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The Official GRcade Football Thread 2023/24



Welcome once more to the home of top-tier football discussion, debate, memes and of course epic oi oi lads banter!

This season we've got a couple of interesting narratives - can Man City's treble winning super-squad extend their total domination of English and European football? Can Peter Crisp's Luton™ survive their maiden season in the Premier League with their amazingly old school Kenilworth Road stadium? Can Brighton repeat their amazing performances of last season? Time will tell...

Supporters - Please let me know if I've missed you out and/or name changes, newly promoted fans please make yourself at home at the top table

2022/23 Champions: Man City
Champions League Clubs: Man City, Arsenal, Man United, Newcastle
Europa League Clubs: Liverpool, Brighton, West Ham
Europa Conference League Clubs: Aston Villa
Newly-Promoted Clubs: Burnley, Sheffield United and Peter Crisp's Luton™


The UEFA Champions League 2024 - The Road to Wembley


Groups
Group A: Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Copenhagen, Galatasaray
Group B: Sevilla, Arsenal, PSV, Lens
Group C: Napoli, Real Madrid, Braga, Union Berlin
Group D: Benfica, Inter Milan, RB Salzburg, Real Sociedad
Group E: Feyenoord, Atletico Madrid, Lazio, Celtic
Group F: PSG, Borussia Dortmund, AC Milan, Newcastle
Group G: Manchester City, RB Leipzig, Red Star Belgrade, Young Boys
Group H: Barcelona, Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Royal Antwerp


The Fans



Let's goooooo!!!

2023/24 OPENING DAY FIXTURES

Friday 11 August

Burnley v Manchester City 20:00


Saturday 12 August

Arsenal v Nottingham Forest 12:30

Bournemouth v West Ham United 15:30

Brighton v Luton Town 15:00

Everton v Fulham 15:00

Sheffield United v Crystal Palace 15:00

Newcastle v Aston Villa 17:30


Sunday 13 August

Brentford v Tottenham 14:00

Chelsea v Liverpool 16:30


Monday 14 August

Manchester United v Wolves 20:00

Our first four away fixtures. Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City.

more heat than light wrote:Our first four away fixtures. Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City.

Well that'll certainly improve our away form

Saturday 12 August

Drumstick v Peter Crisp 15:00

BRING IT, CRISPY.

Rex Kramer wrote:

more heat than light wrote:Our first four away fixtures. Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City.

Well that'll certainly improve our away form

Opening, last and boxing day games all away too. For the third year in a row.

coldspice wrote:

Rex Kramer wrote:

more heat than light wrote:Our first four away fixtures. Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City.

Well that'll certainly improve our away form

Opening, last and boxing day games all away too. For the third year in a row.

That's some serious bs

Wolves but at home

Peter Crisp wrote:.

Come on down and see what you've won

Preezy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:.

Come on down and see what you've won

I'm expecting a domestic trebble at least this year.

Pre-season friendly trophies count don't they .

Just have 3 mini tournaments against sunday league teams and boom, domestic domination.

Seriously though, avoiding relegation is going to be a super tough ask and I'll be happy with 17th on goal difference.

Former Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds United defender Gordon McQueen has died at the age of 70.

RIP

Honestly quite happy with our first match back in the premiership being against Palace, reckon they’ll still beat us but hopefully we won’t have a massive GD after our first game

I am not expecting much, if anything from us this season.

Robbo-92 wrote:Honestly quite happy with our first match back in the premiership being against Palace, reckon they’ll still beat us but hopefully we won’t have a massive GD after our first game

I am not expecting much, if anything from us this season.

Memories of a few seasons ago means probably a home win.

Might pop down to it.

I would like some announcement or concrete rumours on the manager situation. Zaha is probably gone so that's one thing but feel there's more internal arguments among the owners on the managerial side again.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/manchester-united-negotiating-exclusivity-with-qatars-sheikh-jassim-6-bln-plus-2023-06-15/

June 15 (Reuters) - English football club Manchester United (MANU.N) is negotiating granting exclusivity to the consortium led by Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani in the talks to sell itself for more than $6 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Members of the Glazer family, which own minority stakes in Manchester United and control it thanks to a dual-class share structure, would be cashing out as part of the proposed deal, one of the sources said.

Seems that the rumours that the Glazers were using Ratcliffe as a stalking horse for Sheikh Jassim might have been true...

Another Oil Club - yay.

The fans list needs updating on this...

Mommy wrote:The fans list needs updating on this...

Don't be shy, share the names!

West Ham rejected our bid of £80m plus add on’s for Rice, I don’t think he’s worth £120m but they’ll hold out for that as they know a couple of clubs will pay it

I also see Arsenal being linked with Havertz, don’t think he is the type of player we need though.

Benzin wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Honestly quite happy with our first match back in the premiership being against Palace, reckon they’ll still beat us but hopefully we won’t have a massive GD after our first game

I am not expecting much, if anything from us this season.

Memories of a few seasons ago means probably a home win.

Might pop down to it.

I would like some announcement or concrete rumours on the manager situation. Zaha is probably gone so that's one thing but feel there's more internal arguments among the owners on the managerial side again.

Wouldn’t be against Roy starting the season off at least? Or reckon they’ll have someone in come July?

Robbo-92 wrote:

Benzin wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Honestly quite happy with our first match back in the premiership being against Palace, reckon they’ll still beat us but hopefully we won’t have a massive GD after our first game

I am not expecting much, if anything from us this season.

Memories of a few seasons ago means probably a home win.

Might pop down to it.

I would like some announcement or concrete rumours on the manager situation. Zaha is probably gone so that's one thing but feel there's more internal arguments among the owners on the managerial side again.

Wouldn’t be against Roy starting the season off at least? Or reckon they’ll have someone in come July?

As good a job Roy did this season he's not the future. Giving him say another year contract to me would mean we're likely to end up in a similar situation next year.

Conflicted, as not really sure on the potential available candidates out there.

Putting myself at risk of being banned from the thread here, but is it time to just have one thread for all football talk, regardless of which league? It doesn't feel like we have enough traffic in either thread to warrant them being separate anymore. The Football Thread last season was pretty dead compared to previous years.