preezy]

Shaw should have left last summer, no idea why he stayed tbh.

Maybe because no one bid successfully for him? No, couldn't have been that...

[Benzin]

If anyone's bored, you can predict the final results of the league via http://www.worldfootball.net/table_calc ... er-league/.

I ended up with West Brom, Stoke and Southampton going down, Liverpool to finish second and Palace a mighty 11th...

[jawafour]

...I ended up with West Brom, Stoke and Southampton going down, Liverpool to finish second and Palace a mighty 11th...

I had West Brom, Stoke and Huddersfield relegated, with the top five being Man City, Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham. Palace finished 14th.

[PES Fan]

I reckon he should be patient. Jose’s toast in about a year, 18 months tops. He’s good enough for Utd when he can be arsed.
Slightly related - every time I’ve seen him in action whether in video or photos he always looks so...dishevelled. Genuinely looks a bit unwell.

The issue is his attitude and Jose isn’t the first manager to call him out on it. He doesn’t seem to look after himself off the pitch. On the pitch he doesn’t do a lot either. Mourinho made a valid point that him and Valencia were not attacking the space on Saturday. Matic at times was screaming at Shaw to move. 3 assists in his whole career, I don’t think he’s a great attacking full back.

I would prefer if we cut our losses. Sessegnon seems to have a better head on him. He also is miles better than Shaw in the attacking third. Ashley Young isn’t a better defender than Shaw. The reason he starts is because he offers more on the left side than Shaw does.

This whole situation being labelled at bullying is ridiculous though. If that’s what Shaws camp are calling it then they need to work in the real world.

[PES Fan]

Also Shaw would be on the bench if he joined Spurs. Ben Davies is miles better and can actually cross a ball.

His best move would be somewhere like Everton where he’d get regular games.

[gamerforever]

Also Shaw would be on the bench if he joined Spurs. Ben Davies is miles better and can actually cross a ball.

His best move would be somewhere like Everton where he’d get regular games.

At the moment yes, but shaw has more potential and poch knows how to get the best of him.

[<]:^D]

what? ive watched Spurs a bit this season and every time i watch Davies he hits the first man. not saying he's bad but i wouldnt rate him that highly in an attacking sense.

[Photek]

I reckon he should be patient. Jose’s toast in about a year, 18 months tops. He’s good enough for Utd when he can be arsed.
Slightly related - every time I’ve seen him in action whether in video or photos he always looks so...dishevelled. Genuinely looks a bit unwell.

The issue is his attitude and Jose isn’t the first manager to call him out on it. He doesn’t seem to look after himself off the pitch. On the pitch he doesn’t do a lot either. Mourinho made a valid point that him and Valencia were not attacking the space on Saturday. Matic at times was screaming at Shaw to move. 3 assists in his whole career, I don’t think he’s a great attacking full back.

I would prefer if we cut our losses. Sessegnon seems to have a better head on him. He also is miles better than Shaw in the attacking third. Ashley Young isn’t a better defender than Shaw. The reason he starts is because he offers more on the left side than Shaw does.

This whole situation being labelled at bullying is ridiculous though. If that’s what Shaws camp are calling it then they need to work in the real world.

It is bullying though, Pochettino also had a word with Shaw but did it one on one in his office not in front of the national Media, to say there is no difference in both approaches is disingenuous.

[Preezy]

Yeah regardless of which side of the Shaw coin is true, Jose has been a bit of a bully with this. Should all be dealt with behind closed, shows a real lack of class.

[bear]

Also Shaw would be on the bench if he joined Spurs. Ben Davies is miles better and can actually cross a ball.

His best move would be somewhere like Everton where he’d get regular games.

Liverpool would be the best place for Shaw. I have never seen anyone who looks like they were more in need of a hug from Klopp.


Zero chance of that transfer happening though. Poor Luke.