who will win eplmania xxv

feeling a leicester-style hull upset

either that or not winning a game, just as long as they bring the ip into disrepute

yes not winning a game despite tom huddlestone breaking jamie vardys 11 game scoring run seems more fitting

I was going to start a 'Which parachuted-in mega-manager will finish lowest?' poll but this'll do. Guessing Mourinho even now but we can but dream.

mike phelan for mega-manager

That Leicester money is on Watford this time by the way. Mazzarri's got an excellent Alec Baldwin thing going on so I'm expecting him to go full Glengarry on them at some point.

Surely this is Arsene's year

to come fifth

Pep ftw

do we have a new thread yet? i suggest "phelan on dis ting"

it's a title which borrows from the present to link us to our past

Not phelan that ttitle tbh.

I don't want to think of that disgusting little troll ever time I click on the thread though.

Phelan on your booty

Dammit I cd've display named that

I think I already had that.

But I would support a revive.

probably best i can't seem to find a picture of him doing his sharon stone impression on the man united bench

Someone must have said something suitably stupid and/or hubristic in the last few weeks?

https://twitter.com/richardajkeys/status/760802838121418752

the truth is most of the titles become annoying or at best symbolic of the pain associated with the passing season and the inevitable death of august's hope

'Can Leicester City really win the Premiership 2016-17?'

Fuck me though, the state of this:

https://twitter.com/Noble16Mark/status/763432415494868993

Voted Chelsea.

the dream of pep instilling a potent serenity to city is fading a little, but there's not much rising to replace it. I suppose I hope that liverpool benefit more than chelsea from the lack of games and that utd go a long way in the europa league but I'm mostly just curious to see how this flux resolves itself

(xp) Fairly meaningless, I always think (fear) Chelsea are going to win the League... and everything else.

cheatin hun bastard

Voted Spurs.

Voted City. Utd's season hinges on the Rooney problem as ever

Top 3 will be city, united and spurs. Hard to say who'll get 4th but its not gonna be Arsenal

'Can Leicester City really win the Premiership 2016-17?'

Yes to that title

A good season for spurs would be cl progress and being in or around qualification again

That said theres a lot more due from son, lamela, njie so maybe, maybe

We seem pretty desperate to get rid of Njie so probably not.

I think Spurs will profit from the relative peace and continuity. The Pep City and Mou United revolutions will come at a price I think, esp. in their first season. Arsenal will be Arsenalling, Liverpool in all honesty isn't a contender. A top 6 finish for LCFC would be a great accomplishment imho.

Oh, and Chelsea: meh.

i think city will win. too many good players.

i do kinda have a strange and terrible epl-centric desire to see pep fail and get sacked by november.

It'd be pretty funny if after all this Leicester just went ahead and repeated exactly the same trick.

funny but not happening. Kanté is a huge loss for a start.

i fancy lpool for top four (with mc mu th). think they will murder some teams just dunno about the consistency. and depending how close 4th is to 1st if everyone else cant get their act together then who knows they might get another shamanic dance ritual going

not enough data on city and chelsea to rly make this a worthwhile thread i know but was curious if anyone felt anything strongly to the contrary. feel same way as lg about city. united look ready to grind. chelsea feel like they will be shit initially but even effective chelsea will be shit so idk. interested to see if conte might go 3-5-2 with cuadrado. arsenal oh dear

yes to phelan on your booty of course

feel like City have made the best pound-for-pound squad-building signings, feel like Pep has far less external bullshit to worry about than Mou - e.g. NN's point about Rooney, but all the other boardroom backstabbery that comes with the job. but if i had to bet anything that mattered on it i wouldn't want to call it between Utd and City, Mourinho still has all his dark powers imo.

Liverpool and Spurs feels as good a guess as any for 3 and 4

Yeah I don't really have any idea how Chelsea and (especially) City are going to line up. City will just get there I think, and pretty quickly. Chelsea's more of a case of good players being poorly deployed and Conte might get more out of Oscar or Fabregas but there's just a pissy attitude there and they will still be playing that decrepit back four so I dunno.

Relegation battle could be a humdinger this year though - dunno if Boro are going to click, guessing Hull are pretty much down by Christmas, Swansea's reinforcements look dodgy, Sunderland are still Sunderland. Has Sean Dyches done much of note to improve Burnley in the past 12 months?

Hull to recover after buyout by Taiwanese investment co.

Burnley probably already good enough to finish above 3 of those no-marks as long as they don't have horrible luck.

probably weaker without barton (did i rly just type that)

not sure about boro at all. smuggies more like at the moment and i don't particularly see why for another mendes fly tipping job in part

watford are in trouble based on what i saw of us vs them in pre-season, although it's too soon to rule out our just being unplayably brilliant

just realised if Hull hadn't moved grounds we cd've had Phelan on your Boothferry

city. they've signed the best player in gundogan and pep won't let anyone half arse it like pelligrini did. utd have got derek who's great but i dunno if he's psychologically suited to playing for mou.

i was automatically about to respond with gundogan's injury record and... it's just one of those mindless lines everyone parrots isnt it. not actually that bad unless the spinal ever comes back

citeh.

sóc un creient de pep

while everyone was delighted with workmanlike turgid drug cheats Leicester City last season I must say the Pep-Mou Mancunian ultra rivalry intrigues me, though I do fear that it may turn out to be a damp squib - in that i could see one of them failing to perform.

like lg says, most probably find themselves heading the queues to both praise and lol at pep, though you'd obv rather he dismantled jose than vice versa. it's all fun and games until brian kidd gets poked in the eye

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Can anyone tell me why Arsenal are so maligned in this thread? Came second, added one good player so far and might get another couple...

Its been a pretty boring summer as an Arsenal fan while other clubs have spent ridiculous money. They are still the best creative midfield in the league though and if ozil-alexis-cazorla stays fit, will be an absolute force to reckon with.

I don't think we will win it, I'm not sure who I would bet on but to write Arsenal off as a team with no chance of the top 4 (let alone winning it) is crazy.

bought a player you prob don't need, didn't buy the players you do need plus increasingly competitive league. i wouldn't write arsenal off for top 4 but it does feel a p risky season for them.

and last year's second must be your worst points total for a few seasons...

https://twitter.com/deadlyraheem/status/763837507989565441

Arsenal could shit the bed for the entire first half of the season and still qualify for the CL, it's what they do.

Arsenal have as much chance of dropping out of top four as they do of winning it.

Zero?

Lets just say the board wont be worried about either

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'Can Leicester City really win the Premiership 2016-17?'

u__u

Yeah I'm amazed we've gone for such a mixture of blandness and vagueness, it doesn't even relate to an older title, it's basically a Nult thinkpiece headline

Maybe thats the point

Lets say that was the point

except we already m/l did that joke with "get involved"

cant even bomb it with r kelly now youtube's borked

That was the point. Open to changing it for something that isn't terrible and Phelan related.

Premier League 16/17 Thread

the anti-Hull prejudice on this board is sickening

I could change the board name to I Love Tigers if it would make you feel better?

lol even their own fans wouldn't go that far

Caught by detail there nv

phelan foolish

Phelan So Alone

I'm not sure the case against a Phelo-centric title was made - the prospect of someone being reminded of that horrible troll only serves as more reason to go with one of the many fine Phelan titles.

john phelan

Smthg that clashes the realness of phelan with the current media bugbear of headphone/washbag culture. Although the chances of phelan seeing out the season seem remote.