EPL 2022 / 2023
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@KiwiPie I would love Luton to make it for the following reasons
- fairytale story
- the humour of the likes of the state owned sportswashing mega rich clubs having to go to Kenilworth Rd
- sticking it up Watford ownership who are the antithesis of the Luton model
- Let's face it they would make up the numbers in the EPL. Almost certainly assured of immediate relegation meaning Fulham only have two other sides to finish in front of. For the same reason I hope Leeds and Everton survive to 'enjoy' another season circling the relegation plughole. I reckon Forest & West Ham are more likely to get their shit together than those two.
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City are O for awesome. Utterly destroying RM so far.
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Modric is finished imo. Just too old and slow.
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It's injury time they have to watch out for....
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i just love the fans of other clubs just writing City off as meaningless because they spent money. Most especially Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea fans who seem to pretend their clubs are just chock full of local juniors battling on as plucky upstarts against chequebook teams.
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@mariner4life I sort of agree and disagree.
Those other clubs you mention have bucket loads of dosh by comparison to most other EPL clubs let alone those further down the pyramid. But they can't compete with a sovereign wealth fund
So yeah it is hypocritical of the other clubs to whinge, but there's what 100? questionable issues relating to FFP that are being asked of City.
Fulham's Chairman is one of the wealthiest individuals in sport but because we can't wriggle around FFP we couldn't just go out and buy success.
City buy in the world's best coach and then give him every player he wants. Grealish as back up to Foden etc and can do it because they manage to sell lucrative sponsorship deals, several of whom just happen to be based in Abu Dhabi and directly or indirectly controlled by the owner.
So like I said agree and disagree. Sympathy for those other clubs zero and as we can see from Newcastle and Man Utd fans given the chance they'd like their club to emulate City. However, that doesn't mean there isn't a stench associated with the ownership and funding of City and that football wouldn't be better off without it.
Except in playing terms of course. Watching the side in their pomp is glorious.
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FFP is complete bullshit. it's not about "fairness" it's about ringfencing clubs who were lucky enough to be good when the money in sport exploded, and want to stay that way.
Fuck Man U. They were lucky to be good at the right time. Liverpool the same (without the being good in the 90s and early 2000s bit). So they get the biggest "acceptable" revenues, and what that to be the be all and end all.
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@mariner4life said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
i just love the fans of other clubs just writing City off as meaningless because they spent money. Most especially Man U, Liverpool and Chelsea fans who seem to pretend their clubs are just chock full of local juniors battling on as plucky upstarts against chequebook teams.
I genuinely don’t know one single fan from any of those clubs who hold that point of view.
Almost all of us are basically jealous of Guardiola. He's clearly the difference between the clubs to have such continual success. Perhaps Liverpool fans less so, as they've had a pretty good time under Klopp, but certainly the rest of us tend to look on in awe of Pep.
Truth be told, money is a massive factor in being a successful club, but it's far from the only one. Newcastle are chock full of cash these days, but they've spent very wisely, as opposed to others.
I cannot praise Howe enough for what he's done there. Contrast it to Potter, and the difference is immense.
Speaking of Chelsea, so we've got Poch from next year. Good appointment, I think. Has proven he can manage a big club with big players, but hasn't proven that he can win anything (in the UK, at least).
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
Truth be told, money is a massive factor in being a successful club, but it's far from the only one. Newcastle are chock full of cash these days, but they've spent very wisely, as opposed to others.
I cannot praise Howe enough for what he's done there.
It plays a huge factor and hopefully Bournemouth will improve next on that factor alone. As for Eddie he continues to deliver with or without a huge budget, he is a genuine elite manager in my mind. That for me is the sign of a great manager.
I may have a small bias of course
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@bayimports I'm pretty sure that Eddie sees himself rehabilitating his reputation at Newcastle so that Bournemouth will have him back
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This is quite an interesting page - net spend for the last 5 seasons of the teams currently in the EPL
.All 20 EPL Clubs Ranked By Net Transfer Spend Across Last Five Seasons: Man Utd Just €79m Behind Chelsea
The CIES Football Observatory has ranked all 20 English Premier League clubs based on their net transfer spend across the last five seasons. Chelsea are no.1.
It shows City have been relatively low spenders in the transfer market in that period, making a net profit of 87M for the most recent season by selling Jesus, Sterling, Zhinchenko plus a clutch of youngsters. Not the whole story as what you pay players is maybe more important now in terms of attracting them.
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@KiwiPie this would be a stat that you would only likely know
If Forest somehow went down (and it might not be possible now), would that have made them the biggest spenders in one year to then go and consequently drop? -
@mariner4life We can all quibble with FFP and say it's bullshit, but the fairness point comes in where there are 19(?) other clubs complying but one is not. I would be really pissed if I was Chelsea and Everton who have been / are being done for breaches of FFP rules while City exist.
I get the point about the bigger clubs using FFP as a ring fence (Euro teams like RM, BM, Barcelona actually the most likely beneficiaries of this). But, for the smaller clubs, while it does limit how much they can grow financially in any given period, it also puts a cap how big a gap there can be to the bigger clubs in any given period too.
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West Ham fan hailed as a ‘legend’ for taking on an army of hooligans
West Ham fans took on Dutch ultras after semifinal win.
That is nuts. Those WH fans were crazy brave
