EPL 2022 / 2023
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@mariner4life said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
Everyone gets fired
It just won't be this season
He'll walk before he gets fired. Anyone else would be a downgrade - the owners, players and fanbase all know this.
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I have a feeling this might the final season for both Klopp and Pep.
Spurs were relatively comfortable in victory this morning after City again handed them a first half goal. The method of playing City is clear, keep the middle congested and give them the flanks - never allow them to pass through you. Then when you break, break with numbers. Pep is fiddling with the formation but most of the play is so ponderous, the strikers are starved of service. When they inevitably get knocked out of the UCL, I can see Pep giving up.
Not sure Klopp will have the appetite to rebuild Liverpool. The old chaos style of play is now looking stale for these players and good teams can tear their defence apart. Again I think Klopp might call if a day at the end of the season.
With Everton, there were only ever 2 outcomes to that game v Arse - lose heavily or win by a single goal scored by an ex-Burnley player.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2021 / 2022:
The old chaos style of play is now looking stale for these players and good teams can tear their defence apart
astounding to think that team was, 8 months ago, playing for every trophy available.
The form of a handful of players has fallen off a cliff at the same time, especially through the midfield (which in turn makes the defence look bad, not that they are playing well either).
It very much does look like this team has run its course.
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
City in deep deep shitski with financial rules. Looks like it's been a long term systematic thing as opposed to just a simple breach.
Interesting few weeks ahead here.
What a surprise
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
City in deep deep shitski with financial rules. Looks like it's been a long term systematic thing as opposed to just a simple breach.
Interesting few weeks ahead here.
Something similar came up with UEFA a couple of years ago and they were given a 2 year ban - later overturned. Would expect this to fester for a quite a while.
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not sure which thread this is best suited, thats pretty impressive
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
City in deep deep shitski with financial rules. Looks like it's been a long term systematic thing as opposed to just a simple breach.
Interesting few weeks ahead here.
football's FFP rules are fucking bullshit anyway, designed to protect clubs that were good in the 90s from the "new rich"
Fair play has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
City in deep deep shitski with financial rules. Looks like it's been a long term systematic thing as opposed to just a simple breach.
Interesting few weeks ahead here.
was just reading about what might (probably not) happen, even 2 points per season would hand a couple of titles to liverpool and another to Man u
would be very strange for liverpool, one title during covid and then another couple retroactive
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@Kiwiwomble Isn't it only up to 2018? So Mourinho might get another league title?
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@KiwiPie the article i read on the BBC said the allegations were right back to when Man City was bought so like the 09/10 season
City have been charged with allegedly breaking financial rules over a nine-year period, between the 2009/10 and 2017/18 seasons. -
@Kiwiwomble The most surprising aspect is that the EPL has financial rules.
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@mariner4life said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
@MajorRage said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
City in deep deep shitski with financial rules. Looks like it's been a long term systematic thing as opposed to just a simple breach.
Interesting few weeks ahead here.
football's FFP rules are fucking bullshit anyway, designed to protect clubs that were good in the 90s from the "new rich"
Fair play has absolutely nothing to do with it.
FFP is now being bypassed with these long contracts - expect that to be clamped down on soon. Not that it will make any difference.
Now that the EPL is basically buying up nearly all the good players in Europe as European clubs cannot compete in transfer fees or wages, it does look like a bubble that is waiting to burst. Forest have spent so much money and that can only be justified by remaining in the EPL long term - relegation could destroy them in any season. And players on long contracts who under-perform cannot be moved on as only other EPL clubs can afford their wages and they will have enough players on long contracts already. Bournemouth and Southampton have spent up in this window to gamble on staying up. And even if they do, next season they probably won't.
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@KiwiPie Yeah even clubs like Chelsea have mortgaged their futures by amortising long term Contracts.
FFP does affect the smaller clubs. Fulham have had their spending tightly curtailed. It is only at the end of this season that we will get relief from the big spend when we came up in 2018 -
Jesse Marsch is goneburger from Leeds so only Moyes of the bottom 6 started the season as manager. Add in sackings at Villa and Chelsea and it is business as usual in the premier league. He always seemed a bit batshit crazy/enthusiastic. I suspect he had a style of play he wanted to implement and when that wasn't bringing wins, he had nowhere else to go.
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Newcastle draws again. Only 1 loss but 11 draws out of 22 matches with 10 wins. 4th at present so fans are likely happy
This is turning out to be a strange year especially with Liverpool's decline. Chelsea's too but with new owners and manager it could have gone this way
Tottenham lost 4 -1 after a good win last game against Man City
Makes it interesting though
