'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

I'd love if that was the case but I don't think the team will perform catastrophically enough to make Mourinho's position untenable

we'll limp our way to 3rd/4th playing hideous football and Woodward won't have the stones to fire him

Lol Mou Tweets. I don't know what kind of fucked up world doesn't have Eriksen as a playmaker

1st and 2nd look sewn up so you basically have Spurs, Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Wolves fighting for the remaining two CL places.

Arsenal will surely be better this year, Spurs could find themselves playing catch up after their opening away fixtures and World Cup fatigue, Chelsea are an unknown but looks like Hazard is staying and United are United. Wouldn't like to call 3rd/4th at this stage.

wait

who has second sewn up

Liverpool

lock thread

"Liverpool have 2nd sewn up: 2018/19 EPL thread"

That'll do

pls

its a stitch up one way or the other

Leicester won two years ago so nothing's nailed on but come on, they certainly look most likely to push City this year. Strengthened attack and defence, signed a non-comedy keeper and also had less players at WC than rivals

ribbing aside lfc have done good work in recruitment.

but they didnt finish second nor very close to second this year.

and im not sure that the atyle they play lends itself to sustained epl pointscoring.

"Liverpool have 2nd sewn up: 2018/19 EPL thread"

Has to be. Nailed on. Thread title, I mean, of course.

^^ yes.

Arsenal will surely be better this year,

Lol no.

re: "Liverpool have 2nd sewn up" YES, make it so

never posting here again if that's the title

I also agree that this is a good new thread title.

spurs bidding £72m for kondogbia apparently :/

balance for sissoko on right tbf

the subtleties of man management

https://i.imgur.com/K4DvdJy.jpg

spurs bidding £72m for kondogbia apparently :/

Or maybe not

'Last season I told you some numbers, but this season we don't know,' he said. 'I don't know if we are going to sign or not. We're working on that. I cannot tell you if we're going to sign one, zero or two or three or four.

'We're working. It's true that it's so close, the transfer window is so close, but the club's doing everything to help the team and add some players, more quality, and try to help us in the season to achieve what we want.'

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjbCZnNXsAAUcGu.jpg
lol! Charlie Adams having a pop at Shaqiri seems a little bit rich, to say the least.

"I consider myself to be among the cleverer" = giant neon flashing "MORAN" sign

i mean he's entirely correct about Adam but still

oh he's a tool as well, but i thought the brief character sketch has definite rings of truth!

is that real tho

i enjoyed it like

it's from the very intelligent Bellamy book, that he wrote without any help from an adult.

Nah, it's fake xp

https://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/mad-craig-bellamys-amazingly-candid-opinion-of-former-liverpool-team-mate-charlie-adam/

oops, often parodies of footballers seem more believable than the real thing to me.

how disappointing

It fooled a lot of the media at the time too calzino

ah, it did seem real!

Adams dissing Shaqiri and saying if he'd have turned up more often Stoke might have stayed, might have some truth to it, but that useless, overpaid lump isn't in a place to make such judgments imo

*stayed up*

i salute anybody who didn't have it in their heart to keep Stoke up

the joy was real even if the account was fake, amd isnt that the real lesson here

to play for stoke you need heart, lungs and offal

If Shaqiri really took it easy, knowing Stoke's relegation would trigger his relatively cheap escape clause outta that shithole, then he is already a legend!

It appears Burnley haven't signed anyone, both keepers are crocked, Dyche is apparently so focused on buying British he's considering Crouch and then there is all them useless LDV Johnstone's Paint Trophy Euro cup games! I think the Burnley project might come unstuck this season. Too insular and inbred like their fans! I never forget them photos of Burnley fans after the Wembley playoff win, looking like befuddled 18th century time travellers.

I think Burnley and Tottenham are the only two Premier League sides not to have signed anyone this transfer window *crosses fingers* so far

Pereira has done the blunder of releasing Ben Hamer, who has been so good in pre-season that some think he might start over Lossl against Chelsea, rather than just adding competition. Then they've paid £12m for Ward, who made some incredible saves in the playoff final for us, but was our weakest link over the season. He was mostly the reason we had one of the biggest negative gd's of a promoted side in ages, and was an absolute consistent liability. If Schmeichel goes in this window and he's the no.1, they are so fucked!

Do Burnley need another striker? That seems to be the one area where they have reasonable depth.

if they still have Nakhi Wells on the books I'd say they do need more depth! It looks like Dyche's hopes for this window was getting Jay Rodriguez and Craig Dawson from W Brom and they are holding out for big money. It'll probably happen on deadline day.

got burnley to go down this season

I think they will as well. I know Dyche is a bit of a cult figure on here, but I think he's a retrograde numpt!

cardiff and huddersfield are bookies favourites but half the league is vulnerable

If I had a mortgage I'd put it on the 4/6 you can get on Huddersfield staying up. There... I've completely fucked it now!

yearning for an opposite of leicester-winning-the-league and man city to inexplicably find themselves bottom in may

I reckon Huddersfield will consolidate quite nicely tbh. Watford really struggled in the second half of last season, have sold their best player and their main signing is the permanently-crocked Delofeu. I'd say they're pretty fucked.

I hope Huddersfield will play better football this season 'round. Can see Watford going down easily, like Burnley and Cardiff. And Soton. Love2c West Ham go down.