West Ham have had a £57 million bid rejected by Villa for Jhon Duran. I think he would be a good one to get, but we will have to see.
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The 2024-2025 Football Thread
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I think it entirely possible that your bid may not have been the only club bidding for his signature.
As a 64 yo Nottingham Forest fan I just want to stay this is one of the greatest seasons ever second only to the Brian Clough era. Feels like the start of something massive.
That’s what Blackburn and Leicester thought! But of all the teams in the top 6 I’m routing for you!
I'm impressed that Leicester, Bournemouth, and Brentford are even still in the Prem... although it doesn't look good for Leicester ...
Indeed. Tough league. Still Man United will be occupying one of the relegation spots soon so that will help someone! 😜
Serves them right.
No sympathy here, for Manchester City (or, for that matter, for any of the state owned clubs).
PSG thrashed City; while the final score reads 4-2 (and, as @daneoni pointed out, they came from 2-0 down, all the goals scored in a scintillating second half), PSG also had a number of goals disallowed.
City now need to beat Brugge or they're done. The same Brugge Juve couldnt even score against yesterday.
City, Juve, Real have been poor and are now twisting the potential matchups for the top finishers
Bayern dismantled 3-0 despite being at full strength
It s weird turn of events.
City, Juve, Real have been poor and are now twisting the potential matchups for the top finishers
Bayern dismantled 3-0 despite being at full strength
It s weird turn of events.
Greece winning the European Championship and Leicester winning the premier league are always the two examples I use as to why with the right group of players and the right manager a team of nobodies (both teams were at the time) can beat teams that have stella players in them.
Club Brugge are on a fantastic run, 19 games unbeaten in ALL competitions and Man City will have to beat this unbeaten team to have any chance of advancing to the next stage in the champions league. When Man United had their dominance in the premier league, nearly everyone wanted them to do badly in the champions league and people were always glad when they would get knocked out at the group stages. Man City are now finding this out as well. They have gone from 'let's have City win it' to 'hope they lose at the first stage'.
Club Brugge are on a fantastic run, 19 games unbeaten in ALL competitions and Man City will have to beat this unbeaten team to have any chance of advancing to the next stage in the champions league. When Man United had their dominance in the premier league, nearly everyone wanted them to do badly in the champions league and people were always glad when they would get knocked out at the group stages. Man City are now finding this out as well. They have gone from 'let's have City win it' to 'hope they lose at the first stage'.
Come on guys spare a thought for us sad Spurs fans. Ange ball just burst!
Earlier this week tickets became available for three more EPL games and I am a preferred member so get early availability. I thought nope! Love the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium experience, the food, drink and match day excitement but I can't justify the cost of a ticket to watch that team at the moment!
Earlier this week tickets became available for three more EPL games and I am a preferred member so get early availability. I thought nope! Love the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium experience, the food, drink and match day excitement but I can't justify the cost of a ticket to watch that team at the moment!
Probably hanging on by a good run in the Europa League...
Hopefully he'll stay on long enough for Moyes to overtake them in the League... not that I particularly want to see Tottenham in real trouble, but anyone we can pass on the table is a big help at this point...
Spurs manager will not get sacked right now because even though they are in a very precarious league position they are still fighting in all 3 cup competitions, the EFL cup, the FA Cup and the Euro League. The clubs hierarchy would be foolish to sack Ange now knowing they could win any one of those cups BUT considering where they are in the league and the losses they keep racking up it would take and extremely brave decision to sack Ange now and bring in someone new knowing they have 3 cup competitions to fight for.
With that said it worked for Chelsea. They sacked Frank Lampard in the January of 2021 and replaced him with Thomas Touchel even though Chelsea was still in the FA Cup and the Champions league and in those few short months to the end of the season he got them to the final of the 2021 FA Cup losing to Leicester, got them winning the 2021 European champions league, the 2021 UEFA Super Cup and the 2021 FIFA World Club Cup. Not bad for a manager who only had 6-7 months of the 2021 season left to work with the players.
So yes it can be done if the club get the right manager in.
With that said it worked for Chelsea. They sacked Frank Lampard in the January of 2021 and replaced him with Thomas Touchel even though Chelsea was still in the FA Cup and the Champions league and in those few short months to the end of the season he got them to the final of the 2021 FA Cup losing to Leicester, got them winning the 2021 European champions league, the 2021 UEFA Super Cup and the 2021 FIFA World Club Cup. Not bad for a manager who only had 6-7 months of the 2021 season left to work with the players.
So yes it can be done if the club get the right manager in.
Bournemouth really are in serious form. All their goals today were brilliant.
Isak continues his rich vein of form.
City not afraid to go long and are finding some semblance of a rhythm. Chelsea need a keeper.
Michael Oliver is a clown, along with his buddies who enable him. Another pathetic decision which was supported by VAR...amazingly.
Isak continues his rich vein of form.
City not afraid to go long and are finding some semblance of a rhythm. Chelsea need a keeper.
Michael Oliver is a clown, along with his buddies who enable him. Another pathetic decision which was supported by VAR...amazingly.
Indeed. Against one of their relegation rivals too.
I still think it’s 3 from the bottom 4 tbh. Everton have a game in hand and a 6 point cushion. But Man U to Everton could get sucked in. Hopefully we can beat Villa shortly and increase our gap to the trap door.
While I do think that Arsenal have over-reacted - at times, hysterically over-reacted - to setbacks (such as yellow cards and red cards), and have sought to blame others for their own short-comings far too frequently this season, occasionally, just very occasionally, I find myself in agreement with their complaints.
Arsenal's victory at Wolves yesterday falls into that category, where I think the red card given to Myles Lewis-Skelly was excessive and possibly too harsh.
However, - and I write this as an Arsenal supporter - if one succumbs to the temptation to cry wolf at every set-back, then, one may not be taken terribly seriously when one has a genuine grievance.
Arsenal's victory at Wolves yesterday falls into that category, where I think the red card given to Myles Lewis-Skelly was excessive and possibly too harsh.
However, - and I write this as an Arsenal supporter - if one succumbs to the temptation to cry wolf at every set-back, then, one may not be taken terribly seriously when one has a genuine grievance.
It was harsh under current rules, but it was a deliberate act to stop him breaking away and scoring. What used to be called a professional foul.