GWT: PL Matchweek (mostly) 25

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Might be too early, don't know how much more consistency he would offer.

I do like the idea of bringing someone like that in on loan though. It's a win-win; we get more goal threat and the young player gets a coach who will back them and who plays an attacking style.

Dembele or Griezzy forget the loan... use some of that epl money!

 

[robertmac43]

Dembele or Griezzy forget the loan... use some of that epl money!

Griez pots 30 in this squad

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Griez pots 30 in this squad

Then he will be well worth 90 mill

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Guardiola: Team leaks 'unprofessional, unethical'

Aston Villa have launched an investigation after news broke that midfielder Jack Grealish had suffered an injury in training ahead of their clash with Leicester City.

Villa have also asked that their players no longer play fantasy football after some members of the squad removed Grealish from their teams before the defeat to Leicester -- seen as an indicator that the England international was set to miss out.

 

[hatterson]

It's actually pretty funny that a guy gets injured and his teammates reaction is to rush and take him out of their fantasy football lineups.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Pep

"I know the players play these games, but I don't know what fantasy football is," Guardiola said. "I've never played it, and I heard it for the first time in the headlines [on Monday]. I don't know what it is.


I'm gonna go ahead and say he's lying.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Southampton should be 2-0 up already.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Pep

"I know the players play these games, but I don't know what fantasy football is," Guardiola said. "I've never played it, and I heard it for the first time in the headlines [on Monday]. I don't know what it is.


I'm gonna go ahead and say he's lying.

100%. Literally everyone has heard of fantasy sports.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

100%. Literally everyone has heard of fantasy sports.

Ah I'm certain my parents dont know along with many others but there's no way someone that close to the game doesnt know what it is.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

how do you not even get a shot off there?

Brilliant defending at the end

 

[hatterson]

Ah I'm certain my parents dont know along with many others but there's no way someone that close to the game doesnt know what it is.

It would have been totally understandable if he said he doesn't play or doesn't really understand exactly how it works. That would make sense. But the idea that a professional football coach has literally never heard of fantasy sports seems absurd.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Why aren't these players playing under assumed names? Seems like a pretty simple solution.

 

[Blender]

It would have been totally understandable if he said he doesn't play or doesn't really understand exactly how it works. That would make sense. But the idea that a professional football coach has literally never heard of fantasy sports seems absurd.

Next Mourinho is going to claim he has never heard of Football Manager.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Southampton have totally nosedived.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Southampton have totally nosedived.

I mean they were always going to regress.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

I mean they were always going to regress.

Based on what? They were 6th seven games ago. Since they've gone on a horrific run with just a point. Even an average run sees then like four places up the table. No reason for them to be this bad all the sudden.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Based on what? They were 6th seven games ago. Since they've gone on a horrific run with just a point. Even an average run sees then like four places up the table. No reason for them to be this bad all the sudden.

I mean realistically they were never going to keep up the top 4 pace they were at. I wasn’t expecting this sort of drop off but one was definitely coming.

 

[Evilo]

Good to see Leeds in the top half of the standings.
Of course they only beat awful teams, but that means there are a lot of awful teams in the mighty EPL. They're also one point off Spurs and their "pragmatic" tactics.
Seems like playing offensive football can be "pragmatic".

13 games to go, anything's possible, but so far so good.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

I don't know why Pep would lie about fantasy sports. The reality is that fantasy football didn't come about really as a popular phenomenon until the mid 00s and by that point Guardiola was a busy man having more important stuff to worry about. Remember, for someone involved on the football management side, football isn't a fun diversion after work. It's work.