Kicking off this thread with news that all non-United supporters can celebrate. Erik ten Hag is staying! Here's to many more 8th place finishes.

6/17/2024 10:51:23 PM

City comes to the Bridge opening weekend. We know which game will be the NBC slot now.

Better to play City early before they hit their stride.

6/18/2024 2:56:34 PM

I expect Liverpool to get approximately 114 points

6/18/2024 4:50:40 PM

^City and Liverpool will need that many points to top what the Turkish Super League achieved this year.

6/19/2024 6:09:32 PM

Woohoo! Two more years of Ten Hag.

7/4/2024 6:18:48 AM

Got to imagine Darwin gets a ban for everything last night

7/11/2024 1:14:04 PM

Maybe... apparently the context that is flowing out now is that the columbian supporters were attacking urugauyan families and they were jumping into defend them.

7/11/2024 1:34:02 PM

Yea but after being removed from the stands. he attempted to throw a chair back into the crowd.

7/11/2024 1:37:25 PM

City just signed Savio. We'll basically have 2 Dokus now. Hopefully Savio can be more effective in the final third than Doku last season.

7/19/2024 9:44:10 AM

Do we talk about Enzo in this thread?

PL been kneeling against racism for how many years, anything happen to Enzo?

7/19/2024 10:01:09 AM

I am curious as to why Enzo is the only one catching flak from this. There are other European players on the ANT, and England based players at that. It surely wasn't just Enzo singing. What about Mac Allister, Garnacho, Romero, Martinez, Alvarez.

Chelsea opened an investigation, that I am sure will be handled behind closed doors, I am guessing the FA and FIFA are also doing investigations. I know Enzo apologized so I am not sure what their is to investigate, but I am sure there will be a fine and thats it.

7/19/2024 1:17:48 PM

Mac Allister has some pretty dumb comments about it, but no evidence of any other player singing. Maybe they were just smart enough to not be filmed.

7/19/2024 1:57:30 PM

Breathing a sigh of relief that the KDB deal seems off the table for Al Ittihad. But Ederson is still a Saudi target.

7/22/2024 11:25:39 AM

^^Maybe you mean no evidence of Mac Allister singing but Enzo wasn't the only one singing there were a large number singing and it wasn't just Enzo and team officials. Still Enzo was stupid for posting it to social media and I guess that is why he is getting the most blowback.

7/22/2024 2:26:28 PM

The are all at minimum stupid and should know better than to take part in that in 2024, not like the lyrics are obtuse, Enzo is just particularly stupid for posting up.

7/22/2024 7:56:47 PM

Dang, Celtic is making the Premier League look like a joke. To be fair, they are closer to the start of their season and have more starters in the lineup.

7/27/2024 6:58:10 PM

What's up with Chelsea and their sponsorless kits? Haven't they made this mistake before?

7/29/2024 6:17:55 AM

Summer games are actually really important and should count in standings

7/31/2024 9:55:19 PM

City have lost 4 games in a row. Not sure how we'll ever recover.

8/1/2024 6:11:36 AM

Looks like Pep wants Arsenal to finally surpass us this year.

Quote :

"Atletico Madrid have agreed a deal worth up to €95million with Manchester City for striker Julian Alvarez."

8/6/2024 10:34:51 AM

^

€95million for Pep to find someone to help this squad.

8/6/2024 2:14:12 PM

Interesting, a young player that played a ton at a high level last year, wonder what the plan will be.

8/6/2024 2:30:41 PM

Arsenal narrowed the gap last year after we let two of our best players in Gundogan and Mahrez leave. Pep's policy is to let unhappy players leave without a fight. Maybe negotiating isn't his strength.

8/6/2024 8:13:41 PM

^^yeah, 18 goals and 12 assists in all comps for City last season

8/6/2024 8:38:36 PM

Dang, they raided Chelsea as well

Quote :

"Atletico Madrid look set to maintain their status as one of Spain's top sides with two big-name arrivals. Conor Gallagher is travelling to Madrid after agreeing a five-year deal with the club in a £33million move from Chelsea."

8/6/2024 10:13:31 PM

Manchester Derby won. Community Dinner Plate secured.

8/10/2024 12:15:02 PM

^^Maybe Atletico have to sell players, they thought they had a deal to send us Samu Omorodion but that fell through as terms could not be agreed upon. Now Atletico is trying to add Joao Felix to the deal but it could be complicated as there are players that would have to go. (Sterling)

The reality is with the FFP rules homegrown players are always going to be seen as expendable because they are straight profit.

Gallagher does not fit Maresca's system so despite how good he was last season he was going to be 2nd or 3rd choice for central midfield so if Atletico falls through who knows what happens, he is out of contract next summer so I would expect him to leave on a free and go wherever so I could see him not play at all this season to hurt his value as Spurs really want him.

8/12/2024 8:32:59 AM

Sheffield United 4-1 Wrexham

A setback for the Deadpool project.

8/13/2024 4:47:58 PM

1 Liverpool
2 City
3 arsenal
Beyond who knows

(really City, arsenal Liverpool if I'm being honest, big prediction is city win but doesn't win again for at least 3 years)

8/16/2024 1:03:43 PM

Honestly i think its Arsenals year finally.

1 Arsenal
2 City
3 Liverpool

Hope
1 Liverpool
2 Arsenal
3 City

8/16/2024 1:36:11 PM

I agree its probably Arsenal's year

Top 3

1) Arsenal
2) City
3) Villa

Hope
1)Arsenal
2) City
3) Chelsea

8/16/2024 4:41:14 PM

Fantasy
1. Manchester City
2. Aston Villa
3. Leicester City

Realistic
1. Manchester City - never bet against Pep, haven't you guys learned by now?
2. Arsenal - might finish level on points and miss title only by goal difference
3. Liverpool - I doubt Arne can produce the same magic as Klopp, but he has more talent to work with than Unai Emery does.

I want to see who City replace Alvarez with before I have total confidence in this prediction. They need a decent backup for Haaland in case he picks up a lengthy injury.

8/16/2024 5:10:24 PM

Nightmare start for Maresca. Fans chanting Conor Gallagher's name 20 minutes in.

8/18/2024 7:43:43 PM

The London based Chelsea fans still are bitter about the end of the Abramovich era in which he bought every high dollar marquee player he could. Even he would not be able to do that with the new FFP rules both Domestically and in Europe.

As for the match Chelsea truly didn't play poorly, Haaland was recepient of a lucky flick on by Silva that 9 times out of 10 doesn't happen and he is a world class finisher so he made it count. All of Kovacic's goals are like the one he had.

That said City weren't at their full strength, but Chelsea are still learning a new system under yet another new manager. It will take time for him to find the right lineup for his tactics. Chelsea still have issues at CF/ST and I am not sure they have invested correctly in GK, the rest of the squad should be fine, opening with City with a new manager and a still unsettled squad was never going to be easy.

The Gallagher situation stinks, but its the new reality with the new financial rules, homegrown players are more valuable as transfer bait. He was offered a new contract that was only 3 seasons and he turned it down, and I can completely understand when all these new signings are getting 6-8 year deals. So Chelsea have to sell him or he walks for free next summer.

8/20/2024 8:55:44 AM

Quote :

"That said City weren't at their full strength, but Chelsea are still learning a new system under yet another new manager."

lol.

8/20/2024 10:10:30 AM

I don't know if that is a "you're full of shit" lol or just a general laughing at Chelsea's manager roation lol, but I think both parts of that quote are true.

[Edited on August 20, 2024 at 11:11 AM. Reason : Chelsea could also spent all season finding best 11]

8/20/2024 11:11:22 AM

Quote :

"just a general laughing at Chelsea's manager roation lol"

8/20/2024 2:58:25 PM

Haha fair enough

8/20/2024 4:36:04 PM

Chelsea hadmeinthefirsthalf.gif

Lol though:

Quote :

"Wolves 2 : 6 Chelsea ? xG: 2.14 - 1.45"

[Edited on August 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM. Reason : Xg]

8/25/2024 12:01:04 PM

xG is such a garbage stat

Last week it was Chelsea 1.01 | City 0.77 (per Opta Analyst)

Arsenal and City look like they are definitely the cream of the crop and Liverpool look pretty good as well.

ManU and Chelsea gonna be another long up and down season I suspect. Spurs will go trophyless yet again.

8/26/2024 11:09:17 AM

What don't you like about it

Looks like it says Chelsea played slightly better than the result vs City and a little worse than the result against Wolves, do you you disagree? Against Wolves y'all scored some tough goals which is great! And maybe Chelsea just has great finishers. But not many individuals regularly outscore their xg over a full season.

Xg is basically just a more complex fg percentage.

8/26/2024 1:28:54 PM

LMAO at Everton

8/31/2024 11:57:12 AM

Sterling is a Gunner now. He's getting passed around like Mourinho.

8/31/2024 5:50:48 PM

Jadon Sancho in a Chelsea jersey will be wild too

9/1/2024 7:02:55 AM

^^^Its just how much the pundits put stock in it. You can use xG and say Team X with the higher xG looked like better team especially if they only saw highlights.

Using Chelsea as I have seen all their PL matches so far. They had chances against City but never looked at getting anything more than a draw. Against Wolves they were slightly down in 1st half but looked far superior in 2nd half, and against Palace they looked like the Chelsea of the last few seasons couldn't finish and put their opponents away.

Also I don't see Everton surviving this season

9/3/2024 2:31:10 PM

I think the only place where xG disagrees with you is first half of the Wolves game. Vs City xG was tied, vs palace, Chelsea dominated by xg.

Vs Wolves, xG clearly shows Chelsea creating more chances in the 2nd half but says Wolves had quite a few really good chances in the first.

9/3/2024 3:28:27 PM

Crazy stat: Liverpool have outscored Man U 26-7 in their last ten games.

9/3/2024 9:06:46 PM

Since Jan 2021, Salah has the 5th most goals at Old Trafford

9/3/2024 9:20:32 PM

Not the main thrust of this but with the Odegaard news this part is relevant:

Quote :

"If you still need convincing that global soccer is not some well-designed professional landscape that functions because of the brilliance of its governing officials but is actually just a barely held together collection of compromises between competing interests that only succeeds because the game itself is so beloved, then I present to you: the September international break. I'm sorry to all the international soccer-first fans out there, but this stinks. The club season is just kicking into gear, new signings are just starting to get acclimated to their new surroundings and their new teammates -- and then it just stops. Rather than continuing to build cohesion, as you might in, I don't know, pretty much every other major team sport in the world, each club's major players fly off to South America or Eastern Europe or Asia to play a couple games in less than a week with a completely different set of teammates and coaches. Some key players inevitably get hurt, and pretty much no one is happy."

https://www.espn.com/football/insider/story/_/id/41182821/predicting-premier-league-season-based-three-games

[Edited on September 9, 2024 at 8:07 PM. Reason : E]

9/9/2024 8:05:57 PM

Feels good to be alone at the top again.

9/14/2024 7:27:51 PM