General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

I watched Joelinton for a five minute spell. He left something on every opponent he faced. Sometimes innocuous enough like an arm on the shoulder but if he ever gets reffed properly he won’t last ten minutes

Howe will be gone in the new year, certainly won't start next season IMHO.

He was a rabbit in the headlights on Sunday, all at sea. Had Liverpool on the ground and didn't know what to do, whether to stick or twist. I think he panicked then in the second half, Liverpool brought in 2 subs and he felt he had to do something, so he brought on 3 and they lost the rest of the game.

Seemed to me he got psyched out of it and made the changes just to make the changes, to be seen to do something, rather than acting in a rational manner as part of a plan.... Seemed panicked to me. He might learn from it but the higher they go the thinner the air will get, and I can see him struggling, and the Saud lads will be ruthless if they see him as a weakness (not their normal cut off his head ruthless, just sack him ruthless).

Ref made the wrong call to not send Trent off. But then he also made the wrong call by allowing Joelinton get away with so many fouls. Also, Gordon kicks the ball away after Trent wins a free and Trippier runs up to the ref demanding a yellow after Trent fouled Gordon but gets no booking. Either apply the rules, or don’t. When you have a red booking some players and ignoring other offences then you get what we got last Sunday.

Saudi in for Salah, £150m bid today but rejected. Saudi should never have been allowed to buy Newcastle, they actively trying to destabilise Liverpool, one of their main rivals for top 4. Fit and proper owners? What a joke the PL are…..between City’s cheating, and which UEFA found them guilty of, and Todd Bolely and Saudi they’ve made a joke of it.

Ah I suppose we just be happy that it’s all going to s**t.

Saudis State owning a bottomless pit of money league and having a foot in the EPL at the same time is tinfoil hat stuff?

It's a major issue whether you think the Salah bid is motivated by it or not

Sounds like what Salah will be getting as a weekly wage

Of course it's an issue but I wasn't commenting on that.

That's obviously the reason for wanting him. The timing is the odd part. They've been throwing money around all over the shop for months, why wait till the very last minute to make a bid for the lad that obviously would have been at the very very top of their list day-one? Whether or not it's to destabilize the player is very debatable, but I do think there's some motivating factor for the circumstances of the bid.

Part of me wonders if they knew they weren't going to get him this summer regardless, that Mo and his agent had previously made it clear to them that it's too early in his career for this retirement move. This specific club is under big pressure at the moment by their own fans, who have been publicly complaining that they feel like, as champions, they've not matched the other big Saudi clubs ambition (they're the ones who bombed out Jota after a few weeks because he supposedly didn't have star quality) - so perhaps this is a bid that could show their fans, and the PIF higher ups, that the ambition and effort is there with a huge offer under circumstances where being turned down wasn't seen as rejection.

If offering 150m for a 31 year old is destabilising then I wish they would destabilise my club a bit.

Maybe Salah wasnt open to it then but now he has seen liverpool make a balls of signing a defensive midfielder and not sign any cover for defence he feels they dont have much chance of wining anything this season so coupled with the silly money on offer he is now open to it?

If they had done this last week it would have been to destabilize the club in the run up to the match against newcastle, they do it this week they get accused of the same.

Newcastle maybe dont even see liverpool as rivals, one is in the champions league with a huge budget and the other are europa league who penny pinch and have their 3 best players the wrong side of 30. Its mental to think thats the main motivator for this move.

Of course you are right but it's a conflict all the same going forward, owning a club in the pl and four or five in a different league that are buying alot of players from the pl,this is only the start of it , when alot of the star's are gone from the pl it will affect clubs all the way down the league's.

what happened this transfer? palhinha flying back to london

Yeah, I think we have established that the whole handball thing is probably based on a coin flip 🤪🙃

Bless their hearts, Luton really try, there doesn't seem to be much creativity though.

howard for all his talk needs to come out and clarify whats a handball, and whats not.

The ref missed it in the initial bit of play and enough time went by that the VAR thought it would be too awkward for his mate Tierney to be looking at screens I'd say.