[Football] Relegation candidates next season

[Kinky Gerbil]

6th - 10th bracket?

You're miles off that, even without the plump Neighbours icon running things. How many of your team would get into the Bournemouth first XI, for example? Two at most I would guess.

Vicario/VDV/Romero/Porro/Bent/Solanke literally did / son

Plus players like Bentancur are shells of the players under Ange

Woefully mismanaged squad of players

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I was talking about Spurs the other day with someone, if we had signed Brennan Johnson for £50m I would have thought TB was starting to lose the plot. Bang average winger in this league.
Levy the business man outside of football maybe, he is one of the worst when it comes to making footballing decisions.

Levy isn't making footballing decisions anymore. Munn is.

I miss sacking Dan

 

[Austrian Gull]

Not sure I'd be too relaxed as a Wolves fan. If Cunha leaves they would need to bring in some real quality to replace him.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There’s always someone from the mid-table pack who gets their summer wrong (poor managerial change, bad signings) and drops toward the danger zone. This could feasibly be anyone outside the plastic 6. Complacency is dangerous in this regard.

You mean.....us?

This year I finally got over the 'will it all go to bollocks' anxiety I have had at the start of every season.
We are now on our fourth EPL manager, and seem to be getting stronger.
This season we have finally moved on from being quirky and weird in the way we play to bamboozle,
and now look like an actual proper EPL side with strength all over the pitch and bench.
So....

So we are doomed. Nailed on to go down next season

 

[loz]

I think West Ham and Palace could struggle because of their lack of a coherant recruitment strategy. Then the smaller clubs (Bmouth, Fulham,Brentford, us etc) that make it into Europe could find the league challenging if injuries pile up. The same for Forest if they make champions league.

The only one I will be hoping get relegated is Leeds.

Sorry I have to interrupt, what is so incoherent about the palace recruiting? It’s been pretty spot on in the last few seasons with mostly young players and many young English players like Esse from Millwall.

It’s good to slag off your rivals but don’t just pluck things out the air.

 

[abc]

Sorry I have to interrupt, what is so incoherent about the palace recruiting? It’s been pretty spot on in the last few seasons with mostly young players and many young English players like Esse from Millwall.

It’s good to slag off your rivals but don’t just pluck things out the air.

I certainly wasn’t saying that because of rivalry. I couldn’t care less about it, it’s pointless and boring.

I have the impression from a couple of palace fans I know and from what I have read, that all is not well behind the scenes at Palace and that includes their recruitment.

If I am wrong and you know better then my most humble apologies for having the temerity to express an opinion

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ipswich Town.

We're all forgetting about The Manchester City Problem here.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I certainly wasn’t saying that because of rivalry. I couldn’t care less about it, it’s pointless and boring.

I have the impression from a couple of palace fans I know and from what I have read, that all is not well behind the scenes at Palace and that includes their recruitment.

If I am wrong and you know better then my most humble apologies for having the temerity to express an opinion

I [have to] work with a few Palace fans - not heard them complain about recruitment.

Where have you read all is not well? Although you could have read on here that all was not well in our dressing room a month or so ago…

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Vicario/VDV/Romero/Porro/Bent/Solanke literally did / son

Plus players like Bentancur are shells of the players under Ange

Woefully mismanaged squad of players

Romero is the sort of painfully average centre half that only Spurs fans could idolise. Van de Ven is quick but has an awful lot of learning to do.

If I was a Bournemouth fan I wouldn't touch either of them with a bargepole when they have Zabarnyi and Huijsen.

 

[Algernon]

I'm hoping Leeds don't get relegated next season.
Because that'll mean they were promoted at the end of this season.

Keep Dirty down.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I [have to] work with a few Palace fans - not heard them complain about recruitment.

Where have you read all is not well? Although you could have read on here that all was not well in our dressing room a month ago…

They're the same as most clubs: some hits, some misses.

Muñoz seems to have done well, as does the centre half whose name temporarily escapes me. Wharton: undoubtedly a hit.

Kamada, on the other hand, has been hilariously bad: a more expensively salaried Ma Dahoud. Nketiah has hardly had the impact they'd have hoped. Rob Holding barely played a minute for them and got shipped out to a Championship club. Nathan Ferguson spent three years being exclusively injured.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Romero is the sort of painfully average centre half that only Spurs fans could idolise. Van de Ven is quick but has an awful lot of learning to do.

If I was a Bournemouth fan I wouldn't touch either of them with a bargepole when they have Zabarnyi and Huijsen.

Romero isn't really that average, I doubt he will be there anyhow as Real want him and they tend to get who they want

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Romero isn't really that average, I doubt he will be there anyhow as Real want him and they tend to get who they want

We'll have to disagree on that one. I think he's a really ordinary PL centre half, and also a thug

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

We'll have to disagree on that one. I think he's a really ordinary PL centre half, and also a thug

Think he's cleaned his act up somewhat, but he was a scum bag for sure

 

[Bold Seagull]

They're the same as most clubs: some hits, some misses.

Muñoz seems to have done well, as does the centre half whose name temporarily escapes me. Wharton: undoubtedly a hit.

Kamada, on the other hand, has been hilariously bad: a more expensively salaried Ma Dahoud. Nketiah has hardly had the impact they'd have hoped. Rob Holding barely played a minute for them and got shipped out to a Championship club. Nathan Ferguson spent three years being exclusively injured.

Not set the world on fire as such, but 1.39 ppg this season, 1.29 ppg last season, 1.18 ppg the season before is consistent improvement.

0.95 ppg is now enough to keep you above the relegation scrap, if they keep their manager can’t see them struggling tbh or West Ham for that matter.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I have heard a lot of people calling it "the 17" lately. Nice to be one of them and it's going to take a very good bit of recruitment from the promoted teams to oust 1 or more of them.
It has certainly got the "big" championship teams chirping as they know it is getting harder by the year.

I wonder if any advantage will be given to the promoted teams down the line.

 

[studio150]

I wonder if any advantage will be given to the promoted teams down the line.

No chance

 

[pigmanovich]

Muñoz seems to have done well, as does the centre half whose name temporarily escapes me.

Lacroix

 

[loz]

They're the same as most clubs: some hits, some misses.

Muñoz seems to have done well, as does the centre half whose name temporarily escapes me. Wharton: undoubtedly a hit.

Kamada, on the other hand, has been hilariously bad: a more expensively salaried Ma Dahoud. Nketiah has hardly had the impact they'd have hoped. Rob Holding barely played a minute for them and got shipped out to a Championship club. Nathan Ferguson spent three years being exclusively injured.

Lacroix is the CH , a big upgrade on Anderson. Kamada, there is a good player in there, scored again for country last week but the premier league looks too fast and physical for him. Nketiah, good finisher but they way we play just does not suit him.

Feel so bad for Ferguson such a highly rated player whose body let him down so sad for a 23 year old, he was a bit of a punt TBH and one that didn’t work out.

Anyway, looking at all the mid table teams they seem to have stopped these ridiculous expensive transfers on players 28+, only the big clubs and promoted clubs are doing that.

 

[B-right-on]

They’ll absolutely be selling talent but I think they are copying another south coast club’s transfer market techniques.

They will do it in a strategic way and will absolutely not lose most of their squad. I’d guess it would be a maximum of 3 players for £100m+. Perhaps these:

Dean Huijsen​

Justin Kluivert​

Antoine Semenyo​

They have fully formed succession plans in place which I imagine, will guarantee them a top 10 finish next season.

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Very poor judgement to underestimate this lot. Thank goodness the likes of Bloom and Hürzeler don’t!

The garage only way I can see Muff struggling is if they lose Iraola and