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

speaking of which, can zaha please be sold like now

i think back in the 70s and 80s you probably saw as many LUFC shirts as Hull City shirts round these parts, a thing that feels like ancient history today.

Golovin has just gone to Monaco, which is likely to be a much better move than Chelsea or United.

poch is going to be gone before the end of the season isnt he

Is this the automatic Spurs content generating machine kicking into life because nothing else is happening?

Bad injury for Wanyama last night. And Sissoko did his hamstring so unlikely to be sold this window.

Mourinho: “Martial had a beautiful baby and it’s healthy, thank God, but he should be here now to help the team.” #MUFC

— Manchester United (@MUFCScoop) July 28, 2018

Mourinho to MUTV: 'Antonio Valencia comes from holiday, I think too much holiday for him. His condition was not good when he was back.' #mufc

— Samuel Luckhurst (@samuelluckhurst) July 29, 2018

Burn it down Jose, burn it fucking down.

xps its a pretty safe bet imo, he looked a good candidate for leaving on a high at end of last season, his new contract frankly was a surprise but came with big assurances that the business would be done early.

now its a week to go and hes announcing that michael vorm is like a new signing

as a rule im a levy fan but hes pushed it this time and for no apparent reason. maybe didnt enjoy public ultimamtum styles back in may/june idk.

In other news: shaqiri scored a bicycle kick against man u on his debut

He made some impact when he came on

Best/worst case scenario (depending just how much damage you want Mou to do): Mourinho is gone by Christmas. Who would be in line to take over?

give moyesey a second chance

as a rule im a levy fan but hes pushed it this time and for no apparent reason.

Yeah he might have some excuse if there was a massive infrastructure project taking up a lot of time, resources and attention.

I'm pretty confident we'll make a couple of signings (CF with pace and a dynamic central midfielder hopefully, a left-back in an ideal world) but it was pretty obvious we weren't going to be making any marquee signings this summer. Not sure how many players there are who are both out there and realistically obtainable who would unambiguously improve our first XI - Zaha might be one. Not selling Alderweireld and Dembele would help - I can't really see the latter going right now unless we are 100% certain there's an adequate replacement lined up.

he might have some excuse if he somehow forgot about the stadium until last week

like our lb options a lot better than our rb ones tbph

anyway, lucas!

Another option would be to move Eriksen into a more central role where he can control the game from deep, similar to what Pep did with De Bruyne. Whether he's got the physical qualities for that I dunno, but it would also enable us to play him, Son, Moura and Alli all at the same time and give us a bit of actual width that doesn't just come from the fullbacks.

fencer in the pitched battle tho

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjSUxe6XgAIllk8.jpg

worst makeup stand ever

Mourinho asked if Sanchez looks unhappy.

"Look, do you want him to be very happy with the players he has around him? We are here just to survive and to have some not very ugly results. Alexis is the only striker we have. And the poor man is there trying his best." #LFC #MUFC

— Neil Jones (@neiljonesgoal) July 28, 2018

course he will

what kind of cunt hires that cunt at this stage

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