It’s obviously artetas

Well I guess he did pepper spray all of southern California.

Just the white rooster outline on blue would be sick though.

Yeah you were correct.

Not necessarily, as in the groin injury can inhibit mobility, explosive action, reaction time, etc., making it harder to avoid that kind of contact.

More likely are those whose interest in keeping Frank is because Frank’s failure to date doesn’t sufficiently vindicate their prior position of Ange Out.

Right, once we lost our defense and everyone in the front line who could press or do anything the numbers took a predictable dive. But the key is we can *explain* that dive (injuries), therefore it's not an indictment of the system of football.

Correct. I could go off on a whole other thing about how you have to be very intelligent in most cases to play football in the Premier League, yet culturally the media is obsessed with treating athletes like they're stupid.

Indeed

Or fatigue, or lack of confidence, etc. But yeah, I agree it would be very rare to actually not try.

Just think about the incentives at play. No future recruitment office or manager or club is gonna look at a player who isn't performing and excuse it like 'oh, don't worry, he was only shit that month because he didn't believe in the manager.' No player thinks phoning it in is a good idea for them.

I don't mean to say when things are going poorly or relationships with the manager break down it has no effect on players, rather that just because they're still trying to play well and win and not get embarrassed by the opponent doesn't mean they're all-in for the manager.

I love Richy and was probably one of the few who said in my summer squad audit we should keep him, but Dom is just offers so much more in his all-around game. Though I forget sometimes that Richy is a winger who lost explosiveness long ago from injury and *can* play effectively as a striker.

Injury issues primarily responsible for the underrating of late, but also it was weird that people thought he wasn't good enough because he couldn't get in the team ahead of prime Bobby Firmino as a 20 year old.

*and result

My point is that not being practiced in possession is why we’re bad and won’t systematically improve in this system, even with the odd strong performance and rest. Also pressing is nothing to do with it, I’m talking about controlled possession instead of smashing it back to the opponent.

In fairness there actually was one I let run out but I honestly didn’t think I could get to it, but I thought about RKM in that moment.