Association Football 2023/2024 Discussion Thread

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Arsenal's perfect start got upended by Manchester United 3-1. Gabriel Martinelli's wrongly disallowed goal by VAR changed the course of the game.

Nah. Obvious foul on Eriksen.

If the ref had given a foul at the time, I would not have complained, but I really don’t think there’s enough in it — “clear and obvious error” — for VAR to overturn it. Ødegaard doesn’t get the ball, but Eriksen goes down extremely easily.

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Yeah, however objectionable Leipzig’s backstory may be, especially in a country with as strong of a fan-owned, grassroots football culture as Germany, at least they have a model of youth development, and basically don’t make any big money buys. Very, very, very different from PSG, Chelsea or Man City in that regard.

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Could a third spell for Mourinho be in the cards? He's a club legend and is the box office personality American owners love... and I'm sure he'd walk back to London if he were offered the job.

All the reports I’ve seen suggest their main target is Graham Potter, and if not him, Pochettino or Zidane (the latter of whom, having turned down PSG during the summer because he’s waiting for the France job to become available, is almost certainly not going to want to come to Chelsea).