Premier League 17-18 Discussion Part 2

Nishankly wrote:Welcome back to Earth mole

Casciavit wrote:What's Merino's profile?

I rep any press-resistant baller. Is he that kind of player?

ES wrote:Mole hyping Moreno, walk in to top 6?

I suppose i should hype Kessie as well because he's young, plays for us and ?

Amazing how fans are deluded by their own players, have some humility and be critical

ES wrote:Mole hyping Moreno, walk in to top 6?

I suppose i should hype Kessie as well because he's young, plays for us and ?

Amazing how fans are deluded by their own players, have some humility and be critical

ES wrote:Kessie would legit be a top 3 midfielder in PL, the Lukaku of midfielders, his weight to body ratio is insane, the pace and power plus the ability to keep balance is rare.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Casciavit wrote:What's Merino's profile?

I rep any press-resistant baller. Is he that kind of player?

Busquets clone lol.

He probably covers ground better though, excellent at intercepting, standing tackles, really graceful and seems to never give the ball away and most of the time it's always a forward pass that breaks a zone.

Basically everytime he gets on the ball something happens and i don't remember he ever losing the ball due to being pressed.

Mind you we play Liverpool next week so that will be a test in that department, the others will have to step up as most of our players are not technically very good tbh.

Life according to Garth
You know the drill with Garth Crooks and his BBC Team of the Week; he is desperate to voice his opinion on each and every issue and will then attempt to crowbar his views into something resembling a team. It would be laughable if he weren’t being paid about ten times as much as Mediawatch.

He wants to write about Liverpool’s abject defending…so he picks Simon Mignolet in goal despite him conceding two goals and giving away a penalty; Jordan Pickford wants a word.

He wants to write about the decision not to send off Marcos Alonso…so he picks Cesar Azpilicueta.

He wants to write about Jose Mourinho being sent to the stands…so he picks Phil Jones.

He wants to write about Swansea’s defending…so he picks Watford’s Adrian Mariappa. Obviously.

He wants to write about Serge Aurier…so he picks Christian Eriksen.

He wants to write about Pep Guardiola, who ‘comes to work dressed like he’s going to a family barbecue on a Sunday afternoon’…so he picks Kevin De Bruyne.

He wants to write about Simon Francis’ challenge on Wayne Rooney…so he picks Oumar Niasse.

Congratulations are due to Leroy Sane, Philippe Coutinho, Alvaro Morata and Harry Kane, who seem to have been chosen because of their actual, you know, performances.

Somebody give the man a bloody column.

(Don’t).

Broken record
Jamie Redknapp, Sky Sports, April 2017: “If he [Eriksen] had tattoos and a different haircut, we wouldn’t stop talking about him! He just looks like a nice boy.”

Jamie Redknapp, Daily Mail, September 2017: ‘It’s easy to see why Eriksen does not have the same attention as Spurs’ other stars. He does not court the limelight – he almost needs a tattoo or a silly haircut to make him stand out!’

Because of course Harry Kane famously has a tattoo and a silly haircut.



Lukaku = strong, Kane = creative
Jamie Redknapp uses the bulk of his Daily Mail column to compare the Premier League’s ‘FAB FOUR’ strikers.

He starts, as is traditional with ‘FINISHING’ and ranks his four strikers in the order of Sergio Aguero, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku and Alvaro Morata.

Hmmm. Actual conversion rates in the Premier League this season read Aguero (26%), Kane (10%), Lukaku (22%) and Morata (30%). But of course the English boy is way ahead of both Lukaku and Morata for Redknapp Jnr.

Redknapp also claims that Kane has better AERIAL ABILITY than Lukaku and more PACE than Morata, which is odd because he describes the Chelsea striker as showing ‘blistering pace’ and ‘clinical finishing’ against Stoke.

Redknapp of course concedes that Lukaku has more STRENGTH than Kane; unfortunately for the Belgian, he did not also rank the strikers on penis length.

He ends on CREATIVITY and of course he puts Kane first, ahead of Aguero, Lukaku and Morata, and it’s that which takes the England striker past his rivals to be crowned the Premier League’s best striker.

Which is odd because Kane (who is ‘always looking to create chances’) has created a grand total of seven chances for his teammates in six Premier League games this season, at a rate of 1.2 per 90 minutes of football. Which obviously makes him more creative than Aguero (2.7), Lukaku (1.7) and Morata (1.2).

Or at least more English.

ES wrote:That was a knock on PL lol

My Kessie hate is well documented, ask @rincon

Hapless_Hans wrote:Bundesliga and BVB reject looking like prime Busquets in PL, nothing to see here tbh

RealGunner wrote:Ramsey is legit the best midfielder in the PL

RealGunner wrote:GL jinx imo



Krychowiak is too good for WBA lol. How did they get him ahead of a lot of better clubs?