‘Forget Pep v Jose, it’s all about transformer Conte’
Chelsea fans marvel over Antonio Conte while Man Utd supporters discuss why they need a right-winger and a holding midfielder in January.
Anything to get off your chest? Have Your Say
What is the manager thinking?
To begin I just want to say I really do like Jurgen Klopp. I think his charisma, energy, passion & attacking style of football is amazing and has transformed the team. We have reached new places through management and team play which we haven’t seen for a long long time. I do know we came close a few years ago but I firmly believe Luis Suarez was the biggest factor for that football we played not Brendan Rodgers or team football.
However I am very worried right now. Does Klopp not understand that we cannot play two midfielders in defence? We are Liverpool Football Club, Klopp was also a defender in his playing years. This is square pegs in round holes type of business of which we are sick and tired of seeing and feeling the consequences of for so many years. All fans know this. Good players know this. Opposition teams know this.
It makes me sick that our club allows this to happen. Or why not play the defenders we have in the squad if we were not allowed to purchase adequate cover and quality in the summer. Play defenders to defend. Our attackers are attacking well.
The goal keeper situation is a joke and the whole world knows it guys. It’s sad but true. The club/manager went out in the summer and purchased Loris Karius in hope he would be the real deal. They did not buy him to take his time and slowly bed him in. No time and the Premier League won’t be gentle. So it looks like either he will all of a sudden become a great keeper with the time he will get between the sticks or we will have to wait until next summer to purchase and take another chance on a new keeper. It’s not working out for us, scouting is not top standard. Ends up being costly.
United fans want a winger (and a defensive midfielder)
Ospina can be number one
Great game. I was a little surprised that Arsene Wenger made so many changes after what happened against Southampton, but it worked. Perez gets a hat-trick, Gibbs had a great game, I thought Rob Holding did well, Gabriel did another decent job at right-back, Alexis Sanchez had another great game, Alex Iwobi’s off the mark (great for his confidence) and Mesut Ozil was just standing there pulling the strings.
I know a lot of Gunners think we should stick with one ‘keeper but, for me, David Ospina is a no.1, and I would be happy to have him as first choice if we didn’t have Petr Cech. It’s not easy to play as irregularly as he does but he comes in, looks solid (most of the time) and if giving him Champions League games keeps him happy and at the club, then it’s worth the small risk of playing him instead of Cech. After the years we went without a single decent ‘keeper, we now have two very good ones and I just hope we can hold onto Ospina until Cech retires.
This was the best we’ve looked for a couple of months. Against The Hammers, Sanchez was the difference – otherwise, I thought it was a pretty average team performance. Tonight was a great team performance and it’ll be interesting to see what team lines up against Stoke because, bar bringing Shkodran Mustafi back in and obviously Cech, I’d stick with the same side.
Nicholas: Arsenal have strength in depth
Conte is the perfect fit at Chelsea
Not enough words can describe what a remarkable job Antonio Conte has done so far. All the talk before the season was about Pep vs Jose and rightly so. One manager got a player for a world record transfer fee and the other manager got pretty much all his transfer targets. Conte on the other hand could not get his first choice players (Alvaro Morata, Radja Nainggolan, Kalidou Koulibaly) and only managed to get two defenders on transfer deadline day.
He has taken pretty much the same team which finished 10th last season and has completely transformed them. Early days and we haven’t won anything yet. We may not even finish in the top 4 given how close the top 5 are but hats off to Conte for making us look like a machine again. Imagine what he can do if he gets his main transfer targets in January or in summer. We have got one hell of a manager and I wouldn’t swap him with anybody else.
Mixed feelings about City performance
Rivalries renewed
Hatred keeps changing. I’m 43 years old now, and I’ve always disliked Arsenal. In a sense you have to if you support Spurs, right?
Over the last 10 years, my feelings have changed. I’ve moved to a new area and made new friends and they all seem to be Liverpool supporters. Before I met them I had no judgement on Liverpool, if they won trophies fair play, if they lost they lost but since I met these new friends mainly through playing football I can safely say I f**king hate Liverpool.
They are so bloody deluded, think they have a divine right to win everything, f**kers struggle to finish above us but you say that too them and they come back with “look at our history”! Every team has f**king history and Tottenham’s isn’t too bad.
Point I make now is, if Arsenal played Liverpool on the last day of the season, whoever won would end up winning the league. The two evils, Who would I prefer to see win?! I would have to say I would much rather see Arsenal win it then Liverpool. I don’t think I could stand seeing those smug Liverpool faces, would much rather see them crying.