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

According to BT sport this evening it’s true. Dunno why they’d lie about it ?

I know it's very much hindsight here but is there any reason why Arsenal's January CB signing Kiwior basically hasn't played any minutes for Arsenal? Especially when there is so much talk of Holding not being good enough. He cost €25m and was playing regularly in Serie A. Is it a case that he has not settled yet?

The sad thing is that City didn't really have to cheat. They could have done things slower and have been less dominant and still enjoyed the ride of winning things while also being able to retain some semblance of moral integrity.

City were a fantastic club. I remember actually wanting them to be promoted from the lower divisions back in the day. You can't really blame the club for these Arabs who have come in and cheated and hide behind their money and lawyers and basically been allowed to ruin the competition of football in England.

It's really quite sad. They'll never get any credit for winning anything.

And that’s probably just the wages that we know about.

Ok, I’ll bite. The only cheating that goes on is on the field. People get upset with other teams winning because their team aren’t winning and that’s perfectly understandable but please don’t try to dress your jealousy up as concern for the greater good. Jealousy is all it is, plain and simple.

City are a joy to behold - football is all about entertainment and making shedloads of cash and you shouldn’t loose sight of that fact. You aren’t going to tell me that City embarrassing Arsenal last night and (hopefully) beating them to the title wasn’t enjoyed by every Spurs fan in the world - give or take. It was great entertainment altogether. City have 11 players on the pitch and a coaching ticket and I am pretty sure there are 11 players and coaching ticket out there capable of competing with them, it’s just City have done a far better job than everyone else in the EPL at finding the players/coaches. Money spent does not = success and thats a fact.

Well done City, it’s a pity Arsenal didn’t turn up last night, another chapter in ‘The Bottling’.

Frank Lampard is the biggest winner from last night.

Another comically awful exhibition of management goes under the radar.

Will he even manage a single point before year end?

The whole point of entering a competition is to try and win the thing, it is stockholm syndrome to pretend anything else. If you are not building towards a challenge then you are utterly irrelevant.

So when one participant is blatantly cheating then it does indeed make all the other competitors irrelevant.

People get hung up on the finances side of things and ‘charges’ outstanding. It’s not a business competition. The money being splashed about is only levelling the playing field as far as I am concerned. The only ones complaining are the old school big teams coz thier slice of the pie is getting smaller. I recall the days when Liverpool/Arsenal/Utd etc were the haves n the rest were the have nots and I love the fact that they are the (sort of) have nots at present. Warms me cockles as I know it p*sses their fans off no end and drives them to shift focus from thier poor football teams/managers/performances/bottle jobs to ‘finances’ and ‘charges’ of/against the successful teams.

Well most of the teams are just there to stay in the league which has substantial financial gains. Money is inconsequential to city though, they exist to win the league at all costs.