Firenze wrote:so with Sarri off to Juve are Chelsea actually replacing him with Lampard? seems a risk.

We're transfer banned, anyone we take is a risk, may as well take a high potential manager and give him some time to see how he does.

Too me it seems right now United and Chelsea are digging deeper holes and the gap from the Title winner for these two will be larger.

United is doing prime Liverpool under Hodgson. Losing top players, getting content with average English players, having a shit manager.

Nishankly wrote:Too me it seems right now United and Chelsea are digging deeper holes and the gap from the Title winner for these two will be larger.

United is doing prime Liverpool under Hodgson. Losing top players, getting content with average English players, having a shit manager.

Unlike Utd, There isn't much we can do about it right now with the transfer ban.

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:Too me it seems right now United and Chelsea are digging deeper holes and the gap from the Title winner for these two will be larger.

United is doing prime Liverpool under Hodgson. Losing top players, getting content with average English players, having a shit manager.

Unlike Utd, There isn't much we can do about it right now with the transfer ban.

You can't sign any players? Uptil when?

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:Too me it seems right now United and Chelsea are digging deeper holes and the gap from the Title winner for these two will be larger.

United is doing prime Liverpool under Hodgson. Losing top players, getting content with average English players, having a shit manager.

Unlike Utd, There isn't much we can do about it right now with the transfer ban.

You can't sign any players? Uptil when?

Banned for this window and Jan. No purchases until next summer.

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Unlike Utd, There isn't much we can do about it right now with the transfer ban.

You can't sign any players? Uptil when?

Banned for this window and Jan. No purchases until next summer.

What about the loans of Kova and Higgy? This means just Pulisic this window? Man that is bad.

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Unlike Utd, There isn't much we can do about it right now with the transfer ban.

You can't sign any players? Uptil when?

Banned for this window and Jan. No purchases until next summer.

What about the loans of Kova and Higgy? This means just Pulisic this window? Man that is bad.

Higgy is not going to return and we've declined Kovacic based on his price tag.

Pulisic is the only incoming player.

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Banned for this window and Jan. No purchases until next summer.

What about the loans of Kova and Higgy? This means just Pulisic this window? Man that is bad.

Higgy is not going to return and we've declined Kovacic based on his price tag.

Pulisic is the only incoming player.

And that would be ok, problem really is the severe injuries to CHO and RLC.
If those two were available, you'd have a good opportunity to immediately start building a new team involving Pulisic and those two.
Loftus-Cheek was basically the best Chelsea player whenever I watched them in the last few months, Odoi surely was ready to be given a proper chance in the starting 11.
These injuries are a bigger problem than the transfer ban IMO. You could ride out 1 season without further addition with those two.
Now, the team looks devoid of quality tbh. Tough circumstances for Lampard to come in, I don't think it will work out so well, and I'm curious as to how much patience and tolerance of bad results he might get.

Hapless_Hans wrote:

Kick wrote:

Nishankly wrote:

Kick wrote:

Banned for this window and Jan. No purchases until next summer.

What about the loans of Kova and Higgy? This means just Pulisic this window? Man that is bad.

Higgy is not going to return and we've declined Kovacic based on his price tag.

Pulisic is the only incoming player.

And that would be ok, problem really is the severe injuries to CHO and RLC.
If those two were available, you'd have a good opportunity to immediately start building a new team involving Pulisic and those two.
Loftus-Cheek was basically the best Chelsea player whenever I watched them in the last few months, Odoi surely was ready to be given a proper chance in the starting 11.
These injuries are a bigger problem than the transfer ban IMO. You could ride out 1 season without further addition with those two.
Now, the team looks devoid of quality tbh. Tough circumstances for Lampard to come in, I don't think it will work out so well, and I'm curious as to how much patience and tolerance of bad results he might get.

I tend to more or less agree with you, and losing CHO and RLC was the biggest two blows (adding Reece James to that mix only worsened the blow) this season. I'd trade the EL trophy to have those guys fit for all of next season.

But I get the feeling we assumed that we could sign anyone this window, so we shot ourselves in the foot by not signing more players like Pulisic in Jan.

I am as always, optimistic about the season but I feel like we just have to reserve judgement until Lampard has a couple of windows to bring in players.

"I think I liked living in Italy more"

Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira isn't sure about life in England pic.twitter.com/3L0OU0fcGJ

— Goal (@goal) June 12, 2019

Arsenal won't let him go a year after his move, and even if they did, we can't pay their demands

RVP's gonna be a BT pundit in the upcoming season

Opta's analytical season review for 18/19 incredibly in depth

https://www.optasportspro.com/static/8-create-season-review.html

Sina wrote:Opta's analytical season review for 18/19 incredibly in depth

https://www.optasportspro.com/static/8-create-season-review.html

What does "direct speed" refer to and what measure units are those numbers?

looked it up, got it. It's the meters per second that a team moves the ball forward during a sequence of possession.

Also, basically this graph shows that 50% of PL teams can barely string more than 3 passes together

Yeah there are definitions



sequence style is interesting

Hapless_Hans wrote:looked it up, got it. It's the meters per second that a team moves the ball forward during a sequence of possession.

Also, basically this graph shows that 50% of PL teams can barely string more than 3 passes together

and they stil had total domination of Europe

Unique wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:looked it up, got it. It's the meters per second that a team moves the ball forward during a sequence of possession.

Also, basically this graph shows that 50% of PL teams can barely string more than 3 passes together

and they stil had total domination of Europe

Nope.
The teams that dominated in Europe were exactly the 5 teams stringing the most passes together.

Month until the season starts. Getting kind of excited, even though I'm expecting a lot of frustration and heartbreak next season.

Don't see any team challenging City. Not even Pool. (who I think will decline this season, but still comfortably finish second)

Predictions;

City
Pool
United
Spurs

for top 4

Chelsea and Arsenal will be closer to Leicester and Wolves than the Top 4 IMO. City and Pool will be 15+ points above 3rd.

Didn't you also predict a Liverpool decline at the start of last season?

Manchester United displaced Arsenal last season as the Premier League team relying most heavily on graduates of their own academy.

1. Man Utd - 9334 minutes
2. Tottenham - 6887 minutes
3. Crystal Palace - 6602 minutes
4. West Ham - 6344 minutes
5. Southampton - 5866 minutes
6. Leicester - 5159 minutes
7. Arsenal - 4976 minutes
8. Huddersfield - 3771 minutes
9. Brighton - 3376 minutes
10. Fulham - 3176 minutes
11. Newcastle - 2896 minutes
12. Liverpool - 2600 minutes
13. Chelsea - 2202 minutes
14. Cardiff - 2118 minutes
15. Watford - 2070 minutes
16. Everton - 1959 minutes
17. Burnley - 1683 minutes
18. Wolves - 766 minutes
19. Bournemouth - 654 minutes
20. Man City - 371 minutes

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11773384/manchester-united-lead-the-way-with-academy-minutes-but-man-city-sit-bottom

Glory wrote:

Manchester United displaced Arsenal last season as the Premier League team relying most heavily on graduates of their own academy.

1. Man Utd - 9334 minutes
2. Tottenham - 6887 minutes
3. Crystal Palace - 6602 minutes
4. West Ham - 6344 minutes
5. Southampton - 5866 minutes
6. Leicester - 5159 minutes
7. Arsenal - 4976 minutes
8. Huddersfield - 3771 minutes
9. Brighton - 3376 minutes
10. Fulham - 3176 minutes
11. Newcastle - 2896 minutes
12. Liverpool - 2600 minutes
13. Chelsea - 2202 minutes
14. Cardiff - 2118 minutes
15. Watford - 2070 minutes
16. Everton - 1959 minutes
17. Burnley - 1683 minutes
18. Wolves - 766 minutes
19. Bournemouth - 654 minutes
20. Man City - 371 minutes

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11773384/manchester-united-lead-the-way-with-academy-minutes-but-man-city-sit-bottom

As opposed to Utd, Arsenal have not paid a 120m € transfer fee for their academy graduates though

Meh. Even if you remove Pogba’s minutes we still will be 4th in that list with 6089 minutes and with 8 academy players featured.

Glory wrote:Meh. Even if you remove Pogba’s minutes we still will be 4th in that list with 6089 minutes and with 8 academy players featured.

Just teasing.
It's a good thing, will give you a good core going forward.