Premier League Matchday 21 (January 1-3)

Loudest they've been all day is booing the player that's just come on and wrapped the game up.
 
We are terrible at defending set pieces but our defending at open play is quite good. Arsenal simply cannot defend.
We’re better at scoring goals than last season, with Emery doing a particularly good job overloading the wings, but the defence is worse than ever. He needs to sort that before anything else.
 
Auba/Laca/Iwobi starting? I'm going 4-1 Arsenal.

Ffs, if it ends like this after I called the 5-1 loss to us a few days back, I'm going to hate myself for not betting on it again.

Kill me now.
 
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Fulham managed 88 points in the championship last season, second top scorers. Surelyf they'd just kept the same team they couldn't be much worse? Complete waste of £100m odd?
 
Fulham managed 88 points in the championship last season, second top scorers. Surelyf they'd just kept the same team they couldn't be much worse? Complete waste of £100m odd?
I'm not sure what their strategy was. Might have been better to identify the weak spots of their Championship XI and buy 2-3 players to fill those spots rather than going on a random buying spree. But I'm no DoF, just a guy on the Caf.
 
At least we opened the year with a win. Deserved overall, but we are still not gonna finish in the top 4 though.
 
I'm not sure what their strategy was. Might have been better to identify the weak spots of their Championship XI and buy 2-3 players to fill those spots rather than going on a random buying spree. But I'm no DoF, just a guy on the Caf.
In fairness they had 6 players on loan last season and then Fredericks left on a free (as was known well in advance) so they would have needed to bring in 9-10 players just to replace the loanees (they signed Mitrovic permanently and tried to get Targett back as well), Fredericks and add any sort of depth. I think the number of players they brought in was fair enough but I'm not sure they identified players correctly and also were well short going into the last week of the window and had to get in any half decent player who was available.
 
Lack of squad depth starting to show for Spurs. Virtually no changes.
 
In fairness they had 6 players on loan last season and then Fredericks left on a free (as was known well in advance) so they would have needed to bring in 9-10 players just to replace the loanees (they signed Mitrovic permanently and tried to get Targett back as well), Fredericks and add any sort of depth. I think the number of players they brought in was fair enough but I'm not sure they identified players correctly and also were well short going into the last week of the window and had to get in any half decent player who was available.
Oh, I didn't know that. Then their buying spree makes more sense, they literally needed the numbers I guess.
 
Cardiff to pull off a surprise win:D
 
Cardiff to pull off a surprise win:D

I said earlier I thought they'd get something, but that Spurs line up could kill them pretty fast... Scoring draw, I reckon. Spurs fatigue to rear its head again.
 
Oh, I didn't know that. Then their buying spree makes more sense, they literally needed the numbers I guess.

Does make sense, guess that is a pitfall for championship teams. Easy to get loans but then the team gets gutted if you're promoted. Have to start with almost a new team in the premier league and always going to struggle.
 
I said earlier I thought they'd get something, but that Spurs line up could kill them pretty fast... Scoring draw, I reckon. Spurs fatigue to rear its head again.
I'd take a draw:) But seriously I can't imagine Cardiff getting anything. They'll probably just clatter the Spurs players instead!
 
Does make sense, guess that is a pitfall for championship teams. Easy to get loans but then the team gets gutted if you're promoted. Have to start with almost a new team in the premier league and always going to struggle.
Particularly if you go up via the play-offs because you're starting later than everyone else and even in identifying targets you have to hedge your bets in case you lose in them. Wolves obviously have the advantage of their finances and the Mendes links but they also were clearly coming up months before the end of the season and so had more time to prepare.
 
Cardiff are shite
 
At least the Cardiff players look like they've now woken up