Kees van Hemmen
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Okay this seems like a good way to centralize my work and I've got four articles out that I'm pretty proud of now, so this is a thread of my published writing
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England's pride and joy, pocketed by a man too short to ride a rollercoaster
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Harry Maguire quietly played absolutely stellar football for months now but he's not going to get talked about until he makes a mistake
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ngl this has all gone down basically exactly as it was supposed to so far, none of it has taken more than a few weeks, the negotiations haven't gotten completely out of hand, the players actually want to come. I don't know how to behave this is all so foreign
Manchester United plan, always been clear: priority Rasmus Højlund and then negotiations to start for Amrabat 🔴🇲🇦
No official/verbal bid to Fiorentina yet — it always had to happen after Højlund.
Amrabat, keen on move and well informed on Utd plans.
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If NASA crashed three rockets in a row we'd all probably have some opinions on rockets
🗣 "I don't think anybody is going to discuss rocket science with the guys from NASA, but everyone around the world thinks they can discuss football with one of the most important managers in the game."
Jose Mourinho sums up his thoughts of his critics
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Just give him like 3 straight starts in a position where he can spend most of the game in the penalty box. These skills don't just disappear. Was doing this stuff against some of the best defenders in the world
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If Ten Hag says no to you, that's one thing, but if United's decision makers actively pick Poch over him at this point it would be insanely embarrassing
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4 points is obviously great from those fixtures for Man United this week but honestly those two performances completely changed my perception of what's possible for this team this season
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The idea that lisandro was too short to play cb in the PL remains the stupidest widely held belief I've ever seen
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seriously at what point do you sack ten hag man, not even solskjaer got this much leash
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by the way people talk about Scott McTominay's developmental path you wouldn't know he turns 25 on December 8th
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Telles is one of the worst fullbacks I've ever seen play for united and I watched van gaal's entire tenure
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Luke Shaw going supernova is a weekly reminder for me that player development makes absolutely no sense and is probably the thing we understand least about the sport
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Last year the Premier League leaders in shots created per 90 were Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne. After those two both fell into very poor form, this year's Premier League leaders in shots created per 90 are...
Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne.
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More hilarious Man United stats per
@OptaAnalyst
:
no side in the Premier League has more high ball wins than Utd (190)
no side in the PL has more shots resulting from high ball wins than Utd (36)
no side in the PL has fewer goals from high ball wins than Utd (0)
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Hey remember when Pogba had 7 assists through like 3 games playing a position that actually suits him and then he hardly played that position again and mysteriously struggled.
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nah ten hag has actually rocked my world man he pulled this mess together in 3 months
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Legitimately forgot football could make me happy as a united fan
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Lisandro martinez can't play centreback in the premier league
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How the negotiations would go if we got a £40m offer for Wan-Bissaka
Selling Aaron Wan Bissaka makes no sense.
We’d get a maximum of £40m for him, and in the current market there’s not many players that are better than him.
Keep him.
#MUFC
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I love Pogba to death and think he's arguably uniteds best player, but quite frankly no self respecting club side gives any pivot player the time on the ball to play behind and across their defensive line that he gets at international level
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Rashford has 1 goal yesterday from 1.3 xG. Really, genuinely, not that big of a deal. Chill on the guy.
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United go from having a bottom half goalkeeper in the PL /given the things they needed from a goalkeeper in their system/ to a guy who's comfortably top 5 and probably top 3
BREAKING: Manchester United are now closing in on André Onana deal as final verbal proposal has been made during talks today. 🚨🔴
#MUFC
Understand it’s €50m fee plus €5m add ons.
Structure of add ons being discussed then… done deal.
It’s imminent, as expected. 🇨🇲
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Thinking about how west ham wouldve hung 3 on wan bissaka's head in this match at the back post
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nothing really new here. goalkeeper can't sweep or play the ball. Midfielders lack technical ability. No striker. And then the tactical stuff isn't there yet.
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Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, and Tomori are all starting quality players for competitive CL sides. I'd be super upset to see even one of them leave - forget all of them - if I were a Chelsea supporter. Why have an academy that robust if you sell low on the high end talent it produces?
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maguire was both very good and very important to united for more than 2 years, and then had a few months of bad form (that still saw him pivotal to how the side played in attack) and it seems like a lot of people want to revise that history to be simply "he's bad"
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If you look at the strikers who have played minutes under EtH (Haller, Huntelaar, Dolberg, Lassina, Brobbey) Osimhen's skillset is basically a superset of all of those guys. He's the perfect striker for Ten Hag
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Antony changed the game for United today. I hope people clocked that.
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I don't know how you watch this match and don't think De Gea is a huge problem
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Sobbing uncontrollably in public rn
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Scandalous refereeing call getting us into a title race you say? Man United are well and truly back
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This is exactly what Dan James was and you all celebrated his departure
These players weren’t the most talented, but their desire to play for this club and work hard won us titles.
We need characters like this now.
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Who scored the goal that you celebrated hardest in your life?
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This is the worlds best players coached by the worlds best coaches playing the worlds best football
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Proposed football rule changes:
- if the goal is Cool it should never be disallowed
- if the match is Fun, halftime should be postponed or cancelled entirely
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Lisandro plays 2 or 3 passes a match that should not be possible
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Most people do not respond well to this kind of 'leadership,' but for some reason, in sports in particular, we've decided throwing hissy fits is what constitutes 'elite mentality'
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Really astonishing when you finish a day of watching football with a Man United match. Frightening amount of talent being leveraged tactically at amateurish levels. Never watched a team with that much pure quality look that plan-less in every phase
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I highly doubt you get both Amrabat and Todibo but if you do I think that's by far the best transfer window at United in an extremely long time. Like 10+ years from a volume + quality + fit perspective
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seriously who cares about this tie if licha is hurt long term
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reading rashford takes on the timeline... did I hallucinate or did he literally create every goal we scored today
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One of the funniest parts about all the Ronaldo stuff is that it was blatantly obvious that, for footballing reasons alone, signing him was an awful, awful idea for Man United in the first place
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at what point do we collectively accept that this has far less to do with the players and everything to do with the tactics and tactical instructions
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De Gea yelling at other people like he didn't just get lobbed 2 feet from the byline, be serious
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Grealish has been so good this season, I don't understand why there's a perception that he's been poor
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We've been arguing LW or in the double pivot when his best position was DOF all along
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Will be updating this as the months bear on
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*manager faces best team in the world after half a season with his new club while missing one of his two best players and loses*
ft: time to make broad sweeping statements
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seriously tho idk how you watch that game and think yes, this is a well coached side being let down by player quality
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just generally this makes me think about how poorly Bundesliga moves generally go for young Eredivisie players recently. Malen, Brobbey, Gravenberch, Zirkzee. Stop it man.
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Putting Lisandro Martinez aside for a moment (though I think he's a great example of someone who this applies to), I think people WILDLY overestimate the importance of height to centrebacks in the Premier League
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Not selecting your best players because they play a given role at club level that doesn't exist in your international setup is stupid, sorry
🚨 - Koeman: "No Frimpong? This is because of the system that we play in. He plays almost as a right winger. My right back should be able to defend well in the first place and I have my doubts about that."
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very random but I never saw anyone include this Cavani match when the whole 'what's the biggest I'm Him performance you've ever seen'
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down year at ajax after being widely regarded as the best prospect in the country, so he decides to go to a place with notoriously difficult competition for spots and higher quality players. Now he's basically out of the national team picture and broadly goes undiscussed
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The manner in which the Premier League is physical is not the manner in which people think of when they say physical
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When was the last time United laid into another top 6 side for a full 45 minutes like this?
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I swear poland have good players too, they're just playing sufferball because they like it
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Yea okay if we extend De Gea I am not watching this team anymore
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Tyrell Malacia in a tweet:
He's a strong passer, has a good engine and good physicals across the board. Capable of beating a player. Made big strides positionally going forward this year.
He's rash in a challenge at times and does tend to wander a bit defensively
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u kno how bad u gotta be to make us look that good. real bad. bad
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Some personal news: I graduated with my degree in Data Science from
@Northeastern
this past weekend. Now I'm looking for a job in Data Science! I'm particularly interested in opportunities in football, but I'd appreciate any leads in any sector that people might have :)
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For you my friend, osimhen swap deal
🚨 Cristiano Ronaldo has told Man Utd he wants to leave this summer, as
@DuncanCastles
reports. 37yo said to love club but wants to play CL + fight for top honours in final stage of career - doesn’t feel likely at
#MUFC
. Napoli among suitors
@TheAthleticUK
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This is an open invitation to unfollow me if you've listened to that audio clip and still think an acquittal in a court room is enough to support Greenwood playing for United again with a clean conscience
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Can't believe de gea looked at that and thought 'that's not a pressing trap'
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it is quite wild that this liverpool side might wind up with only 1 league and 1 CL for all this dominance
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Onana is really good and people will eventually accept that. That's one of the few things I haven't changed my mind about from the start of this season
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Dalot is not only better than wan-bissaka, I think he may just be genuinely good
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Laporte and VVD - probably the consensus 2 best CBs in the PL 2-3 yrs ago - both have come under fire for how theyve handled 1v1s recently. Makes ya think maybe the substance of good centrebacking isnt in how you handle situations where youre already at a massive disadvantage
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I think that was the best out of possession performance from United's front 4 since like lvg. Correctly identifying pressing opportunities, proactively shielding their teammates. That was awesome
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Seriously just fire Solskjaer I have no interest in any other dialogue surrounding that team
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In homage to WHO
▪️ Conte wanted him at Inter
▪️ Preferred role behind strikers
▪️ Always moving, showing for the ball
▪️ Wears No.44 in homage to Januzaj
📝
@CDEccleshare
,
@JamesHorncastle
and
@MarkCarey93
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POV: you're british and you've just discovered the pick and roll
Really nice example of why teams use blocking at set-pieces. Here's the corner that Inter opened the scoring with y'day. Notice how Dzeko is being marked by Tomori:
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Louis van Gaal will be managing his last competitive football this December, for better or worse. Why did he pick the squad that he did to bring to Qatar? I took a look at some of the more controversial choices he's made heading into the World Cup.
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I feel a lot worse about our chances in the FA cup final without antony
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Here's a version of this contextualized for pressure
Ball Security vs. Progression amongst Premier League Midfielders in the top half
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it's funny cuz every season we're like 'the prem top 4 race will be very competitive' and every year it's just a bunch of teams that should be incredible fighting tooth and nail to not be fraudulent every week
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Ronaldo might be the worst cf in transition in the premier league
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A few thoughts on wan-bissaka
1. No premier league club has challenged for a title in the post-pep era with a player as technically limited as wan-bissaka playing major minutes
2. To get through a full 50 match season you need at least 2 right backs
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every once in a while i think about the lisandro discourse back in august and chuckle
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You have to consider dropping casemiro at some point the guy is out there coughing up the ball under any degree of pressure and playing score hero when he isn't
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think the fanbase is gonna walk away from this match with the wrong idea of what vdb is
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Happy to see Mo Salah has found his level in the pocket of proud Rotterdammer and conference league finalist Tyrell Malacia
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Gotta say I love this Man United team. Could have easily folded after the red and the first goal but instead they buckled up and saw it out. Nice.
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Cavani's just straight up a better player than Ronaldo now. No asterisk, no caveat, just better
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this doing numbers is kinda crazy to me, do people actually think sides that use positional principles score fewer counterattacking goals
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Rashford as a 9 works in like 5-10 fixtures per season and otherwise it's an eyesore and bad use of his skillset and I have no interest in seeing it. There was definitely a time when he could've wound up a striker, that time has passed, he should simply play left wing
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wan bissaka what was that 😭 turned into streets won't forget ben arfa for 5 seconds
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ft anytime anyone loses to a better opponent:
*manager faces best team in the world after half a season with his new club while missing one of his two best players and loses*
ft: time to make broad sweeping statements
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Pep is the greatest manager of the modern age and there's no doubt city have handled this match tactically, but what I'm most struck by is the quality gap between city's spine and arsenal's. Both sides well coached but city's execution is pure insanity
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United splurging in late August on Sugar daddy Moyes' credit card:
West Ham are working to find a solution around Harry Maguire’s wages and believe a package of £55m-£60m could convince
#mufc
to sell him and Scott McTominay [
@JacobSteinberg
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I will refrain from making big statements after our 60-somethingth match of the season, but I don't think Eriksen should play for United regularly next year if his legs are as gone as they look
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I seriously don't think I could think of a worse move in terms of the pricepoint + age bracket + actual talent combination
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