⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽

[legendbtc]

Even if Manchester United has plans of sacking him, they can't introduce a failed manager like Graham Potter as replacement for Erik Ten Hag. That would be ridiculous!

It actually would be ridiculous if Man United decides to do away with Ten Hag and goes ahead and selects Graham Potter to be his replacement. I wouldn’t exactly call him a failed manager although his time at Chelsea haven’t been rosy either.
He definitely wouldn’t be a good pick in my opinion. He would probably be more clueless and probably struggle a great deal more than Ten Hag has. His services as a manager would not be able to give Man United a much needed face lift.

Coach Ten Hag is under heavy pressure, as MU has been playing quite poorly recently. They have little hope of competing for a position in the top 4 of the Premier League. Ten Hag could not find a solution to improve the situation. With these bad results, Ten Hag's future at MU is becoming extremely unclear. The team's leadership is waiting for the season to end before deciding on the head coach position. His dismissal is possible, but Sir Jim Ratcliffe cannot foolishly choose coach Graham Potter to replace coach Ten Hag. Graham Potter failed miserably and was fired by Chelsea after only 6 months. Graham Potter will be MU's wrong choice. Replacing Ten Hag with a coach who failed at Chelsea was a bad choice.

Whether right or wrong, MU fans want a big name to lead the team once Ten Hag leaves. For example, They like Zinedine Zidane more than Graham Potter.

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[Litzki1990]

In the case of Manchester United, the same thing has happened, earlier there was a different excitement to watch the game of Manchester United, now the excitement to watch the game of Manchester United does not work, it means that the popularity of the game of Manchester United has decreased. As we come to the end of this season, we will be hoping that Manchester United can plan the best from next season and deliver consistent performances.

I think Manchester United just needs changes and a major overhaul, they are not playing very consistently this season but are always full of surprises, that's why Manchester United is a little boring this season, but I don't know who is at fault in this case, whether it is Ten Hag or the players. which is less productive, I think if next season Ten Hag is replaced of course there will definitely be newer changes to the style of play and also maybe it won't be boring let alone disappointing all the supporters, clearly this season has had too many disappointing results and seen a lot of disappointment from all the supporters .

I also think that Manchester United needs new players to be able to make it stronger next season, at least replace some of the players who were less productive this season next season so that they can have the progress that all supporters hope for, I often see where many Manchester United supporters are at my country has always been the subject of ridicule by my friends, even always ridiculed with memes and so on, I know that this team was great in its time but since this season they don't look good, I definitely support changes for the better in the next season at least. The EPL next season will be full of quite tight competition.

Manchester United have good quality players and if I try to match their performance with these players I can never match their performance with the skill of the player. I would say Manchester United have bought good quality players but they are not using the players properly. With three to four regular players from Brazil performing for Manchester United, as well as having some of Europe's best players, why isn't this club performing well? Manchester United is a team that lacks enough consistency and lacks proper team management. When the team is managed properly and when the team performs consistently and plays with the right tactics, then there is no doubt that this team will be the best team in the Premier League.

[emrecemsan]

Premier League referees with their selfish interest will find a way to abuse it because we have seen so many cases where the premier league referees do make errors while playing in the game and apologize after the match , but the technology works for the betterment of officiating the premier league matches.

Yes, these have even been errors that changed the direction of many matches. A goal that wasn't given to Luis Diaz vs Tottenham, a very obvious penalty which wasn't given to Liverpool vs Manchester City and many more...

I assume we are going to start AI taking over in matches instead of human referees at a point. It is difficult to predict when but I believe that it will happen. For now we have technology in football just for aiding referees. But in the future AI can decrease the error probability to even 0. If we come back to the main topic I hope that the semi-automated offside technology can really decrease the number of errors much more.  

[Moreno233]

It looks like the semi-automated offside technology is coming to the Premier League as well next season. As far as I can remember we saw this being used in the latest World Cup first. This is a good technology to make a decision on if it is offside faster.

I know this will be a great addition because even with VFL there are still mistakes especially with offsides. Football as well as other sports have truly been impacted greatly by technology and that is something fantastic.

However Premier League referees might still find a way to make a wrong decision though. 

Seems you don't have much confidence. This reminds me of a popular rumor in my neighborhood that Howard Webb was a Man United fans because they thought he always favor them in all the matches he officiates. I have not notice much mistakes form Premiership referees especially now that we have VFL in place. Often I usually predict what the decision of the referee will be whenever they are about checking the VFL.

[Cityhunter34]

Sure Arsenal's performance this season in the league shows how ready they are to win the English Premier League this season unlike other seasons when they will start the season with losing their first two matches then later on they will come back to winning ways and when they start getting to the middle of the season they start dropping points again, they had that similar issues last season when they were ahead of Manchester City but 10 matches left to the end of the season they dropped so many points and City took over the lead and win the league. Looking at the number of matches they have played and won and the big matches ahead of them before the end of the season,  I don't think Tottenham Hotspur nor Aston Villa can stop them from winning the league no matter where they are going to meet whether they are playing from home or away they decent performance of Arsenal only shows how prepared they are in winning any opponent they come across till the end of the season.

I will never forget what they did last season in a hurry. After which we all have the confidence that they'll be taking the top team for the English premier league title last season, they just disappointed the entire fan and even this who just supported them because Man City it turning the league into a farmers league by taking the title back to back. However all I wanted was for them to take the title and let EPL go back to the way it was were it was very competitive. Arsenal still have about 7 more matches to play before EPL Is concluded fro the season, out of which 3 are going to be tough for them, on the other hand Liverpool also seem to be the favourite of taking the EPL title but their current performance is a bit troubling, though when it comes to their remaining EPL match they are like to win the remaining games except that of Tottenham which might give them a tough time, but anyway let watch and see what the outcome will look like.

One thing about arsenal is that at the beginning of the season dey always play well but before the end dey will start to lose match, just check out what dey did last season even me self I almost put bet with my friends that arsenal is going to take the premier league title but to my greatest surprise arsenal could not take the premier league title. And the way am seeing their match tomorrow against Aston villa I think is going to be a though one for them, because their first match with Aston villa on earlier December last year was Aston villa 1-0 arsenal so I think this second match is going to end In a Draw match, I think the premier league title this season is going to be Liverpool or Man City.

[tusandii]

In the case of Manchester United, the same thing has happened, earlier there was a different excitement to watch the game of Manchester United, now the excitement to watch the game of Manchester United does not work, it means that the popularity of the game of Manchester United has decreased. As we come to the end of this season, we will be hoping that Manchester United can plan the best from next season and deliver consistent performances.

I think Manchester United just needs changes and a major overhaul, they are not playing very consistently this season but are always full of surprises, that's why Manchester United is a little boring this season, but I don't know who is at fault in this case, whether it is Ten Hag or the players. which is less productive, I think if next season Ten Hag is replaced of course there will definitely be newer changes to the style of play and also maybe it won't be boring let alone disappointing all the supporters, clearly this season has had too many disappointing results and seen a lot of disappointment from all the supporters .

I also think that Manchester United needs new players to be able to make it stronger next season, at least replace some of the players who were less productive this season next season so that they can have the progress that all supporters hope for, I often see where many Manchester United supporters are at my country has always been the subject of ridicule by my friends, even always ridiculed with memes and so on, I know that this team was great in its time but since this season they don't look good, I definitely support changes for the better in the next season at least. The EPL next season will be full of quite tight competition.

Manchester United have good quality players and if I try to match their performance with these players I can never match their performance with the skill of the player. I would say Manchester United have bought good quality players but they are not using the players properly. With three to four regular players from Brazil performing for Manchester United, as well as having some of Europe's best players, why isn't this club performing well? Manchester United is a team that lacks enough consistency and lacks proper team management. When the team is managed properly and when the team performs consistently and plays with the right tactics, then there is no doubt that this team will be the best team in the Premier League.

So is this Erik Ten Hag's fault??
Yes of course that's true if a club like MU can get the right coach it certainly won't be this bad even though it has reliable players but Erik Ten Hag is not able to manage MU players well it will definitely only end up like a weak club without having the strength to compete. with other big clubs.
Everyone supports if Manchester United replaces Erik Ten Hag with a new coach who is better and has great experience to manage the club to become stronger.

Because Erik Ten Hag no longer has the strength to make Manchester United's performance better than before, even though in his first season Erik Ten Hag was praised by everyone but unfortunately he has not been able to maintain Manchester United's good performance until now so in my opinion MU should recruiting a new coach at the end of the season but with better experience than Erik Ten Hag.

[Velvet78]

Have you seen the Newcastle - Tottenham game? Newcastle really demolished them by 4-0. Tottenham were so desperate. They were a little better in offense in the first half at least but this was also gone in the second half. Their defending was just too bad.    van de Ven couldn't defend the last man in the first two goals and Newcastle got ahead 2-0 very easy suddenly.

We couldn't see a recovering Tottenham later on. While they are in critical weeks they shouldn't play this horrible. They are fighing for a Champions League spot against Aston Villa. They will hope for Arsenal to beat them tomorrow. Tottenham still have a missing game though but it is in their hands to make it an advantage for themselves.

[Cityhunter34]

Man City vs Luton town just started now and so far is Man City 1- 0 Luton town the game is going to be a though one for Luton town because watching the way Man City players are playing I think before the end of first half is going to be 2 zero or 3 against Luton town.

because the pressure that Man City is using in this match I think Luton town could not be able to withstand Man City because their first goal was on goal by Luton town prayer.

[makishart]

Luton is losing 0-1 against Manchester City but since it was also playing at city's home and the result is a common thing to see luton to lose in this match. City has very big chances to win in this game considering luton was not able performing even better than before.
The performance from luton is very different.

City was leading the game following an OWN goal by a Luton player and it helped city a lot. Even in the first half, Haaland missed a lot of chances. Luton can only play defensively against Manchester City. It still has zeroes in all of its statistics in this game and city is owning everything at this moment. Manchester city is trying even harder to score another goal but luton put all of its players in front off the goal keeper which is also making the game becomes even harder for city.
Manchester City is performing even better than before, but this team is always struggling with finishing. Playing without Foden is altering the situation at the club.

Haaland is losing his best form after missing numerous scoring opportunities but he has not yet given up. Haaland must return to his best form soon, as the match against Madrid approaches and he must be fully ready in order to help madrid to qualify for the further stage.
Manchester City has very low odds for this match, and I'm wondering if the club isn't as good as it was last season caused by some changes that happened at the early season.

The club appears to rely too heavily on a few players like silva and foden. The outcome of this match can be predicted easily if Luton loses to Manchester City soon. Luton has no chance to make comeback against city.

[sokani]

I think Manchester United just needs changes and a major overhaul, they are not playing very consistently this season but are always full of surprises, that's why Manchester United is a little boring this season, but I don't know who is at fault in this case, whether it is Ten Hag or the players. which is less productive, I think if next season Ten Hag is replaced of course there will definitely be newer changes to the style of play and also maybe it won't be boring let alone disappointing all the supporters, clearly this season has had too many disappointing results and seen a lot of disappointment from all the supporters .

I don't think the present crops of players Manchester United has are that bad that there should be a need for an overhaul of the current squad. What they need is just a little re-enforcement at the back and a proven striker upfront to compete with Hojllund, United should be firing on full cylinder. Also, they need a new coach, even if United makes some re-enforcement next season, I don't think ETH can make a difference. His job is currently hanging on the balance and not giving United CL football may cost him his job.

[RockBell]

One thing about arsenal is that at the beginning of the season dey always play well but before the end dey will start to lose match, just check out what dey did last season even me self I almost put bet with my friends that arsenal is going to take the premier league title but to my greatest surprise arsenal could not take the premier league title. And the way am seeing their match tomorrow against Aston villa I think is going to be a though one for them, because their first match with Aston villa on earlier December last year was Aston villa 1-0 arsenal so I think this second match is going to end a in Draw match, I think the premier league title this season is going to be Liverpool or Man City.

Arsenal always have a problem with consistency and that is one of the reasons we are always fallen off the table but let's hope that this time will be different. Since they are the one topping the table currently now am getting more confident that arsenal will pull strings this period. The period of arsenal losing match is long gone. And this is a new era i don't think  we are going to be losing any game the worst that can happen is draw with all the clubs they think will beat us. What if we win the Premier League what will happen arsenal to deserve the trophy. But I don't want the reason why they don't want Arsenal to win the Premier League.

Arsenal will not give Aston villa breathing space. The session is one of the best season for top three. The outcome is what everyone is waiting for.

[Oluwa-btc]

Even if Manchester United has plans of sacking him, they can't introduce a failed manager like Graham Potter as replacement for Erik Ten Hag. That would be ridiculous!

It actually would be ridiculous if Man United decides to do away with Ten Hag and goes ahead and selects Graham Potter to be his replacement. I wouldn’t exactly call him a failed manager although his time at Chelsea haven’t been rosy either.
He definitely wouldn’t be a good pick in my opinion. He would probably be more clueless and probably struggle a great deal more than Ten Hag has. His services as a manager would not be able to give Man United a much needed face lift.

Not just Graham Potter, they have also mentioned Gareth Southgate as potential replacement too but I find all of these as BS since Fabrizio Romano hasn't said nothing about the sack of Erik Ten Hag and also the replacement.

Graham Potter cannot win the Premier League Competition infact no English Coach has done it in history in the Premier League Competition and I would like to see him successfully doing well after his time with Chelsea didn't go well but that shouldn't be with Manchester United.
His best season as a coach in the Premier League Competition landed him tenth position, I don't know if this is what they want to entertain in the Premier League.

[uchegod-21]

Even if Manchester United has plans of sacking him, they can't introduce a failed manager like Graham Potter as replacement for Erik Ten Hag. That would be ridiculous!

It actually would be ridiculous if Man United decides to do away with Ten Hag and goes ahead and selects Graham Potter to be his replacement. I wouldn’t exactly call him a failed manager although his time at Chelsea haven’t been rosy either.
He definitely wouldn’t be a good pick in my opinion. He would probably be more clueless and probably struggle a great deal more than Ten Hag has. His services as a manager would not be able to give Man United a much needed face lift.

If Manchester United do away with Ten Hag and choose Graham Potter over Ten Hag, that means the performance of Manchester United will be as plant with a stunted growth, you can cross check the time Graham Potter is the coach of Chelsea, was it be able to change the situation of Chelsea, the answer is no, for me Gram Potter needs more training towards coaching institute because all the time he stays in Chelsea their was nothing positive in that particular club, so if Manchester United want to be going low in every of their matches they should go ahead and choose Graham Potter over Ten Hag

Sometimes I wonder how news or rumours fly. Was there link to the claim that Manchester United is interested in Graham Potter? Someone might just wake up and in the quest to complete their post count will arise one baseless claim and people will begin to debate about it.

Every coach has their silly days and in those days you will even understand that ordinary you can make better decisions than the coach. If Manchester United management provides ETH with quality players, he will be able to improve the overall club performance. But if they want to fire him, Potter shouldn't be an option for replacement.

[yudi09]

I don't think the present crops of players Manchester United has are that bad that there should be a need for an overhaul of the current squad. What they need is just a little re-enforcement at the back and a proven striker upfront to compete with Hojllund, United should be firing on full cylinder. Also, they need a new coach, even if United makes some re-enforcement next season, I don't think ETH can make a difference. His job is currently hanging on the balance and not giving United CL football may cost him his job.

The second goal for Bournemouth's lead has just been scored. In my opinion, Kluivert's goal process lies in Dalot's negligence in guarding the Bournemouth players. If I were in charge like Erik, I wouldn't play Dalot because he's a defender but doesn't know how to defend. He was too busy helping attack so that when there was a counterattack, Dalot was left behind.

This means they are really bad in defense. If you don't believe it, please watch their ongoing match.
Hojlund was not given any wiggle room. The flow of the ball towards him was also quiet. A new coach also may not be able to change Manchester United if their game is still stiff.
UCL, to the European League is doubtful for them next season.

[redsun114]

I believe that Arsenal still looks strong so maybe it won't be like other years, maybe they won't start to get worse. Doesn't mean that they are going to win everything, they could still end up with a loss, we should just consider that Arsenal has stayed longer than last time and seems to be going strong, didn't lose any games in a while as well.

I think this could very well be their season. Of course they could fail too, there is no shame in that, they have two very big competition and both Liverpool and City will do their best to win it as well, doesn't mean that whoever loses ends up being bad. People do not remember the second place, or how you got the champions title, they remember who won it, so only thing matters is the end.

[Palakka]

I believe that Arsenal still looks strong so maybe it won't be like other years, maybe they won't start to get worse. Doesn't mean that they are going to win everything, they could still end up with a loss, we should just consider that Arsenal has stayed longer than last time and seems to be going strong, didn't lose any games in a while as well.

I think this could very well be their season. Of course they could fail too, there is no shame in that, they have two very big competition and both Liverpool and City will do their best to win it as well, doesn't mean that whoever loses ends up being bad. People do not remember the second place, or how you got the champions title, they remember who won it, so only thing matters is the end.

Arsenal's performance this season is indeed very extraordinary and even they can be a strong candidate to win the Premier League this season, but still I doubt their consistency can last until the end of the season, because I see last season consistency make the cause of Arsenal failing to win is because their consistency began to be disrupted towards the end of the season and as a result they could only win the runner up position last season,  It's not just last season but consistency is actually Arsenal's disease, even if we look back of course we can see how Arsenal continue to fail due to their performance ups and downs, and hopefully this season we won't see Arsenal's illness recur this season and make them extend the title drought.

What you are saying is very true, for now Arsenal can be top of the table but the question now is whether they can last long?
Tomorrow's game will be a test for Arsenal, because currently Aston Villa has a pretty good performance, so it might be a stumbling block for Arsenal in maintaining the top of the table this week.

[Cityhunter34]

I believe that Arsenal still looks strong so maybe it won't be like other years, maybe they won't start to get worse. Doesn't mean that they are going to win everything, they could still end up with a loss, we should just consider that Arsenal has stayed longer than last time and seems to be going strong, didn't lose any games in a while as well.

I think this could very well be their season. Of course they could fail too, there is no shame in that, they have two very big competition and both Liverpool and City will do their best to win it as well, doesn't mean that whoever loses ends up being bad. People do not remember the second place, or how you got the champions title, they remember who won it, so only thing matters is the end.

Well, if you check out now you will see that Man City is topping the premier league table with 2 points, I think by this time tomorrow if arsenal or Liverpool win their match is going to be one of them on top of premier league table, but arsenal against Aston villa is going to be a though one why Liverpool against crystal palace is also going to be a though game but I strongly believe that at end, Liverpool is going to won crystal palace.

[makishart]

Have you seen the Newcastle - Tottenham game? Newcastle really demolished them by 4-0. Tottenham were so desperate. They were a little better in offense in the first half at least but this was also gone in the second half. Their defending was just too bad.    van de Ven couldn't defend the last man in the first two goals and Newcastle got ahead 2-0 very easy suddenly.

I tell you something


That picture has full explained why totenham was losing with numerous goals aaginst totenham. Look at the defensive line, they are all going upfront and this is the main weakness of totenham. Many critics have been going toward ange but he does not even care to it. It was quite strange to see how totenham was playing so garbage in this match.
Ange needs to re think about use the same strategy for the upcoming game. It was a newcastle that can't be pressured like that. I think that many team fully understood about the main weakness from totenahm.
I will call ange as a dumb coach if he will implement the same strategy for the upcoming match.

We couldn't see a recovering Tottenham later on. While they are in critical weeks they shouldn't play this horrible. They are fighing for a Champions League spot against Aston Villa. They will hope for Arsenal to beat them tomorrow. Tottenham still have a missing game though but it is in their hands to make it an advantage for themselves.

Totenham is just getting even worse since ange was always using the same strategy anytime. He can't even force his club to follow his order caused by it was also risking totenham's position right now. Losing against newcastle is a bad result.

[Docnaster]

Premier League referees with their selfish interest will find a way to abuse it because we have seen so many cases where the premier league referees do make errors while playing in the game and apologize after the match , but the technology works for the betterment of officiating the premier league matches.

Yes, these have even been errors that changed the direction of many matches. A goal that wasn't given to Luis Diaz vs Tottenham, a very obvious penalty which wasn't given to Liverpool vs Manchester City and many more...

I assume we are going to start AI taking over in matches instead of human referees at a point. It is difficult to predict when but I believe that it will happen. For now we have technology in football just for aiding referees. But in the future AI can decrease the error probability to even 0. If we come back to the main topic I hope that the semi-automated offside technology can really decrease the number of errors much more.  

The introduction of so many technologies in the game of football to ease the job of the referees and as well reduce the obvious errors in the game of football is without doubt a very good development. However, I think it's affected the excitement of the game because before their introduction, football was more dramatic and was filled with so many controversial moments. If they continue to introduce more technological measures in the game, we'll get to a point whereby the referees will not have much power to make vital decisions during games. The technological innovations are truly helpful but it's killing the fun of the game of football

[ILuckyGuyI]

Tottenham are just lost you know... They have lost their way even though they made a great start with Ange Postecoglou to the season first. They just can't keep a consistent season for years in fact.

This isn't about Harry Kane's departure or something like that. Kane was doing his best for them by scoring so many goals. The main issue is that they haven't been able to learn to play as a team consistently.

There is a big hole in their defense this season also and you can't defend a dangerous team like Newcastle in this way.    I think Emery has more chance to get 4th place with Aston Villa at the end of the season. I definitely like Aston Villa's game more than Tottenham generally.