Premier League 25/26

[fergus90]

outperforming xG's not sustainable

I couldn’t care less what the stats say to be honest. I’m 36 years old and have spent about 30 of those in utter footballing misery because of Aston Villa football club so instead of getting worried might happen or should have happened, I’m just grateful for what has happened and that is:

We play good = we win
We play shit = we win
We don’t generate xG = we win
We play at Villa park = we win
We play away from Villa park = we win.

We are clearly not going to win the league but I’m definitely enjoying being in with a chance of European football every season!

 

[Temptation]

outperforming xG's not sustainable

Even if they don't sustain this form, they're in a great position for CL spots.

Wins give the entire team confidence and good vibes.

If they get a few good reinforcements in January, they can easily finish top 3.

 

[Temptation]

@Iniesta Ultra

They have some excellent players like Rogers, Tielemans, Kamara and Konsa.

They also have players like McGinn, Onana and Cash who aren't big names but very underrated.

Watkins is kinda washed up though. So underwhelming these days. @fergus90

 

[Temptation]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002861637972222009

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002861639071137840

 

[Horatio]

Tempt hyping up every flavour of the week.

Nottinghams Harry Wilson is up next. You’ll see.

 

[GloryHunter 007]

Tempt hyping up every flavour of the week.

Nottinghams Harry Wilson is up next. You’ll see.

he played great tbf. It's just that he doesnt like messi all that much lol. Not even in his top 5 favourite players.

 

[MonteCuler]

City getting Semenyo... wtf man. Life is so easy when you are oil club. They have 2 sets of elite forwards

Guess this means it's over for Marmoush (or someone else?)

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Arse so disgusting to watch.

 

[Jenks]

City getting Semenyo... wtf man. Life is so easy when you are oil club. They have 2 sets of elite forwards

Guess this means it's over for Marmoush (or someone else?)

They rank 7th in Premier League net spend over the last 5 years.

 

[Birdy]

Even if they don't sustain this form, they're in a great position for CL spots.

Wins give the entire team confidence and good vibes.

If they get a few good reinforcements in January, they can easily finish top 3.

No way this will keep happening until the end of the season.
They won't be in the CL spots for sure.

Luck always drains at some point, even crazy luck

 

[Birdy]

City getting Semenyo... wtf man. Life is so easy when you are oil club. They have 2 sets of elite forwards

Guess this means it's over for Marmoush (or someone else?)

Two remarks:
1) Top acquisition for City. But I wonder what's their squad planning with wingers. They already have Doku, Savinho, Marmoush, Cherki plays RW, Foden or Bernardo also play there sometimes.
Doku is unbenchable, I guess all the rest and one of Cherki/Foden will see a lot of bench going forward

2) Journos say he opted for City over Liverpool. That's interesting, given that Arsenal and Liverpool have dominated 1st preference spot the last 3-4 years. City took some emphatic Ls on that front with Rice, and Belligham snubbing them. Recently, they have been buying either players no other top club wanted - hence had 0 competition to sign (like Donarruma, Reijnders, or Marmoush), or people that seemed not cut for the elite (like Cherki, or Nico, or Al-nouri, etc.)

 

[Loki]

They rank 7th in Premier League net spend over the last 5 years.

Don't be naive, who cares about net spend anymore? City and Red Bull have a dozen clubs each in their network creating artificial balances. Not to mention, that all billionaires shake hands with each other, moving and laundering money around like candy. We stopped playing by the same rules when football clubs were allowed to be reduced to toys, stages and propaganda tools.

 

[Jenks]

Don't be naive, who cares about net spend anymore? City and Red Bull have a dozen clubs each in their network creating artificial balances. Not to mention, that all billionaires shake hands with each other, moving and laundering money around like candy. We stopped playing by the same rules when football clubs were allowed to be reduced to toys, stages and propaganda tools.

They're 5th in Premier League gross spend over the last 5 years.

 

[khaled_a_d]

They're 5th in Premier League gross spend over the last 5 years.

Last year City was top 3 in Europe and first in EPL in their salary cap. Which is the actual spending if we are being honest here.

We will see in few weeks if other teams beat them this year, possible with the amount spent by tge likes of Liverpool and Arsenal.