Premier League 2024/25

[BKLFox]

Watching motd Chelsea v Arsenal and this is what’s wrong with the English game, ooh no I’m racist but it’s the foreign mentality of trying to gain advantage by getting someone a card by feigning injury, having just watched the 6N and then watching this 5hit it makes my blood boil and yet commentary condone it when they should be calling it out 

[st albans fox]

Not that it matters to us but PL are changing from Nike ball for next season.  Now that would surely be a great opportunity to go with adidas and the auto offsides we see at world cups and uefa games 

 

but no - they’ve taken the dosh and gone to puma 

I hope the system they are still trialling goes badly wrong because they deserve nothing more 

Edited 17 March by st albans fox

[Corky]

If the three promoted clubs are this bad again next season I can see calls for an 18-team league.

[cruzFOX]

Couldn’t watch the game as my boy had a tournament 3 hrs north. That was rough watch against a team with more players and a crooked ref. Came home checked bbc sport saw the result and put my phone away. Next week I won’t even check the result. I’m almost checked out now sadly. Only footy I’m watching is the champions league. Like the two Ronnie’s used to say; “it’s goodbye from me & goodbye from him”

[HankMarvin]

Sounds familiar after his good start last year

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14506413/Chelsea-fans-turn-Enzo-Maresca-deluded-post-match-comments-defeat-Arsenal.html

 

 

We certainly didn’t control the game,' they said. 'Their keeper made one save.

'Of our 508 completed passes, 313 came from the back 4 or Keeper.

'It’s horrendous football.'

Another supporter was perplexed by Maresca's remarks, and admitted watching Chelsea games has become a 'tedious' task.

 

'He spouts the same old same old after every game. We were boring and never looked like scoring if we had been there all bleedin' night!

'I love going to games but this is doing me in. It’s so tedious and hard to watch.'

 

 

 

 

[filbertway]

 

[Dr The Singh]

47 minutes ago, filbertway said:

 

Handsome looking lads

[fox_favourite]

7 hours ago, filbertway said:

 

It's a ridiculously unbalanced league. How can Chelsea still spend millions upon millions yet the promoted clubs are so restricted. 

 

Football is a farce these days. 

[Nalis]

On 17/03/2025 at 13:53, Corky said:

If the three promoted clubs are this bad again next season I can see calls for an 18-team league.

I dont know, it really depends on who those 18 teams are. In terms of marketing the premier league would far rather have the likes of us, Leeds and Sunderland in the premier league over Brentford, Bournemouth and Fulham. 

[fox_up_north]

18 team league would be diabolical. Does that then put 26 teams into leagues below? 

 

I think 20 stays as it is because there are some clubs happy of the 3 guaranteed points. 

[Leicesterpool]

Imagine a miracle where Man City are docked points and despite how bad we are we stay up in a result of this. 

[Chelmofox]

9 hours ago, filbertway said:

 

Are transfer windows not a thing in Chelsea land?

[jammie82uk]

2 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Are transfer windows not a thing in Chelsea land?

Players can only join or leave in transfer windows,  there is nothing to state you can’t buy players outside of those windows

[Wortho]

3 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

It's a ridiculously unbalanced league. How can Chelsea still spend millions upon millions yet the promoted clubs are so restricted. 

 

Football is a farce these days. 

No doubt they’ll sell part of their training ground to themselves.

[Fox92]

2 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Imagine a miracle where Man City are docked points and despite how bad we are we stay up in a result of this. 

That's not a miracle. We would be in the same exact position next season as we are now.

[Nalis]

1 hour ago, Wortho said:

No doubt they’ll sell part of their training ground to themselves.

Chelsea selling things to themselves to break PSR is the footballing equivalent of your grandparents coming back to life when you've started a new job.

[Finnegan]

7 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

That's not a miracle. We would be in the same exact position next season as we are now.

 

In fairness, I don't think that's true. If we survived this season (and we won't unless somebody is docked an insane amount of points somehow out of the blue which they won't be) we'd be in a much stronger position. 

 

Our finances recover a little bit more every year as our wage bill comes down, our amortisation clears up, we lose dead wood through contract expiration and we lose some of our most debt ridden seasons from the rolling three year window. 

 

This year was a big make or break one from the club and we fluffed it. 

 

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

In fairness, I don't think that's true. If we survived this season (and we won't unless somebody is docked an insane amount of points somehow out of the blue which they won't be) we'd be in a much stronger position. 

 

Our finances recover a little bit more every year as our wage bill comes down, our amortisation clears up, we lose dead wood through contract expiration and we lose some of our most debt ridden seasons from the rolling three year window. 

 

This year was a big make or break one from the club and we fluffed it. 

 

Would we lose dead wood through contract expiration though? I'd be worried they just get new contacts. In fact I am worried about that anyway.

[Foxin_Mad]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

That's not a miracle. We would be in the same exact position next season as we are now.

Even we would struggle to be as bad as one of the 3 potential promoted teams, plus playoff winner.

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Even we would struggle to be as bad as one of the 3 potential promoted teams, plus playoff winner.

I dunno man, we can't even score goals and we concede them so it's not a great recipe. 

[The Bear]

You'd have a similar squad but a reasonably competent manager could probably get more out of them. 

[davieG]

https://www.skysports.com/football/story-telling/11095/13332473/why-have-england-appointed-thomas-tuchel-why-are-there-so-few-english-managers-in-the-premier-league

 

Why are there so few English Managers in the PL

 

 

When the inaugural Premier League season began in 1992, 21 of the 22 managers in the dugouts on its opening weekend were from one of the four Home Nations. The one exception? Joe Kinnear from the Republic of Ireland.

Howard Wilkinson had just led Leeds to the final ever Division One title, while Graham Taylor continued the unbroken tradition of English managers leading the England men's national team, though the less said about their performance at that summer's European Championships, the better.

 

Fast forward 33 years and the Three Lions have just appointed their third foreign manager in Thomas Tuchel, while only two English managers - and another two from other Home Nations - are currently leading clubs in the Premier League.

 

[Stadt]

9 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

It's a ridiculously unbalanced league. How can Chelsea still spend millions upon millions yet the promoted clubs are so restricted. 

 

Football is a farce these days. 

The promoted clubs spent about £250m between ourselves. Our lack of PSR headroom is our own doing because we put players on too much money and can't or won't sell them.

[Corky]

8 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

18 team league would be diabolical. Does that then put 26 teams into leagues below? 

 

I think 20 stays as it is because there are some clubs happy of the 3 guaranteed points. 

As I said, it would be a call and based on next season being a repeat. Three years of three teams failing to reach 30 points would be horrendous.

[sharpylcfc]

Can't wait for the season to be over.