Arsenal won't win the Premier League 2022-2023

nate silver has a very well thought-through idea for the new season

I mean I'd tweet out how I think the Premier League (and thereby access to the Champions League) should be open to US franchises but that's the tweet that might actually get me cancelled.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 22, 2023

Lmao. Sure, fly a bunch of teams 7-10 hours only for the US based team to lose 5-0 anyway

god he is just breathtaking sometimes

I think our American owner mainly bought our club because he seemingly cannot raise (or is not willing to spend) the megabucks needed to transform the USL club he is CEO of into something that would be admitted to the MSL. Not saying my club are going to be promoted to the prem obv! If he started doing tweets like Nate Silver's up there he'd be in trouble because he's very online and public facing, but thankfully he's not that much of a fucking idiot.

usl is my bat signal

mls doesn't care how successful a lower division club is since promotion/relegation doesnt exist here, so the way to go up is (a) have $500m (or more?) to pay the mls expansion fee AND (b) be in a market that mls covets. for instance, usl has san diego loyal, a moderately successful club with below average attendance partially owned by landon donovan. that club is not going to mls, though a team playing in san diego is bc a different ownership group willingly paid half a billion us dollars for it. the next team for mls will probably be las vegas which has one of the worst usl teams currently.

we believe in meritocracy here, and by merit, we mean money.

Luton, pay your effing mls expansion fee! Just for Americans: newly promoted premiership club Luton have got a football ground where fans have to walk through someone's back garden to access the away stand.

nate silver has a very well thought-through idea for the new season

The Saudis will surely be in for 24/25? If Shakhter Karagandy and Hapoel Be'er Sheva are in they'll have a case (full of maps showing Riyadh is closer to Rome than Karagandy is).

Although on the other hand they didn't take advantage of the seemingly obvious move to swap federations with Russia. Unless they want to bypass it altogether and tag in on the next attempt at a super league

villa trying again with a leverkusen winger. diaby is p good tho.

jonathon liew on mbappe made me chuckle

This is, after all, one of the world’s outstanding forwards, and there is an understandable reluctance to decamp to an uncompetitive league with a tiny international audience, where he will doubtless be used as a public relations tool for one of the world’s most abusive regimes. Say what you like about Mbappé, but he learns from his mistakes.

Everyone, step forward if you have a coach.

Not so fast, Wolverhampton

I'm not saying we're going down but

Pursue a guy for six years, then piss him off in less than one do he asks to be let go.

Wonder who he wanted to sign that they said no to.

Probably everyone

HITC Sevens (my favourite football Youtuber) did a great video on Wolves' current plight a few days ago

I've got enough blame to go round, Lopetegui has form for walking away from teams and I'm not sure how much he was outright lied to. All parties have handled this about as badly as possible

Still think we've got some really good players and the core of a good team. Survival in the Prem is gonna hinge on how quickly the new guy - I am not thrilled at the prospect of O'Neil - can get a style in place, and how lucky we are with injuries

Longer term Fosun probably need to fuck off, they've looked rudderless and inept since before they sacked Nuno tbh

oh happy fucking day

West Ham have reached an agreement to sign Manchester United defender Harry Maguire.

Maguire made just 16 Premier League appearances last season, with Lisandro Martinez, Raphael Varane and Victor Lindelof preferred in central defence.

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— The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) August 9, 2023

Still the most expensive defender in the history of Association Football.

points-wise, psychologically

still maintain he was good and potentially great before United tbh, something went badly wrong

£30M seems a good deal for West Ham when you look at some of the prices players are going for. Wouldn't be surprised to see him flourish there.

Yeah, he could be a great signing. With Ward Prowse and Alvarez, I think they’ve done really well with the Rice money.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Bayern Munich have reached an agreement with Tottenham to sign Harry Kane, sources in Germany indicate. #FCBayern proposal worth above €100m accepted by #THFC. 30yo has been leaning towards staying but must now make a decision @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/mPjC3YPDnH

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) August 10, 2023

interesting move by levy given that the entire fanbase was rhapsodic about the hardball played til now and the prospect of 12 months under angeball

100m for 30yo w no pedigree of winning. game’s gone

on an expiring contract dont forget

richarlison golden boot coming soon

Villa trying to restart Nicolo Zaniolo's career on account of poor little Emi Buendia doing his ACL

Villa trying to restart Nicolo Zaniolo's career on account of poor little Emi Buendia doing his ACL

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 10 August 2023 15:07 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Football Manager legend from a couple years back. Don’t actually much about him irl though.

I really like Villa and how they’ve bought, so naturally I expect something bad to happen, as I don’t trust them to just be a good team.

kane bottling the move to bayern will be hilarious if it happens.

Looks like he's off now.

Would be amusing if Bayern don't win the league this year for the first time in 12 seasons

as a recent convert to celtic fandom, i am a believer in the power of big ange

same

Liverpool and Brighton are preparing all documents for Moisés Caicedo deal — agreement reached on £110m record British deal after late night bid 🚨🔴#LFC want to avoid surprises and then book medical tests on Friday, deal to be completed on player side early morning.

⏳🇪🇨 pic.twitter.com/yXdSG5dWZk

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 11, 2023

Don't know much about the guy but he's only played 45 Premiership games, one full season.

it's mildly interesting that three out of the four most expensive PL players (once this goes through) are defensive midfielders in Fernandez, Rice and Caceido

Fernandez went for a record fee after only playing 17 games for Benfica too

Wouldn't be surprised if brighton spent a chunk of that on scott mctominay

Lollll

EXCLUSIVE: Moisés Caicedo has just informed Liverpool that he only wants to join Chelsea! 🚨🔵🇪🇨 #CFC

Caicedo has decided to keep his word and only accept Chelsea as personal terms were agreed since end of May.

Chelsea, set to bid again in order to get deal done with Brighton. pic.twitter.com/HI3geVVq9Z

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) August 11, 2023

Hamer to Blades is a decent signing but their squad is still basically weaker than it was last season.

Wants to play for Chelsea = dickhead.

Probably just wants to stay in London as opposed to Liverpool Cheshire.

As the season starts today, shouldn't there be a new thread?

yes. preferably with hateful statements about Nottingham Forest in the title

some good thread titles here

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/aug/10/david-squires-on-what-to-expect-in-the-premier-league-this-season

£111m for caceido is ludicrous and lfc should be relieved he doesn't want to come. glad if it means chelsea have to fork out more than they want to get him, even funnier if it means he stays at Brighton. also we all know that this is how it works but is his agent really openly stating that they've agreed personal terms with chelsea before a bid has been accepted.

Chelsea are fucking the entire notion of value in transfer fees as if they took it personally that city, newcastle, united had taken that mantle off them for a while

at what stage is it strange that there arent backstreet football academies making millions like

how can there be so many barriers to entry to producing harrys maguire, theres plenty of beefy shit footballers around to be sold for a million less than he went for?

is it all agency closed shops?

Idk but I instantly want to start one

upfront costs for forming business relationships - i.e. mountains of coke - are prohibitive

start with piles of coke, work your way up to hills, cmon ffs think THINK

this is why i don't have an entrepreneurial mindset

"They don't call me 'Charlie' Kane for nothing"

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