Premier League 2024/25

[Thefox81]

I personally think all the supporters of other teams on here are respectful and i dont mind engaging with them. @The Bear @Super_horns @spacemunky @Torquay Gunner. Just not that Leeds 🛎end.

[Pliskin]

1 hour ago, reynard said:

I think the trajectory points to the opposite direction. We're now not scoring goals but still conceding. The quality of the squad isn't anywhere near good enough. We've taken 4 points from the last 6 matches.  Can you see us getting a result like Ipswich yesterday?  I can't. There's no identity to how we play apart from just easy to play against.

Not saying we definitely can't do it but everything is pointing the wrong way right now. A good January transfer window might tip the balance but I've little confidence of it being delivered based on previous attempts.

I completely disagree with this…

 

Firstly Ruud has probably had about 13 days on the training field with the lads, the team has been transitioning from Cooper’s clueless football to Ruud’s ideology.
 

We couldn’t defend for toffee, we were conceding goals and chances like no tomorrow, so Ruud has had to address that, which initially means you may have to focus on the defence a bit more, but we are still creating chances, I would be more worried if we weren’t creating any chances at all. The wolves game was a complete tactical **** up, starting Ward was a huge error, but Ruud can’t really be blamed all that much, as he has only had a limited amount of time with the players. In isolation, that Wolves game was the worst day he has had. 
 

Newcastle have one of the most formidable midfield and attacks in the league, Liverpool are looking like they will eventually be champions (but I can genuinely see Forest challenging them if they get a decent striker in), Man City are struggling but still a class side…. To suggest there’s no style must mean you’ve spent the last two games with your eyes closed…. Because it’s clear the roots are starting to appear….. Man City was the best performance this season, albeit for two defensive lapses and some wasteful finishing….. 

 

I argue that the current signs are progressive, performances are key and generally bar Newcastle and Wolves we’ve improved, with some decent business over the next few weeks we could alright. As for Ipswich, they got battered last night, it’s a complete fluke of a result, and doesn’t define the season…… we could go to Villa and get something, they’re not the force a lot of people think they are and with a stroke of luck and a decent performance we’re capable of upsetting them. And then we’ve got a hand full of games we could get points from…. I’d take a run taking points off the teams around us, over a one off win over Chelsea. 
 

Despite the disaster fixation that’s going on, on this forum, the last two games have shown signs of improvement…. Defensively we’ve been better, we’ve looked more comfortable as a side and I think there’s the shoots of Ruud’s style showing. 
 

As a fan base we need to be more positive, regardless of how bleak we think things are, a couple of weeks and the picture could be completely different. 

[Lambert09]

1 minute ago, Thefox81 said:

I personally think all the supporters of other teams on here are respectful and i dont mind engaging with them. @The Bear @Super_horns @spacemunky @Torquay Gunner. Just not that Leeds 🛎end.

Don’t forget the Rudkin fan? 

[Bilo]

11 minutes ago, kenny said:

Visiting fans that aren't WUM always add a lot to a board. Not sure why @The Bear or yourself are getting flack.

For clarity, I wasn't talking about FAM.

[Corky]

Nothing wrong with sensible visiting fans on here. 

[The Bear]

1 minute ago, Corky said:

Nothing wrong with sensible visiting fans on here. 

I'll be off then... 

[Bilo]

3 minutes ago, Corky said:

Nothing wrong with sensible visiting fans on here. 

No, I agree.

 

But WUMs add nothing. 

[LCFCJohn]

Being reported that Man Utd have to sell to buy and have no budget due to PSR after what they spent in the summer.

 

This needs to be a collective effort from the whole of football to not help them out in January just for the fun of seeing just how close to relegation they could go!

[JimJams]

2 hours ago, Bilo said:

We're 9 points behind West Ham. No way we catch them. 

We were 13th at this time the season we went down.  You're not safe until you're safe.

[Fox85]

4 hours ago, Bilo said:

Good in theory, but I do see two problems.

 

1) Who would want to come when we're 19th and looking doomed?

2) Would you have faith in Rudkin to find gems or just waste money on players like Sean Longstaff? 

We are 1 win away from getting out the relegation zone we are a very attractive club 

[JimJams]

I think people sometimes forget the massive difference in wages between the Premier League and the majority of clubs outside that.

Few players will ever win much, cash is key.

[BillyFOX12]

11 minutes ago, JimJams said:

I think people sometimes forget the massive difference in wages between the Premier League and the majority of clubs outside that.

Few players will ever win much, cash is key.

Tell that to Man Utd.

[The Bear]

42 minutes ago, JimJams said:

I think people sometimes forget the massive difference in wages between the Premier League and the majority of clubs outside that.

Few players will ever win much, cash is key.

They'd also expect a club like Leicester to get back up at the first opportunity if you did end up relegated. Plenty of Championship or lesser European league players would take that chance on top of the money. 

[Number 6]

1 hour ago, JimJams said:

We were 13th at this time the season we went down.  You're not safe until you're safe.

Think I saw that Leeds were 14th too. So things can and do change. Obviously requires someone to go on an awful run, but it happens.

[iancognito]

5 hours ago, reynard said:

I'm afraid I think we are gone along with Southampton. We're just not picking up any points, in fact we're not even close to doing so.  Villa away will in all likelihood be another defeat.  Ipswich are showing some spirit but still have a lot to do. 

The summer recruitment was nothing short of disastrous. 35 million wasted on two players who offer nothing.

we're going to need 7 wins more and I can't see us getting them right now. Recruitment in January is always tricky and we need around 6 players to improve the starting line up to have even a chance of staying up.

 

Looks like the three who came up will go back down.

Another one predicting the rest of one of the most unpredictable seasons.

 

Bournemouth and Forest in the top 6 with squads barely any better than those in the bottom half.

West Ham have just lost Bowen and Antonio for long stretches and are taking regular tonkings. Wolves have ahd a bounce but again have a threadbare squad. Be nice if we had a bit of belief in ourselves for a change.

[Corky]

Alexander-Arnold needs to expect a lot of lecturing about how his Liverpool legacy could be changed by possibly joining the club who have dominated Europe for the past decade.

[Lionator]

32 minutes ago, Corky said:

Alexander-Arnold needs to expect a lot of lecturing about how his Liverpool legacy could be changed by possibly joining the club who have dominated Europe for the past decade.

I don’t blame him to be honest. Madrid is the biggest club in the world, great city and the have a manager that might actually improve him defensively. 

[FrankieADZ]

3 minutes ago, Lionator said:

I don’t blame him to be honest. Madrid is the biggest club in the world, great city and the have a manager that might actually improve him defensively. 

warmer weather too for the most part, cant blame him really

[Bilo]

Speaking purely from an England perspective, I want to see more of our players playing abroad. It often improves them technically and tactically in comparison to those playing in England. I could see TAA becoming a serious player at Real.

[Lionator]

A very normal response to the TAA situation 

 

[ForestAreMagic]

If nothing else it’s an opportunity for TAA to experience a different lifestyle and culture.  Liverpool fans need to stop being such babies about it.  Merseyside isn’t the only place on earth, and Real are the biggest club in the world. 

[JimJams]

23 minutes ago, Lionator said:

A very normal response to the TAA situation 

 

I look forward to his take on grooming minors and stealing them away from their family, and relate that to the Nyoni situation.

Nyonces.

[Bilo]

12 minutes ago, ForestAreMagic said:

If nothing else it’s an opportunity for TAA to experience a different lifestyle and culture.  Liverpool fans need to stop being such babies about it.  Merseyside isn’t the only place on earth, and Real are the biggest club in the world. 

Ultimately, Real Madrid is the pinnacle of club football. In the conversation every season for La Liga and the Champions League and surrounded by some of the best players in the world, season after season.

 

They're arguably the only club in the world from which there is no upwards movement.

[Bordersfox]

42 minutes ago, Lionator said:

A very normal response to the TAA situation 

 

Surely a parody account. Either that or this guy is a sociopath.  

 

Carragher was banging on about this on a Monday night football.  Does TAA want to be seen like Stevie G, a true legend of the club, or like McManaman a dwarf who left Liverpool to win a couple of European Championships?  Does he want to betray the fans by leaving for free?  Not his view, of course... just what he's heard from supping at the Liverpool glory hole. 

 

Redknapp rightly called it out as a ridiculous, nay, preposterous postion to take.

 

Fvck Liverpool, fvck their weirdo mutually masturbating fans, their bloated egoist self-importance and fvck their sense of entitlement.  Fvck Carragher as well. 

 

Who on earth has the right to tell someone else how they live their own life and shape their own career? 

 

Cvnts. 

 

[The Doctor]

12 hours ago, FrankieADZ said:

now this is a joke

would have been suspended for longer if the ref had just banned him.... hope that injury he picked up the other night is a bad one and has him out for as long as he should actually be banned (5+ league games)