Premier League 2024/25

[Super_horns]

Looks like Wolves have an appointment lined up already - suggests they have had this in mind for a bit .

[MGLCFC]

19 minutes ago, bovril said:

Would take Parker over any of them

Gallagher for me - I know he wasn't in the Prem, but just felt he was going to score, not only every pen, bur every free kick.

[ClaphamFox]

9 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Looks like Wolves have an appointment lined up already - suggests they have had this in mind for a bit .

Of course they do! What kind club would sack a manager without a replacement already lined....oh. 

[Wymsey]

Potter apparently turned them down last month.

[teblin]

I might be way off the mark here, but with Man Citys issue at the minute if there something more to it?

 

I know its probably just form and missing injured players, but could it be in the background that they have got whispers about the FFP sanctions that are going to happen and its affected the clubs form?

 

Pure speculation and probably not the case, but its such an incredible drop in form from them, not sure it's happened too often.

Edited 16 December 2024 by teblin

[Lionator]

A lot of these comments overlook the fact that the system is set up in a way that makes it close to impossible for newly promoted clubs. It’s an escalating issue even compared to 2-3 years ago.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

13 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Potter apparently turned them down last month.

Genuinely who is he waiting for? 

 

Top 6 won't touch him, and it looks like he feels like he's too good for anyone bottom half. So that leaves a tiny handful of clubs, one of which he's managed already.

[Finnegan]

52 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

There's some very small sample sizes in there.

 

Bit harsh calling Danny Ings "better" than Mark Noble who managed 85% from over 30 penalties, or Lampard's 82% from nearly 40 attempts (comparable rate of return to Jamie Vardy, btw.)

And nobody on here wants to admit it but probably the best Premier League era penalty taker has got to be Harry Kane who managed 89% having scored 33 from 37 attempts which is frankly ridiculous.

 

Of note for the likes of Messi, Neymar, Mahrez and co' - none of these guys did a silly little ****ing stutter step and paused run up, they just twat it in the corner.

 

 

Edited 16 December 2024 by Finnegan

[BenTheFox]

1 hour ago, Number 6 said:

Could see Martin at Rangers. He'd get to go up against Brendan.

They'd have to move the Scottish cup final to a bigger venue. You can't fit both of those egos into Hamden. 

Edited 16 December 2024 by BenTheFox

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

I'm surprised Kane isn't on there. I'd have him every time I think.

[st albans fox]

47 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Genuinely who is he waiting for? 

 

Top 6 won't touch him, and it looks like he feels like he's too good for anyone bottom half. So that leaves a tiny handful of clubs, one of which he's managed already.

Can only be West Ham (unless he thinks emery is going to get poached from villa). Would villa take him ?  The fact he keeps turning offers away must mean someone has him lined up 

[izzymuzzet]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Le Tissier with 25 from 26 apparently. That's what they want us to think. I prefer to do my own research.

[Finnegan]

30 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

I'm surprised Kane isn't on there. I'd have him every time I think.

 

It's because their criteria seems to be anyone that's taken ten penalties so the sample sizes are warped. 

 

Kane got 89% so is just outside the threshold of their arbitrary and click baity top 12. 

 

But be took nearly 40 pens, so. 

 

[JimJams]

Le Tissier is the best one.

He's objectively better than all those behind him in the list, having took more and scored more, but the 2 ahead of him with 100% records haven't even taken half the number of pens he did.  Also having missed only 1, his run of consecutive penalty goals will be longer than either of their records alone.

Palmers record set is "the longest 100% conversion record in the competition" which sounds better, but it just means the Southampton man missed one of his first 12 and so he'd never get the 100% conversion thereafter.  He's still gone on a longer streak than both. 

[Number 6]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

This seems an odd way to measure it. If Palmer misses his next pen he'll drop to 8th.

[filbertway]

Best penalty taker is Graham Alexander. Closely followed by Matt Elliott and Julian Dicks.

 

 

[Supergray22]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Can only be West Ham (unless he thinks emery is going to get poached from villa). Would villa take him ?  The fact he keeps turning offers away must mean someone has him lined up 

Or because whilst he stays out of work during the period of his original Chelsea contract he gets more compensation from them  for being terminated. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Can only be West Ham (unless he thinks emery is going to get poached from villa). Would villa take him ?  The fact he keeps turning offers away must mean someone has him lined up 

Potter does need to be careful if he is seeking the perfect job. Alan Curbishley was an excellent manager at this level. A great job with Charlton and good job at West Ham. He stayed out the game a bit too long and couldn’t get back in. 
 

He’s had a decent half season at Brighton and failed at Chelsea, not sure he is the prize fish he thinks he is. 
 

https://thesetpieces.com/interviews/alan-curbishley/#:~:text=“It took me a year,you're out of favour.

[Mickyblueeyes]

17 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Best penalty taker is Graham Alexander. Closely followed by Matt Elliott and Julian Dicks.

 

 

David Unsworth has to be in the top 3. 

[filbertway]

Just now, Mickyblueeyes said:

David Unsworth has to be in the top 3. 

Yes! Great shout!

 

I feel like Riise would have been a superb pen taker. If I was the keeper, rather than risk getting smashed, I'd just move out the way and let him roll it into the empty net.

 

 

[st albans fox]

13 minutes ago, Supergray22 said:

Or because whilst he stays out of work during the period of his original Chelsea contract he gets more compensation from them  for being terminated. 

Read conflicting stuff on that. Most of it said that he’d be better off financially if he now took a job. 

[accessory]

4 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

Not to make assumptions but now he's not a PL manager, he might be spending Christmas alone...

Highly unlikely, given the payoff the saints will have given him - roughly equivalent to a rollover lottery win..

[AjcW]

16 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Potter does need to be careful if he is seeking the perfect job. Alan Curbishley was an excellent manager at this level. A great job with Charlton and good job at West Ham. He stayed out the game a bit too long and couldn’t get back in. 
 

He’s had a decent half season at Brighton and failed at Chelsea, not sure he is the prize fish he thinks he is. 
 

https://thesetpieces.com/interviews/alan-curbishley/#:~:text=“It took me a year,you're out of favour.

Surprised he's not ventured abroad given he's done it before. A decent year in Germany or Spain would be great for him. 

[accessory]

2 hours ago, Lionator said:

A lot of these comments overlook the fact that the system is set up in a way that makes it close to impossible for newly promoted clubs. It’s an escalating issue even compared to 2-3 years ago.

Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham (among others) have all managed the transition well enough in recent seasons.

[whoareyaaa]

43 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Potter does need to be careful if he is seeking the perfect job. Alan Curbishley was an excellent manager at this level. A great job with Charlton and good job at West Ham. He stayed out the game a bit too long and couldn’t get back in. 
 

He’s had a decent half season at Brighton and failed at Chelsea, not sure he is the prize fish he thinks he is. 
 

https://thesetpieces.com/interviews/alan-curbishley/#:~:text=“It took me a year,you're out of favour.

Reckon he is waiting for the Everton job, can see Dyche going at the end of the season