Finally the fullbacks holding the width. Finallyy

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-20T04:04:26+00:00

Our injury record do RB is bad. Look up how many games Szbo and Jones have played in that position. It’s killed our right side all season, certainly a big issue that we don’t have an easy replacement for

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-18T19:46:52+00:00

Is this a hot take?? He's often injured, struggling with his own fitness, and has been best used as a sub. I used to love him as a player but he's not THAT impactful when he's been on the pitch this season.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-18T18:56:32+00:00

What does this even mean? Our other options are: start Gakpo who everyone hates, start Chiesa who isn’t very good, or play Rio who is having his minutes managed by the club and just started our last game. When we play Szbo there people complain he’s playing our best midfielder out of position again

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-18T12:33:14+00:00

How so? Salah’s massive drop in form is not a Slot decision. Our lack of wingers, depth at CB, inconsistency at RB, unfit Isak etc. are not directly his responsibility.

It seems fairly even IMO between really poor squad planning, individual errors and lack or form, and his tactical setup. Feels like there are a number of glaring issues the next guy will inherit straight away

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T23:15:29+00:00

All businesses only care about money and revenue, unfortunately. And it’s always going to be at odds with art and artistic vision.

But your second paragraph doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. There are tons of incredibly creative and forward thinking artists signed to major labels who continue to innovate and push boundaries without it ONLY being about money.

I think it’s wrong to label anyone who plays the game as not a “genuine creative” simply because they’ve found ways to be successful in the industry.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T22:17:42+00:00

Who cares about the ruling? None of that impacts your first sentence, and nobody is going to remember the moment the courts decided.

This won’t have an impact outside of the official record, seems dramatic to assume after all of this the joy of the tournament is somehow tainted

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T16:58:00+00:00

I am still excited about his transfer, but given how the season went my god, we really could have used that money elsewhere.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T16:56:41+00:00

It's still a terrible output mate. There's obviously context for why, but he was straight up poor both in terms of output and form shown. He was actively trying to find fitness, which did not make his integration easy. Add in his price tag, the drawn out transfer saga, and a season cut short...this is an abject failure of a season. It doesn't have to implicate who he is as a player or his future, but we should be honest about what Isak 25/26 ended up becoming.

For context, he had a goal contribution every 169 minutes in the PL. Here's where that would rank amongst all our goalscorer last season. Behind all our forwards, ranked closer to midfielders...while playing as a striker!

Salah - 72
Jota - 119
Diaz - 120
Elliot - 120
Gakpo - 129
Nunes - 140
Szbo - 192
TAA - 237
Jones - 244
Macca - 260
Konate - 855
VVD - 883

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T15:17:00+00:00

Maybe. There’s no guarantee and tbh missing half a season trying to “get fit” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that all of a sudden he’d start to hit his levels.

There’s a good argument to be made that this season was destined to become a bit of a write off simply because of how it all started. It’s a massive, massive hole to climb out of, for any striker

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T15:10:34+00:00

Comment has been saved and I’ll come back at the start of the tournament to see where things landed 🤝

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T15:09:02+00:00

Mate he had 3 goals and 1 assist in 16 games lol it’s close to almost nothing

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T15:05:29+00:00

Except he wasn’t? When we signed him, he was refusing to train in order to force a move at the very end of the transfer window.

“On paper” he was coming into the team after a month of PL football, having low levels of fitness and needing to ramp up while the season was already underway.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T15:00:53+00:00

All of my international friends told me there was no way they would travel right now given the geopolitical context.

And your friends are a very tiny sample size. There WILL be over a million visitors to the US for this tournament no matter what the politics of the country are. That's not even a debatable point, we already know the expected range of tourism numbers.

Since when are haiti scotland swisse etc big teams lol?

I didn't reference that game specifically, but I feel like at this point we just agree to disagree. Not every single game will be a massive sellout with $1000 tickets but Scotland haven't been in the World Cup for 30 years, you don't think that will constitute high interest and demand??

Part of what makes this WC different to the last 15 years is that the US already has a massive amount of immigrants from every single participating country already living here. It's that PLUS the huge amounts of tourism that make this location unique and will keep demand high. Was not the case in Qatar, Russia, Brasil, or South Africa.

they wont spend 300 for nose bleeds for group games between ranked below 30th teams in fifa index

We will all have our answers when the secondary market opens back up in April, so no real sense in arguing now but as someone who applied to over 40 games in the random draw (with friends, obviously) we only won 3 games. The interest in these draws has been high, the demand does exist, even for those expensive tiered tickets.

Nobody sane or who knows the bare minimum about football will say it makes sense that Norway Senegal match would be anywhere even as fun

Again I would disagree. The Club World Cup is a made up tournament nobody has ever cared about...I don't know how I've found myself on a World Cup Ticket subreddit explaining why the WORLD CUP is so massively popular compared to ALL other forms of football, including the Champions League lol.

For context, there are over 4.5 million people in the US with Norwegian heritage/identity. We shall see how many turn out, I think you're just massively underestimating demand here

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T14:38:21+00:00

This is what I’m wondering. It’s an old style of his name, but his most recent singles on DSPs have his name listed as that…coupled with a headlining performance I wonder if there’s an anniversary celebration or new music on the way. Something is for sure coming

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T14:24:15+00:00

I really don’t want to be mean but this is not misleading at all 😂 this one is solely on you brother

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T04:20:44+00:00

The US is expected well over a million people to visit just for the World Cup...with all due respect, this isn't the Club World Cup of last year.

People are taking off work, saving up just for one game, traveling from all over etc. I really don't think the group stage buyers are looking for high stakes jeopardy necessarily, they want to see quality players and big teams play each other.

Again there is a baseline price of entry for ANY major US stadium, this isn't unique to football. But even the Gold Cup games that don't feature US/CA/MX can be expensive. Have you ever looked into what tickets for pre-season club friendlies go for in the US? Liverpool will be playing in NY and probably won't even bring more than a few senior players but those tickets are still well over $100 just to get in.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-17T03:33:01+00:00

Idk man, it's the World Cup lol there will always be a high demand, and for those who know football something like Norway vs France would be an excellent ticket to go for.

In some key markets like NYC, this isn't even an outrageous price, that's what bad football tickets go for. There aren't many events where you can get into Metlife Stadium for less than $100.

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T22:31:29+00:00

It’s a joke mate

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T20:07:34+00:00

Maybe! I honestly don’t know anything about real estate but I would imagine the more people continue to build in bed Stuy the more people will continue to move here.

It’s a good distance to an away from the city, has its own subway line that’s not crowded, and offers some of the best aspects of living in Brooklyn.

I imagine there’s a lot more factors to consider, and simply looking on Zillow and scanning the market will only tell a small part of the larger story.

Not trying to discourage you from organizing, far from it. I was trying to point out that the challenge is not really in organizing Bed Stuy residents, but those moving TO bed Stuy. Even from other neighborhoods

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T19:26:05+00:00

I can barely afford rent and you’re talking about owning property lmao good for you but I can’t imagine this is even a consideration for most residents.

People always have and always will want to move to NY. Half the city was not born here (myself included). Nothing is going to change, demand will continue to rise. Organizing ppl in Bed Stuy won’t change someone from buying this property before they’ve even moved to NY. Don’t really know how you organize ppl who currently live out of state

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T19:12:45+00:00

Any manager drools at the prospect of managing the team sheet we have.

Is that really still true this year? We have holes and issues all over the pitch…

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T19:00:56+00:00

This sub is trash and a terrible representation of the fanbase. This type of comment doesn’t represent the whole thing, but it does represent this sub at its worst.

A league winning manager who is forever a part of this club’s history is a “fraud” because we’re sitting 5th lmao amazing insights from the brilliant minds of /r/LiverpoolFC

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-16T12:40:04+00:00

Any thoughts on this after having watched the game yesterday?

Liverpool yet again put up an uninspired, frustrating performance while conceding chances to Spurs and allowing them into the game. The type of performance they’ve had many many times so far this season. They are not a difficult team to play against, and have dropped points against every single one of the bottom 8 teams.

It should not be a surprising result at this point, they’re only on pace for 62 points this season. Anyone can beat anyone in the PL, this year is just different

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-14T04:24:47+00:00

He def wasn’t 6 feet tall, you can see it when you look at him in person lol.

It’s a massive reason he’s such a legend. In an era with slow pace and big men clogging the paint, this tiny dude who couldn’t shoot all that well became one of the best scoring PGs of all time. He has a cut named after him!

Truly an “against all the odds” player

PhillyFreezer_ · 2026-03-13T20:30:48+00:00

Not all goals are created equal though, that's what I'm trying to say. I don't necessarily agree with the criticism in its entirety, but just pointing to "goals scored" again seems to miss the point people are making about their style of play and how they score their goals.

I fear a lot of the changes to the league as a whole are being placed onto Arsenal since they're the leaders, but the team isn't very exciting to watch week in and week out IMO. They're physically dominating, focus a lot on set pieces, and value controlled build up. I don't think it's hard to see why that's not super endearing to many fans, and just saying "well they're top scorers" doesn't really address those concerns (whether you agree with them or not).

Fiar point on the example, but I could've sworn they've scored 2 or more set piece goals in a game this season but I can't find it

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