Jensen
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But Palace won't go down, much unlike the Toon
But Palace won't go down, much unlike the Toon
Khamelion
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Exactly 100%
Khamelion
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In my previous post I said that I would continue to watch NUFC on TV, I'm not. The more I look at what has gone on with NUFC thus far, the more I think sod it.
I'm done with them.
Ashley doesn't give a toss about the club, as long as he does the bare minimum to keep it in the EPL so he can strip the TV money, he'll never sell. The only way NUFC get shot of Ashley is if they drop two leagues and go the same route as Sunderland, that way he loses his parachute payments, he loses the EPL TV money, his cash cow will have then run its course. The club will be next to worthless, but he'll have made more from the TV money than he would've from selling.
I'm done with them.
Ashley doesn't give a toss about the club, as long as he does the bare minimum to keep it in the EPL so he can strip the TV money, he'll never sell. The only way NUFC get shot of Ashley is if they drop two leagues and go the same route as Sunderland, that way he loses his parachute payments, he loses the EPL TV money, his cash cow will have then run its course. The club will be next to worthless, but he'll have made more from the TV money than he would've from selling.
Liverbirdie
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If you want to sign someone to coach heads, there arent many bigger than Stev Bruce's.
Beezerk
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If you want to sign someone to coach heads, there arent many bigger than Stev Bruce's.
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Palace's squad imo is a comfortable 8-12 placed squad, under Hodgson they've stagnated into the Hodgson way. Their results with that squad shouldve been bettter last season and thats without Zaha's dives 😉
Palace have been lucky that theres been another 4 poorer teams than them in recent seasons.
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Thats not true to scale, his heads much bigger 😂
Orikoru
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What are you on about? I know you don't like Hodgson but that is nonsense. In 17/18 he took over and they finished 11th, with 44 points, then in 18/19 they finished 12th, but with 49 points, so an improvement of 5 points. So he has met your own expectation of being an '8-12th' squad, and if you think Palace's squad is better than Watford's, or West Ham's, then I would disagree.
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Palace's squad is better than sub 50 points. Improving by 5pts with that squad isnt great IMO.
On this occassion my dislike of hodgson is not affecting my opinion ðŸ‘
Orikoru
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How is it?? They've had no decent strikers for two years, their top scorer was the holding midfielder who takes penalties man. Decent pair of wingers in Zaha and Townsend, but their defence is weak. Every team that finished above them has better players than them. There's no way they underachieved. They were also 15 points clear of the drop, a far cry from being 'lucky that 4 teams were worse than them'. I'm no Palace fan, but come on, Hodgson is doing fine. Not uprooting any trees perhaps, but doing a decent job.
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They spent £28m on a proven PL goalscorer 2 seasons ago, granted he was out for a spell inbetween , but even when he was/is fit he never fired. Is it upto the manager/head coach to get him scoring goals?
i think that palace squad is good enough and certainly 9pts better than the standard 40pts.
Orikoru
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lol, I'm going to assume this was a joke given that you're a Liverpool fan so you know full well how capable Benteke is of scoring goals.
If a guy scored 3 in 30 games (17/18) I don't think the blame can be entirely with the manager. Batshuayi performed better when he briefly came in, but the rest of their strikers have been useless.
clubchamp98
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Be interesting to know their conversion rate of chances.lol, I'm going to assume this was a joke given that you're a Liverpool fan so you know full well how capable Benteke is of scoring goals.
If a guy scored 3 in 30 games (17/18) I don't think the blame can be entirely with the manager. Batshuayi performed better when he briefly came in, but the rest of their strikers have been useless.
Every time I watched motd they seem to miss a lot of chances.
Anyone know?
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lol, I'm going to assume this was a joke given that you're a Liverpool fan so you know full well how capable Benteke is of scoring goals.
If a guy scored 3 in 30 games (17/18) I don't think the blame can be entirely with the manager. Batshuayi performed better when he briefly came in, but the rest of their strikers have been useless.
Check Bentekes record prior to us buyung him. Proven PL Goalscorer.
Orikoru
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I did, he had one really good season in England, his first with Villa. Second season 10 goals, third season 13 goals, not really spectacular totals. 9 goals for you, pretty poor given the fee. 15 goals first season for Palace was alright I guess, these were mostly under Allardyce who loves a targetman for route one football of course. Since then shocking, obviously Hodgson hasn't got the best from him, but 3 goals in 30+ games some blame has to be with the player also.
Anyway, don't want to spend all day talking about Palace, they're not really worth the time.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Last season scored 51 goals from 493 shots (33% on target)
Prev Season scored 45 goals from 476 shots (30% on target)
City scored 95 goals from 683 shots (38% on target)
Prev season 106 goals from 665 shots (40% on target)
Arsenal scored 73 goals from 467 shots (36% on target)
Prev season scored 74 from 594 shots (39% on target)
Everton 54 goals from 498 shots (34% on target)
Prev season 44 goals from 359 shots (34% on target)
Watford 52 goals from 437 shots (35% on target)
Prev season 44 goals from 440 shots (30% on target)
Theyre not prolific but not really much worse than their peers but the step ups to the higher placed sides can be seen
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
And the scariest stat of those is how much the front 2 bailed Arsenal out last season and still we didnt finish top 4!
clubchamp98
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Well that’s shows why clubs pay big money for goal scorers.
PJ87
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On nights last night.. delighted to wake up to the news that West Ham have broken our transfer record again
£45 million believe the reported fee is for Sébastien Haller from frankfurt. 25 year old. 5 year contract. Scored 15 goals for them last season
Just the sort of player we need
That’s 70 million spent on 2 players so far , plus 2 free back up keepers
I believe we are going for another back up striker but would be happy with the following
Haller
HernaNdez
Antonio
Yarmenlko
The last 2 able to fill in for the 1 up top system we play if we are down in strikers
Happy days
£45 million believe the reported fee is for Sébastien Haller from frankfurt. 25 year old. 5 year contract. Scored 15 goals for them last season
Just the sort of player we need
That’s 70 million spent on 2 players so far , plus 2 free back up keepers
I believe we are going for another back up striker but would be happy with the following
Haller
HernaNdez
Antonio
Yarmenlko
The last 2 able to fill in for the 1 up top system we play if we are down in strikers
Happy days
Slime
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............................ and United beat Leeds 4-0!
