Nice try Mikel.
Is [insert non big-6 that has found some success recently] playstyle unsustainable are one of the most lazy journalism anyone can write.
We did it last season and finished 4th and got to a cup final. We are suffering injuries this season, but that’s not because of our tempo. Plenty of successful teams have played at this tempo, in fact it’s where we/Howe drew inspiration from.
Liverpool has years of really bad some might say unlucky injury crisis, it was due to how intense the style of playing was. Due to other injuries unrelated to the style of play happening, it will put a lot more pressure on the players that are fit making it unsustainable.
You can do anything with VAR on your side :)
Karen FC
Lots of injuries.
Bro cmon, every top team struggles with injuries.
Once a a weekend yes. If you want do it twice a week you probably need a bigger squad in order to rotate.
Leeds during their Bielsa-ball days might be a good comparison. The first season went well but the burnout crept in eventually.
Agreed they just looked tired this game
They will turn into us with not rotating much and having a tonne of games more than other teams we were the same last season
As long as VAR stays fit we’ll be fine
A sensible fan finally 😆
I’m a Chelsea fan. And I hope it’s not.
I wouldn’t say many of our injuries this season are from the intensity? A lot of them seem freak injuries
Also in a lot of games we aren’t playing as high a pressing game for 90 mins seem to pick and choose when we do it in game we have often sat deeper in our half
Only played 3 extra games so far as we got a bye from the first League Cup game so its not a massive amount of games but yeah I think it will catch up with us unless we can get a few players on loan from Saudi in January… kidding !!
Exactly, a lot of the absentees are nothing to do with play style or intensity, just a lot of bad luck happening all at once.
Tonali - Ban Barnes - Barely played for us Murphy - Dislocated shoulder Burn - Awkward fall Manquillo - Barely played for us Targett - Barely played for us
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our squads still not fully padded out
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we weren’t humbled by BD at all, we took the game to them and if Joe’s header went in it would have been 1-1
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It’s a group of death. Only 4 in our squad has CL experience. And we have more points than Man Utd with their easier opposition (BM excluded)
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Burn falling on his back, Murphy on his shoulder, these aren’t caused by intensity. This happens
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A lot of the injuries are from impact. Tonali is banned and not injured. He has 10 months to keep fit and integrate.
Problem is we’re playing more games so there are more chances for injuries to occur.
Targett and Wilson are the only muscle injuries. Targett hasn’t featured much and Wilson was injury-prone during Bruceball.
We qualified for the Champions League several seasons too early without the infrastructure in place to cope. Hopefully it frees up funds within our limotFFP budget to introduce more squad members.
I reckon Minteh is involved in the team next season, possibly Kuol if he makes progress. Even just one of them would really ease the burden on Gordon, Barnes, Miggy and Murphy.
I’d be surprised if Kuol ever makes 10 first team appearances for us.
He’s been hopping between the bench and starting in the 16th (of 18) placed Eredivisie team, last year he could barely even get off the bench in the Scottish league.
I hope I’m proven wrong but I don’t see him making the step between his current performances and a team that wants CL football every year within the time that he’ll get.
Hasn’t Liverpool basically already answered that question? They’ve toned it down a bit recently but they were on a ~18 month cycle of playing super intense football before burning out and accumulating a load of injuries for a while.
I don’t think they’ve hit that point yet but obviously at some point you do have to be able to take the foot off the pedal a bit if you’re playing 2 games a week as the norm.
It’s hard work throwing yourself to the ground several times per game
So odd how salty Liverpool fans are about Newcastle considering you have literally downright humiliated us twice in the past two seasons and haven’t lost to us in almost 7 years. At least Arsenal have taken a few Ls to get so bitter about us. Your lot beat us no matter the circumstances and yet we still have you absolutely foaming. Lol.
Not bitter, more of an attempt at humour. Personally, I hate the teams who play anti-football - Atletico under Simeone is at the top of that list
WTF are you yapping about mate? There’s no fucking anti-football being played by NUFC. Trust me, we had 10+ years of anti-football, we know what it looks like. Right now, the closest comparable team in terms of how they play is Liverpool.
Lack of real investment over 14 years can’t be overturned in two years, with the ffp limits we can’t do what city, chelsea and United do and spaff money on players, this is the real issue for me, the playing style is sustainable we just have financial hurdles to navigate to bring the squad depth up, which sounds ridiculous I know but I’m grateful in another way as if the pif sold us the new owners can’t chase the superstars and rack up billions of pounds of debt and ruin us thanks to the ffp rules
Honestly, not sustainable.