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tara mentions viv as one of the best players she’s played with ! <3

But now there’s potentially 5 teams fighting for 3 spots with LCL (if the issue with Lyon gets resolved, which it will) - I don’t know if United will be bothered to increase their budget to keep pace with that. If Arsenal Chelsea City LCL are all chucking loads of money at fighting it out for 3 qualifying places…. United don’t have a good track record of investment so it might be easier to just shrug their shoulders, say it’s not sustainable and give up. Like how Liverpool went from title winners to getting relegated.

I genuinely think a different manger could get more out of the team we had last season.

Bear in mind our best year from a tactical standpoint and positioning was when we came 2nd in 22-23 season.

But many people don’t know at the time, Martin Ho (spurs manager) was our assistant and our real tactician. He was always on the sidelines giving instructions and I was hoping after he left to become a manager he’d come back some day. And what he’s doing at spurs gives me so much life but sadness knowing he left (lots of staff also went that year) and we’ve been grasping in for dear life. We only were third the other yr bc city had a disaster with injuries

yeah :/ I don’t even know what it would take for him to be sacked either at this point

so much things why you can't take this whole thing seriously

marketing may play a role in this ... but the much bigger part should always be about the sport 🤷

Supported this club since I was a kid, but I hate so much the state of how our women’s team are treated despite how big we are.

I see more ambition in Newcastle than us and we won’t win the league so long as skinner is in charge

I’m genuinely so curious about if they’ll do much of anything this summer? I know there’s still time, and they have some money to spend but I can’t imagine who they would get right now?

and a lot of young players who often got compared and were not that good this season made a much bigger step forward 🤷

Russo has a lot of PR and her team have done A LOT of work to get her the deals and build her as a brand. Shes arguably one of the most humble and not attention seeking people I have seen that have such a big push of a brand (though I do think its more her family who are obviously in the agent business and what not pushing to build a brand to help her rather than her wanting to be a brand).

Kelly is one that desperately pushes the brand and PR, she loves it and she's managed the couple of key moments in tournaments to get people to remember her even if in general she hasnt had anything stand out of a season or tournament. I mean the fact even when Beth was out with an ACL, Kelly was never able to lock down an England starting position says a lot. Kelly is overrated, she has her moments but she's a better sub than starter.

But then you have the top level players who dont care to build a brand, who dont care about PR and marketing and they just choose to mainly do deals and marketing with causes that mean something to them. These are players that could have arguably built a hell of a bigger PR brand if they wanted especially at their peak moments but chose not to because its not their personality and its not important to them. This is where I feel Beth, Viv and Bunny fit into. I also think Mario Caldenty falls into this as well. They are players that definitely could have built more of a brand and exploited their moments but they just dont care to.

definitely, I guess PR being so heavily involved in the way the media talks about players and their abilities is the annoying part, I’ve said it before but I think CK is massively overrated as a player and I wouldn’t feel so strongly about that if the media didn’t talk about her like she’s the best player to come out of england or something 😭

they have some criterias yes, but often cotradict themselves, so i personally do not care about the list 🫠

Beth in 2022 had just as good stats across the season as Alexia, Alexia didnt win the Champs League and she obviously got injured for Euros and Beth won the Euros with best player and top goal scorer. But the Barca/Spain PR tipped it in Alexias favour.

Then last year, well its a joke that Bonmati won it because she wasnt the best Barca OR Spain player last season and again, Barca nor Spain won the CL or Euros. I dont think there was an English/Arsenal player that deserved it but Mario was the better player and she won one of the big titles in the form of the UWCL.

Other example is Rapinoe in 2019 who had a massive PR World Cup, barely played club games and won it on the PR compared to Viv who had a crazy good tournament and won the domestic league and runner up in the World Cup.

Just sadly PR plays WAY too much influence on the Ballon D'or but even if you have the PR to some extent, you are at a massive hinderance when there are a few certain players still playing with massive PR. It happens in the mens plenty of times too, there have been better players in a season but the big PR players get it because they have "fans" or people that vote dont pay attention to the other players much.

And for me, Im not convinced Kerolin will ever get the PR, Top individual season and Big trophy combo season combined with not being up against another one of the big names that have a lot of votes locked down regardless of the season they have.