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

First presser of pre-season... "This isn't my squad, none of these will play, my squad is at the Euros still."

First presser of new season... "I needed four new players, Mr Levy worked very hard to get me the zero we got. I don't know what happened with Perisic."#THFC

— Kris Voakes (@krisvoakes) November 20, 2019

Post 'Lads, it's Tottenham' on this thread when you want to post 'Lads, it's Tottenham' on another thread

wonder how much amazon slipped levy for this plot twist?

The news from THFC is utter madness.

Utter disgrace.

The worst decision re: managerial tenure / appointments that I have witnessed in over 30 years as a soccer fan.

Some people have been undermining MP and calling for him to go for some time. Though they didn't make the decision, I suppose indirectly they are part of this madness too.

Contemptible.

Tim sherwood for assistant manager?

I doubt Jose is going to be a fan of Dele

Forking over, what, £15m odd per annum for fucking Mou, tied to a 3,5 year contract (as if he'll even get to two years lol). He'll destroy two or three key players and will pull a McTominay w/ using one academy player to counter criticism. Lose out £120 on Eriksen, Alderweireld and Vertongen walking out as free agents. Sign Bale in January - another overpaid sack of dung. And this hellscape is forming nicely.

I don't even have a stake in this except for the lols, but it still feels very much surreal.

*£120m

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy, announcing Mourinho's arrival, said:

"We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room."

lol

It looks very much like the players forced him out, which sucks, but part of being a manager is maintaining / building the confidence the squad has in you. I don't think that Mourinho is going to get on better with them but the status quo was unsustainable. It's not just lack of investment. Spurs aren't only getting worse relative to everyone else. Barring a few players, almost the entire team is playing worse this year than they did last year and played worse last year than they did the year before. The regression in Alli, for example, is damning. Poch deserves huge credit for capitalising on their potential, i don't think he can avoid blame for them going backwards.

Which dressing room though? (xp)

Mourinho ffs

xp All true. Which is why Poch should've left last summer, as I've previously said on here. Would've been the best for both parties. For Spurs also because it'd give them time to actually think about a new manager who'd somewhat fit with the squad, playing style, club etc. Ie. anyone except Mourinho.

lolz

levy be reading ilxorz innit

one big plus is that this is the thing which will finally stop me reading comments underneath match reports

this is unreal

Troy's seen enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJztqX7W4AAft12.jpg

grateful

My suspicion is that Poch took the defeat to Liverpool very badly indeed and said things he shouldn't have - if that's the case then it at least makes sense. What doesn't make sense is concluding that the solution is Mourinho, which would be like pouring oil on the fire at this point.

The squad is considerably better than the one Mourinho had at United, but Poch has also outperformed Mourinho several times over the last few years on lesser resources.

only way i can make sense of jose is that he, it can be argued, has excelled with senior players who are driven to win

pochettino, who in most other situations id think a better manager, coach, person etc, seemed to stall at spurs once he had to deal with i dont wanna say grown men but say once the majority of players had a few years under their belts and gotten established.

the effect of kyle walker getting his wages doubled to win trophies by working less hard probably started the rot too. did any significant players sign a contract since?

tbrr at this point you'd be better off appointing Robert Kilroy-Silk

then there'd be two published novelists managing in the Prem

Three - have you forgotten the long-running Frankie's Magic Football series?

oh blimey good shout

That Alli pass along the touchline in the second goal was great.

This is looking very good, though I can’t imagine Pellegrini will see out the week.

Spurs now 5th at the moment

MOU4LYF

Hammers pull one back. Still about 14 minutes to go

Here we go

Stand down. Offside

Why is Bournemouth's stadium capacity so tiny?

Digging Traore's new 'do

Because they're a joke club who'll be Division 2 in 5 years time.

Love how much more composed with the ball Wolves are than say, a month ago

Bournemouth haven't gotten to the "defending" part of practice yet i see

Moutinho!!!!!!!!

Jimenez!!!!!!

The rout is on

Lol and Bournemouth down to 10

Arsenal now losing again at home to bottom of the table Saints

Holy fuck Patricio. What a save.

Really disappointing second from Wolves.

YOU'RE UP A MAN!!!

The hardest thing about being an Arsenal fan, much like being a doctor...is not to cry

good ideological work from liverpool

Silva, Pellegrini, Emery sack race is impossible to call.

Wolves at #5. wow. wouldn't have expected that months ago.

Burnley at 6!

sure as hell seemed to want to give it back to Bournemouth tho.

so Arsenal pulled out the draw?

OK Zouma

go 5th, MotD last, as per