The College Dropout

I cant agree with this, Chelsea have an amazing squad and have already signed Hazards replacement in Christian Pulisic, Zouma will replace the outgoing Cahill, If Lampard goes there and they dont finish top 4 with a good run in the Champions league and the cups its a massive failure Replacing Hazard with Pulisic is a downgrade. Cahill wasn't getting in the first team anyway. Pretty confident Lampard will fail and i'll love it.

PSG. Don't think de Gea is rated that highly in Spain. Has lost his place to Kepa now for them I could see him going to PSG. They are the only big team that probably need a good goalkeeper. Maybe Bayern I guess depending on how ruthless they want to be with Neuer and his recent decline/injury history. Juventus as well, how's Szczęsny doing? Sign Ronaldo but have wor Szczęsny in goal, makes no sense. Don't think Szczęsny, Can or Ramsey are good enough for their ambitions.

Messi and Ronaldo have changed perceptions of what a top player is. Think Zidane, Figo, Iniesta, Nedved, Rui Costa etc. didn’t score loads but were considered the very best. Hazards a top player.

Saw somewhere that it actually results in less goals overall. I can see that.

I would like us to actually win one tbh

In today’s game I reckon he would play more centrally.

He’s been poor. Think Man City need proper first team competition for the fullback positions. Both Mendy and Walker are talented but shouldn’t be comfortable #1s.

Such a graceful player. Slightly under rated based on last season. Ability wise he’s right up there with the best this league has had to offer

Football is slowly turning into having a career at the most 'glamorous' places/best money - as opposed to the teams with the best sporting prospects/money. In a worldwide talent pool, that’s always going to happen to some degree. All else being equal location is a defining factor in any job.

Thanks and best of luck fella.

Terrible final.

Boy Arsenal have been shit

He also said it wasn't going to happen

Don't think he's said loads wrong to be fair. Surely just playing hard boil. Madrid are trying to force him out but they know salary is a major issue. Bale is just making sure he’s paid in full when he does leave. He’s entitled to every last penny. I can see Madrid subsidising his wages at any new club.

Spurs probably pay the 6th highest in salary. Therefore 4th is good going. The 2 clubs that pay more than them that they’re above are run poorly though.

At 1-1 I said they would bottle it. In the stroke of half time. Nerves set in. And they aren’t actually better than Derby ability wise. Probably really inferior. Then the pressure and expectations kick in. Fair play to Leeds fans. Excellent throughout.

Leeds willl bottle this.

No, Leeds. Leeds please. feel like we had a good record at Elland Road. Don't like Villa (or Leeds) but those are clubs that should have good ambition at this level after a few seasons. I like how they've been run. I like their style. But can't see Bournemouth ever feeling maybe they should challenge for Europe. The other 2, if they get their acts together could be something.

Ended up with red arrows in the last week. Top 200k overall barely. Top 50 in N-O league, should've finished in the top 40 which would've been good. Lots of lessons learned this season so my aim next season is to just improve. Until GW 35 or something I didn't take more than 2 hits in the entire season. On reflection, my biggest mistakes was taking out quality players due to patches of bad form or being swayed by the good form of others. Examples, I was early on Laporte when he was worth 5.2 or something but dropped him during the 6 game no cleansheets run. That was never going to last, they would get back to CS for that money never worth taking out. Likewise, Deulofeu playing upfront as a in-game midfielder with good Xg - took him out the week of his hat-trick. I thought at the start of this season Mane and Sterling would excel. Next season, i'm going early with Ings / Southampton attackers. Low value but they will score goals next season. Brooks. Missed loads of games. First season in PL. Fancy him to be good value.

Goodbye sweet prince. Deserves a better club anyway. In terms of who is running it.

I think overall wage bill is a better metric regarding where a team should finish and how well a manager is doing. Net spend is hugely defined by how much teams receive from outgoing transfers. LFC have the worlds most expensive GK and CB because they received what? The 3rd biggest transfer fee of all-time for a player that isn't close to being the third world best in the world. I'm confident that Wolves and West Ham have a significantly higher wage bill than Brighton. Spurs, Watford, LFC, Soton and Leicester too. Interestingly, Liverpool have the highest second wage bill in the league. Higher than City's https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8386507/liverpool-man-city-prem-wage-bill/

I think for Brighton they look at us. Probably invested less but there’s a clear gap between us. We have a manager with a higher ceiling. A relegation battle looks Hughtons level.

Any football club is only as good as it’s ownerships abilities and ambition. Liverpool and Spurs are the best run teams in the league and it shows. Under Levy it’s been 15 or so years of progress.

It’s tough on Hughton but that team is stagnating. He’s not shown he can make a mistake PL team. Some awful transfers too. He’s no track record of being able to maintain mid table like a Hughes. This is one of those that could go either way for Brighton. Could easily sink or they properly become a mid table side. As for Man Utd. problems bigger than a manager. LVG laid some decent ground work for a young side. Then went opposite end of the spectrum with Mourinho who wants 27 year old players all the time. Undoing a lot of LVGs work without allowing him to build a solid foundation of his own. Awful in the transfer market for some time. It’s been years since Liverpool made a bad signing.

I thought he wasn’t good enough a PL footballer. I was wrong. He can physically dominate opposition.