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@MiguelDelaney "Football's "end of history" moment For XX years Guardiola's "positional" game was THE best practice in a homogenised sport Now it's not As everyone including Pep looks to individual magic set pieces counters there's new uncertainty about what next"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-16T09:41Z 240.7K followers, 72.3K engagements

"First time Amorim has successive Premier League wins at Manchester United - which may be psychologically significant as much as anything especially given where it came"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T18:36Z 240.7K followers, 24.5K engagements

"Entertaining if slightly shapeless match. United matching the intensity of their first half against Chelsea and look so much better than say the Brentford game two weeks ago"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T16:20Z 240.7K followers, 27.4K engagements

"On my free Monday newsletter today - what's eating Salah Why is it going badly Also how United exposed a particular issue that rival clubs have noticed in Liverpool and Forest's latest thinking Sign up here:"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-20T14:58Z 240.7K followers, 15.4K engagements

"Jon Brady is pound for pound probably the EFLs best manager this decade. He speaks about the addiction to a stressful job working with the LMA to identify coaching trends and how in his playing time anyone who did 3-5-2 was a guru"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-09T16:06Z 240.7K followers, 73.1K engagements

"I think Tuchel's management of Bellingham has been admirable. It sends a new message on stars and if it is indeed about squad standards/"intimidating" teammates good to try shape behaviour now (as he did with Neymar) rather than June"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-14T22:19Z 240.7K followers, 40.3K engagements

"Harry Kane and the key sporting trick of wiping failure He says he doesn't even think of the penalty against France and is focusing on XXX England goals"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-15T22:26Z 240.7K followers, 12.6K engagements

"@nickbar35 Netherlands and Portugal were better (But yes)"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T00:48Z 240.7K followers, 7234 engagements

"@dan1kelly But it was a World Cup characterised by upsets where the top players were exhausted due to the CL expansion. Turkey reached the semis. Nobody remembers Hasan Sas or Bulent Korkmaz now"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T10:41Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@NotHowardWebb1 then you didn't watch. Have a look at the 2-1 at Highbury in 1999 or the 4-2 at Highbury in 2005. As for dragging Ireland to the World Cup watch the home games against Portugal and Netherlands in 2001"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T12:20Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@DM21___ @TheBrickovich it's not. It was pulled out of the front two (or if you want to go back to the 1950s the front five). It is the position that is indulged. Maradona absolutely was not a midfielder"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T18:31Z 240.7K followers, 1673 engagements

"@LFC19933 for most of his peak English clubs were nowhere near as wealthy as their European counterparts. When United won it the Premier League was ranked sixth in Europe"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T19:23Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@NolanBonotto Here's Marca discussing Madrid's best ever midfielders. They don't mention Zidane as they don't see him like that"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T20:25Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@aanthonyxvi it's sort of changed in such a systemised game. Messi was obviously as pure a XX as you can get in the 2022 World Cup. Odegaard and Eze are pretty close. Wirtz feels like he could be"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T20:27Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@the_buff @nickbar35 it's quite a weird feeling as you're mostly quite flat. Often make the decision over who it "serves" better - so Spain were in to win Euro 2012 whereas Ireland were almost done after the Croatia game so I wanted Spain to win more. You almost make a logical decision on it"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T20:51Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@aa_creedbratton I'm leaning towards the 1986 third-place play-off. I think (could be wrong) the advertising hoardings make it a World Cup and the brightness looks like that Mexico World Cup"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T23:36Z 240.7K followers, 1140 engagements

"@MeatBadness @Andymb28 And I saw him put in a series of the best midfield performances ever seen for Ireland multiple times. Especially Portugal and Netherlands at home two of the best teams in the world"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T08:56Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@MikeNumber5 yes have often thought this and more how there actually isn't "a transfer market" for managers"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T11:32Z 240.7K followers, 1678 engagements

"@MikeNumber5 I think there has been some sense he's hit a ceiling at Fulham mind (good side) - also he may fancy a big six job given he's now been close a few times and his next move arguably his last chance"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T11:48Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@UberForest A clause"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T11:55Z 240.7K followers, 1056 engagements

"@MikeNumber5 can't see Emery moving any time soon given how much the club is built around him"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T11:59Z 240.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@AndCapernosity @fonforest it's nonsense"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T12:07Z 240.7K followers, XX engagements

"@AndCapernosity @fonforest I think hed consider it"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T12:33Z 240.7K followers, XX engagements

"@jamesie_2015 @Paul_Morrissey Redondo was superb to be fair but was plagued by injuries which probably prevented him reaching his level. Also played in a patchy Madrid era. They could finish fifth and yet somehow span a CL"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T17:48Z 240.7K followers, XX engagements

"@Paul_Morrissey @jamesie_2015 you've just watched a six-min clip not the game and evidently haven't watched the full Portugal match. If you think Irish nostalgia is an influence on this I think you've gone too far the other way and it's almost a wilful contrariness about it based on one idea of midfield"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T19:09Z 240.7K followers, XX engagements

"Vintage Mourinho as he leaves his technical area - by some distance - to implore the Benfica fans not to throw stuff at Enzo Fernandez. Peace-maker"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-09-30T19:41Z 240.7K followers, 21.9K engagements

"That was quick in almost every sense"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T13:45Z 240.7K followers, 36.7K engagements

"One for @FootballCliches but CLASSIC 1980s fare Twins is on - with what looks a World Cup image in the background. But what players/game Is that Platini"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T23:18Z 240.7K followers, 28K engagements

"Given the expectation to win immediately and given a squad built for the total opposite of his preferred ideology you really have to wonder why Postecoglou took this job"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-18T12:40Z 240.7K followers, 39.1K engagements

"High-profile players have been privately complaining about how so much of the game is now "duels""
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-16T09:42Z 240.7K followers, 31.8K engagements

"A very pointed final line in a statement from the UK Football Policing Unit on the Maccabi story if the government want a role in regulating football events that could be termed events of national significance then they need to bring forward legislation"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-17T13:15Z 240.7K followers, 229.5K engagements

"Having surveyed some of the reaction to this I find it incredible people think Roy Keane was some duffer workhorse as opposed to the best midfielder in the world - which is absolutely what he was And I should stress: this is my professional opinion. Watch him"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-17T23:53Z 240.7K followers, 376.4K engagements

"Forest want Silva but Fulham would want 10m"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T10:59Z 240.7K followers, 86.3K engagements

"Once lampooned Maguire is a model of perseverance a quality United needed at Anfield They got the luck that has deserted them in other games amid positive signs Liverpool created so much but the whole still isn't right"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-19T19:44Z 240.7K followers, 30.3K engagements

"I complete a run of THREE successive @podcast_libero before a two-week break This week with @RorySmith and @JackPittBrooke on Postecoglou coaching choices and the main character energy of Premier League managers"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-21T09:31Z 240.7K followers, 12.2K engagements

"@Shizao_ The Premier League because of its immense wealth just quickly sucks up anyone doing anything innovative and - crucially - effective"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-21T10:12Z 240.7K followers, 1867 engagements

"@Shizao_ The end of the article says this though and also points to how Positional Play still works if you have time"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-21T11:38Z 240.7K followers, XX engagements

"Video piece Theres already one big change from Manchester United last season and its how theyre flooding the opposition box"
X Link @MiguelDelaney 2025-10-22T10:32Z 240.7K followers, 19.1K engagements