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Some Week 23 narratives/updates

 

City drew with Palace; ANOTHER leg-up for Liverpool. This is fast becoming the easiest tite in PL history. I'm pretty sure LFC could crawl around on the pitch for the next 4 games and still have a big enough cushion to win the PL. Pep struggles against Hodgson's teams, must be frustrating.

Danny Ings deserves an England call up in Kane's absence. He has around a 50% conversion rate, which for a striker is crazy good. He's netted 10 in his last 11 games.

Jose Mourinho already making a point to the board playing a youth academy player? Mind you, Tanganga has played well for him in his 2 or 3 starts! 

DERBY day...THE BIG ONE....except it's not really. It's a meh game with no consequence. If United win - nothing really change, LFC still win the league and United are still floundering below where they should be. If LFC win...see above. The big one was Norwich vs Bournemouth. Last vs Second From Last with the loser surely concined to relegation. Norwich win, AFC Bournemouth look AWFUL this year. I'm sure one of the big clubs will be eyeing up Eddie Howe for the new season.

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Arsenal get Pablo Mari from Flamengo. Reports are 4 million loan that could escalate another 2 million with another 4 million in the summer to buy. But Flamengo manager said it's not a loan so maybe staggered 4 million payments? With him coming in now and Saliba in the summer we're getting younger at CB just hope it's better as well. 

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6 hours ago, NVRamsFan said:

Arsenal get Pablo Mari from Flamengo. Reports are 4 million loan that could escalate another 2 million with another 4 million in the summer to buy. But Flamengo manager said it's not a loan so maybe staggered 4 million payments? With him coming in now and Saliba in the summer we're getting younger at CB just hope it's better as well. 

I'm not expecting much, but at this point a body who doesn't commit the "guaranteed every 90 minutes" match-altering mistake that Mustafi can be counted on isn't much.  We need a warm body who isn't going to crap himself to occupy minutes while Holding is still working his way back from the knee injury (not a surprise, and after Bellerin fell victim to the kind of hamstring knocks that guys recovering from ACL tears can, I don't blame them for being cautious with regard to thrusting him into the fire for full-90's).  We may still may a run at someone like an Upamecano in the summer, but that's going to require CL football - he's not leaving Leipzig for anything less.

At this point, though, with the home run he's hit with Martinelli (and the fact that Arteta is familiar with Mari from his limited time at City - even though he was perpetually loaned out), Edu has earned the benefit of the doubt on guys playing in Brazilian leagues, so long as the wages are reasonable.  Even if all he ends up being is a gap-filler as long as the wages aren't outrageous we shouldn't have an issue moving on from him if/when a better player avails himself to us - note how we never had issues unloading guys like Gabriel Paulista or even Djourou (as crap as he was) because their wages didn't get in the way.

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It's not just Liverpool, this also screws Wolves/Sheff Utd/West Brom/Leeds etc. You've got to try finish it or do all you can to avoid it being null. I'd even go so far as to scrap relegation and make it a 22 team league for one year next season. 

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On 3/31/2020 at 4:02 PM, Mega Ron said:

How do you decide who goes up, seeing as Leeds and west Bromwich aren't clear of the rest?

Team at the top of the championship goes up and the team at the bottom of the premiership go down.

Give Liverpool the title and call it a day.

 

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