The Rumour Commode XLVIII: Tare Tare Sauce

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"seldom get the blame" lol what world are you living in

If you wanna talk Mike specifically I actually don't think they want to keep him or else he'd be renewed ages ago, they probably just don't want to sell him for 10m. I will never be supportive of players nuking this club's transfer leverage
Maignan confirmed his suckitude yesterday, conceding 2 goals that 90% of Serie A keepers would have saved. On the low near post can't get down quick enough to stop the ball, his athleticism is not what it once was and needs to lose weight.

I'm pretty sick of him so I don't care if the offer is only 10 mil, just get him out of here. Same with Theo that is always out of position and trots back with no urgency whatever. We need players with attitude and a minimum of pride or will be stuck in midtable.
 

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Maignan confirmed his suckitude yesterday, conceding 2 goals that 90% of Serie A keepers would have saved. On the low near post can't get down quick enough to stop the ball, his athleticism is not what it once was and needs to lose weight.

I'm pretty sick of him so I don't care if the offer is only 10 mil, just get him out of here. Same with Theo that is always out of position and trots back with no urgency whatever. We need players with attitude and a minimum of pride or will be stuck in midtable.
I mean in theory Theo at least would have a big upside if we could get him back into his old self. Not that that is going to happen, a sell seems inevitable at this point. But with Mike the upside isn´t even that big, he was a great keeper at his best, but never of a caliber where I would say that he is an unique player (unlike Theo at his best).
 

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Chivu Inter
Juric Atalanta

both going for lesser coaches who will carry on their previous systems

I feel like both might not finish top 4 unless they make some transfers :lol:

you add on the cwc tax for Inter and it's gonna be a brutal season for them

* Tudor Juve

We have totale advantage next season. It's just a matter of not fucking up.
 

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I think the Atalanta era is over, replaced by Como. Moving from Gasp to Juric, if true, is one of the biggest downgrades in calcio history. Juric play the ugliest and most boring football, perennial loser, hated by his players.

I'm starting to think we hit jackpot with Tare instead of D'Amico. The scenes here if D'Amico arrived and chose Juric. Mamma mia.
 

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Ok, why not?

BTW, this is based off a Schira report that bayern willing to offer 60M+ a player for Leao.

Kim is worth 30/40M easy I'd say. Under Allegri he'd be a monster. Leao on the other hand, while his potential is insane, is he really more than a 100M player atm?
For the following reasons:

1. I believe in and like Leao
2. Allegri seems to be keen on Leao
3. Kim has fallen off my radar and I don’t know if he will ever replicate that magical form again
4. We are selling Tiji, possibly Theo, and possibly Mike…I would like to have some stability in one department on the team
 

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Pepe di Stefano is the clown who said Milan is seriously thinking about keeping Sergio. And then we signed Allegri the next day.
Gotcha. Noted 👍🏾
I mean I can tell my wife I love her in the morning but if Alexa Bliss asks for anal before lunch.... I mean I gotta do what's best for the organization 🤷🏾
 

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How the mighty have fallen :head::head::head:

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"I can’t explain to you why we didn’t follow the game plan. We didn’t listen to the coach. We did our own thing.

And when you start doing your own thing, games like this happen.

What happened out there was a disastrous performance – and with a performance like that, you don’t deserve to play in the Champions League. You don’t even deserve to play in the Europa League.

If someone isn’t ready for this game, stay at home. It’s as simple as that.

It doesn’t matter how old you are. You can be 30, 35 or 18 – if you’re not ready, if you’re nervous, stay on the bench. Or stay at home. Don’t come here.

We need players who have the balls – sorry to say it like that – to come here and play. But a performance like that? It’s not acceptable.

And I feel truly sorry for the people who came all the way here to support us. I feel very, very sorry for the Arsenal supporters."


Imagine having a guy like him in the locker room when the ship starts sinking. Yeah, this comes after yet another poor Arsenal showing – and maybe even another rough game from Xhaka himself. Sure.

But I’m not posting this to pretend Xhaka is prime Pirlo. I’m posting it because this is what the man is made of.

Every damn word he says here hits bullseye. No sugarcoating. No corporate wishy washy PR-speak by Furlani or Moncada. No sulking because the coach benched you for the first time in your career. Just raw honesty and accountability. And God, how badly we lacked exactly that last season – instead we had players casually standing on the opposite side of the pitch during cooling breaks like they were tourists on a stadium tour.

You think Xhaka would’ve let that slide? Hell no. He would've torched them on the spot – and I’d be standing there clapping. We didn’t need more talent. We needed more spine. And he’s got plenty.
 
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I mean in theory Theo at least would have a big upside if we could get him back into his old self. Not that that is going to happen, a sell seems inevitable at this point. But with Mike the upside isn´t even that big, he was a great keeper at his best, but never of a caliber where I would say that he is an unique player (unlike Theo at his best).
The problem with fans, including me, is that they fall in love with players that have had great starts at their clubs, and very positive couple of seasons. When they decline the hope is that it's temporary and they can return to their former selves, everyone has a poor season occasionally. The problem with these two is that they've been declining for years, subtly at first, but now the mistakes occur too often to ignore.
 

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"I can’t explain to you why we didn’t follow the game plan. We didn’t listen to the coach. We did our own thing.

And when you start doing your own thing, games like this happen.

What happened out there was a disastrous performance – and with a performance like that, you don’t deserve to play in the Champions League. You don’t even deserve to play in the Europa League.

If someone isn’t ready for this game, stay at home. It’s as simple as that.

It doesn’t matter how old you are. You can be 30, 35 or 18 – if you’re not ready, if you’re nervous, stay on the bench. Or stay at home. Don’t come here.

We need players who have the balls – sorry to say it like that – to come here and play. But a performance like that? It’s not acceptable.

And I feel truly sorry for the people who came all the way here to support us. I feel very, very sorry for the Arsenal supporters."


Imagine having a guy like him in the locker room when the ship starts sinking. Yeah, this comes after yet another poor Arsenal showing – and maybe even another rough game from Xhaka himself. Sure.

But I’m not posting this to pretend Xhaka is prime Pirlo. I’m posting it because this is what the man is made of.

Every damn word he says here hits bullseye. No sugarcoating. No corporate wishy washy PR-speak by Furlani or Moncada. No sulking because the coach benched you for the first time in your career. Just raw honesty and accountability. And God, how badly we lacked exactly that last season – instead we had players casually standing on the opposite side of the pitch during cooling breaks like they were tourists on a stadium tour.

You think Xhaka would’ve let that slide? Hell no. He would've torched them on the spot – and I’d be standing there clapping. We didn’t need more talent. We needed more spine. And he’s got plenty.




The interview that won Arsenal fans over after booing and hating him, their own captain, for an entire year.

Xhaka a year later left on a high note and with the gratitude of Arsenal fans and played probably the best season of Leverkusens history.

Yeah, take notes Calabria
 

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The interview that won Arsenal fans over after booing and hating him, their own captain, for an entire year.

Xhaka a year later left on a high note and with the gratitude of Arsenal fans and played probably the best season of Leverkusens history.

Yeah, take notes Calabria




What happened next in this game is football history.
 

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I'm sure you lot were saying this last season but go off
Yeah... We need new players, lots of them, better than what we had. And we need a new manager, a new approach. Fuck these pussies and their hands needing held bullshit. And we need more Ibra, MOAR IBRA!!! And we need to get our books on order, because that is like winning stuff. And we need to secure top 4 because that's what players want to hear!!!

Wait... Top 4 was the aim???!!!

4+4 makes 8, we finished 8th... Hold on... Is 8th better than 4th??? Cos it's like 2 times as big???

And let's sell our best players, while they secured 8th, most of them also secured 2nd, 4th, 5th, some even got #19... Oh it's so confusing.

No wonder so many folk are confused in their thinking. But Gerry good now, he's learnt from.his mistakes right?

And Inter are going bust at long last.

What a time to be alive!!!
 
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I really hope if we sell Maignan that we get someone good.

And not a succession of keepers that are calamitous to say the least like ... most other clubs have.
 

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