English Football Thread 2013/14

Who will win the Premiership?


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What a weird one for Rooney. Firstly he should've gone in the first half, then he scores the goal, then he blows winning the game by trying to set up Welbeck when he had a golden chance to just knock it past the keeper. Still, we didn't play well enough to win that game.

Seven points behind Arsenal again now. Rooney... :facepalm
 
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You would have thought Spurs big, talented squad they got from selling Bale would make them super strong. But its seems that they have too much players for one position and ABV just aint getting them to play to potential.

They are very comparable to City & even if they gonna lost @ Ethiad, 6-0 with the talent in their squad is unacceptable really.
 
Ha maybe. But you seeing the cracks.

They got Lennon, Towsend & Lamela as right wingers. Gilfy/Chandli/Holtby as left wing/mid-fielder options. Ericksen/Holty to play the hole behind the striker. Paulinho/Sandro/Dembele/Capoue as central mid-fielders.

Vertonghen unhappy play left-back while Danny Rose is out. Brad Fridel probably still pissed he not 1st choice gaolie. Kaboul now back from injury to give more confusing competition for the center halves. 3 strikers Soldado/Defoe/Adebayor who ain't happy unless they playing every week.

Talk about squad depth, but that's too many quality players who would be 1st team regulars at many good clubs on the bench.
 
None of their signings actually turned out being any good except for Paulinho. Eriksen had one good game. Lamela was good for one game against some team called Sherriff or something. Sigurdsson though not recently signed is poor, he is a Swansea level player. Chadli and Holtby simply aren't good enough. Townsend is terrible, does more harm than good for them with all his nothing shots and selfishness. Worst of all is Soldado though, I'm not sure what the guy can do. Absolutely nothing player.

They look good at CM but need to field a constant partnership, someone with Paulinho. Rotation just isn't working, I think they can just keep Sandro or Capoue there though that is quite a defensive midfield.

They are showing relegation form, 9 goals scored is the same as West Ham. West Ham have no striker, or worse, Maiga. That's how poor they are, plus around half of their goals were Soldado penalties anyway which makes it even worse, realistically they've scored less than the lowest-scoring team in the league Crystal Palace with 7.

If they keep this form up which is entirely possible as they simply lack creativity and a good striker, they will struggle to make mid-table. Mid-table is where they find themselves now and they are on the way down for sure.
 
that was my worry for tottenham, it was hard to single anyone out because on the face of it most of them, lamela and eriksen in particular, do look good players, but tottenham, after selling bale went on a spending spree that echoed the first seasons of man city, chelsea, psg etc as mega-money clubs.

in all those cases big name players were bought that were available and had a very poor return for the money. robinho, veron, glen johnson, milner, gameiro, pastore, menez, Jo, santa cruz, mutu, damien duff are all examples of players that went for big money (I think, not so sure about the PSG ones) and then totally under-whelmed. the upshot for those clubs was that those players boosted the profile of the club and through continued spending they were able to eventually land on real world class players, like Silva, kompany, essien or Drogba etc. but they there was usually just one or two of them for every five or six useless signings.

I couldn't have singleded out which guys would be poor but by looking at past history did sort of expect most them to turn out to be wastes of money, and tottenham don't have the spending power to keep doing the same thing every season to dig up new world class players.

in short, they're screwed.
 
Kompany was picked up before the Sugardaddies arrived, he was your typical risky player like Modric that people though could be great but will probably flop.

I agree, they are screwed. Serves them right though as they didn't deserve so much for Bale.

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Soldado's heat map in the City game, look at the number of times he kicked off:lol.
 
We are becoming more defensive day by day Moyes :facepalm
 
Because we were leading by 5 goals and yes i don't have a problem with Moyes
 
We become defensive in the last 5 minutes only
 
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Depressing how quickly everyone has turned on Spurs. This was always a transition season. We were doing things right. Building a really solid base. Controlling possession. Dominating games.

The linkup play is missing, but that's to be expected when every attacking combination are new to each other. With teams sitting back it'll take time to start playing with real cohesion. The sort of fluid linkup that in tight spaces creates chances. There are the odd promising moment, but if they keep their heads and keep going about things as they are it'll start to see the goals added to the control. If you're not conceding, you're having 65% possession and you start finding the final pass the results will look after themselves.

Chances are though that the media will start to really build the story of Tottenham in crisis to the point where it has the potential to become a self-fufilling prophecy.
 
People haven't just quickly turned on spurs because they got beat 6-0.

all season long people have been criticising them all season. it's magnified because the one area they were killing it in messed up, 3 at home to west ham, 6 in a match.

it's not particularly fair criticism, for most of the reasons you said. but saying people have suddenly turned on spurs is almost as lazy as the spurs over the top criticism.
 

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