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

Can't sell out home games but I think a bigger red flag has to be the trips to Wembley last season that they couldn't sell out.
Like there is no way Man Utd, Liverpool or even some smaller clubs get to Wembley and can't sell it out. If one fan can't make it there is another to take their place.

City used all the excuses about travel time, cost on fans and so on but they fail to grasp that simple fact about big clubs. There is always someone looking for a ticket to a cup semi for a big club.

Then we are meant to accept that City are getting fair market sponsorship deals and pulling in more money than Real Madrid. From who are they pulling this money in from? Who are they selling their products to? Who are sponsors paying to get their products advertised to?

It doesn't make a lick of sense

They should probably put some sort of experience qualifier into it.

Haaland, Foden and Saka all competing for the same award as Udogie, Mainoo and Palmer is bizarre.

The Premier League's award is just a marketing tool, it was spawned because the PFA decided to cap the age of players elligible for the Young Player of the Year at 21 years and coincidentally the better U21 players were not playing in the Premier League.

Yeah there definitely needs to be some criteria for YPOTY beyond just the player's age.

Of the players nominated I'd only really consider Mainoo, Palmer, and Udogie to fit the category.

EDIT: If Foden wins it'll be his third YPOTY! And he won his first in 2021 it just doesn't make sense!

The idea that Rice, as great as he is, is up for POTY and Rodri isn't, is categorically mental.

Palmer has the YPOTY sown up you'd imagine. He's had a great season.

The only 2 managers likely to properly overachieve (honourable mention to Gary O’Neill). Obviously I think Arteta in particular has done some good work this year.

However, it’s looking increasingly likely that he will have added Rice, Havertz, Raya and Timber (yes I know) to fill the areas that they fell short in last year, had a ridiculously injury free season for almost all of their most important players, and still fallen short in all 4 competitions.

If you’re going there this year, you may aswell rename the thing to ‘which manager from the big 6 we think has done best this year’

Just to qualify "Arsenal - "fallen short in all 4 competitions"", this is actually how early their quadruple ended, others added for dramatic effect :)

Manchester City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Aston Villa 27Sep2023, Arsenal, Manchester United 01Nov2023,

Newcastle United 13Dec2023, West Ham United 20Dec2023, Liverpool 17Mar2024.

Rodri is the best player in the league.

it should be 'rookie of the season', or something like that, and it should be Palmer's all day long.

manager of the season is Arteta if he wins the League, and Emery if not.

The manager who wins 4 league titles in a row will get it, but purely on over achieving it has to be emery.

Rodri should be POTY, city can not function without him, Foden close second. Palmer undoubtedly YPOTY

After winning manager of the month for the first 3 months I’d say he’s been found out. You can’t expect to run the legs off your players game in game out through a full season. They had no European football, they had no domestic cup runs, Man United a basket case, Chelsea very much a work in progress that only started finding a bit of consistent form recently. They lost out on 4th and a CL spot to a fairly average workmanlike Villa side who have also collapsed. It was a great opportunity for Ange to get Spurs in the CL, they blew it