Premier League 2022/23 (Part 1)

Money rules :confused: Their squad is sick :frowning:

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I think we are pretty well matched just this season hasn’t been for us for a number of reasons.

We can beat them any day of the week. Over the course of a season, however, they get more decisions their way than we do.

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Not just decisions, mate. At least this season. I have seen us lose and drop points to a bit too many teams this season and it hasn’t been undeserved losses most of them.
Honestly, we have yet to find consistent “top form” this season over a period of games. There have been many false dawns, then followed by disappointments. I have high hopes for the New Year though.

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This season, yes.

But look at the bigger picture: we have been robbed of three titles in the last decade by pro-Man City (or, more accurately, anti-Liverpool) officials.

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Maybe. I know what you think about referee bias and I respect your opinion, but I am not so sure it is scientific and objective myself. I don’t want to discuss that now though, and would rather talk about that on some very unspecified day in the future. Still in festive mood (just came home from Oslo today, where I and my mother celebrated Christmas) :sunglasses:

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Haha, fantastisk bra ! Lille blomst er ein klisjù, “hvordan har du det min drue” var ny (og enda verre, lol).
PĂ„ tide Ă„ lĂŠre norsk-setningar som ikkje berre er piss ? :smiley:

Nah, but seriously, you had me amused there for a few seconds :wink:

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I am also making it very difficult for you because I insist on writing nynorsk and not bokmĂ„l (I obviously know how to write bokmĂ„l, but I don’t like to write Danish when I can write a Norwegian language), so some words will be spelled differently to what you are probably used to (judging from the sentences you wrote, which are in bokmĂ„l). Not that I wrote many words in nynorsk when I come to think of it, as I was mostly just repeating what you said :wink:

If you are a bit interested, then this would be very accessable for you:

His pronounciation is pretty damn American on some words by the way, but he explains well in English, making it accessable.

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I disagree. We can be poor and still win a match, but with refereeing against us that won’t happen.

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Top 6 number of major titles/medals through the whole first team squad’s playing careers so far:

Liverpool 161
City 133
Chelsea 120
United 87
Tottenham 62
Arsenal 59

:slightly_smiling_face:

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They signed like 15 players and still want to ‘change’ the squad. Joke of a club.

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If I recall correctly, I think he admitted after they securred promotion at it was probably a season early for them and that the squad was not ready for the P/L.

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nothing came up in the quick google search, but let me dig around a bit to see if I can find it

Buying lots of players doesnt really improve the odds of staying up though (especially if the signings are not that good).

I can’t remember the stats, but it is something like two thirds of teams promoted to the Prem go straight back down. Might be even higher.

So against that back drop, the promoted team has to try to do something. Some see themselves as yo-yoing a couple of times and hopefully getting incrementally stronger until they get a foothold. Others try to roll the dice and go as big as they can, as the stakes are so high.

Good luck to Nottingham Forest. I’m old enough to remember singing as a kid, to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory, “We hate Nottingham Forest
”

I want them in the Prem. They will probably go straight back down, but I hope they come up again and get a foothold.

Maybe as a yardstick, Steve Cooper as a club manager, in getting Nottingham Forest back into the PL in such a short time, has been more successful than Southgate ever was in anything he attempted as a club manager - and look how he made good eh
 Still plenty of games to get points from this season and I for one hope Cooper, for being an ex-employee of LFC alone, keeps them up
 Not bothered anymore how shit their fans are toward us because they are no better or worse than every other club in the league

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They needed a lot of new players because of the situation entering into last summer.

Did I think they would sign this much? No.

But also, I was quite positively surprised, a lot of them made sense to me. Not bad for a club that wasn’t even counting on such quick promotion.

They pulled off some shrewd signings, a mixture of everything.

Still, it’s very unusual, rare and ultimately a hard job finding the right cohesion in a short space of time to survive in this league.

Also, I remember worse sides than them in this league, wouldn’t completely write them off.

Crazy that they didn’t at least loan their best player from the previous season.

As long as going down doesn’t particularly leave them financially fucked they will be fine, I have a feeling they have to get back up though within that parachute period. I think Bournemouth were walking a tightrope regarding that.

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Sutton’s reprediction.