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On August 30 2025 02:05 FlaShFTW wrote:
Yeah Anderson was an auto include. He's going to be very very good. Sad for Forest if he's gonna be poached next season or something by a big 6 team, because I can see it happen.
We're a club that's looking for revenue and profit, with the PSR rules changing to a % of revenue (or income I can't remember). Selling the likes of Anderson and Gibbs-White for huge profits might have to be the best we can do to keep up with the higher revenues of Villa and Newcastle. That's where we need to aim to be.
We already have Douglas Luiz and McAtee who might theoretically be able to take over from those two.
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I don't know if there's going to be some more movement with Spurs, but with Xavi Simons there and Thomas Frank running the show, I think they're the team that's going to improve the most from last season. Maybe even a top 4 contender?
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On August 30 2025 05:53 Bacillus wrote:
I don't know if there's going to be some more movement with Spurs, but with Xavi Simons there and Thomas Frank running the show, I think they're the team that's going to improve the most from last season. Maybe even a top 4 contender?
Top 4 may be tricky, but I could see them being in the mix, and 5th may be good enough for a CL place.
PSR may end up helping them a lot, teams like Newcastle or Villa have both qualified in recent years, but once they got there they were somewhat restricted in strengthening further. And those happen to be the sides I’d consider the most likely competition for a last CL slot or Europa League!
Man United haven’t exactly hit the ground running, and so far there doesn’t seem to be a real outsider candidate starting strongly a la Forest last season, but one may emerge.
It’s shaping up to be a pretty exciting season for Spurs, they’ve started well, Frank’s not taken too much time to get going, and those are some quality signings. Not just adding depth to the squad, but actual upgrades. Paulinha isn’t Pirlo with the ball but he’s a monster at the defensive side, Kudus is quality when he’s up for it, and Simons has great technical ability if he can adapt, and Spurs really needed someone to pick a lock, especially with Maddison out.
Neither Richarlison or Solanke are especially prolific, but they’re good all-round forwards, Richarlison especially works his absolute arse off every game. They don’t have to be crazy prolific if they’re an effective pivot for the likes of Kudus, Johnson, Kuluveski and now Simons to float around.
Their first-choice defence is pretty bloody good, as we saw last season quite neatly illustrate, not a huge amount of depth if van de Ven or Romero are both out especially.
As a perpetual neutral re the Prem, I’m really starting to like the look of Spurs and how they’re shaping up, might low-key root for them this season given my brother is a long-suffering Spud!
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Playing in the CL will break Spurs' chances for top4/5 imo
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Yeah, it's rough. Then again Chelsea and City are coming from the short break due to club world cup.
Interesting too see if United can recover vs Burnley. They still seemed to have a decent transfer window and looked good vs Arsenal. Burnley probably has ability to make the game miserable written in the club DNA and I'm not sure if United is in a shape where they can suffer through games and come out on top.
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Chelsea getting 15mil for Jackson from Bayern LOL - Eberl is such a loser
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bloody hell its hard to win a game
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... Like I previously said, Spurs are absolutely going to struggle this season, Xavi Simons is a total disaster of a transfer and Thomas Frank is a fraud. Could be a relegation battle.
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lol Spurs won't be relegation battle but yeah they were a bit overhyped
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Real is down 0-1 vs Mallorca at 20 minutes. Interesting to see how comfortable they're with this.
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i really dont have any affection for ten hag but sacking him after 2 games is ridiculous.
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Szoboszlai is such a monster. You can play him anywhere apart from CB and GK
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On September 01 2025 03:20 sharkie wrote:
Szoboszlai is such a monster. You can play him anywhere apart from CB and GK
I would bet 100€ that he is a better GK than Onana.
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I would not bet against you hahahah
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On August 31 2025 23:19 evilfatsh1t wrote:
i really dont have any affection for ten hag but sacking him after 2 games is ridiculous.
I don't think anything about this has been confirmed, but nobody has bothered to deny it either, so I guess there's at least serious consideration to sack Ten Hag. I don't think it's a great moment for the club or the manager.
There must be something really weird going on behind the scenes. I don't think he's expected to deliver instantly results wise since half of the team was replaced over the last two seasons.
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I think Leverkusens bosses have the weird expectation for continuing success despite all the good players gone. Not even a great coach could manage that and I would not blame Ten Hag for this.
EDIT: omg they really fired Ten Hag!
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Have their first two league games really been that bad?
Surely some sort of falling out has happened behind the scenes?
EDIT:
Looks like Donnarumma is going to Citeh, as long as Ederson agrees to go to Fenerbahce.
EDIT2:
United have agreed to sign Lammens from Royal Antwerp for £18 million plus add-ons.
Just sack Onana and Bayandir now lmao. Worthless.
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leverkusen convinced that besiktas and fenerbahce consulted with voodoo experts and joined in the man utd cleansing.
but in all seriousness leverkusen are a joke. from what i hear ten hag didnt even have a proper pre season with the first team. theres definitely some personal beef with ten hag and management.
as for uniteds gk, whos the better buy? lammens or martinez? havent seen much of lammens before but his highlights dont seem particularly extraordinary. definitely no de gea saves.
i would have been happy with martinez tbh. hes got the cockiness to play for united if nothing else
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On a purely personal level, I didn't want Martinez at the club.
But he does have proven PL quality, which is something Lammens doesn't have.
Martinez would've definitely been the safer signing.
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