Annnnd we sell another player who never got a chance by Van Gaal despite being awesome, gotta play Valencia tho. #JustVanGaalthings

Oh man i can't tell you how glad I am this thread isn't about american football... I was praying as I opened it up

Legit counting down the days until Premier League starts again, what's everyone's table predictions? get in there early

Not gonna bother to do a whole table.

1. Chelsea
2. Man City
3. Man Utd
4. Arsenal

That's probably what the top four will be like, maybe Arsenal will get third over utd or maybe City will slip but I think Chelsea still have the strongest team in the league and should be retaining it. Liverpool and Spurs to continue it out for 5th.

Sunderland, Aston Villa and Bournemouth going down won't shock me either.

Di Maria to PSG....damn. At least another year would have been suffice.

Rhaegar wrote:

Di Maria to PSG....damn. At least another year would have been suffice.

Another year would have been my ideal option as well, really didn't want him to leave but he didn't want to be here and seemingly never wanted to be at the club so it's whatever.

HUGE shame he flopped, guys fucking amazing when he's on form.

LvG confirms David De Gea won't play against Spurs, because of the Madrid saga ongoing. Likely be Sam Johnstone in goal because Romero isn't 'match fit', with a CB defense of probably Jones and Blind, against Kane. Oh.My.God.

#JustVanGaalThings

Dark Demon wrote:

LvG confirms David De Gea won't play against Spurs, because of the Madrid saga ongoing. Likely be Sam Johnstone in goal because Romero isn't 'match fit', with a CB defense of probably Jones and Blind, against Kane. Oh.My.God.

#JustVanGaalThings

Such bizarre circumstances, but who knows? Maybe Sam Johnstone might do some magic on his debut. As for Jones and Blind as CB, oh boy. What happened to Rojo and Smalling?

Rhaegar wrote:

Dark Demon wrote:

LvG confirms David De Gea won't play against Spurs, because of the Madrid saga ongoing. Likely be Sam Johnstone in goal because Romero isn't 'match fit', with a CB defense of probably Jones and Blind, against Kane. Oh.My.God.

#JustVanGaalThings

Such bizarre circumstances, but who knows? Maybe Sam Johnstone might do some magic on his debut. As for Jones and Blind as CB, oh boy. What happened to Rojo and Smalling?

Rojo isn't match fit as he missed the US tour, Smalling might play (should) but I get the feeling it'll be Jones/Blind.

I don't even fully support any team in the EPL but I love watching the league itself so I'm quite excited that it is starting back up tomorrow.

My top 4 team would consist of
Chelsea
Man City
Man Utd
Arsenal

That seems a bit generic and redundant but I honestly believe these are the four strongest teams in the league who will eventually find their form (and dip throughout the season as all good teams) and then finish strong. Those teams are in order but I wouldn't be surprised to see if they all ended up in the top 4 but in different positions, this should be a good year.

Just finished watching the United/Spurs game. An incredible match. Romero had an impressive debut with top saves, Darmian was a delight on the pitch, Smalling and Blind were just dynamite on the defense as well. Great performance by United nevertheless.

What match were you watching? It was incredibly boring.

Anyway, pretty much the same old stuff from last season. All we do is pass the ball around and create absolutely nothing, Tottenham had all the best chances in the game. We're just so blunt in attack, it's ridiculous and extremely boring. With the money we've spent in the last two season, the players we have and the fact Vorm was in goal, we should have putting him under more pressure. That being said, Smalling seems to have carried his form from the end of last season into this season with another really impressive performance, Dermian was awesome and should be our #1 right back already, fuck Valencia. Schneiderlin was solid despite almost gifting Spurs a chance in the first half and Memphis showed some bright spots and Romario was good after a dodgy start.

need a striker and a cb to pair with Smalling so badly, attacking would be nice too but a win is a win and I beat Ken again so it'll do pig, it'll do.

HOLY SHIT AN ACTUAL FOOTBALL THREAD! Any time I open these its normally NFL, Im with Demon that match was boring, as a united fan I am always happy to see that kind of result. Also it didnt show through much today but there were definite flashes of brilliance in that new team and the keeper looks promising too. Also defensively United played extremely well which hasn't been a normal feature in their game the past couple of years. All in all Im happy with the result but the match wasnt worth getting outta bed at 7.45 for in fact I probably would of slept through it if some twat hadnt set fire to his couch at 6.30 this morning

You're a United fan? We've ANOTHER United fan in EAW????

Oh my god I'm so happy right now

The amount of own goals today man.

Holy shit man....Swansea City was freaking marvelous today. Shelvey, Gomis, Ayew, Montero, Sigurdsson....my god...and they reduce away ticket subsidies? This gotta be my side team.

Arsenal continuing their usual opening day lulz performance, Cech was horrible for the two West Ham goals (already getting Wenger'd) and so was Coq, first one he played the whole line onside and Lord only knows what he was doing for the second goal, whole performance from Arsenal said it all when a 16 year old making his debut had Ozil in his pocket all game.

Coutinho already in with a Goal of the Season contender (with Kyle Walker, amirite Ken ), stunning goal from a fantastic player, can't wait for him to be off next summer.

Stoke signing Shaqiri, boy he's fallen off in the last year but it should be a good signing, Mark Hughes has done a fantastic job building the Stoke team, should be an exciting team in th league this season.


Man City also reportedly bid for Kevin De Byurne, a front-line of him/Aguero/Silva/Sterling is fucking frightening, their defence is still shite but if they get Yaya back in form and have that frontline, they'll outscore everybody.

As the start of the Premier League has us pondering our thoughts as to how this season will play out, I have to say, Swansea City were freaking on the spot and were fantastic against Chelsea.

Watford might feel a bit disappointed they didn't get all 3 points against Everton. They played extremely well and their new signings could be vital in the long run.

Coutinho provided me to come out with the loudest 'OHHHHH, WHAT A GOAL!!!' in the very first weekend of the season, which is something

Leicester, with the tinkerman at the helm, Mr. Claudio, will be a hard team to beat this season

Favorites to go down, based of what I saw and also looking longterm (yes, I'm crazy basing things off the first weekend), Bournemouth, Sunderland and Norwich

Also, Jay Spearing's 2nd yellow card, never a fucking dive and never a sending off, fucking wanker of a referee

We've got a goal of the season contender from Coutinho this weekend and now a miss of the season contender from Raheem Sterling, shocking miss.

Yaya Toure's goal was great though. City's attack looks really good already, even without Aguero playing.

I just watched a video that was marked "Best Champions League Goals of All-Time". Interesting selections were handpicked, but then when it came down to this one:




Then I just utterly marked out at this, especially because I was watching the Chelsea/Barcelona UCL game with my dad. We both were just left aghast when Essien shot that sensational volley. Shit got real when Iniesta scored; my father tried to punch a mural hanging on the wall (yes he was a Chelsea fan, I was an Arsenal fan)

But for the sake of this, what is your top Champions League goals of all-time? It can chip in any amount of goals as you like.

Any answer that isn't this is wrong:

Another dull performance but better than the Spurs one imo.

Rooney remains being awful (one touch in the box all game ffs) but I thought Memphis was alright, should have got a goal but he looks promising, if he works on the finishing more than we'll have a top player on our hands. But ye, our attack is still shite.

Defense wise though, we're looking pretty good. It's unbelievable how good Smalling is right now, looks a completely different player than the clown who got himself sent off against City last season. Dermian was pretty good again and Shaw as well.

Hard to complain with two wins and two clean sheets out of two but christ, we're just hard to watch.

After watching the Swansea/Newcastle game, Swansea has to end the season by being in the Top 5. They are just....magical.

Top 5...? What?

Swansea aren't making top five, they've always played good football but absolutely no way are they making top five or even top six.

Dark Demon wrote:

Top 5...? What?

Swansea aren't making top five, they've always played good football but absolutely no way are they making top five or even top six.

Maybe they can.