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

[DlAMONDZ]

Don't look after yourself the more injury prone you become.

Hazard doesn't respect that League, if he did he wouldn't be stuffing his face with beer and chocolate and come in overweight and out of shape.

Oh for sure. Dude has been extremely unprofessional coming in overweight and shyt. Dude thinks he's still 25

Only silver lining here is I think he only has 1 year left on his deal. Gonna have to get rid of this bum if we wanna get Mbappe

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Oh for sure. Dude has been extremely unprofessional coming in overweight and shyt. Dude thinks he's still 25

Only silver lining here is I think he only has 1 year left on his deal. Gonna have to get rid of this bum if we wanna get Mbappe

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, he signed till 2024

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Why is manu obsessed with sancho

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I read that Atletico only want perm deal to get shot of him

 

[gho3st]

English football on the brink: Premier League weathering storm of no fans, but lower leagues are in trouble

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

English football on the brink: Premier League weathering storm of no fans, but lower leagues are in trouble

Too many professional teams as it is. And the PL and Championship teams are living well beyond their means. Lowkey, I wouldnt mind seeing an 18 team PL but that is never going to happen.

 

[MikelArteta]

Don't look after yourself the more injury prone you become.

Hazard doesn't respect that League, if he did he wouldn't be stuffing his face with beer and chocolate and come in overweight and out of shape.

those belgian chocolates and waffles though

 

[MikelArteta]

English football on the brink: Premier League weathering storm of no fans, but lower leagues are in trouble

don't know why they can't do like 30% capacity and raise ticket prices

I mean westfield mall is open and packed and that's indoor

 

[TobiOT]

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

don't know why they can't do like 30% capacity and raise ticket prices

With the retail and hospitality sectors cutting more and more jobs, less money, so raising ticket prices isnt going to help. About a third of country is either in or borderline on the brink of being locked down. Also the stupidity of human beings, they cannot be trusted to act sensible. Reason why the positive number cases continue to rise over the past 2 weeks after they flattened for a couple of months.

If the government had acted a couple of weeks earlier, when the numbers were getting high in Italy, Spain and France. And restricted who enters the UK from overseas to just British nationals/residents and people with rights to remain and give them a deadline date to be back in the country. After all it is an island? You have the advantage of not worrying about people sneaking in across the border like in mainland Europe. Could of had a smaller length of lockdown and kept the economy ticking over. People would of still lost their jobs and businesses gone out of business, but not to the level as it has done.

 

[Trajan]

Sometimes agents need to stfu. Don't need them all in the video dancing

He's already complaining DVdB isn't playing enough 2 games in at a new club in a new league

 

[phillycavsfan]

Lazio and Atalanta today

 

[TobiOT]

 

[SCORCH]

Lampard's a fukking imbecile. Chelsea finally have some modicum of depth at a couple of positions after being the shallowest, most top heavy squad in the PL top 4 for years... and he immediately loans every halfway decent player that isn't a starter out to anyone who asks. While keeping trash like Drinkwater rotting on the wage bill doing nothing. And it's not like they've haven't already had 3+ starters miss time due to injury right out the gate this season, or never had midfielders suffer injuries in the middle of the season like clockwork every damn year. Now when he inevitably runs Mount into the ground playing him ~90 minutes every game every week he'll have no one left but hobbled ass RLC to turn to (the one guy who SHOULD have been loaned out before/over anyone else ).

But then again this is the same idiot who's been playing Jorginho over Havertz and Mason fukking Mount on the goddam wings thinking that's a legit substitute for Pulisic and Ziyech, so it's not like he has any clue how to use any of the players he has on his squad to begin with.

I agree that Lampard is terrible but Barkley ain't the stick to beat him with. Barkley is brain dead and should have been let go last year. Villa is his level.

They aren't keep Drinkwater and other rubbish by choice, nobody in their right minds will go near those contracts. Clubs don't even want to pay half of Drinkwater's wages by the sound of things.

RLC is likely going out on loan and he should be. Coming off a serious injury he needs minute's he won't get regularly at Chelsea.

I think Chelsea will sign one more player (DM) and 4-2-3-1 makes the most sense for this squad.

Kante, Kovacic, Jorginho + new signing is enough for the 2 deeper positions. Plus Billy Gilmour will be back from injury before the end of the year.

For the positions ahead of them you have:

Havertz & Mount
Werner & Pulisic
Ziyech & CHO
Tammy & Giroud

Plus academy players who may see first team minutes (like Anjorin looking like he's up next).

Chelsea squad is too bloated and squad depth is meaningless if it's full of crap like Barkley.