Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

Adios Fernando Hierro.

HE'S READY:

Ashley Williams, Kevin Mirallas, Cuco Martina and Nikola Vlasic have been told to train away from Everton’s first team squad by Marco Silva.

— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) August 2, 2018

Classic AVB move here from Silva. This will end well.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/20/08/mansour-fellaini.jpg?w968h681

THEY'RE READY

E'S NOT READY

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/590x/Jose-Mourinho-997564.jpg?r=1533160788143

https://d1zzickat3jbgq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cardiff-boss-neil-warnock-loves-a-verbal-fight-just-as-much-as-jose-mourinho.jpg

HE'S READY

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/img_dir/2018/08/01/2018080100873_0.jpg

HE'S READY FOR SOMETHING ELSE

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HE'S READY

xps Haven't Stoke signed Ashley Williams?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/27/21/0CC818B300000514-0-Fulham_s_lengthy_managerial_hunt_has_come_to_an_end_after_Slavis-a-11_1451251739315.jpg

HE MIGHT BE READY, FRANKLY NO ONE IS QUITE SURE

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HE'S TAKING A KNEE

fuck me, didn't realise that old football hooligan Ronnie Jepson was at Cardiff with Warnock. I once saw him making an absolute pissed up prick out himself on a train and would say he is a deeply unpleasant and violent idiot to say the least. Welcome to the Prem lads!

im over this season already tbh

Shouldn't the EPL be mentioned somewhere in the title? Or has the EPL just swallowed football whole? (Silly question)

I can't believe Cardiff are starting a Premier campaign with Lee Peltier at RB and Danny Ward amongst the forwards, no wonder Warnock will gone by October.

Warnock is one of these managers where the same backroom and same garbage players follow him about from club to club like a bad smell. Yeah he's had loads of promotions and I used to love him when I was a kid (early 20's tbf!), but it is probably a good thing that his crude methods are just not good enough for the Prem.

Literally everything about Cardiff is unpleasant and I hope they go straight back down with the lowest point score in history.

Lots of chatter about Spurs bidding £30m for Lewis Cook, who is exactly the sort of player we could do with and one I can see really improving under Poch.

Also Chelsea chasing Grealish too now apparently

Kid's had his head turned by JT

Poor RLC.

with winks seeming to be quite a similar player would it possible be a case of too many cooks

I am literally threadbanning you for that.

test

wouldve been deserved cant lie

Ahmed Musa is off to KSA, apparently. 25's p young to go there, though I can't recall a KSA team paying this much for a player.

Shouldn't the EPL be mentioned somewhere in the title? Or has the EPL just swallowed football whole? (Silly question)

Also, why is it on ILE and not on ILF?

was always an ile thread

Too big for ILF.

I've never wanted Aberdeen to win a football match more:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/01/football/brexit-burnley-back-in-europe-spt-intl/index.html

As a Dons fan I know posted the other day, when Burnley qualified for Europe all they had was a dream and 120 million quid.

about time the ILX Dyche backlash gathered pace, the guys a fucking degenerate!

and don't get me started on the good people of Burnley!

I put EPL in the thread title, in case people get confused and think we mean the Liverpool that play in Scotland or Abu Dhabi.

can’t believe kane’s golden boot hasn’t earned him a move to a big club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._(Montevideo)

people might want to use the search function to find the EPL thread!

Burnley - Aberdeen into extra time

Game over, stupid fucking handball penalty.

Joe Hart + Ben Gibson look done deals to Burnley. Both of them passing Dyche's stringent criteria for what makes a solid Burnley signing.

we've now beaten 3 decent top tier Euro sides(Lyon,Bolagna,RB Liepzig) 3-1, 2-1, and finally 3-0 just now. We're ready!

Adama Traore signing for us this morning. Domagoj Vida signing for...somebody?...this week. Love this jigsaw we're building.

Middlesborough seem to be having a very FFP friendly window, probably watching the QPR situation. I expect us to be linked with Caveleiro .. again, when this is confirmed.

That seems 50/50. I don't think we *need* to move Cav on but obviously the speculation won't go away. My guess is - not this window. But we'll see, there's no sentiment in our transfer policy now.

i think if our Limbombe deal truly is dead, and he 's off to the Geordies, then there will be another attempt to sign Cav.

so then

1. Citeh
2. ManU
3. Pool
4. TBC, not Chelsea

18. Newcastle
19. Brighton
20. Cardiff

1. City
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Utd
5. Arsenal

17. Tottenham
18. Cardiff
19. Southampton
20. Crystal Palace

:)

net spend an all that

1. City
2. Pool
3. Spurs
4. Arse
5. Chelsea
6. ManU
7. Portugal Wanderers
8. Everton

Breaking | Manchester United have turned down a €50m + Yerry Mina & André Gomes offer for Paul Pogba from Barcelona, according to @DiMarzio.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) August 6, 2018

lol

so Mina *is* available

1. Liverpool FC as hot as hell
2. United
3. Tottenham
4. Arsenal
5. Watch my lips and I will spell
6. Cos they don't just play but they can rap as well

20. Crystal Palace

Gonna start FPing people predicting Palace to go down

Cameron is a west ham fan iirc

Cameron isn't too sure.

"good sorts" ??? i don't want your fucking textbooks :p I've been called a few things in my time - but West brom fan is a new low!

lolz 2020 season delivers already

I've got a friend who works at ASDA and used to be a smack-head who has this very complex theory that celebs + royals gravitate towards Aston Villa because their name evokes some kind of grandeur and splendour that is probably very missing from the area.

If this were true surely they would all just be palace fans

very fair counter that

queen's park rangers

there is something a bit more "continental" + "progressive" and reaching outwards with your brand about "Aston Villa" whilst also sounding conservative at the same time, but without admitting you love mountains of dead disabled/poor ppl's corpses and tax avoidance schemes, cos you are so nice and love drinking Columbian coffee. QPR sounds like death squads!

sgt biscuits and windsor davies are both good sorts and ought to post more now villa are back up

Villa have a lot of ultra-posh fans because of a historic association with eton college iirc, which they continue to cultivate to this day. Wd explain Cameron + Prince William at least.

I thought there was a bit more to it!

why not reading, they're way closer

A quick google isn't turning up much, so maybe it's bollocks. But I think i've heard it from a couple of sources.

that's more than enough definitive evidence for me. fuck em'!

why not reading, they're way closer

― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 22:13 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you get daddy to pay to avoid reading obv

xxp cause it's fucking reading lol

"good sorts" ??? i don't want your fucking textbooks :p I've been called a few things in my time - but West brom fan is a new low!

LMAOOOOOOOO, you've just won me over!

Villa have a lot of ultra-posh fans because of a historic association with eton college iirc, which they continue to cultivate to this day. Wd explain Cameron + Prince William at least.

This sounds like crap insofar as Prince William's generation goes; one of the reasons why he decided to support Villa was because so few of his peers supported them.

peers

Piers?

Villa have a lot of ultra-posh fans because of a historic association with eton college iirc, which they continue to cultivate to this day. Wd explain Cameron + Prince William at least.

This is indeed fascinating because, as I'm certain I've mentioned here before, one notable scene in Henry Green's "Living" is when two of the characters go to watch an Aston Villa game.

"... the Villa team comes out, then everyone is shouting. On face of the two mounds great swaying, like corn before wind, is made down towards the ground, frantic excitement. Gates wailed and sobbed for now his voice had left him. The Villa, the Villa, come on the Villa."

can't believe calz missed Nigel Fucking Kennedy tbh

The is exhibition in the British Library which is just box filled with all Henry Green's missing articles.

*there, ffs.

you just had to put an article back in

Hoist. Petard.

fucking hell, missed a totally gift-wrapped sitter there last night. self fp'ed and feeling genuine shame.

absolute classic of the "he wont be happy with himself when he sees it tomorra" shearer analysis, trevor

textbook

Thanks for making me feel at home, y'all. The 2019 - 2020 season will be a delight!

Ligue 1 will be renamed "Ligue 1 Uber Eats" for the 2020/21 & 2021/22 seasons following the conclusion of a naming rights deal.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) June 12, 2019

Aston Villa smashes club transfer record to sign a Brazilian striker for £22m from Club Brugge! Adjusted for inflation I guess cause I'm pretty sure Darren Bent was always reported as having cost us £24m or thereabouts back when? Or was that 18m with add-ons? Memories :)

I think possibly I have noticed Wesley as a name while clicking through other teams' CL results on my FM19 career but then again possibly not, who can say. youd better believe i'm loading that shit up right now though to find out how good he's gonna be for us in 2023. anyway ive got no intention of letting my own ignorance sully this glorious moment, we're back baby and we're spending irresponsible sums of money on unproven quantities same as the rest of you. A REAL PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM, JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT WITHOUT THEM :) :) :) :)

and to anyone who suggests that 14m on Ross McCormack was an irresponsible sum of money i say *blows raspberry*

welcome back lads

Hmm, it seems there have been about 40 consecutive posts about Aston Villa on this, the Premier league thread. I'm openly weeping over this discovery, although also it is off-topic because this thread is for the 2018—19 season

Imago is correct that I am an extremely good guy. I 100% knew who Wesley was before we signed him and all. Huht

xxp

that £14m on Ross McCormack might seem like wise and careful speculation next to FC ILX splurging £20m on Jack Clarke. I know different leagues and all that but he's looked like a bang average L1 player every time I've seen him and I think it is fair to be judgmental - even towards such a young one - he looks like the consummate flatter to deceive overrated young dud and a complete arsehole to boot!

LOL FC ILX. Like it.

McCormack didn’t look cut out for the Australian A-League last time I saw him play.

If they loan Costa off us then they've done good business there i think

Tottenham have agreed a club-record fee with Lyon worth around £65m for midfielder Tanguy Ndombele, Sky Sports News understands.

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 25, 2019

didnt know if we'd started a transfer thread

Great signing.

(we need a summer transfer thread)

xp

Silva calls it quits after the coming season

(we need a summer transfer thread)

Also Lamps to Chelsea? By god if only we could come up with a smart pun and start a new transfer thread.

when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

Ah, thanks!

ah yes the coming season, the stickiest of all weather phenomena

Champions League kicked off last night btw.

I noticed!

itk