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

What’s stopping him working off the books for united while on “gardening leave”? Isn’t something similar happening with that Italian fella at spurs, banned from football to some degree but knocking about the place at the same time?

You’d imagine a compromise will come up, Newcastle still have to pay him on gardening leave, and he’s probably going to work for united to some degree in that time. Though united are a threat to Newcastles champions leagues hopes, so maybe they see him not going there for two years to be worth paying him on gardening leave m.

But if you joined Liverpool with those expectations and they didn't do it should you be sacked?

It would cause problems where a fan base would claim a foul that one of their players got an extended ban for was no worst then another foul by another team that didn’t get an extended ban.

que the accusations of corruption that is a major blight on the PL right now.

safer to leave it alone as expecting fans to act as adults and not children will not work out.

It's about player safety and making an effort to eliminate it from the game.

Nobody should care what the fans think initially. After a while they'll get with it when one of their own gets tackled like that and the player gets a long ban.

Arsenal have had nowhere near the same number of injuries.

Liverpool kicked off the 2nd half with Alisson, Trent, Bradley, Gomez, Matip, Bajectic, Szobozlai, Thiago, Gravenberch, Salah & Doak all missing. Konate was suspended fair enough but it adds up. It was the same game that Andy Robertson made his first start in 4 months. It was Endo's first game in 6 weeks as he was away at the Asian Cup. The next game Bradley returned, but Trent is out for longer now. Gomez & Konate retuned. Gravenberch returned but Jones is now out injured. Salah returned but Jota is out long term. There are question marks around Nunez & Salah's fitness now still.

The constant revolving door around availability is not a good thing at all for Liverpool. Numbers are there, at times, but the consistency, stability and familiarity are not. And that's even before you talk about tweaking tactics etc.. Arsenal having each of Raya, White, Gabriel, Saliba, Zinchenko, Rice, Odegaard, Havertz, Martinelli, Saka + others available ~85% of all PL games, together as one unit is a massive benefit. The rhythm and consistency is there.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the Arsenal injuries point as I don't think that Arsenal have had a sustained period of time without a number of key players at one time. Unless you can show me a run of games?

But yes, I agree on your point, both teams would need to have close to a fully functioning squad in order to compete with City for the remaining few months in the run in and having multiple competitions to contend with.

So player safety is not a concern to you?

A tackle that never happens? It happened yesterday and it's happened plenty of times.

The fact that you admit you are not concerned about player safety is awful.

PGMOL didn't care about VAR and everybody knew that would cause huge controversy.

Protecting players wouldn't cause that much of an issue.

Sure isn't there already precedent? Ben thatcher with an 8 game ban for his assault on Mendes iirc.

Keane ended up with 8 game ban in total but that was a bit different cause he got 5 of those games much later after admitting in his book he went in to do him. should have been a lot, lot more.

I just said it barely happens anymore so what’s the point bugging out. Not sure why the onus is on me to provide evidence of something that I’m saying rarely happens.

“It” being a deliberately malicious and dangerous challenge with intent to injure an opponent for the absence of doubt.

Hodgson steps down as Palace manager. Hopefully his health scare isn't too bad.

I think a tackle that is both malicious and dangerous is what is needed for an extended ban. Otherwise it’s way too much of a grey area and you will sucking in too much and it will become a nightmare for the PGMOL and will open it up to corruption and bias accusations from the aforementioned head the balls.

i think the Curtis jones one vs spurs was a red card but i don’t think it was malicious at all. I can’t picture many of the others.

Is there a reason why the Arsenal Newcastle game is on at Saturday 20:00 instead of the usual 12:30 KO?

ah! of course.

forgot there was CL this week again with it being so dragged out, and PL games midweek.

By my count there is 13 fit senior players at Liverpool currently (over the age of 21). A few of those are not fully fit and/or are reserves stepping up.

Liverpool will play 6 games in the next 18 days. They lack of rotation options is going to hurt the league campaign before that Man City game on March 10th. It's an international break after that.

It has barely raised a comment in the United thread, you have to suspect that fans are just desensitised towards Rashford now. His attitude has been so horrendous for so long that its not even a surprise to see him do that shite.

There is one or two that still trot the "not his fault" bullcrud, but that clip is of a player in his prime who we get told is world class. Its pathetic, and its normal.

Well, that game happened, now let us never speak of it again.

City are turgid to watch

They're backs to the wall though, and already starting to look very tired. Very hard to see them keeping City out for another 45. They're really struggling to get out, which will only get harder as it goes on. City meanwhile rarely going above a jog, really biding their time.

Haaland absolutely bustin' his boll0ck$ to get back and defend that Brentford break from the City corner.