Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 14. (Read 146311 times)

Dropping important points against Everton feels like a loss; but, it shows how far we've come this season and the progress we've made. When you're in the title race and have a chance to go top,  these aren't the games to lose points in. Enzo Mascara was right; the team isn't ready and lacks the necessary experience to compete for the league.

Tottenham are very bad at home- now what's stoping Slot from winning the league.. they're now clear favorite and it's only December.

Congrats to Kanapka for winning the Round 17 Yellow Cap

You must be too young to remember Leicester City and Chelsea's title defences. Chelsea smashed everyone apart and Eden Hazard was an unplayable beast. Then somehow, next season, I remember they even dropped briefly into relegation zone, and finished something like 30 points below the title winners... Leicester City (fired Mou on his second coming too).

Then, LCFC took over and did even better. Worst start ever of a defending champion, stayed in relegation ffor weeks, before surviving eventually (fired poor old Ranieri too, poor guy)... finished 40 points or something below the title winners... Chelsea again.

And then Abradaddy got interrupted by Sheikhdaddy, bringing us to today.

It could be- some fans are saying the club should return the Ballon D'or and ask for forgiveness 

Perhaps this showing is part of the punishment, behind closed doors 

1 win in 12 games and no sign of improvement is a sackable offence, crying over one player everyday on media is also a sackable offence, Ole and ETH with bunch of united clowns were not even this bad.

Give this current City team to Jose Mourinho without Rodri and KDB and he will compete for every trophy in Europe. This Manchester city fall + incoming transfer ban and possible big points deduction is going to be the Netflix documentary of the year.

That's what we see, I don't understand why the fall should continue endlessly even this is worse than Chelsea last season, so I think Manchester City will continue to lose at least that's what we see for the future.
Even playing at home is not confident of winning.
Now City is out of the competition zone for European league tickets.

This entire City crack has been a weird period. Opponents are not exactly using a particular strategy against them, it is just like they have lost their way and do not know how to threaten opponents anymore, really weird for a team that started this season so strong. They could be 7th or even 8th or 9th at the end of this match week.

Foden late goal granted a lot of players in the pool correct scores.

- Jay -

Possession continued like this into the second half but they didn't even threaten this time. Everything is slow and obtuse with their play. I don't think it's even really just the age, it's just some kind of funk. Two goals down now. I picked City in the pool, picked City in BSFL, picked City in the Football Jackpot, but those were all hedges. I know they're too good to continue being in this shitty form, but I am enjoying it for as long as it lasts. And long may it last!

Haha we see Manchester City again troubling their bettors are now 1 goal behind increasingly skeptical that this team has experienced such a sharp decline, I say this is too dive.

Don't ask about ball possession, even almost the entire field was controlled by Manchester City but the final result was not so beautiful for City.

Pep Guardiola will continue to hold his head.

I still find it crazy there are people who shoot up, but then I guess I don't understand the pressures. Definitely agree though I don't ever see him as the type of player who raises questions, nor the type that would be targeted. Must be just his herbal tea...


I have a feeling two will. Would be hard to swallow if we did it bs Spurs, whom we'll meet another time this season at least. Counting on Salah to mark Jota's return with a brace of assists. He looked really sharp on his cameo (and actually, to a lesser extent, so did Chiesa!).

He certainly does not pass as the type of player who puts in performances that require a drug test. But this things are done routinely, making it less likely to be a witch hunt. (he does not pass as the type of player to be witch hunted too). I hope there is a quick end to the situation, he has struggled a lot since moving to England and can do without any more.

Away to Spurs, Villa or Palace is always a tricky fixture, both City and Liverpool lost away to Villa and Spurs last season and we barely made it past Crystal Palace. I will not be surprised if at least 2 of the 4 drop points this weekend.

- Jay -

Yes they do but they aren't in form so Liverpool can take advantage of that. Liverpool are in a better form and has the momentum to get the win. I would had love you guys to lose but as a Chelsea fan , I don't think we're ready to be table toppers, don't forget we aren't in the title race and we won't want the pressure to get to us now. There'll be other games where Liverpool can drop point but not on Sunday. We defeated Tottenham, you guys can do that too.


Our away form is great so there shouldn't be any challenges in this game just that we'll be missing Cucurella and while he hasn't been himself lately, he would had still been a better starter than others. Wishing a win for both clubs.

I'm afraid it will be us this time around. Spurs are 10th in the league but were extremely unlucky - if you look at their GD, it's 3rd in the league and they are scoring for fun.
They have Romero, van der Ven and Davies out, I hope we take advantage of that. Still not confident at all.

I guess on paper Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Man City should win this weekend but it never works like that. I am quite sure at least one of them will drop points.

In the Pep vs Klopp title races it seemed they both used to win every week. This season is different, the contenders are at a lower standard than those teams.

It will be an intresting match im expecting a large number of goals in this derby match. I think both teams will score a lot of goals. Im still deciding if i should go draw or liverpool. I think most of the pool will pick Liverpool to win but for anyone who wants to hunt points draw is a good option aswell. But with how Tottenham is playing hot and cold i dont know what to expect from them. While Chelsea is an easy option for me.

So the bigger guys in the tiny cup are through. Spurs and United are next to each other in the league so shouldn't be any favourites from that tie. Arsenal really want this cup... Chiesa, Tsimi, good to have them back.


Our only senior to pair with VVD is Gomez and he was never a natural. Slot experimented with Endo today, but why do we always play our poor anchors as CBs though? Surely we have fullbacks in Academy. Endo did brilliant tonight but the poor guy was roughed up haha.


Nah, I don't want Chelsea to win, I do want them in UCL! I enjoy good football so I'm actually really enjoying Arsenal and Chelsea. Last game I watched at Stamford Bridge wasn't bad at all. Easy to say and harder to swallow but I like winning when everyone around you is good. And Pep will agree, you only get better when pushed hard by your rivals.

But about the debt wipeout, hot damn, I didn't know that. What a nice guy haha. I want a sugardaddy too man. Anyway, yeah you're in a great position liquidity wise. Chelsea have the best accountants amortising all those costs too, it's a long game and Boehly's clearly thinking like a finance boss but he will definitely want UCL. Each win in league phase alone is 2m prize money, so we've already offset our last season's 9m loss. Chelsea will take home 4.4m since they'll win every game and finish top too... but that Conference money barely compares I guess since qualifying alone wins you 18m. If Liverpool win their next two and finish top, it's 16m plus roughly 10m from the performance shares, so 26. 44m, and still the KO rounds to go. Crazy.

P.S. Mudryk witchhunt?

Huge game for Liverpool Sunday, away at Spurs. They always seem to raise their game against Liverpool at their stadium. Will be a really tough game although they have no fit senior CBs. Romero and Van Den Ven are big losses. After draws against Newcastle and Fulham we have to win.

Chelsea can actually go 1st if they beat Everton in the earlier game Sunday. A win would put them 1 point ahead of Liverpool but we would have 2 games in hand (the first game in hand vs Spurs immediately after).

No, because Liverpool fans want Enzo from average Leicester City to win the league in his first season.


No, our sugar Daddy Abramovich made sure our £1b in debt was paid in full before he left.

Most of the those £1.4m players are already x2 in transfer valuation and our book is balanced, what else can we ask for.

Whoa, whoa, why are we talking about Chelsea and Liverpool spending? Oh, yes, because they're the top two teams now.

But seriously, I'm not going to look and pull out stats. All I know is that in terms of financial fair play and profit and sustainability rules, Liverpool are clear (for now). So looking at spending and revenue alone mean nothing. You need to know your club is spending within means, or that the spending leads to sustainable revenue. City are facing 115 charges on FFP, Everton's spending spree got them fined and points deducted, so did Nottingham Forest's cash splash.

Chelsea is doing all it can to avoid such charges, but the fact they're playing it close almost every month means something. The amortisation magic wand.

Igehbotz does bring something I also think is important though, debt. Now debt alone means nothing (if debt results in more revenue, as in Liverpool's case, everyone's happy, even I'm happy) but I'm economically conservative in that I just don't like debt. United fans will remember how Glazer took on hundreds of millions in debt, and Liverpool too as soon as we came under American ownership but we needed the new stadium expansions, it was horrible that Anfield max capacity was so small. But Chelsea not needing debt is a case of Chelski anyway, when your club was an oligarch's plaything, there was no need to borrow money =P  That may change soon if your club's accountants can't crawl out though, you guys have been bleeding out from losses under Boehly.

That said, I'm not comfortable Liverpool's 250m in debt. Apparently, we had a nett 9m loss last year (missing out on Champions League is expensive) but it's still salvageable. I just don't enjoy that we only make nett profit if we're in UCL.