OneManGang
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He’s a good player but he’s never shone to me like his price tag would suggest. But I guess that’s just the market and English tax.
Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota
TobiOT
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Brighton pretty much guaranteed Europa League football next season if they beat Southampton.
KnowledgeDropper
All Star
So Leeds vs Spurs gonna be the game of the week the final Sunday?
That's literally what Kiwior was brought in for lol so that's not happening.
IF Holding goes we may get a replacement, cause the home grown rules and Reiss/Emile might be gone its not certain he leaves.
But the more likely thing is we get a RB as we were trying to do that in Jan, and Tomiyasu can be moved into CB cover if Rob leaves.
I agree with everything else but it just seems like a ton of players I'm not sure we will do it all.
I think 100% we will get
1x RW
1x CM
1x RB
1x LB
The rest is up in the air.
thief-man babble. no one was talking about chelsea like this when mou ruled the league.
in the prem teams share the money equitably when they didn't have to. if they wanted to cement their place they would have done what madrid/barca did in spain.
also the league goes back before the prem and the "big X" have NOT always dominated.
in fact most of them have had long periods in the wilderness and most of them have been relegated - including man utd.
if you want to point the finger anywhere then you should be looking at the oligarch/state money and the champions league for creating an elite.
prior to the champions league we had forest, villa and the like feeding at the top table. also you had everton and spurs and the like.
STOP DEFENDING CROOKS
AND STOP THE A-HISTORIC BABBLE
Crooks? What are they guilty of?
You realize that all accounts are audited independently, and these premier league charges are so farcical that when UEFA was building the case they didn't include most of this because it's easy to debunk.
The issue here is independent regulation.
You say cheat so confidently, I hope you have the class to walk it back when this is all over, no matter how long it takes. Trust me, I won't forget.they are being charged over a period that ends in, i think, 2018. so not "onward" but a fixed period that has already ended.
not sure we have spoken about this but legally speaking they are not just guilty of "hiding expenditure".
morally (turpitude) and legally they are guilty of breaking the rules (in all manner of ways) more than 100 TIMES.
who is to say whether they would have broken the rules back then.
100 plus contraventions shows them doing whatever they needed to do to be top dog.
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would a man who shoots someone with a gun in 2023 not have taken a life before guns were invented.
a man who shot > 100 people?
sure he couldn't writ-large 'kill with a gun' before guns were invented but his flagrant lack of respect for lives suggests that in the right(wrong) circumstances he would used some other pre-gun type of weapon.
likewise city's lack of respect for the rules suggests that THEY WOULD HAVE ... obeyed all the rules ...?
no.
man united deserve the position they are in due to their flagrant mismanagement.
chelsea have won the most in england since 2004 and are just 1 john terry mis-kick away from being ahead of man united in champions leagues.
city meanwhile are struggling to win their first champions league.
you don't hear people complaining about chelsea winning what they have because chelsea did not break the rules like city did.
it is that simple
we are answering you because you are trying to defend the indefensible.
if you just accepted the truth of their skulduggery the conversation would be long over.
stop trying to rationalise CHEATS.
if clubs can just do what they want then what is the point of rules in football anyway?
Most of the charges the premier league came up with in their haste, were so farcical UEFA didn't include them in their case against us three years ago. City's accounts are audited independently, so an accusation on these accounts is an accusation against some of the most reputable financial institutions in the world.
The issue here is about independent regulation. The day after the FA sent these trumped up charges against City they asked the government to delay the white paper. Who is more likely the crook, the one who wants outside regulation or the one who doesn't?
I've said all this in the thread before but people are just married to the narrative of cheating, because it helps to make you feel better about how mediocre most of your clubs have gotten. And in ways I can't blame you because most media outlets (which have heavy influence from the two big red clubs) never report on this issue accurately.
And what's funny about this is we are about to play a champions league final against a club that was found to have cooked their books. But hey they won't report too much on that because Inter Milan isn't depriving Man U and Liverpool fans of the trophies they feel entitled to win.
Make Jesus play wing and get a striker.
thatrapsfan
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Bowen on a tear lately 
looking top 6 quality
looking top 6 quality
Honestly I'd upgrade gabriel as well. Not good enough
African_brehda
Superstar
TobiOT
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mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
If you asking to compete with City? Probably Aliko Dangote to buy the club like he been talking, or for Stan Kroenke to spend cash and compete.
Squad wise:
- Another right centerback/right back
- At least one number eight and could be two of ESR is gone
- A more defensive left back with top level technique—that’s not Tierney. That player doesn’t have to be Zinchenko, just comfortable enough To pass the ball well.
- a starting holding midfielder (it will never happen, but Rice and Caceido is a dream)
- a right wide attacker to push Saka and give him rest. He is burnt out.
- and I would really have Balogun compete with Gabriel Jesus. I know the club has been cool with selling Balogun, but young goal scorers are rare. If he wasn’t an Arsenal player and we were linked with him, the clubs and fans would be on some “do want!”
- lastly, Arteta gotta grow up and rotate the squad more and get better with in-game tactics. He also gotta boot out the players who quit.
Low End Derrick
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Champions of Europe, You’ll never sing that! 
Until June 10th. Maybe.
Until June 10th. Maybe.