[Closed] Soccerball - 2017/18 jumpers for goalposts megathread

Nonsense - he's a centre forward, not good enough to play centre forward for Utd, and stuck out on the wing instead. He won't start many big games and for £50m I'd be wanting a forward who can finish more consistently. Reminds me a bit of Theo Walcott, you can't compare him to Giggs!

he may still develop as personally - as in his personal life- last year he had a difficult time but the real talented one is Rashford.

I think he is more Ole than Ronnie or Giggs though

Rashford , if he keeps developing, could be immense.

I disagree SF. I think he's looking really confortable in that left wing position, and I think he'll get plenty of goals this season

Rashford is indeed the real deal though! A fully-formed instinctive out-and-out striker at 19!

I really rate Lingard too. Nice to see these great young players coming through, though as we all know 'you'll never win anything with kids" 😀

So....most valuable player in the Prem, based on what we've seen so far?

Hazard for me, followed by Mane. Rashford scrapes into the top ten.

Hazard is quality! Mane is too good for a mid-table/Europa places side like Liverpool. As is Courthino 😉

Matic is looking like the best buy of the season. Still can't quite believe Chelski sold him to us. He's transformed our midfield and freed up Pogba to go marauding forward. What were they thinking?

Lukaku looks like he's on for 30+ at this point, so money well spent

I still think Aguero is truly world class, and arguably the best player in the premiership. It's him or Lukaku for highest scorer this season, I reckon. Jesus looks worryingly prolific too. That's a serious frontline

Errrrrm sorry, Liverpool are in the Champions League.... Maybe you missed it...

Oh Bugger I meant Leroy Sane....not Mane, although he's pretty useful too! 🙁

Lukaku looks like he's on for 30+ at this point, so money well spent

Time will tell. I've always thought that he's a flat-track bully.

Errrrrm sorry, Liverpool are in the Champions League.... Maybe you missed it...

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EASY! EASY! EASY! 😆

Anyway.... not a chance next season. Mid-table obscurity beckons due to ongoing comedy defending. Same applies to getting out of the group stages of the CL

I would say De Brune has been the best player in the prem so far this season, he would make any striker look fantastic with the balls he puts in.

Let me know how much you'd like to bet on both 🙂

Matic is looking like the best buy of the season.

And when she was good, she was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Longfellow

I think lukka is the new andy cole lots of goals lots of missed chances and may stifle the development of rashford.

I agree de bruyne looks the best so far but it is hazard when fully fit.

Not sure why Binners is so enamoured with our new super sub 😉

I just go misty-eyed with memories of Ole JY. And I'm loving the Tony/Rashford super-sub double act. Whichever one starts, the other comes on and scores. Not a bad set up really

Weeksy. - what are we betting on then, my friend?

I'll have a fiver you don't get out of the group, and I'll have twenty on you not worrying the top 4 spots this season 😀

Jammers can tell you where to procure your payment method when you lose 🙂

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Ooh... STW footie bets! 😀 (I'm keeping well clear, being a Gooner!)

Yeah fair call, De Bruyne has been highlighted by the Pundits for his quality passing, makes the top five, but no goals in five appearances, despite his team running wild, means he's not near the top. Sane, 2 goals already despite being a sub...and what goals too! He's only 21.

he is not there to score the goals he is there to make the goals for the strikers and he has 4 assists

He is one of those players who just improves the whole offensive line of the team

others will get you goals but not necessarily make the team [ as a collective] better though they will improve team results

I think Matic has done the same at man U this year - though more for balance than offensive reason.

The thing is, IMO, you want your midfielders to mainly provide assists and pop up with a few goals throughout a season, I think it can become a problem when a midfielder gets too much of an eye for the goal and starts to rob the team of better opportunities if he passed instead of shooting. That is currently De Brunes role.

[url= https://www.premierleague.com/players/5384/Leroy-San%C3%A9/overview ]saw this earlier[/url]

(From last season) But yes, nothing cut and dried in my opinions, which are just that, some of my fave players are defenders who don't get anything like the publicity of the aforementioned players, but just as important to the team.

some of my fave players are defenders

And you're a gooner? My deepest condolences 😀

[i]some of my fave players are defenders[/i]

And you're a gooner? My deepest condolences

Wouldn't change him for anyone!

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KDB best player so far even if he has not scored yet. His delivery is outstanding and he has been working hard, tackling etc.

Gundogan was having a great game at WBA before Tactical Tony got his caveman cloggers to take him out whilst the ref looked on gormlessly. If he can keep fit then I think he will be one of the best in the league.

Interesting that Manyoo and City have each got a group of talented young forwards. Jesus, Sane and Raheem are better than Rashford, Martial and Lingard imo but I would say that as a Blue.

Of them all I think Jesus has the most potential to be a genuine global star.

I'm not sure if uncle woy is talking to himself, or doesn't realise his backroom staff aren't on the bench next to him 😆

Aguero has arrantly been in a car crash, messes up city for the chelski game this weekend, and my fantasy team.

Must have been a pretty bad accident as well, look at the state it has made of his jeans.

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if anyone gives a shi*t here is an report from CNN about my local team here in the frozen north of Sweden.

Galatasary beaten, Europe league qualification and last night a Bundelsiga team crushed, all led by an Englishman.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/28/football/ostersunds-sweden-europa-league-daniel-kindberg-graham-potter/index.html

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What a fantastic weekends results! If Chelski and city had drawn it'd be perfect! Another demonstration of attacking mediocrity and defensive ineptitude.. Klopp out? 😆

^^ your obsessed with Liverpool!

They're just the gift that never stops giving. I've got a lot of Scouse mates and I'm absolutely loving their mid-table mediocrity. According to most of them at the start of the season, this was definitely 'their year' . I've been listening to it for 25 years, and this squad looks further away than ever. Absolutely hopeless at the back - pure comedy - and now the goals have dried up too

😆

On a less gloating note, what on earth is going on at Everton?

They're shockingly bad! I think my prediction that they'll be challenging for top four has proved the usual kiss of death. Burnley were good, but Everton were absolutely awful today. Again.

Everton look to have spent their Lukaku money badly, signing good players without a plan for the team or a style of play.

Utd only won after we softened palace up for them last week, and only 4 goals, pffft.

City result was good in that they showed a work ethic and determination that had been lacking for some years, but the pundits have been going overboard, they have played better before.

City look scarily good at the moment. De Bruyne's goal yesterday looked like Scholes at his peak. Which is (worryingly) exactly who he reminds me of overall.

Well I'm here for the big match of the weekend, kicking off at 12.30. Binnerette number one playing centre back for Longford Girls against Cadishead 🙂

I believe there's another smaller match being played simultaneously. I'm hoping all the King Kenny stand naming hoo-ha proves to be the kiss of death that it usually is when anyone does owt like that. It could be anything though

The obsession continues....

Obsession with closing out matches and making them dull?

Pool on top and trying Man U wanting one on the break - Lukaku should have scored and been booked

Lovren needs to stop lay acting.

Not a great match so far tbh.

If you are not prepared to attack that defence away from home then you wont ever win the league the horses did not run free today.

Sounds like I watched a better match. It was 8-1. Sadly, not to us

I take it that was a typically Jose exercise in bus-parking?

Hopefully Stoke will play as well against City as they did against us

If both teams tried to score and win then yes you did

City look in the mood again.

Looks like city will surpass my now standard 5-0 bet

It can only be a matter of time until city put double figures on someone.

Haha, just seen the palace v chelsea result 😆

That made me laugh as well 🙂

Watford are surely in with a shout of beating Arsenal here too

Looking forward to see how Utd go against the other 'big 6.' Surprised they didn't target Liverpool's dodgy defence more - maybe they have been flattered by their easy start to the league so far (played 5 of the bottom 6 before today's fixtures).

Watford are fourth! Above Chelski! Blimey! 😯

United have had an easy start. I really hoped Jose would have been more adventurous today. Liverpool are easy to score against with their ropey defence. Not a side you need to park the bus against

City are in a league of their own at the moment. Much as I hate to say it!

Man C - just wow. Wow

Man City are something else. Quite chuffed that we only lost 2-0 to them now 🙂

Man U v Liv lived up to expectations for me. Jose was only ever going there not to lose.
Fingers crossed we can put another nail in Koeman’s coffin today, but don’t have a good feeling about this one, but then I rarely do.

And the Third time of asking
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41643718

Newcastle United: Mike Ashley puts Premier League club up for sale

I do hope there is a serious investor ready to take charge and push with Rafa in the right direction.