gurru991 Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 49 minutes ago, Stadt said: It’s mental that Man City are a club that bought modern success, are the epitome of modern football in a lot of ways and are bankrolled by a regime with a very dubious human rights record. Yet they’re still massively preferable to Liverpool. I honestly don't understand how Man City get a free pass with English fans. Dubious doesn't begin to describe the regime that sponsors the club. 2
Vardinio'sCat Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 They are probably all dead by now but... For Jimmy Case, for Steve Highway, for the ginger-haired supersub guy, for Toshack and Keegan, and for the walking assault charge that was Tommy Smith.* They were the only team on the TV for what seemed to be most of my childhood. Come on Liverpool! *Not for Souness though, he always annoyed me. 1
st albans fox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 5 hours ago, Stadt said: It’s mental that Man City are a club that bought modern success, are the epitome of modern football in a lot of ways and are bankrolled by a regime with a very dubious human rights record. Yet they’re still massively preferable to Liverpool. it’s the support base - ‘entitled’ doesn’t even get close as a description. They need approx another fifteen years and then I could accept it! Man City (for all their ‘issues’ ) - at least they went through the despair of league 1 etc etc and had to get back up before the money came rolling in. Let’s not kid ourselves - if it weren’t for FFP, we would have spent more than we have done and people would be calling us out for being bankrolled. Abu Dhabi is s state but individuals and corporations have got up to some pretty seedy stuff also .......no one questioned how many RA had to have dumped at the bottom of the Volga to get where he did ...... (not literally of course ....)
Goober Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Don’t know a single Liverpool fan myself so I’m not arsed if they win it. Just want an exciting title race to be honest. Still think City will win it though.
Finnegan Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 10 hours ago, cambridgefox said: Remember when we won it on 81pts and people said we were lucky etc. Liverpool sit on 79pts already.So you can’t say that’s lucky. You would be gutted if you got 90 odd pts and lost it. You would also not be a bottler as some wrongly point out. We won it on 81 and were told the league wasn't strong and competitive. Two teams are on course for 95+ points and finishing like 20 points ahead of the rest of the league with the bottom club almost setting new records for shitness... ? 1
SpacedX Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 39 minutes ago, Goober said: Don’t know a single Liverpool fan myself so I’m not arsed if they win it. Just want an exciting title race to be honest. Still think City will win it though. Genuine supporters, me neither - but the red shirts are appearing like a rash lately. Popping up like the pox. A life-long Evertonian tells me it's insufferable on Merseyside.
norwichfox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 6 hours ago, gurru991 said: I honestly don't understand how Man City get a free pass with English fans. Dubious doesn't begin to describe the regime that sponsors the club. Probably through dislike for Manchester United. 1
Royston. Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 It would please me for Liverpool to fail. Hope man city do the quadruple.
Staffs Fox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 (edited) I personally want Liverpool to win the league. I only work with one supporter and he's great lad and a season ticket holder. Man City are like entering a Superbike into the Tour De France. Yes Liverpool, Man United, Chelsea etc all spend money and you need good coaching but their net spend over the past five seasons is £505m!!!! Liverpool's is £159m by comparison (£50m less than Everton FYI). Man City are also under investigation by the UEFA, FIFA and the FA for 4 different breaches of financial irregularities. They crooked from top to bottom. Edited 1 April 2019 by Staffs Fox 2
Izzy Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 16 minutes ago, Staffs Fox said: Man City are also under investigation by the UEFA, FIFA and the FA for 4 different breaches of financial irregularities. They crooked from top to bottom. They are good to watch though tbf 1
Guest Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Living football through the 70's, Liverpool were a pleasure to watch and when Leicester weren't in the first division I'd happily "support" Liverpool in the first division. However I don't want them to win it this year and hope that Mancs do because I like the fact that Leicester are a Premier league champion and Liverpool and spurs aren't. Once they win we become less special and less able to brag over them. For me Mancs or Chelsea then we're still the 3rd most recent winners. People saying it's fate or whatever are delusional. You are aware that Liverpool had the title in their own hands and some said the bag before they blew it! Mancs may be in second but the title is theirs to lose. Their only worry is the Mighty Leicester handing the title to Pool. Spurs finishing 6th behind Chelsea is now a real possibility. As for the Cardiff match - VAR needs to take over the game. This happens too much to the smaller less desirable teams. Refs need better training and more help.
Dan Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Not totally convinced VAR will solve this bias. Real Madrid got an absolute scandal of a penalty a few weeks ago against a small side (think it was Levante) with the help of VAR. 3
Jattdogg Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, FIF said: Living football through the 70's, Liverpool were a pleasure to watch and when Leicester weren't in the first division I'd happily "support" Liverpool in the first division. However I don't want them to win it this year and hope that Mancs do because I like the fact that Leicester are a Premier league champion and Liverpool and spurs aren't. Once they win we become less special and less able to brag over them. For me Mancs or Chelsea then we're still the 3rd most recent winners. People saying it's fate or whatever are delusional. You are aware that Liverpool had the title in their own hands and some said the bag before they blew it! Mancs may be in second but the title is theirs to lose. Their only worry is the Mighty Leicester handing the title to Pool. Spurs finishing 6th behind Chelsea is now a real possibility. As for the Cardiff match - VAR needs to take over the game. This happens too much to the smaller less desirable teams. Refs need better training and more help. The only place to watch europa league in London. Imagine the trolling. Wont happen but still. Edited 1 April 2019 by Jattdogg
Countryfox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Was actually pleased when Yanited gave Solskjaer the job ... thought it was going to follow exactly the same path as our appointment of Shakey, and maybe even allow us to get closer to them when they had the turmoil of booting him out ... didn't think it would happen this quick though ! ...
Staffs Fox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 If Spurs do not make the top 4 this season, I can honestly see their team being ripped apart this summer. They already have a huge debt and were kind of banking on a Top 4 season in order to help pay for the stadium. Without CL football, Kane, Eriksen, Alli etc will not hang around for long and without the CL money it'll be very tempting for Levy to accept a crazy bid for one of them to help pay. That would not go back into the playing team. Add to that the fact the rest of the team Rose, Trippier, Dier, Sissoko are punch above their weight and you have a very mediocre team. Or maybe this is just wishful thinking.... 1
Stadt Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 13 minutes ago, Staffs Fox said: If Spurs do not make the top 4 this season, I can honestly see their team being ripped apart this summer. They already have a huge debt and were kind of banking on a Top 4 season in order to help pay for the stadium. Without CL football, Kane, Eriksen, Alli etc will not hang around for long and without the CL money it'll be very tempting for Levy to accept a crazy bid for one of them to help pay. That would not go back into the playing team. Add to that the fact the rest of the team Rose, Trippier, Dier, Sissoko are punch above their weight and you have a very mediocre team. Or maybe this is just wishful thinking.... People have been saying it for seasons, if their manager and players wanted to go they would have done by now
Staffs Fox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Stadt said: People have been saying it for seasons, if their manager and players wanted to go they would have done by now They've had Champions League football for 4 straight years and been continually progressing, that's probably why they haven't left. It has felt like a project leading up to this stadium launch. This season if they didn't make the Top 4, it would present the problem of the fact they've obviously regressed and also no CL football. It'd be like when Liverpool missed out on CL football in 09/10 and then Alonso, Mascherano etc left that summer. They didn't have the money to reinvest so became mediocre for 5 years or so. And Liverpool are 10x bigger than Spurs. Maybe the lure of playing in the new stadium for a full year would keep some of them for another season to see what happened but i wouldn't bet against a 26 year old Kane and 27 year old Eriksen not wanting to spend at least a year of their peak years in the Europa League, Edited 1 April 2019 by Staffs Fox 1
fox_up_north Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 I actually wouldn't mind Liverpool winning it this year. It's good for the league to have variety. Of the top European leagues, only Ligue 1 has had more than 3 winners in the last decade - and even then PSG have buggered that up by becoming a money laundering operation in 2011. We've had 4 winners in the last decade and it's good that no single team has dominated since Ferguson left United. Plus I absolutely hate the idea of Pep winning all four cups. The smug sod.
Dan Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 55 minutes ago, Stadt said: People have been saying it for seasons, if their manager and players wanted to go they would have done by now In a summer where Real Madrid are going to be seriously throwing some money around you've got to admit it's plausible. I can see Eriksen to Real Madrid actually. 1
Md9 Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Can see spurs losing a fair few if they miss out on champs league. Toby will be off erikson will want to leave can see a big team coming in for vertonghan and son. They may get big money for some of them but it would not be easy to replace them all especially players like son and erikson. Was good seeing them lose last min and the missus brother walking out the room with the arse after the own goal ?
Goober Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Is Eriksen even that good? Don’t think he’s Madrid-level at all
Cincinnati Fox Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 Pawson is my got to bet, he never lets the bigger team lose.
StriderHiryu Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 50 minutes ago, Goober said: Is Eriksen even that good? Don’t think he’s Madrid-level at all Madrid are having a poor season by their standards, and love to sign players from Tottenahm; Modric and Bale in recent years. Eriksen has been off the boil recently, but I think it's all the result of no investment in the first team. Too many players get comfortable in their positions knowing they will play every week and standards slip. I'd argue the same is true of Hazard, even though he is having a very good season. On his day (which is quite often) he's one of the best central midfielders in the league. Only the Man City 3 of Silva, De Bruyne and Bernardo are ahead of him I think.
Danizen Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 2 hours ago, Dan LCFC said: In a summer where Real Madrid are going to be seriously throwing some money around you've got to admit it's plausible. I can see Eriksen to Real Madrid actually. I'm actually worried that if that happens, Spurs will look at our players as attainable targets. Maddison, Barnes and even Tielemans fit the Spurs profile. With the added bonus that they will be weakening a team who are building towards challenging for the top 6.
Goober Posted 1 April 2019 Posted 1 April 2019 22 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said: Madrid are having a poor season by their standards, and love to sign players from Tottenahm; Modric and Bale in recent years. Eriksen has been off the boil recently, but I think it's all the result of no investment in the first team. Too many players get comfortable in their positions knowing they will play every week and standards slip. I'd argue the same is true of Hazard, even though he is having a very good season. On his day (which is quite often) he's one of the best central midfielders in the league. Only the Man City 3 of Silva, De Bruyne and Bernardo are ahead of him I think. He’s got 2 good feet and his vision is excellent at times but I don’t thinks he’s in that very top bracket. Arguably makes the top 5 in his position in the league but you’ve got that City trio, Pogba, maybe Ozil and Ramsey who are better than him for me. Good player, not a great player imo. If Maddison were to reach his level one day i’d be very happy but I do think Eriksen gets slightly overhyped. 1
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