General Premier League Thread - 2016/2017

Dirty Dingus McGee

Why is West Ham's stadium not called the Olympic stadium or the London Olympic Stadium?

Charizard

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Why is West Ham's stadium not called the Olympic stadium or the London Olympic Stadium?

What is it called?

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Amartey is no Kante, hope leicester can find another gem in that mould, they will need to.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Charizard wrote: »

What is it called?

London Stadium.

Paully D

I wonder if Pulis will last much longer at West Brom?

He had a blast at the chairman in his press conference the other day and they are clearly at odds due to what happened in the transfer market. The fans don't seem to like him either and were chanting about his standard of football when they went 1-0 down at Bournemouth.

Pulis himself has proven that he will have no qualms about walking if he's not happy either.

CSF

Paully D wrote: »

I wonder if Pulis will last much longer at West Brom?

He had a blast at the chairman in his press conference the other day and they are clearly at odds due to what happened in the transfer market. The fans don't seem to like him either and were chanting about his standard of football when they went 1-0 down at Bournemouth.

Pulis himself has proven that he will have no qualms about walking if he's not happy either.

Yeah it seems like only a matter of time. Wonder what his relationship is like with the players.

kevthegaff

Not good from what he said about Berahino today, can't understand how they haven't sold him at this stage

Harry Palmr

Chatter about Hodgson returning to the Baggies.

citytillidie

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Why is West Ham's stadium not called the Olympic stadium or the London Olympic Stadium?

London Stadium is the name of it and it is based in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

http://www.london-stadium.com/stadium/about

Charizard

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

London Stadium.

Catchy :pac:

Berserker

Tottenham

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Chatter about Hodgson returning to the Baggies.

Pulis will get the sack soon, so Hodgson returning to the Baggies is a good shout. He did a decent job last time.

Dirty Dingus McGee

citytillidie wrote: »

London Stadium is the name of it and it is based in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

http://www.london-stadium.com/stadium/about

I know but I wonder why it isn't called The Olympic Stadium like the ones in Rome and Berlin are.

Seems a much better name than London Stadium as it's just a generic name rather than a name with historical significance like The Olympic Stadium would be.

5starpool

Manchester United

Hopefully Pulis will be sacked and not get another PL job again.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Sideshow returns, going for a chelsea win.

Harry Palmr

Swansea are preparing for the Championship aren't they?

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Easy for chelsea, swansea relegation candidates.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Courtois brain freeze, 1-1.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Jeebus on the cross!!

Fir deuce, bye bye Cahill.

Chris_Bradley

2-1 Swansea!!

Chelsea all over the place

niallo27

Tottenham

Shocking decision not to give a free there. Chelsea were ****ed over there.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Lol nice dive Diego.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Lol nice goal Diego.

ThunbergsAreGo

Why are overheads not dangerous play/high foot? He connected with Naughton

Charizard

Costa, Zlatan and Kun the golden boot could be a amazing race this year, Id love it to be Zlatan but I see Costa winning it

Chris_Bradley

Charizard wrote: »

Costa, Zlatan and Kun the golden boot could be a amazing race this year, Id love it to be Zlatan but I see Costa winning it

I think whoever gets it their club will win the League too.

Cracking season ahead

Dirty Dingus McGee

Poor decision to book Watmore there I thought. There is such a thing as a player losing his balance and it doesn't have to be a yellow card if a player falls to the ground without much contact.

That_Guy

Actual action... Hooray.

razorblunt

Manchester United

That lad Whatmore is the epitome of a duracell bunny, he runs like mad but has very little end product.

That_Guy

Sunderland aren't very good at football.

ERG89

That_Guy wrote: »

Sunderland aren't very good at football.

They haven't won a game in August OR September in like 4 years or something.

Paully D

Same crap, different season.

Sigh.

That_Guy

Paully D wrote: »

Same crap, different season.

Sigh.

U ok hun? xx

ctrl-alt-delete

Paully D wrote: »

Same crap, different season.

Sigh.

I bet Lukaku has never had such freedom, nobody seems interested in marking him.

dobsdave

That_Guy wrote: »

U ok hun? xx

Are you allowed in a Premier League thread? ;-)

Unearthly

Chelsea

Think Moyes is finished managing in the top league tbh.

Paully D

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

I bet Lukaku has never had such freedom, nobody seems interested in marking him.

An awful pre-season is catching up on us now.

The Allardyce situation was a **** show from start to finish and when you're in week 4 of a Premier League season and still lining up with a midfield containing Rodwell, Gooch, Watmore and Januzaj you know you're in trouble.

Another long, hard struggle coming up. Eventually we are not going to be able to pull off miracle finishes.

ERG89

Unearthly wrote: »

Think Moyes is finished managing in the top league tbh.

Sunderland are premier league cockroaches the last few years so could join him if he stays

That_Guy

dobsdave wrote: »

Are you allowed in a Premier League thread? ;-)

Maybe next year.

Paully D

Unearthly wrote: »

Think Moyes is finished managing in the top league tbh.

I can see why Sunderland went for him given the circumstances but I haven't been impressed at all so far.

He comes across so dour, boring and negative in his interviews and press conferences. Some bizarre line-ups, tactics and substitutions and his signings have been horrific so far. Ndong would really want to end up being a cracking player who can hit the ground running and a Defoe injury isn't worth thinking about.

rob316

Paully D wrote: »

I can see why Sunderland went for him given the circumstances but I haven't been impressed at all so far.

He comes across so dour, boring and negative in his interviews and press conferences. Some bizarre line-ups, tactics and substitutions and his signings have been horrific so far. Ndong would really want to end up being a cracking player who can hit the ground running and a Defoe injury isn't worth thinking about.

Feel for ya pal ye are stuck in the flirting with relegation cycle every season. Maybe relegation would be better like, clean the slate come back up.

Iused2likebusts

City spurs utd pool arsenal Chelsea Everton the current top 7. I'd expect them to be the top 7 at the end of the season aswell.

eagle eye

I've been very impressed by Everton so far. I think they could well crack the top four this season if they keep up the level of performance they have had to this point. They are actually slightly unlucky not to have full points, the game against Spurs should have been over at halftime but they managed to only score one goal instead of about four.

Utopia Parkway

eagle eye wrote: »

I've been very impressed by Everton so far. I think they could well crack the top four this season if they keep up the level of performance they have had to this point. They are actually slightly unlucky not to have full points, the game against Spurs should have been over at halftime but they managed to only score one goal instead of about four.

They've had a fairly handy run of games to start the season to be fair. Sunderland, WBA and Stoke. At least two of those will be in a relegation battle I'd say. And they've got Middlesboro, Bournemouth and Palace to come next too so should pick up more points in those games. Fixture list gets considerably more difficult after that.

Gavlor

Paully D wrote: »

I can see why Sunderland went for him given the circumstances but I haven't been impressed at all so far.

He comes across so dour, boring and negative in his interviews and press conferences. Some bizarre line-ups, tactics and substitutions and his signings have been horrific so far. Ndong would really want to end up being a cracking player who can hit the ground running and a Defoe injury isn't worth thinking about.

He is boring and negative but I think he's really hamstrung by that rubbish squad put together by a few years of ineptitude. I think I saw an interview where he said it'll take 3 or 4!transfer windows to get things right, that's a hell of a long time.

All Sunderland can do at the moment is to try and keep it tight, which they did in the first half last night, and try sneak a few 1-0 wins.

Rodwell, Defoe, janazui were passengers last night in that second half. And the centre half beside Kone seems a bit headless.

They'll be beaten again on Saturday (Spurs) but have a few winnable games after that imo.

wally79

Unearthly wrote: »

Think Moyes is finished managing in the top league tbh.

Dunno. I think any manager would struggle with that squad.

Sunderland are a club in serious trouble and for me appear to lack leadership on and off the pitch

Charizard

Unearthly wrote: »

Think Moyes is finished managing in the top league tbh.

Dont see how you could blame Moyes, Jose or Pep would struggle with that squad

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Moyes is a busted flush, I like him but the united job shattered him.

Paully D

To be fair lads, Moyes' signings have hardly been inspired so he should not be getting off scot free for the squad being poor as plenty of it is actually his doing.

He has been given funds, including breaking our transfer record, and ended up with Ndong, Pienaar, McNair, Love, Januzaj (loan) and Djilobodji. Moyes has spent more money this window than Sunderland have in any window since 2012, and the spending in 2012 was only £3m more. Prior to that, you'd have to go back to 2009 to find a window where we've spent more money, and again that was only £4m more. It doesn't need any more than 4 games of the season to say that his business in the transfer market has been atrocious. It was obvious before a ball was kicked.

As Gavlor rightly says, we will be beaten again away to Spurs at the weekend, but the consecutive home games against West Brom and Palace look like huge games already.

Moyes himself has piled the pressure on himself with his ludicrous comments about being in a relegation battle after the Boro game, which staggeringly came 90 minutes after he said he was looking up the table prior to that game!

wally79

Paully D wrote: »

To be fair lads, Moyes' signings have hardly been inspired so he should not be getting off scot free for the squad being poor as plenty of it is actually his doing.

He has been given funds, including breaking our transfer record, and ended up with Ndong, Pienaar, McNair, Love, Januzaj (loan) and Djilobodji. Moyes has spent more money this window than Sunderland have in any window since 2012, and the spending in 2012 was only £3m more. Prior to that, you'd have to go back to 2009 to find a window where we've spent more money, and again that was only £4m more. It doesn't need any more than 4 games of the season to say that his business in the transfer market has been atrocious. It was obvious before a ball was kicked.

As Gavlor rightly says, we will be beaten again away to Spurs at the weekend, but the consecutive home games against West Brom and Palace look like huge games already.

Moyes himself has piled the pressure on himself with his ludicrous comments about being in a relegation battle after the Boro game, which staggeringly came 90 minutes after he said he was looking up the table prior to that game!

Maybe it took the boro game to show him just how bad the squad is. Outside Defoe I wouldn't want any of their players and he's no spring chicken

Paully D

wally79 wrote: »

Maybe it took the boro game to show him just how bad the squad is. Outside Defoe I wouldn't want any of their players and he's no spring chicken

Sam Allardyce suffered 1 defeat in 11 games at the end of last season with very similar personnel.

Aside from Defoe, Kone and Kirchhoff are excellent players who wouldn't look out of place in too many Premier League teams. There's a spine of CB, CM and striker that any manager at bottom half Premier League level would kill for, while the likes of Borini and Khazri are very effective at that level if utilised correctly.

2 of his Moyes' signings (McNair and Love) were the worst players on the field that day against 'Boro by a considerable distance. I don't want to be too harsh on them, they are kids who should never have been thrown into that situation (and there never should have been a need to) but unfortunately that's the level of signing that Moyes has made.

Moyes has had a terrible summer transfer window (regardless of how Ndong turns out) and his comments after the 'Boro game were an utter embarrassment regardless of what he thought.