Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[King Theo]

Sport as a whole has become too drilled and has become more about being spoon fed what the science and data tells you. Than the harnessing, development of the talent and what you see with your own eyes.

i completely agree with this. sometimes its hard to talk about sports (football basketball etc) because they wanna talk about the data or stats etc rather than the things my eyes capture which i cant put into numbers sometimes. and @Montez is right we've lost greate defenders and NO 10's etc im not sure of the reason but we simply dont have it.

now when it comes to pep teams i think they are wonderful to watch given the right team they play against. but most want to park the bus so then at that point they are too drilled and it has to become work to watch sometimes and thats comin from a city fan but maybe im a bit bias.

we just need these other clubs to stop making awful decisions to compete more.

i woudl ask tho how do we fix the PL to be more competative outside of no league cup and less international games. because i htink 8-16 is competitive and 3-8 is competitive but there is a huge gap currently at the top. i also want the same energy kept for liverpool that was there the last to season with city from the media about how they dominate is bad for the sport.

 

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

There’s only two players that u could replace Pogba with that would’ve made a difference over the last 4-5 years.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Salah put Minamino on man

 

[mastermind]

i woudl ask tho how do we fix the PL to be more competative outside of no league cup and less international games. because i htink 8-16 is competitive and 3-8 is competitive but there is a huge gap currently at the top. i also want the same energy kept for liverpool that was there the last to season with city from the media about how they dominate is bad for the sport

My thing is not the competitiveness of the league, it’s the quality. shyt is super dull now, and that’s not just the premier league. Like you and @Montez said, the lack of variance in styles clubs is making all sports less appealing.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Come on it was coming tbh

 

[Jean toomer]

Traore most dangerous man in the league right now. #cantguardadama

 

[Dushane Hill]

Traore is causing Liverpool all kinds of problems. He'll be playing for a top flight club in a couple of seasons.

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Fab needs to come on now, lost all control of this match

 

[Roberto Firmino]

Adama wanted no part of Big Virgil there

 

[bigdaddy88]

a draw to wolves aint the worse thing in the world...hopefully origi can nick one

 

[Hoodoo Child]

Patience

 

[bigdaddy88]

bobby!!!!

 

[ynwa25]

nikkas praying for our downfall......it’s never over

 

[phcitywarrior]

It's crazy how Traore went from speed with no end product to racking up the goals and assists.

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

My boy Jimenez already cemented as a club legend