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2022-23 Premier League Thread

After long success keeping teams up, Big Sam is now 0 for his last 2, failing to keep Leeds up after taking West Brom down in 2021. Predictably, he’s out at Leeds, just as he was at West Brom, although the Baggies supposedly wanted to keep him. At this point in his career, could you picture him slumming it in the Championship? Me either.
 
Sam's kind of football really only happens at the lower divisions these days. It's no great mystery why his saving grace doesn't really do the trick anymore. My guess is that his future lies in rank punditry.
 
I think we kind of forget, mostly because he's a hilarious dinosaur at this point, he was a truly innovative manager. I mean, not style wise, but technology wise. I was listening to the football ramble's recent podcast about his time at Bolton and while I knew some of the information, he left Bolton about the same time I got fox soccer channel for the first time and first got into the premier league. They talked about how in his brief period of time playing in Tampa in NASL, how he saw the difference in how the Tampa Bay Bucs in 1983 did training and used technology compared to how soccer teams did and wanted to use every tool at his disposal when he became a manager.
 
Oh, that's definitely true. Big Sam famously has a type of player that he prefers, but that's because he has taken the time and done the work to know what kind of player best suits the systems he's most comfortable coaching. Most managers who have a "type" are like that.
 
Cue Jeffbear’s teeth gnashing. Spurs hired Ange Postecoglou from Celtic, where he won a domestic treble this year after a League and League Cup double last year.
 
andyt said:
Cue Jeffbear’s teeth gnashing. Spurs hired Ange Postecoglou from Celtic, where he won a domestic treble this year after a League and League Cup double last year.
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Honestly, none of that from me. That's the life you get when you're a fan of a Scottish side. Get good enough and your manager just becomes a guy in a shop window. Same with your players. I loved Ange's time at Celtic, and wish him nothing but good things in North London. Sonny is gonna LOVE playing for a guy who really understands how to unlock the wings, Kane will get great service and his flexible, morphing 4-3-3 should translate pretty well to Spurs' personnel. Really decent bloke too. Bon chance big fella

 
West Ham beat Fiorentina 2-1 to win the Europa Cinference League. Jared Bowen got the winner in the 90th minute. It’s the Hammers first Trophy since the 1980 FA Cup and their first European trophy since 1965. The win also puts them in the Group Stage of the 2023-24 Europa League, despite their 14th place finish in the Premier League. The Prem will have 8 teams playing in Europe next year, with Man City, Arsenal, Man U and Newcastle in the Champions League, Liverpool and Brighton joining West Ham in the Europa League and Villa in the Conference League
 
As someone who did watch the match, you both made the right choice. Almost unwatchable. The only interesting things were how dreadful the ref was and West Ham fans staying classy and throwing cups on the field constantly and hitting a Fiorentina player in the back of the head with something and drawing a lot of blood. Also, earlier in the match a Fiorentina player had slid to try to save a ball from going out of bounds and while he was on the ground a cup landed next to him and he grabbed it and pretended to drink from it. That was actually pretty funny.
 
Yeah, it didn't help that Fiorentina fans had attacked West Ham fans and incited a riot in the days before the game. That was always going to be ugly in the stands.
 
Brentford striker Ivan Toney was suspended 8 months for betting transgressions. He won’t be able to start training until September but he’s suspended from playing until January. The investigation started last year and also caused him to miss the World Cup.
 
Villa CEO Christian Purslow is stepping down. Fans soured on him after the Gerrard debacle, but Purslow did solid work in the club offices over the last 5 years and had been quite popular for his candor and accessibility previously. There's no specific word on whether or not his departure is fully voluntary, but Villa's pursuit of first Alemany from Barca and then Monchi from Sevilla would indicate that personnel matters were heading in a more Spanish-centric direction either way.
 
Carlo Ancelotti is suing Everton in London high court. It relates to “general commercial contracts and arrangements” and is listed to be heard in the commercial court. This also comes against Farhad Moshiri’s attempt to sell the club. The Guardian also reports that Everton took out a bride loan last month, secured against the new stadium.

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Carlo Ancelotti suing Everton in high court two years after leaving as manager

Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid coach and former manager of Everton, is suing the Premier League club in London’s high court
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That's the kind of thing that well-run clubs negotiate their way out of BEFORE their combative former manager gets ticked off enough to file suit. Nice work in sticking to recent form, Everton.
 
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