Soccer World Blog

We have plenty on the morals of the World Cup but first, Arsenal, Manchester City and has Erling Haaland been found out? Haaland can be stopped With the Erlander’s recent dry spell in front of goal, isn’t that down to teams’ coaches now having had time to study him in actual Premier League matches and make adjustments accordingly. Center backs have now seen that little burst of late speed in the box, how he turns, etc., and are prepared for it. A block here, a deflection there, and suddenly you’re the hole in the doughnut. Don’t worry, though, he’s still going to outscore every other player who ever was or ever will grace the EPL (two seasons only). Only top line defenses can stop him, and we haven’t seen many of them thus far. If not Manchester United, then Arsenal All these Arsenal detractors…..I’m like what? I’m a United fan, and I’m absolutely delighted to see Arsenal challenging and doing well. They have since Wenger joined always aspired to play entertaining football whilst not b...

It remains to be seen whether  bombshell news of FSG’s sale of Liverpool football club is indeed a full sale and exit of ownership, or more a dilution of ownership to inject capital and liquidity. Either way the message is the same: cash is needed. It’s vast understatement to say that rules of engagement in premier league club ownership has changed so much the past decade. F365 mailbox has had several writers chime in w some very good insights over the past few weeks; one writer foresaw wks ago Fsg was monetizing assets to shape the club for sale, another writer noted just how serious the pandemic was on the club’s finances and how situationally it perhaps affected Lfc more than any other top club in Europe at the time. Well the pandemic really was the first of the dominoes in my opinion… from a position of great strength, no, perhaps even an apex position (at the time leading the premiership table by a canter, holders of the European cup, aura of peak invincibility painstakingly b...