Afcon 2023 is over. What a remarkable end to a tournament dripping in drama.
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Newcastle and United to Battle City for the Title
Newcastle and Man United to Battle City for the Title
Newcastle doesn’t need a proper 9 to challenge city for the title, they either need a creator, a proper 10 (CAM) or a proper 6, and allowing Bruno to play as a creater, they already have top class 2 strikers, wilson with 18 goals with injury and isak 10+ goals playing wide forward, if they add a better winger who can feed these strikers from RW, then they can convert all those draws into wins.
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This is elite-level sport, Newcastle United’s “achievement” of getting Champions League football, will only see the team strengthened. This ain’t a Leicester City 2016 summer, whereby they sold N’golo Kanté to Chelsea and Leicester ultimately didn’t even make top 10 the following season… the owners and recruitment of Newcastle United are there to make the team challenge and win major honors, such as not selling Bruno Guimarães, Sven Botman or Alexander Isak to rival clubs, and now bringing in Sandro Tonali… I expect Newcastle to be competing in all 4 fronts and not show obvious signs of dropping off, which is a sign of an elite football club. If there’s pressure, Newcastle will have to deal with it and succeed past it.
If Man Utd get Mbappe, the gap between City will be very narrow. However, sources have told SportsFila Man Utd can’t afford the French striker.
Kylian Mbappe going to Real Madrid makes sense because having a superstar like him on your club elevates the team and given Karim Benzema’s shock departure, they need a goal-scorer and he’s the man for this project. Kylian Mbappe is capable of scoring 35-40 goals a season and that works in Real Madrid’s favor, but from a footballing perspective, where does Kylian Mbappe fit at Real Madrid.
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His best position is on the left wing and for club and country, he’s played his best football as a left inside forward, his issue is Vinicius Junior operates in that position, you’re not moving him to the right wing, Mbappe can play on the right wing he did well there for France when they won the 2018 World Cup, he doesn’t wanna play there and he has stated that he wants to play on the left side, that won’t work at Real Madrid. He doesn’t like playing as a striker, we know that, he would have to adapt his game if he’s a number 9, and besides the opposition won’t give him lots of space to get in behind.
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Kylian Mbappe is an incredible talent and SportsFila would like to see him at old Trafford yes they should pay the money because they need a clinical scorer on the team, but his fit raises questions and let’s see what happens this summer or next year when he joins the club, because when he goes to Real Madrid, he won’t always play in his preferred position.
Manchester City’s big threat should be Liverpool again, even though Liverpool are easily going to conquer the Europa League because there are no real contenders other than Roma, unless unthinkable things like bigger teams went down to Europa League as third-placed teams like Barcelona and Juventus the last season happened.
Newcastle United will only fight for Europa League and their Champions League’s realistic challenge this season would be the quarterfinals (they managed to reach the second round in 2003, but it was all group stage rather than the knockouts). Remember that weaker sides had always reached at least the last 8, like how Leicester City did in 2017 and Atalanta 3 years later.
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Arsenal and Manchester United might do the best in Champions League. Letting them play in the final might be an impossible because of lack European success, with Arsenal not even playing in this stage since 2-10 defeat to Bayern Munich in 2017. United with Mount and possible 3 ex-Serie A players (Onana, Hojlund, Amrabat) will make this team look like when they won the 2017 Europa League.
For the World Cup, it’s quite unpredictable.
The new 32 teams format will only increase the chance of upsets. Group B, E, F, and G had at least 2-3 teams from Top 50 and considered as the Group of Death. Qatar 2022 has produced the biggest upsets for the Group of Death, with Japan beating 2 former World Cup winners and Morocco reaching the semifinal by defeating 3 European giants (Belgium, Spain, and Portugal). If this happened again, then it will be happened for Republic of Ireland in Group B, Portugal in Group E, and Jamaica in Group F.
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The fact that Southgate is on that list tells how serious you should take it
No manager on earth could do anything with Manchester United until Someone takes responsibility for the club and has a viable plan for the future.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his INEOS group, the club’s new partial owners, are exploring options to assume the role. According to Team Talk, the Red Devils are considering the 41-year-old as a candidate for the manager position.
After achieving success as a player with Barcelona, Inter, and Paris Saint-Germain, winning numerous titles, the two-time Champions League winner transitioned to coaching at the senior level.
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ESPN loves ManUtd. As much they say that they hate talking about ManUtd they can’t stop talking about ManUtd 😅😅. They have spend 15 mins speaking on rumours – Hypocrites.
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It’s not Ten Hag fault when players like rashford do not put in all the effort after signing a new contract. Also ten hag had to deal with incredible amount of injuries which ESPN deliberately overlooks. So getting another manager isn’t going to solve anything.
It’s so funny how the English media fails to realize that the structure & the players is the problem at united…..but they trying to sack ETH who is an elite manger under a proper management structure 💯
The best manager that seems to be being overlooked shouod be n1 on the list for bayern utd liverpool is someone inzaghi. Hes done great things with Lazio and inter. Loads of experience and has got to european finals and won domestic leagues.
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It is very different getting an underdog /dark horse to perform vs going to an environment where the spotlight in on you everyday from day 1. The same thing happened at Bayern with a couple of their coaches…
Afcon 2024 victory is well deserved for Ivory Coast they left no stone unturned and they dominated throughout. If there is a one person who deserved to win the AFCON it was Sebastian Haller. In 2022, he was diagnosed with cancer but he recovered and he returned to play football in 2023 only to bottle the Bundesliga title on the final matchday to Bayern but here we are in 2024 where he scored the winner in the AFCON final to win Cote d’Ivoire AFCON title so congratulations🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🏆
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FT: Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast
But Ivory Coast won fair and square. They played better. Congratulations champs.
What Adingra did in the African Cup of Nation was phenomenal. Nigerians will remember him as a nighmare forever. The boy has a great future ahead of him.
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Haller beats cancer, then comes to the AFCON and scores the most important goal in the final, the winning goal what a beautiful story for that man and Ivory coast, congratulations to them👏👏
Congratulations to Ivory Coast from cameroonian👏👏👏you organized and won the most beautiful AFCON in story, unbelievable achievment when we look how things went for you.
One of the best tournaments I’ve seen.
Almost every team demonstrated that they were not afraid of their opponent and played above expectations.
Congratulations to Côte d’Ivoire who never gave up and believed and implemented their progress towards goal as much as possible until the last second in this tournament. Kudos to Nigeria for high yield and quality.
Thank you for making the spectators so emotional and congratulations and best wishes to the Ivory Coast and the Ivorian people.
FT: Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast
Afcon 2023 is over. What a remarkable end to a tournament dripping in drama.
Thanks for your company.
The night has only just started in Abidjan.
Congratulations to Ivory Coast for winning the Africa Cup🏆! The team showed strength and desire to win and to not give up until the end. And the fans were absolutely amazing
P.s Haller deserved it the most, since he suffered a lot.
The story of Côte d’Ivoire’s victory in the African Nations is one of the most beautiful stories in the history of football. We sympathized with this team’s version a lot and we will tell it to our children in the future 🧡
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‘He’s very coachable, he wants to learn, to improve every day’ |SportsFila can feel the meaning of a ‘coachable player that wants to improve every day’. Because ETH has to deal with players that are not like this at all.
remember at Ajax TH once said “a process takes time, but by throwing in young players in big games that process gets accelerated”. Always stuck with me considering he let Mainoo debut against Everton (after the 10 point deduction at an intense Goodison Park) and then straight into the Galatasaray away game in the CL. H
He also has done the same with Garnacho last year and this year. Then he did the same with Pellistri against Bayern Munich who in my opinion did well enough to deserve another chance. I think it’s a way for him to see how they respond to the pressure and intensity. He’s not afraid to play the youngsters ONLY if he considers them good and fearless enough.
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He made De Ligt Ajax captain at 18 years old because he saw leadership qualities. He has his own methods, but I’m convinced he knows exactly what he’s doing regarding the future of United. United fans need to remember 75% of this current squad won’t be part of the future so maybe allow him a bit more time to show what he’s trying to build.
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ETH is a highly resillient manager to go through all the crisis and egos, poor performances, players personal issues and ownership drama and come out on the other side with these kind of performances. He brought in the right striker young full of potential and work ethic. Young players are starring in the squad WE ARE ON THE WAY.
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All the instability across the club that he’s gone through and still kept us in the Top 8. Now he’s finally seeing the other side of the drawn-out “club sale, no-sale”, multiple injuries, media controversies, spoiled players, and all the other nonsense, we see the team moving into sixth position. The man deserves all the praise in the world for being so resilient.
It’s interesting hearing ten hag speaking on rashford because he mentions a lot of qualities which he possesses, however they are all physical and technical, the one thing he didn’t speak positively about was his mentality and for me this is what has always separated Rashford from the very best.
In football and sport as a whole mentality is the one thing you need more than anything, it’s what separates the good from the great and I don’t know if rashford has that real hunger and desire in him to be great. The kind of desire where you’re willing to get hurt to score a goal.
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