Things are going exceptionally drastically yes for Newcastle Joined. Yet is the Premier League a farce out of the reach of all but Liverpool, Medley etc?
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Has a group ever before had a worse abode window than Newcastle?
As a Newcastle devotee, I went suitable into this summer season season via so much thrill. We had a group that had introduced it can compete via the safest, but just needs some depth – and we lastly had a little piece of clearance to spend a little piece to flesh out the group.
These 5-year internet spend things are a little piece disingenuous as they negligence the correction from relegation fodder suitable into a group tinkering in Europe (ie they negligence your launching point) but we can lastly avail the chequebook out a little piece.
Instead, we’ve been outbid on fee or wages for all our targets, off industry is a perplex, we’ve in some way obtained a smaller group than we launched the summer season season via (that was already slim and via CL to come) and now our celeb demonstrator is escaping.
Nearly everything takes place from here, it’s been a disaster of a summer season season – we’ve gone so much in reverse once it was our time to leap onward. Morale have to be so low in the group – and it won’t take much to puncture that also much more at the start of the season.
Dreading it already…
James (NUFC)
Not yawping however
I wear’t truly disagree via the basic drive of Barry (Perth)’s mail in note to how a club need to expand, but I execute have top priority via his claim Newcastle followers are yawping about PSR.
In my mail the other day I declared it as a valid unsociable, once chatting about was the last 5 years what humans intended. Anyone I conversed to approximately the time of the takeover, substantially non-Toon followers, as I substantially realize Male Utd and Liverpool followers, believed that PIF would naturally come in and fiasco upwards football by doing what Chelsea did but on a much bigger scope, PSR is at the exceptionally least one of the reasons, if not the entire determinant, that hasn’t arised.
I in addition declared that I have been exceptionally confident via the last 5 years. There has been continual lump of the group powered by storekeeper fiscal investment, featuring in much more live televised arcades, and provoked commercial purchases. In agreement top half finishings, Winners League qualification 2 times in 3 years and a Cup win manifest it’s all working.
Barry says expanding the stadium, this is already at the prep work stage, but is mystifying by the place of the stadium and the bordering upraising and fabrications not had by the club. At zero point did I, or Steve, specify PSR being unjust, labeling for to be ditched (it can probably execute via a couple of tweaks, but I am zero fiscal maven) or a tool of the Red Cartel!
I love that Schar and Joelinton are still beginners, Sean Longstaff stuck approximately for 5 years and plenty of of the players that joined to aid us stay translucent of relegation are still here and hoisting their arcade year after year to avail us wherein we are now. None of that would naturally be probable the situation via a blank cheque to spend every season. I’m all for sustainable develop and steady fabrication, but it still entices once one of your safest players has their head revolved, just ask every other club unsociable from Real Madrid.
Derek from Dundalk
The Premier League is a farce
Brief article on the beeb yesterday stressing about 1.2 billion invested in this transmit abode window so much, and the usual suspects took treatment of 1 billion of that, via zero signs of shunning..
At what point execute we embrace the Premier League is a farce, designed to quench the breakaway mob and their legions of merch-wearing, telly-clapping fanboys?
What are the rest of intake here for? Cannon fodder and the infrequent rub on the head for “having a go”?
The industry is so much slanted to suit the picked couple of, is this the season wherein the rest of us start peeking elsewhere for our disturbances?
Or are we just confident to confrontation it out for 7th/8th and the semi fulfillment that carries.
Render zero pitfall, the cartel nightclubs will recur to spend quantities we can never ever before avail chummy to. Will naturally recur to qualify for Europe, and the substantial quantities of coinage coinage that buttress them untouchable. Will naturally recur to push and bend the mantras as much as dependable to “show up” compliant.
Still as long as there’s an enchanting title race for Skies to fawn over relentlessly, what implements it crisis eh?
Ian, EFC
Gyokeres has been hard League One-oomph opposition
So, Medley have their ambition erector. Or execute they?
Courtesy of the exceptionally dependable Opta Power Seniorities (a mechanism that rankings all nightclubs throughout all leagues), we can compare the nightclubs Gyokeres confronts in Portugal, to other much more familiar nightclubs in our own pyramid mechanism. Anyway, here is the Portuguese League last season, via each group’s ‘Global Seniority’.
Sporting (23)
Benfica (21)
Porto (59)
Braga (68)
Santa Clara (251)
Vitoria SC (115)
Famalicao (230)
Estoril Praia (303)
Casa Pia (337)
Morieirense (319)
Rio Ave (362)
Arouca (329)
Gil Vicente (402)
Nacional (510)
Estrela Amadora (658)
AVS (694)
Farense (893)
Boavista (767)
Currently permit’s create an holistic 18 group league via English nightclubs that are local to these positions:
Brentford (20)
Nottingham Woodland (22)
Leeds Utd (56)
Sheff Utd (66)
Leicester Municipal (124)
Portsmouth (234)
Derby Area (250)
Stir Municipal (262)
Charlton (273)
Watford (275)
Oxford Utd (284)
Stockport Area (371)
Leyton Orient (427)
Wycombe Vagabonds (471)
Bolton Vagabonds (655)
Lincoln Municipal (670)
Barnsley (773)
Huddersfield Location (890)
The example above is to emphasize 2 things: (1) Whilst Sporting are plainly a bigger club than Coventry, it accentuates that escaping Coventry in the Championship for Sporting in the Portuguese top trip doesn’t necessarily place you in a much more competitive league setting. (2) The difference in trait between the bigger nightclubs in the Portuguese top trip and the other nightclubs that render upwards the department. This is not an “anyone can vanquished anyone” competitive league.
37 of the 39 league purposes Gyokeres racked upwards last season were versus staffs that ended up fifth or low. He juggled zero purposes versus either Benfica or Porto and 2 versus 4th slumped Braga. 13 of his purposes came versus the underpinning 4 (League One extent) and that accounts for a 3rd of his entire league unshortened. Are you soliciting level-track bully vibes? Performs this provable support a gamer that can be the disagreement erector in a Winners League Quarter Final for example?
There is a determinant that ambition scorers in the Portuguese League hardly ever before be effective in the “supplementary-sizable five” leagues and it is because the responses upwards is substantial. Jackson Martinez won the Gold Boot three years dashing and after that flopped substantially once he shifted to Atletico Madrid. Bachelor’s extent Dost lasted a season at Eintract Frankfurt before returning to leagues outdoor the “supplementary-sizable five”. Nunez hasn’t performed enough to be a invariant starter at Liverpool because he joined three season recommend and it would naturally show up Port is eager to position him a brand name-new club. Mehdi Taremi has been appalling because signing upwards via Inter at the start of last season.
I would naturally love for Gyokeres to be effective at Medley and I truly hope he implements, but I’m not sure he will. I think he can have a indistinguishable motivate as Pepe. Reasonable statistics (probably padded out versus smaller brutes and mug arcades), and some nice moments, but inevitably a gamer that just doesn’t quite show up to incorporate efficiently and match the techie criteria of the players approximately him; and a gamer that doesn’t have the opportunity to motivate supplementary-sizable suits.
Naz, Gooner
(Erm, he did score a hat-secret versus Manchester Municipal last season – Ed)
Gravenberch a winger? Truly?
Anyone else position Minty’s mail about Gravenberch a little piece embarrassing? For a so termed Liverpool devotee, why implements he think Port switched him from a winger to a deep midfielder. For beginners, Gravenberch has played out wide 4 times in his entire job and I wear’t think any type of of those were at Liverpool. He was quite evidently landed as a CM and that’s wherein he played under Klopp before Port came in. You can’t truly have a go at Dave Tickner if you’re envisioning things and contrasting it to Henry matching from a winger to a demonstrator.
Dion, Medley
Chloe Kelly the the majority of flamboyant England gamer ever before?
I think there is now a steadfast disagreement that Chloe Kelly is the highest dependable England footballer in history, in terms of exploits in an England t-shirt. She has:
- Won 2 international trophies (zero one has won much more)
- Scored the victor in one Euros final
- Scored the enchanting penalty in another Euros final
- Rendered the assist for the singular England ambition in a Euros final
- Scored the victor in a Euros semi final
- Rendered 1.5 help in a Euros quarter final to carry England recommend from 2-0 down (and racked upwards a penalty in the shootout to win it)
- Scored the enchanting penalty in the 2023 Finalissima.
You can naturally render an disagreement about some of the chaps from 1966, but none of them won 2 international trophies…
Paul, London, Medley (she’s in addition the winner of Europe!)
The way of examining of victors
For the first time we have an England group that intends to win, they aim to position a way to avail via. Succeeding European Championships via a Earth Cup Final in between is substantial. They wear’t go suitable into anything hoping, or affirming they are one of the staffs that can go much… they aim to win.
Heart and willingness united via strategies and ability. It is a hell of a system. Lucy Bronze is the definition of Hall of Famer. Jess Carter was a hill. Hannah Hampton’s handwear covers need to be reviewed for magnets – to preserve fines from the safest gamer in the WSL and after that the safest gamer in the planet recommend to recommend… wow. I feel for Lauren James, I truly execute, but she wasn’t suit and Chloe Kelly was suitable there.
I was foreordained, nah, yard that, I was seated upwards enough to avail passports for the 2022 final and took my 12 year ratty daughter and my 72 year ratty papa to Wembley on that remarkable day. Yesterday was plenty of as it was my (now 15 year ratty) daughter and me watching at abode. This sounds much more substantial than it is, my papa is okay he was watching at abode also, we just wear’t live chummy with each other. It conferred a plenty of fiasco, but not a plenty of sensation. We also did the same fun. We in addition ‘proceeded to be’ and trailed until the TV service service providers conferred out… and after that I rewound and trailed the fines almost everywhere again.
What a tournament, what a group, what a sport. I am off to the Ringwood Municipal Hub for AFC Bournemouth v Portsmouth on Wednesday. 7pm kick off, why not icon upwards via us? Girls’s football isn’t just every pair of years in the summer season season it is all approximately you.
Micki Attridge (zero way, not dirt in my eye, ideal real rips)
The greater sweet?
Commendable result for the England’s ladies group. Altogether pricey to win 2 Euros!!
I’ve learnt that Lucy Bronze was tinkering via a fractured leg via the tournament. If heeded so plenty of chits chatting about pride, warmth, effectiveness…
We saw the same once Rishad Pant came out to bat via a injured foot and Ben Feeds bowling via God realises how plenty of injuries.
While cricket is a plenty of situation as zero replacements are permitted to bat/bowl (silly idea IMO, but I realise why it’s there), in Lucy Bronze’s situation, she launched the final via the fractured leg.
I have a inquiry. And it is a inquiry cos I have zero inkling about the trait of her deputy. Yet undeniably a totally suit suitable recommend is more detailed than a man tinkering via an real fractured leg? They virtually took a opportunity that both her and Lauren James would naturally be able to last at the exceptionally least 90 minutes while demonstrably not at their safest.
So, my inquiry, what is via this admiring of players in group sporting vacancies “doing it for the group” once a totally suit gamer undeniably has to be more detailed than a injured one? Clearly the opportunity of enchanting as a group is more detailed once everyone has a working figure at the exceptionally least?
Trustworthy inquiry – and is this a British point, or is it the same in other countries?
Rob, Hove
Male pre-empts feminist responses
Ryan Baldi asks “What can males learn from England’s ladies?” And ends “Altogether yard all; it’s not about them”.
Yet evidently England’s ladies’s triumph at Euro 2025 will be rendered about males. Merely as their triumph three years recommend at Euro 2022 was wherein comfortably parallels were tempted via the males’s England group that have constantly stopped working at prearranged tournaments and have not lifted a trophy because that iconic afternoon at Wembley at 1966.
Feminists that hardly ever before introduced any type of zest in football were fast to intake the England ladies’s triumph to laugh at males for underachieving and enchanting altogether nothing. And there were those fast to point out the noticeable dynamic nature of ladies’s football (tolerance FOR LGBT etc) and to compare it to the noticeable bigoted, in reverse and neanderthal males’s arcade. All this will zero shame be thieving venue again article the Lionesses Euro 2025 win, thereby making a triumph for ladies all about males.
Dan, London
After that there’s this fella..
Nobody cares about womens football
Placement us a f**emperor respite.
Martin Mason
