Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

Chris Wilder was laying on his authentocrat credentials earlier by talking about how he still uses buses. Someone I used to work with who coached at Brighouse Town used to occasionally see him at the training ground there (when he was Halifax manager) and said he was a "sound guy"!

Ross Barkley is a wasteman

Imagine having basically freedom in the box at Old Traffold and deciding you can only tickle it on the only foot you can kick a ball with, the wrong foot. Wasteman.

I mean he was a Toffee

he is one of the quintessential show ponies of our age

pnevillllllllllllllle

christ if we could get cream that thick over here id not be worried about brexit

Lukaku scores four on Inter debut

I'm not sure I noticed Barkley do anything at all yesterday and if you're managing to look anonymous alongside Jorginho and Kovacic you have to really be trying.

Two shitty midfields yesterday from what I can dimly remember

Lukaku scores four on Inter debut

against a Serie D side. Found his level alright

Lol I only saw the headline, didn't read anything into it beyond the irony

In all seriousness those were probably the two worst midfields I've seen from nominally elite EPL teams. At least since the days when Fergie tried to line up with a midfield of Alan Smith and Giggs.

Only Pogba is at the level they require, Kante's late cameo notwithstanding. I'm sure Jorginho is a decent passing midfielder in the Wijnaldum vein but he needs better players around him to work properly.

One quality midfield signing and I think we'd actually be in a pretty good place. McTominay seems like he might turn out to be a semi-decent player in the Fletcher mode, to my astonishment, but with Pereira, Lingard or Fred turning out every week, we're going to get ripped to shreds regularly

it's especially galling because the defence is looking really solid now, but they're going to get no protection at all from the midfield most of the time

Never rated Fletcher tbh but I know what you mean, he's probably utile with 2 actual footballers alongside him

One for NV

“Siri, show me the definition of a well-worked set piece”

“Your search returned Temuri Ketsbaia for Wolves #OnThisDay in 2000/01”pic.twitter.com/6EwQVzz1sp

— Proper Football (@sid_lambert) August 13, 2019

Guendouzi and David Luiz in the same team is proving very distracting.

That Pépé nutmeg was hilarious. He’s going to be a nightmare to play against.

Closer look at Pepe's nutmeg pic.twitter.com/CwHp9H5R0J

— ArsenalGIF (@ArsenalGIF) August 17, 2019

rip epl was prob lucky to avoid a fatality this long since flowers to hospital house private

oh godddddd this is so awful

Yes lads, bring in the guy you signed from Man City to add some composure and quality to that central midfi-

yeah Wesley too, who are these imposters and where are the shiny Brazilian superstars i was promised

Liverpool looking sluggish again today

Newcastlol

OK that goal by Doug was gorgeous tbf

there it is

Pukki hat trick!

Adrian doing a Grobelaar

I was about to say Kariusesque

I kinda forgot that city got 98pts last season and de bruyne barely played.

Looking frwd to this one.

Saw about thirty mins of the arsenal game earlier and ceballos looked excellent

This is painful so far
lamela's defending at that corner was p risky

lol at showing that replay like eight times when it clearly should have been a penalty from the first angle

Terrible from Spurs so far.

oh look a deep cross poch out

But de bruyne blimey and Sterling's gonna have a messi season at this rate(like teemu puuke)

Basic defending to at least get a block on sterling for that goal

managed compatriate to perfection poch in

Lol P
Lamela 1-1 easy as you like

Lamela playing more centrally than eriksen from what I can tell

lush that. bad keeping tho

Walker Peters not even looking at sterling there

lush that. bad keeping tho

― wot's the tea mum? (not beef again) (DJ Mencap), Saturday, August 17, 2019 4:54 PM

Yeah he was too far off his line there.

Lol Martin Tyler . now eriksen is tenacious in the tackle but ten minutes ago he wasn't 100% committed to Spurs.

So easy. Winks just looking at kdb.

i cant understand what our centre backs are for when our full backs go out wide. they do nothing.

Square that and aguero scores