Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

reckon that was only a yellow, wasn't really going in was it

dunno i've only got the radio on, makes everything sound more extreme, especially on the official Liverpool station 5 Live

I mean it would have been a slightly rogue decision to only give a yellow there but i'd have done so

rah
never in doubt
pouring one out for klata, garda and chris

ridiculous 2 seasons from lfc, following ridiculous 2 seasons from city

well at least the pundits can jizz this out of their system now, we play Chelsea last game of the season so things are still close

So many years of Liverpool won't xxx threads over the years. It's all over.

Congratulations to Liverpool and all of their empty seats.

Looking forward to some socially distanced celebrations in Scouseland.

That’s the thread title for next season sorted.

Wile E Coyote caught the Roadrunner huh. Guess ACME came up with some shit that worked

I'm old enough to remember my arsehole brother in a Liverpool kit (was it Crown wallpapers who sponsored it then, not sure) when they used to still have that league winning sheen around them. always knew he was a superficial cunt and Fuck Liverpool yah!

The traditional thread title is ruined and I don’t like it

Never in doubt.

Just use Man Utd instead.

Thoughts and prayers once again with Michael at this difficult moment 🙏

controversial opinion: we can still use the thread title for next year, Liverpool would have just proven it wrong for this season (if the traditional title had been used), who knows what next season will bring?

don't really have a strong feeling for Liverpool either way (hate Gerrard, love Shankly) but still feels significant to me that this absolutely huge club in English football have just won the league for the first time I can remember and I turn 36 next month.

also congratulations to the legend VVD

I'm happy for Liverpool, and for VVD and Gini (esp in the week where they turned their home country upside down announcing a boycott against the biggest Dutch footy telly show because they're racist fucks) though I already loathe the swooning Dutch fans - and I'm sure across the globe - claiming they've rooted for the club of Kuyt and passion and hard work to finally win a title lol.

rah
never in doubt
pouring one out for klata, garda and chris

― oscar bravo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 21:10 (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks mate, and congratulations to you too. Gotta say it feels absolutely lovely - tonight, at least, everything is right with the world again.

Congratulations to the new Manchester United on a tremendous achievement!

liverpool won't win the league (again)

It’s like Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s meaningless now.

I think we should shut down this board and refrain from talking about this sport. It’s the only way.

(Chris, Stevie T, Ronan, other Rednoses of my acquaintance: I will buy you all a pint when it is safe to do so. Bitter, yeah?)

Congrats

Hopefully with things already settled, both City and Liverpool honour their moral responsibility to field teams of kids, who are extremely unlikely to die from coronavirus, in their forthcoming fixtures against Aston Villa

maybe in a minority on ilf, and there's still time for them to be pipped, but i think lampards chelsea are legit and will be even more so next season (if there is a next season)

i wish that wasn't the case, but as far as this season goes yeah. don't think anything's a given about next season for umpteen reasons

Impossible to say really, but with having already clinched both Ziyech and Werner they're shaping up some nice version of Lampardball it seems.

the game will be harder next year when each player is fitted inside a human sized hamster ball

i've kinda been assuming (based on nothing) that if next season does go ahead most teams will stick rather than twist in the expectation of some kind of stoppage during the season for pandemic related reasons.

based on that scenario there are a couple of obvious teams that have already improved from last season and during this season that should continue that next ie chelsea, wolves , man utd.

but like noodle said nothing is a given in football during normal times let alone now.

my main ish with Chelsea would be about younger players keeping form two seasons on the bounce but as SV has pointed out they've strengthened. at some point can't help but think Abramovich will get his oar back in, too. biggest concern for the Wolves is whether we can hold onto our biggest guns and push on - no concrete reason to think not, but good as Fosun are they're not in it for the love of the game

have to imagine Jimenez and Traore are going to be heavily courted

we don't *need* to sell, it might be hard to persuade them if they wanna go, Champions League might make a difference there but more likely to be about money. it's easy to get paranoid about journalist/agent chat now, which is a nice place to be. keeping Nuno still my number one wish tbh

my main issue with nu-chelsea is kepa, think he is mignolet(tho not quite karius) level

unless erik garcia is really rated i think pep/city will make an offer that can't be refused for varane or koulibaly which will help but still have a cdm problem in that rodri is no ferandinho and fernandinho is no fernandinho anymore either

think he showed that last night

obviously adama and raul will be drooled over but i'm not convinced they'll leave this summer, i'm probably over romanticising it because football is about cash and players (rightly) wanna get paid but nuno seems like he is fun/inspiring to work for and another year of establishing himself as a stater/star probably wouldn't hurt traore's options

Adama feels like he's a bit mercenary to me, never had time in his career to really settle. Raul is reaching an age where he might wanna capitalize on his excellent Prem form. don't hold either of this against them, just a nerviness from being in an unaccustomed postion, like i said.

push comes to shove a lot of our fans are deeply in love with Adama this season and yeah that's understandable but given a Sophie's Choice i'd rather hang on to Neves.

entirely possible we can hang on to everybody that we want to.

It's going to be a good summer for keeping hold of yr best players I think.

i don't think anybody's out of contract, so all being well we'll be playing those lads in the Champion's League come whenever

I meant more in general really - I don't think there's going to be much transfer activity full stop. In theory you're more vulnerable than most clubs to players and agents agitating for a move but you're also very much moving in the right direction anyway and should be able to keep the team together for another year, Champions League or otherwise.

I suppose a few clubs might come to the conclusion that the only way to make up the shortfall is through player sales but it's also gonna be a buyers market so idk.

like i said earlier everything's crazy unknowable at the moment? in theory a lot of deals should've happened already, but it'd be mad to spend tens of millions without knowing whst next season will look like

Mou is on it.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-mauricio-pochettino-maurizio-new-contract-a4480956.html

also thanks for reminding me we're the dinner time kick off, in my head i was waiting til 5-ish

Loan market might be crazy though especially as clubs look to cut their wage bills. But yeah, god knows when anyone will be watching football in a stadium again and until then throwing money at anything other than the most no-brainer signings isn't a gamble worth taking.

oof waking up at 7:30 am to watch this is a doozy but go Wolves

still trying to find a stream but yeah come on me babbies

Ok i*m in now

Also shit on the Villa

Also fuck BT

Wolves a bit sloppy in possession at points, but the fact that they are once again a position to stick Adama on to massacre Neil Taylor whenever they're ready tells you everything you need to know about this one

Fucksake

That would have been a comedy goal

woulda been an MLS quality gaffe.