General Premier League Thread 2024-25

Real Madrid made a €20m (£17m) bid for him in January, Liverpool chose not to accept it.

I suppose if a man left his wife and said “I love you so much but here’s a better offer for me financially and I get to, eh, have a new challenge with another lady” then you’d just expect her to say “you know, I understand - thanks and good luck!”. He clearly wants to leave, so just go and stop saying things which he doesn’t really mean. And good luck to him, he’s been brilliant for Liverpool, the best right back there’s ever been in the Premier Lea, when everything is taken into consideration.

I’d have Azpilicueta over every one of those, bar Trent. Thought he was a class player at his peak. Denis Irwin too even though he spent most of his time at left back. Neville was solid. Walker excellent too, lacking in the attacking department but great to stop the counters.

It's set a precedent going forward I suppose, but Villa fans can definitely feel aggrieved.

Pure BS alright.

Didn’t Villa vote with 3 clubs against the other 16 on something recently ?

I wonder are the premier league willing to treat those 4 teams differently.

Or it could be that they are just good pals with Daniel Levy.

Either way, I can’t find the rearranged fixtures to see if it’s leading to a FPL DGW.

hahahahahahah Kyle Walker the greatest RB in history. That's a good one. Just because he could run fast on the recovery, to paper over his poor positioning, doesn't mean that he was a great RB, let alone the best ever. Teams used to regularly target him as he always switched off at the back post.

How you don't have Azpilcueta or Ivanovic even considered is a joke, but you have included Walker, Trent, Coleman and Zabaleta. You basically just sorted by which team has won the most PLs and included their RB, and through in Coleman on top.

Why would a defender that is awful as a defender be in the conversation as the best ever defender in that position?

Best non defending defender TAA is top class but as an actual right back and what that entails? Naw, not having it.

Why should the PL be looking out for the Uefa comp though?

They didn't move Villas game vs Liverpool, which villa requested, despite PSG getting way more prep time for the game against villa? How is that 'fair'?

The PL don't consier fairness with regards to TV fixtures at any other point?

Will teams playing in Europe on Weddnesday now have to play their games on Friday? As they have set the precedent on a fair turn around?

No issue with Spurs making the request, but once villa said no that should have been the end of it - why should villa be compormised in their aims because of Spurs? other teams fighting for top 5 that weekend that play on a Saturday or Sunday now have more rest than Villa do. Fair?

Villa wanted to get the same competitive advantage that other teams have been getting against them all season.

Have you proof of that? Or are you saying it as your opinion.

Nobody else gets that though. They’ve literally pulled one out of their ass to help Spurs out.

What the Premier League have done for Spurs here is something that I think most people would see as absolutely fine if everyone else wasn’t left to play Saturday morning kickoffs following a Wednesday evening game, or play Sunday 4:30 before the decisive Wednesday CL final round of games.

Villa have been f*cked with this kind of thing all season and are yet still expected to bend over to help Spurs in the secondary competition.

Yep. There'll be 6 in the CL next season

Villa should ask for the moved game to be moved 😂

I went back and looked at who has made the right back position in the premier league team of the year most often. Main takeway is I'd forgotten how often Irish players had made the team! Coleman did once, Garry Kelly twice, Stephen Carr twice, and Steve Finnan three times! Denis Irwin also in 3 times as a left back.

Anyway, the answer to the question is Gary Neville 6x, Kyle Walker 4x and Trent 3x (along with a couple of others) and could make it 4x this season.

Those three realistically are the main contenders for best ever premier league right back.

Those managers must have won loads