How many days since Tottenham won a trophy ?
and
How many days until Southend are going to Wembley ?
Well I was completely wrong about this match.
It was awful.
I also had a fiver on a Man Utd win with Amad scoring.
I've avoided this thread all season as we've been so bad. We are still bad... but now we are WINNERS!!!
EUROPA CHAMPIONS!!
WHAT HAVE YOU WON IN THECLAST HALF DECADE GOONERS! HAHAHAHAHA!!
Phew! I feel better now. Thanks
We've won the prize for "managing to avoid building a stadium shaped like a toilet bowl" 😉
but now we are WINNERS!!!
and the prize is to keep Postaclueless.
Big weekend for Villa, can Forest do us a favour?
United have apparently put every single player up for sale. I hope Sir Jim doesn’t get trampled in the stampede of Europes top clubs to sign them all.
In other news, there is going to be an end of term barby for the players after all. That’s a relief.
With Peps comments this week, there are clearly players he wants out and he is pressuring the club to make sure it happens. That has been united's biggest failure over the past decade, getting rid of the players that are either disrupting the dressing room or just not good enough/injury prone.
Expecting deals to be done that are beyond the value of the players just keeps them hanging around and damages the teams performance, which costs more in the long run, sometimes you just have to cut your losses and move on, or the decline will just continue.
The problem is that United massively overpay for players, then stick them on long contracts on frankly insane wages, which no other club could match even if they wanted to, which they don’t.
So we end up in the mad situation where Sancho, Antony and Rashford (combined transfer fees paid - £150 million) are out on loan and we’re still paying some of their enormous wages.
Nobody is going to pay the crazy transfer fees United are asking or match the bonkers wages their agents are demanding.
So I fear we’ll start next season with largely the same squad of donkeys, minus Bruno, who’s the only player any other club would be interested in. We’ll probably also pull our usual stunt of being linked with loads of top players, then sign another Hojland for 90 million on the last day of the window. It wouldn’t surprise me if we end up paying City 100 million for Grealish.
I can also see a repeat of the Ten Hag debacle where we start the season with Amorim as manager but sack him before Christmas. We could well be in a proper relegation scrap by that point
Apparently got £100m to spend, with over half of that apparently going on Cunha, who will be a good signing I think. However, as you say, shipping players out will be hard, and they’ll have to accept a financial hit to get rid of some of the big earners. With limited signings likely, and Amorim’s refusal to adapt his system, I cannot see them getting anywhere near the Champions League places next season, although perhaps the lack of European games will help Amorim get his methods across.
If I was Cunha - would I want to go to Utd?
They are relying on their big 6 status to attract players, at least with no European football next season they can focus on the league.
Could a club of their status go down? Leeds, went from a Champions League semi & 4th in the league, to 5th, 15th & then 19th in 2004. 3 yrs later they finished at the bottom of the Championship & spent 3 years in League 1.
This summer & next season is crucial for Utd, I am not sure they have the right people at the top of the club to stop something similar happening.
If I was Cunha - would I want to go to Utd?
Well his agent will be able to negotiate him a nice 7 year contract on £250 grand a week. Whether thats worth sacrificing his career for is his decision
I am not sure they have the right people at the top of the club to stop something similar happening.
I’d absolutely agree with that.
Looking at what’s happened since he bought into United, Sir Jim has achieved what none of us believed possible…. he seems even worse at running a football club than the Glazers. And god only knows what Dave Brailsford is there for?
And god only knows what Dave Brailsford is there for?
Marginal gains. Hojland has a new pillow and handwashing regime and will now score 0.005% more goals per season.
I thought Brailsford was there for the same reason as the players, the pay packet.
He doesn't even seem able to organise the supply of jiffy bags any more.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing Cunha and Bruno throwing their arms up each time the other shoots from 25yrds instead of passing it to them.
He's a very good player but like a lot of signings that Man U have made, I do wonder if he fails the "no d**kheads" test. He's already had a couple of absolute headloss moments this season and I was at Molineux the other week and after he gave away the penalty he spent the rest of the time just shooting as soon as he got the ball and was hooked after about 50 mins because of it.
Looking at what’s happened since he bought into United, Sir Jim has achieved what none of us believed possible…. he seems even worse at running a football club than the Glazers.
Given his history of helping get a whole country out of Europe, it's nice to see he can reproduce that at a slightly smaller scale. Consistency is the key. All he needs now is Team Ineos to get banned from the grand tours and he's got the full set.
I thought Sir Jim was a black ops agent for Leeds United?
Given his history of helping get a whole country out of Europe, it's nice to see he can reproduce that at a slightly smaller scale. Consistency is the key
That made me properly chuckle
A London problem but the ITV local news is right boiling my piss with blanket coverage of the Europa Cup parade. 17 years, it's hardly any time! Palace should be on a 6 week bender by the same measure! It's a day that will be remembered for generations to come, the presenter has just said!
Sweet Jesus; I mean, really I'm glad it wasn't Man Utd and of course watching Arsenal's fans get all snippy is great too, but FFS.
Palace should be on a 6 week bender by the same measure!
I hope they are, because city didn't really play that bad at Wembley, it could be said that city weren't at the level they have been at in previous seasons, but the story of the game was how well palace performed, and some great saves by Henderson. Where as in last nights game nobody really deserved to be called a winner, it was a turgid embarrassment for English football, and frankly a disgrace that the winner gets to play in the champions league, palace would be a much more deserving CL team.
I also hope the palace team don't get gutted in the transfer market over the summer.
I was trying to think how they could stop CL contender teams gutting smaller teams whenever they have a good season, the only thing I can think of is if the fans vote for their top players in season, only 1 of the top 3 can be allowed to be sold.
Or just equalise the TV revenue despite league position, after all a competitive league is what all fans want, so equalising the revenue should mean that teams are not forced to sell.
I don’t think teams are forced to sell, they have little choice when a player’s head is turned, and wants to play for one of the bigger clubs. There’s so much depth and money now in the EPL - look at some of the players that play for mid table clubs. Evanilson, Mbeoumo, Wharton, Eze, Baleba off the top of my head. Teams have broken into the top end - Forest, Villa etc, replacing the likes of Spurs and United.
There’s so much depth and money now in the EPL - look at some of the players that play for mid table clubs. Evanilson, Mbeoumo, Wharton, Eze, Baleba off the top of my head.
Not one of those players were stars beforehand though, they were given a chance by those clubs. You make it sound like these players were playing for big clubs in Europe before they were plucked by those mid table EPL clubs when Wharton and Eze were playing in the championship, Baleba was a bit part player for Lille and I think Brentford signed Mbeumo from a French academy (I’ve no idea where Evanilson is from)
it was a turgid embarrassment for English football, and frankly a disgrace that the winner gets to play in the champions league
Indeed. But it was always going to be. 16th v 17th, two teams who have been absolutely bloody awful all season.
At the end of the day though, all they’ve done is earn the right to get trounced by AZ Alkmaar or someone to go out in the first round of the CL next season. Can you imagine if either of those absolutely dismal squads came up against Inter or Barcelona? It could be a cricket score?
Have we heard from binners since McTominay was voted Serie A player of the year?
Really pleased for McTominay - he always looked a bit compromised wherever he was played at United. With Antony rattling them in for Betis it’s hard not to agree with Binners that the club is the problem.
A snip at £25 million.
United players have at last unlocked the secret for winning titles.
I think Liverpool should give Crystal Palace a guard of honour at Anfield tomorrow.
Is it time to scrap the play offs? Such a ridiculous system
Delighted for Sunderland. Be good to have another mad derby in the prem next season.
And Aberdeen winning the Scottish Cup, in a game that wasnt a great deal better than Wednesdays Europa final. But, to make it better, I had my only bet of the season, on Aberdeen at 11/2, at a massive £3 stake, so it isnt going to stop me working!
Imagine finishing 14 points clear of your rivals, losing one match and they go up. Ooof.
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The Dons fans were brilliant today, sang from start to finish. Enjoying a pint of Callum MacGregors tears tonight.
Rollercoaster of a season for the Dons - incredible start, fell off a cliff, scrambled for a bit, good cup run, lost third, then humbling Celtic. Ace.
Imagine finishing 14 points clear of your rivals, losing one match and they go up. Ooof.
I have a feeling that, once play offs were guaranteed, sunderland eased up for the last few matches. Based off that match yesterday, I don't think they'll be in the PL for long.
The play offs have obviously worked in the sense that there are games that are live to the end of the season where way more teams are still in it, rather than marking time. And of course the event and the paydays are fabulous fun (even though eventually someone ends up hating it)
But it does at times feel like you've run a marathon only for the first 4 finishers to then be told that the winner's going to be decided by a 60 yard dash. I'm still bitter that Reading would have made PL in the year when the PL numbers were reduced, so we even came second that year and still didn't go up!!
So that said - why not at the other end of the table which can be left dead from April onwards. PL for example, if that was 2 down and next 4 playing to survive, then Wolves would still be playing for survival today, and Leicester would have a chance. I know the answer is the clubs want their secure finances, etc. but that why it isn't used rather than the benefits for what is supposed to be an entertainment business.
I actually didn't watch the playoff final yesterday as I forgot it was on until someway into watching the Borduex v Saints final.
Top marks to Arsenal women yesterday on winning the Champions League!
Kind of mad/impressive that it drew an attendance of 38,000 - but that both teams regularly play to bigger crowds than that at home! The women's NLD had 56,000 fans this season...
It’s going to be a very interesting final day of the season today. It’s so tight for those European spots. So much for the ‘Big Six’
No doubt Villa have got a guaranteed 3 points by comprehensively trouncing us to round off our utterly dismal season. I’m sure the mood will be absolutely fabulous at OT, with Sir Jim announcing another couple of hundred staff redundancies on Friday.
I’m just watching Charlton v Leyton Orient. Matches don’t get much more open than this!
Edit: what a free kick that was!!!
Well. That’s that then (aside from the Conference League). As a Chelsea fan, I’m pretty pleased with the way things turned out. Could have been a lot worse & we did well to finish with 5 wins out of 6 (especially given our attack didn’t really manage to score).
How is everyone else feeling about their season? I’m intrigued to see how many Spurs supporters think they have had an ‘Outstanding’ one.
Ipswich Town fan. It went how I expected, sadly. If we had held onto half the leads we threw away then we would have been comfortably safe, which is a little disappointing.
Now we need to try and hang on to some of our better players for next season.
