Premier League Thread 2023/2024

[Dahnsouff]

Go on Luton 

[StanSP]

17 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Go on Luton 

Been really impressed with them recently. They don't look out of place in this league, compared to the likes of Burnley and Sheff Utd. 

[Tielemans63]

Watching the game in the pub with 3 Liverpool fans. I'm loving every minute of this

 

[Fear Of The Fox]

15 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Been really impressed with them recently. They don't look out of place in this league, compared to the likes of Burnley and Sheff Utd. 

I also think they're a joy to watch attacking wise. Their defense is a shambles though. It seems many teams nowadays have brain dead CBs, I always spot some awful positioning which I believe has to do with the lack of football intelligence or even just intelligence. 

Luton is way better than Forest and Everton. It's bizarre how Forest manage to get results out of nowhere. Fingers crossed one of them will go down and Luton stays up. Or both Everton and Forest have points deduction and get relegated together. 

[goody2028]

Interesting night on the blue side of Liverpool i’m sure 

[Fear Of The Fox]

8 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

Watching the game in the pub with 3 Liverpool fans. I'm loving every minute of this

 

So what's their excuse for being 1 nil down so far? Have they already put the blame on the beer prices or the quality of the TV screen? 

[Tielemans63]

Just now, Fear Of The Fox said:

So what's their excuse for being 1 nil down so far? Have they already put the blame on the beer prices or the quality of the TV screen? 

It's all Harvey Elliott's fault mate. And the injury list. And Luton's 'over-physical' approach. And the ref's fault for allowing that, obviously.

 

The fact that Diaz and Gakpo cost £120m between them is neither here, nor there.

[Tuna]

That Liverpool team on paper looks so weak, I reckon we'd give them a good game to be honest

[Tielemans63]

Mixed reception to the equaliser here in the pub. I'm gutted.

[Lionator]

They’re unbelievable once they get momentum. 

[Vacamion]

 

I got in late, turned the game on at 1-0 to Luton and within 4 minutes Liverpool score two, FFS  

[Fear Of The Fox]

How on earth a player 1.50m is defending a corner against VVD? This D is all over the place. 

[Fear Of The Fox]

2 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

I got in late, turned the game on at 1-0 to Luton and within 4 minutes Liverpool score two, FFS  

I knew it was your fault. 

[Super_horns]

Did Liverpool forget the game started 45 minutes earlier ?

[Nalis]

Liverpool's injury list is getting so much coverage

[The Bear]

34 minutes ago, Nalis said:

Liverpool's injury list is getting so much coverage

Hardly surprising when they are top of the league and in a three way title race. 

[Nalis]

17 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Hardly surprising when they are top of the league and in a three way title race. 

True but in comparision there is a lot  more coverage on Liverpools injuries than Man City when they had a run of injuries.

[BKLFox]

“There's one phrase which stands — as long as we have 11 we will go for it,” Klopp said. “That's all I can promise.” Liverpool had close to a full lineup of first-teamers sidelined for the Premier League match against Luton, with Klopp needing to draft in a bunch of academy players on Wednesday.

 

Is the headline..... yet they still managed to field 9 full Internationals & the other 2 starters are involved in ENG U21s with Elliott on the verge of a full call up. They also had 4 senior full internationals; Robertson, Tsimikas, Adrian & Konate sat on a bench of 9.
As for the bunch of academy players it was only Jayden Danns who was making his 1st, 1st team appearance & he got just 1 minute.

But plucky Liverpool still managed to wrestle a win from the jaws of defeat by the Premier league powerhouse Luton.

 

 

[CosbehFox]

11 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

As for the bunch of academy players it was only Jayden Danns who was making his 1st, 1st team appearance & he got just 1 minute.

But plucky Liverpool still managed to wrestle a win from the jaws of defeat by the Premier league powerhouse Luton.

 

 

Does make me laugh the academy line - 4 of those players on the bench were pinched from other clubs at 18/19. 

[Daggers]

[Wymsey]

Think the BBC Football website adore the Ratcliffe-Man Utd situation..

Edited 22 February 2024 by Wymsey

[The Bear]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

That's old news and the player has already been outed in rumours. 

[KingsX]

ESPN with a new piece analyzing Boehly's incomings at Chelsea

 

 

1. Too early to tell:
- Ishé Samuels-Smith (€4 million from Everton)
- Jimmy-Jay Morgan (€3.4M from Southampton)
- Gaga Slonina (€9.1M from Chicago)
- David Datro Fofana (12M from Molde)
- Angelo (€15M from Santos)
- Andrey Santos (€12.5 M from Vasco da Gama)
- Deivid Washington (€15M from Santos)
- Cesare Casadei (€15M from Inter Milan)
- Romeo Lavia (€62.1M from Southampton)
-Carney Chukwuemeka (€18M from Aston Villa)

 

2. Doesn't look great:
- Lesley Ugochukwu (€27M from Rennes)
- Christopher Nkunku (€60M from RB Leipzig)
- Noni Madueke (€35M from PSV Eindhoven)
- Benoit Badiashile (€38M from Monaco)
- Djordje Petrovic (€14M from New England)

 

3. Bad deals that proved out as bad deals:
- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (€12M from Barcelona)
- Kalidou Koulibaly (€38M from Napoli)
- Marc Cucurella (€65M from Brighton)
- Robert Sánchez (€29M from Brighton)
- Little Wes (€80M from LCFC)
- Mykhailo Mudryk (€70M from Shakhtar Donetsk)

 

4. Players on expensive contracts who play:
- Enzo Fernández (€121M from Benfica)
- Moisés Caicedo (€116M from Brighton)

 

5. The actually good deals:
- Malo Gusto (€30M from Lyon)
- Axel Disasi (€45M from Monaco)
- Nicolas Jackson (€37M from Villarreal)
- Cole Palmer ( €47M from Manchester City)

 

https://www.espn.com/soccer/insider/story/_/id/39578180/grading-all-28-chelsea-player-signings-todd-boehly-analysis-data-billion

 

 

[The Bear]

Chelsea fans think Gusto and especially Disasi are bombscares. 

[Torquay Gunner]

Not sure Jackson looks great either!