EPL 2025/26
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the Isak to Liverpool stories will not die even after they signed Ekitike
The club has spent the national debt of a mid-size nation in the last few weeks, and have brought in what? 5 or 6 guys who would all expect to be first XI? That never goes well.
Sort of weird a manager comes in, takes on the existing squad, wins the title at a canter, and then goes ahead with a revolution like they finished 6th. Be interesting to see what his KPIs are for this season given this level of investment.
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@mikey07 said in EPL 2024/2025:
@bayimports Didn’t get on watched the whole game. Bournemouth were woeful especially to make my lot look good.
Had a close offside call denied and then missed another good chance. Second half though was awful. We have a lot of work to do. Very sloppy defending allowing some big gaps
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Liverpool have had a £120m offer for Alexander Isak turned down and look set to walk away from the transfer.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5yl7epeyv0o
Will Man City or Arsenal step in and match Newcastle's 150 million valuation for the Swede?
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@sparky said in EPL 2024/2025:
Liverpool have had a £120m offer for Alexander Isak turned down and look set to walk away from the transfer.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5yl7epeyv0o
Will Man City or Arsenal step in and match Newcastle's 150 million valuation for the Swede?
Monopoly money
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@canefan said in EPL 2024/2025:
Son Heung Min is leaving Spurs with immediate effect. Such a great servant for the club. But he's diminished and this way Frank isn't pressured to play him, and Sonny doesn't suffer the prospect of riding the bench for a team when he always used to be first name on the sheet. Let him go wherever he wants to, although ideally he doesn't stay in the Prem
Off to LAFC and at 33, that's a great move for him. 173 goals in total for Spurs, 127 in the EPL. 10 goals or more in 8 consecutive EPL seasons. Seems like a nice guy as well and good to leave as a trophy winning skipper.
Looks like Isak will end up at Liverpool and Sesko at Newcastle. Fascinating to see how Liverpool go this season - the most change they have had since Klopp first arrived. This will be Slot's team and it remains to be seen if he can mould them into a title-defending unit.
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As good a place as any, even though this is EU related.
There is currently a legal action against FIFA that has the potential to completely re-write the way the club game is managed with respect to players.
A group called Justice for Players is taking FIFA to court stating that their current transfer policies restrict freedom of movement as per EU law, and has cost players in lost earnings. A ruling last year that FIFA's rules breached a players legal rights has opened this up and the players are taking advantage.BBC has a better explanation
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cy5prnpy142oIf this gets up, firstly FIFA will be paying out fuck loads in compensation, but more importantly, the entire contract situation around professional football goes out the window. The ramifications of that could be seismic, and the Super League that everyone got so worked up about becomes almost inevitable.
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The season hasn't even started and two England World Cup hopefuls have done their ACLs.
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Bournemouth haven’t been able to replace two key defenders yet and Zybarni has left to psg in spirit already. Trufert looks good as a kerkez replacement, but If we don’t pick up two cb’s this window we’re leaking too many points to be competitive
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A bit more on England women's Euro win.
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@canefan That's what Hannah Hampton did.
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England Women well on their way to being hated everywhere except England - well done.
EFL is back and first weekend for the championship. As ever, plenty of random results, relegated Ipswich with a late equaliser at promoted Birmingham and relegated Southampton with a late equaliser and winner against promoted Wrexham.
Will Will Still still instil will to win?
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Crystal Palace win the Community Shield, the first silverware of the 2025-6 English season. They drew 2-2 with Liverpool at Wembley, coming from behind twice and then beating them on penalties.
Plenty for Liverpool to fix before the EPL opener against Bournemouth on Friday.
