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I want to start watching Premier League games again, but I'd be a Manchester United fan (family ties, no other reason). Can someone give a summary of how our season's gone so far?

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as every season since Ferguson left, average at best.

20 years of success will make for high standards, though, and they aren't currently being met.

i suppose a part of me does like mourinho being trashed, though.

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13 hours ago, Lord Raven said:

I want to start watching Premier League games again, but I'd be a Manchester United fan (family ties, no other reason). Can someone give a summary of how our season's gone so far?

As a long-time supporter of United I feel like this pretty much sums it up:

 

13 hours ago, Tryhard said:

as every season since Ferguson left, average at best.

 

Last season they lucked their way to 2nd place, the season before they lucked their way to the Europe League title. This year it's not looking like they're getting anywhere and it's well deserved. Their whole club management has been awful ever since Ferguson left, poor transfers and coach choices included.

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21 hours ago, Tryhard said:

 

20 years of success will make for high standards, though, and they aren't currently being met.

so basically it's gonna be a snapshot of what it's like to see a Patriots fan after brady/belichick

gotcha

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Historically, ManUnited is one of football's biggest and most successful franchises. Ferguson definitely led their most successful era but they were a top level team before that. Right now they're under the reign of CEO Ed Woodward who is more concerned about expanding the value of Manchester United as a brand than about their success as a football club. Supporters of the club have been calling for Woodward to be sacked for the last 5 years now and if you look at the results it's not hard to see why. It's not just the fact that the club fails to meet high expectations, it's the way they're failing to do so that's really an issue. For the last years they've been spending astronomical amounts of money at the beginning of each season to get star players and coaches - and so far it has not been working out. If they decided to just tank it out for a while to give young talented players time to grow into a competitive team it'd be more understandable but with the way they've been spending money there really isn't any justification for how poorly things are going right now.

 

Arsenal won the North London Derby against Spurs which means that the Premier League is even more a matter of ManCity vs LPool now. In the long term I think ManCity is going to win it, even if it comes down to the direct confrontation between the two clubs I see Guardiola having the upper hand against Klopp.

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i still love you pickford, it's okay

 

even if i'm dead fuckin mad

 

EDIT: home derby in march is gonna be lit, 2-0 up the ev

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On 12/3/2018 at 4:25 AM, Yojinbo said:

franchises

*clubs

Anyway glad that Brighton look to be doing well for themselves, esp given that a lot of long-term mediocre PL sides - West Brom, Stoke, Sunderland - have dropped out in the past couple seasons. I don't have a particular dog in the fight this season, but it's nice to see them establish themselves. Also good to see Huddersfield and Cardiff putting up a fight, rather than lying down and dying like people feared. Feels like the Terriers in particular just go through the cycle of punishing defeat -> defensive football they aren't suited to -> sequence of other punishing defeats -> eventually return to the pressing, high-intensity football they're actually good at -> enough wins to stay afloat.

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New Coach at Southampton - my fellow countryman Ralph Hasenhüttl is in charge now. Will he be able to "save" the club? It's quite a challenge and the fact that his PL debut is an away game against Spurs doesn't exactly make things easier for him. There is plenty of time however and the club is still only 3 points away from a somewhat reassuring 14th place. Burnley, Fulham and Newcastle all have tough games ahead of them tonight so it's probably not too late.

 

10 hours ago, YoungLionofAlistel said:

As a Chelsea fan, I'm hoping for a bit of revenge against Tottenham in February.

Chelsea vs Arsenal vs Spurs is gonna be where the PL gets really exciting imo. Three clubs from the same city, with a historic rivalry, currently only one point apart of each other and whoever gets the short end of the stick will end up in Europa League next season.

 

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It's amazing to see what kind of football ManUnited is capeable of playing if the coach just allows for it. Solskjear is definitely a disciple of Alex Ferguson and it immediately shows - what a difference to Mourinho's destructive approach that last game was! They already have good options up front with Rashford, Martial, Lukaku and Lingard. If they manage to fix some of their defensive shortcomings by buying a big anchor player in central defense - like LFC did with Van Dijk - and integrating homegrown talent into their starting squad they could become one of the UK's - and indeed Europe's - leading teams again in a couple of years.

 

Huge win for Spurs at Everton. They're only two points away from ManCity now and have a comfortable 5 point lead over their London rivals Chelsea and Arsenal. If those two teams continue to drop points and ManUnited continue to get back in shape then there's still a tiny chance left that ManUnited will see international competition at the Europe League next season, at the expense of either Arsenal or Chelsea. Meanwhile Spurs seem to be well on their way for yet another season of Champions League football next year if they manage to stay consistent. Could turn out be a great season for them if they manage to beat Borussia Dortmund and place top 3 in the PL and it may not even end there. Definitely more exciting prospects than boring ole Chelsea [sorry Alistel] and an Arsenal team that's still struggling to make moves.

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