Fuck Off Back To The Little Leagues: EPL 21/22

Conte also at fault that tanganga came out to be so easily beaten in the buildup

Sanchez wtf

refs a total cunt

think i tried to post this last night but drunk-failed:

i really really hate that fcuking "everywhere we go" song

catching up on motd and tyrone mings quality show of withering disdain

and today's decision to give jota a pen bewilderingly poor

Read some Everton fans complaining that when Villa scored Mingsy went off on a solo mission to scream abuse at the Gwladys St stand, and a cursory rewatch of the goal suggests this is at least partly true

Welcome to Thunderdome, Kopite scum. You will rue the day you ever had cause to set foot in Goodison Park. Please do not be beastly to the many orphans in the family stand

i really really hate that fcuking "everywhere we go" song

This has been doing my head in for weeks.

I only like the spiteful chants

how long has that awful song been in circulation throughout UK football grounds now? I think it was about 2 years ago I first started noticing it during streams and audio commentaries. Now it's been brought to attention how cuntish it is I wont be able to block it out any more!

Way longer

this isn't the

everywhere we go
people want to know
who we are
and so we tell them
we are Brighton
the famous famous Brighton
so fuck off palace
or you will die

I take it that I remember from my youth, presumably other teams inserted as applicable. please tell me the new one isn't to the tune about taking the weather with you? or something from this century instead?

If I’m right it’s this, which I find a bit dull rather than hateful:

Everywhere we go
Everywhere we go
We’re the whatevs boys
Making all the noise
Everywhere we go

Oh I thought it might have meant

Shrewsbury get battered
Everywhere they go
Shrewsbury get battered
Everywhere they go
Everywhere they go

Oh, it could be - our version of that doesn't use "everywhere we go", opting instead for the charming

We're all from Exeter
Who the fuck are you?
We're all from Exeter
Who the fuck are you?
Who the fuck are you?

It's a crappy tune and it feels like everybody's doing it this season, so I guess the hate is banality plus ubiquity

We All Hate Leeds Scum

(repeat)

some say it's a bit tinpot to define yourself by your hatred of that lot, but about 99% of Bradford City/Hudds fans strongly disagree with that.

There was an Arsenal fan incessantly holding up a sign saying "Tottenham get battered everywhere they go" on the hard cam of the entire broadcast of AEW Dynamite, in Washington DC on Wednesday

It's like, lads, let's settle this feud down, you're clearly both losers

That Spurs / Arsenal rivalry, brutal stuff, and to think, before I moved to London, all I'd experienced was the Old Firm.

If the police don't make you play your derby at 12pm on a Sunday you should just settle down and not act like it's Mad Max imo

I mean Spurs and Arsenal should probably merge if anything imo

not wrong I'd take tomiyasu at RB

NB never seen him play like but

xp Dangerous talk from a West Midlands Village City fan in waiting

some twat tried to amalgamate my club with Leeds Utd after the first world war but the carpetbagger was bought out by a fan led fundraiser and sent packing.

Ranieri out

Anthony Martial from Manchester United to Sevilla, done deal and here we go! Agreement reached tonight between the two clubs. Player has accepted, Sevilla was his priority. ⚪️🔴 #Sevilla

Sevilla will cover his salary until June. Martial will fly to Spain in the next hours. #MUFC pic.twitter.com/a5U392Es3k

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 24, 2022

wasn't aware it was possible to wrap deals like that up so quickly, tbh, can we get a VAR check? we've been trying to offload our squad waste for years

Luis Diaz is the first really exciting player linked with Spurs this window but, inevitably, they’re reported to be offering £40m when Porto want £67m.

This is a shame as he’s excellent.

Bruno Guimaraes’ move to Newcastle is agreed. I can’t stress enough what a fantastic player he is and what a great coup this is for Newcastle. He will increase the team so much!

— Julien Laurens (@LaurensJulien) January 26, 2022

A far better player / prospect than Amrabat, from what I have seen.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jan/26/tottenham-want-sofyan-amrabat-on-loan-from-fiorentina-with-buy-option

This seems really odd, given that the club has supposedly identified right-back, creative midfielder, centre back and striker as the key priorities for recruitment and Amrabat is none of those. It makes sense to have cover for Hojbjerg but, idk. He’s not a replacement for either Alli or Ndombele.

🚨 Barcelona working to sign Adama Traore from Wolves on loan with ~€35m buy option. #FCBarcelona speaking to #WWFC & 26yo. Not done yet. Spurs deal all-but over. Club-to-club talks were going positively but he wasn’t keen to play RWB @TheAthleticUK #THFC https://t.co/MDI2PVTDvy

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) January 27, 2022

Seems like the kind of thing they might have checked before making it the focus of their transfer window.

seems like if Levy was serious he might have pitched his starting bid higher than 10 bob and Matt Doherty

looks like Adama goes on Friday, tho not clear whether the buy option will be compulsory or not. I've criticised him sometimes, nobody would ever call him a complete player, but when he's on it he's been so much fun to have, I'm gonna miss him

Tottenham are confident on the outgoings: Ndombele’s expected to leave on loan, same for Dele Alli. Ajax won’t give up to sign Bergwijn on a permanent deal. ⚪️ #THFC

Loan plus buy-option bid for Sofyan Amrabat ready since Sunday, and Luís Diaz deal still discussed with Porto.

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 27, 2022

I know it's a 1bn stadium but has he insured for that full amount against oh let's say riots

Ecuador vs Brazil sounds fun. Emerson Royal and Allison have both been sent off in the opening 25 minutes, along with an Ecuadorean player.

VAR reprieve for Allison.

Aren’t Barcelona close to bankruptcy? Fascinating that they still can try and spend £35m on a player, after already buying Torres for £50m

Wish I was so rich that I just didn’t give a shit about being a billion in debt with no way to pay it off.

Forget it Jake, it's footballtown

as you're here, a hoy hoy - Calum Chambers: waste or not waste? in my head i have him pegged as "basically Phil Jones, but possibly a bit worse than that". a guy who i must've watched play at least 30 times and i still have no idea what his level is. i assuming that as a free signing all-purpose RB / CB / DM backup he will do. but i've got very little to base that on.

didn't mean this v boring question to be exclusive btw, other ilx Gooners please chip in

Aren’t Barcelona close to bankruptcy? Fascinating that they still can try and spend £35m on a player, after already buying Torres for £50m

Wish I was so rich that I just didn’t give a shit about being a billion in debt with no way to pay it off.

the thing about the debt is that so long as Barca can keep making their interest payments they can just refinance in a year or two, or whenever it is their loans fall due. they can just take out a new loan for the same amount, on terms that are more favourable wrt interest and fees (or less favourable, depending on what their commercial outlook is at that point), pay off the old loan with the new and continue stumbling along as before.

in on sense this is really just kicking that can down the road but also that's how p much all businesses of that size and with that level of turnover operate. the only number that really matters from a financial perspective for a company that turns over whatever ridiculous sum it is that Barca generates each year is "can they afford to keep up the interest payments on the debt, no matter how large the overall figure?" and so long as the answer is yes, they'll keep getting lenders to dole out huge amounts of money which they can put towards transfers, because the lenders understand that in 3 years or 5 years or whenever their particular loan falls due, Barca will refinance again, again on more or less favourable terms, and then it's someone else's problem

all of this is presumably why Barca were one of the teams to tell CVC to go fuck themselves with their attempted buy in to La Liga, cause they've done the maths and worked out that whatever percentage of broadcasting rights, ad revenues, sponsorship and all of that which CVC would have been sucking out of the league is gonna be a long-term loss for Barcelona. so long as they can keep showing lenders that all of that money is gonna continue pouring into the club, they can keep mortgaging the future income against any loans they wanna take out for further investment

this is all obviously besides the purely football-related financial limits and sanctions imposed upon them by La Liga, which I gather have been eased by the shipping out of Aguero and Coutinho this winter.

but yeah essentially there will always be someone who is willing to lend large sums of money today to a massive global business with huge turnover so long as Barca are able to put up all of that guaranteed future income as collateral

as you're here, a hoy hoy - Calum Chambers: waste or not waste? in my head i have him pegged as "basically Phil Jones, but possibly a bit worse than that". a guy who i must've watched play at least 30 times and i still have no idea what his level is. i assuming that as a free signing all-purpose RB / CB / DM backup he will do. but i've got very little to base that on.

didn't mean this v boring question to be exclusive btw, other ilx Gooners please chip in

― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 27 January 2022 23:34 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I think your description is pretty accurate. He reminds me of other previous United defenders, the John O’Shea, Wes Brown types, who were alright mid table players but shouldn’t be anywhere near a club who wants to take getting into Europe seriously. Actually I guess that really sums up Phil Jones too.

Maguire and all

USA semi-starter gk Matt Turner is apparently going to Arsenal, curious if he will actually play?

Arsenal tend to only play second choice goal keepers in the cups

Barca are apparently looking to sell half of their media studio to finance a deal for Haaland.

The Portuguese press is suggesting that Porto have agreed a deal with Liverpool for Diaz. I think that makes Amrabat the only player currently credibly linked to Spurs of the ‘five to six’ they were meant to be looking at bringing in.

Amrabat who will presumably still be in Cameroon when the window closes.

well, we looked

is this the first window where loans, frees and salaries have dominated over actual fees to this extent

There is a lot of very weird stuff going on.

News #Gosens: Crazy goal-clause revealed! It’s a 18-months-loan, not 6. But as soon as @Inter scores the first goal in a competitive match 2022/23, they have got an obligation to buy. #Inter will pay the €25m transfer fee (+add-ons) by the end of the contract 2026. @SkySportNews

— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) January 29, 2022