Aubrey Maturin Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 The fixtures are out today, and West Ham start off with three away games. Who will take this years crown? How many times per game will it be called the greatest league in the world? Is Martin Tyler an android? An intriguing season awaits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Minertaur Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Huddersfield's first home match is against Newcastle on GW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudu Dahan pal Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Newcastle v Spurs and Brighton v Man City probably the best games there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Brighton vs Man City will surely be a telly game Spurs first home game at Wembley is against Chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Man United v West Ham will be televised because it's the largest TV audience at home to the insufferable media darlings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Only two games I was looking forward to were Brighton and Bournemouth away. One in December, the other February. Another year of lower league football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 TV games for August and September are due out on July 10th. Expect Watford v Liverpool to be televised on the Saturday with a Champions a League qualifier to follow the midweek after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Man United V West Ham will be a Friday fixture I reckon. Forgot to mention previously, West Ham fans are currently without confirmation on when their first home game will be played. Have the international championships at the Athletic Stadium this summer, they want to have it back for "football" for their fourth fixture against Huddersfield, but by all accounts, Spurs on the 23rd will be their first home fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Top 4: Chelsea Spurs Man Utd Liverpool I predict a stinker for Man City and Pep to get sacked. Man Utd will be consistent in picking up points but absolutely dreadful to watch. Huddersfield to have a wonder season and finish top half. Sky Sports commentators will admit that it's not the greatest league in the world but it is in their career interests to big it up as much as possible: Gary Neville to get sacked for racism as an outside punt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Southampton's manager is the first casualty of the season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 ...or the last casualty of 2016-17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Yawn..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Nice bit of business from Everton getting Klaassen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Not really sure where he'll fit in. They're needing a winger, striker and centre-back now that Pickford's signed. Goalkeeper was the priority this window though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scosha Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Defoe signs a 3 year deal at Bournemouth. Quite a lengthy contract for a player who will be 35 shortly after the season starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_BCFC Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Keane also on his way to Everton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 £25m seems like a heck of a lot of money for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 For all the money Everton have spent, I don't really look at any of the new players and think "Wow". Klassen perhaps, but a lot of Dutch league players have struggled in the Premiership. Keane had a good season last year, but £25 million? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scosha Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 3 hours ago, LondonHMFC said: For all the money Everton have spent, I don't really look at any of the new players and think "Wow". Klassen perhaps, but a lot of Dutch league players have struggled in the Premiership. Keane had a good season last year, but £25 million? Around the £25 million mark seems to be a common transfer fee at the moment for fairly standard players. Only a few years ago people couldn't believe that Manchester Utd paid £30 million for Berbatov, now that fee seems minimal in comparison to a lot of transfers. Frightening amount of cash being spent and it will only increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 When you consider wage inflation the transfer fees probably aren't actually more significant than before in terms of the overall cost of the deal. I think it makes good sense for them tbh - they need a younger centre-back and can afford financially and in terms of their league status to give Keane a chance. If he does well then Everton would secure a good centre-back entering the prime of his career; if he does very well then they could easily add another £15 million onto that price tag in a couple of years time. Everton still probably aren't good enough to credibly challenge for Champions League football, but signing capable and potentially high-value players is a sound way of closing the gap. Tottenham had to find, play and then sell the likes of Modric and Bale first to reinvest the profits into a genuinely strong squad that doesn't flop into the Europa League every other May. I think that Everton have actually done pretty good business so far, but are attracting flak because they've been the first club to get deals done and so the going transfer rates have been a point of discussion. When West Brom or someone are spunking £12 million in Jay Rodriguez in August then we'll be looking at in terms of relative value to other deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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