Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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- Aug 18, 2013
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Mental when you look at those graphs and then read the usual suspects blaming 'the cult of De Zerbi' rather than Sanchez' inability to pass short.
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[Albion] Robert Sanchez to Chelsea for £25m plus add-ons
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Mental when you look at those graphs and then read the usual suspects blaming 'the cult of De Zerbi' rather than Sanchez' inability to pass short.
- May 8, 2018
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Poor hand eye coordination during testing?
- Jul 10, 2003
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It is funny. I thought Stockdale was good with his feet playing 30 yard passes, then Ryan came in and would play to the feet of his midfielders. Sanchez was a very good keeper and appeared to be a fair footballer until put under pressure.
Steeke is a very good footballer and reasonable keeper, but Bart is the future, no doubt.
Just as football moved on from de Gea and Lloris, it appears Sanchez may go the same way. It's a shame because I believe his weakness was identified by the Albion while he was still young and there was a full team ready to work on it, but I'm not sure either he or his team have focused on it at Chelsea .I guess we'll see
Steeke is a very good footballer and reasonable keeper, but Bart is the future, no doubt.
Just as football moved on from de Gea and Lloris, it appears Sanchez may go the same way. It's a shame because I believe his weakness was identified by the Albion while he was still young and there was a full team ready to work on it, but I'm not sure either he or his team have focused on it at Chelsea .I guess we'll see
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It is funny. I thought Stockdale was good with his feet playing 30 yard passes, then Ryan came in and would play to the feet of his midfielders. Sanchez was a very good keeper and appeared to be a fair footballer until put under pressure.
Steeke is a very good footballer and reasonable keeper, but Bart is the future, no doubt.
Just as football moved on from de Gea and Lloris, it appears Sanchez may go the same way. It's a shame because I believe his weakness was identified by the Albion while he was still young and there was a full team ready to work on it, but I'm not sure either he or his team have focused on it at Chelsea .I guess we'll see
RDZ’s demanding new methods were described by Dunk. Sink or swim, the majority of players rose to the challenge, no egos.
“If I am being honest, the first couple of weeks were horrendous … I wouldn’t say horrendous, they were baffling. The first meeting when he went in, I was so confused – who to look at, what to listen to, and you slowly pick up. Basically don’t listen to the manager, wait for the translator to speak and you get there in the end.
“Training changed dramatically, we worked on a lot of different stuff and the first couple of weeks were a really hard transition, we were fourth in the league when Graham left and we were flying with him and it was a strange time for him to go and then Roberto came in and it was a carnage two weeks.”
“I see football in a completely different way, I picture it in a different way and that is the biggest thing. Football is not what I thought it was. Just how we play now. The idea of what I did before, I thought it made sense. But when you learn something completely different, you believe in it and this makes sense. You think ‘why didn’t I know this?’ and ‘why didn’t I do this before?’” Dunk said.
“The style of play, really. And when to release the ball. All our games now are about pressure, playing with opposition teams when they’re pressing high and pressing low. When to pass the ball, the timing of that and the timing of movement. Before, I didn’t really know about that. It’s all about the finer details.
“It’s rehearsed – don’t worry about that. We rehearse it every day. That is our training. I couldn’t play this position, but now know every position on the pitch and where they should be. The time they should move and what angles they should give. We practise it that much that we know every scenario. One presses from this angle and one pressers from that angle. We know where the ball should go to reach past the pressure. We know it inside out and do a lot of hours on it.”
That isn't true though, is it? Someone posted on here that the club had hired Sanchez a Therapist to try and help him stop being consistently late for training. That was when he was doing well for us. I've never seen any of the other players feeling the need to constantly drive through Queens Road in their Lamborghini constantly revving the engine so everyone can see them either- I've seen him do that in town outside my office many times. He clearly is a bit of a dick.In nearly every case all this "ITK wisedom" conveniently appears AFTER someone has been made a scapegoat, or when there's some agenda to push like "I've heard there's a 50/50 chance Solly March will never play Premier League football again, so if we don't spend massive money on another winger we're as unambitious as me and my adoptive dad claimed all along". Followed by another ITK claiming "I've heard March rehab is going really well".
Forgive me for not believing that these young elite athletes in their twentys would rather eat shit and die than to sit and tell stories on some old farts porch in Portslade, but I've seen none or very little evidence of the opposite.
As for Connolly and stalking- he's a member of my gym, you'll be excited to know I have seen his bare bottom.
But obviously no members of the public could possibly have any interactions with any Brighton players, they are completely locked away and don't visit restaurants / have hair cuts / drive to work etc.
In the old Mostafa thread about Connolly, you also claimed you had seen him drive to some well known party place with friends that looked like twats, that you went to the same hairdresser and had spoken to him about Connolly, that you had spoken to night club owners about Connolly. And now you're at the same gym looking at his bare arse. Seems very healthy, all of it.
Sticking with "most so called ITKs are talking shit". Has served me well through 25 years of online football talk. Its often a convenient way to push an agenda about someone, as it can't really be questioned or responded to.
As for actual ITKs in general, maybe they should stick to talking about football transfers etc. rather than put private matters on public forums, because its a bit weird you know - bit low life.
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All of that is true. I live near him and run a business in the centre of Brighton. I just cannot fathom why you think that is all so unlikely, it's bizarre. Also, anybody who has kids in a decent (expensive) private school in Brighton mixes with players and managers in the playground- do you think the players and managers are just mute, and don't interact with anybody? Maybe it's like that where you live, but it isn't here.
Have a look at the Joao Pedro thread here http://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/threads/joao-pedro-brazilian-maestro.402460/page-60 where I told people he was injured, and people thought I was talking shit. Well guess where that info came from.
Fact is, you make assumptions about a place that you've never been to from 2000 miles away, with absolutely no understanding of the demographic of the area or the culture of the place. I'm trying to imagine a situation where you say you've spoken to a player from your local football team in Sweden as you get your hair cut in the same place or something, and I tell you that it's bollocks, because there is no way that could happen. But I just can't comprehend doing that.
Whereas a flat insistence that people must be making it all up is a great conversation starter.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Chelsea seem pretty advanced with this new keeper now. Poor old Bob. Seven years left on his contract, on Premier League wages that mean he'll either have to waste the next few years of his career on the bench or take a big pay cut in order to go to one of the lesser La Liga clubs. And all this just as Unai Simon has a medium term injury, so the Spanish number one shirt would be up for grabs for somebody who was playing every week and excelling.
LOLZ.
LOLZ.