Redinpeace
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, yip we often announce a 67 man match day squad.
[Football] Best PL Manager this season?
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, yip we often announce a 67 man match day squad.
pigmanovich
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Did you not have points deducted last season for PSR breaches?
Redinpeace
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Yes, 4 points, stupidly the club admitted the breach, with hindsight we’d have been no worse off following either Chelsea, Everton, Utd, Leicester or City’s defence of it was like that when we got here.
The Johnson transfer to Spurs was used at appeal, citing the fact Forest held out for their price was a better business decision.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I will tell you at the end of the season there is still time for it to all fall apart for some of these menttioned.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
Iraola gets my vote.
pigmanovich
Good Old Sausage by the Sea
It was a rhetorical question
Just mean you can’t deny there were shenanigans!
Redinpeace
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It was a rhetorical question
my bad, on the plus side we solved unemployment in football cause we signed everyone available 
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schmunk
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Tifo Football's view on the matter:
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JetsetJimbo
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I just can't decide between Eric Ten Hag and Ruben Amorim. They've both brought me so much joy and entertainment this season.
Redinpeace
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I actually feel sorry for Interim but then again it’s great seeing Utd thrashing about in the bottom half, special mention for Ange, Spurs doing Spurs things and Impostacoglou constantly trying to get the sh#t back in the horse.
Lovely stuff.
Southern Scouse
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“Have done crap in all other competitions “
Top of the Champions League table, losing to probably the best team in Europe atm. Losing a cup final, and getting out classed at Plymouth, with the kids (Our fault but they wanted it more) in the FA cup and it’s “Only the PL”.
What did the Romans ever do for us?
Ridiculous comments, best manager? The basque fellow at muff, they’ll be hard pressed to keep him.
Ludensian Gull
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Has to be Nuno
GT49er
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Actually Liverpool finished top and unbeaten in the first phase of the CL until losing on pens to PSG over two legs hardly constitutes crap! Getting to the final in the League Cup is something about 85 other clubs in the league would rate as a decent season!
Slot will probably get MOTS; Nuno running him very close. Better luck to the rest for next season.
Stato
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Its Slot. He's going to win the league in his first season. Okay, a lot of his expected challengers have had their issues, but you only have to look at how very decent managers like David Moyes and Unai Emery got on when they followed iconic managers at Man Utd and Arsenal to see how difficult it is to do what he has done. Liverpool have also been in the black on transfers this season.
To give the kind of faint praise that RDZ would have offered, Nuno has done what he does very effectively. He's been a very good fit with Forest and he's been quite fortunate with injuries, but that's not to underestimate what it's taken to maintain a top four challenge with a group of players who have no previous experience of doing it.
Iraola has played some great football, but it looks like his smallish squad is running out of steam. If he can lift them to go again on the last stretch and grab a European spot, he'd be worth a mention.
Moyes has done very well and I'm pleased for him, but he has fallen on his feet a bit. He's at home at Everton and, like Nuno, does what he does very well. However, he's been in charge at Everton for only ten EPL games and seven of them have been against teams in the bottom half. When sacked, Dyche had just played five of the top seven. It's likely that things would have improved even if he had stayed, just because of the opposition. You can guarantee he would also have won at the Amex. He always does.
Hurzeler won't get a mention as we haven't been spectacular, but given he's also in his first season and, in terms of the number of points Opta predicted a team would get at the beginning of the season https://theanalyst.com/2024/08/premier-league-predictions-2024-25-opta-supercomputer and what they're now predicting: https://theanalyst.com/competition/premier-league/table, he along with Nuno, Slot and Iraola are the biggest over achievers. He's also done it with more injuries than any other squad in the division.
The winter was brutal for us, a long run of disappointing results against the bottom half of the table culminating with that fugazi at Notts Forest. However, I think we've grown and he has learned valuable lessons. As fans its been hard, because win, lose or draw, we've become used to being the prettiest side. There has been less of that this season. Where we have won games, it's not usually been about dominance, but about getting the moments to go in our favour. That's not something that usually wins you admirers, but the points are still worth the same. RDZ might say that we've done what we've done very effectively.
To give the kind of faint praise that RDZ would have offered, Nuno has done what he does very effectively. He's been a very good fit with Forest and he's been quite fortunate with injuries, but that's not to underestimate what it's taken to maintain a top four challenge with a group of players who have no previous experience of doing it.
Iraola has played some great football, but it looks like his smallish squad is running out of steam. If he can lift them to go again on the last stretch and grab a European spot, he'd be worth a mention.
Moyes has done very well and I'm pleased for him, but he has fallen on his feet a bit. He's at home at Everton and, like Nuno, does what he does very well. However, he's been in charge at Everton for only ten EPL games and seven of them have been against teams in the bottom half. When sacked, Dyche had just played five of the top seven. It's likely that things would have improved even if he had stayed, just because of the opposition. You can guarantee he would also have won at the Amex. He always does.
Hurzeler won't get a mention as we haven't been spectacular, but given he's also in his first season and, in terms of the number of points Opta predicted a team would get at the beginning of the season https://theanalyst.com/2024/08/premier-league-predictions-2024-25-opta-supercomputer and what they're now predicting: https://theanalyst.com/competition/premier-league/table, he along with Nuno, Slot and Iraola are the biggest over achievers. He's also done it with more injuries than any other squad in the division.
The winter was brutal for us, a long run of disappointing results against the bottom half of the table culminating with that fugazi at Notts Forest. However, I think we've grown and he has learned valuable lessons. As fans its been hard, because win, lose or draw, we've become used to being the prettiest side. There has been less of that this season. Where we have won games, it's not usually been about dominance, but about getting the moments to go in our favour. That's not something that usually wins you admirers, but the points are still worth the same. RDZ might say that we've done what we've done very effectively.
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Silverhatch
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If Brighton win every competitive game until the season end, what happens then?
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We’ll have more points than we do now
Randy McNob
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Yeah, 8 homes games without a win won't go un-noticed
US Seagull
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And an improved goal difference.
US Seagull
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Since it's Premier League manager of the season, I don't think FA Cup counts?
Randy McNob
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That's not a fair comparison. Fergie and Wenger both led dynasties at their clubs and whomever took over would have the uneviable challenge of a complete rebuild and long transition phase whilst also trying to appease a heavily expectant support who'd been used to a diet of success year after year. They were ends of eras, that's not the case at Anfield. It's more comparable to Bob Paisley taking over from Bill Shankley, as in he's got a ready made winning team. If it proves anything, it's that Klopp really should have put more silverware in that cabinet. A case of what might have been