Twist

3 hours ago, DFF said:

I can see both Notts County and Wrexham smashing League Two tbh. Wonder what odds you can get for both getting back to back promotions.

SkyBet currently have them as first (Wrexham) and third (Notts) favourites to get promoted, so probably not great odds on it.

Incredibly, having scored in the last minute West Ham fans are throwing cups at their own players now. Obviously an excited thing but fuck me, have some sense.

3 minutes ago, damhausen said:

Honestly hitting a player in the head with a projectile and causing him to bleed out should be cause for an immediate forfeit.

Honestly, if they win tonight I think it’s completely justifiable to stop them from entering the Europa League next year.

West Ham fans have throwing cups at the opposition players, just caught one on the back of the head and there is a lot of blood. God awful.

£35m for Alexis MacAllister. By today’s market that is ridiculous bargain.

47 minutes ago, Cymbols said:

Left Huddersfield after seven and a half seasons.

Got promoted, stayed up, and established them as a top half of the table side. Managed to win the Premier League once, the Europa once, along with two FA Cups and Carabao Cups. Finished 2nd in my final season, losing on final day when a win would’ve won us the title. 
 

Finally decided it was time for a new challenge so I replaced Hansi Flick as Manchester City manager, after they finished 6th. Nine years since their last league win, and still no success in Europe, so the aim is definitely a Champions League win.

Got rid of a load of old and expensive players - Ederson, Laporte, Bernardo Silva and Sterling, with Foden and Dias the only remaining originals. Spent a tonne of money refreshing the squad with younger players with potential and, while we’re going to piss the league at the first time of asking, I’m also probably getting a FFP penalty next season. I’d feel bad, but it feels like the Manchester City way really 👀

With City you’ll avoid the FFP issue. You’ll get a random 1 year sponsorship that’ll get you back in the green. Not sarcasm.

19 minutes ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

This genuinely is pretty true. MLS clubs are increasingly moving away from that model. They're much more a selling league, and their DPs typically are South American players they can sell on for a profit (Thiago Almada, Facundo Torres, Alan Velasco), or players from Europe who are more in their prime (Denis Bouanga, Hany Mukhtar, Evander, even Bernardeschi). Heck, even players from Europe they will look to sell for a profit (Puig, Cucho Hernandez, Daniel Gazdag, Leo Campana).

The MLS 2.0 type signings of older Euro league based players (Insigne, Shaqiri, Douglas Costa, Hector Herrera) have almost all flopped or been poor signings that haven't worked out. 

MLS is really nothing like what it used to be, or what a lot of British/European fans of soccer think it still is.

Now I can get MLS on AppleTV I’ll probably sign up for that to cover my football needs during the summer months.

Looks like Benzema leaving Madrid is official.

There’s a big difference between the salaries China were offering and what Saudi are offering. Ronaldo is bringing in what - 200m a year?

6 minutes ago, DavidMarrio said:

Are we going to get a LIVV Golf situation of players jumping to go Saudi for the money? 

 

Certainly starting to look that way. God awful amounts of money being thrown around so it’s hardly surprising.

23 minutes ago, Kaney said:

Bias from me aside, can I ask why you think Chelsea are more likely to improve than us? If we can bring in the players we like, which will be a hella lot easier with champs league/this season to build on, we'll have covered the major issue why we fell off this season, strength in depth mainly.

I'm not saying we're guaranteed in the title race again next year, but I find it weird how sure some people seem to be that it was a fluke season.

Probably because Chelsea were bloody awful and Arsenal had a very, very good season (run in excluded).

Ultimately Chelsea have a lot more room to improve than Arsenal do, so they are more likely to improve as a result. Keep in mind an improvement for Chelsea is finishing in the top half, an improvement for Arsenal is reaching a points total that would have won them the league in a third of previous seasons. So yeah, of the two Chelsea are the much more likely to improve.

If Newcastle manage to finish in the top 4 next season, with the added burden of European football being played, it’ll be a bigger achievement than doing it this year. The club are massively ahead of schedule and as a fan I’ll be thrilled to finish the season in any of the European spots.

I think going into the season the only team that feels guaranteed to finish in the top 4 is City. I would not be surprised if Arsenal, Man United and Newcastle all finished outside the top 4 (unlikely, and I don’t think that happens, but definitely possible).

You could easily see Liverpool, Chelsea, Brighton and Villa kicking on and challenging for those positions. I feel like Spurs’ approach to their management situation is going to leave them up shit creek without a paddle though.

Big Joe is in the Brazil squad and this might be the best moment of Newcastle’s season.

Dortmund doing their best to throw away the title.

3 hours ago, DavidMarrio said:

Your gonna end up with Brendan at this rate

Potter necessaily wouldn't be a bad shout IMO. 

I’ve seen a few reports the past hour saying he’s been offered the job but nothing reliable/credible. And he’s currently joint favourite with Ange.

21 hours ago, Twist said:

Tonked 4-1 by Empoli as well, so UCL is probably gone for them.

Whoops, wrong thread.

15 minutes ago, damhausen said:

Nothing like a 0-0 draw against a side that has lost the will to fight to clinch Champions League. What a silly game.

Tonked 4-1 by Empoli as well, so UCL is probably gone for them.

The champions, da da da daaaaaaaa!

Commentator can stop banging on about Bruno being worried about heading the post. Of course he was you pill.

Also, if the possession stays as is, it’ll be the highest ever % of possession in PL history.

Im conscious this might be my bias but Mariner is letting Leicester kick and push Newcastle at will.

11 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Taking out Maddison means you're leaving a lot of the already limited creativity on the bench.

Flip side is their only win recently Maddison and Barnes were on the bench.

Also, I think St. James has a real claim to the best atmosphere in world football these days. Phenomenal.

2 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Leicester have left Maddison and Barnes on the bench. Big call that.

Intrigued whether it’s got to do with both having been linked to Newcastle. Perhaps there have been enquiries and Smith is concerned their minds are elsewhere.

Also, really enjoying this build up to a UCL place/relegation battle decider being all about Man City.

If the Heat win it all will they be the first 8 seed to do so?