United's twitter posted a picture of Shaw and fitness coaches a few days ago, probably in response to his holiday photos. Think United are back in training today.
Bulgaria circa 82'.White socks on Adidas slippers, ghastly.
Random Question; Going into this season where about do people put Deli Ali in the ranking of Prem Mid fielders?
Better comparison would be Fred - Matic - Alli/Pogba. In the world cup they do kind of cover the same position. France try to play a bit more through midfield though (even if it is slow).
As a no. 6 Pogba is probably better. Hard to say when Alli hasn't played in that role since his MK Dons days.
Alli is used as way more of an attacking threat than Pogba. Pogba is asked to do everything in midfield for us. He’s usually the one who receives the ball supposed to transition us from defense to offense. He’s supposed to control the game from midfield. He’s supposed to get back and defend. He’s supposed to get forward and score. Now I will agree that he doesn’t put all that together game in and game out and is a relatively inconsistent player. But comparing Pogba and Alli as players isn’t really fair.
If you are talking about Utd 17-18 I agree they played vastly different roles. But I believe one of the reasons why Utd bought Fred was for Mourinho to go back to a more traditional central 3 at Utd. The same midfield 3 he played with at Porto and Chelsea - giving Pogba much more freedom to attack. Alli can easily play as a no. 8 in a midfield 3.
I personally don't believe Spurs are getting the best out of Alli as a second striker. He is far too good pressing to play too high up the pitch and he isn't good enough scoring to play as a second striker. Strangely enough he had more defensive responsibility in his first year scoring a lot more than he did in his second.
For me the biggest difference between Pogba and Alli is that Pogba wants possession while Alli wants to be on the end of things. But no two players are exactly the same so I think they are comparable - or at least they could fill many of the same positions - even if they would solve the roles slightly differently.
Quite a big difference between KDB and Özil/Pogba.
I'm not Alli's biggest fan. I think he is (or at least was) overrated, but I would easily take him over the Özil we saw last year (and I would just as easily take the Özil from the good old days over Alli). Pogba I don't know. Got more talent then Alli, but he would frustrate the "!%R"#R out of me if he played for Spurs. I think Alli fills his role at Spurs better than Pogba at Utd. Alli is asked to run and score some goals. He does both thinks very well (even if he of course scored far less last season). Pogba is asked to control a midfield - which he does decently, but not very well.
Then you got players like Ox and Bernardo Silva. Lanzini could have been included if it wasn't for his injury.
Disregarding age and formation - if I was to pick a player to build a team around for next year I would take these over Alli:
KDB
David Silva
Eriksen
Hazard (oh so inconsistent though)
Bernardo Silva (question mark how comparable he is of course - I have not included Sane because I don't consider him comparable)
Lanzini (if he was healthy)
Özil and Mhkitaryan I would have taken if I had confidence they would be back to their best (or close to). Ramsey and Pogba probably not (pretty sure 99% of all Utd-fans would take Pogba though - and 98% of others).
Will be interesting to see where Alli goes. Was last year a sophomore slump? Was his first season just a fluke? If he scores 20 goals again with his work-rate I would only rate KDB and Eriksen above him. I highly doubt that though. I see him more as a hard working 10 goals a year kind of player (hope I'm wrong - and Pochettino always hails his mentality so...).
I think Ramsey is a really good comparison for overall level of play, goal-threat, etc. Ramsey is a bit more technical and a lot more injured though
I don't think that the difference between Roma and Liverpool is a matter of form; it had more to do with his change in role. I think it's unlikely he's going to be pushing 50 goals again this season, but his instincts, composure and footskill means as long as he's healthy he's going to be scoring a lot of goals in Klopp's set up. Mane and Firmino (and now Keita) will just create too many chances and too much space for him not to.My biggest question going into next year is whether or not the Salah we saw this year is for real or not. If it is than obviously Liverpool is a title threat. If he regresses to Roma form than Liverpool are still a damn good team but idk if I see them as a title threat.
Random Question; Going into this season where about do people put Deli Ali in the ranking of Prem Mid fielders?
I don't think that the difference between Roma and Liverpool is a matter of form; it had more to do with his change in role. I think it's unlikely he's going to be pushing 50 goals again this season, but his instincts, composure and footskill means as long as he's healthy he's going to be scoring a lot of goals in Klopp's set up. Mane and Firmino (and now Keita) will just create too many chances and too much space for him not to.
Huge Spurs fan, I watched 34 of 38 club matches last year.
I have no ****ing clue.
My biggest question going into next year is whether or not the Salah we saw this year is for real or not. If it is than obviously Liverpool is a title threat. If he regresses to Roma form than Liverpool are still a damn good team but idk if I see them as a title threat.
Auba has scored a hat-trick in 17 minutes in Arsenal's first preseason game.