The Football Thread 2022/23: End of season reviews pg79

Big game today. I feel sick to the craw.
Having said that, I'd forego a win today for a victory against Inter.
Either way...

Come on City!!!

FA Cup Final: Matterface on ITV or Jenas on BBC1. Neither in 4K.

At least ITV have got McCoist.

Fairly ambivalent but I suppose I'd rather Utd win because strawberry float Despot FC

Lol

Holy cow, Man City score within 16 seconds. McCoist hasn’t even had time to get his headset on properly. :lol:

My neighbour being plunged straight back into his existential crisis of being a United fan judging by the shouting. :lol:

KK wrote:FA Cup Final: Matterface on ITV or Jenas on BBC1. Neither in 4K.

At least ITV have got McCoist.

Terrestrial picture is gooseberry fool, though ITVX is alot better, but its 10s lag. Is that worth it for Mccoist > Jenas?

Blurgh.

the man utd attack was woeful in that game, never really looked like scoring.

Ridiculous penalty for United.

just going by what i can see on twitter at the moment, Man City winning the fa cup now means it will be Arsenal v Man City in the community shield.

twitter.com/MetPoliceEvents/status/1665029777676173320

Wow

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:

twitter.com/MetPoliceEvents/status/1665029777676173320

Wow

Vile.

Although "get this man's face spread across social media" doesn't really work with the photo they've posted.

Wasn’t the only incident at Wembley today either as some American YouTube streamer was also punched in the face while he was in the stands.

City have had that same look in the last few weeks. That air of invincibility that we had in 99.
That sense of things going your way.
When that goal flew in after 12 seconds - I just thought ' Yep it's their time. '

The penalty rattled them and settled us but our lack of cutting edge up front cost us. Leaving Gundogan in space for the second was unforgivable too. Gundogan - always pops up with key goals. Thst first was an absolute peach.
Congrats to city. They are almost there but if Inter can rattle them like we did - theres danger there for them in the final.

I think they'll do it and they deserve to. A magnificent team.

For us? Defeat means an excellent season becomes just very good

So impressed with Ten Hag.

How hes dealt with Ronaldo. The way he's motivated and improved the players and the fact we now play decent football and have a clear structure and ethos to our play. Brilliant

Very positive first season. First time I've gone into a summer feeling genuine optimism and confidence since fergie left.
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Denster wrote:City have had that same look in the last few weeks. That air of invincibility that we had in 99.
That sense of things going your way.
When that goal flew in after 12 seconds - I just thought ' Yep it's their time. '

The penalty rattled them and settled us but our lack of cutting edge up front cost us. Leaving Gundogan in space for the second was unforgivable too. Gundogan - always pops up with key goals. Thst first was an absolute peach.
Congrats to city. They are almost there but if Inter can rattle them like we did - theres danger there for them in the final.

I think they'll do it and they deserve to. A magnificent team.

For us? Defeat means an excellent season becomes just very good

So impressed with Ten Hag.

How hes dealt with Ronaldo. The way he's motivated and improved the players and the fact we now play decent football and have a clear structure and ethos to our play. Brilliant

Very positive first season. First time I've gone into a summer feeling genuine optimism and confidence since fergie left.
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I wholeheartedly agreed with what you said.

I didn't think he would achieve some things in the first season, but he did. Get rid of Ronaldo was the massive right decision for the squad and we had some ups or downs during the season like lost 7-0 to Liverpool. Knocked out of the Europa League by Sevilla. Yet we picked it up and kept it going until the end.

As for the summer, it'll be very interesting now because will we get the new owners in time for the transfer window. Also, let's see if the boards are backing ten Hag up to sign some more quality players.

Man City. I respect them for how they play this season and if they win the treble. It's well deserved for them and they've been brilliant this season. You could feel something about them this year. It's their year.

Go and win the Champions League. I hate Man City, of course, but it is English club!

United have had an impressive season. I've seen parallels with Arsenal the season before - getting rid of disruptive millstones, an exciting coach getting a team on board with his process, and fans being a bit more optimistic for the future. I think United will be a contender for the league next season - not favourites by any stretch, but I think they will have an actual challenge rather than that weird banter thing that happened in January. The only question mark over them is the takeover and whether that translates over to player investment - I'm not going to lie, I'm hoping it's a hot mess :slol:

BOR wrote:Go and win the Champions League. I hate Man City, of course, but it is English club!

Nope. Nope nope nope. Having seen both our closest geographical rivals in Champions League finals recently I can honestly say I wanted nothing less than for either of them to win the CL. And City are just awful in general - they aren't likeable, and anyone trying to equivocate them is sportswashing.

My algorithm for British teams in European finals is:
Spurs - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Chelsea - NOOOOOOOOOO. Bought success, May their implosion continue apace.
City - see what I said above. Hard no, but wanted them to win in 2020 purely due to London rivalry.
United - don't want them to win because they were dominant when I was growing up so I'm hardwired to not like them
Liverpool - aware older fans will feel what I feel about United towards Liverpool but they were in fallow when I was young. Don't really mind them winning but can enjoy a good catastrophe as well.
Anyone else - probably want them to win. I'm up for West Ham winning the Conference final.

3) Arsenal: £-485.64m
22/23: £-148.94m (2nd)
21/22: £-120m (5th)
20/21: £-59m (8th)
19/20: £-94.58m (8th)
18/19: £-62.71m (5th)

10) Manchester City: £-224.97m
22/23: £8.3m (Champions)
21/22: £-39.81m (Champions)
20/21: £-96.56m (Champions)
19/20: £-78.13m (2nd)
18/19: £-18.54m (Champions)

https://www.football365.com/news/transf ... d-man-city

Is that purely player spend minus player sales?

Whatever it is it ignores all the foundational work that came before it.

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