EPL 2022 / 2023
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Meanwhile a 2-1 win for Fulham over top 4 giants Brighton, Southampton take down Chelsea 2-1 and 1-1 draws between Palace/Brentford & Leeds/Everton.
On Parker, what did Bournemouth expect from those first 4 fixtures? Away to the 2 best teams and 3 points is about the best they could expect. Looks like a job for Big Sam or Tony Pulis.
In bigger news, another win for Notts has them sitting 5th and still unbeaten - they plus Chesterfield, Wrexham, Oldham, York, Southend are the big clubs in the league as can clearly be seen in the average attendances.
@KiwiPie Some of those attendance figures are rather impressive.
As a comparison these are the home attendances of the top few in LEague 2
Bradford 17538
Strockport 8690
Swindon 8670
Wimbledon 7216
Orient 7173
Grimsby 6697
Mansfield 6587
Doncaster 6029
Whilst the bottom five clubs do not even crack 3000 average home attendance.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-two/attendances
A similar story in League 1 with the bottom six not breaking 5000, different story at the top thanks to "big" clubs like Derby, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday, between 24 and 28 thousand. Others like Bolton, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Charlton are also sitting pretty averaging over 14000.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-one/attendances -
@KiwiPie Some of those attendance figures are rather impressive.
As a comparison these are the home attendances of the top few in LEague 2
Bradford 17538
Strockport 8690
Swindon 8670
Wimbledon 7216
Orient 7173
Grimsby 6697
Mansfield 6587
Doncaster 6029
Whilst the bottom five clubs do not even crack 3000 average home attendance.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-two/attendances
A similar story in League 1 with the bottom six not breaking 5000, different story at the top thanks to "big" clubs like Derby, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday, between 24 and 28 thousand. Others like Bolton, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Charlton are also sitting pretty averaging over 14000.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/league-one/attendances -
@KiwiPie Been reading this for ten days or so. He's been training at Motspur Park for a week.
Surely if we were going to sign him it would already have been announced.
Unless he has to prove he can get his fitness back - or, like, I dunno - play football.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
It was all going so well for Fulham and then
I laughed when I read that.
Willian looked great for Arsenal in his first game. But after that...@Bovidae The Athletic are reporting that Roma Fulham finally agreed terms for a one year loan with an option to buy but it has fallen over post Brexit because he can't get a work permit.
Strange if true but might explain late renewed interest in Willian if Fulham thought they had wide cover and it has fallen over on deadline day.
Underwhelmed by it all if true.
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Tuchel sacked.
Awful decision.
No change in Chelsea's manager policy even wit the change of ownership.
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The new owner seems to think he knows how to run a football team better than the people who run football teams for a living. Their spending has been wild in the window without making the team any stronger than last season. Tuchel did look like a man at the end of his tether so I suppose something had to give.
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The new owner seems to think he knows how to run a football team better than the people who run football teams for a living. Their spending has been wild in the window without making the team any stronger than last season. Tuchel did look like a man at the end of his tether so I suppose something had to give.
@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
The new owner seems to think he knows how to run a football team better than the people who run football teams for a living. Their spending has been wild in the window without making the team any stronger than last season. Tuchel did look like a man at the end of his tether so I suppose something had to give.
Definitely seemed under pressure. His altercation with Conte and a stream of odd pressers were the giveaway
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And now Liverpool are in a mini-crisis being thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in the UCL. Has Klopp's reign run its course in the 7th season again (he was 7 years at Mainz and Dortmund)? This is looking a lot like his final season at Dortmund when Lewandowski left before the season started (Mane leaving) and they were even bottom of the table during the season. And he was replaced by Tuchel.
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And now Liverpool are in a mini-crisis being thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in the UCL. Has Klopp's reign run its course in the 7th season again (he was 7 years at Mainz and Dortmund)? This is looking a lot like his final season at Dortmund when Lewandowski left before the season started (Mane leaving) and they were even bottom of the table during the season. And he was replaced by Tuchel.
@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
And now Liverpool are in a mini-crisis being thrashed 4-1 by Napoli in the UCL. Has Klopp's reign run its course in the 7th season again (he was 7 years at Mainz and Dortmund)? This is looking a lot like his final season at Dortmund when Lewandowski left before the season started (Mane leaving) and they were even bottom of the table during the season. And he was replaced by Tuchel.
Mane was a huge loss. And didn't Salah want to leave and got blocked? The mix isn't quite right at the moment
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It's nice that two London clubs have started well so that things don't look over already, but
City buying Erling Haaland is fucking outrageous. Scores again this morning to get City a win. He's played for City six times and he's already scored 10 fucking goals.
They'll score 100 in the league this year so everyone else can kiss their ass. I wonder how they'll fuck up the Champs League though?
Liverpool scored an 89th minute winner to avoid a long break of "club in crisis" articles. Which papers over that they look a bit fucked. Chelsea aren't doing much better, but sacking their manager was fucking ridiculous.
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Haaland has 13 goals across 8 EPL and UCL games. If he plays 50 games this season that's 81 goals at his current rate - surely he can't keep that up.
My new favourite thing is watching Trent Alexander-Arnold defend - or rather jog back looking disinterested and then not spot the danger when he is actually back in the box. He lays as if they have is a wingback with 3 central defenders. The problem teams have is being able to cope with Liverpool's relentless press to exploit their obvious weakness.
Did you see Marcus Edwards (ex-Spurs youth) playjng for Sporting against Spurs? He almost scored a goal that was Maradona-esque and would have been replayed for years had it gone in - it deflected off the inside of a Lloris foot to go narrowly wide.
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It's extra insane that city on paid about £50m for him when you look at some of the other moves. Without that release clause he probably goes for closer to 100.
If he can stay fit (from memory he had a few issues with Dortmund) he's the next Messi/Ronaldo. Now that he has city's quality feeding him he's unstoppable.
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One month into the season and the question is who can stop Manchester City and Haaland?
In the League, no one I suspect unless they suffer a number of injuries. Arsenal have best team in years. They have a chance to beat Liverpool for 2nd place. Not much between Chelsea, Man Utd and Tottenham so it's going to be a tough battle between the Top 6 for the four UCL places.
In the UCL, I think City will have a more difficult time. PSG have started well. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich have strong squad. Liverpool will be a handful across two legs in the last 16.
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It's extra insane that city on paid about £50m for him when you look at some of the other moves. Without that release clause he probably goes for closer to 100.
If he can stay fit (from memory he had a few issues with Dortmund) he's the next Messi/Ronaldo. Now that he has city's quality feeding him he's unstoppable.
@Cyclops said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
It's extra insane that city on paid about £50m for him when you look at some of the other moves. Without that release clause he probably goes for closer to 100.
If he can stay fit (from memory he had a few issues with Dortmund) he's the next Messi/Ronaldo. Now that he has city's quality feeding him he's unstoppable.
City actually made a profit of 69 million in the recent transfer window, selling Sterling, Zhinchenko & Jesus plus a host of unknowns who netted a total of 50 million between them. Chelsea spent 223 million even with selling Werner for a cool 20 million quid loss.
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Watching MC vs MU. The latter totally and utterly outclassed. Haaland scoring yet again but De Bruyn and Foden have been excellent. United need to get rid of a heap of players starting with wage bill Ronaldo.
