buckets - luxuurrriieee - my club can't afford buckets -

degrees are like languages imo - the more you do the easier they become

As a fellow American, I think they are great and must watch TV each week.

Probably similar to how the French thought Jerry Lewis was Murica's best actor..

If you guys haven't seen spotlight yet I highly recommend it.

A Twitter gem:

My granddad told me about Pele. My father told me about Maradona. I will tell my children about Özil.

Would love to see the same starting XI vs Utd except Campbell in for Ox. Hope Flam will be contained in the FA cup or last 20mins vs Bmouth types if we are in the lead by 3.

Campbell offers so much both in defense and attack. Stronger, a lot smarter on the ball and runs like there is no tomorrow... I've no clue why Wenger prefers to play Ox?

pace

Don't care who plays down the right on Sunday as long as it ain't ox. The kid is clueless which is bad enough and now his confidence is shot to pieces. I still hold faint hope he may come good but to do so he needs a loan move I feel this summer or maybe just bite the bullet and let him go for a decent offer. Makes me sad as I raved to everyone what a star he would become

Usain Bolt is fast...let's try him out.

But in all seriousness Campell > Ox...if we want to add pace just put Walcott instead of Ox.
He at he least won't try to Cazorla the ball out of our own half and lose it multiple times.

That said, come back already Santi

pace is multifarious
Ox has great acceleration with and without the ball while having great balance to go with it
theo doesn't have that

a bit of intelligence/awareness and he would be a superstar. But as the saying goes if my grandmother had testicles she would be my grandfather...

He also has the most excellent tendency to run into brick walls when picking up pace aka the defense. Just running simply doesn't do the trick anymore, gotta use that brain and think 1-2 steps ahead.

Pretty sure I said Ox>>>Sterling as recently as last summer. :sad:

Was hoping the excellent finish away at Bournemouth would kickstart his confidence, but perhaps not. I love how hard he always tries (doesn't hide), but at the same time sometimes he desperately needs to just keep things simple.

I wouldn't worry about it, I've proclaimed Ibe as the second coming of Christ. Quickly changing my mind on that, the guy has less game intelligence than Ox.

Feel like MW made a statement about Depay being the best youngster in the world. I'm sure we'll dig them all out at the end of the season.

i remember some lolplop and arse fans telling that HURRIKANE will be lucky to score 10 goals.

And that he was a one season wonder...

Half the country thought that tbf.

I was never on the Kane hate to much of an extent but I think the smart money when someone comes out of pretty much nowhere to have an incredible season is to assume there will be some regression.

Sheffield Wednesday post 10+ minute highlights of their matches on youtube. Really enjoyed watching that this morning, though they were denied two clear penalties in the match. QPR normally posts exactly 60 seconds and makes you pay for extended highlights.

They had some names that surprised me: Bannan, Hooper, McGeady. Bannan always strikes me as being so composed on the ball, never looks rushed.

I read somewhere, don't remember where, that Kane ran like 8 EPL goals above expectation last season.

It wasn't me I'm a pretty big Kane truther

Kane has 11 non-penalty PL goals this season while playing every single minutes and taking more shots than everybody else in the league.

Those are good numbers and he's definitely settling as a good striker going forward but this season of his isn't exceptional by any means

I'm one of those ****ers that bet Benteke > Kane. Me so good...

Never a Premier League footballer as long as I have a hole in my arse was my description, I think.

I would guess Kane will always run above EV for goals (at least when using xG models) as his shooting is so accurate.

So compare Kane to Giroud. Kane has a shot accuracy of 64%; Giroud 54%.

In addition, Kane takes 33% of his shots outside the area; while Giroud its 4%.

So (I think) xG rates both of their chances equally, at least in terms of equating their distance from goal to their chance of scoring. Giroud will get a lot of chances that come to him quickly that he has to take first time, or that are close to goal but is a headed chance and the ball is slightly too high. Meanwhile, when Kane sets himself from 25 yards out, there is a better than average chance he gets it on target, significantly more so than other players (only Kane, Mahrez and Eriksen have >60% shot on target for players with >50 shots).

Basically, xG (again, as far as I know) doesn't differentiate between shooting skill of the player. So it will say that Kane is running good, when in actual fact he is just better than pretty much everyone at shooting.