The 2021-22 Premier League Thread - Dem Thicc Lines

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Wed 16 Jun 2021, 2:02 pm

Opening Fixtures:

Brentford v Arsenal
Burnley v Brighton
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Everton v Southampton
Leicester City v Wolverhampton
Manchester United v Leeds United
Newcastle United v West Ham United
Norwich City v Liverpool
Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City
Watford v Aston Villa

by Duty281 Wed 16 Jun 2021, 10:06 pm

Rafa Benitez apparently going to Everton...first time I've seen Everton fans irate.

by Guest Wed 30 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm

Duty281 wrote:Rafa Benitez apparently going to Everton...first time I've seen Everton fans irate.

Benitez confirmed & Nuno Espírito Santo confirmed at Tottenham

by Duty281 Wed 30 Jun 2021, 9:13 pm

Will be tough for Nuno, knowing that he was ~~second~~ ~~third~~ ~~fourth~~ ~~fifth~~ sixth choice for the role.

by Guest Sun 04 Jul 2021, 1:15 pm

Palace appoint Patrick Vieira. Could burst their PL bubble that one

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Tue 20 Jul 2021, 8:53 am

Everton, having quite a week

by Duty281 Tue 20 Jul 2021, 8:18 pm

Just Gareth wrote:Palace appoint Patrick Vieira. Could burst their PL bubble that one

Palace are such a dull club. It's a dead-end job. They've finished between 10th and 15th every year since they returned to the PL, which was 2013. They don't have the resources (financial or a strong youth academy) to push further ahead, and if they end up in a relegation scrap/get relegated Vieira will have failed.

It's a silly job to take. At best Vieira will finish between 10th and 15th for a couple of seasons and leave with his reputation unenhanced.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sun 01 Aug 2021, 10:50 am

Looks like Grealish to City will happen, Villa making moves to replace him with Leon Bailey too (And rumours about Cantwell)

by Duty281 Mon 02 Aug 2021, 11:26 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58064333

VAR to get more complicated than you could possibly imagine. Broadcast of VAR communication remains banned by FIFA - unsure as to why, in cricket and rugby you hear the conversations being had which makes things clearer to the viewer. In football you remain in the dark.

by Lowlandbrit Wed 04 Aug 2021, 2:39 pm

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Looks like Grealish to City will happen

Seems like a big opportunity for everyone involved, but with strong potential to be a terrible move for everyone involved too.

by Soul Requiem Wed 04 Aug 2021, 2:56 pm

Lowlandbrit wrote:
Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Looks like Grealish to City will happen
Seems like a big opportunity for everyone involved, but with strong potential to be a terrible move for everyone involved too.

Grealish is good and his stock seems to have risen from lack of opportunities during the Euros but he's not that good, can't see him playing regularly for City and they already have Foden whose ceiling is huge.

by JDizzle Wed 04 Aug 2021, 3:06 pm

Villa have the chance to do what Leicester have done with the Kante/Mahrez/Chilwell money (and what Liverpool did with the Coutinho money to a greater extent) and establish themselves as a top 6 club if they can buy shrewdly.

Buendia, Bailey, Cantwell, Abraham would be a solid start…

by westisbest Wed 04 Aug 2021, 4:34 pm

Shame that it looks like Jack is leaving. Absolute quality player.

Biased, but think he would have better staying for this season. We have made good additions to our squad. Should be looking at European football at the end of the season, that will be the aim.

He won’t be a regular starter at City.
Huge money and champions league football and win trophy’s in his sights.

Shame for villa. Would have great to see him stay with the players we have and ones we will hopefully sign.
Will be good to see us playing as a team instead of revolving play around him.

Anyway good luck to him. Will be very strange not seeing him in claret and blue this season.

(Unless he does a u turn Wink

).

by westisbest Wed 04 Aug 2021, 4:36 pm

JDizzle wrote:Villa have the chance to do what Leicester have done with the Kante/Mahrez/Chilwell money (and what Liverpool did with the Coutinho money to a greater extent) and establish themselves as a top 6 club if they can buy shrewdly.

Buendia, Bailey, Cantwell, Abraham would be a solid start…

Abraham would be great as we need another striker. Wesley looks on his way.
Tuanzebe linked to. Will help strengthen our defence.

Ward-Prowse another.

by GSC Thu 05 Aug 2021, 7:37 am

Wesley Fofana has a broken leg from a pretty shocking tackle, especially in preseason

by Duty281 Wed 11 Aug 2021, 3:10 pm

Quick season predictions:

Title winners: Chelsea
2nd-4th: City, Liverpool, Leicester
Relegated: Wolves, Brentford, Norwich
Top scorer: Harry Kane
First manager sacked: Hassenhuttl

by westisbest Wed 11 Aug 2021, 3:51 pm

Title winners: Man City
2-4th Liverpool Chelsea Man Utd
Relegated: Burnley Watford Norwich
Top goal scorer: Lukaku
First manager sacked: Arteta

by JDizzle Wed 11 Aug 2021, 4:50 pm

Title winners: Man City
2-4th: Chelsea, Man Utd, Leicester
Relegated: Burnley, Palace, Norwich
Top goal scorer: Werner
First manager sacked: Benitez

by Atila Thu 12 Aug 2021, 5:53 pm

Title winners: Man Utd
2-4th: Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool
Relegated: Brentford, Palace, Wolves
Top goal scorer: Cavani
First manager sacked: Bruce

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Fri 13 Aug 2021, 8:46 pm

Turns out Arsenal are still really bad

by Duty281 Fri 13 Aug 2021, 9:33 pm

Arsenal's top four hopes over after one game.

Real Rory Delap memories with that second goal.

by Duty281 Sun 15 Aug 2021, 6:23 pm

First blow struck in the title race with Kane-less Tottenham defeating champions City 1-0.

by Guest Sun 22 Aug 2021, 3:57 pm

Southampton hold Manchester United 1-1 at St Mary’s. Southampton dominated for long periods and could easily have won. Took a superb stop by de Gea to save a point for the visitors.
OGS is a mediocre manager and is literally way out of his depth. Maguire and AWB are average at best.

by JDizzle Sun 22 Aug 2021, 6:22 pm

Good to see Lukaku stat padding against the weaker teams in the PL.

by Guest Thu 26 Aug 2021, 6:53 pm

Guardiola announced he will leave Manchester City at the end of current deal, 2023.

by Guest Sat 28 Aug 2021, 1:01 pm

City 2-0 up against Arsenal after 12 minutes...the Londoners look a very mediocre side

by Duty281 Sat 28 Aug 2021, 1:08 pm

Filthy tackle from Xhaka.

Arsenal fans already leaving. Laugh

by Guest Sat 28 Aug 2021, 2:56 pm

Manchester City crush Arsenal 5-0. The Gunners hindered by Xhaka’s above mentioned red card.
I don’t see how Arsenal are going to improve under Arteta.

by Guest Sat 28 Aug 2021, 6:23 pm

Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea half time at Anfield. Havertz with a good header. Salah pen after James red card for deliberate hand ball

by Soul Requiem Sat 28 Aug 2021, 7:04 pm

Rudiger... what a tw*t.

by Guest Sat 28 Aug 2021, 8:06 pm

Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea. Klopp will be gutted they didn’t win against 10 men for 45 mins. 24 shots for the home side but they didn’t really have too many clear cut changes. For all the brilliant attackers they’ve got, you feel a proper #9 could be what they are lacking to potentially win the title.
Chelsea will be happy as they where under massive pressure after the red card.

by Guest Sun 29 Aug 2021, 6:39 pm

Spurs go top off the PL after Son’s goal helps them see off Watford.
Manchester United beat Wolves in a smash and grab. Wolves left to rue wasting many chances and de Gea producing an incredible double save. Greenwood scoring the only goal. This kid is a special player.

by Duty281 Sun 29 Aug 2021, 6:45 pm

United have made some decent signings this season, but they're still at least a level below title contenders due to not adding a top-quality defensive midfielder to their ranks. Wolves tore them apart time and again.

Chelsea have made the strongest start of the title contenders; outside of that Tottenham have had a blistering beginning...just enough to get their fans to start dreaming before it all turns Spursy.

As ever the season's interesting opening gets halted for a pointless international break, so England can go off and smash Andorra in a game of zero importance.

by Atila Sun 29 Aug 2021, 6:58 pm

I think United have just as much as a chance of winning the title as any of the other title contenders. For all the talk I heard before the season of how United finished 12 points behind City, they were still closer than anyone else.

by JDizzle Sun 29 Aug 2021, 7:11 pm

As much as I love Frank Lampard and think he was the perfect man for the job when he took it at Chelsea in his first year - United should take a long hard look at what Tuchel has done and get on the phone to Conte.

by Guest Sun 29 Aug 2021, 7:38 pm

Ole is clearly a mediocre manager. But the real question is how did Shakhtar managed to get £52.5m for Fred. He’s literally a headless chicken.

by Guest Sun 29 Aug 2021, 7:41 pm

JDizzle wrote:As much as I love Frank Lampard and think he was the perfect man for the job when he took it at Chelsea in his first year - United should take a long hard look at what Tuchel has done and get on the phone to Conte.

Ole is clearly the ‘yes man’ Manchester United’s owners like having. They tried the demanding manager route with van Gaal and Mourinho. Conte is another in that bracket. He would never fit with the structure at that club.

by Atila Sun 29 Aug 2021, 7:48 pm

Jeff Navarro wrote:
JDizzle wrote:As much as I love Frank Lampard and think he was the perfect man for the job when he took it at Chelsea in his first year - United should take a long hard look at what Tuchel has done and get on the phone to Conte.
Ole is clearly the ‘yes man’ Manchester United’s owners like having. They tried the demanding manager route with van Gaal and Mourinho. Conte is another in that bracket. He would never fit with the structure at that club.

You beat me to it. Whenever anyone talks about bringing in a big name manager to United I always think that it didn't exactly work when Van Gaal or Mourinho took over. Fans didn't like their brand of football and the fact that they both won a cup or two didn't make them successful managers for United.

Ole seems to have the backing of the board and so far, the fans are backing him too.

by Guest Sat 11 Sep 2021, 4:21 pm

Some Portuguese veteran is having fun on his (second) debut.

by Guest Sat 11 Sep 2021, 5:00 pm

Manchester United 4-1 Newcastle United. Flatters the host somewhat. 2 goals for Cristiano Ronaldo.
Leicester 0-1 Manchester City. Bernardo Silva only goal.
Arsenal 1-0 Norwich City. Aubameyang gets the North Londoners first league goal and win.
Crystal Palace 3-0 Tottenham. Shocking day for Spurs.
Brentford 0-1 Brighton
Watford 0-2 Wolverhampton
Southampton 0-0 West Ham United

by Guest Sun 12 Sep 2021, 6:07 pm

Harvey Elliott seems to have suffered a severe injury against Leeds.

by Soul Requiem Sat 18 Sep 2021, 5:02 pm

The most blatant penalty and red card is overturned for seemingly no reason at all, big club bias?

by Duty281 Sat 18 Sep 2021, 5:06 pm

Sounds like a nice, controversy-free day in the Premier League.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Sat 18 Sep 2021, 7:37 pm

We suck. Like maybe Derby levels bad

by Lowlandbrit Sun 19 Sep 2021, 7:54 am

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:We suck. Like maybe Derby levels bad

Fortunately for you though there are still a lot of sides that look like they want to get involved in a relegation battle.

by Duty281 Sun 19 Sep 2021, 3:56 pm

Have to giggle at Mark Noble coming off the bench to hit an absolutely terrible penalty. Did Moyes get lessons off Southgate?

Brighton continuing a very strong start to the season by beating Leicester.

by Guest Sat 25 Sep 2021, 2:55 pm

Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. City dominated the match. Chelsea couldn’t live with them. City are the PL benchmark. Had City got a striker they’d ran away with the league.

Aston Villa beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford. Villa made United look a mediocre side. Fernándes missed an injury time penalty, which bizarrely CR7 let him take.
Solskjaer is a championship level manager. I can’t imagine any top manager ever considering Fred or McTomminay as starters for a top 4 club. Yet the Norwegian clown picks both.
Solskjaer’s management style of ‘vibes and luck’ has run out.

by Duty281 Sat 25 Sep 2021, 3:05 pm

It was a rare bit of tactical hopelessness from Tuchel, set Chelsea up way too conservatively and they paid the price. Leaves the title race well balanced early on with the three title contenders of Liverpool, City and Chelsea all on 13 points - though Liverpool have a game in hand v Brentford later today.

by Atila Sat 25 Sep 2021, 5:37 pm

Jeff Navarro wrote:Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge. City dominated the match. Chelsea couldn’t live with them. City are the PL benchmark. Had City got a striker they’d ran away with the league.

Aston Villa beat Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford. Villa made United look a mediocre side. Fernándes missed an injury time penalty, which bizarrely CR7 let him take.
Solskjaer is a championship level manager. I can’t imagine any top manager ever considering Fred or McTomminay as starters for a top 4 club. Yet the Norwegian clown picks both.
Solskjaer’s management style of ‘vibes and luck’ has run out.

Solskjaer probably picks them as starters because he feels that they are his best options. If he thought DVB was better or had other players that he thought would be better I'm sure he would pick them.

by Atila Sat 25 Sep 2021, 5:40 pm

Duty281 wrote:It was a rare bit of tactical hopelessness from Tuchel, set Chelsea up way too conservatively and they paid the price. Leaves the title race well balanced early on with the three title contenders of Liverpool, City and Chelsea all on 13 points - though Liverpool have a game in hand v Brentford later today.

Sorry, but you have forgotten Man Utd in your list of contenders. I know you don't rate them as you picked them to finish 6th or 7th last season while they finished 2nd, and this season you didn't even pick them to finish in the top 4 this season but I think they're genuine contenders.

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