English Football 2022-23 (aka the bullshit WC year)
Welcome to the 22-23 Premier League thread!
After a runaway City title win in 20-21, last season saw everything go to the last game of the season, in which City again triumphed in spectacular fashion, beating the Aston Lions 3-2 after going 0-2 down.
Spurs nipped into the top4 after a fun back and forth with Arsenal. United performed at expectation by struggling to make it into the Europa League (looking forward to seeing Ronny play on Thursday nights).
At the bottom end, Everton and Leeds avoided disaster and Burnley were unable to continue their incredible run of seasons without relegation and will be joining Norwich and Watford in the Champo this season.
21-22 Memorable Moments:
- Eight ****ing months after having a cardiac arrest, Christian Eriksen returns to the PL with Brentford. He has a great few months there and has signed at Man United on a free.
- The Saudi Government buys Newcastle United and the fans treat the situation with all the grace that you would expect
- Ronaldo breaks a small child's phone
Coming in to next season, City remain favourites to three-peat, with Liverpool second. Der markt seems to think Spurs are the third best team after Chelsea's transfer shenanigans. Only six teams have odds of less than 100/1.
As per usual, at the bottom end, the three promoted clubs are most likely to be relegated, but it's also a bit of a melee down there, with about 10 teams with a chance of greater than 10% of being relegated.
Incoming players!
Lots of movement in the transfer market. City go big on Erling Haaland, activating his release clause at Dortmund for £54m:
Liverpool sign Darwin Nunez for £64m (potentially rising to £85m) from Benfica
City also sell to other PL clubs, letting Sterling go to City (£50m), and Jesus (£46m) and baby KdB (£31m) to Arsenal
Spurs looking like they're doing the most shrewd business of summer, bringing in Richarlison (£52m), Bissouma (£26m), Spence (£13m), and Perisic (Free)
*All prices per transfermarkt
Fan list (c&p from last year, which was apparently a c/p from the year before):
Manchester City
8bus
PNHH
daca
Wilfred1
Liverpool
Consty
LFC_USA
NicReynolds
Liverpool
heh
valenzuela
BertieWooster
Jake7777
ChrisV
PBAL
StormBorn
Dean Manifest
Man United
kevin21
kingweed
xXDeuce7Xx
EnglishLad72
t3hbandit
JoeDiego
SenseiSingh
ashley12
thedeezy
Sven O
KDawg
Hap_Hazard
ukbilly
Tottenham
mw828
Human Halo
ChopSueyyy
Elrazor
martymc1
Lars1
Stu Ungar
thedinergetsby
ikestoys
thenickh
Empire Man
TheGramuel
Chelsea
Cinarocket
ZAIDS
O.A.F.K.1.1
72off
Yippee ki-yay
Bjorn ?
Wooders0n
Ghost of Langer
Arsenal
Mindfckr
Ducksauce
cashy (probably when not busy)
aoFrantic
PoseidonCubed
raheem
Giroudgeous
theshocker7
kingofcool
Adolph Hipster
Aidan
marek_heinz
Nandos v2
Ledders
ceire
NOZE
Misc:
Burnley
Tall Paul
Everton
LostOstrich
S.K
SaulGoodman
Leicester City
andre006
thethethe
Middlesbrough
ffire
Southampton
joejoe1337
Swansea City
kidcolin
West Brom
tchaz
West Ham
Hoopie1
MedicorePlayer2.0
Phil Foden
BAIDS
Sheffield United
sixfour
Bolton
bazooka87
Aston Villa
Burnss / 100zAndUp
PSG
andre006
EL RATA
Toon
TehVader
Sheffield Wednesday
thechef
Celtic
martymc1
Schalke
royalblue
Leeds
PeteBlow
LET US FOOTBALL!
p.s. post your predictions below. Both league tables and/or broad predictions. I will be langering at the end of the season so make 'em bold people.
