city very deliberately changed their squad to get younger. only two players in this team 30 or over (ake and b. silva). i feel like that should mean a pep guardiola team is better at pressing than this.

kim is good at the football writing

ok honest answer how do i look, like seriously

well done, he's 20

chelsea planning a centre back pairing of Levi Jacket next season

why do man city employ four senior goalkeepers. what is possibly the benefit there.

how mad should i be at a random banking app that incorrectly labelled a payment to my newsletter as a payment to the app OneFootball, causing a customer to flag it as a fraudulent payment (for which he has apologised, he did nothing wrong).

he didn't get on with ruben amorim, you see

great to see this sort of big game between two english managers

i have no real opinion on whether liam rosenior is good at managing football teams, but it's hard not to like the guy

Sports are a way for these folks to legally define trans women as men so they can apply it to other areas of civil rights law. Sports work because people view sports as entertainment and not having stakes. So when they try to thread this needle it breaks down because of the bigotry!

it is kind of wild how antoine semenyo is a genuine case of coming up through the old fashioned way. born in london, could've played for england or france, but i don't think they even knew much about him until he was a senior ghana international.

steve holland as carrick's assistant at man utd. worked with gareth southgate at england. harry maguire just won the lottery.

if you asked me last week i would've probably guessed Conor Hourihane was still playing

xabi alonso turned down the bayern and liverpool jobs so he could wait for real madrid

xabi alonso should be an even bigger club legend for selflessly doing this

every now and again, real madrid must make a ritual sacrifice to justify their "no tactics, just vibes" approach.

Xabi Alonso turned Real Madrid into a dominant machine for two months and the players were like “fuck no, don’t like this at all!”

Enzo Maresca

I need this to be a reality show. "The Manager"

some actual football as well! www.graceonfootball.com/p/mailbag-ma...

@graceonfootball.com me seeing you put Fire & Ash at your number one spot. Hell yeah.

no one of pep's prodigies is taking a job until we know what's happening with city in the summer

surely they'd be better off ignoring carrick to focus on gerrard and lampard

i need to find a third pep guardiola quote. every single time i just quote that interview with gab marcotti from 2004 or the time when he talked about overloading one side of the pitch in pep confidential. those two explain his entire coaching philosophy.

sherlock holmes over here

he's more british than will still, arguably

alternate timeline where fifa let fabio capello give him a handful of caps and mikel arteta is on course to become the first english manager to win the premier league.

what is the point of kerkez. what is he supposed to be bringing.

i think my number one rule with hiring managers is to assume they're not going to change their ideas about how to play football. i'm sure they all say they can change in the interview, but if they haven't coached a suitable style before, assume they can't.

it was like two or three years ago that @graceonfootball.com said about Thomas Frank, if you haven't shown a demonstrated set of ideas for how to use possession to create scoring chances, no matter how solid your record is otherwise, you're a big risk at any richer team ...Grace knows some football

broadcasters should ask for a refund. the whole season has been filler until the final day.

the difference between britain and america is that gen x are the cause of everything wrong with the former

this summer could be a great time to be an available manager

hard to argue amorim was too hard done by, but at the same time, not really persuading anyone it was about performance rather than being mean about the bosses.

Football is so complacent it's unreal

he is significantly better than this

some team should just outright embrace this and say they're a comedy club. lighten things up in football a bit.

If I'm a Chelsea fan I want to see David Baddiel given a go. He's a Chelsea man to the core - has served time elsewhere & there's no reason he can't do what Lampard is doing at Coventry - with better tools.

ok, here's a new series i'm very excited to be writing! www.graceonfootball.com/p/what-went-...

zooming out, i feel like the macro story at liverpool is they needed a lighter touch manager post-klopp who wasn't going to totally change everything to enforce his own ideas about football, but next season they need a new "tactical teacher" to build a side.

it's like winning the Club World Cup doesn't even mean anything anymore games gone tbh

no shirt sponsor really is a perfect metaphor for how chelsea are run top to bottom.

i was looking up the chelsea sporting directors and that's all i need to know

guus hiddink is sat at home

i love that these are all next to each other

would be a funny bit for villa fans to now suddenly start talking about xG

does arsene wenger enjoy watching this arsenal team lol

don't know which is worse, the coca cola advert done by ai or the one with the gary neville voiceover.