Premier League Match Chat Week 1 up to international break.

Kuchinghammer

It's almost as if De Z picked that team by throwing all the names in the air and seeing where they landed. 😄

Expat_Hammer

Kuchinghammer said:

It's almost as if De Z picked that team by throwing all the names in the air and seeing where they landed. 😄

Damn, their manager is starting to make progress ...........

And yet spuds to even get a mention on the scoresheet this season

BubblesNeverDies

MunichHammer said:

How much have Spurs paid us now? Kudus and Fernandes have cost them a fortune and they are still useless 😅

Although to be fair Fernandes was far from useless with us.

MunichHammer

BubblesNeverDies said:

MunichHammer said:

How much have Spurs paid us now? Kudus and Fernandes have cost them a fortune and they are still useless 😅

Although to be fair Fernandes was far from useless with us.

With they I meant the Spuds. They buy our players and it seems like it's thr same as when we buy strikers. Either they are ineffective or get injured.
Any chance of buying Fernandes back when we go up and they go down? Say - 20m?

claretandbluesky

VAR has not stuck to it's own intentions again already it seems. They wanted the threshold to be higher to intervene in an on field decision, yet here is the VAR official guessing. I think Glasner is right. You can 50-50 guess of hand or head, as both are in the position to make contact with the ball. If there is doubt he should leave the on field call as it was.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3v4537e60yo

IronHerb

MunichHammer said:

BubblesNeverDies said:

MunichHammer said:

How much have Spurs paid us now? Kudus and Fernandes have cost them a fortune and they are still useless 😅

Although to be fair Fernandes was far from useless with us.

With they I meant the Spuds. They buy our players and it seems like it's thr same as when we buy strikers. Either they are ineffective or get injured.
Any chance of buying Fernandes back when we go up and they go down? Say - 20m?

Fernandes isn't ineffective, De Zerbi is an idiot. He didn't think Fernandes could deal with Forests style of football. He is probably one of the few Spurs players who can.

jay_in_cpt

What a dull first half hour in the Everton v Man U match, why am I surprised.....

MrsGrey

The late game is the opposite!

MrsGrey

Was hoping they'd both lose, while my FF players would score loads 😂

jay_in_cpt

jay_in_cpt said:

What a dull first half hour in the Everton v Man U match, why am I surprised.....

In all fairness, the 2nd half of this game did really improve from the 1st....

Slacker

Chelsea and Arsenal was a cracker.

chicagohammer

So I watched the Spurs game with my Millwall supporting mate who is visiting us - at least we both agree on Spurs 😄

Thought that the game against Forest was generally rubbish.

We concluded that we need to introduce a new rule where an independent panel can decide to appoint zero points to both teams as we reckoned that neither Spurs nor Forest deserved to take anything from that game.

The more I think about it - the more I like the idea

thornburyiron

Chicago if that rule existed last season we would have had hardly any points at all.

Expat_Hammer

Disassi gets a red card

steve

Should have come back to us

MrsGrey

Arsenal making heavy weather of this game.

Also, Arteta continues to be really unlikeable.

MrsGrey

Granit Xakha (sp) also still a bit of a thug.

MrsGrey

And that Guimares goal was a thing of beauty.

MrsGrey

You know, not sure I think that's a pen.

MrsGrey

I guess everyone is having a more sociable Saturday evening than I am 😂

jay_in_cpt

My step father, great guy, awful taste in football, a Spurs fan isn't all happy at the moment...
One thing I have to agree that quite a few have posted, it's so lovely watching a game without the thought of VAR getting involved.
As much as I want us back in the PL asap, I will hate having VAR again, guess you can't have it all.....

jay_in_cpt

Coventry 0 Brighton 5, and a red card on top...Coventry finding life in the PL not so easy...

claretandbluesky

I predicted Lampard would be out before Christmas, but he will be lucky to make November at this rate. He has managed in the Premier league three times with Chelsea (twice) Everton and now Coventry, and if he couldn't make it work with those squads and resources he has zero chance with Coventry. I think Managers are like players and there are levels. As with Rooney you have without doubt a top level player but they are not cut out for top level management.

Reflecting on levels I think our best bit of persuasion in the summer was widely thought to be getting Bowen to stay, yet I think Nuno staying was equally important as he is a Premier League level manager, as Bowen is a player.

Fortuneseeker

candbsky, I do wish people wouldn’t lose sight of the fact NES oversaw our relegation. Maybe he has realised that attack is the best form of defence as he was too keen to try to defend leads last season & that contributed to our demise.

jay_in_cpt

Fortuneseeker said:

candbsky, I do wish people wouldn’t lose sight of the fact NES oversaw our relegation. Maybe he has realised that attack is the best form of defence as he was too keen to try to defend leads last season & that contributed to our demise.

Think @Fortuneseeker has a valid point, he was brought in to a job which he failed, even after having money spent in Jan last season to assist him, anyhow, we are now in the championship and he has to get us promoted at the 1st attempt, otherwise he'll IMO be considered a dud.....

claretandbluesky

I don't think anyone doesn't recognise he was in charge but I think many accredit it to Lopetgui or Potter, Lopetgui for his signings and waste of money and Potter for being Potter. Nuno's record itself would have been very unlikely to have led to relegation, even taking into account that when he first arrived the squad was a mess and couldn't even defend a corner.

claretandbluesky

Fun fact I just saw online despite being in the Championship since early August we have scored a more recent Premier league goal than Spurs!

IronHerb

So we should have sacked John Lyall in 1978?

DJ Hammer

IronHerb said:

So we should have sacked John Lyall in 1978?

No, because it wasn’t the West Ham way to sack managers back then.

jay_in_cpt

DJ Hammer said:

IronHerb said:

So we should have sacked John Lyall in 1978?

No, because it wasn’t the West Ham way to sack managers back then.

Exactly , no good comparing today's state of how football is and the business side of things to the 1970's/80's.....IMO of course.👍🏻