Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

The Watkins deal has allowed me to be much more relaxed / challopy about the Big Picture because our cut of the deal amounts to our total turnover for a couple of years, meaning we can watch overspending clubs implode from a position of relative safety, for a little while at least.

I don't even get angry about big-club powergrabs. Getting to the prem was fun and getting very drunk on a chartered oldschool BR train to Wembeley was fun. But after the first few games in the bigtime and Tottenham at home was the watershed game where Wagner shit himself and abandoned his football philoshopy, everything after that has been mostly either mis-matched garbage or incompentent garbage and completely joyless. All my best memories are of playoffs or relegation battles.

Grant was always fast, with a powerful strike, poor control, and quite brainless. I can't say that I don't appreciate 2.8m worth of sell-on though!

yeah in the final third most of his play is awful, but the lad can strike a ball!

his pace is a declining assett that wasn't even that remarkable in the Champo, but he still scored goals in one of the worst ever Prem sides - albeit in defeats where his goals were usually when we were already dead. Take the money and run.

You've only signed one CAFC legend in recent years, and he's in your current squad :)

I think Sarrs in his roaming cb role could be a real assett under our current manager and could prove to be one of our really canny free transfers. We are probably taking a big hit on on selling Kongolo to Fulham for £3m (if his glass achilles pass a medical) but we just need to get the fucker off the wage bill and they are probably doomed anyway!

lol didn't mean to mistype him as a virus!

European Superleague is the biggest bogey man of all time. Never going to happen. No one wants it. Been used as a scare tactic my entire life following football.

More "meaningful" Champions League games on weekends is what they want. Less League Cup shite, less Nations League shite.

Honestly I had more fun watching the single leg Friday and Saturday CL games than I've had watching that tournament in years, Spurs improbable run to the final notwithstanding. The stakes just felt elavated, like the games deserved the bombast for once.

100%. It means less overall TV money though, so UEFA will never adopt it as a permanent thing

eh tbh i fucking love 2 leg champions league knockout ties.

that may be an lfc thing, but then again psg destroying barca then shitting themselves at the nou and roma rolling over barca were both good times. also as unfair as it is i love the jeopardy of the away goals rule esp in the 2nd leg

whole idea of a european super league doesn't interest me at all and that's coming from someone who much prefers watching champions league games over the prem

Rollerball style World Super League or gtfo

i don't care, this is class

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— Talking Wolves (@TalkingWolves) October 16, 2020

The champions league is and has always been boring as shit imo

You won't be saying that in six months

as you were chaps

Pickford is an oaf.

Hard to see how he didn’t get a yellow even if it was offside.

Watching that you have to think that Van Dijk would be one hell of a terrifying CF.

xp for the etymology p0rn:

noun
noun: oaf; plural noun: oafs
a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent.

Origin

early 17th century: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf’. The original meaning was ‘elf's child, changeling’, later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit’, generalized in the current sense.

Pickford you diabolical...

welly welly welly

Considering Adrian literally cost Liverpool the Champions League this year I'm amazed they didn't replace him in the summer.

van Dyke a "powerhorse" in the air according to Keown

just seen the pics of that Pickford foul ffs

£14.95 for Sheffield Fulham? I'll just get my wallet...

that includes a guaranteed 45 minutes in Fulham's team tbf

Thiago out to TAA into Mane is going to kill so many teams on the counter this season.

Seeing that Pickford lunge at full-speed it really is incredible he didn’t get a red, let alone avoided a yellow

Feels like a few seasons since a team signed an established world class player who went straight into the first team and unambiguously improved it. KDB to City maybe the last one.

Alisson?

For all his good looks, there's something quite Sunday morning football about James' face.

I guess you could argue about whether Bruno was "established"

Both great players but not at Thiago level when they joined.

Yeah I mean KDB was player of the year in Germany but also hadn’t been in the CL and was ‘only’ at Wolfsburg. I’d say Aubameyang definitely counts too.

Yeah he counts definitely. Thiago Silva at least in theory as well but age is against him and Lampard seems determined to make one of the best CBs of the last decade look like Gary Doherty.

I actually wasn't sure whether you were referring to Thiago or James...

game of many classy diagonals

clinical finish

If Pickford doctored photos of British soldiers committing war crimes, he wouldn’t have a platform to chat shite. https://t.co/HeKU7RZPUX

— Jack 🚩 (@CarloMagicV2) October 17, 2020

Some finish from Salah that

it was decent

not sure it merited the spluttering from McManaman

hang time from DCL

good stuff this

This is going to be a season

Think we might be about to see the classic sight of a player being stretchered off while being shown the red card.

BLITW

Another great VAR decision. Clap clap clap.

How is that possible?