pep seems to not value fast guys

he already has Savinho & Doku & doesn’t play them

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i mean Chiesa is right there

pro tip: Dutch coaches tend to favor Dutch players above all else

to keep their country punching above World Cup weight

& preserve manager’s chance to coach NL national team some day

how else to explain favoring Gakpo & Frimpong over

Isak
Ekitike
Chiesa
Salah

consistently over season’s 1st half

we need VAR official ratings
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that must be a really thicc line they got there
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still seems a reach imo

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only thing i can come up with besides incompetence or malevolence is tv freeze-frame shot is a split second late👇🏼

& imo this is being very charitable to VAR official

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the only thing i can come up w/is tv broadcast freeze-frame seems to be taken tiny fraction of second after Bradley hits ball (you can see a slight separation there)

so maybe Wirtz onside before his front foot lands?

even accounting for this, seems a clear offsides from tv angles & color of grass

Wirtz is too small & slow to make it long term in EPL, which currently has lots of big, fast physical defenders Wirtz just simply cannot beat

ditto Gyokeres (yes for a high-end striker he’s short & slow)

unacceptable fails by these scouting departments

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or … put on as many *Dutch players* as possible to preserve option of managing NL national team later
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also … 🤨

it appears the goal was managed by spilling celery juice in the VAR’s offsides vid replay equipment, which in typical Brit bureaucratic fashion is mysteriously kept in a separate room from the actual VAR official