Callum Wright

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty If I could list some player who also started young and played an obscene amount of games in their career without injury issues that would cancel out your argument, right?

@CallumWright28 @1nsightty Plus they aren’t cherry picked, these are players who’ve got a high workload from a rlly young age as early as 17 that have suffered in there latter due to too much play time and responsibility. You can’t shoe horn kids into a team during a turbulent szn, it’s common sense.

Mental burnout is a real factor in why some young players don’t reach their expected peak. It’s not just injuries. Early heavy minutes = pressure, expectation, tactical responsibility, and reduced recovery time. That creates decision fatigue and slows development long-term.

@PhilBlundell @AlasdairMason Ah, so they mustn’t exist.

@AlasdairMason Yeah and I’ve no idea who is listening is my point

‘Winning the war with Gary Neville’ sounds mad to me. I see people regularly talking about the Overlap, know loads of people who listen, and I haven’t got a clue on this one, wouldn’t even know what day it came out, never see anyone talking about it. Barely even aware it exists.

@NotSlotaClue @SeanDOlfc @onlyfooty22 @__olanre What should he have done in both those situations, out of interest?

@SeanDOlfc @onlyfooty22 @__olanre The mistake he made against Brentford was not saving it. He shouldn't be rushing out in either of those situations, hilarious nonsense.

Maybe the people questioning Mamardashvili should question why he's faced 4 big chances in every game he's played bar Everton. Alisson has looked bang average this season.

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty I want the “sports science”. I’m interested in it, but I don’t think what he claims exists. Probably why he’s not answered.

@CallumWright28 @1nsightty I gave you real physical examples that make the statement true, what else do u want ?

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty He seems to be hiding from this.

@davethejuicegod @1nsightty He said “sports science now shows”. I want to see the science, not a list of cherry-picked players.

@HotPinkSupreme @NotSlotaClue You think that was good goalkeeping?

@HotPinkSupreme @NotSlotaClue 2nd. Schade has acres of space and the keeper retreats, giving him even more space and time.

@NotSlotaClue @HotPinkSupreme Same game he handed them a goal by moving back onto his line? Brentford away?

@HotPinkSupreme He made a ridiculous save in the Brentford game and should have saved the second goal. I can't think of any other errors he's made.

@NotSlotaClue I’d say his reluctance to come off his line can turn a chance into a big chance.

@beth_lindop Another transition season then?

Seen a fair bit of doom-mongering about the potential departure of senior players this summer. Of course, losing multiple leaders in one go is a concern - and sad, considering what they’ve achieved at Liverpool - but equally it shouldn’t be treated as some big conspiracy.

@1nsightty Let’s see the evidence then.

Sports science now shows players with extreme workloads before 21 often face recurring muscle issues later and earlier performance plateaus. Early exposure can shift a player’s peak forward but also bring their decline earlier than expected.

@RedOnesIre @Das_FPL @OneSGW Bringing in 2 players doesn’t magically make the other 9 fitter.

@Das_FPL @OneSGW City bought players in January when they were faltering, PSG players play less minutes over the course of a season by far than PL players, 34 games, no league cup, fixtures moved whenever they want, rested against poorer opposition.

So Chelsea and Liverpool are the 2 teams that have been outrun this season. Chelsea basically didn’t have a pre season due to the Club World Cup. Liverpools pre season was hugely disrupted due to the death of a teammate. Well no shit Sherlock!

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 Opposition teams playing long balls/throw-ins or with a low block isn’t a constraint. It’s their right to do it, and it’s part of your job to counter it. But we heard plenty from him about it. Sounds like excuses to me.

That’s still leaning on the idea they’re ‘excuses’ rather than constraints. If it was just ‘excuses’, it wouldn’t show up consistently in the data, and the club wouldn’t be aligned on it internally. They see the inputs and are aware of. If the read was that he’s basically not good enough, he wouldn’t be here. Managers don’t get protected out of some sentiment. Clubs are ruthless. The more likely read is this season is distorted, not definitive. And making a call off distorted inputs is how you get the decision wrong more often.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 Of course. That’s why I said you don’t get to see the other side. If he has another season where injuries are an issue do you give him another season hoping this will be “cleaner”?

Reality is that there is opportunity cost on both sides. Move early and you’re not avoiding risk, you’re swapping it for a different one. A new manager, new ideas, same structural issues, same transition. You reset again before fixing the squad, which is the real priority. ‘Finding the floor’ is also not passive. It’s seeing how someone operates when conditions stabilise. That hasn’t really happened apart from 24/25, and he took the team to first place. Judging before that point is just guessing. The ‘pool of managers’ point also hedges both ways. There isn’t some obvious upgrade sitting there, and clubs that churn managers mid-transition usually make things worse, not better. Fan point is fair, but that’s expectation management. If the environment is volatile, anyone looks worse. It’s why the smarter move is making the decision with clean inputs. Right now, too many of those inputs are distorted. That’s how you end up misreading noise as the pattern versus being the outlier. It’s why I’m sitting back and waiting for them to sort the squad, sort the prep and we can judge it all clean and clear.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 But, it looks like the club have decided to stick with him. Let’s hope they’ve got it right, because I can’t be arsed watching another season of dreadful football and hearing his excuses.

@SherekhanKlopp @carlton_hero @Carl_M79 You never get to see what the other scenario looks like so a decision needs to be made. My money is on him turning out to just not be that good. And I don’t think the fanbase is all the enamoured with him. If he starts badly next season it could turn toxic quickly again.

@carlton_hero @Carl_M79 The context matters because the PL isn’t played in a vacuum. Klopp would have had more PLs if he wasn’t competing against a City team and Pep at the top of their games. Slot benefitted from the opposite. That’s why the jury is out for me.

@carlton_hero @Carl_M79 It’s not a minor detail but he was helped a lot by having no real competition. Only needing 75 points to win a league has happened only 8 times in 33 years. Slot had one of those straight away. Arteta has surpassed that twice and will almost certainly do it this season.