The 6th Place Trophy - The 2017/18 Premier League Thread

[Dolphin Ziggler]

First topic message reminder :

The fixtures have been released, players have been signed and summer is already a bit boring, so here's the Premier League 2017/18 season thread.

Opening fixtures:

Arsenal v Leicester City
Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City
Chelsea v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Huddersfield Town
Everton v Stoke City
Manchester United v West Ham United
Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton v Swansea City
Watford v Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion v Bournemouth

[Guest]

Watford 2-1 Arsenal

[Guest]

Can't see Koeman hanging on much longer if this stays as it is.

[Guest]

Ayoze Perez

Unbelievable

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Fraser Forster is gash

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Yedlin should be off

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Rafa's organisational skills are impeccable

Two poor keepers

[Guest]

Shame above Lejeune's error, but plain to see the strides we've made defensively under Rafa. Has to be, seeing as offensively we're so short of quality, especially if he's going to persevere with Joselu. As for the keeper situation, Darlow is better in almost every aspect.

All in all, I'm pretty confident in surviving this year from what I've seen.

[Guest]

As rumoured, Ashley has put us up for sale

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Leicester are just a bit rubbish aren’t they

[Guest]

Reminds me that Nantes are doing well this season.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

You’re so random freek

WBA should’ve won that

[Beer]

You’re so random freek

WBA should’ve won that

Random cause he knows that Ranieri is manager of Nantes?

[Guest]

Shakespeare sacked from Leicester

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

They have been awful and so have their signings

£25m on Ihaenacho is basically just throwing money down the drain

[GSC]

If they could get him to unretire it's a spot for Big Sam.

Would Dyche take it? Not convinced personally.

[compelling and rich]

dont think anyone will be too upset with their plight after their terrible sacking of raneri

[wisden]

Sneaky outsider to come back?

[Guest]

Shakespeare sacked from Leicester

Excellent news. The snake!

[Born Slippy]

Shakespeare sacked from Leicester

Whilst I don’t have much sympathy for him given the Ranieri situation, this is a ludicrous decision. The matches they have lost this season have been to Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and United. They’ve all been very close matches against teams who would be expected to finish higher and they weren’t expected to beat.

Of the other four matches, they beat Brighton at home and drew with Huddersfield and Bournemouth away and WBA at home. Whilst they might have perhaps hoped to have turned one of those draws into a win, there isn’t any result there which looks particularly bad. I think he’d have had them comfortably mid-table after a few more games.

[guildfordbat]

Shakespeare sacked from Leicester

Whilst I don’t have much sympathy for him given the Ranieri situation, this is a ludicrous decision. The matches they have lost this season have been to Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and United. They’ve all been very close matches against teams who would be expected to finish higher and they weren’t expected to beat.

Of the other four matches, they beat Brighton at home and drew with Huddersfield and Bournemouth away and WBA at home. Whilst they might have perhaps hoped to have turned one of those draws into a win, there isn’t any result there which looks particularly bad. I think he’d have had them comfortably mid-table after a few more games.

Yeah, Ranieri's incredible success in 2016 does seem to have given Leicester's owners unreasonable expectations.

I'm surprised to see Dyche being linked with the job (in the press and flagged by GSC above). I suppose they could offer him a shedload of cash but other than that I don't see him being interested. Moving to Leicester now would not be a step up the managerial ladder for him. He's continuing to do a very fine job at Burnley with the backing of supporters and owners alike. Never any guarantees in football but I feel the latter is likely to last longer at Burnley than it would at Leicester.

[Ent]

Whilst people say snake and serves him right etc etc at the end of the day by shafting ranieri he got to manage a pl team when he never would have, earnt money he never would have and got 2 years of his contract paid out.

Not justice in any shape or form.

[Guest]

WHU 0-2 Brighton HT

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Joe Hart with the spring of yer da after 5 pints there

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

West Ham making Brighton look good here they’re that bad

[Guest]

Dolph, alcohol. Lots of it.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Nearly as bad as the Newcastle game. Least when I watched this one it wasn’t on a Poopie stream after midnight in Australia. But at least when I watched the Newcastle game it was on a Poopie stream I could barely see and I was in Australia, not London.

[Guest]

Was never in the camp of WHU having a good summer window, and at the time, was rather surprised by the general feeling towards their signings. Two City has-been's in serious decline, Chicharito coming off a serious goal drought last year, in a similar poor team, and everyone knows they got bent over for Arnautovic, who has a questionable attitude, and only turns up once every couple of months.

All in all, a pretty inevitable outcome.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

To defend Zabaleta, he’s been fantastic.

[Guest]

Zab's a top pro. He must have felt embarrassed being in amongst all that sh!t last night.

[Guest]

Chelsea 1-2 Watford

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Watford should be out of sight here

[Guest]

They've paid the price have Watford

Chelsea 4-2 Watford

[Crimey]

Whose going to be sacked first, Billic or Koeman? And what managers do we see being interested in those roles? I could see Dyche preferring Everton than the Leicester job, but he'd be better off waiting until the summer when he can bring in some pace because I don't think many managers would be able to get that squad to any kind of success. 

Been impressed with Watford and Marco Silva and has retrospectively made the 3-3 draw we had with them Matchday One look a bit better now. Expect Silva will be snapped up by a bigger club eventually. Guessing the only reason Leicester haven't been linked is because he'd cost too much to buy out his contract at this stage.

[Guest]

Huddersfield getting things done!

[Guest]

Mark Hughes will be looking at the chop too if things carry on as they are.

[Duty281]

Beautiful Huddersfield

[Guest]

Merinoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Duty281]

Table beginning to take shape.

I've been very disappointed with Chelsea: talk of who will next go, Bilic or Koeman - Conte can't be far behind. City now strong favourites, but they'll be hoping Aguero stays fit.

Any of the teams placed 12th-20th could realistically go down, though Palace and West Ham look the favourites to do so.

[Guest]

I couldn't have been more wrong about Man City. I think they'll have it wrapped up by April. Props to Pep for getting them playing his way

They'll probably smash the goals record on the way.

Huddersfield have been giants thus far. Long may it continue.

[Duty281]

Huddersfield have indeed started well.

Don't think it will be long before Wagner is poached by a higher PL club.

[Guest]

Liverpool would be a nice twist....

[Guest]

You're playing like turd and need a result....

....Arsenal at home sounds good.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Lovren and Mignolet absolutely awful

[Duty281]

Same old Liverpool. Same old Harry Kane.

[Guest]

This is comical

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Dejan Lovren is the worst CB in the league

[Guest]

Utterly embarrassing.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

There’s not 5 better centre backs in the world than what Liverpool have, apparently

[Guest]

Dejan Lovren is the worst CB in the league

The football league pyramid? I agree.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Remember when Liverpool sold their best CB to Palace

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