General Premier League Thread 2024-25

You can do that for any club.

Loads of fans overestimate their own players when they are playing well or things are going well at their club. It's not a new thing that only Utd fans do.

Also, the club can have good players still within the squad. Overall there is a poor attitude that makes / allows good players drop their levels. That sets a rut and over time a player who did look great (Martinez for example) can see his level regress.

There's more difficult days and nights to go through yet if the club wants to set itself back on the right track longer term.

There's no point trying to put a bandage over this wound. It requires major surgery.

That's true. Fans do tend to overrate their own players alright and every club is guilty of it every now and again.

Generally it's when a club is in the 3rd-7th positions or just outside the league challenging positions. Maybe it helps them feel a bit better about their position. Eg we have the best defence in the league, if we can just get a striker we will win or we have the best attacking midfielder and midfield trio in the league, if we can sort the GK we will be challenging for the league next year. But to have so many at the same time, and be in 14th place is different.

I think social media plays a big part in this too.

Pretty good talent tbf!

That's a ridiculous ref card

Bit mad of a red

Id be furious if that was given against my team tbh

Typical Michael Oliver

We see those tackles in every game and rarely even a yellow.

Kovatic smashed Odegard and Rices ankles twice and wasn’t sent off as Oliver didn’t want to ruin the spirit of the game.

Letter of the law at??

Great first half watching that. Ipswich with absolutely nothing going forward which is what we needed after 3 league games in a row conceding first

Like the Lille game midweek it's pressure off for this second half, I just can't see an Ipswich comeback here unless we collapse and get a red card or something, we should be able to control it now and hopefully bring on the likes of Endo, Darwin and Elliott to see it out

Get another goal and maybe we're in Chiesa and Danns territory?

Splendid half though, could have scored more but 3 up is well deserved at the least

Just saw the challenge. Easiest yellow card decision ever to make.

Never a red though. He's deliberately tried to trip him, I'm 100% convinced that was deliberate and not mistimed. But not over ball height and not force against a standing leg. Not overly violent and not an experienced nasty player.

Wrong decision for me, but yellow all day long so not giving any card would have been a worse outcome, at least he saw it and went to his pocket, just picked out the wrong colour

I don't think anyone thinks that's not a card. I'd say there's very very few people in the world who think it's a red.