He's gotta be in the top 3 for strikers IMO. Suarez Lewondowski and KaneQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
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He's gotta be in the top 3 for strikers IMO. Suarez Lewondowski and KaneQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Hes the same as Morata.
Take that comment however you want.
A big girl??? Don't think so
is the Charity Shield on the tele tonight?
Nah have to find a stream. Sbs had it a few years back but not anymore looks like itQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Yeah went to bed and watched the replay on Chelsea TV at 9am (without hearing the score).Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Man, everybody already down on Chelsea.
City are going to win the league again and probably at a canter people need to accept this. They are a level above everyoneQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Oh I agree with this, it was just astounding that everyone has Chelsea pretty much relegated on the strength of watching that game even though they were missing most their 1st team.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
and dont worry, the same thing was said when Real thumped Barca pre season last year (walk the league, Messi finished etc) then Barca went about 30 league games unbeaten.
Football punditry is the best job, you can just say whatever and no one cares if it's right.
The Member sure missed his calling.
Oh Twitter plastics will always rant. The real fans back their team and understand SarriBall will take time to get goingQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Fair bit of movement on the international market today.
Arsenal are selling (Welbz/Perez/Ospina could all go)
Liverpool looking to sell a keeper and Danny Ings.
Chelsea spent silly money on a keeper, lost a keeper, picked up a decent CDM to play alongside their other 2 CDM starters??? and are getting rid of bakoyakowako to Milan.
Everton buying one of everything available and hoping it will just sort itself out on the pitch. Bernard on the opposite wing to Richarlson is the ultimate combo of skill, pace and no final product. Plus they have 3 CBs lined up to come in.
Man United crying that no one will give them what they want for a reasonable price because they bang on about how much money they have all year is great. Mourinho will definitely be gone this year and it's amazing to know that we all have that sh%te show to look forward to. Boetang calling and saying no personally was a nice touch. Leicester look like they have convinced Maguire to sit tight also.
City have the one guy they wanted and then broke him and then fixed him. Spent the rest of the window deciding that they should name a training ground after club legend Jo Hart! Brilliant.
Tottenham will be looking to.. hahaha. They don't have any money. Sell someone maybe just to stay relevent?
Wolves have sorted themselves out amazingly, they will be in europe within 3-4 years.
Fulham are sorted now as well.
Southampton, West Ham, Watford and Crystal palace probably need to find something to move out of the relegation battle early. I can only see West hame spending any decent money.
Newcastle will be looking to loan everyone under the sun in order to stay up this year. Ashley is just hoping that any sensible offers come in for the club itself, as are all toon fans.
Should be interesting.
The optus sport package is going to be worth the $15 per month just to see the Mourinho post game interviews live.
:lulzturtle:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Love your work, Mr Baggins..
Why??Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Ma U will either win the EPL or come 2nd this season
They aint however many points worse tha City last season
Last year was a bit of an aberration with the distance between 1st and 2nd
No one said they won't win. Just that Mou will leave and it will be great to watch. Which is basically written in stone.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
3 year cycle. Never fails that man.
United are miles behind City, What are you smoking. Only team who can Challenge are Liverpool but even then they will fade away as they always doQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
You support ChelseaQuote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
The grown ups are now talking
Please stay quiet
Lol at this..Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
In my eyes Citeh will be favourites, but Liverpool and United are probably on equal footing for 2nd place and Citeh won't be as far ahead this year.
Tottenham have a top 4 squad but don't have a home ground and are about to experience the joys of being in massive debt for a few years. That team will slowly be picked apart once Pochetino realises he isn't going to be given any money and leaves for Real.
Arsenal and Chelsea could either win the league or finish 10th. Both have great squads with world class players but don't have settled managers and both have to come to grips with the EPL very quickly.
We dont have a top 4 squad and need the teams above us to falter big time. Hell if Arsenal get Lacazette and Aubamayeng firing you will prolly finish above usQuote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
That's funny coming from you.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
I hate Chelsea. I hate them second only to Spuds.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
But they have a team that can beat every team on the EPL.
Kepa
Azpi - Rudiger - Zouma/Luiz - Alonso.
Jorginho - Kante
William - Fabregas - Hazard
Giroud.
Show me the weakness there?
3 world cup winners, 2 wingers that walk into most teams in world football. An agile defence with a world class coach drilling a strong defensive system in them. A midfield that can run forever.
Rubbish club, amazing team on paper. Hence, they can either win the whole thing or collapse under their own egos.
Zouma isnt good enough atm and Luiz cant play in a back 4. Andreas Christensen will play CB. Alonso is too slow to play LB. I love him but gets exposed alot. CMs is fine cept for Fabregas whose legs are gone and can't press in Sarri's system. Willian doesnt score enough goals and neither does Giroud so once again it all falls down to Hazard whose team first motto makes him pass more often then shoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Kepa
Azpi- Rudiger/Ampadu - Christensen - New LB maybe Emerson given a run
Jorginho
Kante - Barkley/RLC/Kovacic
Pedro/Callum Hudson Odi - Hazard
Batman/Giroud Morata is a girl so need new Striker.
This team has potential but needs a few additions as ive mentioned
Oh and Frodo enjoy Kronke having full control over your club atleast our owner gives a damm, Rubbish club indeed
yeah this is a concern IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
not for the club, but for my 'Arsenal Top 4' bet.
Lets just hope he waits til the end of the season to sell everyone off and move the team to Los Angeles.
More Carl Jenkinsons incomingQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Kroenke actually has a history of winning with his previous ventures, or at least improvement. See below for a very simple write up.
https://www.newsweek.com/l-rams-arse...-teams-1060409
His main issue is that if fans don't show up and pay him good money he will march a team down the hill to an area who will. Which can't happen in the EPL, so he may not be as bad as first thought. I'm 100% not happy that he is buying out all the individual share holders so he can have 100% ownership but the other club that uses that model hasn't folded so we will see.
Rams - Haven't made the playoffs in 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
Nuggets - Team that never made the finals, to a team that made the finals twice, then hasn't been back for 5 years.. :|
Avalances - haven't made the playoffs for 6 years.
Rapids - took 6 years to do anything (won the Cup). Haven't done anything since and finished outside the top 4 on six occasions since. They finished 2nd last year and are currently 11th (out of 12) on the table after 22 games.
None of these fill me with confidence that he looks after and manages his teams well. None of them have improved or done anything significant consistently. Which is what Arsenal Fans demand. Consistency.
Moreso, they're sick of "top 4 consistency" and they want trophies. None of these teams have a proven track record of doing this on more than 1 occasion, or at all.
Rams - Haven't made the playoffs in 10 years. Won the NFC western conference last year, knocked out by the Falcons in wildcard playoff after seeding 3rd in the NFC, and are favourites to win it again this year. They did well when he arrived in early 2000s and then struggled for a few years during the changeover of owners and sorting our coaching staff. They are currently having a resurgence now they are settled in LA.
Nuggets - Team that never made the finals, to a team that made the finals twice, then hasn't been back for 5 years.. :| Yeah, he spent big money on Anthony Carmelo and he got them back into the finals but they never managed to overcome the Lakers who were an absolute dream team. Definite improvement considering the Nuggets have never won a championship and Denver isn't exactly the most attractive option for super star players.
Avalances - haven't made the playoffs for 6 years. They made the playoffs last year, but they haven't really improved immensely. He bought them as a part of the deal for the Nuggets and I don't think he really cares about them too much.
Rapids - took 6 years to do anything (won the Cup). Haven't done anything since and finished outside the top 4 on six occasions since. They finished 2nd last year and are currently 11th (out of 12) on the table after 22 games. Went from nothing to MLS champions but then fell away. Worrying signs on this one.
I'd say you were being a little bit glass half empty on these. You can't really compare the EPL to any American sport and he's never bought a team the size of Arsenal. Arsenal are a giant of a club, none of his other clubs had any real history. He will be too scared to change much considering how much money we turn over every year.
Need to put this into perspective. We aren't chelsea before Roman purchased them. We don't need billions of dollars injected into our club right now.
Also, how good is Tottenham breaking transfer records?? 1st team to spend $0 in a transfer window. Eat it spuds.
I never get this comment and the barb its supposed to throw. It's not like we were a second or third division club who never won anything. Hell from 1996 onwards we actually started to win a fair few trophies and was slowly turning into a top 4 team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
However I will agree 100000000% Eat it spuds cant wait for poch to leave and take dele and kane with him
I was at work, so some quick research.. But nothing there showed me he improves teams. And I agree, American teams in terrible areas aren't great examples. However, saying "Kroenke actually has a history of winning with his previous ventures, or at least improvement." isn't really true. The teams he owns, some have had some success, but most have done very little, or about the same with glimpses of success. So not really true on the improvement front.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
And yes, an EPL team with a tonne of history is different to solely american teams, so he will probably change little.. Which means Arsenal can't really expect too much of a cash inject? He's worth 8bil-ish, so I don't see him spending hundreds of millions on players, unless he can recoup a lot of it.
the only thing ill say about Kroenke is to be wary of his 'achievements' in American sports.
American sports are designed to reward failure (drafts) and punish success (salary caps).
Just because you fail for so long that you end up getting the ping pong balls to bounce right way to force a LeBron James type transcendent talent to your team, it cant be hailed as 'great management'.
His behaviour holding the city of St Louis to ransom to fund a stadium is the thing that should concern 'fans' the most.
But his NFL team has been 'given' talent because of the failure of management. if they succeed its probably in spite of Kroenke rather than because of him.
EPL is all on the management to get the team right.
because failure has real consequences, not rewards.
Man utd, City did not spend much on transfers either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
???Quote:
Originally Posted by De-Champ
City spent £70 million on 1 ****ing player in Mahrez
Man U for all the doomsday talk about their transfer market efforts still spent £20 million on Dalot and £50 million on Fred
Cunce are crying poor about clubs only spending £70 million
Also I dont get this talk about Man U needing to sign players
Club has a squad full of quality elite players
It up to Mourinhio to actually get more out of them than he has been doing in the last 2 years
this here is the correct and valid point.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
everyone saw Pogba in the World Cup. Jose aint struggling for talent.
Yes you are correct. What I meant to say they did not sign many players compared to prior years. But as you point out they have big squads.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Sorry, just to finish off the Arsenal talk.
It's hard to convey tone sometimes on forums. My point may have come across poorly.
I have 0% faith that Kroenke will help the club in any way, he won't be investing money to buy players. I just mean that he won't be the end of us. I HOPE!
My actual theory is that he is going to buy us out 100% only to sell us to the African Billionaire, Aliko Dangote, for about 800 million profit or something.
Will be funny when Arsenal fans praise having a rich owner when apparently their club was better then resorting to something which illegitimates every trohpy you win
You miss the point of why people mock Chelski. It's not because they were successful, that would just be petty jealousy.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
The reason is that Chelsea had little to no history and little to no fans, Roman comes in and they spent a lot of money to win trophies and all of a sudden they had lots of fans. And now half of those new fans have left and gone to Manc Citeh.
Chelsea are a plastic club because of their plastic fans, not because of Romans Millions.
Citeh are the new plastic club now and they are mocked even more than you guys, Half of Citeh fans have a Chelsea shirt in their attics. We all just need them to have a dip in form before we can bust it out more often.
You forgot about the plastic flags.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frodo
id just like to be the first to congratulate Stanny and his boyz for this successful EPL season. After watching last night, i estimate you will collect 114 points, score over 120 goals and not concede any. Sariball cannot be stopped.
Also, if you start your best player i think you'll get even more than the 114 points.
from my estimates that should be enough to secure you a top 4 spot.
Congrats.