Isak to replace Gyokeres in champions Arsenal double deal; AI picks better Man Utd XI than Amorim

In a specifically silly Mailbox, Tool kit have been backed to symbol Alexander Isak to replace Viktor Gyokeres in a twin bargain after becoming victors.

Also, ChatGPT owns been passed on with picking Manchester United’s launching XI vs Leeds United, and if you disregard a pair of glaring wrangles, it owns done a much more detailed job than Ruben Amorim.

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A tale of two supervisors…

One counteract after another is how the embattled Arne Adapter is characterising this season, yet he’s still in a job, still fighting away isn’t he. Unanimously at once, Enzo Maresca owns amassed his P45 under a substantial stormy blue cloud, and by the way I’m steadly prompted of Will Ford’s perfidious prediction Adapter would certainly be sacked by January 4th (of last year, not this).

At that time, practically two years previously now, I remembering writing in to say no one would certainly have Maresca at their club, that he was extraordinarily privileged to be at Stamford Catwalk. Apparently Maresca’s inventory climbed up and oh how the revolve tables and all that, since it became BlueCo who were seemingly extraordinarily privileged to have employed Maresca. Because truthfully what supervisor in planet football with the proper bonafides / in their correct minds / with expeditious volitions would certainly yearn to go and juggle Chelsea these days.

The top three stare well entrenched, so Liverpool and Chelsea are the likeliest two to finalize for the last music chair place for next off season. To me, on integrate, it’s a coin flip. Either team could avail in, or ffs perhaps Sunderland boom to lastly and press Suite correct into 4th and wouldn’t that simply be unconscionable for the league and in addition boil barrels of Magpie piss. But in between Liverpool and Chelsea at least, it’s super legible which owners I’d instead job for, and while I won’t be baited by all of Will Ford’s low-hanging anti-Liverpool fruit, often I perform really feel urged to say something in protection of my club.
Eric, Los Angeles CA (But I’m a nice sport… also the anti-Liverpool fruit can be nutritious on its day.)

ChatGPT arrays a much more detailed Guy Utd development (and XI?) than Amorim…

As I shadowed Amans toys come flying of his stroller, one point he asserted did intrigue me… who would certainly ChatGPT pick?

So I inspected it… “Who would certainly you pick to dabble for Manchester United versus Leeds on 4th January 2026? You can pick whichever development you reckon will certainly win.

Manchester United XI (Jan 2026)

Goalkeeper: Andre Onana

Amazing recourse for dabbling by means of strains and facing Leeds’ press.

Defence:

RB: Diogo Dalot

Praiseworthy, sporting activities, and disciplined away from residence.

CB: Lisandro Martínez

Aggression, leadership, and composure in hostile games.

CB: Matthijs de Ligt

Physical existence to bargain with Leeds’ linear dabble and undercurrent-borne menace.

LB: Luke Shaw (or irreparable substitute if revolved)

Ordeal and integrate on the escaped side.

Midfield 3:

CDM: Manuel Ugarte

Fulcrum for harmful up dabble and complimenting Leeds’ extent.

CM: Kobbie Mainoo

Sooth under strains, helps United uphold the sphere once Leeds press.

CM: Bruno Fernandes (c)

Energy, leadership, persuading, and opportunity drifter in substantial away games.

Strike:

RW: Alejandro Garnacho

Linear, bold, high-hazard in readjust.

LW: Marcus Rashford (or elite winger signing)

Rate in behind is inalienable versus Leeds’ predatory back babble.

ST: Rasmus Højlund

Physical, rebellious presser, expands in high-tempo intensifies.

A couple of wrangles with that myriad Aman. Earlier to the sweep board.
Joe, London

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What if Tool kit accepted two brand-newfangled strikers after electrifying the Premier League…

To fill a bit fragment of a lazy no football day, I assemble a bingo, or perform we simply say bingo.

It’s based on the opinion that if Tool kit were to become Champions, one of the stances they’d simplify would certainly be at centre foward. How a digit coinage would certainly flooding correct into the strongboxes as winners? Unsure. Perhaps also two centre forwards.

So the initially team is a Premier League backed one, Victor is not this. Watkins is not attending be the faultless reward for coinage, yet for sure an upgrade on Gyokeres. What about Oscar Bobb? There are rumours that Municipal could enable him reject and at the prelude of the season he was peeking instead nice.

But the most exciting, I reckon, is Isak. He’ll glean from his gone beyond leg, stare fashionable in an Tool kit shirt and would certainly be highly pricey; unexplained person things have happened.

The second team is the aged pro to stick ‘em in from all the opportunities invented. This team owns to be pioneered by the Gloss killer Robert, who I believe could be accepted on a give off. Yes he is perhaps also ratty for a week to week prem’ yet indisputably he’d triple Victor’s ambitions account.

Alvaro Morata? Seemingly dabbling for Francesc Fabregas at Como. Not super nice, arguably worse than Gyokeres.

Unanimously correct, outward the Premier League, stare nice on documents team: Julian Alvarez at Atletico Madrid could be the solution, he’d be super pricey yet gettable, can also be Gunners followers much-loved recourse.

There is Vlahovic, a person Tool kit longed previously they got cheated correct into Gabriel Jesus , at the time Dušan didn’t showy ‘em apparantly . Might revolve out to be another waste of coinage.

The Nigerian lad in Turkey? Defo much more detailed that their current Victor yet rumours of condiment elbowroom dissonance administer it bizarre. Super same can be asserted about Ivan Toney.

X Municipal boy Ferran Torres is an exciting one, some say also most injuries and English football isn’t so kind to players grossed of granite ,enable one by one glass.

Whomever is the flavour of the month in the Bundesliga? Hit and miss at faultless.

If Internazionale win the league after that Lautaro Martinez arguably becomes ungettable. Rodrygo Goes doesn’t in reality count unless it’s as nicely as a centre onward.

Zero, here is my faultless shriek. He’s termed Mikel , so arguably Basque . Simply as Arsene loved an unheralded french boy, Arteta is warm of a Gipuzkoan.

He’ll dabble up front for Spain in the summer season – arguably win the Earth Cup hence have to be bundled off early doors, aloof attending price half a Gyok’.

Pros: he intensifies correct into the Tool kit mechanism, would certainly have nice accomplices in Raya, Zubimendi , Merino and Arteta . And Oyazabal can suit correct into the syllables of Gyokeres’ chant :- his name is Mi-Kel Mikel- Oyaza- bal.

Though I perform concur Swedish girls stare super nice.

A bit bit fragment youthful than Merino Zazon yet era could be the aloof unrequested to viewing Oyazabal with a cannon on his chest next off season.
Peter (Harry simply wouldn’t) Andalucia

Is top-level coaching in reality uncomplicated?

This is a super arbitrary shame yet how shocking is top level coaching?

I can cogent a bit fragment shocking here yet if you have a condiment elbowroom where super couple of talk English as a initially language and most escaped university at 16 I assume it’s vastly not Hadron Collider kind paraphernalia.

But what is the emphasis? Brings out Pep emphasis on weaknesses to be exploited and after that pick a team to finalize that? So the players go out realizing they wanna run down the escaped more and that’s about it?

I know Henry did that point about posing and how Pep at Barca basically was super inflexible about posing till the sphere went correct into the last lastly. But that still appears reasonably moderate no? Helps your team be more good about where users will certainly be in order to manipulate elbowroom.

Arteta and Howe are seemingly fixated on strategic fouls as a means of facing readjust whilst Klopp grossed earn service of of to like the principle of counter persuading and gleaning strategic catches. But again none of this is exceedingly shocking. So what’s the problem in between coaching standards and why did Ferguson avail more out of players than Roy Evans, as a far-flung instance? Or is it simply about the faultless players and disregarding also most injuries? Rafa did this wily point a couple of times where he kit the team up to show up like they were dabbling one development and after that as swiftly as the video game launched they’d swiftly switch to something else. A couple of times in the victors league we racked up a pair of early ambitions and after that switched to shut out pose for 150 minutes. So is that simply a bit bit fragment bait and switch ruse; you administer the other team reckon you’re dabbling 4-5-1 yet immediately dabble 3-5-2 and flooding additional players correct into rooms they’re not pregnant. That I can picture is perhaps energetic to train yet after that perhaps not.

There are seemingly in addition glaring fiascoes like Amorim dabbling a team that was designed by ETH for a couple of years to dabble 4-5-1 immediately being urged to dabble 3-5-2. Angeball is nice viewing yet basically not super thrifty it appears.

Other unexplained things. When Brendan Rogers became Liverpool supervisor I remember an interview with a player and he spoke positively about how all the sessions entailed a sphere. Also Ajax perform this from at all levels termed the 1000 touch bargain to administer sure their players are all comfy with the sphere at their feet. Perhaps on this latter time the in reality art of coaching is designing coaching regimens that substantiates players bargain with real video game disorders? I recall Klopp coaching striking regimens for this choosy element; snag the believed out and users can after that be on autopilot and concede more reliably.

Any person with some coaching debacle please devise in and enlighten me or linear me to some reading item about strategic coaching.
Minty, LFC

‘This expects meh’

Earlier to job today. Nabbed my cup of tea and sat down to read the F365 Mailbox previously launching the annual labor. I was wanting to situate some mouth watering emails on Liverpool’s latest malaise to revel in schadenfreude, and so I was initially super disgruntled to situate entirely nothing there. This after I was in addition disgruntled that there was no cite of it on MOTD last night either, all the professionals were chatting about was how nicely Leeds had done.

Then, I realised, this latest upshot asserted something far more weighty. Their dearth of kind and headaches this season have been THE hot topic of controversy so far as the deprive was so sizeable after they somehow juggled to win the League last year. But their (dearth of) kind owns now become delightfully inessential. Not fruitful of annotation. This is who they are. “This expects more” ™ owns become “This expects meh” ™ to almost every person.

Long could it bolster! Wondrous 2026!
Colin

Spurs in reality have to have stored Brennan Johnson…

I instead valued Phil, London’s letter about Tickner’s Lewis TM – Johnson – Levy dilemma.

But every person appears to have missed the time. Tickner appears to reckon it’s ok to sell Johnson for 75% of what Spurs paid for him. Because Spurs ‘wear’t dabble that means any kind of longer’.

Would someone subconscious telling me what means Spurs perform dabble? Because I couldn’t enlighten you and I’m a season ticket storekeeper at WHL.

The basis of the post appears to be that Johnson is a super refused footballer who can aloof dabble one means. Okie dokes. That one means did upshot in a mart couple of ambitions last season. Retain in mind ambitions? They’re nice and slightly mandatory if you’re attending win football intensifies. Johnson is 24. He owns ambitions and helps under his belt and is coachable.

Oliver Glasner appears to reckon he can be supportive. Perhaps he’s shadowed the means Johnson melds with Solanke and supposes he could perform the same with Mateta. But here’s the point. Perhaps Solanke won’t be injured forever. And perhaps Kudus will certainly tote on being the player who’s got 1 willingness and 1 facilitate his last 11 games. And perhaps Solanke x Johnson could have been a point again afterwards in January once Kudus is also more knackered and peeking a digit like second season at West Ham Kudus. But we’ll never know since by after that the Mateta – Johnson disclose will certainly be in complete swing. And Spurs will certainly be retrieving vanquished 3 – 0 by Municipal with Tel replacing Odobert on 78 minutes.

So thanks for every little thing Brennan. Sorry a digit of users fared your back yet it appeared to in reality spur you on. Hope it all addresses for you at Palace.

Joys
Andrew, Woodford Green

Wear’t perform it, Liam…

Brentford v Brentford was almost as unrequested as Ekitike (and the criminally underused Ngumoha, yet aloof from minutes 83, seemingly) v Leeds.

Still, got Rosenior v Chelsea followers (an unnerving digit of whom are termed Jason) to stare onward to in 26. Wear’t perform it Liam, it won’t expire nicely for you and you show up like a nice fella.
RHT/TS x

An irrelevant realization about Thomas Frank…

Hello Football365,

I wear’t uphold Tottenham Hotspur. I wear’t detest them either. I simply watch football and, as a result, sometimes have to stare at them.

Sadly, this in addition expects peeking at Thomas Frank chomping chomping gum tissue.

The amenable-mouthed, jaw-onward, complete-dedication chomping that accompanies every touchline close-up is sincerely contemptible. It’s not predatory, or pensive, or cheerful. It’s simply uninviting. Chummy your mouth once you’re chomping, for f***’s purpose, Thomas. Were you f***ing dragged up?

This owns entirely nothing to perform with ploys, outcomes, or league posture. I would certainly merrily rest by means of any kind of development known to dude if it asserted not having to watch a flourished pornographic eat like that on television.

I wear’t yearn analysis. I wear’t yearn controversy. I simply yearn it to shield versus.

Yours, with petty intent,
Ant