General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Fixtures for 2022-23

City reportedly interested in Cucurella to give them cover at left back. Would make them really strong in that area. Cancelo played nearly every game last season, and Pep doesn’t like to play people in every game!

Mane was one of the best players to ever play in the PL, he operated at such a high level for so long.

Looks like Man United fans organised a protest at the family home of new CEO Richard Arnold. They previously went to, and attacked Woodward's house too along with the training ground and stadium.

Instead, Arnold took the lads to his local pub and talked them through lots of issues and things like transfers. They recorded it on the sly and have uploaded a few videos on twitter tonight on the below page.

The Roman era is completely over now.

Marina Granovskaia set to leave Chelsea & Bruce Buck agrees to relinquish 20-year role as chairman

Pope the latest to leave Burnley. Those asset strippers are doing a great job running Burnley.

I’d say Pope was only allowed to play a certain way at Burnley. He is an upgrade on Dubravka and that’s how they’ll have to do things, incrementally.

My wider point was about how Burnley are f****d. This time last year they were safe and had £40m in the bank. They were the subject of a leveraged buy out and now they are being run into the ground. Owners will walk away with a fortune, debt left on the club and fans will have to suffer, the wonderful world of capitalism at work. Kompany better hope City give him 5/6 good loanees.

This is not the case at all, City spend very wisely and for the most part do great business.

No fan wants there clubs to look like a mug.

To be honest I should not have even replied as your post is nothing but toxic.

Paying up to £50m for Kelvin Phillips is almost the definition of largesse.

Howard Webb is replacing Mike Riley at PGMOL

Man U finally got their man in place as the head of all referees.

The old age joke for years was that Webb was always uniteds best player due to his favoritism towards them.

Interesting he is back, he will be under pressure everytime united get a decision now esp in this social media age which he didnt have to put up with when refereeing.

For what its worth I always thought he was a decent ref.

They made a profit on Angelino and Danilo when they sold them. Hardly city's fault that Mendy turned out to be nuts.

Yep just ignore that the law makers have made 5 subs the law now for the world game so they had to do it.

It was a lot more than Klopp that wanted 5 subs but he is the easy target for talksport and the likes. Obviously Townsend lapped it up.

The clubs voted for the 5 subs. Why doesn't he direct his anger towards who voted that way for Everton? He might have to play a bit more now, maybe that's why he doesn't want it.

The rules have been in place across Europe for a while now, and the argument you're making just hasn't been borne out in reality.

The 4th or 5th Liverpool sub may be better than Bournemouths 4th/5th sub - but the gap between the 4th or 5th player coming off for Liverpool and the lad coming on tends to be larger than the gap between the lower level starter and sub, particularly in games against the bigger sides where energy is the key addition. The data seems to have borne out that adding more fresh legs helps the smaller sides more, as they battle to hold firm later in games. It's no surprise that the top sides score way more goals late on, as their opposition tires. This change allows more of a refresh for sides hanging in there, so they can do a better job of maintaining first half intensity when it counts in the second half.

Sure just look at the last game-day of the season as both Liverpool and City come back as the opposition simply ran out of legs - their attacking approaches weren't working till the ~75th minute, and it just took the opposition running out of steam for both teams to get the breakthrough. 2 extra changes to add fit players to bring back some energy and maybe one or both of Villa or Wolves are able to hang on for a draw/win.

Jasus do people on here actually believe that Klopp alone has the power to enforce this rule! Didn't the Premier League say last year that they would be introducing the 5 sub rule for the 2022/23 to align with the rest of world football and Klopp's major issue was he couldn't understand why they waited the extra year. Townsend's own manager is one of the other managers who called for the 5 subs last year too, did he air his grievances with him?

Liverpool making 3 subs or 5 subs won’t be the reason that teams get relegated next season. On a totally unrelated note, it’s gonna be really annoying playing FF and seeing your players not get 90 mins more often.

Teams will make their third sub earlier now than before as they won’t be as worried about injuries. That’s about the only real meaningful change it will make.