Irish soccerball nil - That boy Bazunu will save us (Part 1) šŸ

why do you assume he wonā€™t get games and will sit on the bench? If someone buys him itā€™s for a reason. You lads havenā€™t much faith in the chaps ability

Iā€™d say they would if they could get 100k a week there.

Evidently, I donā€™t have the same faith in EPL managers the footix do

Have a look through the premier league table and tell me which teams arenā€™t possession based teams now.

At a push Iā€™d say Burnley and Liverpool.

most of the managers are from the bloody continent

West Ham
Villa
Southampton
Burnley
Brentford
Norwich
Everton
Palace
Watford
Leeds
Spurs

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Iā€™m thinking about this purely from an Ireland point of view. If he gets an offer from a poor EPL team to treble his wages I donā€™t blame him for going

ah jesus. Bielsa is only possession.
Palace have changed under Veira
Brentford are possession based
Southampton definitely are.

basically the teams managed by English lads arenā€™t. Villa, West Ham etc.

Yawn

If we think about international football for a second, two of the players Iā€™ve been most impressed with at recent tournaments are Granit Xhaka and Aaron Mooy. Xhaka is seen as a laughing stock in England and Mooy just an average midfielder on a bad team when he was there

Thereā€™s an amount of money pissed away for no apparent reason. Why you think he should go back to England (apart from money) is mystifying. Thereā€™s surely better continental teams paying attention.

Eh youā€™re wrong. Bielsa is very much a back to front, high press, counter attack manager. You couldnā€™t be more wrong.

I said EPL or a better league than Belgium if you bothered to read.

The hipsters of course have turned it in to an anti EPL argument so thatā€™s where it went.

The little Englander is getting very upset here

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@the_man_himself mentioned the Bundesliga. The rest of the conversation was EPL-focussed. Donā€™t be weaseling away from the slant you put on it yourself.

Isnā€™t it awful when the truth gets in the way of a bit of pettiness

that is an oooofty for @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

Possession can be as much about high tempo than anything else. Liverpool play at a high tempo therefore they get teams to giveaway the ball a lot.

Possession based teams try to manage the ball and control the tempo, they may still have less of the ball if the other team play at a very high tempo.

Ah shtop. Rise you your petticoat :grin: