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Premier League 2020/21 Thread

By urban.spaceman, in Leicester City Forum

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lnkstern

lnkstern

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I don't understand how you leave Gareth Bale alone in the box like that?

 

I find it hard to believe he could just sneak into that choice of a position.

RumbleFox

RumbleFox

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Gareth Bale is world class. Cannae believe anyone thinks he won’t be a huge success if he stays fit. Gonna nob him straight in to FPL team. X 

KingsX

KingsX

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7 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Can anyone tell me at what point people will stop praising Brighton for the supposed good football they play and actually interrogate how bad they are at getting results? Yet another club that has spent a lot of money and seem to recruit some classy youngsters too and yet their tactical nous to become a half decent team in this league is dog shit.

 

IMO they don't recruit very well.  They are actually in the "Big Six" when it comes to net spend.

 

the 20 current Premier League clubs by their net spend over the past five years.

1. Man City – £601.98m
2. Man Utd – £484.88m
3. Arsenal – £267.88m
4. Everton – £225.42m
5. Brighton – £214.86m
6. Wolves – £205.22m
7. West Ham – £187.49m
8. Bournemouth – £176.95m
9. Aston Villa – £166.65m
10. Watford – £125.69m
11. Leicester City – £124.83m
12. Newcastle – £122.91m
13. Chelsea – £115.57m
14. Liverpool – £107.58m
15. Tottenham – £106.62m
16. Crystal Palace – £75.69m
17. Burnley – £59.4m
18. Sheffield United – £56.71m
19. Southampton – £22.32m
20. Norwich City – £25.42m profit

 

source: planetfootball.com, 8 June 2020

 

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Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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3 minutes ago, Phube said:

Are Brighton just really unlucky this season... just not managing to get the wins?

Same problems last season too, get brown nosed to high heaven as well.

Phube

Phube

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1 minute ago, KingsX said:

 

IMO they don't recruit very well.  They are actually in the "Big Six" when it comes to net spend.

 

the 20 current Premier League clubs by their net spend over the past five years.

1. Man City – £601.98m
2. Man Utd – £484.88m
3. Arsenal – £267.88m
4. Everton – £225.42m
5. Brighton – £214.86m
6. Wolves – £205.22m
7. West Ham – £187.49m
8. Bournemouth – £176.95m
9. Aston Villa – £166.65m
10. Watford – £125.69m
11. Leicester City – £124.83m
12. Newcastle – £122.91m
13. Chelsea – £115.57m
14. Liverpool – £107.58m
15. Tottenham – £106.62m
16. Crystal Palace – £75.69m
17. Burnley – £59.4m
18. Sheffield United – £56.71m
19. Southampton – £22.32m
20. Norwich City – £25.42m profit

 

source: planetfootball.com, 8 June 2020

 

I always find ‘net spend’ to be a bit of a a cop out. Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs and to some extent us can dine out for years on selling one or two massively expensive players, whilst spending hundreds of millions more than anyone.

KingsX

KingsX

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Just now, Phube said:

I always find ‘net spend’ to be a bit of a a cop out. Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs and to some extent us can dine out for years on selling one or two massively expensive players, whilst spending hundreds of millions more than anyone.

 

OK, but part of the point is, Brighton spend like us, but rarely recruit players who can be moved on for a large profit.  And net spend reflects that.

Ric Flair

Ric Flair

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5 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

IMO they don't recruit very well.  They are actually in the "Big Six" when it comes to net spend.

 

the 20 current Premier League clubs by their net spend over the past five years.

1. Man City – £601.98m
2. Man Utd – £484.88m
3. Arsenal – £267.88m
4. Everton – £225.42m
5. Brighton – £214.86m
6. Wolves – £205.22m
7. West Ham – £187.49m
8. Bournemouth – £176.95m
9. Aston Villa – £166.65m
10. Watford – £125.69m
11. Leicester City – £124.83m
12. Newcastle – £122.91m
13. Chelsea – £115.57m
14. Liverpool – £107.58m
15. Tottenham – £106.62m
16. Crystal Palace – £75.69m
17. Burnley – £59.4m
18. Sheffield United – £56.71m
19. Southampton – £22.32m
20. Norwich City – £25.42m profit

 

source: planetfootball.com, 8 June 2020

 

The thing is, they've not had the benefit of any bigger teams wanting their players to offset their transfer spend. It is high and it surprises me but like some new PL teams with a low starting wage bill and £100-150m armed at their disposal it is easy and usually needed to go and blow £75-100m a few seasons on the spin to try and compete.

 

Maupay, Lamptey, Trossard and Ryan have been shrewd signings. Wasted a lot on some players that flopped though.

Lambert09

Lambert09

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11 minutes ago, Phube said:

Are Brighton just really unlucky this season... just not managing to get the wins?

It’s an odd one because they do seem to have quality. Just can’t get results, I’m sure a decent manager would get them going. 

 

There issue seems to be they lack a truly classy number 9. we’d be a similar club without Vardy 

 

You can play the best football all day but if you haven’t got a ruthless striker to put the chances away you will never hit a high level 

crisp packet

crisp packet

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Win tomorrow,pee on two lots of cornflakes. 
 

As all day tomorrow on sly sports news will be a Spurs/ bale 

 

Leeds /Beisla love in !

 

 

oh don’t forget poch is on MNF lol ....

 

let the side show sneak in take 2nd 

 

:brendan:

FoxesWalk

FoxesWalk

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Some dodgy diving in that spurs game. Kane backing into a player whilst he is the air to win a pen again, it’s clearly a foul on Lallana and not a pen, also dangerous play. 

splinterdream

splinterdream

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1 hour ago, StanSP said:

We can't wholly blame VAR for that but it certainly did help them along the way.

 

That decision they got at Villa was one of the most insane decisions of the VAR era of football...

Was that the one where Fernandes tried a fancy turn in the box with the ball, trod on the defenders foot, fell over and got awarded the penalty? Then ole afterwards said that if defenders Get in the way when an attacker is pulling off a Trick move then it should be a peno.

UHDrive

UHDrive

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Aside from scummy spurs I've always liked brighten but they've changed their game quite quickly over the last year from hoofing it a lot to playing nearly all ball to floor. Some of their players especially defence and out wide get it played into them when they have no passing options and they're having to wriggle through passes to avoid it getting taken off them. Watching them this season it's like their style has changed very quickly. 

Corky

Corky

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57 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Can anyone tell me at what point people will stop praising Brighton for the supposed good football they play and actually interrogate how bad they are at getting results? Yet another club that has spent a lot of money and seem to recruit some classy youngsters too and yet their tactical nous to become a half decent team in this league is dog shit.

I don't think other fans and the press/ TV are particularly bothered how they do.

 

Plus playing good football and not winning many games makes them generally decent opposition. 

Blue ROI

Blue ROI

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1 hour ago, Dahnsouff said:

If you had to punch one of Erik Lamela OR Matt Targett. Who would you choose?

Targett with Lamela standing behind him preferably.

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splinterdream

splinterdream

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1 hour ago, 1964w said:

Was a foul imo!

I thought the player got the ball, it actually changed direction and the player went over, on the channel I was watching they couldn’t believe the decision and said it was a stick on foul. I know there’s an element know that if you take the player as well they call a foul so I can understand it could have gone either way but wasn’t stick on 

StanSP

StanSP

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8 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

Was that the one where Fernandes tried a fancy turn in the box with the ball, trod on the defenders foot, fell over and got awarded the penalty? Then ole afterwards said that if defenders Get in the way when an attacker is pulling off a Trick move then it should be a peno.

Yep!

Finnegan

Finnegan

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1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Can anyone tell me at what point people will stop praising Brighton for the supposed good football they play and actually interrogate how bad they are at getting results? Yet another club that has spent a lot of money and seem to recruit some classy youngsters too and yet their tactical nous to become a half decent team in this league is dog shit.

 

Just the new Bournemouth. The press have to have a "little" club to fawn over patronisingly about how they're trying their best to play "proper" football. 

 

Before Bournemouth it was Swansea. 

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