Instead of wandering around in the three OK, five pine trees of the City crisis day and night, it would be better to think about this circumstance. Wolverhampton appoints Vitor Pereira as their new coach. You've heard of him, of course. A loud, memorable name - like Vladimir Fedorov. Previous place of work - Al Shebab (KSA). Before that - Flamengo. Three months. Before that - Corinthians. Nine months. This is the third Portuguese to be called up by the world's strongest league, the main recru...

Man City in the 2024/25 season so sad.

Salah has scored 10 goals + 10 assists this season. The bar that shows attacking balance. And Salah managed to break it already in November. This is his ninth season in which he has broken 10 + 10. I got carried away and counted the best players in the world by the number of such club seasons. This shows stability, attacking balance, and how many seasons the player has spent at the highest level.Messi – 17 seasons with 10 goals + 10 assists (13 seasons: with 15 goals + 15 assists)Suarez – 14 ...

Andre Onana (or "Pirlo in goal" as Pep Guardiola calls him) was radical even by his own standards yesterday.

Surprisingly, Aston Villa yielded ground to Tottenham. The result is incomprehensible, the plan worked. For 75 minutes, Aston Villa was better. On counterattacks, they could have opened the scoring earlier and increase it at 1-0. Moments were at 1-1 too. It is an even game, by no means a rout. When the opponent does not rise to take the ball, Tottenham loses its charm. Not everyone is capable of such cunning-moving the line down-in modern football. Emery could. Unfortunately, the resourcefuln...

Well, what to say. As the classics said-the end is somewhat predictable. Though right till the very end I believed that, just a little bit everybody would turn up alive, the wounded come back, all the Ugartes and de Ligts would appear, and the bald ship would rush forward, ramming into everything that comes into its way. Well, it really feels like we should have parted ways at the peak, after the FA Cup final. Alas, rich and influential people sometimes also do lack determination. Yes, I want...

You may say whatever you like, comrades, but I keep on believing Stuttgart is the best team in the world this season. Only in one aspect. This approach is most fully articulated in one line by the great English poet Alexander Pope: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, taken out in the title of one whimsical and slightly overpraised film with Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Actually, I don't find any other merits in Stuttgart's play, if not this shine of the mind. In case...

Tuchel, in England, is likely to be hampered by the collective mass Nevilleization of the media-or should I say rednapping? Because for as long as you criticize him for not being English, there is always something that will become a reason for discontent, and the toxic background won't let the results be different. Besides, Tuchel himself is so conflicted; he won't stay silent but enter some hopeless confrontation. And the other drawbacks are nonexistent. For the national team, to hire a top ...

Fonseca, August 24: "We have an attitude problem, a desire to defend as a team. When the opponent passes our press, we have difficulty coming back, we are not compact. In training, the team is good, then you go to the matches and all this happens. That is not easy to explain. Fonseca, September 17: "We conceded two goals from set pieces, then we lost the confidence, and when a team loses its confidence, it does not do what it has been doing in training. After the second goal, we stopped playi...

Heroic, hilarious for Aston Villa.😂 😍 Sorry. On one hand, this was a convincing tactical victory: the team was amazingly prepared for the opponent, and the parking of the bus at the end was nothing short of legendary and epic. But when there is Emiliano Martinez involved, any grandeur gets tempered by more down-to-earth emotions. And how the Villa wall didn't budge after three minutes, wouldn't allow the free kick to be taken-well, I really don't know how to describe it. It just looked comi...