Premier League 2024/25

[Les-TA-Jon]

11 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

Draw tomorrow would keep Wolves down there and West Ham within reach tomorrow. If not that then I'd prefer to see West Ham win. Table looking ok now though, but the Wolves game is huge in a couple of weeks.

Wolves loss might mean they have a new manager bounce vs us though…

[Leicesterpool]

New word in the English dictionary to describe the word bottling it... it's called... Tottenham.

Edited 8 December 2024 by Leicesterpool

[Koke]

Maresca doing excellent.  Chelsea are so good to watch.

 

Edited 8 December 2024 by Koke

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Bilo said:

No way he gets a big job like that. He'll get West Ham or Wolves if he's lucky. 

They could be desperate.

[Bilo]

9 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

They could be desperate.

I honestly don't know who could be successful there.

[foxfanazer]

42 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

They could be desperate.

They've had Mourinho, Conte and Ange and they're still a basket case club

 

Same with United. They've tried all different kinds of managers but continue to have the same problems.

 

Long may it continue for both

Edited 8 December 2024 by foxfanazer

[Raj]

49 minutes ago, Koke said:

Maresca doing excellent.  Chelsea are so good to watch.

 

I'd rather Chelsea win the league than Arsenal, Liverpool or Man City.

Strange but I thought Enzo would actually struggle there but hes done a fantastic  job and proving how good he is

[Tielemans63]

 

 

 

[FoxyPV]

Spurs are the gift that keeps on giving

[Aus Fox]

1 hour ago, Raj said:

I'd rather Chelsea win the league than Arsenal, Liverpool or Man City.

Strange but I thought Enzo would actually struggle there but hes done a fantastic  job and proving how good he is

The thing with Enzo’s style of football is, if you can play it with consistent top class players it’s brilliant and really effective.

Where a lot go wrong is it’s awful if everyone isn’t great on the ball. In the Championship us, Southampton, Burnley etc. had the best players so we can play it, when you come up and you haven’t got the elite players at that level it’s asking for trouble. 
Hence why Southampton, Burnley etc struggled with their unwillingness to change the situation.

Our Player of the Season last year doesn’t get near the Chelsea 11 or even bench most weeks - that’s the difference that allows Enzo to play and be really successful at the top end.

[Number 6]

1 hour ago, Raj said:

I'd rather Chelsea win the league than Arsenal, Liverpool or Man City.

Strange but I thought Enzo would actually struggle there but hes done a fantastic  job and proving how good he is

I think what it proves is that you can have a very good premier league season just by beating the sides you should be beating. This was the last of the traditional "big 6" for Chelsea to play this season, and the first time they've won one of them, but they are way more consistent against the rest of the league than many other teams.

[HitchinFox]

3 minutes ago, Aus Fox said:

The thing with Enzo’s style of football is, if you can play it with consistent top class players it’s brilliant and really effective.

Where a lot go wrong is it’s awful if everyone isn’t great on the ball. In the Championship us, Southampton, Burnley etc. had the best players so we can play it, when you come up and you haven’t got the elite players at that level it’s asking for trouble. 
Hence why Southampton, Burnley etc struggled with their unwillingness to change the situation.

Our Player of the Season last year doesn’t get near the Chelsea 11 or even bench most weeks - that’s the difference that allows Enzo to play and be really successful at the top end.

 

Agree with most of that. And that's exactly why I struggled with some on here (never mind our FB pages), who were saying that Enzo would be "sacked by Xmas". I simply couldn't fathom where they were coming from.

Even more bizarrely, they weren't being bitter because he left (which I could kind of understand). Rather, it was the same people who somehow saw Enzo's style as "boring". 

 

The mind boggles how (and why) some people watch football. 


 

[Gubbins]

1 hour ago, HitchinFox said:

Even more bizarrely, they weren't being bitter because he left (which I could kind of understand). Rather, it was the same people who somehow saw Enzo's style as "boring". 

 

The mind boggles how (and why) some people watch football. 


 

For large periods it was incredibly boring though. Watching your defenders and midfielders pass it around your own half endlessly is not fun to watch whether you know it's to draw out the opposition or not. Football did not become the world's most popular sport because of its similarity to chess.

[Lambert09]

So some say that Ruuds relationship with ashworth was great…. Bring him in to replace the devil ruud and we will get the statue made 

[Muzzy_no7]

4 hours ago, Bilo said:

I honestly don't know who could be successful there.

I think Kasper Hjulmand or Kjetil Knutsen would take that job. 
 

Sergio Conceicao likely waiting for a bigger PL job or perhaps AC Milan who are struggling under Fonseca. 

[Muzzy_no7]

2 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

So some say that Ruuds relationship with ashworth was great…. Bring him in to replace the devil ruud and we will get the statue made 

Ashworth could actually work alongside Rudders. We have no sporting/technical director. 

[Lambert09]

27 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Ashworth could actually work alongside Rudders. We have no sporting/technical director. 

If there’s space and I think there was a quote for RVN basically saying he liked to work with one (I believe there were some loose links to fletcher)… then it’s at least worth a call isn’t it? 

Edited 9 December 2024 by Lambert09

[Lambert09]

Seems like a genuinely excellent manager! Making sure to acknowledge all the small things goes a long way. 
 

He should have landed a top job years ago! 

[Muzzy_no7]

12 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Seems like a genuinely excellent manager! Making sure to acknowledge all the small things goes a long way. 
 

He should have landed a top job years ago! 

Their away form is very damning though and such a contrast. 

[KFS]

14 minutes ago, Lambert09 said:

Seems like a genuinely excellent manager! Making sure to acknowledge all the small things goes a long way. 
 

He should have landed a top job years ago! 

Does he? Maybe I’ve worked with top leaders but this seems pretty run of the mill to me. 

[Super_horns]

33 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Their away form is very damning though and such a contrast. 

I would say they have had a very tough run of games but then Spurs and Man U are very beatable this season. 

[st albans fox]

According to Jim white, Antonio won’t be able to train for at least a year.  He has a long way back and not clear that he will ever be able to.  At his age you’d expect West Ham to try and claim on their insurance and to effectively pay him off and terminate his contract. 

 

very sad for a solid player and someone who seems like a very likeable character. 

[AjcW]

Any idea what the two 7pm Sunday kick offs are about this weekend?

Assume it'll be some sort of Premier League USA initiative... not sure I remember it last season?

[StanSP]

33 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Any idea what the two 7pm Sunday kick offs are about this weekend?

Assume it'll be some sort of Premier League USA initiative... not sure I remember it last season?

No 12.30pm on a Saturday due to European games and one of them is a TNT game which would have been played in that slot. 

 

No idea why there's two. Don't get why Chelsea vs Brentford can't be played at 2pm like other Sundays. Presumably other events in West London that impact police? Chelsea's own site says it's just due to European commitments. 

Edited 9 December 2024 by StanSP

[Wymsey]

Think West Ham will win later, party-inspired by what happened to Antoino.