The Football Thread 2021/22: England thrown to Hungary lions

[Winckle]

I've got to say Peter, your relentless good natured Luton posting makes me really want them to win promotion.

[Peter Crisp]

I've got to say Peter, your relentless good natured Luton posting makes me really want them to win promotion.

Thanks .

My main fear is just lack of funds. We don't have any moneybags owners and the prices of players and wages in the Premiership is bloody insane.
Even a single player on the sort of wages in a top 10 team would pretty much cripple us.
If we get promoted and miraculously survive the first year without immediate relegation we may start to get enough money to build a team capable of some league security but until the new stadium it's going to be incredibly tough to compete in the Prem.

It would be bloody amazing if we could basically keep the same team after promotion and get 15th or 16th though as the team would be so far below everyone else on wages it would be shocking.

[Robbo-92]

As Sheffield United and Leeds are now finding, the second season is a lot tougher to stay up. The first season all the players, fans are just elated to be there so take more or less anything as a positive, it’s the second season people start to have some expectations

[Dowbocop]

As Sheffield United and Leeds are now finding, the second season is a lot tougher to stay up. The first season all the players, fans are just elated to be there so take more or less anything as a positive, it’s the second season people start to have some expectations

I'd be surprised if Brentford stayed up next year. Newcastle have almost certainly murdered their way out of the annual scrap. Palace and Southampton look too competent now and they were always a possibility. You'd expect Fulham to go back down because that's what Fulham do but Bournemouth might have a bit of fight about them. You've then got the playoff winners and two of Burnley, Everton and Leeds that will remain.

[Robbo-92]

As Sheffield United and Leeds are now finding, the second season is a lot tougher to stay up. The first season all the players, fans are just elated to be there so take more or less anything as a positive, it’s the second season people start to have some expectations

I'd be surprised if Brentford stayed up next year. Newcastle have almost certainly murdered their way out of the annual scrap. Palace and Southampton look too competent now and they were always a possibility. You'd expect Fulham to go back down because that's what Fulham do but Bournemouth might have a bit of fight about them. You've then got the playoff winners and two of Burnley, Everton and Leeds that will remain.

Yeah there’s a few teams who seem really quite well established in there now which makes the yo-yo teams more prominent in a sense, like Norwich who’ve been up and down a lot recently, Sheffield United who had a strong first season and then a dose of reality in the second. It’s obviously a very tough league, with the massive difference in funds available, even with the extra funds from the more lucrative TV deal it’s still a struggle to recruit and compete on a regular basis. Newcastle will probably be spending as much as they can for the next couple of seasons.

[Cuttooth]

I expect if Everton stay up they won't be in danger of a relegation fight next season.

[BOR]

twitter.com/Sporf/status/1523604070107336704

It's amazing!

It would be good if they manage to promote to the Premier League.

[Saint of Killers]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

[BOR]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Yep, it's brilliant news though. He has terminated his contract with Ajax six weeks early and he will fly to Manchester tomorrow to start the new job.

[BOR]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Yep, it's brilliant news though. He has terminated his contract with Ajax six weeks early and he will fly to Manchester tomorrow to start the new job.

The Guardian have changed the title of article. Erik ten Hag won't be in charge for the game at Crystal Palace.

[Benzin]

Both games against them this season we've had the new manager come in

Next season all it takes is for one of those teams from 8th onwards to go on a terrible consistent run and they end up in a relegation fight. Newcastle and Brighton have had good runs this year and gotten themselves out of trouble, whilst most of the others have been incredibly inconsistent.

Pretty much everyone is around the same level of quality beyond the very top and bottom. Shown by the similarities in points and GD.

Went to Villa Park yesterday. Certainly one of those end of season games where both teams were thinking of next year already.

[Preezy]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Erik

I really hope he can turn United around, he seems to have the right stuff about him. I just hope the size of the beast doesn't eat him alive.

[Tomous]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Fact he even took the United job in the first place shows he has massive balls.


Or he's stupid idk

[Memento Mori]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Fact he even took the United job in the first place shows he has massive balls.


Or he's stupid idk

He's apparently being paid £9mil a year making him 5th highest paid in the premier league.

1. Guardiola (£19m)
2. Klopp (£16m)
3. Conte (£15m)
4. Rodgers (£10m)

Those are figures sourced from The Sun though.

[Photek]

Erik ten Hag takes charge at Manchester United for final week of season

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-season

The balls on this guy.

Fact he even took the United job in the first place shows he has massive balls.


Or he's stupid idk

I obviously hope he fails miserably and there it a part of me that thinks no one can change things, its like Fergie made a deal with the devil or something. The mentality of the squad is incredible, how they manage to spend lots of money on what seems an awful lot of banana splits is a mystery.

The fact Pogba is leaving but Manu still had a 400k a week contract ready for him to sign after doing sweet FA for years is testament that sh*t is still f**ked in Manu.

[Cuttooth]

twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1526231204969820160

Good for him. Hopefully this might mark something of a sea change in the men's game.

[DML]

Fuuuuck. Brave man, very proud of him.

[Moggy]

Astonishing that nobody else in English football has come out in the last 32 years.

[Cuttooth]

Astonishing that nobody else in English football has come out in the last 32 years.

In the men's game. There are quite a few high profile gay or bisexual women footballers playing in England.

But yes, it's quite something that it's been so long. Plus he's only 17 and has come out right at the start of his career rather than it being something The Sun latches on to in his late twenties like with Fashanu.

[DML]

I did a lot of research into this topic recently and honestly some of the stories you find are astonishing. I remember a certain member of my family once said 'maybe there just isn't any gay footballers in the UK'.