General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Is this a ManU or Liverpool fan? The vid has Devils in top corner and Liverpool fancam in bottom corner. Confused by the context every time I see this!

TV payments are about a hundred million a season alone for a PL team.....whinging about 250k and 4k per game certainly is a silly idea.

There's obviously a degree of salty Gunner in my position, but complaining that a one off fee and potentially a few grand a game is cost prohibitive is pretty stupid.

Teams like Luton who come up maybe once every two decades.....and have to spend money getting their stadia up to PL standards already..... we're talking about a drop in the ocean here. It really isn't the complaint you think it is. Between the massive increase in TV money and parachute payments if they don't stay up, no team is going to go broke because they spent an extra million or two getting up to standard. The huge increase in income from getting to the PL more than counteracts any upgrade costs multiple times over.

There were boos on the tv audio, maybe it's fake news, I dunno. Maybe they superimposed the pictures of the empty seats too?

It has - so a lot of the criticism for Ange comes from trying to play the same way with incapable players.

But it’s his first year, he’s started incredibly well, fans love him and has few expectations on him right now, so maybe there’s merit in spending time hammering home the style of football he wants to play regardless of who’s available.

The problem is, while he’s doing that teams are also becoming familiar with how to play against Spurs, so it may not be as effective even when his preferred players come back. We haven’t seen how tactically adept Ange is yet because we haven’t really needed to.

Maybe we could focus on the actual game instead of sh*te refereeing decisions at that point.

Looking at city's fixtures they've probably started their winning streak the other day, their next 5 fixtures are all on paper, handy enough wins, only tricky fixture is Newcastle who are in bad form, Sheffield, Newcastle, Burnley, Brentford, Everton their next 5 on the league. Then around mid February they play Chelsea, Bournemouth and United in between their champions league games V Copenhagen.

I think City will click in the 2nd half of the season baring big injuries etc.. We have seen this last season (and before) with City where they had a minor (sometimes very minor) wobble before going on a massive run. There's nothing to suggest this year will be any different.

They have been playing without De Bruyne for a long time now and his service into Haaland is missed. With them back in and if they stay fit you can see City putting up 10/11/12 wins on the bounce.

Liverpool while top at the moment, actually don't look like they have enough in the tank to me. Their business in the summer was good I thought but the team just doesn't look like it is fully there yet. The attack looks disjointed at times. The midfield is unbalanced and as a result, the defence can be got at, especially with the injuries. They do however still have 3 absolute world-class players in Allison, VVD and Salah.

Arsenal never kicked on - they just don't look like they can put up the fight they put up last season. If they had that run this season they'd win it. Partey is a big miss. If they can get him back on the pitch in the 2nd half of the season then who knows.

The title race will be decided by City - if they hit form I don't think the rest will be able to keep pace, it won't really matter what the rest do. If they don't then the door opens up for both Pool and Arsenal. Liverpool have the experience, the players who have been there. Arsenal should have the hunger but don't have Allison, VVD or Salah level players.

There's no question of his importance to us though, I'd agree it's right there behind Ali and Salah.

10 goal involvements in all comps and that doesn't even tell the whole story.

Yup, any excuse to put the boot in and give it the "bottlerz lol" nonsense after one loss, best ignored.