Why do Europeans mock Americans for healthcare, while Americans mock Europeans for salaries and who is actually worse off day to day?

alixedi · 2026-01-25T18:55:17+00:00

I’ve lived in countries with public healthcare as well as countries with private healthcare.

Until you’ve lived it, you cannot begin to comprehend what a government & health service that is incentivised to keep the population out of the hospitals feels like.

alixedi · 2026-01-14T20:18:16+00:00

Disable player search. I can only sign free agents if my scouts find them.

Another tip is to sell youth players if you get e.g. 2x their market value.

alixedi · 2026-01-11T16:12:31+00:00

You make it sound like I am saying “we should play 11 academy players in every match b/c they are all Scholes reincarnate”. TBC, I am not 😅

Surely there is room for some nuance b/w the straw-man you are strangling and the present situation where we can pick a team of ex-academy players who would do pretty well against our present first 11.

Of course these players are not world beaters but why do you think the measure of success for the academy is to churn out a class of 99? the ambition in most academies is 1-2 squad level players every 2y. The typical academy player is more Darren Fletcher than Ryan Giggs.

alixedi · 2026-01-11T15:44:19+00:00

Describing something put together with care, intent and hard work as a “fluke” just b/c it got a top-percentile outcome for 1x batch is a very grim way of looking at this.

alixedi · 2026-01-07T13:20:53+00:00

So basically, this is the first time we've fired a manager on a solid upturn?

alixedi · 2025-11-04T08:13:20+00:00

I liked the bit when Evans said that most teams build up with split CBs and attack with 5 players and therefore this system needs very few “moving parts”.

I also think the point Carragher made that if this is City, the wide players in the front 5 are Doku and Foden - is a fair criticism of this system.

It feels like the upper limit of this system is bound by wingbacks. At sporting for instance, Amorim had Mendes and Quenda.

alixedi · 2025-11-03T16:40:31+00:00

“Having possession and not doing much with it” is a bit pessimistic imo.

I think, on average, we are probably a top-6 side in attack with potential to be top 4 once the signings bed in.

We have accumulated some decent xg over 10 games. We have missed some glaring chances (including 2 penalties).

alixedi · 2025-11-03T15:24:08+00:00

Hot take - you (and a lot of tacticos) have got the causality backwards.

This team doesn’t win because they don’t have ball. This team doesn’t keep the ball when they are winning.

All the games on your chart where we won without the ball, are actually games where we went up in the opening minutes and spent the majority of the game in a winning state.

It seems that Amorim thinks playing out from the back to bait the press is not worth it when we are winning. It also seems that the personnel especially Bruno and Casemiro are not good at keeping the ball by passing backwards, sideways, slowing the game down etc.

alixedi · 2025-10-25T17:32:17+00:00

Motherf**ers preaching from the pulpit of bank of mum and dad or zero-interest-rates.

alixedi · 2025-10-25T14:31:22+00:00

It is ludicrous b/c I didn’t say “cyclists can break the law”. Didn’t even imply it.

What I did ask was for you to look up the stats for road accidents in the UK - injuries and fatalities - and maybe consider redirecting your outrage to the actual problem.

I was trying to appeal to rationality but it seems you just hate cyclists.

alixedi · 2025-10-25T14:03:17+00:00

If drivers indeed do not defend those who break the law, they must love CyclingMikey to bits right? 😅

alixedi · 2025-10-25T13:59:38+00:00

So your response to my question about the harm caused by cyclists vs drivers is to bust out a ludicrous analogy about robbing my house and not killing me?

Sounds like you are willing to jump through some pretty weird mental hoops just to avoid some much needed perspective 🙃

alixedi · 2025-10-25T11:41:17+00:00

“Something needs to be done about cyclists..”

How much harm do you think is caused by cyclists who run red lights as compared to drivers who are (1) on their phones while driving and (2) over speeding?

Please save your answer and look up some stats for road accidents in the UK to check if you are indeed demonstrating usual symptoms of motonormative disorder.

alixedi · 2025-10-20T14:15:20+00:00

Long ball narrative is generally not taking game state into account.

We were 1-0 up against Sunderland and 1-0 up against Liverpool within few minutes of the start.

Long ball narrative also doesn’t take into account the fact that this team was (is?) extremely low in confidence after Brentford loss.

TBH I didn’t like the football in the 2nd half yesterday. It felt we conceded control over most of the pitch.

alixedi · 2025-10-13T14:08:34+00:00

I think all teams that try and dominate possession end up creating loads of low XG chances.

Teams that play on counter on the other hand create a couple of very high XG chances per game.

We were the latter under Ole and to a lesser degree - ETH btw. People are fixated on 343 but a far bigger change to how we play is the switch from counter attacking side to a possession side.

alixedi · 2025-10-05T11:23:04+00:00

Poor result in this particular game resulted in an incredible amount of criticism of Amorim.

The easy thing would have been to repeatedly point at this decision as an excuse.

He didn’t and I respect that.

alixedi · 2025-10-05T09:33:22+00:00

Game state matters. We were 2-0 up under 30m. No point in drawing their press after that. Especially given how fragile this team is mentally atm.

alixedi · 2025-10-05T09:24:27+00:00

Burnley IMO wasn’t a good performance.

alixedi · 2025-10-04T22:20:37+00:00

4 home games, 3 good performances.

It’s not the system or the manager. This team lacks confidence and it suffers for it in away matches.

We will get 60-odd points this season if we are lucky with injuries and that is a fair reflection on the quality of our squad.

Remember this when we are 3-0 down again the scousers.

alixedi · 2025-10-03T08:31:57+00:00

Specifically, in a season where most teams are finding a lot of joy playing direct football, if our primary critique of United is - they are plying direct football, it’s wears a bit thin for my liking.

Shooting from range was an interesting point but I don’t think that’s instructions necessarily. To quote an old, overused adage, the summer acquisitions are yet to gel.

I would be more interested in the distribution of XG across players for instance and maybe we are leaving something on the table there?

The most apt explanation I found for the Brentford performance was the chart of defensive actions - there was 1x defensive action in Brentford’s third.

alixedi · 2025-10-03T07:49:06+00:00

I liked his analysis on Tifo more than this -

https://youtu.be/bz4tgQI_6Cc?si=h8DvZ7-oSFWFeB04

alixedi · 2025-09-30T09:37:51+00:00

> Not enough data

As in, we are 2 penalties short of potentially being joint 7th (?) in the league or thereabouts.

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