Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

A bigger question is how Chelsea managed third despite being an incoherent mess of a team for most of the season but we all know the answer is just 'Hazard'.

In summary: funny old game

is hughton too fuckin nice, is he too easy to sack

ridiculous decision

everyone wants their adkins/poch moment

either that or it's another warnock heelturn haha

professional football in England has been morally bankrupt for a while tbf

we had the same reaction here when adkins was sacked for poch. maybe they see teams around them trying to play better football and are willing to roll the dice. it does seem harsh but it's not hard to understand. most of brighton's points were at the beginning of the season.

can't see Hughton improving them any further tbf

i guess they reckon they'd be 10 or 15 games into the new season and end up making the same decision. maybe it's smart. hard to say really, it's all a sort of gambling i suppose.

adkins poch is a serious outlier

there are clubs that need to yo-yo wisely in order to grow i think but im not invested enough to back that up

different circumstances but i've said the same about other managers in the past, when they get to the "scraped 17th" phase it's less a sign of achievement and more a sign of time to go

*cough*Mick*cough*

i mean yeah if you think of it as thanks a lot here's a million quid it doesn't seem that much of a travesty.

^^^

a chance for real football fans to grouse on twitter though

its an interesting managerial ability gap, how much of it is projection, self-promotion, a genuine missing skillset or personality type

could hughton ever take say a west ham or an everton and improve them? doubt it, fair enough

is the level of performance that gets you sacked from brighton a lower level of performance than emery or whoever have shown?

youd pick a few managers shouldve gone ahead of him i think

xp sure look nothing is sad is someone is worse off eh

race to fourth from bottom nest pas

I think we have to accept that Solskjaer's gonna be in place until at least October

poch in

hughton to spurs

Could still do a job at right back

i guess i just don't feel that sorry for the managers, i think there's a weird reverence for them. hughton is fairly consistently good but there are plenty of managers making millions for failing over and over again. at least the players have to run around a bit or whatever.

not saying fuck the managers either obviously. man united will be raging they didn't hang on, though i guess the chances of them tempting hughton are slim enough.

i guess i think about what it takes to try to get six clerical officers to do anything, anything at all and then i think about having to do that under intense public scrutiny in a highly charged competitive environment and then i make them millionaire cunts then i multiply it by four then i imagine the working week boils down to a ninety minute session with a similar outfit trying to spoil it and then i go lie down for a while

Look there's thousands of people pay good money for Football Manager every year who'd do the job for nothing how hard can it be you just look at the players' stats out of 20 and go thru the regen lists off the internet

i have the right to work in this country and a statue of myself outside real sociedad's ground and yet johnny foreigner gets appointed every time.

poch out nevertheless obv. chancer.

Watford have done OK rolling the dice on new managers as well. Hughton did OK but depending on the quality of the promoted teams there's probably a shake-up needed.

Also his signings last summer were notably terrible and you get the sense they're not crazy to back him for another round of investment.

I think gambling is how the Brighton chairman made his fortune, so surprising he didn't roll the dice sooner tbh.

Tony "The Lizard" Bloom is the most successful gambler of his generation thanks to the hedge-fund-style betting consultancy that helps him ...

put yer head in a vice will this cunt!

jaysis

Well, that was the best season ever

griezmann to barca

tart

Ultimately the chance to teach Ole and Phelan how to read and write for 900k a week was not quite exciting enough.

Kompany off to manage Anderlecht

good luck with that, anderlecht.

Has Aguero actually broken the Premier League trophy by dropping it off a balcony or is this elaborate social media bantz?

i want to believe

fake ffs

I read that disobedient slaves broke it. Btw don't bring an umbrella if you're out killing slaves in Abu Dhabi this weekend, the forecast is great.

Taking this pretty well Fernando

A real push for the title next year.

lol

Good crosses in 2018/19.

David Beckham - 2.
Minutes played - 4.

Ashley Young - 1.
Games played - about 50.

— Matthew McFadyen (@_maffoo) May 26, 2019

Aston Villa being promoted to the Premier League = I'll be joining y'all's discussions next season. :D

villa fans are ime good sorts

Swansea City winger Daniel James is expected to complete his transfer to Manchester United today.

The deal is thought to be worth around £18m. pic.twitter.com/k8MvUAQg2D

— BBC Sport Wales (@BBCSportWales) June 6, 2019

Someone start a transfer thread so I can celebrate this momentous signing

we need an idiotic managerial quote to get it going

My folks moved to the west midlands three years ago, and my mum swears that they get more tv news about aston villa than about brexit

hazard fee agreed