EPL 19/20
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Mourinho loses on his return to Man United.
What odds on Mourinho not making in to the end of the season?
I saw a funny tweet a few weeks ago saying Mourinho going to Spurs was like watching Gordon Ramsey go to fix a failing restaurant only to open the storeroom and find a big pile of rotting lemons.
Unless he has promises from Levy to actually spend some money he will hit the same hurdles as his predecessor and that awesome new stadium will be a waste of effort.
I kind of assume that they're in the same position as Arsenal where they're hamstrung by the debt from the build so can't afford to be splashy.
Question is once they're back in a position to spend, how much damage will have been done. Arsenal at least had fantastic successes before the move to Emirates and one of the great managers to keep them afloat.
It was more that they achieved well above the spend while the stadium was being built but those players then got pissed off that the money wasn’t being spent to go to the next level and buy a cup.
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That would seem unlikely for 2 reasons. (1) I couldn't see Pochettino managing Spurs' biggest rivals, and (2) he would need to refund Tottenham the £12.5m compensation payoff he received when he left the club last month.
I think Poch will take a paid holiday and wait to see what unfolds at the end of the season. The Real Madrid job could become available but I can't see him going to Barcelona for the same reason (he played for and managed Espanyol).
As for Arsenal, Rodgers is now out of the equation but Allegri is available.
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Mourinho loses on his return to Man United.
What odds on Mourinho not making in to the end of the season?
I saw a funny tweet a few weeks ago saying Mourinho going to Spurs was like watching Gordon Ramsey go to fix a failing restaurant only to open the storeroom and find a big pile of rotting lemons.
Unless he has promises from Levy to actually spend some money he will hit the same hurdles as his predecessor and that awesome new stadium will be a waste of effort.
I kind of assume that they're in the same position as Arsenal where they're hamstrung by the debt from the build so can't afford to be splashy.
Question is once they're back in a position to spend, how much damage will have been done. Arsenal at least had fantastic successes before the move to Emirates and one of the great managers to keep them afloat.
It was more that they achieved well above the spend while the stadium was being built but those players then got pissed off that the money wasn’t being spent to go to the next level and buy a cup.
Levy seems to be set on being an anti-Semitic stereotype.They failed to refresh the squad, so along with the fact that some of the players think they should be making more than they are (justifiably so in many cases) they seem to have gotten sick of playing for each other. If they don't show serious signs of lifting intensity Jose will have to shift a bunch out. Hard to know who to believe, Levy is infamous for being tight, but Pochettino reportedly was OK with not bringing in new players in some of the previous windows because no one was suitable. It might have been code for "I'm being given no money to spend" and Levy probably held on for better money when he should have got shot of a few players. Either way we need to reinvigorate the squad
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Singh on the bench for Bayern against Spurs in the Champions League match this morning. Hope he gets on!
He didn't but he did at the weekend, replacing Coutinho in the 82nd minute as Coutinho was so poor (apart of course from his hat-trick).
Saw last 30 minutes of United v Everton and first half of Arse v City. United showed lots of promise in attack but those kids take some terrible options and don't treasure possession enough. City clinical v Arse and KdB could have had a first half hat-trick.
And what a job Klopp has done at Liverpool - from a brilliant but flimsy team with a habit of losing to poorer teams, they just win games these days. Sometimes you wonder quite how they win but they have a ridiculous 25 wins out of 26 (or similar) in the EPL now.
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Remember when Arsenal were a thing? Nailed on to finish top 4. Played nice football. Probably not in the title race, but still to be respected? Could always rely on them to finish in front of Spurs no matter how good Spurs were that year?
That seems a loooong time ago. An out of sorts City brushed them aside with disdain this morning.
Man U are the opposite of flat track bullies. Great against the top sides, dogshit against the bottom of the league.
Liverpool lead out to 10 points. If, and it's a big if, we beat Leicester on Boxing Day, then i will start to believe.
@KiwiPie yes the record over the past season and a half is unreal. It's still unfathomable that the league wasn't won last season, fuck City were good. And this year unbeaten, and having to do it with key players out reasonably regularly, proving he can build a squad as well. Signed on for another couple of years too.
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@mariner4life Indeed - when he picked that team for Everton with the squad players and they ripped them apart, he has to be doing a lot of things right. You're at the point where just drawing with Leicester will be fine - yours to lose etc etc. I feel even Klopp knows that they have ridden their luck to this point - not to suggest they shouldn't be out in front but they have squeaked a few wins from unlikely positions. But a little like United in their pomp, they apply such pressure the whole game that even the stoutest defence tends to crack in the end - even if it takes until the final 10 minutes.
The Arse under Wenger used to romp to easy victories most of the time - it was their knack of going into slumps or losing to a crap team that used to hold them back. Now they just look clueless - great strikers but no clue how to get the ball to them in space. They used to have too many class midfielders to fit them all in - now it is Guendozy, Torreira and Xhaka plus some kids. Oh and Ozil who they should have cashed in a few years ago.
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Liverpool travel to Leicester and win 0 - 4 to go 13 points clear with a game in hand.
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Liverpool go to Leicester and put a fork in their title challenge, destroying them 4-0. They remain in 2nd, until City beat Wolves tonight.
Chelsea looked to have 4th in the bag, but they keep slipping back, and suddenly it's back on for the Champs league places
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Wolves!! Massive weekend for Liverpool now
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Don't know how City lost that after being two nil up, but that last goal for Wolves was lovely.
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@antipodean said in EPL 19/20:
Don't know how City lost that after being two nil up, but that last goal for Wolves was lovely.
Wolves play great football. We only just squeaked past them at their place last week, and they have barely lost there this season
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Liverpool now unbeaten in the league for a year. Gap is 13 points with a game in hand.
As another Liverpool supporting mate said this morning "if they lose it from here, they may as well shut the club down" and he's right. No one connected to the club would ever recover mentally from that.
Even if City were to do what they did last year, and win 18 of their last 19, Liverpool would still have to lose 6 of their last 18.
Surely...
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fuck yes Man City! Smack Villa 6-1, then have a private party with a bunch of models flown in from Italy.
THAT is how you live as a ridiculously loaded sports star
