Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

Marca: Carlo Ancelotti will be the new Real Madrid manager.

— Francesco Porzio (@fraporzio95) June 1, 2021

pep's clearly yesterdays man. his idea of a team of midfielders has evolved into garteh southgate's quest for a team of RBs. only 4 this time around but hopefully by quatar in 18 months time he can add a couple more.

xp thought that said marcello carlin at first

they were told not to "fuckin try it"

"big man up front, huh? Dont fuckin try it"

Comstock Carabinieri to partner Norwegian wonderkid Hongro up front.

Tottenham have made a proposal to former Juventus director Fabio Paratici to become new Spurs director of football. #THFC are waiting for Paratici to answer in the next days. ⚪️

Antonio Conte was together with Paratici at Juventus - and Conte is in talks for Spurs job now. 🇮🇹

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 2, 2021

Conte would be a great appointment but equally important to have a proper DOF for the first time since 2015, I think.

another counter attacking manager. lets see if that spurs defence depresses conte as much as it did mourinho.

If there's any coach who could fix Tottenham, it's surely Antonio Conte. But if there's any club that could break Antonio Conte, it's surely Tottenham.

— Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) June 2, 2021

This tbh

manager's a conte

Lage in at Wolves.

so he coached Benfica?

Noodle, what say you?

i was all ready to go, tho technically it's not official?

i'm gently excited, we should expect more direct football than under Nuno maybe, our current squad will have to change if he wants to go to a back four but then i expect the squad to change over the summer and it's good if he's got the time to start to put his stamp on it

lads are we doing the Euros thread on ILE or ILF?

ILM

De Subjectivisten

both fine answers

This FUCKING club

wouldn’t want that whiny cunt at my club tbh

It’s going to be Eddie Howe, I can feel it.

Whose lane is it, an e howe?

I see Joel Pereira, who Mourinho described as ‘the best Portuguese goalkeeper of the next generation.’ has been released on a free. He had an absolute mare at Hearts and I think it finished 7-0 on his full debut for Town.

Emiliano Buendia to Villa for ~£35 million by the looks of it. Could be a good bit of business given how much Villa struggled for midfield creativity once Barkley's form fell off a cliff post-injury and Grealish got injured himself. And of course it gives Norwich funds to strengthen a little, so everybody's happy!

Skipp in for 35m so

Villa bidding for Ward-Prowse as well, assume they’re getting a fortune from City for Grealish...

Great value from Roy having the piss out of Jordan Henderson here

"does he do card tricks?"

Ashley wondering if fans know what taking the knee means

Yes they do bud, that's why they boo

Wrighty otm tho bless him

Hilarious thirty secs from chiriches

Henderson always missing that.

The six Premier League clubs that signed up for the doomed European Super League have all been hit with fines.

Manchester United,Chelsea,Liverpool,Arsenal,Manchester City and Tottenham must all pay a combined sum of £22million for their part in the doomed venture.

This equates to just over £3.5million per club, although it is currently unclear whether all six clubs will pay an equal amount.

However, if any of the six clubs sign up for a similar venture in the future then they could each be hit with a £20million fine and face a 30-point deduction.

Deduct the points retroactively anyway you fucking cowards

Hilariously, Arsenal and Spurs would both still be safe if you did this to the season just ended

3.5m is chump change to these lads, it should have been a much higher fine than that

That's 1.5 promising young creative midfielders you never hear of again for Arsenal, should've made it 10 mil, or 'an Elneny' as it's known in the trade.

Splitting hairs, possibly, but it's not a fine, it's a settlement paid "as a gesture of good will". It's not 100% clear that the FA actually had much power to impose a fine but i guess the six clubs want it swept under the carpet at this stage. The points deduction / fine for joining another one in future seems to have been given to the FA after the fact by a rule change the clubs have agreed to.

Its a guarantee that any future moves will be a true breakaway and not just a "we'll have our own european contest"

Fonseca heavily tipped by Fabrizio Romano as the likely next Spurs manager, meaning Spurs would be appointing the guy Roma replaced with Mourinho.

Appointing someone who got Roma kicked out of the Italian cup for losing track of the number of substitutions he had made and accidentally adding a sixth would be pretty on brand, tbh.

fine head of hair on him though

It looks like Fonseca is a done deal.

RAFA!

Official. Gennaro Gattuso part ways Fiorentina only 22 days after the appointment, because of the problems on transfers strategy with Gattuso’s agent Jorge Mendes. 🟣 #Fiorentina #Gattuso

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 17, 2021

Hmm.

Around four or five players were set to arrive with the help of the Portuguese 'super agent'.

Yet the cost and quality of these arrivals is said to have upset the Viola hierarchy

Imagine that.

Hearing a lot of rumours that Gunnersaurus is a lifelong Villa fan u know

Photoshopping him into the kit as we speak

I wondered what had happened to Nigel Kennedy

so this Gattuso situation, early reports, whose fault is it? lotsa Fiorentina fans trying to blame Gattuso/Mendes on websites, buuuut wouldn't the club's owners have known what they were getting into?

i really don't get why man utd are making bids for trippier when they have awb. unless they are going move awb into the centre to solve their problem there. maybe they think buying a rb is easier than buying a really good cb?

Looks like Aurier is off to PSG