Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

Fantastic presser out of possession then uses world class pace in transition.

Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style
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Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style
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Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

Who is Ricky Jade Jones: Biography, Skills and Playing Style
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That’s a lot of old legs. #mcfc #facup

So while the Champions League still holds a massive advantage in prestige, history, and importance. You can easily argue that just making the Club World Cup gives a club a considerably larger financial advantage over its domestic rivals.

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But the Club WC only allows 2 clubs per country, creating a massive financial advantage just for participating over all but one domestic rival.

Eg: Manchester City & Chelsea are in line for huge paydays.

Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United & Tottenham get nothing.

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But because of how many teams qualify for the Champions League - often at least four in the top nations - winning doesn’t give you a huge financial advantage over domestic rivals.

If winning the UCL earns ~€100M, your club’s competitors may still have made ~€50-75M.

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Clubs and fans would still much rather lift a Champions League trophy, as the prestige vastly outweighs the slight difference in prize money.

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FIFA just announced the prize money for the Club World Cup and it’s $1 billion!

The winner could get upwards of $125M.

That’s more than the current Champions League winners, though not by a lot.

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Does the Club World Cup Prize Money Make it More Important than the Champions League? YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

See the full discussion here on our YouTube channel:

Does the Club World Cup Prize Money Make it More Important than the Champions League?
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One single announcement by FIFA made the Club World Cup more important than the Champions League.

Not better, but more important.

I’ll explain 🧵

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What Went Wrong: 3 Things the USMNT Need to Fix, and One They Can't YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

There’s a lot more to breakdown here. I went into full detail today on the channel. Check it out!

What Went Wrong: 3 Things the USMNT Need to Fix, and One They Can't
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4️⃣ While we can’t excuse the players for a lack of intensity, the US Soccer Federation does them no favors.

🚫 4pm local start
🚫 no fans
🚫 70k capacity non-soccer stadium
🚫 narrower pitch than normal which plays against their strengths

When will we get a true home stadium?

Their best option on the pitch last night was Pulisic but he spent half his game out wide, switching on and off with Weston McKennie, who is a good player but is miscast as a 10.

3️⃣ Reyna’s absence, and the lack of depth behind him, cause the #USMNT’s biggest problem - the lack of a creative playmaker.

Without Reyna the US lack a true number 10. Their attackers are more speed-based. They’re good in space, but they’re not good at creating space.

At what point do we recognize that Reyna is the common denominator and assign him some of the blame, not for being injured but for why his last half dozen coaches all choose to leave him out?

Not everyone can be wrong.

2️⃣ Everyone keeps waiting for Gio Reyna to be the answer and play a major role, and after yesterday has been quick to blame Pochettino for not playing him.

But he’s now had multiple managers at both Dortmund and the US who don’t seem eager to put him on the pitch.

1️⃣ the #USMNT have improved their depth dramatically over the last five years, but not in certain key areas. They still lack depth in:

🔴 Striker
🔴 Goalkeeper
🔴 Fullback
🔴 Number 10/creative attacking midfielder

The #USMNT’s loss to Panama in the Nations League was bad, no matter how you break it down. But there some things they can change, and some that they can’t.

Let’s discuss them all 🧵

Had a busy day today and haven’t seen anything live but going to go back and watch full games this evening.

So far on the list is:

•Man City to see Marmoush/Nico additions
•Real Madrid to understand the Bellingham red card

What else?

For Better or Worse, Tottenham Hotspur Are Having a Historic Season YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

For Better or Worse, Tottenham Hotspur Are Having a Historic Season
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#coys #TottenhamHotspur

Has the New Champions League Format Killed the Super League? YouTube video by The Pitchside Pub

Has the New Champions League Format Killed the Super League?

#UCL #ChampionsLeague

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I think “dribbly boy moves” should be an official stat

For Forest, they’ve made themselves successful by avoiding the overpay and finding undervalued talent. This is the opposite.

For Arsenal, they’ve spent money and acquired tons of talent, none of which is a true striker. This is the same.

Either way I don’t think it makes sense.

Please tell me about how Erling Haaland is only good around the goal. Tell me how he cant help in build up play. Tell me how he’s not a good passer & doesn’t make teammates better. Tell me hes a tap in merchant.

That way you won’t have to tell me you don’t watch him play. #mcfc

I’ll tell you what, once he’s ready to play for Como, an attacking three of Dele Alli, Nico Paz and Assane Diao is going to be one of the most fun to watch in Europe.

No idea if they’ll be good, but man that’ll be a must-watch for a lot of reasons.

#comoatalanta

And this, almost as much as the poor decision making, is why #ManchesterUnited hasn’t been successful in a decade.

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Yet here we are again with an octogenarian blowhard making ridiculous claims about a former star player with no experience saving the day.

Which would be fine if nobody listened. But then it gets repeated in the football echo chamber and pushed by mainstream media.

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The prevalence of these opinions permeates the fanbase and leads to restlessness, and thus when any manager doesn’t immediately win, they call for his head.

•Moyes
•van Gaal
•Mourinho
•Solskjær
•Rangnick
•ten Hag
•Amorim

They can’t all have been bad managers.

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So the fans get blasted with opinions about how the current team doesn’t stack up to the “good old days,” which of course they don’t but for many reasons that go well beyond the exploits of that generationally talented group.

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