Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

[kenada_blue]

Chelsea looking good again.

Get an actual manager in, that's what'll happen.

Will get top 4 imo.

 

[Saint Domingo]

I think pace has been an equaliser of sorts for a long time in the Premier League. Quality will win out over the course of the season but average teams have finished in European places because of it.

Same for average player's with pace.

Even when we had speed in the side, during Martinez's reign he was so caught up in his philosophy it wasn't utilized as much as it could have been.

We are slow paced and weak willed. I just hope that Ancelotti can pull off a miracle this season and we can improve our squad next.

When Martinez had McCarthy Barkley Mirallas Lukaku in the side with Stones and Distin and the two fullbacks we had pace and power throughout the side in every position except Barry. We could go toe to toe with most teams. For some reason we then moved out some quick players and started putting out Alcaraz Kone Cleverley etc. slower players.

We need to return to the days of having one to 11 quick powerful players who can all play. We’re not going anywhere with this lot trundling around at half pace.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Get an actual manager in, that's what'll happen.

Will get top 4 imo.

Nailed on for it.

 

[deipnosophist]

It baffles me mate how players and managers come and go yet nothing changes.

...I have given up trying to understand it...I just put it down to 'Everton that' and shunt it to the back of my mind.

 

[DanEFC92]

Miles ahead of Chelsea at one stage. Oh Everton.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Of course. But it's the environment he works best in.

The minute the dildo brothers start expected more from him, he'll fold like a deflated blowup doll

Hard to do much more than he is doing at the moment - Its their best season since the early 1980s!

 

[NorthernBlue]

City, Utd, Chelsea deffo top 4. Then either Liverpool or Leicester. The later will bottle it. We will be 9th or 10th. Can’t see how we go any higher than that.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Yet Moyes was still one of the highest paid managers in world football when in charge of us..

Because he did a good job. How much would it cost to get someone else to do the job he did? Closest we have come so far is Ancelotti, one of the best coaches in world football.

Bobby Brown Shoes had one good season using Moyes' squad with a couple of additions. But over the longer term he was disastrous.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Miles ahead of Chelsea at one stage. Oh Everton.

Their squad is ridiculous. If we finished ahead of them this season it would be the biggest mismanagement of a group of players ever by Lampard. Tuchel is getting a tune now out of probably the best squad in the league.

 

[urquattro]

...I have given up trying to understand it...I just put it down to 'Everton that' and shunt it to the back of my mind.

I have visions of the players saying 'Everton that' when back in the dressing room after each woeful performance. The Managers eventually succumb to the same mantra.

 

[DanEFC92]

Their squad is ridiculous. If we finished ahead of them this season it would be the biggest mismanagement of a group of players ever by Lampard. Tuchel is getting a tune now out of probably the best squad in the league.

And I can't help think we're going to fumble a big opportunity to sneak into a champions League space.

 

[ToffeeTim]

And I can't help think we're going to fumble a big opportunity to sneak into a champions League space.

We already have. Best to just accept it early. This is about salvaging 6th or 7th and somehow managing a fluke win in the quarter final.

 

[DanEFC92]

We already have. Best to just accept it early. This is about salvaging 6th or 7th and someone managing a fluke win in the quarter final.

Aye more than likely. And I'm in the anger stage still. Acceptance comes later.

 

[hallamblue]

And I can't help think we're going to fumble a big opportunity to sneak into a champions League space.

I'm not sure it will end up being seen that way. The longer the season goes on, the more important the squad depth will become. Hence Man Utd, Man City and Chelsea will be in the top six, along with Leicester and probably the rs and Spurs. Then after that you get to the smaller squads like West Ham, Everton, Villa, Wolves, Southampton. I've said throughout the season that 8th would be winning "our" league, but given Arsenal's woeful season (would have expected them to be up there for top 6 along with those I've mentioned) 7th would be top of our league now.

 

[Paris]

From the 8 games played in the Bundesliga this weekend there were only two winners.

That has to be some sort of record.