The English Football Thread

[Fulham Broadway 16,392]

Would feel safer with Raya in goal than Kepa

[Magic Lamps 11,449]

Fulham return to the PL

[Pizy 17,860]

Right then.

Fulham and Leeds, two historic, heated rivals of ours, return to the PL where they'll both treat their games against us like the CL final while conceding cricket scores against our top 4 rivals. Great! 😂😂😂

[Jase 43,479]

Fulham in the Premier League again. How boring...

[We Hate Scouse 10,260]

Urgh fuck off Fulham. The ultimate yoyo club.

[Jase 43,479]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Right then.

Fulham and Leeds, two historic, heated rivals of ours, return to the PL where they'll both treat their games against us like the CL final while conceding cricket scores against our top 4 rivals. Great! 😂😂😂

Fulham..heated rivals of ours? Really?

QPR are more in that regard if we're talking about clubs from west London.

[OneMoSalah 8,614]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Right then.

Fulham and Leeds, two historic, heated rivals of ours, return to the PL where they'll both treat their games against us like the CL final while conceding cricket scores against our top 4 rivals. Great! 😂😂😂

I think Fulham will not last long again. 1 season and back down.

Leeds have got a bit more about them. They'll need some better players but if Bielsa gets them, with his innovation and ability to improve players, I think they could remain in the PL for a bit. 

hopefully not but out the two I think Leeds are better equipped for a longer stint in the PL.

[Magic Lamps 11,449]

13 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Right then.

Fulham and Leeds, two historic, heated rivals of ours, return to the PL where they'll both treat their games against us like the CL final while conceding cricket scores against our top 4 rivals. Great! 😂😂😂

Fulham hae usually been nice to us. Can only remember two or three instances where we drew at Craven Cottage. Leeds on the other hand I can easily see do the double over us if our defence continues like that.

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12 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

I think Fulham will not last long again. 1 season and back down.

Leeds have got a bit more about them. They'll need some better players but if Bielsa gets them, with his innovation and ability to improve players, I think they could remain in the PL for a bit. 

hopefully not but out the two I think Leeds are better equipped for a longer stint in the PL.

Leeds will be fun and we'll have to see whether Bielsa's attacking style can hold up in the Premier League, whether that defence can hold their own against better players. And also gotta wonder if Leeds will avoid the usual Bielsa collapse in the second half of the season...

[Pizy 17,860]

27 minutes ago, Jason said:

Fulham..heated rivals of ours? Really?

QPR are more in that regard if we're talking about clubs from west London.

I mean more how they will approach us than how we look at them. I'm not worried about them or anything but they'll certainly want to do us and raise their game for Chelsea.

[Rapkun 668]

I don't know how much Fulham paid for Hector but he was definitely worth every penny. Was very good tonight.

[Strike 6,961]

10 hours ago, Jason said:

Fulham..heated rivals of ours? Really?

QPR are more in that regard if we're talking about clubs from west London.

Ya, some friends who cannot afford regular games at the Bridge often used to go to Fulham vs Chelsea and they never felt that Fulham was a 'rival'

Not that going to a game is gonna be an option anytime soon but still

[Special Juan 27,101]

Arsenal have made 55 employees redundant whilst Ozil is collecting 350k a week....it beggars belief that footballers are collecting millions and football clubs are doing shit like this.

Infuriates me.

[NikkiCFC 7,580]

What is funny even with this they won same amount of points 66.

We need next season to have similar influence from our new defensive signings.

[Tomo 21,681]

18 hours ago, Pizy said:

Right then.

Fulham and Leeds, two historic, heated rivals of ours, return to the PL where they'll both treat their games against us like the CL final while conceding cricket scores against our top 4 rivals. Great! 😂😂😂

Last time they were in the PL Fulham came a lot closer to getting results against Spurs and Liverpool than they did Chelsea.

[Tomo 21,681]

6 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

What is funny even with this they won same amount of points 66.

We need next season to have similar influence from our new defensive signings.

Doesn't this kind of back up the point I've made that attack signings should be considered just as important as defense for us now if not more?

United conceded as many goals last year as we have this, they prioritized their defense and while they did concede less goals they still ultimately needed an attacking signing in January to be able to even match their previous season's point's tally.

[kellzfresh 7,226]

13 hours ago, Tomo said:

Doesn't this kind of back up the point I've made that attack signings should be considered just as important as defense for us now if not more?

United conceded as many goals last year as we have this, they prioritized their defense and while they did concede less goals they still ultimately needed an attacking signing in January to be able to even match their previous season's point's tally.

Exactly, when building up a team, the attack is the most important first step. Klopp and Guardiola knew their defence was poor when they came in, but they first of all got their attack firing by making strong signings. Then they signed defenders to challenge for the title.

Lampard needs to solidify his attacking pattern. I know that the way we played in the begining of the season is the way Lamps wants us to attack, but he realized we were not ruthless/clinical enough. So he reduced the intensity of our attacking football.

If we have better players, making better decisions and with more technique/quality in the final third im sure Lamps will be more confident in maintaining a high tempo attacking intensity so that we blow out teams early in the match.

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