Arsenal are in no way “obliged” to win the Premier League, even if Mikel Arteta spends a small fortune to secure consecutive second places.
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Really? What for? Are they alone in the championship?Let me put on my “They’ll have to” glasses and take a look at the outdoor league of the aforementioned Arsenal.
Liverpool – They have to win the league because the new manager is bald. What if they don’t? No one is fired and the coach will go bald
Chelsea – They want to win the championship because they have bought so many players that they will have to create 17 different clubs to compete. What happens if they don’t win? They’ll just buy more players, FFP be damned. (I’d be surprised if some of them knew how to spell Chelsea. )
Newcastle – They have to win the league for money, money. The barcode army is insane and they just think Shearer wastes his on MOTD. What if they don’t? They will still have $$$. His supporters are still crazy and how can we not need Shearer to lose his?
Tottenham – They have to do it. . . No, they won’t. Never.
Everton: They have to win the league because of my comfortable place for them. Is it the fault of the championship-era manager?As long as they are not relegated, they can win the 2024/2025 season.
Aston Villa – They have to win the championship because they have Unai Emery. What if they don’t? As long as they stay with Emery, they will be above his weight. To this day, I don’t think he has been sacked from Arsenal.
Everyone. They have to win the championship because look at the standings now. It is a tie with 18 clubs sharing the first position. Divided by alphabet only! If the alphabet didn’t start with an “A”. . . What if it wasn’t? If the others manage to bottle it after being in the most sensible score of the total summer, they will be satisfied if they are not relegated and will be winners if one of them gets a place for the European Championship.
If we manage to form a coherent four-man defence, if our forwards manage to match confidently and identify and if the young players continue to develop, we can have a very smart season and succeed easily among the most sensible four. and compete for trophies. Amad, Garnacho, Mount, Rashford and Bruno are all great talents in the attacking midfield, and Zirkzee is supposed to have played more minutes than Martial last season next week.
“Otherwise, we’re going to play the same six, seven or eight groups fighting for the most sensible six, seven or eight spots in a tight league. “
Oh, so there was a time when I think it’s the big 4. Then it’s the Sky 6. And now we can’t even agree if it’s 6 or 8. Look at history, all things have an end. How will Liverpool fare after Klopp? Pep will leave, ending Citeh’s dominance. Even with a monetary advantage, United and Chelsea lowered their subsidies. And the Spurs are Spursy! Just because you have money. . . doesn’t mean you can’t get caught!
Villa, Newcastle, Brighton, Bournemouth, West Ham, Crystal Palace (formerly Brentford). . . The long term of the PL is in the hands of these groups. They bleed the nose of the status quo and it turns out that if you run your club successfully and innovatively, you can break up financial groups that can fill the gaps with a big signing. But the crack is still there.
So there is a long term! The PSR does not help and we have to assume that it will be resolved at some point, but I would build a sustainable future for my club rather than having a squad with more than 47 first team players or a poisoned and poisonous culture at my club. ! These big six, seven or eight, will become the big eight, nine or ten, and then, my friends, we will have a league!
While I found it funny that John’s original article lamenting the lack of diversity among the top six has been largely debunked, especially in recent seasons, and so he had to expand it to “the top seven or eight,” he’s okay now. Array Although I’m not convinced I’m right about the cause.
Yes, there is more cash in the Premier League now, but as has been pointed out, there are other points that are arguably more important. State ownership is huge, but from what I can see, lately Chelsea are state owned and spend so freely that you wonder if the PSR has serious shortcomings.
I think we can communicate about many of the disorders that exist in European football: adding City’s (and before United) dominance of the league and Real Madrid’s dominance in the Champions League, all of which the extension of the Champions League puts the runners-up. , and then third, fourth and now fifth place in the respective leagues.
Now, teams don’t have to perform that well in a season to get a seat at the most lucrative table. You don’t have to be a champion of anything to play in the Champions League. The losers have access to particularly larger sums of money. and the opportunity to attract better players. For more than 25 years, we have known familiar groups such as Germany (Munich/Dortmund), Italy (Inter, Milan, Juve) and Spain (Real, Barça, Atlético).
Is the Premier League more competitive as several other groups have competed in the Champions League in recent years?From memory, Leicester, Villa and Newcastle joined his United, City, Liverpool, Chelsea and North Londoners. And one could even argue that without state ownership, this list would be smaller.
So yes, I agree with my Champions League ruined theory.
It’s Monday, and I hope this letter reflects how I feel on a Monday: desperate and depressing AF.
Anyway, there are things I don’t like about fashionable football.
1. Refereeing. This can simply be an essay in itself, in which I talk about tactical fouls, punishable fouls on the outside, entry into the box. . . Much has been said in the mailbox in recent years about how regulations can be replaced. to gambling, but I would say that the regulations are correct; The thing is, football is succumbing to a strange label when it comes to how regulations are actually implemented through our referees.
I think that if the matches were refereed perfectly, to the letter, there would be anarchy, as the expectations of fans and players are very ingrained as to what happens in a given situation.
2. VAR. I’m very pro-tech, but let’s not fall into the concept that VAR is a technological system, it’s more questionable referees sitting in front of a TV, giving another subjective point of view and annoying everyone. in the process.
If I could be with the referee while watching an attack on Sky, it would basically be VAR.
3. State Ownership: It distorts the very structure of the game and turns a game into anything else. Nothing to upload that has already been said better.
4. Coverage and verbal exchange around the game. Go to any football site (yes, 365, any) and look for an article or news item about any of those 6 teams, and that also speaks in a nuanced way about the football being played in that big green rectangle. I could end up finding anything between the baits, the absurd transfers, and the ones that were stuck with their pants down. I fully understand why internet sites are taking this path, but it’s still incredibly bad.
5. The clock. No matter how a referee indicates his clock in the 94th minute, it is surely worth wasting time and killing the game by protecting an advantage.
In my opinion, stopping the clock is a fair solution.
6. Game spirit. Diving is cheating, and in my opinion, it’s the main argument in favor of an orange card: it’s not worthy of a red card, but a sin for 5 to 10 minutes would be proportionate. But cynics want to be fucked right now. Can’t you be an idiot by taking and winning the ball with your skills?Okay, just knock your opponent down. Isn’t that enough to protect a corner?Don’t worry, just hit the bridge while holding your head. In any case, you might even get advantages from commentators who praise your intelligence as an advantage.
Thank you for allowing me to get rid of that.
That said, Google will have to do anything, as it appears to demonstrate footage of players doing laps of honour, a video of Klopp raising his fist in front of a cheering crowd (presumably City fans), post-match celebrations. locker room and Darwin Núñez biting his medal like the cat who was given the cream after scoring the third.