The Premier League thread

The underlying metrics for Spurs suggest they are a decent side: they create significantly more good opportunities than they concede and are a bit unlucky to only be 9th. They should comfortably finish somewhere between 4th and 6th (depending somewhat on others) just by continuing as they are. Ignore the celebration police, that is good, especially if you play entertaining football to get there.

It's just a question of whether Ange can take them any further. Probably not if he's as dogmatic as he claims in interviews and lot seems to ride on the presumption that he isn't.

Looking totally devoid of confidence and we're totally reliant on a goal in transition or out of nowhere.

I kind of get the decision to drop the two Centre Backs after Thursday in theory but in practice it's a tough one to wrap your head around as it's clearly not the way forward in terms of how ETH claims he wants to play. He's been rotating the team prior to yesterday like a manager who was winning all his games.

In theory again this is a good long term play but in reality we've no rhythm and no spark and even less so than we did at the start of the season when we were actually playing ok.

Chris Wood is the only player Haaland has overtaken for career Premier League goals who has subsequently pulled level with or gone past him.

So Man City have won the first round legal battles between it and the prem league relating to associated party transactions.

They're gonna get away with the lot, aren't they?

Sounds a bit more nuanced than that. City won on 2 counts, others dismissed. Either way, unrelated to the 115 charges this lot.

I'd like to know if City are actually intending to disprove the der Spiegel evidence or whether they will be arguing it's inadmissible as it was stolen.

The latter would be tantamount to admitting guilt. They have been loudly asserting their complete and total innocence of all charges so presumably they'll be welcoming the opportunity to explain those emails. All a misunderstanding I'm sure.

Everton just want some friends so will do whatever it can to be noticed by the cool kids.

Whoa, whoa, you’re not implying that there's something wrong with Newcastle being sponsored by a Saudi owned crypto casino are you?

They really seemed to be acting like they know the game is up and they’ll throw anything out they can to disrupt, distract and discredit.

I wouldn’t be shocked if the press started receiving ‘anonymous’ stories about the impartiality or private lives of PL execs or people on the panel soon

Plucky Man City... we didn't know!

It's classic monopolistic behaviour. Which is fitting, as that's basically what the PL is.

Jurgey's Socialist Red Bulls isn't as catchy is it.

1 of them ruined it for the rest.