FA Premier League 21/02/25 - 23/02/25

[SilentWitness]

They don’t. Hardly anyone’s beating Liverpool this season. City battered Newcastle last week and will beat most teams in the league quite easy with the squad they’ve got. And new players they’ve just bought

They've lost 8 games this season and they're 20 points off 1st. It's not like they've dropped off a little.

 

[Klopper76]

Big weekend swing. Feels like that might be it. Hard to see Arsenal catching us from here.

Van Dijk MOTM.

 

[AdamColeBebe]

Comfortable as you like for Liverpool

City are "cooked" as the children would say

 

[LordSpud]

Guardiola will be walking away soon. He hasn’t got it in him to rebuild.

They've just won the court case enabling them to spend endless amounts so it's just a case of whether he can be arsed

 

[Utd heap]

Big weekend swing. Feels like that might be it. Hard to see Arsenal catching us from here.

Van Dijk MOTM.

Not a chance you can give a defender MOTM v that City team. I'd have kept them quiet.

It was Salah by a mile..

 

[Pexbo]

Congratulations, Liverpool. Hurts but they're now likely to overtake our twenty league titles in the next few years.

Salah, VVD and TAA are yet to sign contracts. If they lose the three of them for nothing it will be a giant task to compete for the title again within the next few years.

 

[DownRiver]

Slot and Van Dikhead are now not complaining about sitting deep and playing long balls anymore as when they do it then it’s okay.

 

[miked99]

The season is practically over in February.

Liverpool are obviously winning the league. The bottom three are cut adrift and don't look like escaping. Only the top 4 battle left really.

 

[alexthelion]

They've just won the court case enabling them to spend endless amounts so it's just a case of whether he can be arsed

No they haven't, that was for the old rules, not the amended version now in place.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Salah, VVD and TAA are yet to sign contracts. If they lose the three of them for nothing it will be a giant task to compete for the title again within the next few years.

Sad that that's all we can hope for, that and City go and spend billions to build a new mega squad to win titles again.

 

[GlasgowCeltic]

Foden is no showing on a regular basis, this guy is a squad player in a top team

 

[Klopper76]

Salah, VVD and TAA are yet to sign contracts. If they lose the three of them for nothing it will be a giant task to compete for the title again within the next few years.

I’m convinced that Arsenal would win the league next season if we lose all three. That City squad needs a tonne of work.

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

The season is practically over in February.

Liverpool are obviously winning the league. The bottom three are cut adrift and don't look like escaping. Only the top 4 battle left really.

It's a rubbish season. I stopped caring in December.

 

[Jacko21]

Feels reminiscent of when Mournho was in charge at United and City came to OT with a chance to open up an 11 point lead. They did so and it shattered any illusion that it was anything other than a one-horse race.

Arsenal could drop another flurry of points now and let Liverpool extend to 15-20 points.

 

[lexisonfire]

City need a bigger rebuild than people realise.

Abu Dhabi has the dubloons, their issue is with complying with PSR rules. Everyone knows they need to get rid of De Bruyne, Gündogan, Ederson, Walker, Grealish, Bernardo, maybe Rico at the very least

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

They've just won the court case enabling them to spend endless amounts so it's just a case of whether he can be arsed

No, that was for three points out of all aspects of spending rules, not PSR itself. Main judgement to come soon, maybe March.

What has changed is City have (over the last few years) managed to legally grow income and diversified.

 

[TsuWave]

Who said that?

Andy Townsend

 

[lexisonfire]

Salah, VVD and TAA are yet to sign contracts. If they lose the three of them for nothing it will be a giant task to compete for the title again within the next few years.

TAA is not that big of a loss, the other two stated they want to stay no? Trent is error-prone so they can probably find a decent defensive upgrade on him. It's players like Konate or Diaz who are oft linked with money clubs like PSG that they can't afford to lose yet may not be able to keep in the long term due to their wage structure.

 

[Mb194dc]

Big weekend swing. Feels like that might be it. Hard to see Arsenal catching us from here.

Van Dijk MOTM.

It was before this weekend, they don't have any fit forwards... Merino not going to do the business ffs.

80 points should be enough for the title this season, you'll should win it by 12 points at least.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Arsenal are going to have to do a guard of honour in Anfield.

 

[Red Star One]

Foden is no showing on a regular basis, this guy is a squad player in a top team

I tend to forget he exists

 

[Pexbo]

TAA is not that big of a loss, the other two stated they want to stay no? Trent is error-prone so they can probably find a decent defensive upgrade on him. It's players like Konate or Diaz who are oft linked with money clubs like PSG that they can't afford to lose yet may not be able to keep in the long term due to their wage structure.

The other two are in their mid-thirties. Saying you want to stay during a title run is lip service to keep a steady ship.

Signing a contract is how you prove you want to stay and at 33 you are one bad tackle away from losing a contract worth tens of millions which I why I think Salah and VVD would have signed already if they intended to stay.

 

[miked99]

I’m convinced that Arsenal would win the league next season if we lose all three. That City squad needs a tonne of work.

Surely that can't happen? There's no way you're letting Salah leave on a free, unless he refuses to sign a new contract. It would be the ultimate PR catastrophe. There's just no way, it's all posturing by both sides.

 

[lexisonfire]

The other two are in their mid-thirties. Signing a contract is how you prove you want to stay and at 33 you are one bad tackle away from losing a contract worth tens of millions

Exactly they're 33, even if they stay Liverpool need to be looking for their replacements anyway.

 

[DennisReynolds]

Surely that can't happen? There's no way you're letting Salah leave on a free, unless he refuses to sign a new contract. It would be the ultimate PR catastrophe. There's just no way, it's all posturing by both sides.

I think and hope he'll stay. The club have managed it awfully up to this point though. Even in the very best case scenario where he extends, he's more than argued his case for a bigger salary than he may have accepted at the start of the season.

 

[RedRocket9908]

Surely that can't happen? There's no way you're letting Salah leave on a free, unless he refuses to sign a new contract. It would be the ultimate PR catastrophe. There's just no way, it's all posturing by both sides.

I think its probably Salah's demands that are holding things up between him a Liverpool at the moment, he clearly wants more wages than FSG are willing to offer.