Premier League, a reassessment needed?

[llan bluebird]

Could it be that Pepball and his Arsenal clone are playing a sort of fantasy but non effective football and a different manager may get more from the money spent on these squads. Be interesting if Simone had their sort of budgets.

Harland is wasted at Citeh, the amount of time he is in and the ball is turned back unless KDB who looks like the only one allowed to go "long" finds him.

[LA Bluebird]

Harland is wasted at Citeh, the amount of time he is in and the ball is turned back unless KDB who looks like the only one allowed to go "long" finds him.

The Haaland thing is so bizarre, he's scored 50 goals at nearly a goal per game but when City are playing at their most dominant they hardly use him, he's like the world's most expensive decoy out there. They dominated Real for 60-70 minutes and he barely touched it.

Guardiola got some stick for bringing him off and then failing to score and losing in a shootout but equally you can understand what he saw out there. He's the worlds best striker playing in a system that just doesn't look right for him.

edited to add - if he'd joined Liverpool instead of City, I think he'd probably have scored more and Liverpool might have already wrapped the title up. Just look at the number of chances Nunez et al have wasted the last few weeks as the wheels have fallen off.