so yeah typically when i make these threads i do a big prolonged monologue about talking points heading into a season.... but tonight i've gotta start with a scene from the International Champions Cup of Champions going on at Met-Life stadium...
yikes! Of course, this Liverpool vs Manchester City game features the two most likely sides in the PL.... and of course I mean Man City and their second team because even with splashing some cash for Naby Keita and Alisson and i think Fabinho too.... still, it feels like another season of LOLCITYWINS in the English Premier League.
and oh yeah over @ ManUtd mourinho is mad at Anthony Martial for bailing on this USA preseason tour to go be with his wife for the birth of their child. Martial's been deadful ever since they brought in Alexis Sanchez during a run of form at LW.... and they still need a RW... and they always want another CB... and their fullbacks are both 30+ and uhhhh yeah, GGMU!
Arsenal had the old pelican leave and they brought in Unai Emery, who wanted to literally and figuratively bring a spine to Arsenal. The scariest part is that Alex fucking Iwobi has supposedly been offered a contract extension and for the life of me I can't see what anyone sees in the guy. He's been a deer in headlights ever since the first leg @ buyern in early 2017 and he's had more spectacular bottlings than he has had anything else.... and he's featured regularly on the most underwhelming Arsenal teams of the last ~20 years. But hey maybe Emery will get the players active and hold them accountable and make them earn their positions and then you can have some blue collar quality in the back and you've got quality up front and uhhh close your eyes squint and maybe see the top-4?
oh yeah and you're racist if you think Mesut Ozil sucks. Ask Uli Hoeness. He had quite the hot take recently.
I think pochettino said that extending kane/son/lamela/etc "is like new signings" so maybe spurs have really come a long way to assuming Arsenal's status?
And hey don't look now but Fulham are supposedly in for Andre Schurrle.
Oh yeah and CR7 has sodded off to Juventus, leaving real madrid in a state of flux, especially when you consider Zidane left right after their CL 3-peat. Barcelona had a 65mil bid for Chelsea's (29yr old?) willian turned down so they've turned around and gotten Malcolm for 36mil (right when his club and roma had agreed to a transfer... he didn't get on the plane to rome when he found out Barca was interested =D
anyways, even tho england's LOLCITYWINS and france is LOLPSGWINS and germany is LOLBUYERNWINS and spain's got a pretty good chance of being LOLBARCAWINS odds are we're going to watch cuz there just isn't much better to do on weekend mornings unless you're a murph & fred guy.
another interesting note: in england i think the transfer window closes right before the PL season starts, so that's right around mid-august as opposed to the traditional september 1st? JOSE MOURINHO NEEDS PLAYERS SO GET TO WORK WOODWARD!!!!!!!!!!!
