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Premier League 2016/2017

Savz

Big Willie wrote:
You mean cheese off of the squad Rikaard et al gifted him? The guy is a quality manager but let's not pretend his teams were punching above their weight and he was performing miracles. He has some of the best youth players ever coming through she he took over and also had the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Eto'o and Pugol at their peaks (don't even remember if Ronaldinho was still there or not).

lol. One of his masterstrokes was selling Deco/Ronaldinho/Edmilson/Zambrotta.

QuincyAbeyie

Big Willie wrote:
You mean cheese off of the squad Rikaard et al gifted him? The guy is a quality manager but let's not pretend his teams were punching above their weight and he was performing miracles. He has some of the best youth players ever coming through she he took over and also had the likes of Xavi, Iniesta, Eto'o and Pugol at their peaks (don't even remember if Ronaldinho was still there or not).

Yup. Here's the awesome season Barcelona had when Pep arrived:

Biggus

Groan......The la Liga wankfest has invaded the PL thread.

Qwiss

Clrnc wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
He's still likely to have the best squad at his disposal by the end of the summer but it'll certainly be a bigger test than he's faced before.

It might just be the most competitive season in PL. Mourinho and Conte is making some impressive signings and they are not stopping yet. If Leicester don't lose any players and continue to strengthen they might just continue to do well.

Have they completed much more than us and City though? Xhaka and Gundogan as good as any other clubs signings I'd say. And Chelsea have only done Batashuyi? Not that impressive so far. Obviously a lot to come from everyone barring us.

Clrnc

Qwiss! wrote:
Clrnc wrote:
It might just be the most competitive season in PL. Mourinho and Conte is making some impressive signings and they are not stopping yet. If Leicester don't lose any players and continue to strengthen they might just continue to do well.

Have they completed much more than us and City though? Xhaka and Gundogan as good as any other clubs signings I'd say. And Chelsea have only done Batashuyi? Not that impressive so far. Obviously a lot to come from everyone barring us.

I am not that big a fan of Mikhitaryan but you have to say he is the perfect Mourinho player. In addition, his stats last year is too impressive to be ignored. Zlatan is Zlatan and Bailly had an impressive season with Villarreal last season. I don't think they can manage to get Pogba but stranger things have happened.

Those clubs are already threatening enough with 3 top top managers. We couldn't beat Leicester last season, I won't be confident we can beat these unless we do something significant in the transfer window. It is likely to be Wenger's last season so I hope he at least get a non-embarrassing conclusion to his reign.

Qwiss

Well I have zero hopes of us winning the league. Just don't think all 3 of those managers will manage to do as well as expected.

Rex

They are all pretty much expected to win the league so, yeah, not all of them will do as well as expected. 🙂

Sicario

My money is on Chelsea, who are now managed by the tactically the best manager in the league.

Klaus

Qwiss! wrote:
Well I have zero hopes of us winning the league. Just don't think all 3 of those managers will manage to do as well as expected.

I don't think all of them will be success stories either. The problem for us is that just one or two of them meeting expectations (or thereabouts) could be enough to see us dumped out of the CL spots. We almost always do worse every time there has been a big summer tournament and our players come back tired and lacking a proper preseason. And Wenger doesn't seem to have the hunger to win things anymore.

lorddulaarsenal

Least confident I'll be going into a season in 3 to 4 years unless things change

Qwiss

Sicario wrote:
My money is on Chelsea, who are now managed by the tactically the best manager in the league.

We'll see. A lot of Italian managers have come to the PL and not set it alight. He needs a few serious defensive signings to suit his game.

Savz

Im saying United.

Savz

Burnwinter wrote:
Of course he'll find it harder. I honestly hope he fails, I'd like to see his bubble burst.

I recognise he's a great manager, but it's not as if Rijkaard and Heynckes didn't achieve a lot before him, and Vilanova / Enrique after him with the players and squads he has worked with.

Look at Barca 07/08 and then the next 4 years you have to be good enough to make the best of the players. It's not just about having some of the best anyway and he improved most of them to make them some of the best too. You have to be a fool to think he didn't help nearly all of them improve.

Cannon

Its strange how most of us have no confidence in Arsenal winning the league. Contrast this all the BIG talk from Gazidis and Wenger and you get the amount of faith supporters have in Club and Wenger.

Savz

What do you mean BIG talk?

Cannon

Savz wrote:
What do you mean BIG talk?

This for starters. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/06/02/arsenal-manager-arsene-wenger-is-going-no-time-soon-says-chief-e/

He is talking confirmation bias and stuff!? 😆

Savz

Jose Mourinho will be formally unveiled as Manchester United's new manager later this afternoon.

Biggus

Good work agent Savz, keep us informed.

Savz

Just keeping you all up to date.

Savz

Jose is reinvigorated.

"Here is where I've wanted to be"

"When you have the same menu for many years, it has to get better. To finish fourth is not the aim."

"I want everything - to win matches, to play well, to play young players, to score goals, for the fans to be behind us. Everything."

"I want specialists, not multi-functional players. When we get the fourth (signing) I can breathe."

"We have 3 players done, we are working very hard on the 4th"

Mourinho on Pep: "To speak about one enemy is not right in this country, it was a 2 horse race in Spain now the PL is anyones game."

"It's not my responsibility that Ryan is not at the club. He wanted to be manager & the club decided job was for me" Jose Smiles

Ohhh scornful.

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