We Go Again! The Premier League thread

[Fernando]

First topic message reminder :

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel; Simpson, Huth, Morgan (c), Fuchs; Mahrez, Kanté, Drinkwater, Albrighton; Okazaki, Vardy

Leicester City Subs: De Laet, King, Schlupp, Ulloa, Dyer, Schwarzer, Inler

Manchester United XI: to face Leicester: De Gea, Darmian, McNair, Smalling, Blind, Carrick, Schweinsteiger, Mata, Young, Rooney, Martial

Manchester United Subs: Romero, Borthwick-Jackson, Fellaini, Memphis, Pereira, Schneiderlin, Rashford

[Hammersmith harrier]

Please be true.

[Guest]

I'd take it with a pinch of salt, the rumour looks to have originated from trevor sinclair, even as a former footballer i aint sure how reliable his word is when it comes to a team he has no, and never had involvement with

[Guest]

Anyhow if it is true they reckon it'll be 7.30ish an announcement will be made

All i know for sure is LVG pre game conference is still scheduled as plan for tomorrow and thats only because sky tweeted it earlier

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Betting went mad on it. Sometimes that's a sign, but with Twitter nowadays it's hard to separate who got what info first.

[Guest]

Sinclair tweeted again, reckons somebody updated his twitter when he left his phone on a table at a party. Rookie error is that

[Guest]

LVG made a rousing speech at the club Xmas lunch, telling the staff/players to stick together etc & come through this. Doubt he would of made that speech or been allowed too, if he was in he process of been sacked. I'd suggest he's got the two Xmas games to save his job, then they will act, coinciding with the window opening for the new manager.

[Guest]

That little club Bournemouth are close to finalising a loan, with a view to a £16.2million deal in the summer, to sign Juan Iturbe from Roma.

[socal1976]

Like any neutral I am happy for Leicester and if the gunners don't win it I would be happy for the underdog story coming true. Arsenal has already had an injury crisis that knocked them off their stride a bit early on but they weathered the storm while still missing their leading goal scorer from last year in Sanchez and having big losses in Santi and Coq as well out of their first eleven. The key difference between this and other years the squad is deep and mature enough to win matches and not fall away. I don't count Leiscester out at all they deserve where they are in the table. We know injuries happen and Leiscester I think has to keep Vardy and Mahrez healthy. If one of those two go down it becomes very difficult to see them keeping this up. That being said I would still pick Arsenal over Leiscester if I had to bet the house on it, the rest of the big clubs are way down.

I wish I could share Duty's refreshing optimism if a bit tongue in cheek about the champions league. But honestly can't see us doing anything against them. I just want us to not get bombed in those two matches and play them at least well enough to retain our confidence and mojo.

[Ent]

City will if aguero and silva are fit for 3-4 months.

One of the bigger ifs. And I'm still not sure they'd do it without Kompany

Cl no but pl is fairly weak I can see ten out scoring most with those 2 fully fit.

A massive if though, as you say.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

That little club Bournemouth are close to finalising a loan, with a view to a £16.2million deal in the summer, to sign Juan Iturbe from Roma.

What a plucky hard luck story this continues to be....

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That little club Bournemouth are close to finalising a loan, with a view to a £16.2million deal in the summer, to sign Juan Iturbe from Roma.

What a plucky hard luck story this continues to be....

[Dolphin Ziggler]

I love the bitterness

[westisbest]

Ha

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I love the bitterness

Not bitter, just wish the media would do some work before reaching a false narrative

[Dolphin Ziggler]

It's not a false narrative from the perspective of most football fans who remember their position over the years, the size of the club and also the fact they have only been mildly bankrolled recently in an era of huge money.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

"Mildly bankrolled" with that near 170% wages to turnover ratio...pretty sure QPR were often looked down on for similar such actions...similar sized club too

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Bournemouth fined for breaching FFP by the FL.

[Fernando]

Well that's pointless the money from going up will cover the fine

[Dolphin Ziggler]

"Mildly bankrolled" with that near 170% wages to turnover ratio...pretty sure QPR were often looked down on for similar such actions...similar sized club too

There is no historical comparison between Bournemouth and QPR. And they're one of numerous clubs sanctioned today, all others bigger clubs too, and are playing players in the Premier League who had basically been considered not good enough by anyone else. 

The media and older fans are remembering Bournemouth before they got investment and also looking at what they still are.

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Its interesting that Watfords recent history has been whitewashed too.

Essentially skirting FFP by having the parent club buy the players then sell them for a nominal fee to Watford or loan them.

[NickisBHAFC]

I said last season I was annoyed that "little Bournemouth" were underdogs on promotion, when they actually had one of the biggest budgets in that league

It's continued this year, as they have been breached FFP and signing a player for 16 mill!

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Youre gonna ruin your Christmas meals, guys. Turkey is dry enough without making it so sour and bitter too

[westisbest]

"Mildly bankrolled" with that near 170% wages to turnover ratio...pretty sure QPR were often looked down on for similar such actions...similar sized club too

There is no historical comparison between Bournemouth and QPR. And they're one of numerous clubs sanctioned today, all others bigger clubs too, and are playing players in the Premier League who had basically been considered not good enough by anyone else. 

The media and older fans are remembering Bournemouth before they got investment and also looking at what they still are.

Exactly.

From where they werre few years back almost going out of business, fanns putting money into buckets on matchday to help keep the club alive.

To where they are now holding there own in the premiership is a great story.

Bournemouth are a small club, as alot of their fans will say.

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Youre gonna ruin your Christmas meals, guys. Turkey is dry enough without making it so sour and bitter too

You might want to double check your turkey is actually a turkey

[Guest]

Wayne Rooney dropped to the bench

[westisbest]

Dunno if its just the festive period, but gonna say we will get Our first home win of the season today.

2-1.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

We've got no Lanzini and sounds like Jelavic up front so I'd suspect you might take it 1-0 in an ugly game

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Hahahaha Depay

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ruh roh

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Sacked in the morning!

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At least LVG wasn't sacked on xmas

[Hammersmith harrier]

It's beyond a joke now, our once secure defence has been tinkered with to such an extent it's leaking goals at astounding rate now, truly truly embarrassing.

[kingraf]

If you looked at both attacks, I think its hard to have had Utd more likely to score than Stoke. Big fish small pond seems to be suiting Bojan to a Tee

[Dolphin Ziggler]

And having said we'll be stuck with Jellyfish up front he's not even made the squad. Hope Valencia has a good game, deserves more chances as a striker

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Paddy power paying out on LVG to be the next manager to go.

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Stoke beat United 2-0.

Timely result for Stoke.

For LVG, 7 games without a win, 4 losses in a row, out of the CL and the top 4 before 2016. Times up.

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City 3-0 up already over Sunderland

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1-0 Spurs, Kane from the penalty spot

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Oh look our second best gk gives away a stupid penalty....

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Chelsea 1-0 up through Costa

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2-0 Spurs

Watford equalise against Chelsea

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

We're getting d1cked here

[westisbest]

Typical.

Thank god Sanchez off.
Gil on.

Garde is so defensive.
Does he not realise what position we are in and how desperate the situarion is, ffs.

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Watford lead Chelsea

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Upset alert as Benteke puts Liverpool 1-0 up against Leicester

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Ayew equalises for Villa from the spot

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Cheap pen, bought by Gestede and the ref missing an earlier pull. 30 mins against momentum now

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And Costa scores against for Chelsea.

Its all happening

[westisbest]

Ayew.
Get in there, c'mon now Villa.

Dubious pen, but fk it, we'll take it.

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Kompany comes on and limps off after

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