English Premier League 2024-25
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Man City have set another record with 115 charges of financial shenanigans and also managed to win a 4th PL title in a row becoming the first team to do so narrowly beating out arsenal who took it to the last day this year. They accomplished this by rattling off an absurd 33 games unbeaten in all competitions making it 6 titles in 7 years for the Citizens.
Some pictures from the aftermath:
Golden boot winner:
Erling Haaland
Golden Glove:
David Raya
Player of the Season:
Phil Foden
PFA Young Player of the Season:
Cole Palmer
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Man City and Arsenal have distanced themselves as the clear favorites for the title. With Arsenal closing the gap and beating Man City on xG could this be the year that they get over the line? There are some large error bars on Liverpool with klopp retiring and Salah getting older, will they be able to insert themselves in the title race again like they did last year?
For top 4/5 can Aston Villa repeat last years feat thanks to the normal culprits being completely incompetent or will one of Chelsea/United get their **** together finally (hopefully not)? Spurs went full Spurs throwing the match vs City to stop arsenal from winning the title while costing themselves top 4 in the process, will they be in the race again despite doing no business at all in the summer to address squad needs?
The relegation fight as usual has the 3 promoted teams as favorites to go back down, but with PSR looming in the background could we see a surprise team relegated?
is there anyone left who is prepared to argue that switching bin egg and arne slut would make any difference to anything
Long may United fans continue to press for more spending while ignoring the structural faults that condemn them to perpetual underperformance.
a billion starting more or less from the shite that fergie bequeathed to his unfortunate descendants is **** all
chelsea spent nearly half a billion over three years back when 30 million got you a world class player, and 50 million got you zidane
city spent three quarters of a billion in about four years back when 50 million got you a world class player and 80 million got you ronaldo, and heaps more every year thereafter
Long may United fans continue to press for more spending while ignoring the structural faults that condemn them to perpetual underperformance.
Oh….we are well aware of the fact that the Glazers employed a cadre of useful idiots for a long time that led to this situation. They’ve never used a dime of their own money on the club and have taken money out while letting all sorts of other things fall apart and rot. Old Trafford leaking anyone?
I don't believe Real saw this decline coming. What I do believe is they saw 60m pounds and they just signed 2 huge talented players for that position so it was a no brainer.
Madrid play the transfer game the way Magnus Carlson plays chess. Did they expect this kind of drop off? Maybe not. But they certainly were done with him and knew he was close to a spent force. They brought in two extremely talented young DMs while still having Casemiro and Kroos on the books. They don’t bring in both if they weren’t done with Casemiro.
And again, they knew that Murtaugh+Arnold would likely be dumb enough to spend gobshite amounts on him given that they had recently sold a crocked Varane to United with those two running the helm.
what happened with varane, was he injured or shite or what
sugar nut and i drafted him as the centerpiece of our defense in that draft we did a decade ago. we also had jack wilshere and julian draxler
marek heinz hit a home run. this is 2013
Ronaldo
david alaba
Ilkay Gundogan
Kyriakos Papadopolous
Kevin De Bruyne
Oscar Cardozo
Laurent Koscielny
Gaston Ramirez
Julio Cesar
Michael Essien
Kwadwo Asamoah
pbal spent twice as much on balotelli as marek did on kdb
bobbo spent 92% of his budget on messi and iniesta and filled the other 9 spots with awful yanks. basically inter miami
what happened with varane, was he injured or shite or what
sugar nut and i drafted him as the centerpiece of our defense in that draft we did a decade ago. we also had jack wilshere and julian draxler
He’s always been somewhat injury prone and I’m not sure Real wanted to sell him as much as they got £40m for a 28(29?) year old defender.
With United he seemed to just always be injured lol.
It’s just typical Man U overspending. Same with Casemiro. I’m not convinced Real wanted him gone or saw a decline coming but how can you say no to £60m for a 29 year old CDM. It’s just such a no brainer. Especially when you got 2 huge talents in that position.
Madrid play the transfer game the way Magnus Carlson plays chess. Did they expect this kind of drop off? Maybe not. But they certainly were done with him and knew he was close to a spent force. They brought in two extremely talented young DMs while still having Casemiro and Kroos on the books. They don’t bring in both if they weren’t done with Casemiro.
And again, they knew that Murtaugh+Arnold would likely be dumb enough to spend gobshite amounts on him given that they had recently sold a crock
I think we’re saying the same thing honestly. I don’t think they saw a drop off coming but £60m for a 29 year old CDM. Yeah take him.
He’s permacrocked at this point. He was playing 30+ matches consistently for Madrid. Comes to United for £50m (which again, should’ve been a warning signal) and doesn’t play over 25 EPL matches in a season before going to Como and having a knee injury right away.
Just remember. It could always be worse. You could’ve bought Antony for £86m or what ever it was.
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Just remember. It could always be worse. You could’ve bought Antony for £86m or what ever it was.
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……./sigh. I don’t know what will happen with Ten Hag, but I am at least confident that the INEOS crew is competent (or at least way more competent) compared to tweedle Dee and tweedle dum. It’s still gonna take several years before United will challenge for a title (if it goes 90% right)
……./sigh. I don’t know what will happen with Ten Hag, but I am at least confident that the INEOS crew is competent (or at least way more competent) compared to tweedle Dee and tweedle dum. It’s still gonna take several years before United will challenge for a title (if it goes 90% right)
Out before Christmas. That cup win saved him last season.
They have spent 200m this summer and a billion over the last like 8 years. What are you on about.
That's irelevant.
The fact is they are 14th in the league and a single player wouldn't get in City's side.
If you pay a builder to fix the roof and he does a bad job it doesn't matter, you have to get your cheque book out again and you to pay another roofer until the roof is fixed.
Radcliffe needs to spend 5 billion on 15 new players, money for the hole in the roof and a raise for the dinner ladies.
Given the disaster that was Rangnick (though this seems to be a *very* different locker room sans Pogba, Jlingz, and Sancho), I think whatever move will be made if he is to go will happen later in the year.
Seems very optimistic. They got Southampton, Palace and Tottenham as their next 3 league games. If he loses 2/3 I think he’s out.
That's irelevant.
The fact is they are 14th in the league and a single player wouldn't get in City's side.
If you pay a builder to fix the roof and he does a bad job it doesn't matter, you have to get your cheque book out again and you to pay another roofer until the roof is fixed.
The fact is spending money doesn’t fix the mess that is Manchester United. The last 8 year should tell you that.
They spent it poorly is really the issue though isn't it.
You really need a manager who can identify a great player.
Every signing United made has been bad. The only decent player they signed since Fergie left was Ibrahimovic and ironically they got him on a free.
That's irelevant.
The fact is they are 14th in the league and a single player wouldn't get in City's side.
If you pay a builder to fix the roof and he does a bad job it doesn't matter, you have to get your cheque book out again and you to pay another roofer until the roof is fixed.
Mate I was literally just responding to you when you said "Jim Ratcliffe is too tight. You need an idiot with a cheque book to win the premier league".
He *is* an idiot with a cheque book. He's already demonstrating it.
The year is 2050. Over 90% of the Earth is covered by water, there is a global bitcoin shortage, Trent Alexander-Arnold is Liverpool Manager and people are still arguing whether or not Declan Rice should have been sent off against Brighton.
Saudi in for Trossard, surely Arsenal aren’t selling him? Think I read their window closes today.
