Re: Misc. Predictions for the upcoming season

by Firenze Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:18 pm

Some fanbases just hype the F out of any and every youth that comes to them.

literally..you can rattle off half a dozen from Juventus especially the last 4-5 seasons alone

Coman? Keane? Rugani? Lemina? Bentacur and more

PL fanbases generally seem a lot less prone to exaggeration with their youth..probably because we never give them a chance to play meaningful minutes and we know that Laughing

Madrid fanbase seem to do the same too tbh, and I'm not talking about GL strictly..in general

I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but eh

by Luca Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:19 pm

Much better to hype up 87 year old failed wingers turned left backs like Ashley Young while they lead you to the treble of sadness and finishing 17 points behind the bald fraud in the league

WATTBA

by Firenze Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:20 pm

I'm fully expecting another French prospect to emerge this season btw

seems like Lyon just churn them out endlessly

anyone you expecting from the league @sportsczy @Nick

by Firenze Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:24 pm

Luca wrote:Much better to hype up 87 year old failed wingers turned left backs like Ashley Young while they lead you to the treble of sadness and finishing 17 points behind the bald fraud in the league

WATTBA

tbf to Ashley Youncelo, it's not hype if he's actually delivering week to week

trust me I'd rather not be in the position of lavishing praise on that numpty

which is a good point actually, after his performance on Friday I'm hoping Shaw can finally start going hard for Manchester United and not Mcdonalds

but i'm expecting Mou to bench him as soon as Young's fully rested

by Nishankly Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:24 pm

Something not exactly valid for Liverpool since Rodgers came. We have to follow the academy as both Rodgers and Klopp can field academy players randomly as solutions.

But it's the case in PL, there is no "Best 11", for each team's it's 'best 6-7' max, the rest are a bunch of scrubs who will always cost you points so it doesn't matter. Whereas in Seriously Zzz and Bundesfodder, they have 17-18 players who can compete and do the job.

by Nishankly Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:28 pm

My predictions:

City to win the PL comfortably.

United and Arsenal to both miss out on CL places.

Liverpol finish 4th again.

Real to finish 3rd.

Ronaldo will score less than 20 goals this season.

Mourinho to punch Sarri and Sarri burning Mourinho's hair from his lighter, both getting banned for the rest of the season.

Barcelona will win the CL.

We won't talk about Bayern until February in GL when they win the league.

Fulham to get relegated.

by S Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:41 pm

Firenze wrote:Some fanbases just hype the F out of any and every youth that comes to them.

literally..you can rattle off half a dozen from Juventus especially the last 4-5 seasons alone

Coman? Keane? Rugani? Lemina? Bentacur and more

PL fanbases generally seem a lot less prone to exaggeration with their youth..probably because we never give them a chance to play meaningful minutes and we know that

Madrid fanbase seem to do the same too tbh, and I'm not talking about GL strictly..in general

I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but eh

Its nothing compared to you hyping random African bouncers

sit down numpty

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:42 pm

Firenze wrote:Some fanbases just hype the F out of any and every youth that comes to them.

literally..you can rattle off half a dozen from Juventus especially the last 4-5 seasons alone

Coman? Keane? Rugani? Lemina? Bentacur and more

PL fanbases generally seem a lot less prone to exaggeration with their youth..probably because we never give them a chance to play meaningful minutes and we know that

Madrid fanbase seem to do the same too tbh, and I'm not talking about GL strictly..in general

I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but eh

I hate hyping of youth players in general tbh. 95% of youth players turn up to be nothing.

Until I see you performing in a top league for at least a season you're a fraud imo.

by Art Morte Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:46 pm

Klopp will get a sideline ban if he repeats this celebration:

by Valkyrja Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:46 pm

Yanited to win the league with the Rash and Martial having breakthrough seasons ala CR / Rooney in 06-07

Juve to win Serie Z and CR having his worst GS season to date.

Barca to win the treble as they finally found their new Brazilian version of Xaviesta in Coutinho and Arturo. That's if they get past the QF, they will beat the master finalists Juve now with the master finalist CR in their team. Flopped in 3 of 4 finals that Ronaldo guy, such a match with JJuve

City to get destroyed by Barca in the SFs and flop in the league

Higs to take Milan to CL places

Neymar to win the league with PSG but to leave at the end of the season because the spotlight is on Kylian. I expect a move to Italy / China

by S Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:46 pm

And i (very) rarely hype youth players btw, much to the point that i despise youth level football

So that accusation on me isnt valid imo

by Firenze Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:49 pm

I said fanbases in general online

didn't mention any names

I know you Juve lads on GL are humble, honest and certainly not prone to hyping random youth scrubs and ending up with pie on your face :coffee:

and I certainly couldn't find a few dozen examples if I spent 5 minutes looking

by Luca Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:50 pm

Find them

by Firenze Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:51 pm

S wrote:
Firenze wrote:Some fanbases just hype the F out of any and every youth that comes to them.

literally..you can rattle off half a dozen from Juventus especially the last 4-5 seasons alone

Coman? Keane? Rugani? Lemina? Bentacur and more

PL fanbases generally seem a lot less prone to exaggeration with their youth..probably because we never give them a chance to play meaningful minutes and we know that

Madrid fanbase seem to do the same too tbh, and I'm not talking about GL strictly..in general

I'm not entirely sure why it happens, but eh

Its nothing compared to you hyping random African bouncers

sit down numpty

oh and

• Eric Bertrand Bailly to cement himself this season as the best CB in the league

by S Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:55 pm

Firenze wrote:I said fanbases in general online

didn't mention any names

I know you Juve lads on GL are humble, honest and certainly not prone to hyping random youth scrubs and ending up with pie on your face

and I certainly couldn't find a few dozen examples if I spent 5 minutes looking

Nothing wrong in hyping 1 or 2 players every now and then even if they dont turn out as expected

This is atleast better than periodically hyping your whole team only to end up getting twatted when it matters most by numpty sides

inb4iwasntserious convenient excuse

by Luca Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:59 pm

I think it depends on how much hype you give them but you also have to check the source. There will always be a few numpties saying Lemina is the new Pogba, Rugani the next Chiellini, I don't consider those representative of how a fanbase feels

It's more kneejerk reacting than anything, which is the GL norm after all

Young players tend to excite more because they usually come from relative anonymity

It's basically like saying don't be excited, one @mole is enough.

by Doc Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:59 pm

Hyping prospects is awesome. Most of the time, it never works out but those rare moment it does, you get to tell a fool "I told you so".

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:02 pm

Doc wrote:Hyping prospects is awesome. Most of the time, it never works out but those rare moment it does, you get to tell a fool "I told you so".

I get to do that regardless tbh hmm

by iftikhar Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:31 am

I love hyping young players. It started with Jay Spearing :wub:

whom I thought would become the next Javier Mascherano drunken

. Those were the days.

by Hapless_Hans Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:11 pm

Real Madrid will concede >50 goals in La Liga for the first time since 08/09

by Casciavit Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:50 pm

Casciavit wrote:-Salah will break the PL goal record again
-Lopetegui will get sacked
-Coutinho will score 20+ goals
-Mendy will finish with 10+ assists
-KDB will break the PL assist record
-Same league winners as last year (Barca, City, Juve, Bayern, PSG)
-Atletico will win the CL
-Bayern will get knocked out of the CL in the R16
-Commandant Pogba and Mou will have a big bust up which will see the dressing room turn against Mourinho and get him fired. United will replace him with...Zidane.
-Chelsea gonna be 2007-2012 Arsenal...all style no substance
-Betis will finish 4th
-Odegaard will have a breakout season for whichever team he joins
-Carlo to ruin all of Sarri's good work and underwhelm with Napoli
-Ederson/Alisson will assist a goal from a goalkick
-PSG will be the highest scoring team in the world
-Higuain to score less than 15 league goals

Not bad.

Got the Mou sack right but Zidane didn't get hired. Mendy and KDB were injured all season, but I'm sure Mendy would've had +10 assists he had 5 in his first 6 PL games. Laughing

Carlo ruining Sarri's good work is open to interpretation. They still finished second but they underwhelmed compared to last season. Chelsea being like Arsenal is also open to interpretation but that was more targetted towards them not winning anything major, but I'll give them the EL.

Took the clear L's on:
Salah breaking PL record (still topscorer), Coutinho 20 goals LOL, Atleti winning the CL smh, and Betis finishing 4th aka another L for hipster FC.

by Kaladin Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:56 pm

Kaladin wrote:-Mourinho will be sacked

-Higuain will have his worst scoring season

-United will get a Europa League-esque group

-Arsenal will win EL

-Juve will win CL

-Inter will compete for Scudetto

-Roma will underperform due to lots of new faces

-Napoli will compete for 4th

-Liverpool will compete for the PL title

-PSG won't make it to the QFs

-Real will have their worst season of the past 10 years

-Barca will win CL

-Bayern will crash out before the semis

-City will reach the semis

-Arsenal will have the most prolific team in the PL

-United won't finish in the top 4

by M99 Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:23 am

M99 wrote:Mourinho sacked mid season as Man Utd languish at 6th and mutiny led by Pogba, Lingard and Martial.

100% success rate in my predictions Molenation

by iftikhar Tue Jun 04, 2019 12:51 pm

ES wrote:-Liverpool will compete for the PL title

by Nishankly Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:00 pm

Nishankly wrote:My predictions:

City to win the PL comfortably.

Just about

United and Arsenal to both miss out on CL places.

Got this, Suprised Arsenal let it go after Chelsea being quite hopeless

Liverpol finish 4th again.

Oops

Real to finish 3rd.

Bullseye, not even suprised, they called me delusional when I said that we would have matched them if Karius did'nt screw up and the teams were equal

Ronaldo will score less than 20 goals this season.

Scored 28, accept it

Mourinho to punch Sarri and Sarri burning Mourinho's hair from his lighter, both getting banned for the rest of the season.

Barcelona will win the CL.

We knocked them out lmao

We won't talk about Bayern until February in GL when they win the league.

Went to the last day

Fulham to get relegated.

easy @urbanroots

Ending it with calling Real out, guys thanks for all the LFC support but it was evident that you'd not be upto the mark this season.

by Doc Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:39 pm

I see that loss still has some level of botherments in Pool fans' souls (trust me, it really still bothers a good bunch of Pool fans) and I would like to say: it good, next time, bring a better team to face us. May it continue to be a bother for the rest of your lives.

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