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?
I would be shocked if we further reduced our attacking options
Of course they wouldn't let him go, having done a deal for Sterling to offset the losses of Nelson Eddy.
Not really sure what the thinking is here
pretty sure it's just for control. both palmer and nico got a raise for performance based on the new wage structures, but those raises come with accepting to sign for extra years. which is what this jackson deal is.
chelsea, whether it's correct or not, see palmer and jackson has big time future assets and want to make sure they have a ton of control when they hit their primes.
Genuinely don’t get it either. At first for amortization purposes the 10 year contracts for 100m players made sense. I just don’t get the super lengthy contract extensions.
If anyone does. Please explain. Would love to learn.
The point would of been would if a player goes supernova you get them at a below market rate salary. But resigning new contracts negates that potential edge.
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.
I'm now 100% in the camp that Rice shouldn't have been sent off. Before, I was 'It could be given a yellow, but a BS one.' What changed is that I assumed that the Brighton player rolled the ball forward with his hand, not his foot in a deliberate action while the ball was not moving from the spot of the foul. So he did 'technically' already restart the game. Solid angle.
Also btw
Even more clear the only correct decision here should of been a red for violent conduct on veltman.
I dunno, go frame by frame on the YouTube highlights and it looks plenty low to me. I wonder why the user with AFC in his user name chose that angle. And yes I realise that two freeze frames from a YouTube on desktop is not the best and doesn't tell the full picture, which is why you should just watch the match replay rather than just one angle from an AFC fan account (or two choppy frames).
And no, I haven't so far been involved in any discussion of 'that's never given as a second yellow, so shouldn't be now but was because it was Arsenal' and I'd like to keep it that way, this is just on whether or not Veltman was intentionally trying to kick him.
The ball already having been kicked towards Rice and therefore already being in play is one that's actually interesting
It’s not at all.
Two obvious truths:
1) Players should be booked for delaying a free kick being taken
2) This should happen even if the player is on a booking already.
Everything else is coloured bubbles.
pretty sure it's just for control. both palmer and nico got a raise for performance based on the new wage structures, but those raises come with accepting to sign for extra years. which is what this jackson deal is.
chelsea, whether it's correct or not, see palmer and jackson has big time future assets and want to make sure they have a ton of control when they hit their primes.
The point would of been would if a player goes supernova you get them at a below market rate salary. But resigning new contracts negates that potential edge.
What if the player sucks? Now you're stuck with him for 10 years and you owe him salary for 10 years.
A team with some bottle would still have seen the game out at 1-0...
What if the player sucks? Now you're stuck with him for 10 years and you owe him salary for 10 years.
i believe the thinking is then you still have a couple windows to move them at a salary other teams can accept. and Chelsea back themselves to be able to do that as one of the best selling clubs in the sport.
in 3 years if the players don't work out for chelsea they will likely be 24-26 yrs old and on salaries of ~100k or less with 3/4 yrs left on contracts. the contracts are also reportedly heavily incentivized so once you fall out of the game day squad the players will mostly welcome a move rather than opt to sit on these contracts that won't make incentives.
Nico was reportedly on 65k prior to the raise so it probably is closer to 90-100k now i would guess. Jackson just turned 23 this summer and scored 14 non-penalty premier league goals/5 assists last season and has 3g/a in 3 games this season. they think he will blow up in the next couple years with the amount of attacking talent in the team.
i believe the thinking is then you still have a couple windows to move them at a salary other teams can accept. and Chelsea back themselves to be able to do that as one of the best selling clubs in the sport.
in 3 years if the players don't work out for chelsea they will likely be 24-26 yrs old and on salaries of ~100k or less with 3/4 yrs left on contracts. the contracts are also reportedly heavily incentivized so once you fall out of the game day squad the players will mostly welcome a move
It's an interesting theory. Hard to imagine the future of the Prem is salaries of 100k or less and tons of incentives but we'll see. Right now it just looks like Chelsea is clicking buttons trying to fix mistakes with Lukaku, Sterling etc.
Two obvious truths:
1) Players should be booked for delaying a free kick being taken
2) This should happen even if the player is on a booking already.
Everything else is coloured bubbles.
And I'm off forever blowing them bubbles
You sell him to your sister club in Belgium or wherever for an inflated fee, mitigating the worst of the financial fair play consequences.
This. Strasbourg will feature quite the team in a season or two
Or score one of the clearcut chances you created a man down. Always ways to improve.
Pretty happy with the no loss side of this **** sandwich tho
Lol
Same guy who now says this btw
the van persie red card was clearly correct too
But wait it gets better
