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Small announcement, I created a website for my work to serve as a portfolio of sorts.
I'll be posting my work on here as usual, but I'll also be adding it to the website which I'll also look to improve and add new features so hit me up with your thoughts and suggestions and I'll see what I can do.
dmscouting.netlify.app/
The profile is just 👌🏻 for what Barca is lacking. Potential is so damn huge, really wish we'd bite while he's cheap.
With all the CB issues and the performances from Gariba, I think we should be including him in the next training session and look to integrate him asap.
At 16 I opened this account with no plan. Just a kid obsessed with watching football more closely than he probably should.
Slowly, people started paying attention. Then professional footballers and coaches started following. I still can't fully believe that part.
At 19 I became the youngest TV analyst in the world. Being on air regularly, talking about the game I love, is something I never imagined would happen to me.
Then Oțelul Galați gave me my first chance inside a club, as a scout. It was a short spell, but it gave me confidence
Today I'm an analyst at Universitatea Craiova. I'm grateful to every single one of you who followed, shared, argued with me in the replies and pushed me to get better.
To the people who gave a young guy a chance when they didn't have to. None of this happened alone. Thank you, truly. This is only the beginning. Always!
Story of his young career, injury after injury, can barely get the chance to develop and make the step up.
Such a shame.
Gjivai Zechiël, class, such a quick move and release, great goal.
Fun match between Como and Feyenoord.
Much better second half, we controlled them much better and limited the space for them.
First half they were getting into the box with ease and I'm unsure they managed to get in the box once in the 2nd half.
2nd half performance is what we expect to see from the get go, better teams would probably use their opportunities better than Galata did.
Lamine Yamal also decided to show up in the 2nd half, he's gotten so good at not wasting his energy and being effective that I kinda do wish he would go into his attacking mode just a tiny bit more often from the start to put opponents on high alert.
In the end it's comfortable and deserved win, we could've scored 5 more on any other other, whish is ultimately what we have to do against the best teams to prevent uncomfortable situations like the one we had today.
When teams aren't showing respect Barca, it's like we simply don't play with the same belief and confidence and it shows.
La Liga teams aren't very good and we know that, but we are not the same team in CL either.
Bit lucky with the offside, but this kind of shakiness is worrying.
Joao Amaral and Deco should be closely following him, crazy mobile for a CB, so composed with the ball and the reach in his tackles is crazy.
Haven't watched all that much of Arthur Dias, but how Amaral described the process and the profiles, Sylla is all that and more.
Matter of time before he makes the big move, but for a player of his profile it comes down to proper fit more than anything.
Hope he makes the right move for his career, Bundesliga or La LIga are the leagues where he should be going to imo.
Elite DLP, very good defensively and great long range shot on him, proper controlling midfielder, a rare sight in today's football.
Gabriel Jesus looks so slow and sluggish but that's some neat footwork, reminds me a bit of fat Suarez.
3 points in the bag, Getafe with typical terror ball performance.
Wild take, but, what if, Ronaldo planned this on purpose so the world wouldn't talk about Messi retirement from Argentina jersey tonight and instead focus on him for one last time? 😅
His PR thought this was a good statement to put out?
🚨🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo: “The coach had broken his word to me.
At the end of the match I only wanted everything to finish with the victory and to be alone. I did not go to greet the fans. A failing that is solely my responsibility and that should not have happened. I apologise to the Portuguese who supported us intensely there, I apologise to the fans, and I apologise to those who, without being Portuguese, may have travelled there to see me and whom I may have disappointed.
Forty-eight hours later we had a conversation — myself, the coach and Simão Coutinho — since he had been the one accompanying our conversations in August. It was a deep moment, very frank, without any kind of filter.
We agreed that there was only one way to close this “case”: that the coach repeat what he had just told me in private, in the presence of Simão Coutinho, but in the press room.
What was agreed was simple: the coach would begin the press conference with this subject, seeking to close the matter by telling the truth. He would say that I never asked to play any minutes, that it was the coach and no one else who proposed the plan for this camp to me, and that it was a mistake to put me on to warm up and then not bring me on, and that if it happened again he would not do it.
We ended that meeting with the coach asking me for a hug, promising me that he would say at the conference what he had just said to me, and that the matter would be overcome. I would not play in Denmark and I would play the match at the Dragão. All of this in the presence of Simão Coutinho, always.
At the coach’s request, a meeting then took place between himself, Simão Coutinho and Tiago Craveiro by videoconference, in which what we had discussed was summarised.
A short document was produced which I myself validated and which, with my knowledge, was delivered to the coach, as he had requested.
The conference was what is known: the posture had nothing to do with our meeting; I heard expressions and an aggressiveness that I do not believe I deserved, an attitude of “I want, I can and I command” that he never showed me, not even remotely, in private the day before.
The notes I validated were the following:
“I think it is important, also because it is the truth, to clarify a few things before talking about Denmark:
1. I myself, and no one else, proposed to Cristiano a plan for him this sporting season with the National Team. It was a long and very good conversation.
2. I know how much he lives and loves the national team and the weight he has in the world, and even more the weight and the positive influence he has had on the national team for 24 consecutive years.
3. The plan I proposed to Cristiano was accepted.
4. He never questioned my options. He was exemplary, loyal and professional.
5. The match in Norway was not part of the plan I drew up for him. However, I felt that he had managed to recover physically from the first match and I warned him that I might have to use him. Cristiano agreed.
6. I made a mistake by putting someone of the stature of Pelé or Maradona on to warm up and then not putting him in the game. If it were today I would not do it.
7. To close the subject: I want Cristiano in the National Team. In fact I do not want him a little, I want him a lot. Fortunately he also believes in me. He believed at Al Nassr and he does here as well.
8. About not greeting the fans. We have already spoken about that. Someone who has played more than 230 matches for the national team does not receive lessons from me on love for Portugal. It was a moment of frustration that erases nothing. He is the player who gives the most autographs, takes the most selfies, and shows the most affection to the fans. Let us not invent problems where they do not exist. When we are not happy we react. That was all.
None of these notes, therefore, said that the coach should even apologise to me.
It was the second time he had broken his word to me”.
















