Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 257. (Read 140819 times)

Yeah, I genuinely do believe that too. A lot of past players have talked about their time at Liverpool fondly, and that was without too much success under their belt. Whereas, Mane is going to leave with pretty good success over the years, which ultimately made him even more loved at the club.

I know we're going to say goodbye to Salah, and Mane at some point, but I was hoping we'd be able to at least get another two years out of them both. I actually think overall Mane might be the more important player of the two, however when Salah is on form, there's not many players like him. Salah probably has quite a few years left in him. He'll still be playing when he's 35/36, Mane I'm not sure.

I'm hoping that all this talk is a way of him securing a new contract, since Salah has been pushing for more. If we can get both of them on realistic salaries, I would in a heartbeat. There's not too many players out there right now, that would be a direct replacement, especially when you consider Mane can play across the line.

I looked it up yes and you are right!! So yes good news for me if we reach the UCL final we will win it,,, but no on a more serious note we really really need a good midfield who can create more chances for Kane and Sonny.

Kane we have decided he will leave or stay does not matter. I think he proved by his lack of goals early on that we can do without him. Now if only we can give Son the elixir of youth

There is for real in the last 10 UCL,the famous instagram page 433 just put a show of this fact there.A player like Perisic can only do good to any team,including Spurs as he is a true quality player,he can play both left wing or right wing in attack providing really great opportunities to strikers like Kane although I am not sure if Kane will remain with Spurs for the next season.

Yesterday some good news for me Ivan Perisic joined us,,, and I know a lot of people say this guy is old and should not be able to improve an upcoming team like Spurs but Conte gets the best out of certain players and I am 100% sure Perisic is one of this example.

Also, there is supposedly Croatian player in past 10 UCL winning teams so maybe we get our piece of luck

I had Forest on a ticket from the sidebet Trofo won (we agreed to put it on a 100x ticket) but unfortunately, Liverpool's loss last night rendered the result meaningless.

Still, pretty chuffed that Nottingham Forest went through, as I mentioned in the Championship thread, I don't know them but I do know Huddersfield and they were a horrible team to have in the EPL.

Really good to see an old legend back at the top.

Mane news is rife yeah, but he did say he would give very good news after the final... he hasn't said anything yet. I'm sure he'll stay, despite all the stuff said about him and Salah. If he leaves, though, I won't be pissed. He deserves to go where he wants, but you know what they say.

You'll never be loved as much as in Liverpool.

I am not sure where Mane is going but it seems like he is leaving Liverpool for sure. Twitter is full of this, from several reputable sources so I am considering it as done deal.

He is in Liverpool for a long time and I guess he is not happy being in Salah shadow all the time. Really can't see any other reason to leave unless he is sick of English weather.

Anyone watching the Championship playoffs final between Huddersfield - Nottingham Forest? GO Forest!! 🙏💪



some uk journos are saying Mané could go to Bayern Munich next week? No Origi, possibly no Mané, the end of an era is nigh

^I still think Halland made a mistake with coming to City. Pep is notorious with his rotations and making the play around wingera and false 9 players. Proper striker will never have it easy there and player like Halland who likes to build up invidual stats will have it even harder.

I know there is not many clubs able to pay out his wages and transfer fees and PSG or United would be even worse. PSG has weak league while United is far from settled club at the moment. Barca would be great but they don't have the money. Bayern and Liverpool would never pay that much so that leaves maybe only Real and they wanted Mbappe.

Glad I'm not the only one thinking of that. And I like the guy, don't get me wrong. Liked Havertz, Sancho, Werner too but the English game does live up to the billing of toughest league to play in -- I used to think it was a bit of an overstatement but the gap between them and the other leagues seems to have only widened in the past 5 seasons. Won't be so apparent in KO formats but when UCL changes to a league format, I have a feeling it will become even more obvious.

Haaland's a beast, but yes, he'll have to play at a higher level so yes, his injury risk could be upped (same as all the other players I mentioned). This is where Liverpool seem to have the upper hand at the time being (remember when Sturridge and Mane were pretty brittle at some point but they somehow found a way to reduce that) -- and we've had amazing recoveries from Elliott and VVD, but I'll pretend we don't have Gomez.

So yeah, City will be better with him, just as they're better with Grealish, but their squad is a little too big to properly give their biggest talents opportunity to grow into games the way they would have at Liverpool (sans one or two of our stars). Arguably the same problem at Chelsea.


Fair enough, he did go there because of all those friendly face factors, but as I said above, the squad's a bit TOO stacked to give everyone enough playing time. Liverpool finally have a bit of squad depth but even when we have 5 great ones up front, it's a great system since we always play 3 of them, and giving time for one or two to refresh and/or recover. Origi's gone now, so we only have Mina as the fringe player, so it's still guaranteed playing time for all of them.

I also hope Haaland will be a victim of the first season curse and underperform like some of the former Bundesliga stars you listed, but, he'll be under Pep, Haaland's dad is familiar with the city of Manchester, sounds like he will adapt very quickly, no? thing is that even if he doesn't adapt to the EPL, City will have the argentinian wonderkid striker Julian Alvarez also arriving this summer. Stacked squad :/

same 👍

just a heads up to organizers, got my prize, thanks to organizer hilariousetc and sponsor Sportsbet

can't wait for next season to start, and in the meantime, there is a Nations league competition organized by Trofo, for those who will follow that football competition
hopefully, Blues will be better next season

The prizes in the op of this thread are an example following the pervious year as stated: The total prizes will depend on how many people ultimately join, but the previous prizes were as follows:. I should have updated it with the actual prizes once they were determined though. I'll make sure to do that this year.

As for the actual prizes I can't announce them in advance as it depends on numerous factors such as how much sponsorship we get and how many people join. The price of the joining fee is also determined nearer the time as I like to keep it to both an affordable amount and a nice round number in bitcoin like 0.001 or 0.01 etc. The fee is normally between £25-£50 in btc though. I'll speak to jeremypwr about sponsorship and once I know that I can start to give at least an estimate of prizes.

I'm quoting you, but to back you up. Everyone, you can quote me on this . I genuinely believe while Haaland will be a good signing for City, he's going to take a bit of getting used to the Premier League, plus he's actually quite injury prone. Reminds me of Aguero in that sense. So, by no means do I think they'll storm the league without any challenge. They might do if we have a bad season, but it won't solely be down to signing Haaland.

Haaland when fit will likely bang them in, and be towards the top of that golden boot, however I still think he won't be the player to get those decisive goals. I do think his introduction will give all the players on the field a boost though.

Thanks for the prizes sir. Im a little dissapointed that they were so low expected at least like it was stated on the first post.
Hopefully next year we get more users to join the pool plus the increased prizes. Also would be nice to know next season what are the prizes

Yeah, just sent out all the payments to those who sent me their address. I will speak to jeremypwr about sponsorship for the next pool before I officially announce the sign-up thread so we know what sort of prizes we are playing for. Hopefully we can get 50+ users this year and a bigger sponsorship pot to entice others in. I will also be doing a World Cup pool but that will be nearer the time as it doesn't start till November. I'll update everyone in here when they sign up pools go live in Games & Rounds.

Just checking in to say I got my prize (w00tw00t) so thanks again Captain!

Think the transfer window will leave a lot of teams a lot to chew on. Not sure Liverpool will be as strong next season on all fronts -- the cups were an outlier as we progresses mainly on the back of second stringers who had a hell of a season. No reason to think we won't challenge for the title and Salah/Mane (they'll be here right?) will relish taking on Haaland and Kane and Son and others (Lukaku? haha) for goals.

Don't quote me but Haaland will probably need a lot of time to get an established place. Reference Werner, Havertz, Pulisic, Lukaku, Sancho, etc.

Congratulation to the Big winner CasperBGD and all the other winners of prices.

Im waiting the next season, but we have to wait a lot now hahaha.


Hey man, can be interesting next season having a Bundesliga POOL, but idont know how many people want to play that, because in La Liga and Serie we are a lot less than here.

Thanks Sportsbet and hilariousandco.

Haven't done much retrospective calculations but I suspect Spurs, Everton, Arsenal, United shared most of the burden of lost points. City and Liverpool lost+drew 19 games between them, and I never picked against them the entire season so 3/4 of their games I got a correct outcome.


Great news! So I'll only lose 0.5mbtc for a lot of fun while waiting for new season adrenaline

Great, there will be league of nations pool. Just top tier, it starts in about a week and lasts till September with breaks.

I already agreed nice sponsorship with Sportsbet, amount depending on how many of us participate. Anyway I'll lunch the thread later today or latest tomorow and post the link here when I work out all the details. Buy in fee will be 1 mBTC with 0.5 returned as free bet.

EDIT: Link for Sportsbet.io UEFA Nations League Predictor
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60214578

Nations League doesn’t seem particularly attractive to me. many will not play in the best lineup, the best players are pretty tired after the season it will be very difficult to predict. (My opinion)
The world cup is something different, I'm already interested in that +1


I am going to send you my address, if I understood correctly, the 10th place where I am still belongs to the circle of winners