Premier League 2022/23 (Part 1)

Unless ours is moved to Saturday I see it being postponed.

Considering you’ve got anyone who is anyone in the world in London and they need to be on top of it if not at kick off time but days before.

If they could switch it to Anfield then perhaps.

The FA and PL will of course take 5 days to decide this instead of acting quick to put all options on the table.

This piece is stunning. It’s something everyone probably already knew already, but to see it in a list like this, showing that 100 million for grealish is the second best deal of the lot, really drives home how badly our supposed rivals have used their money in recent years.

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Again, I lean on this as the reason why our net spend looks so low. We’re just that much better at using money.

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Problem is City and Utd and to a lesser extent Chelsea seem to be completely immune to expensive bad signings. They just continue to splash out the cash with impunity. It almost negates our superior recruiting.

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Man Utd’s financial model just makes little sense to me.

We know Man City and Chelsea are bankrolled by (or where by very rich people or states).

Man Utd have lost several commercial deals and yet still. Haven’t the foggiest who that latest company is on their shirt.

Pogba a 5/10.

bullshit

3/10 at best.

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No more than 1/10.
Could even be negative territory.

Grealish:

High: He scored on both his Champions League and home Premier League debuts for City last season, but his most memorable contribution might be his starring role in the club’s title celebrations.

Low: It must have stung to be England’s most expensive player ever, and only come off the bench in the second leg of a Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid and then see them dramatically win the tie in extra time.

Rating: 6/10

How the hell does he get 6/10? He’s done nothing at all!

4/10 would be generous especially given his price.

£100M for a cheerleader

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The Pepe 1 baffles me…because if memory serves it was between us and Arsenal to get him.

Couple years later they’re loaning out their record signing, could never imagine us doing something like that.

Mario Balotelli says Hi.

Not a record signing maybe but bought to replace Suarez. I called it a ridiculous panic signing that we would regret and got lambasted by several posters on TIA. I still remember who you are :wink:

I’m about as hard to forget as not so Super Mario’s Liverpool career.

Probably up there with Morientes as the biggest flops for talent we’ve had, hugely talented player still had his prime years ahead of him and for some reason didn’t work out.

Still remember his debut at Spurs I think it was, very good debut and I thought he was the guy to fire us back to the top.

Surely you’d feature Carroll in there somewhere?

Bought for £35M sold for £15M, pretty decent damage limitation say

I think he said out on loan. Did Carroll go on loan? Balotelli did but in any case we have not been immune to poor signings.

EDIT. Yes I see he went to WHU so yes infinitely worse than Mario

El hadge Spit.

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I believe he scored the winner.

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It was 13 games before he scored and it was indeed a winner against Spurs at home.

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Yeah I didn’t think he scored on his debut but I was sure he scored the winner against Spurs.