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blugold said:
Manchester City is ridiculously good.

I also did the math:

The cost of the Arsenal squad, in transfer fees is roughly £249,000,000
The cost of the Manchester City squat is roughly £797,000,000

That's rather comical.
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I was wrong. Arsenal is £300

Man City:
Ederson 39
Akanji 17
Dias 50
Stones 48
Walker 45
Gundogan 27
Rodri 70
De Brunye 74
Stones 100
Silva 50
Haaland 51

Arsenal:
Ramsdale 30
White 50
Holding 3
Gabriel 26
Zinchenko 30
Odegaard 29
Partey 45
Xhaka 35
Saka 0
Martinelli 6
Jesus 45
 
Haaland is so dangerous.
 
mikeg_74 said:
I was coming in to post something similar. City is just so good and a shock they do not run the tables and collect all the trophy's
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Man City's payroll:
£182,640,000

Arsenal:
£97,878,000
 
blugold said:
Man City's payroll:
£182,640,000

Arsenal:
£97,878,000
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Big gap, but the players still have to produce. Spending doesn't equal wins or Chelsea would be at the top with the leaders right now.
 
thats going to be tough to come back from
 
Arsenal slowly watching the title disappear here.
 
mikeg_74 said:
Big gap, but the players still have to produce. Spending doesn't equal wins or Chelsea would be at the top with the leaders right now.
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Oh course the players have to produce. But when you can splash lots of cash for players you can afford to miss on some and then just absorb the bad ones. Then, when you find the players you like, you pay them as much as you want and don't have to worry about other teams making better offers.

Man City thumbed their nose to the FPP rules and have been able to build a titan. Chelsea is going to have some explaining to do because UEFA will be asking questions.
 
Mark_UK said:
Arsenal slowly watching the title disappear here.
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Slowly? They have been bleeding out for weeks now. That Saliba injury in the Europa league has been disastrous.
 
too easy...
 
Meh. Onward to next season for the Gunners. Don’t see PetroCity slipping up the rest of the way.
 
pumbaa said:
Fitting
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I don't hate Holding. He's a squad player. Coverage. He's not a top of the table level player. He starts on most squads in the bottom half of the table. He is over matched in a match against City. Especially when Partey plays that poorly.

But for him to score *that* goal...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
3 more for Newcastle as they really seem to have regained their form after a rough stretch.
 
You’ve gotta believe Arsenal gets back on track v Chelsea and keeps the race interesting.

can Fulham pull off the upset?
 
mikeg_74 said:
You’ve gotta believe Arsenal gets back on track v Chelsea and keeps the race interesting.

can Fulham pull off the upset?
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If anyone in a title race loses to a team as crap as Chelsea is right now, they don't deserve the title in the least. And that's me as a Chelsea supporter saying it.

I'll be happy to see us sink the Arsenal title challenge for good though :D
 
Is there any difference to finishing 1st or 4th in the Premier League? There aren’t playoffs are there?
 
pumbaa said:
No you just are league champ at 1. Top 4 make CL
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So Champions League is essentially the playoffs. And if the season ended today, Newcastle would be tied for 1st since 1-4 are the same thing. Nice :cool:
 
RealPretendPsychic said:
Is there any difference to finishing 1st or 4th in the Premier League? There aren’t playoffs are there?
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Top 4 are auto bids for UEFA iirc.. next 3-4 are Europa
 
RealPretendPsychic said:
So Champions League is essentially the playoffs. And if the season ended today, Newcastle would be tied for 1st since 1-4 are the same thing. Nice :cool:
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Nope, champions league is the top teams from each European league playing a separate competition over the next season, more money from tv revenues basically
 
mikeg_74 said:
Top 4 are auto bids for UEFA iirc.. next 3-4 are Europa
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5&6 get Europa and 7 UEFA Conference League (which is relatively new).

There are also spots in Europa for the League Cup and the FA Cup winners. Those spots are usually taken by teams who already qualified. The most recent example of a team out of qualifying spots to get into Europa was Arsenal in 2021 who finished 8th in 2020 but won the FA Cup. It forced the 6th place team (Tottenham I believe) into continental qualifying so over the summer Tottenham had to play important games against some small continental league teams.
 
SlazDun82 said:
Nil satis nisi optimum ("Nothing but the best is good enough")

ok i was thinking after last nights result

"Illegitimi non carborundum"
is a mock-Latin aphorism,
often translated as
"Don't let the bastards grind you down".
The phrase itself has no meaning in Latin and can only be mock-translated.
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Will watch the replay as I am that guy, not sure how we are going to get 6-9 points out of the last 5 games to be honest
 
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