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2024-25 Premier League Thread

I'm sad to see ten Hag go and only hope that United replace him with someone equally or more so disastrous and hilarious. Also, if they could follow Villa's path and get relegated one of these years that would just be the most incredible thing.
 
I didn't mean physically distant so much as ... just distant. Vacant. Ineffective. Lost.

And honestly, going after an up and comer from Europe is a positive. You'll know when it's truly hopeless when they start recycling old English managers.
 
BTW, cracking match between Arsenal and Liverpool on Sunday. Just wish we'd shown up for the first half; might've walked away with all three points.
Still, a point away at The Emirates for a team in transition is a positive step.
 
Ed H in Pasadena said:
BTW, cracking match between Arsenal and Liverpool on Sunday. Just wish we'd shown up for the first half; might've walked away with all three points.
Still, a point away at The Emirates for a team in transition is a positive step.
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Personally, I thought the match sucked. The back 4 was a shambles with Saliba suspended and everyone else injured, moving Partey out of position and then losing Gabriel and Timber during the match didn’t help.
 
Ruben Amorim to Man U is complete per The Athletic. He’ll remain with Sporting until the next International break, the have a Champions League match against Man City next week and go to Braga on November 10. The international break starts on November 11, so his first match in charge at Man U will be on November 24. He had a €10 million release clause and 30 day notice window, Man U will pay an extra €1 million so he can join earlier. There are still discussions regarding which of his assistants will join him and the related compensation to Sporting.
 
I saw an article that speculated that Sporting saw Amorim as a guy who would quickly catch the eye of a bigger club, so they threw a release clause in there to make it sure they got something for their trouble. As a hedge, it's a smart move I guess.
 
I don't want to loudly talk badly about Emery, but I'm going to softly whisper that I don't understand why he keeps playing the same exact lineup with zero width and then we all act surprised when we can't seem to get anything going for the first half. I hope I'm wrong and we crush Spurs, but considering that Spurs are susceptible to attacks on their flanks due to how high up their fullbacks play and the fact that VDV is out injured, I think we're going to regret playing Digne and McGinn. I'm finding it a little odd that we're seeing significantly less tactical flexibility from Emery this season where he has significantly more really talented options than we did his first season and a half with us when he had far fewer options.
 
I really hate to be proven right to such a high degree, I really hope this is a wakeup call. If I see the exact same lineup and tactics in our next match, I am going to start looking into if Emery has been replaced by an evil doppelganger.
 
Arsenal Sporting Director Edu is leaving the club to pursue other opportunities. As much as anyone, he’s responsible for the turnaround at Arsenal, hiring Mikel Arteta as manager, dumping underperforming high dollar contract players and bringing in younger players. In the Summer 2022 window, no incoming transfers were older than 23

One rumored possibility for a new role is working with the teams owned by Evangelos Marinakis, whose holdings include Nottingham Forest, Olympiacos and Rio Ave, which plays in Portugal’s top division. Neither side will confirm the rumor.
 
Cracking weekend in the Prem. Liverpool go top in another tough-fought battle with Brighton. City and Arsenal lost, and Forest sits 3rd after taking out the Hammers! 😳
And Harry Wilson capped off a great weekend with two beautiful goals on injury time to help Fulham overturn a 1-0 deficit.
 
Can't believe Liverpool have entered the international break this week with a five-point lead. Match vs Villa was as tough as I imagined it would be. As soon as Jhon Duran came on I kept thinking "this guy's going to score and John McGinn will be the reason why". Well McGinn was his usual deadly self but fortunately we kept Duran, etc. off the score sheet. I'm more thrilled with the clean sheet than the two goals, too, though I'm glad Mo continued his fine form. And that was Darwin at his most "Darwin-y", class goal followed by two flubs that should have seen this match off sooner than it was seen off. As for the "foul" that wasn't, not sure how match official David Coote doesn't go back and give Bailey a yellow. Think he's fortunate Nunez scores or Bailey gets sent off by VAR. Coote's remark that "it wasn't a foul" makes more sense now given what's been revealed about him.
Brighton taking out Man City, Forest dropping points and Chelsea/Arsenal played to a 1-1 draw was about as "perfect" a weekend, results-wise, as a Liverpool supporter could hope for. Only United's win over Leicester spoiled that (though a Leicester win wouldn't have been celebrated by us either, because that would've brought joy to one of our least-favorite fan bases).
 
I think I predicted a couple of weeks ago that Villa would be wearing cement boots by the time they got to your Reds. Nailed it ... and also stubbornly injury plagued as well, sadly. And yeah, that was a foul of some sort on Bailey. All day. Coote's a pillock.
 
Spurs midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has been suspended for 7 matches and fined £100,000 by the FA over comments he made about teammate Son Heung-min. He made the comments on a TV program broadcast in Uruguay in June and was charged by the FA in September. He’ll miss 6 league matches and the Carabao Cup quarterfinal.
 
Really disappointed but maybe not too surprised it has come to this with Bentancur. Every time you think you can't be shocked by such comments, you come across another shocking remark. Feel bad for Son, and his response shows he's been/is the bigger man and an incredible person.
 
And the teams playing in Europe have at least 2 matches. Chelsea has 3 European matches in the Conference League. Arsenal, Spurs and Man U get their 3rd extra match in the EFL Cup quarterfinals.
 
andyt said:
And the teams playing in Europe have at least 2 matches. Chelsea has 3 European matches in the Conference League. Arsenal, Spurs and Man U get their 3rd extra match in the EFL Cup quarterfinals.
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Two in the CL and the EFL quarters for Liverpool, too.
 
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