That is fucking ridiculous and a disgrace. It was shit in Qatar in the middle of winter and it'll be shit in Saudi. What a joke. The levels of bribery and corruption in world football now is incredible.

And Chelsea

Yeah, experience from moderating over at !coys@lemmy.world is that you've just got to keep posting and posting and posting and gradually, very slowly, the numbers creep up. Same on Mastodon on the #MastodonFC and #COYS tags (can't speak for other clubs). You've got to give people a reason to come back.

Personally, I'm not sure the individual posts containing a single goal from a specific match is helping much. Makes the community seem very noisy. IMO would be better to have one thread per match with goals posted as comments. But I'm not mod here and others may feel differently, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

FWIW, I don't see the community as dead. I post a few things here and there's often a good number of votes and some good discussion. Seems far from dead to me.

English translation:

bild.de

National coach until Euros: EVERYTHING clear today with Julian Nagelsmann | Sports

Matthias Brügelmann, Christian Falk and Walter M. Straten

The successor to Hansi Flick (58) has apparently been found!

According to BILD information, the DFB and Julian Nagelsmann (36) have agreed in principle to work together until the 2024 European Championship. Only final details still need to be clarified. The monthly salary is expected to be around 400,000 euros.

Nagelsmann's contract with Bayern Munich will be terminated and he will move to the DFB on a free transfer. For the national coach job, he is thus waiving a lot of money. At Bayern he would have received around 20 million euros until 2026 for doing nothing. Now it's about 4 million euros in salary until the Euros. Then he'll be back on the market.

BILD knows: At a meeting today, the framework conditions are to be finalized and the contract finalized.

It's not the first time Nagelsmann has waived money in favor of a sporting challenge. At FC Bayern, he immediately accepted a 15 percent reduction in his already negotiated salary with Bayern, allegedly originally around 8 million euros, so that Bayern could pay the transfer fee to Leipzig for his RB coaching staff.

Who will Nagelsmann bring to the national team this time? From the coaching staff that Nagelsmann brought to FC Bayern in 2021, one is definitely ruled out: Dino Toppmöller (42) is now head coach at Eintracht Frankfurt. As SPORT BILD reported in its Wednesday edition, Nagelsmann had already spoken with his buddy and assistant Benjamin Glück (37): Glück would not have been willing to move abroad, but a DFB commitment is said to be conceivable. There is also co-coach Xaver Zembrod (57), who has not taken a job since being released by FC Bayern. His contract in Munich is still running, but he would be available for the DFB.

Nagelsmann doesn't have much time to turn our national team into title candidates. In October he will travel to America for international matches against the USA (14.10.) and Mexico (18.10.). In November there will be two more games. In addition to the test match against Austria in Vienna (21.11.), the DFB wants to organize a second game against Turkey in Berlin on November 18, according to BILD information. The international matches in the Euro 2024 year have not yet been determined. Currently four test matches are planned, a maximum of five if the new national coach Nagelsmann wishes.

Nagelsmann previously coached Hoffenheim, Leipzig and FC Bayern. At his last stop he had to leave in March and was replaced by Thomas Tuchel.

Flick was fired after the 1:4 against Japan. Of his last 17 games he had only been able to win four, the World Cup was over after the group stage. Now Nagelsmann follows Flick to the national team, just like he followed him at Bayern.

Yeah, obscene time wasting throughout the game from Sheffield will do that. New rules working as they should. Justice served.

Why the hell are people downvoting this? At least say why so I can answer any critiques or correct any issues.

What are your observations or interpretations of the data? Interested to hear what you think.

Hello!

Would be great if highlights and goals could be kept in a single matchweek thread or similarly organised somehow. They often crowd out and rapidly push down other content making it hard to see. I've sometimes logged in to find a wall of scores and match updates for stuff I'm not interested in (e.g. the wall of Copenhagen v Manchester United goals recently - would those not be better served up in a single thread rather than a post per goal?). Highlights are fine, but I can usually find extended highlights pretty easily on the many highlight websites out there (including YouTube). Posting scores here seems a bit redundant too - there are so many apps and websites now that provide live scores and in-depth stats.

But I appreciate these things might be useful to others so just appealing for perhaps a bit more organisation around them.

We Spurs fans had three defensive coaches in succession (Mourinho, Nuno, Conte) and those seasons were pure misery and without any progress, despite at least two of those coaches being proven "serial winners". There's a reason why top clubs in the Premier League aren't defensive – fans and the media hate it and it doesn't suit the league. The clubs at the bottom of the league tend to adopt more defensive low-blocks and mid-blocks out of necessity. Some clubs like Brentford and Wolves have had some success and are dubbed "giant killers" for adopting a low-block and counter-attacking style. But they're not top-4 contenders.

West Ham were steered to victory in the Europa Conference league by David Moyes and he is a notably defensive, pragmatic coach.

Also, in the 22/23 Champions league, 3 of the 4 Premier League clubs in the competition have lower GA/90 (goals against per 90) stats than Atletico:

• Atletico: 1.50
• Liverpool: 1.50
• Chelsea: 0.90
• Tottenham: 0.88
• Manchester City: 0.38

The eventual winners of the Champions League last year was of course City, with a total number of goals conceded of just 5 in a total of 1170 minutes of play. Atletico conceded 9 in only 540 minutes.

I don't think Simeone knows what he's talking about.

How do you get on touch with the admins?

That's my next question too. :)

It was originally posted to the Spurs community (and Mastodon). See here. I cross-posted it here because I thought it might be of general interest for other fans to see how their teams compare. The site used to make the graphs can be easily used for other comparisons. Worth having a play if interested.

You can post to Lemmy communities directly from Mastodon (they're both based on ActivityPub). You first follow the Lemmy community in Mastodon, then create a post that mentions the handle for the community (in this case, @coys@lemmy.world). The first line of the post becomes the title of the Lemmy post and subsequent lines the body. A little rainbow fediverse icon is displayed on posts that have been federated in from outside of Lemmy.

It works quite well, but there are a few quirks. You can't attach more than one image, for example, and you can't create URL posts. But replies work both ways, and if you favourite the post in Mastodon, it counts as an upvote. It's pretty neat

But it seems that posts that arrive via Mastodon can't be moderated? This could be hugely problematic. I mean, posts coming from Mastodon that can't be deleted - what could possibly go wrong? 😅

Looks like you can block users and instances, but that's not helpful when someone creates a post in error like I did. It's an easy mistake to make: you just mention the Lemmy community's handle.

Does this mean we all get to sue City and Chelsea too?

Think I found where the admins are listed. On https://lemmy.world/ in the sidebar at the bottom the admins are listed.

Thanks for the downvotes.

Yes, I think the data might be off. Physicality is supposed to be both duels and aerial duels won. Spurs are actually near the top of the tables for tackles and interceptions %. But we're third from bottom for aerial duels won %. Looking at the other charts and comparing to the data on FBref, it looks like DataMB is only using aerial duels for physicality.

I use Inoreader to subscribe to a bunch of quality feeds. It works with the usual RSS feeds and also YouTube (it automatically syncs in your subscriptions there), Reddit, and Telegram. I have filters set up on feeds that publish a lot of general football content so that I get just the stuff I'm interested in. E.g. the TalkSPORT YouTube channel I have a filter set so that I only get the Spurs and Brighton related videos.

The only football app I use is Sofascore. Also use the website a lot along with FBref and WhoScored. I find Soccercatch.com best place to find highlights.

The main RSS feeds I subscribe to are:

• The Athletic (Tottenham Hotspur and Premier League) (Inoreader has a button that loads the whole content of the article)
• The Guardian (Spurs and Jonathan Wilson)
• The Telegraph (Football)
• BBC Sport (Spurs)
• The Evening Standard (filtered for Spurs stuff)
• Sky Sports News (filtered for Spurs stuff)
• WhoScored (filtered for Spurs stuff)
• Fabrizio Romano Telegram (filtered for Spurs stuff - it's a mirror of his Twitter feed)

YouTube feeds I subscribe to:

• A bunch of Spurs channels (just ask if you're interested)
• Tifo IRL
• Great Touch TV
• FourFourTwo
• Football Made Simple
• Mastering Tactics
• Rabona TV
• Sky Sports Football
• TalkSPORT (filtered for Spurs stuff)
• Statman Dave Clips
• The Overlap
• The Purist Football
• Football Pundits
• Daily Mail Sport

Podcasts:

• A bunch of Spurs ones (The Game is about Glory, The Extra Inch, Gold and Guest, The View from the Lane, Chris Cowlin, The Fighting Cock)
• BBC Football Daily
• BBC 606
• The Athletic Football Podcast
• The Athletic Football Tactics Podcast
• Tifo Football Podcast
• The Ripple Effect
• The Guardian Football Weekly
• The Rest is Football
• Totally Football Show
• Athletico Mince

I also use Mastodon a lot (@hallenbeck@mastodon.online) with lists and hashtags. And I'm mod of the !coys@lemmy.world community :)

I don't think Haaland coming second is a fair representation of his stature as a striker enjoying the fruits of exceptional service. He's notably worse when Rodri and KDB aren't playing. The fact that goal scorers like Haaland get votes highlights what a weird award Ballon d'Or is. The focus should be on the team award with secondary individual awards for best positions (best 9, best 10, best wingers, 6, fullbacks, centrebacks, and gk).

Yes, the big league with their multiple camera angles led to so much scrutiny after the games, VAR felt somewhat inevitable. I'd like to see it radically scaled back. Goal line technology is fine. But get rid of the ridiculous offside checks and the debatable handballs and let the game flow. There's an argument emerging too that all the standing around waiting for decisions can lead to injuries as muscles cool and stiffen.

Feels like we’re approaching the point where rules about minutes played per week/month/year might need to be regulated.

It's complicated to legislate for, though. It's not just about limiting time played as a blanket policy across leagues. Context is important. Have a listen to this podcast with performance manager I posted a link to a few days back:

https://lemmy.world/post/8310123

Specifically the part starting at 33:15. It's not a straightforward problem to solve, sadly.

And yeah, the data shows refs are making incorrect decisions and Liverpool are benefiting from VAR overturning those decisions. It doesn't really paint a picture of Liverpool being particularly hard-done-by.