Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

was always an ile thread

Too big for ILF.

I've never wanted Aberdeen to win a football match more:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/01/football/brexit-burnley-back-in-europe-spt-intl/index.html

As a Dons fan I know posted the other day, when Burnley qualified for Europe all they had was a dream and 120 million quid.

about time the ILX Dyche backlash gathered pace, the guys a fucking degenerate!

and don't get me started on the good people of Burnley!

I put EPL in the thread title, in case people get confused and think we mean the Liverpool that play in Scotland or Abu Dhabi.

can’t believe kane’s golden boot hasn’t earned him a move to a big club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._(Montevideo)

people might want to use the search function to find the EPL thread!

Burnley - Aberdeen into extra time

Game over, stupid fucking handball penalty.

Joe Hart + Ben Gibson look done deals to Burnley. Both of them passing Dyche's stringent criteria for what makes a solid Burnley signing.

we've now beaten 3 decent top tier Euro sides(Lyon,Bolagna,RB Liepzig) 3-1, 2-1, and finally 3-0 just now. We're ready!

Adama Traore signing for us this morning. Domagoj Vida signing for...somebody?...this week. Love this jigsaw we're building.

Middlesborough seem to be having a very FFP friendly window, probably watching the QPR situation. I expect us to be linked with Caveleiro .. again, when this is confirmed.

That seems 50/50. I don't think we *need* to move Cav on but obviously the speculation won't go away. My guess is - not this window. But we'll see, there's no sentiment in our transfer policy now.

i think if our Limbombe deal truly is dead, and he 's off to the Geordies, then there will be another attempt to sign Cav.

so then

1. Citeh
2. ManU
3. Pool
4. TBC, not Chelsea

18. Newcastle
19. Brighton
20. Cardiff

1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Utd
5. Arsenal

17. Tottenham
18. Cardiff
19. Southampton
20. Crystal Palace

:)

net spend an all that

1. City
2. Pool
3. Spurs
4. Arse
5. Chelsea
6. ManU
7. Portugal Wanderers
8. Everton

Breaking | Manchester United have turned down a €50m + Yerry Mina & André Gomes offer for Paul Pogba from Barcelona, according to @DiMarzio.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) August 6, 2018

lol

so Mina *is* available

1. Liverpool FC as hot as hell
2. United
3. Tottenham
4. Arsenal
5. Watch my lips and I will spell
6. Cos they don't just play but they can rap as well

20. Crystal Palace

Gonna start FPing people predicting Palace to go down

whats yr predictions

1. City
2. Pool
3. Spurs
4. Arse
5. Chelsea
6. ManU
7. Portugal Wanderers
8. Everton

I like this though there's no way Everton are finishing 8th.

1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Man united
4. Spurs
5. Chelsea
6. Portugal
7. Arsenal
8. Everton
9. Leicester
10. West Ham
11. Bournemouth
12. Burnley
13. Fulham
14. Palace
15. West Ham
16. Southampton
17. Watford
18. Cardiff
19. Huddersfield
20. Brighton

do you guys know something abt brighton I don't?

Brighton won't finish rock bottom, and probably have a realistic chance of finishing above Watford + Southampton for starters!

we are bidding £13.5m for Montpellier's Issac Mbenza. The consensus from their messageboard seems to be: talented, but those English clubs, they crazy! But saying that 10 goals playing on the right last season in Ligue 1 is at least very impressive on paper.

and like with Wagner, Hughton won't be sacked when the going get's tough, which can go either way, but clubs changing managers mid-season aren't always lucky enough to get that Mark Hughes bounce!

just felt they looked a bit lightweight and vulnerable to a second season slump tbh. beyond Cardiff it's a lot harder to pick 3 to go down

At some point Rafa's patience will run out and then Newcastle are gone

I guess when I say "at some point" I mean when Ashley declines to cough up again in January

yeah i fancy them for a relegation season

i wonder if Ashley has fantasies about treating the staff of his football team the way he treats the rest of his employees?

he probably has a stipulation that the manager's contract is null and void if they drop dead in the workplace!

it seems Newcastle have made 30m in this transfer window and are still sniffing around for freebies, they had a huge wage bill in that promotion season(running at a £90m loss + easily treble of Hudds+Brighton combined). Getting Kennedy on loan again was a good move tho, but they look a bit weaker on paper now. I'm plumping for Geordies, Watford + Southampton for bottom 3 this year.

hey even if Cardiff get a good manager in by October they will still have that squad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFM-vAcRK_c

looks p ready to me

I totally forgot about Cardiff, they are already preparing for the 21/22 season in league 1!

brighton had the best defence in the bottom half of the prem last season, they were just unable to score any goals. glenn murray only managed about 12, all the rest of their strikers were fairly useless. they've got rid of baldock this summer and signed a few interesting-looking attacking players, though they're all unproven at prem level. there's also the hope that locadia will refind the form he had at psv. certain to be the kiss of death, but i think they'll stay up

hart's gone to burnley

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e3/88/f0/e388f010dcbcf0afb202d37e74e61e94.jpg

Buying Joe Hart that's really going to improve a side who not only couldn't beat Aberdeen over 180 minutes but were outplayed for much of the time.

Alex Smithies would have been a much better option if the transfer criteria is basically: truss no foreigns!

traore to wolves too

yeah, just want another centre half now i think

It's going to be both a bit awkward and really funny when everyone at Burnley realises that Joe Hart is the worst of the three keepers they have at their disposal.

Also, Arsenal, blimey.

1. Liverpool
2. City
3. Spurs
4. Man u
5. Arsenal
6. Chelsea
7. Wolves
8. West ham
9. Everton
10. Leicester
11. Fulham
12. Palace (if they keep wilf)
13. Burnley
14. Brighton
15. Southampton
16. Watford
17. Huddersfield
18. Bournemouth
19. Newcastle
20. Cardiff

Only really confident about the top 2 and bottom 2

Hoist. Petard.

fucking hell, missed a totally gift-wrapped sitter there last night. self fp'ed and feeling genuine shame.

absolute classic of the "he wont be happy with himself when he sees it tomorra" shearer analysis, trevor

textbook

Thanks for making me feel at home, y'all. The 2019 - 2020 season will be a delight!

Ligue 1 will be renamed "Ligue 1 Uber Eats" for the 2020/21 & 2021/22 seasons following the conclusion of a naming rights deal.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) June 12, 2019

Aston Villa smashes club transfer record to sign a Brazilian striker for £22m from Club Brugge! Adjusted for inflation I guess cause I'm pretty sure Darren Bent was always reported as having cost us £24m or thereabouts back when? Or was that 18m with add-ons? Memories :)

I think possibly I have noticed Wesley as a name while clicking through other teams' CL results on my FM19 career but then again possibly not, who can say. youd better believe i'm loading that shit up right now though to find out how good he's gonna be for us in 2023. anyway ive got no intention of letting my own ignorance sully this glorious moment, we're back baby and we're spending irresponsible sums of money on unproven quantities same as the rest of you. A REAL PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM, JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT WITHOUT THEM :) :) :) :)

and to anyone who suggests that 14m on Ross McCormack was an irresponsible sum of money i say *blows raspberry*

welcome back lads

Hmm, it seems there have been about 40 consecutive posts about Aston Villa on this, the Premier league thread. I'm openly weeping over this discovery, although also it is off-topic because this thread is for the 2018—19 season

Imago is correct that I am an extremely good guy. I 100% knew who Wesley was before we signed him and all. Huht

xxp

that £14m on Ross McCormack might seem like wise and careful speculation next to FC ILX splurging £20m on Jack Clarke. I know different leagues and all that but he's looked like a bang average L1 player every time I've seen him and I think it is fair to be judgmental - even towards such a young one - he looks like the consummate flatter to deceive overrated young dud and a complete arsehole to boot!

LOL FC ILX. Like it.

McCormack didn’t look cut out for the Australian A-League last time I saw him play.

If they loan Costa off us then they've done good business there i think

Tottenham have agreed a club-record fee with Lyon worth around £65m for midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, Sky Sports News understands.

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 25, 2019

didnt know if we'd started a transfer thread

Great signing.

(we need a summer transfer thread)

xp

Silva calls it quits after the coming season

(we need a summer transfer thread)

Also Lamps to Chelsea? By god if only we could come up with a smart pun and start a new transfer thread.

when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

Ah, thanks!

ah yes the coming season, the stickiest of all weather phenomena

Champions League kicked off last night btw.

I noticed!

itk