2025/26 Premier League & General Football Discussion

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Now THAT'S why you send the keeper up in the 98th minute!
Jose dancing down the touchline again :lol:
 
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Spurs sack Frank after home defeat to mid-table Newcastle:

www.bbc.co.uk

Thomas Frank: Tottenham sack head coach after eight months in charge

Tottenham sack Thomas Frank as head coach after a run of only two wins in 17 Premier League matches.
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Forest sack Dyche after 0-0 draw with extremely bottom side Wolves:

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Sean Dyche sacked: Nottingham Forest in talks with Vitor Pereira to take over

Nottingham Forest sack Sean Dyche as head coach after just 114 days in charge, with former Wolves boss Vitor Pereira in talks to replace him.
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Man who lives in Monaco and owns English team that provides no English players to the England squad, paying overseas players millions each month to take positions formerly occupied by its own academy players, says England has been "colonised by immigrants":

news.sky.com

'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
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If he can't tell the difference between 58m and 67m no wonder United's transfer budget sucks.
 
Ratcliffe's comments yesterday were horrendous and tone deaf, he already had a bad reputation and was unpopular at United and now it just got worse, the 'apology' statement he has just put out was arguably just as bad.

As for the sackings I think Frank's was deserved but Dyche needed more time.
 
Famine
Man who lives in Monaco and owns English team that provides no English players to the England squad, paying overseas players millions each month to take positions formerly occupied by its own academy players, says England has been "colonised by immigrants":

If he can't tell the difference between 58m and 67m no wonder United's transfer budget sucks.
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The guy is quickly becoming Britain's very own Elon Musk.
 
MUSC4EVER
Ratcliffe's comments yesterday were horrendous and tone deaf, he already had a bad reputation and was unpopular at United and now it just got worse, the 'apology' statement he has just put out was arguably just as bad.

As for the sackings I think Frank's was deserved but Dyche needed more time.
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While I don't subscribe to the "he's doing a terrible job with United" mantra that many fans do, his comments here were pretty damn clumsy to say the least. His point behind the badly chosen words and incorrect numbers is his right to have, and fine, people can agree or disagree with him at their leisure. But he really should have made his point better, it really wont do him any favours with the United fan base.
 
A 2-1 defeat in the steel city derby today confirms what most Sheff Wed fans knew was going to happen, relegation to league one. Whilst Sheffield United I'm sure will float that their result has sealed it, Wednesday were as good as down in August anyway.

Although unfortunate circumstances played a part, Sheffield Wednesday go into the history books for the wrong reasons with the earliest relegation in the history of the football league, with 13 games still to play.
 
MagpieRacer
A 2-1 defeat in the steel city derby today confirms what most Sheff Wed fans knew was going to happen, relegation to league one. Whilst Sheffield United I'm sure will float that their result has sealed it, Wednesday were as good as down in August anyway.

Although unfortunate circumstances played a part, Sheffield Wednesday go into the history books for the wrong reasons with the earliest relegation in the history of the football league, with 13 games still to play.
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Not Listening Dumb And Dumber GIF
 
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"What do you mean this isn't the Premiership? Do you know who I am?"

Marching off together..
 
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Apropos of the above, I just checked and every current player we've ever paid a transfer fee for comes to £3.4m, while our annual wage bill is about £11m, for a total of £14.5m cost of the current squad.

The oinkers have paid more than that in a transfer fee for a single player SIX TIMES, and one of those - Gustavo Hamer - played in today's match. Bamford and Phillips combined earn slightly more than half what our whole squad does.

Still we only lost somehow 2-1...

Pedersen isn't exactly on the same miracle scale as Rohl, but given how little he has to work with maybe he... should be?

Course some "fans" will just look at the results, which is about as dense as it gets.
 
The Tudor reformation of Spurs got off to a rocky start with a 4-1 loss to Arsenal, as Eze notched his first goals since...his hat-trick in the last North London Derby. This result was a shot in the arm for Arsenal, the trouble is coping with the pressure for at least the next 15 (and even that's assuming we get knocked out in both the FA Cup and Champions League) games. :nervous:
 
Its 10 massive games in the league for Spurs, they seem so low in confidence and short of ideas but they have players to come back and winnable games to come as well, Tudor has a big job on his hands to turn it around and it does seem unbelievable that they could go down, it also seems unbelievable that they managed to qualify in the top 8 of the Champions League when they have been so bad in the league.

@Famine what's the latest with Wednesday's takeover? I haven't heard anything for ages.
 
DK
The Tudor reformation of Spurs got off to a rocky start with a 4-1 loss to Arsenal, as Eze notched his first goals since...his hat-trick in the last North London Derby. This result was a shot in the arm for Arsenal, the trouble is coping with the pressure for at least the next 15 (and even that's assuming we get knocked out in both the FA Cup and Champions League) games. :nervous:
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I think that game was something of a "free hit" as no one would have expected anything but Spurs to lose, as they did. They have much more significant league games ahead.

However, the other teams at the bottom seem to all be picking up points here and there so Spurs need to at least start getting draws and build from there.

Otherwise this Tudor might go like some of the previous ones...

Also, make sure you get the pronunciation of his name correct...




Arsenal's problem, to me, is being still involved in everything. Their rivals are serial winners and will put pressure on I every competition. It's definitely the case that once you get in the habit of winning trophies it gets easier to keep winning them, at least for a while.
 
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MUSC4EVER
@Famine what's the latest with Wednesday's takeover? I haven't heard anything for ages.
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Not wholly sure. I do know that they had their preferred bidder picked, but I've no idea who they are (aside from knowing their names, so technically I do have an idea but nothing more) and it's just the usual EFL heel-dragging that they call "due diligence" but which is - as it always is with the EFL - just braindead knife-twisting.

Still waiting for Villa's penalty for doing the same thing we did when the EFL relegated us last time. Kim Jong Tuna was and is undoubtedly an incompetent crook and a thoroughly unpleasant person, but the EFL hasn't been fit for purpose for 20 years.
 
The Carrick magic continues at Man Utd. Good goal to win it as well. Wasn't a good game but 4th in the Premiership is 4th in the Premiership.
 
Good/bad is they have spent to keep the club going and another group is still interested so...
 
The issue is that wont it drag the process on though? I mean ideally you'd want a takeover to be complete by the summer.
 
MUSC4EVER
The issue is that wont it drag the process on though? I mean ideally you'd want a takeover to be complete by the summer.
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Likely.

It also creates another creditor to be dealing with, unless the consortium writes off its money already lent to the club.
 
I hate to dunk on Famine's club but a poker player looking at the flop and then folding is... something.
 
sirjim73
It also creates another creditor to be dealing with, unless the consortium writes off its money already lent to the club.
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It wasn't loaned. The payments were required funding, and not refundable.
Liquid
I hate to dunk on Famine's club but a poker player looking at the flop and then folding is... something.
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A lot of fans did have qualms over two of the three, especially given our experiences with the Chancer.

Glad he didn't turn up and sell us down the river.
 
Absolutely robbed of a first home win of the season. We've had some suspiciously bad officials before but Jesus...

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Meanwhile new preferred bidder Storch was at Hillsborough last night:


Interestingly the offer could result in us starting 2026-2027 on -15 (as it doesn't meet the conditions for exiting administration; repaying creditors 25p/£, and one of those creditors is Chan****ingsiri) and either way we'll still be under a recruitment embargo and a £7k/wk wage cap.

Mike Ashley allegedly waiting in the wings, and another party from the US claimed to be coming in too.
 

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