Premier League 2023-2024

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Friday, 11 August

Burnley v Manchester City (20:00 BST - live on Sky Sports)

Saturday, 12 August

Arsenal v Nottingham Forest (12:30 - live on TNT Sports)

Bournemouth v West Ham (15:00)

Brighton v Luton Town (15:00)

Everton v Fulham (15:00)

Sheffield United v Crystal Palace (15:00)

Newcastle United v Aston Villa (17:30 - live on Sky Sports)

Sunday, 13 August

Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur (14:00 - live on Sky Sports)

Chelsea v Liverpool (16:30 - live on Sky Sports)

Monday, 14 August

Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00 - live on Sky Sports)

First round of fixtures announced won't be long coming around again.  City going to Kompany's Burnley will be interesting start should be a great atmosphere at Turf Moor on a Friday night.  Will also be interesting to see how City start, the pretenders will be hoping they have a slow start similar to Liverpool the previous season after their long season. 

Standout game Chelsea V Liverpool difficult to say what type of side Chelsea will have out the talk at the minute Arsenal interested in Havertz and the figure quoted 75 million think Arsenal could be spending that money elsewhere and Mount likely to leave also. 

Newcastle Villa an interesting game Newcastle should add to the squad and Enery has done a fantastic job in short time there.  Tough start for Ange, be interesting to see how Brentford go without Toney

[delgany]

Thankfully without the whiny tones of Martin Tyler

[square_ball]

Gary O'Neil sacked by Bournemouth. That is incredibly harsh. Done a superb job to keep Bournemouth up.

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Gary O'Neil sacked by Bournemouth. That is incredibly harsh. Done a superb job to keep Bournemouth up.

There was a report last week about an unnamed premier league boss being investigated for something unsavoury, I wonder if they are related

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Gary O'Neil sacked by Bournemouth. That is incredibly harsh. Done a superb job to keep Bournemouth up.

There was a report last week about an unnamed premier league boss being investigated for something unsavoury, I wonder if they are related

Its highly bizarre that he got the boot after keeping them up pretty comfortably. 

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Chelsea pulling some move off loading all these players to SA. Clearlake who invested in Chelsea, manage billions for PIF. Complete shit show what is being allowed to happen.

[yellowcard]

It's hard to know where this whole influx of Emirates money is going to end. The reported salaries being paid to entice players to play in Saudi Arabia is mind boggling and it all appears to be part of the Saudi bid for the World Cup in 2030. Emirate nation states flexing their financial muscle as a form of soft power with related European clubs now trying to get around FFP by processing related party transfers via over inflated transfer deals. Ethics has long gone out the window in professional football as it is just constantly sold to the highest bidder no matter where the source of the funds originate from. Its a shit show.   

[Captain Scarlet]

Let's be honest. 50% of the players in the EPL are not there for the good of their health. The money is better than Italy and most of Spain who also have serious football heritage.

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Let's be honest. 50% of the players in the EPL are not there for the good of their health. The money is better than Italy and most of Spain who also have serious football heritage.

The standards in LaLiga in last few years has dropped and Serie A has been been poor for a long time now. 

[Taylor]

What is happening in the Middle East is akin to what happened when the PL was launched.
Back then crazy money was being thrown at foreign players to come to the PL and the rest suffered.

Those in the PL can hardly complain when someone else does it.

The hypocrisy of Neville/Carragher is laughable considering the company who pay them handsomely were involved in all of this 30 years ago

[Capt Pat]

Arsenal now have a 105 million pound bid in for Declan Rice and City have said ok you can have him. Were Man City ever really interested? They drove the price up on their rivals Arsenal and even though they have a lot more money droped out of the bidding first.

Rice is not worth all that money. He is worth about 70 million. The extra you have to pay for top English players is not worth it.

[tintin25]

That sort of money for a primarily Defensive Midfielder is desperate

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Arsenal now have a 105 million pound bid in for Declan Rice and City have said ok you can have him. Were Man City ever really interested? They drove the price up on their rivals Arsenal and even though they have a lot more money droped out of the bidding first.

Rice is not worth all that money. He is worth about 70 million. The extra you have to pay for top English players is not worth it.

I think Maddison at £40 million represents good value in current market gets plenty of goals and assists.  If I was offered him at that price or Mount with a year left on contract at £60 million i know what I would take.  But yes, generally the price of English players scandalous. 

[AustinPowers]

Rice is limited , an average enough  player. 

Keane  was correct a while ago , saying he doesn't really stand out or  dominate in a  bad team. 

£105m is madness , but  then  the money in football is madness

[Walter Cronc]

Arsenal are banking on Rice's leadership attitude and qualities. In fairness that's hard enough come by nowadays. Games away to the Manchester and Liverpool clubs is where the league is won and lost. They'll be hoping he can set the tone and compliment the talented attacking players.