Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 135. (Read 145233 times)

Also it adds alot more motivation to win otherwise we need to pay the price at the end of the season

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Paid mine today, will be joining this year again. This contest has pretty much become a tradition for most of us. I could skip the other contest thread but this one is pretty special as I recall its the first one wasnt it

I have never win from all these years of joining so perhaps this year could be mine 

Yep, I agree. But the problem with the defence for me is also in the quality of our CB-s.
Van Dijk hasn't played well in ages, Konate is pure, utter shit, Matip is past it and Gomez is a Premier League player only because he's English. We really need a quality CB - and then we also need a good season from our new captain.

If VVD keeps his current form and is paired with either Konate or Matip, we'll be conceding like crazy even if we put Makelele from his prime years in front of them.

The prize of the pool is more than enough and in fact is the pool that has the highest prize and this was the case for the several years that this pool has been going on.Last year I won double the entry fee 0.005 but I consider the last season as a "complete failure" to me as I was holding a position to win 0.011 Bitcoin for several of the last weeks and I only lost the position in the last week,which was really bad luck last season for me,nevertheless I got back more than I gave so it was a good season overall.

The problem is that side bets are good for people as no one is guaranteed to end in a winning positions and side bets are easy to make and win.

Just got the invite from hilarious and joined, I chose Luton Town as my team since I don't really support anyone in EPL (but you can say I'm a bit anti Man City).

Now I read Gvardiol going to city. Great guy, but I wish these guys don't end up at City, hard for me to enjoy them knowing thhey have the best players surrounding them.

I see loads of you guys going for sidebets, prize from pool not enough?

Worrisome, I get it that the attack seemed to working just fine and free flowing at the moment, but does Jurgen Klopp ever prioritizes midfielders, because that's the is an absolute need for that and it would have been in the teams best interest to have deep-lying midfielder and then a conventional CDM with high consistency, if he still plans to make TAA come up the field because he almost Liverpool best play maker in my opinion, so having 2 CDMs when defending will often cover up for his defensive frailties, because to me it's a big ask of to be that creative in the center of the pack and up front while still expecting a world class defensive abilities of him, especially when he's the one that often get caught up in those 2 on 1, or 3 on 2 situation, with VVD nowhere in sight ? I've not been keep tabs with the Liverpool's transfer dealing other the departures to middle east so I might be missing a couple significant details, but with how free flowing the has been scoring and Darwin's form in the preseason, Liverpool are conceding way too many goals, a slight diversion from the native 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1 or 3-2-4-1 would be a master piece for Liverpool from my view, other than the fact that it could limit Liverpool's threat on their fast-paced counter attacking football, It would do their defensive stance a whole lot of good.

Thank you for your nice words. I was thinking at the beginning of the previous year that Manchester United would show a much better performance than Arsenal. Thankfully you were the only one who had a side bet with me so I had a near miss.


I like to remind you of how I defeated you so no problem. Besides what do you say for a similar side bet for next season as well? I think I will finish the pool above you again this season

Your team must improve their defence. You just blew a two-goal lead against Bayern, and I believe Liverpool needs Caicedo more than we do. Depending on Matip and Van Djik would be a major issue for the squad next season. Van Djik is already in over his head. Only Lavia can fixed that

Well like i said in my previous post, this week i made the payment and im again up in this ship.

I hope my payment help to increase the number and more people join the pool like years before, its good to have one pool at least with a good ammount of people in.

Sorry CLS63 that I completely forgot about our sidebet last season, I've requested payment now from my Livecasino wallet for your entry so we should have about 20+ now. I'll update the signup thread shortly once it gets processed.

Lavia instead of Caicedo for us? I guess the total recall really is happening. VVD and Konate I felt also needed new faces to challenge them. They are certain starters but they haven't really been what I called rocksteady.

No title for sure, but let's hope we put together another fearsome team!

I just wanted to say that the side bet of last year between me and CLS63 has been fulfilled by him by sending the 0.001 Bitcoin to me as we have bet on Arsenal or Manchester to be above each other and I choose Arsenal in that bet.

Here is tx from him to me as I want to be transparent that he is a good guy and fulfills his duty.

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/19a736953ee54b2f0fa49b696191e83ba70dd8c205d05feba265ce3dff3e48aa

Most likely I will be paying for the pool these days also.

We can bluff all we want but we'll eventually pay it and they know it - that's just how we work.
I watched Lavia live and he did look like a decent player - and he's still really young. But this is crazy money for a guy that just dropped to the Championship.

The fact that there simply aren't that many good '6-es' (defensive midfielders) on the market helps Soton to push the price up. That's why Caicedo is rated at 80 million as well.

Liverpool submitted a new £42m bid for Lavia but Southampton still insist on £50m or no deal for someone they got for £12m last season. It's understand that Liverpool new bid will be rejected. Crazy days ahead

No, I don't believe you. LOL
First in CL and 8th in PL.  You are next level that I have seen so far. Hopefully not anymore [LOL again]

I joined the pool a couple of weeks ago  By the way, last season I took only 8th place, why does anyone care about my luck? 
And I agree that last season was for me the realization of the adage "beginners are lucky" but this season I do not expect much. Also, I want to try radically different prediction strategies (if I have time to think through them well by the beginning of the season), so it will probably be a minus for me.

Same here - but due to quotas English players are even more overvalued.
If he was let's say Turkish, Gallagher would be rated at 7 million Euros and would still struggle to leave Fenerbahce.

Many clubs have such players, take Joe Gomez from Liverpool. Worthless player, but he's English and automatically valued at 20+ million.

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Fabinho left, Lavia seems like the chosen replacement for us. Not really sure I like this to be honest.

Today prices in football are a complete non sense, are overinflated, and we have over offer and over demand, plus now the problem of arab money pushing, and making inflation in football.

If i was Chelsea for 40 million i send Gallager to them with a gift bow.

This week im gonna pay this pool.

€40m bid from Westham for  Gallagher was turn down immediately, Chelsea want €50m to sell.

Agreed, Enzo's price was a bit excessive, but I don't blame Chelsea; after the World Cup, his price skyrocketed, and Benfica did everything they could to keep him, but he's not that far off from the current market worth.

The market right now is danm pricey for these U23 generational superstars.

Caicedo's current asking price will make him unaffordable for Liverpool. Brighton is gready

He was linked with Spurs but nothing happened yet. Chelsea needs him to stay now - imagine their midfield without him as well.
Enzo is good, agreed, but I was really shocked when they spent 100 mil to get him. There are many other players I'd target for that kind of money.

In other news, Fabinho is really close to his Saudi transfer - meaning that Liverpool will look for a midfielder as well. I can see us and Chelsea battling over Caicedo, overpaying by 20 million in the process.

Gallager not was transfered? Or maybe i heard bad. But i fully agree with you in names its pretty low tier team midfield, only Enzo Fernandez its a super star, and im not saying it because he is argenitinian, i remember him good when he played here on Defensa y Justicia and River Plate, he is top class, imagine when he was on River Plate, i was always thinking on how Real Madrid dont sign him.

Hope he will. I see many of us sinners are cursing him and form all of us one must be the biggest sinner who's prayers are undeniable LOL

PL and CL are my regular. Without these two pools I will not even survive Bitcointalk. But you did great job informing for La Liga and Serie A then Trofo helped me with the link. Good team work.

Thanks for the update.

Come on brothers! Make it 50 and more members pool. Haven't you seen the winner [first place] pocketed over $3,000 last season where entry fee was less than $65, then there were 2nd, 3rd, 4th to 10th if I am not wrong. Then there are round winning prize for every round. So many chances even to recover the entry fee. You are literally losing anything.

Are you fuckers too weak to challenge your football instinct or you are too tight to invest only 0.0025 btc for an entire season? Stop wanking LOL