Premier League 24/25 Thread

I did laugh today. I was half heartedly cheering for City, all excited pre kick off then 90seconds later, bang, massive disappointment. Wait half an hour, City equalise, I get my hopes up again, then 90 seconds later, bang, massive disappointment again.

Get excited, only for it to end in massive disappointment 90 seconds later, the story of my life!
 
Don't get me wrong, post peak to decline Wengerball was some of the prettiest football you'll ever experience. Artetaball isn't that, but it's broadly speaking effective (with obvious lacking cutting edge from time to time). As I said above somewhere, I'd love a bit of a creative attacker, but if Arteta coaches it out of them were back to square one (which is for the most part quite effective).

I do think the coaching style is to some extent why the Martinelli we signed has disappeared to be replaced almost by the metronome Martinelli- get the ball, run the ball, get chalk on your boots, (cross ineffectively/drive to the line and get tackled/drive inside and get tackled/take a wild shot and miss/take too many touches/cross ineffectively)

Still, 2nd we are and we can still "technically" do it.

PS

**** off to all the non believers
 
I did laugh today. I was half heartedly cheering for City, all excited pre kick off then 90seconds later, bang, massive disappointment. Wait half an hour, City equalise, I get my hopes up again, then 90 seconds later, bang, massive disappointment again.

Get excited, only for it to end in massive disappointment 90 seconds later, the story of my life!
By disappointment, do you mean child? Because I'm sure ended up with two from 90 seconds work
 
Don't get me wrong, post peak to decline Wengerball was some of the prettiest football you'll ever experience. Artetaball isn't that, but it's broadly speaking effective (with obvious lacking cutting edge from time to time). As I said above somewhere, I'd love a bit of a creative attacker, but if Arteta coaches it out of them were back to square one (which is for the most part quite effective).

I do think the coaching style is to some extent why the Martinelli we signed has disappeared to be replaced almost by the metronome Martinelli- get the ball, run the ball, get chalk on your boots, (cross ineffectively/drive to the line and get tackled/drive inside and get tackled/take a wild shot and miss/take too many touches/cross ineffectively)

Still, 2nd we are and we can still "technically" do it.

PS

**** off to all the non believers
Yeah, all a very fair argument. I think that's one of the reasons Grealish isn't the player he was, Pep has coached it out of him.
Arsenal just seem to be very ….stale, is probably the best word, this season. Possibly Saka's injury is partly to blame, and it might just be me, but I've love Arteta to let them take the handbrake off.

And, I'm saying this fully aware of the fact that Pool aren't as exciting to watch as they were under Klopp.
 
Rashford to West Ham. Hope he does well as the kid clearly has (had) talent and would be a shame for him to end up as another Deli Alli. But, he does't half look bored in his signing photo!
 
He did, Edd just got his claret sides mixed up!

My money is on Rashford being the new Delli Ali or Jlinz, sadly.
 
Robbed tonight. Chelsea so lucky. Foul after foul from Caicedo and Fernandez go unpunished. Bowen gets taken out off the ball deliberately and they go and score from it. How is officiating this bad, week in, week out? Crappy deflection for the second.

That said, we were good tonight and were without 7 first team players, against a team who's bench cost more than our entire squad. Very happy with Potter- we look like a team again. Great to see Jarrod back and scoring a nice goal, too. Onwards and upwards for the non-runners!
 
Yeah that bowen foul was ridiculous, surely if they score 10 seconds after a foul it shouldn't matter where on the pitch the foul happened?
 
Agreed on the foul, and I think Potter will be a good fit at WH. They have a very decent budget and he's far from a cheque book manager but it will be interesting to see how he does with a bit more money to spend than at Brighton. His time at Chelsea was a case of no fecker could have achieved what they wanted given the shambles they were.
 
League cup semi predictions?

I think despite some world class time wasting by Newcastle, it'll end 2-2 and then Arsenal will go through after extra time or penalties.

4-2 aggregate to Liverpool in the second leg tomorrow.
 
I missed the first fifteen minutes but ehhh that was very comfortable for Newcastle. That Odegaard chance (on possibly his wrong foot) was the 'sliding doors' moment. That goes in and Arsenal win easily. Two minutes later Newcastle scored and Arsenal looked lost
 
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