Premier League 2021/22 (Part 2)

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Fair enough

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Which team (aside Liverpool) was the most impressive?
West Ham

Which team was the underachiever (Everton doesn’t count)?
Leicester (Man United as underachievers would be an understatement and an insult to the word underachiever)

Best young talent (aside Trent).
Dejan Kulusevski

Biggest flop (Maguire doesn’t count)?
Ralf Rangnick - Manager
Jadon Sancho - Player

Best manager (aside Klopp)
Conte

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Cunts

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(dis)Honorable Mentions:
Romelo Lukaku
Timo Werner

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Spurs did well under Conte and should be challenging for third place next season.

United, obviously, but both Leicester and the Bitters would have been expecting better finishes.

Guéhi looks class.

Sancho. Was meant to be the next big thing but has looked average at best so far. Honourable mention to Lukaku.

I like what both Vieira and Potter are doing, while Conte has Spurs moving in the right direction, but I’ll give this award to Thomas Frank.

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Man City - 168
Chelsea - 70
Man Utd - 14
Spurs - 13
Liverpool - 11.

Days spent on top of the premier league during this season.

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This season :exploding_head:

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Whoever typed it was
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  1. West Ham
  2. Man Utd
  3. Conor Gallagher
  4. Pogba
  5. Moyes
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  1. West Ham
  2. Man Utd
  3. Joe Gelhardt
  4. Lukaku
  5. Moyes
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I was thinking Gelhardt but I need to see more he does look good though

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Seen him play a few times, and he’s got that look about him that he could explode in a better team.

Having said that, I don’t watch a lot of footy outside Liverpool, so I’m not that great on players.

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What a bellend. Try that with a tiger, depraved beast.

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Never would I thought I’d see the day where Liverpool fans would vote Moyes as their manager of the season.

Has he really done better than Lage/Potter/Thomas?

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I chose Frank (Thomas not the useless one at Everton), I think the gap has been shown in teams that come up in recent years, he rode it well as achieving some very credible results.

Lage hasn’t done any better than Nuno to be honest and Brighton have stayed pretty much static for a while now I don’t quite understood Potter’s hype if I’m honest.

Westham have pushed on and did well in Europe.

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Excluding Klopp ofcourse. West Ham have genuinely done well the last two seasons under Moyes. Credit where its due

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Gelhardt is a good call as is Lukaku.

Pogba has under delivered for utd (excepting the month of december) for such a longtime that this season is pretty much par for the course

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Which team (aside Liverpool) was the most impressive?
Crystal Palace - easy to forget they were on pretty much every list for relegation this season after they released basically their entire starting XI and brought a whole new bunch of guys in. Vieira not only brought it together but made them into a good team which is now one of the most exciting squads for 22/23. The only team outside of the top 8 to finish with positive goal difference.

Which team was the underachiever (Everton doesn’t count)?
Boring answer but Man Utd. They finished 2nd - albeit more down to the injuries every other team had - and added Varane, Sancho and Ronaldo to the squad. They dropped four places and got 16 fewer points.

Best young talent (aside Trent)
Phil Foden - does it require explanation? He’s excellent.

Biggest flop (Maguire doesn’t count)?
Romelu Lukaku - supposed to fire them to the title and deemed the best striker in the world when he made the move. Predictably he has looked lost for most of the season and was booed by his own fans.

Best manager (aside Klopp)
Thomas Frank - Could have gone for Graeme Potter, Patrick Vieira or David Moyes here as well.

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For me when I watch a side who are unfashionable and comparatively underfunded, its the style of play and performances I pay attention to rather than the pure results. I think at the level they are at the difference between where they are and the next level of challenging for europe is more often a goal scorer, something beyond the ability of a top manager to deliver for a team like Brighton. Without that, but with a top manager doing really impressive work, is a side who gives everyone fits even in games in which they might not get a result. This is what I saw from Brighton this season. In all the games in which we dropped points probably other than the West Ham game, it was that Brighton one where on the balance of the performance it felt like a point earned rather than dropped points.

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