2024-25 EPL Season

[JeffreyLFC]

Some teams were clearly desperate to be compliant last summer, but it seems like they managed to help each other out. Just look at how Newcastle supposedly bought Nottingham's 30 y/o backup goalkeeper for £20M last summer just to not use him.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5762101/2024/09/13/odysseas-vlachodimos-forest-to-newcastle/

Sounds like money laundering lol.

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

 

[Savant]

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

They tried. But all the teams that broke the rules banded together, voted against it, and blocked the supermajority needed to change the rule

 

[S E P H]

What's in common with first ever English Top division champions Preston 1889/89 and English Champions Arsenal 2003/04? Maybe Google knows.

We really considering a team that played when Queen Victoria was alive in the same category as the Prestige 2003-04 Arsenal? Let alone, the first-ever season of the EPL on top of that with all how new the sport was at that time? Seriously Mr. Gary?

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

By this logic '23-'24 Leverkusen is the greatest Bundesliga team of all time and better than a squad that included Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Schelweinsteiger, Kroos, Müller, Ribery, and Robben.

 

[Jussi]

99-00 United team over the treble winning team from the prior season?

 

[maclean]

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

As with taxes, of course teams are always going to find ways to skirt the rules and I also hope the EPL continues to work to plug all the holes and accounting nonsense. That said, I don't back the view that the rules "do nothing", as some claim. It's clear they are starting to have some effect - e.g. City and Chelsea didn't just go out and buy every up-and-coming player last summer

 

[gary69]

We really considering a team that played when Queen Victoria was alive in the same category as the Prestige 2003-04 Arsenal? Let alone, the first-ever season of the EPL on top of that with all how new the sport was at that time? Seriously Mr. Gary?

I haven't made any comments which may be best team ever.

I just posted regarding WBS's post that your claim about Arsenal are the only undefeated English team ever is factually wrong, like WBS said.

And the sport wasn't even really new at that time, Lately Preston had won several league titles before that with largely the same players, It was just the first professional season after players were finally allowed to be publicly paid.

 

[Savant]

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/foot...case-with-cash-not-points-deduction-s75lzsh0m

“Records indicate the transfers of Willian and Eto’o from Anzhi in August 2013, when Chelsea were under Abramovich’s control, involved payments made to Russian entities”

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

btw, my ranking, without much research:

City 17-18
Chelsea 04-05
Liverpool 19-20
City 18-19
Liverpool 18-19
Arsenal 03-04
United 99-00
Chelsea 16-17

99-00 United team over the treble winning team from the prior season?

As a PL season? Fairly unambiguously, yeah. 99-00 is their highest ever 38-game points total, was the 38-game record (and was the record in a meaningful sense, given that their ppg was .2 higher than when they had 92 in 42). They won the title by 18 points, which remains one of the largest margins.

98-99 is, off the top of my head, the third lowest title winning point total to date.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Goddamn do I have a reason to hate that 16-17 Chelsea team.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Forgot to mention Chelsea 14-15 in my list. I don't think they break that top 8, but I think they likely squeak into the top 10. The point total isn't extraordinary (87), but to be top of the league from the first day of the league to the last is a pretty bonkers exercise in consistency IMO.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

https://www.football.london/tottenh...nic-increase-share-tottenham-hotspur-30791456

Another .33% for Levy and Lewis

 

[Savant]

Gold said today that Kinsky gives off a confidence that Spurs players noticed right off. I guess he was an outfield player when he was young which is why he is so good with the ball, he's quite cheeky

All this glazing and he’s shite.

At least he’s better than Fraser Forster

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

All this glazing and he’s shite.

At least he’s better than Fraser Forster

He's 21 and didn't stop a goal that falls into the "you'd hope your keeper gets it" category instead of the "catastrophic one to concede" category. Gimme a f***ing break.

He so far (including today, regardless of "he's shite") looks far better than I have seen many keepers look this season.

Was the 4th highest rated player in the game on WhoScored.

 

[Savant]

He's 21 and didn't stop a goal that falls into the "you'd hope your keeper gets it" category instead of the "catastrophic one to concede" category. Gimme a f***ing break.

He so far (including today, regardless of "he's shite") looks far better than I have seen many keepers look this season.

Was the 4th highest rated player in the game on WhoScored.

I don't like the WhoScored rating (especially for goalie) and fourth best player of the game simply does not pass the eye test to me. Don't think there was anything special in the Cup, don't think he was good today. You do not have to agree, but guy got hyped to the moon after one game, today was a come back to earth moment. If he is better than 'many' keepers, that is a looooooow bar

 

[bluesfan94]

He's 21 and didn't stop a goal that falls into the "you'd hope your keeper gets it" category instead of the "catastrophic one to concede" category. Gimme a f***ing break.

He so far (including today, regardless of "he's shite") looks far better than I have seen many keepers look this season.

Was the 4th highest rated player in the game on WhoScored.

He was also playing his third game for Spurs and it was a road NLD. He didn’t make any mistake I haven’t seen other goalies make.

I will say that he was more confident than good on the ball, but how much of that is nerves vs ability who knows.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

One questionable, but hardly disastrous goal against and y'all are already out for blood. Funny how it's the Liverpool supporters too considering the game the other week.

He's 21 and clearly a work in progress. Most notably he needs to make better decisions on the ball.

A major difference between him and Vicario is that he seems infinitely more commanding in the box.

If one wants to roast Spurs players for yesterday, there are plenty of better choices.

 

[Savant]

One questionable, but hardly disastrous goal against and y'all are already out for blood. Funny how it's the Liverpool supporters too considering the game the other week.
He's 21 and clearly a work in progress. Most notably he needs to make better decisions on the ball.

A major difference between him and Vicario is that he seems infinitely more commanding in the box.

If one wants to roast Spurs players for yesterday, there are plenty of better choices.

One decent game, and we are hearing about transformational confidence. No one is out for blood, but yall have to relax. The LFC supporters are probably the only ones besides the Tottenham supporters that have seen him at least once, so I think it’s a fair observation. I didn’t even think he was great in the Cup. The best “save” was a goal line clearance from a defender

The Tottenham supporters also go straight to the boards every time one of their players does something that isn’t a negative. Relax.

He was also playing his third game for Spurs and it was a road NLD. He didn’t make any mistake I haven’t seen other goalies make.

I will say that he was more confident than good on the ball, but how much of that is nerves vs ability who knows.

Loris Karius 2.0

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

The Tottenham supporters also go straight to the boards every time one of their players does something that isn’t a negative. Relax.

Cry me a river.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Some obscure sources have Castro to inter for 30 million in the summer. I’m not yet convinced he’d become elite or anything but that’s a good price for someone who’s shown promise and is very young at the 9 position.

 

[Savant]

Cry me a river.

Don’t get butt hurt if people are going to call out one bad game, if yall are going to go over the top praising one good game

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Don’t get butt hurt if people are going to call out one bad game, if yall are going to go over the top praising one good game

The post in question only really said that he looked confident on the ball, with a nice video of him celebrating with his family. Nothing else really. Is that too bad?

 

[maclean]

It wasn't even a bad game from him. Could he have done slightly better on the two goals? Maybe, but he's 21 and those are goals that happen to every keeper, I'd hardly call them actual errors, which it's worth noting we've seen plenty of from keepers trying to play out from the back in this past week alone

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

This is literally the exact same stupid shit as when the exact same set of posters were claiming that Spurs fans were talking about winning titles after a few games last season. Anytime a Spurs fan is mildly excited about anything positive related to their team, the same cluster of boneheads invent a fantasy phantom Spurs fan who is planning the f***ing parade or who is calling Antonin Kinsky the second coming of Buffon. At a certain point, why do the rest of us continue to pay mind to people who box with shadows? Maybe that's on us.

He was also playing his third game for Spurs and it was a road NLD. He didn’t make any mistake I haven’t seen other goalies make.

I will say that he was more confident than good on the ball, but how much of that is nerves vs ability who knows.

He had multiple really good passes around the corner into space for Porro, passes I'd be happy to see from a #6. There's definitely ability there.

Again, just for the collective record, the sample size is tiny. It was his third game. And no one has said otherwise or tried to make enormous grandiose statements based upon three games.

 

[HeHateMeFrisbee]

This is literally the exact same stupid shit as when the exact same set of posters were claiming that Spurs fans were talking about winning titles after a few games last season. Anytime a Spurs fan is mildly excited about anything positive related to their team, the same cluster of boneheads invent a fantasy phantom Spurs fan who is planning the f***ing parade or who is calling Antonin Kinsky the second coming of Buffon. At a certain point, why do the rest of us continue to pay mind to people who box with shadows? Maybe that's on us.


He had multiple really good passes around the corner into space for Porro, passes I'd be happy to see from a #6. There's definitely ability there.

Again, just for the collective record, the sample size is tiny. It was his third game. And no one has said otherwise or tried to make enormous grandiose statements based upon three games.

Really it's one bonehead in particular.