Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 878. (Read 776357 times)

Yeah I get it, that's why I said there's no need to expect more in the first season because building a team is not an easy thing, especially if there are new talents there. We know how Klopp built Liverpool, which was once the best team in the Premier League and next season they will have to adapt to a new style it's clear there will be an impact on the squad. Do you think Arne Slot can take Liverpool to the same level or higher? as we know he has no experience in the Premier League.

Based on history on transfermarkt Liverpool have not been active in the transfer window there are no new players except players who return after being loaned to other teams.

You have comfortably highlighted one of the problems of so many football clubs. When a particular club has more number of old players than young players, you know that there is a looming problem. You should look at Real Madrid very well, when their player started aging, they did not outrightly sell them. The had to keep the old players and buy young ones, this made it possible for the old players to groom and nurture the young players to being world class footballers. Even when some of the old players insisted of retiring, just like Toni kroos. The club had to beg him to stay one more season. And today he has groomed people to replace him in the club. This cannot be said about Liverpool where someone like sadio mané left without anyone replaceing him, and any moment from now Muhammad salah will also live and he will not be replaced. How will The young ones that they will sign know the norms of the club. How will the young ones that they will sign learn to continue the legacy, especially when there is a new coach. I am praying hard that what happened to Manchester United and Chelsea should not happen to Liverpool.

Yes, at least Liverpool has experienced an improvement in their position in the Premier League standings this season after previously failing to enter the UCL zone and also failing to win the Europa League trophy. So no matter what, Liverpool will also fight as optimally as possible in the UCL in the future, because this is what they always dream of beating various top clubs in the UCL even though they know this will definitely not be easy.

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Based on the news, Man Ciy has been reported that they still have to sell one of their top players to help improve their financial problems. Many have speculated that this will be the new Alvarez so far, he is a player who is being targeted by various clubs, but Man City are still not willing to let him go. Maybe the main reason is actually related to the price. So, maybe if there is a suitable price, there is no possibility that Man City can finally let him go.


Source: Manchester City

There's something you don't seem to understand, this is the game of football, anything can happen. And we saying so is suppose to happen that way but it didn't because we all including yourself say things base on how we're seeing it. When a coach like Erik who has been making mouth of winning trophies for the club start messing up do you think he shouldn't be sacked? When he came to the club the expectation was high and everything seems to be promising but later on things started working against him and you'd agree with me that this man has lost control in the locker room of UTD. No one is being biase here is just how it is, I don't know about others but the Red Devils don't have anything to offer next season.
Manchester United would give out those two trophies just to be in the finals of the champions league, those trophies don't mean anything compared to the UCL trophy and EPL title, so you shouldn't be too comfortable with that, face the fact Manchester United are never going to improve until the issues they are battling with indoor are settled.
The body language of the players don't really want Erik ten Heg and you know it so let's call a spade a spade, I'll still say it that the relationship between Erik ten Heg and the players ain't healthy, take a good look at how Pep, Arteta and former Liverpool coach Klopp relate with their players, the joy in the locker room of those managers will always make the players to play for the manager every week, but that's not how it is for ten Heg.

It wouldn't be an important problem for Liverpool if they started from the bottom again, Liverpool needs experience like this to form a new strategy that might give Liverpool victory in the next match. When many Liverpool players are about to retire, they will take advantage of the opportunity to buy new players at a young age. In this way, the strategy used by Liverpool will have the potential to put on a good show in the next match.

Yeah Liverpool only play in the Europa League because they finished in 5th place last season and that was their worst achievement in the previous 5 seasons, now Liverpool must start everything with a new method and strategy as you said the impact could be better or vice versa. Apart from that, several of Liverpool's mainstay players are heading towards retirement meaning this situation is really not easy and honestly I don't expect more from their performance with a new coach at least in the first season.

Have you forgotten that Liverpool did not participate in the Champions League this year?  
A place is not guaranteed to anyone, if we were confident in Liverpool it would be an easy +53% per annum. By the way, a change of coach is a very serious factor that can strengthen the team or, on the contrary, weaken it. If I had made an outright bet, I would have chosen a different outcome.

You make a lot of sense and I completely agree with what you said, such things are normal with life itself, where of you are do well, people like you and praise you, but the moment you start failing, everyone hates you like you are the worst human being on earth, forgetting that life itself is a Rollercoaster, there is never any stability, most especially in activities like games..

For example, take Manchester city's coach as a good example, Manchester city have been doing really well and everyone believes Pep Guardiola to be the best coach ever in the history of the club, but watch it, Manchester city is not going to be in their current form forever, sooner or later, they will lose form and start under-performing, by then, the majority are going to forget completely all this years the club have done really well, and they are going to be asking for Pep Guardiola's head/resignation or sack.

So for Ten Hag, it's clear that that FA cup win is beginning to give fans a  reason to have a second thought about him, and the real question actually is, is there another worthy and better replacement for him if he is sacked?

Mauricio Pochentino took over a Chelsea side that was below average and started to rebuild the team from scratch with his tactical experiences. At first, it looked like Chelsea weren't gonna get better under him but after several tactical works have been put in place by the Argentine manager, Chelsea began to perform better in the last games of the season. I'm surprised that the club management decided to sack Pochentino even when it looked like he was going to win numerous trophies with the team in few seasons from now. The new manager Enzo Maresca now have a very difficult work to do because he's also gonna introduce his own football pattern which might take the players longer time before they can fully adapt.
There's every possiblity that the new manager might succeed at the club but I think it'll take a long time to achieve for him to achieve success with the team

Actually I even feel he got this planned out, because he knew if thw season were over with the kind of poor performance he had, winning thw FA cup was the only way to get some more relevance for his stay in the old Trafford because it will look like he's most likely going to be sacked if there was nothing to show for the season but this could  be a reason for consideration on his side because it will mean he was able to achieve something before the season cane to an end.

Next season If he's been given the chance to still manage the team, I feel that he might get sacked half way if he's unable to show some kind of improvement midway the season because if he's not showing any improvement for the probation which he may be granted then leting him go would be their next option. Personally I don't see any great future with him at Manchester united especially if he's still going to have exact same players to work with in the new season.

The attitude management and club officials will not change, even though Enzo Maresca has been given a five-season contract. They can easily fire him, if Chelsea fail to win any trophies, it's not a big problem to fire him even if they have to pay compensation. That is the Chelsea tradition that we know so far, it seems that in matters the dismissal of manager Todd Boehly is the same as Abramovich before. So it is not wrong when many people say that Pochettino dismissal was wrong, because they did not recruit a better and more experienced coach, instead appointing Enzo Maresca.

To be honest, I also doubt that Enzo Maresca can live up to expectations, but we shouldn't be too harsh on him, because we haven't seen how he performs with Chelsea. Pochettino was fired and left a potential young squad, Enzo Maresca is very lucky because next season these players will be fully available, no one will be injured. Realistically, Chelsea has a chance to compete and finish in the top four of the standings, but to challenge the title, Enzo Maresca it takes a lot more than one season.

Enzo Maresca will not fail at Chelsea I'm fully convinced about this. The man is a born tactician, you can see it from his games at Leicester City. The Man understands the game of football. Just imagine the first season at Leicester City and he won promotion in his first managerial job that speaks a lot of volume and I think that's one of the main reason why Chelsea went for him. The Man know the challenge of the job and he is already bracing up for the huge task ahead. Chelsea will be very strong next season, they just have to get their transfer plans right, if they do that Chelsea will finish in the top 4 next season and possibly pursue the tittle. Enzo is lucky he is already inheriting a squad that's full of young players who have played together for a season and now understands their Flow of the game. They just need to get a recognized striker to bring competition for Jackson.

You are right about Pochettino's first days and I think Pochettino was in the good form when he was working in Chelsea. Don't forget he started working in Chelsea while they didn't have good days at all. They were not in the good form after the got Potter fired from the team but Pochettino tried to do his best. By helping many young players he tried to do his best to make this team look younger and get improve however after making these huge chances he needed to have more time in Chelsea. Still, unfortunately, they stopped working this him which was a wrong decision.

The problem for this is also the name of Enzo Maresca himself who does seem ordinary when training because there is indeed nothing to be proud of from Enzo Maresca to date in terms of the achievements he made when training especially Enzo Maresca is also more often in small clubs than being in big clubs like Chelsea now. so this is what might be the difference because even though Poche also in terms of achievements is not very good but he knows the atmosphere of the EPL and he is also always in a big club so that it becomes a good mentality but not with Enzo Maresca now because however the doubts about Maresca are now far greater than the doubts about Poche.

But if the decision has been made then indeed we only need to wait whether the big opportunity like now can be utilized well by Maresca or not because in the end if this is utilized well then he will automatically soar in terms of popularity but if not then Potter's fate will also befall him.

 

Not even who will coach Manchester United team, is there any good reputable manager out there without job at hand?
I think there are no good managers without jobs unless managers that have past successes and finds it difficult to adapt to the modern pattern of football; unless if they will sign any of the managers they just sacked from some big teams which I think will not favor them. Given Ten Hag more time is better because he achieved two trophies in two seasons which is fine and interesting for a start.

The FA Cup they won was the best thing they did this season, and it has helped them secured a spot in the Europa League if not their performance towards the end of the season was very poor as they couldn’t make it to the Europa League even as they were Champions League spot contenders. Injuries affected the team’s performance, but yet, Ten Hag need to sell some players in order to create space for others because the team need players with fresh blood that can play for the benefit of the team.

I am not Manchester United fans but i personally more prefer want to see Ten Hag will be stayed much longer with this team because in my opinion Ten Hag has been done well in Manchester United and he deserved to gets new contract with Manchester United and working much longer and indeed there are several considerations why Manchester United has decide to hold Ten Hag instead of sacked him

Manchester United owner feel why the performance of this team was decline is not fully Ten Hag fault because during this season Manchester United has facing storm injured which make they unable to performing well and according to the records there are more than 60 cases of injury that have befallen Manchester United so the owner has been considers this is the main reason why Ten Hag failed to meet their targets and they didn't blame him for what is happening to Manchester United right now

Besides those reasons above Ten Hag also pays a lot of attention to the young players from Manchester United academy and promote them to the senior team and it's proven by the many young players who play for Manchester United now such as Alejandro Garnacho, Kobbie Mainoo, Willy Kambwala and Amad Diallo so this is a positive step taken by Ten Hag because he does care about the development of young players so the management is very satisfied with what Ten Hag did while coaching Manchester United and they feel Ten Hag should be given another chance and give him contract extension

Yes, he should be given another opportunity because he was able to win the FA cup even when Arsenal, the most dominant team in the season finished second but couldn’t go home with any trophy after been eliminated from all competitions they participated in. Ten Hag deserves another chance because to me, he’s more successful in the premier than many coaches that have been there for quite sometime now. After hearing about rumours on his possible dismissal and now been kept after all that, I am sure he would improve in the coming season and make the club proud of him for trusting and keeping him once more when many odds where against him staying back and be sacked after the season. Premier league is no joke league, you have to be in your best form and be consistent in doing so because of the plenty competitive scenes you’ll witness during the season from any team as none can be underrated.

No one thinks differently, I haven't seen his approval among the fans, but the management does, they seem very positive about keeping the coach for another season at least. And I've noticed their positive attitude in any situation, whether the team is losing a few games in a row, is low in the league, whether the team is on a winning streak, it doesn't matter to them at all

I get what you are emphasizing on because when we look at it in your direction Pochettino really tried towards the end of last season because from how Chelsea started the season and to end in the 6th position mean that Pochettino was able to discover some of the club's weakness and made some amends for the team hence their ability to end the season well even though the F.A cup trophy that Manchester united won denied Chelsea of having a spot in the Europa league next season.

Checking at Enzo Maresca career as a manager so far I can see that apart from Leicester city that he succeeded in bringing back to the premier league he hasn't really coached a strong team though for once being an assistant manager to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City in 2022 and 2023 means he has learnt a lot from a successful coach and that was the more reason he was able to bring back Leicester city to being promoted to the premier league so let's be hopeful that he can make good improvements for the West London club Chelsea FC next season.

The problem now is that if Manchester United even sack Ten Hag, who is that good coach they will sign and like to coach Manchester United with their poor performance they experienced last season? Honestly, good coaches are not that available now. All of them have fixed positions with clubs and they don't want to leave their teams, because they are progressing. In fact, even a good coach available for Manchester United will not find it easy for one or two seasons because they must fix some of the problems the club is facing.

Manchester United's performance was not as good as we expected this season, but I will say they still tried by ending the season with a trophy. Being the winner of the FA Cup is not really easy. Playing the final against Manchester City and winning the match was a great achievement.