Premier League Discussion Thread ~ 2024/25

[alexafc12]

So annoying

It will be horrible if Chelsea get CL football

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Liverpool now 2-0 down. They made 6 changes which I'm sure the other teams with CL hopes will be grateful for. Against such an odious team like Chelsea as well. Any hopes of resting half a team in our match at Anfield, please Mr Slot? No? Thought not.

Who cares what lineup Slot picked?

A more pressing question should be why TF Arteta picked a full strength squad v Bournemouth when he has the biggest game of his life on Wednesday? PSG rested almost everybody incl Donnaruma this weekend.

[Nuggets]

Liverpool now 2-0 down. They made 6 changes which I'm sure the other teams with CL hopes will be grateful for. Against such an odious team like Chelsea as well. Any hopes of resting half a team in our match at Anfield, please Mr Slot? No? Thought not.

Who cares what lineup Slot picked?

A more pressing question should be why TF Arteta picked a full strength squad v Bournemouth when he has the biggest game of his life on Wednesday? PSG rested almost everybody incl Donnaruma this weekend.

Arrogance and stupidity.

[Gordon Bennit]

Can't believe I need to say it again, but perhaps because we have not yet qualified for next season's CL? While it's pretty improbable that we won't, perhaps he (finally) sees us falling from 2nd to 3rd (more likely 4th once Newcastle and Liverpool have beaten us). And I care about the players Slot picked, because I can't stand Liverpool and don't want their fully rested 11 to have their way with us next week, plus it pisses me off that they have basically done a favour to Chelsea whose continued financially doped existence disgusts me.

[Highbury Hillbilly]

Can't believe I need to say it again, but perhaps because we have not yet qualified for next season's CL? While it's pretty improbable that we won't, perhaps he (finally) sees us falling from 2nd to 3rd (more likely 4th once Newcastle and Liverpool have beaten us). And I care about the players Slot picked, because I can't stand Liverpool and don't want their fully rested 11 to have their way with us next week, plus it pisses me off that they have basically done a favour to Chelsea whose continued financially doped existence disgusts me.

OK, but why v Bournemouth? We had more than enough depth to give starters some rest before PSG. Would playing Neto and Nwaneri have been too much to ask?

Now the starting XI will all have to play v PSG, then Newcastle and then Liverpool. By that time the stakes for CL qualification might be even higher, and player fitness would be at its lowest. This is amateurish, fearful management.

[Gordon Bennit]

Can't believe I need to say it again, but perhaps because we have not yet qualified for next season's CL? While it's pretty improbable that we won't, perhaps he (finally) sees us falling from 2nd to 3rd (more likely 4th once Newcastle and Liverpool have beaten us). And I care about the players Slot picked, because I can't stand Liverpool and don't want their fully rested 11 to have their way with us next week, plus it pisses me off that they have basically done a favour to Chelsea whose continued financially doped existence disgusts me.

OK, but why v Bournemouth? We had more than enough depth to give starters some rest before PSG. Would playing Neto and Nwaneri have been too much to ask?

Now the starting XI will all have to play v PSG, then Newcastle and then Liverpool. By that time the stakes for CL qualification might be even higher, and player fitness would be at its lowest. This is amateurish, fearful management.

I'm assuming Neto wouldn't have been allowed against his parent club, but no idea why Nwaneri didn't start.

As for why Bournemouth? Because including that match, we've only won 1 of the last 5 (Ipswich) which is easily the worst form out of the current Top 5. Everyone kept saying this game doesn't matter, that game doesn't matter, but if we'd played like one or two of them actually did matter, then Bournemouth and pretty much the Dippers and the Geordies wouldn't matter in the slightest.

[VCC]

I'm picking Nwaneri has said something along the lines of why can't I get in the side ahead of that that,and Arteta is doing his " I pick the team"

[Ach]

No problem with the team v Bournemouth. Every problem with the performance

[alexafc12]

Real shame that Forest look to have bottled CL

With a relatively easy run of fixtures too

[VCC]

Real shame that Forest look to have bottled CL

With a relatively easy run of fixtures too

Small squad, note the similarity

[Nuggets]

I'm picking Nwaneri has said something along the lines of why can't I get in the side ahead of that that,and Arteta is doing his " I pick the team"

Sounds about right.

[Losmeister]

Real shame that Forest look to have bottled CL

With a relatively easy run of fixtures too

Small squad, note the similarity

exactly. we need more high quality players.

[VCC]

Real shame that Forest look to have bottled CL

With a relatively easy run of fixtures too

Small squad, note the similarity

exactly. we need more high quality players.

Point is Arteta has signed 30 players on top of what was already available to him, the squad should not be small the reason it's small is his talent ID for the league is abysmal 90% of his signings have been flops

[Nuggets]

Real shame that Forest look to have bottled CL

With a relatively easy run of fixtures too

Small squad, note the similarity

exactly. we need more high quality players.

Point is Arteta has signed 30 players on top of what was already available to him, the squad should not be small the reason it's small is his talent ID for the league is abysmal 90% of his signings have been flops

That's what you get when you hire a conestacker for a manager.

[Nuggets]

SHampton is holding on so far.