Alexander Isak will be on Homes Under The Hammer - Premier League 2025/2026

Decided to bite the bullet. Haven't started a thread in many years.

Will Arsenal finally win the league? Will Liverpool be worse despite spending 200m? Will Man City get relegated due to 115 charges or grimly return to form? Will Man United stop being funny? Can even one promoted team stay up? How angry can Newcastle fans get?

Have at it!

Something about Spurs. Setpieces/violent roughhousing?

Finally, on the right board

Hooray! Looking forward to watching MOTD with the boy and not otherwise engaging unless Liverpool win something and there's another parade.

Oh and beating that cunt from Mumford & Sons at FPL again. Is there an ILX FPL league out there?

You won't watch it live? I have to say through a combo of getting older, TV subscriptions, Liverpool being fairly consistently good, and general ennui of life, I am prob deeper in than ever. Several podcasts a week, BT and Sky at home etc. Maybe also Liverpool finally winning the league then repeating it means football doesn't have the grinding painful anxiety it had every season when I was younger. I can enjoy it more.

i look forward to another season of grinding painful anxiety

Tbh after I posted that I started thinking how anxious I was even when we were miles ahead last year.

I dunno, it's so hard to find a stream these days and I just have so much to do every Saturday anyway. Might be changing jobs soon though so maybe things will change a bit. It's something to talk about at family gatherings, though the family still in Liverpool either support Everton or Forest (long story)

All three promoted teams to go straight back down for, I think, the third season in a row?

Have seen a couple of pundits tip Leeds to buck the trend at the expense of Wolves

A couple of evil pundits.

Sunderland have spent loads also

West Ham not great?

West Ham will be fine I reckon. Brentford seem the best candidates to keep one of the new teams up but I doubt it tbh. I reckon City will win it. My football consumption (other than League 1) is just Second Captains and 3min highlights on YouTube

Brentford hiring Keith Andrews with zero management experience is a brave move (though to be fair he does have some assistant manager experience, though to be even fairer it was for MK Dons and they were relegated that season)

Definitely a worry. He is red hot favourite to be sacked first.

I wish Keith well obviously as long as he finishes below us

Bournemouth have decided to set the fifa setting to ultimate for iriola and he's clearly done a great job but I think they'll struggle , same with forest. not enough to go down tho probably.

in amongst all the money lfc are throwing around I hope I've missed them extending konate's contract or are they going to let him leave for nothing next summer?
if lfc don't win tmrw then the winless in the league streak stretches to what 5 games?
slot out in that case.

I think city will be closer to last season version than 2019-2024 version.
think arsenal will win the league.

Sounds like Konate could be off. There were even a few rumours Real might try to buy him this summer.

I think they need to keep him if at all possible. the way the team sets up this season him and vvd will have to do a tonne of one on one defending and I trust both of them to manage that, not sure anyone we've been linked with could cope as well. of course it helps to have allisson mind you.

I know it's twenty mins in but feel like there's not a lot of attacking coherence in Liverpool at all.

Good game this.

Liverpool all over the place defensively

Never in doubt (that Mo would score in the opening game).

What a game. Unbelievably sad to see Mo crying at the final whistle as the whole stadium sings for Jota.

I think Liverpool's problem is midfield exposing the defence. Wirtz is quality but isn't going to do anything besides attack. Szobo at 8 is too undisciplined, and Gravy is suspended. That said, Konate was terrible tonight.

Ekitike looks brilliant tho, exciting player. Wirtz still settling but love how his first touch is almost always a pass.

Could be a mental season with this attacking setup but I hope they find a more controlled structure for the sake of my health.

indisciplined*

For three seasons we’ve had more points than any other team in this league, which is incredible. That’s how you have all the consistency. Now we have to do it in a season to have one more point or the same amount of points and more goals different than any other team. That’s the objective.”

apparently this isn't even true, man city have more, but also... this is why people dislike arteta. he makes it sound like they need to just flukily be top of the league when the season ends having done the harder bit of having a good average points score.

not sure whether to watch this

looks like Martinez is suspended for Villa, wonder what happened there?

Sent off at end of last season

[lightly quivering] not ringing any bells

Yeah i detected the note of fake insouciance

Not notably missing Martinez so far

new guy looks good so far. he's had more to do than I'd like

Well yeah, he's done good tho

Every pass is going wrong, this is getting tiresome. That said, the tempo is pretty crazy. Newcastle’s midfield get in there so fast

New goalie looks legit, this could be a big step up from Olsen

Weird seeing both teams in the same colour shorts. What is this, Ted Lasso?

Think Villa had a bit more impact in the last 5 minutes, hopefully they build on that

Welp, the Prem's back baby

newcastle could really use a prolific striker, you feel.

Classy celebrating like they've just won the league tho

not sure there are many groups of fans who will relish hating one of their own players as much as newcastle fans will with isak.

if there's one thing Newcastle fans can't stand, it's Jamal Kashoggi's widow. But if there are two things they can't stand, you can add A Player That Doesnt Give His All For That Famous Black and White Shirt as well

alan shearer - got newcastle relegated

alexander isak - won a trophy for newcastle for the first and last time in their history

yet the latter is the villain here???

only one goal in the prem so far today and it's richarlison

Richarlison’s second goal was tremendous.

Forget yer Arsenal v. Spurs or Chelsea v. Fulham or whatever, Newcastle v Sunderland games are going to give the Premier League a taste of a truly venomous derby.

Grant Xhaka as Sunderland captain should def help with that

so wolves are going to beat man city 4-0 then

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I'm enjoying this brief moment of respite trying to work out e.g. if West Ham are shit or not

before I end up crying into this thread in a bit

Wolves playing p well so far

Well yeah buf

Pereira out, time to welcome this season's Pereira

This really is Groundhog Day

Time to bring back a 70+ manger from Wolves' glory days...

Big Mick is only 66

Life in the old boss yet.

The 57-year-old, who enjoyed going to the pub to celebrate victories with Wolves fans last season

sweet Jesus i thought the GON rumour was just bookie talk until now

Poll on the BBC right now:

Who should be the next Wolves boss?

Rob Edwards 10%
Gary O'Neil 21%
Brendan Rodgers 32%
Steven Gerrard 9%
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 12%
Other 16%

I think Other deserves a shot

Alan Pardew is currently a free agent

if GON comes back I'm going to pay good money to build a catapult to launch eggs onto him during every match

I saw Erik Ten Hag linked as well. What a motley crew.

sign multiple managers IMO. allow different ones to manage different matches

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Everton away kit looking like the opening credits of a televised NWA Clash of the Champions special from ~1988

Everton loan signing looking like he's about to ask to be given that ring, my love, because it's his birthday and he wants it

Ndiaye looks destined for big things

Van de Ven has just done an incredible recreation of Son’s goal against Burnley.

Great win for Liverpool. Particularly enjoyed Conor Bradley absolutely beating the stuffing out of Vini Jr all night, fairly.

Cautiously thinking the bad patch may be over now

johnsons red card might just have exorcised this spurs team from the ange chelsea sliding doors game

Cautiously thinking the bad patch may be over now

let us pray. only concern really is i think european teams might not realise how shit we are yet. but this did look like our best eleven i think?

wirtz was v good tonight i thought.

Most aesthetically pleasing headers

Big Dan Burn heads Newcastle into the lead 🔥

What a goal that was 🤩

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Nice one Frank, Man U are in 2nd as it stands.

Haven't been properly focused but after watching the first half I feel like I understand where Darragh's coming from now

Lol beautiful jink-work

Jinx ffs how does the phone not recognise jinx?

That Sesko miss and injury might just cost us the match

ah you fucking cunts

That poor haircut bloke will suffocate.

Fair result. Neither of these teams deserve 3 points.

yeah

Spurs shite first half, Utd shite second half

Banging game for the neutral. Well, banging climax anyway.

spurs not shite imo, vs what ive actually seen, just utterly disinterested in competing at either business end of the pitch for 95% of the moments when it would seem natural and advisable

united no worse than chelsea were

We’ve looked limp so far. Sunderland have kicked us about (an elbow to the face for Merino looked especially bad and lead to 9 mins stoppage time) but they look good for it. I don’t mind them as the roughneck underdogs.

Think Arteta needs to pull the lightbulb out his arse though or we could lose all the good momentum built up recently.

I guess the lightbulb came out although my stream has gone down for both goals, boo.

worldies worldies worldies

players on a yellow committing subsequent blatant yellow card offences!

Martinez making a save that suggests he doesn't have money on us losing this one

Ibid.

OK that one wasn't a worldie

actually on second viewing it's a stunning backheel flick from the young Dutch lad

Hard to see how Robertson affects anything there.

Doku has been unbelievable.

Love watching that man play

man city are inevitable

am I alone in thinking Liverpool's disallowed goal wasn't that controversial? On the 'consistency' argument maybe, but it seems to me if you're in an offside position and you have to duck out of the way of a shot then you're probably interfering

I think Gary Neville said something like, "what's Robertson meant to do there?"

Not stand offside maybe?

I dont think it was a goal but what sticks in my craw is the same ref let this last minute winner for City stand last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-XwwviNRs

yeah that was a ridiculous decision

from this angle you can actually see that Robertson has a little push on Donnarumma just before the goal also

Andy Robertson was blocking Donnarumma & he knows it.

rules are rules.

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man city fan saying 'rules are rules' is p amusing all the same.