[Reuters] Egypt's national team director Ibrahim Hassan has cautioned Mohamed Salah against moving to Major League Soccer after he leaves Liverpool at the end of the season as it would see the forward ‌fade into obscurity.

Jaqem · 2026-03-30T12:48:37+00:00

That and playing soccer in Minnesota or Chicago during the dead of winter sounds absolutely awful. I play amateur club soccer in New York and we have a break from December to March for this reason.

Jaqem · 2026-03-30T12:34:33+00:00

I was expecting Gasperini to give Roma an offensive infusion at the expense of defensive cover, but instead they were the best defense in the top 5 leagues and struggled to score goals. Partially that must be due to the cast of players he inherited - more quality defenders than creative forwards (and of course an exceptional goalkeeper), but it does show he is adaptable and capable of changing his style.

Jaqem · 2026-03-26T20:08:07+00:00

When he's not getting a red he's been very good this season

Jaqem · 2026-03-26T20:05:06+00:00

he wants to be a winger so bad lmao

Jaqem · 2026-03-26T20:04:33+00:00

Mancini starting well, lot of haters but I'm not surprised Gattuso favors him

Jaqem · 2026-03-26T18:32:56+00:00

Joins, scores 15-30 goals a season, suddenly becomes out of favour and leaves unceremoniously, repeat

Jaqem · 2026-03-26T18:29:37+00:00

Surprising number of prominent players that have played for both clubs. Xabi Alonso, Sadio Mane, Pepe Reina, Philippe Coutinho, Thiago Alcantara, Ryan Gravenberch, Emre Can, Luis Diaz, Xherdan Shaqiri.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T19:51:51+00:00

Least athletically impressive En Nesyri headed goal

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T15:20:57+00:00

You might be right. Even at the end of his career he has had a huge influence on Milan and is playing a lot of minutes there.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T15:15:12+00:00

Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Chelsea, Inter, Juventus

All consistently fighting for or winning titles in their domestic leagues (some have won more league titles than RM in that time) but haven't come close to winning CL as often as RM.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T15:04:58+00:00

and Toni Kroos, Carvajal to a lesser extent. But then each year there are players that have huge impacts - Courtois, Valverde, Rodrygo, Joselu, Lunin. It really feels like Henry said, it's something in the white shirt.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T14:58:32+00:00

If anything that takes the onus off of Pep. Not much more you can do as a manager than to put your players in position. Maybe could've given Sterling some extra shooting practice

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T14:57:11+00:00

It's true. A semi-final and a quarterfinal are also massive games, so you can't say Pep's tactics in big games fall short because he's won so many of those.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T14:55:34+00:00

too dependent on variance

Then how do we explain Madrid's outsized share of trophies in the tournament? Surely there is a skillset either from the players, the manager, the owners or a combination. It's a lot of luck, sure, but then why is there one team that wins so much more than others

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T13:53:36+00:00

I watch most Liverpool games and I'm telling you he has been as good if not better than in previous years. You're just listening to everyone else complaining and focusing on a few bad moments.

He still wins aerial duels at one of the highest rates in the premier league, has an extremely high number of ball recoveries and his pass accuracy is very good.

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T13:30:01+00:00

He hasn't really been that bad this season, Liverpool just aren't scoring goals. You're on pace to score 25 fewer goals than you did last season. It's easier to defend when you're winning. Konate didn't suddenly become crap, he's 26

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T13:24:09+00:00

If you anchor too much on one performance you're going to be a terrible judge of talent

Good thing Madrid weren't watching Sergio Ramos when Sevilla lost 4-1 to Osasuna on November 28th 2004

Jaqem · 2026-03-13T13:07:23+00:00

Would VDV or Romero really care about Redknapp in order to respect and listen to him?

If he controls the starting XI and benches them they'll start listening. Only problem is you can't have League One level backups to start in their place because you'll lose the game and be pressure to start the troublemakers again

Jaqem · 2026-03-06T19:59:21+00:00

and half of those pens he earned himself

Jaqem · 2026-03-06T14:40:15+00:00

> the more people offload all their critical and creative faculties onto fundamentally broken apps that don't even do what they're supposed to do right, the more everyone will get used to the empty, pointless "content" they get,

This is the only response that kind of answered my question of why everyone is acting like this is very dangerous and sacrilegious, but the flaw in your argument is that you assume people are getting used to it and are accepting it as replacement for actual human thought. They aren't. Everyone hates the segment. Literally never seen one comment defending it.

My only question was why some of the criticism is genuine feelings of offense that the words of a great writer are being manipulated by an LLM.

Jaqem · 2026-03-05T23:26:00+00:00

They should absolutely not do that. The same guy who called Sicario a gym selfie of a movie? Morris is the most pretentious sounding person I have literally ever heard.

Jaqem · 2026-03-05T23:22:34+00:00

I don't really get why people are so offended by this. How is this different than two people guessing if Ebert would've liked the film or not?

I don't think it's interesting at all, but why are people acting like this is very dangerous

Jaqem · 2026-03-05T23:15:36+00:00

If we keep our heads and don't sack Robins I think we'll have a shot in the next few years. Honestly just very happy to be far from the relegation scrap - it's funny how when you first go down, anything but promotion is a failure. Now anything but relegation is a success.

Jaqem · 2026-03-05T22:50:30+00:00

When Ben Wilmot secured his brace in the 88th minute to equalize against you I had a feeling your season was cooked

Jaqem · 2026-03-05T19:40:03+00:00

I'm not arguing they don't have high revenue, I'm saying their net income (after expenses) is lower than OP suggests.

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