I enjoyed this! Could you discuss: 1. how 'sticky' a season is for a footballer. i.e. if you had one good season a few years ago is that indicative of you being a good footballer now. Two examples that are relevant to this are Fabio Carvalho (went for big money seemingly due to his championship season 21-22) and Joshua Zirkzee (his serie a npxgxa/90 numbers are weak considering how you'd expect it to transfer to the prem but his pro league numbers at the age he achieved them were as good (seemingly) as other pro league players who have gone on to succeed, and who you'd expect Man Utd would have had to spend more money on: Osimhen, David). 2. how much luck was involved with Rodri's injury: was it 'inevitable' given his high minutes played over the past 365 days+. If so, was it bad risk management by the City medical staff. So, how much luck was involved in him getting that injury?
Arsenal's squad of big guys is not a new trend, City won the 2023 UCL with an extremely muscular squad (Stones, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Rodri, Haaland, Walker, KDB), everybody else is just copying them
Interestingly Mourinho's early chelsea teams were physically similar to the city and arsenal teams of today. Playing centre backs at fullback like he did with Ivanovic and which we now see with Ben White at arsenal and Gvardiol at city. It's interesting with football how trend seem to come and go but often reappear years later.
Even Brentfords debut season they beat arsenal and had a pretty good season with a very physically big team in a season where most teams were using smaller, more mobile players.
Genuinely brilliant chat on set-pieces. So insightful. Nice one lads
most informative soccer pod
Awesome stuff...Kudos
I enjoyed this!
Could you discuss:
1. how 'sticky' a season is for a footballer. i.e. if you had one good season a few years ago is that indicative of you being a good footballer now. Two examples that are relevant to this are Fabio Carvalho (went for big money seemingly due to his championship season 21-22) and Joshua Zirkzee (his serie a npxgxa/90 numbers are weak considering how you'd expect it to transfer to the prem but his pro league numbers at the age he achieved them were as good (seemingly) as other pro league players who have gone on to succeed, and who you'd expect Man Utd would have had to spend more money on: Osimhen, David).
2. how much luck was involved with Rodri's injury: was it 'inevitable' given his high minutes played over the past 365 days+. If so, was it bad risk management by the City medical staff. So, how much luck was involved in him getting that injury?
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Really interesting podcast
Hold on, Ted is on the opposite side to normal. I don't like this.
They'll be flipped to their usual sides for the next pod 😉
@@TransferFlowPodcastnames on the same sides as usual though haha
namecards are reversed
Arsenal's squad of big guys is not a new trend, City won the 2023 UCL with an extremely muscular squad (Stones, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Rodri, Haaland, Walker, KDB), everybody else is just copying them
Interestingly Mourinho's early chelsea teams were physically similar to the city and arsenal teams of today. Playing centre backs at fullback like he did with Ivanovic and which we now see with Ben White at arsenal and Gvardiol at city. It's interesting with football how trend seem to come and go but often reappear years later.
Even Brentfords debut season they beat arsenal and had a pretty good season with a very physically big team in a season where most teams were using smaller, more mobile players.