General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

The Mudryk thing is mad. Apparently he asked the Donetsk owner to please allow him to sign for Arsenal but he was turned down, don’t think it the wages that sorted it. When he was being introduced yesterday he looked like he’d been licking p*SS off a nettle.

Some clubs still have to take it seriously.

Shaktar donating ~€25m of the transfer fee to victims of the invasion of Ukraine. It's a very noble move and has to be commended.

But something seems fishy to me about the deal. I dunno what. Maybe it's the last minute hijacking, of a little (relatively speaking) above the fee Arsenal were haggling over. Maybe it's a wages issue, although Mudryk had also agreed to Arsenal's contract offer.

Chelsea & Shaktar have also agreed to play a friendly in Donbass at some point in the future. Chelsea fans were happy to sing Roman Abramovich's name a week ago. He lost the club because of his supposed links to Putin & the invasion. Wasn't one of the terms of the sale that there would be donations made to victims of the war? Is there an alternative motive behind this move? It's probably just coincidence to be fair. Chelsea has been used as a sportwashing vehicle in the recent past though.

Playing each other this weekend, wonder woukd a draw bring about the end of both managers.

Has it ever happened where 2 managers been sacked after 1 game?

Huge potentially overpriced deal with money going from a formerly embargoed club that was owned by one Oligarch to another club and straight out the door again, supposedly to an independent charitable entity controlled by the Shaktar owner, another Oligarch and supposedly Ukraine's richest man.

Look I dunno, while Chelsea thing stinks to high heaven to me to be honest. I have no evidence to say anything is wrong, I could be as far out as a lighthouse in my observations, but something smells off to me this deal in particular.

Yeah, Chelsea’s squad needs to be realigned. Kante, Azpilecueta and Jorginho all out of contract too in the summer. At least Potter will try and bring through any young lad who he thinks could develop into a top class player.

If it has ever happened it's bound to have happened in Italy.

Mad stuff happens there especially at Fiorentina and to Pozzo owned Udinese.

Serie A does head to head over goal difference for all places and a play off for champions.

It used to be a playoff for relegation and European places first too but the other factors are first now.

Came close to a playoff between the Milans recently which would have been epic.

I think the loss of the neutral venue game in England is something to lament.

Clearly an alias. His real name is Jay Cartwright

3 points maybe, but with a game extra played and a far inferior goal difference, could just as easily be 7 as 3 and if they lose to Arsenal then they are definitely out of it. It's a must win for United, Arsenal can afford to lose or draw.

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