Luton won't win the league - Premier League 2023/24

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/01/liverpool-reject-staggering-150m-offer-for-mohamed-salah-from-saudi-arabia-side-al-ittihad-football-transfer-window

Klopp, who has lost Jordan Henderson and Fabinho to lucrative offers from the Middle East this summer, said: “I don’t know how long it will stay like that but the next two weeks will show how much of a challenge it is because, whatever happens then, no one can react any more. That is something Uefa or Fifa should have an eye on because we all have to protect the game.

The (sponsor-branded) boot's on the other foot now! Wiping a tear away here for this appalling challenge to the authentic community-rooted English transfer market.

My heart bleeds.

Klopp is such a self-righteous dick.

Oh no won’t someone think of the children football league being given hundreds of millions for players that are past their prime

I know they aren't calzinos favourite club but happy to see origi back in the prem.
I am losing track of who plays where tho eg is lloris still at spurs? and aubamayang at Chelsea?

lloris is as at Spurs but there is speculation they may cancel his contract a year early, as they have too many non-homegrown players.

Auba went to Marseille and hasn’t scored in 4 games, continuing his anti-streak since he fell out with Arteta.

Mason Greenwood has joined Getafe on a season-long loan following 19 months of inactivity at Manchester United, with the Spanish club paying no fee and making only a minor contribution to his salary of about £75,000 a week

On loan? Srsly fuck this shit

I mean maybe this is how the mechanism of severing ties with a player works but it sure doesn't look like it to me

Might just be a deadline panic "get him out the door" thing tbf

the question is why not terminated tho

what possible purpose maintaining his registration if not angling for future first team duties

Angling for money?

Termination of contract would have been the only decent move but I can't say I expect clubs to make decent moves

no i mean i know im asking rhetorically ofc

i just think from a purely cynical PR point of view they'd be crazy to try and keep him warm and bring him back to the first team in 12 months, so i assume they just didn't get a sufficient offer

but there is probably some fault in my assumptions here

Not to defend him or Utd but it may be tricky terminating his contract considering he had the charges dropped. I could see how he wanted to kick up a fuss, I know I would if I was gonna lose SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND A WEEK* and this is a compromise.

*da fuq? I know he is supposed to be a good talent but they gave him this contract at 19??? Football is run by lunatics

maybe it's putting him in the shop window or something, but they've had soooo much time to get this all sorted

Well they said there'd be 'Sevilla' consequences for his actions

ffs wrong team, there goes the 'joke'

there's got to be a get tae fuck/Getafe joke in there somewhere

terminating a contract is easy you just have to pay him off

in terms of sacking him without doing so, id be very surprised if united couldnt just point to the reputational impact and plead a case and at least get a hearing

Clown car own go from pickford, though not really his fault

You're not allowed to do that if you've known someone since they were 7 I guess

Cameron Archer starting off v hot for Sheffield Utd

i feel like "technical area" is a misnomer for any space occupied by Sean Dyche

Pickford has made absolutely ridiculous point-blank saves tipped onto the post two games running tbf

Akanji stood in an offside position and jumps over the ball. But the goal is given.

Be shocked if Marco Silva doesn't have another yellow card over this one.

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spurs making it look very simple indeed this second half

Chelsea struggling to cope with moneybags Forest

with all the players in and out, its not an ideal scenario to bring in a manager who hasnt any experience of the epl is it

they may need to strengthen the squad

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John: Yeah so Chelsea might be losing at home to Forest, but if you amortise goals conceded over the next 8 years then actually they're top of the table...

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Villa beat Burnley 5-2 at Villa Park once under Martin O'Neill when I had a season ticket. It felt kinda weird

lol fuck you Chelsea

Omfg at the Pickford own goal

Evan Ferguson ✓

add another tick

A cursory Google suggests this is the first time there have been three premier league hat tricks on the same day since Yeboah, Shearer and Fowler in 1995

Also, hahahah

yeah howe's getting sacked isn't he?

can he sing this song

O'Neil has got a nemesis

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incredibly generous of Palace to decline the free goal we offered them

pretty sure Cunha just made the same penile analogy with Dawson as I did

just daydreaming about being 90 and still waiting for Wolves to have a striker

I just turned it on.

Lol.

fucks sake that's what happens when you've got one

Just wild to me that basically the Jimenez horror injury essentially began the drought and no coach has been able to solve it.

They weren't exactly Man City in 2019-2020 but 51 goals is better than...this

Raul looked a fair bit sharper in the Fulham highlights yesterday too

But the malaise looks deeper than one player tbh. We look like we're probably not gonna go down but are always on the verge of a relegation run

GET IN THERE

OMFG how much do I love Hwang