Well, today’s the final act of Premier League season 2024-25. Everyone gets to play today at 4 PM BST and though there’s nothing left for us, it’s going to be an exciting day for some others.
First half of the table is quite interesting. Liverpool has won the league, we have qualified for Champions League and irrespective of what happens today, we will finish second (again). As there are 5 teams eligible to play in Champions League next season, the other 3 spots are to be contested on the last day. Man City plays Fulham away, Newcastle will host Everton at home, Chelsea and Forest fight each other while Aston Villa visits Old Trafford to play one of the worst Man Utd teams in history.
Looks saucy and could turn out to be better if Everton does the unthinkable.
There’s not much to talk about for the second half of the table. The bottom 3 teams were so poor that the relegation battle ended months ago, and only if one of them could have been a bit better, we could have seen a miracle of Spurs playing in Champions League while getting relegated, all at the same time.
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Arsenal game against Southampton has little to no consequence. If we lose, we shrug it off, and will forget about it before the next season begins. If we win, we finish the season at 74 points, and that would change fuck all. So, what should we do today? I don’t know but please do not play Havertz. If he scores, we know Mikel will not buy a CF and we will finish second again next season.
There has been some chatter about Arsenal looking for Sesko. Frankly, I have not seen much of him, but I do have seen Gyokeres play a couple of times and I would rather pick the later. He has put down his papers at Sporting, and has some unbelievable stats this season with 39 goals and 7 assists in 33 games. He is 26, young enough to be considered on the positive side of age and old enough for the experience. Also, it’s not a one season wonder because he scored 29 goals and 10 assists in 2023-24 and had 6 goals in 8 games in Champions League.
There has also been some rumours regarding Mikel wanting to sell Martinelli. It’s not going to happen, Mikel wants him and plays him every time because he has the ability to engage couple of defenders, pulling them away from the box which allows the likes of Saka, Merino, Odegaard to play the game on the right. I hate it and would rather want some freedom for Martinelli but we have seen how rigid his game is, and it’s not because he likes it. Martinelli is not going anywhere, and considering that we will sell him at 40m, spend 80m to get a cheap copy of him, it’s the right decision. If you want to bring a LW, Trossard should be replaced. He has lost that knack of scoring lately and is just growing older.
Zubimendi is done deal. Arsenal is also looking to give Thomas Partey a contract. Look, it’s not a bad decision at all. Jorginho will leave, and Declan Rice is going to play the advance role like he did this season. We will again be playing 2 games a week for a better part of the season and with Thomas, you don’t have to worry about anything. He is adjusted to the system, probably one of the best DMs in premier league and to get a fraction of what he offers, we will have to shell money. I don’t want to see another 30m on a understudy (Sambi, Tavares?) which restricts us to reinforce other area of the pitch. A CF is must, an LW is needed, an Odegaard upgrade is needed and with Tierney, Zinchenko, Kiwior(?) leaving, we would need a LB because Calafiori is injury prone and MLS is too young to be starting twice a weak.
Right, that’s me done. I am going to wear my ‘hate watch’ hat and celebrate one of the Man City or Newcastle losing out the Champions League spot.
Who would you prefer?
even with his new supposedly “cut” self, Havertz is still a ducking chicken shit when it comes to headers in the box
we need Villa to score, albeit they’re down to 10 men, and Everton to hold their lead…Berta better have phone in hand should Newcastle not get into the CL
Nwari substituted although he was a better player than almost all other Arsenal players.
Hoopah—surely you can’t be surprised by that…fuck me, I was shocked he got the start
obviously we don’t want to win or we would have never taken Sterling off LOL!!
Hoopah, Chivas tastes good but mostly it’s a fake one this side. Was my favorite in Pune and Bangalore.
Emery might get fucked by a horrendous call that should have led to a Roger’s goal…now their one down and Newcastle might get a CL invite even if they lose
they’re one
Sterling is the sign of whatever is wrong with current regime. Paying 200k/week and that could have been a year for a young gun to develop while he does better than that Chelsea reject.
TRVL
City and Chelsea are almost done. Newcastle, Forest and Villa trailing with just 5 min and newcastle is just trailing better.
Ambarish—especially after their timid and toothless approach to the rest of the window…plus no movement in January…this is what I mean when I talk about the opportunity costs of making a half-measure deal, like with Tross, Havertz and Sterling…what are the chances of properly addressing those positional needs if you’ve already invested in that area of the pitch
That’s still not gonna convince me. Good goal though.
imagine if that happened 5 or 6 times a season, from distance I mean
We should have fixed the winger problem last summer. We should have fixed the CF in January. We were only 2 signings away to beat this shite Liverpool for the title.
Odegaard has got 3 goals, 8 assists in 30 games. If you compare him to himself, he scored 15 goals in 2022-23, 8 goals in last season. If your attacking midfielder scores just 3 goals, is physically weak; you need a better one.
As the commentator pointed out, the last proper CF we had was Eddie Nketiah. Tells you everything our strategy.
Ambarish
Spot on
Thank fuck. Another season of Kroenke-Arteta bullshit over.
Why Merino is consoling Saka ?
Ominous
City, Chelsea and Newcastle makes it to CL. Spurs qualified after winning Europa. That’s 6 teams from England. Nice.