Premier League 2018-2019 Part II

[Wee Baby Seamus]

van Dijk, Mane, Hazard, Sterling, Silva and Aguero shortlisted for the PFA player of the year.

PFA Player of the Year: Sterling, Van Dijk, Aguero, Hazard, Mane & Silva on shortlist

Maybe it's bias but I feel it has to go to van Dijk. Nice to see Mane get recognition though.

The correct six, an absolute no brainer of a shortlist (it's Bernardo, not David BTW, for anyone who is just scrolling by).

It'll be Van Dijk, and correctly so.

Shortlist for Young Player:

Sterling, Alexander-Arnold, B. Silva, Rice, Brooks, and Rashford.

Sterling would make the most sense, but often they treat it as more of a "breakout player" rather than best player in the age group who may already be established, so I wouldn't be shocked if it were Alexander-Arnold.

Team of the Year will be something like this:

Aguero - Sterling
Hazard - Silva - Silva - Mane
Robertson - Laporte - VvD - Alexander-Arnold
Allison​

 

[hatterson]

Feels like they should lower the age requirements for young player of the year. Sterling and Silva don't feel like they qualify for young players anymore, at least not when compared with TAA, Rice, Brooks or Rashford. Although even for Rashford it's starting to feel odd calling him a young player despite him only being 21 and theoretically having 3 more years of eligibility for the award.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Considering Rashford has been around since, what, the second half of the '15-'16 season, I would have to agree. Nobody's expecting players to burst on the scene from the moment they debut or turn 18 or whatever but for someone to win a young players' award when they're well into their senior team careers is a bit bizarre to think about.

 

[Blender]

Feels like they should lower the age requirements for young player of the year. Sterling and Silva don't feel like they qualify for young players anymore, at least not when compared with TAA, Rice, Brooks or Rashford. Although even for Rashford it's starting to feel odd calling him a young player despite him only being 21 and theoretically having 3 more years of eligibility for the award.

They could either lower the age requirement or add a maximum appearances limit to the award, so that someone who starts at 18 can't still be winning it at 22, but someone who starts at 21 probably can.

 

[Machinehead]

Feels like they should lower the age requirements for young player of the year. Sterling and Silva don't feel like they qualify for young players anymore, at least not when compared with TAA, Rice, Brooks or Rashford. Although even for Rashford it's starting to feel odd calling him a young player despite him only being 21 and theoretically having 3 more years of eligibility for the award.

I don't think it's age that's the problem. It's experience.

Yeah, Sterling is young, but this is what, his 6th PL season?

It should be like 3rd season or less. And you can only win it once, like Rookie of the Year.

 

[Venkman]

First signs of Ole getting tough in the Everton game press conference. Pretty much all the press conferences since he came in have been 100% positive.

 

[Pensionsraddare]

First signs of Ole getting tough in the Everton game press conference. Pretty much all the press conferences since he came in have been 100% positive.

A loss today and derby defeat on wednesday and he goes full Mourinho Ole´s at the wheel!

 

[hatterson]

They could either lower the age requirement or add a maximum appearances limit to the award, so that someone who starts at 18 can't still be winning it at 22, but someone who starts at 21 probably can.

I don't think it's age that's the problem. It's experience.

Yeah, Sterling is young, but this is what, his 6th PL season?

It should be like 3rd season or less. And you can only win it once, like Rookie of the Year.

Yea appearance or season limit (where season is defined as a year with a certain number of games played)

I just checked and Sterling has more than 300 club appearances and almost 50 national team caps, and yet he’s a “young” player because he was 23 for a couple months at the start of the season.

The app limit also lets a guy like Brooks be considered while limiting a guy like Rashford. Right now Rashford actually has a year *more* eligibility for the award than Brooks because he was born a few months later.

100 career top flight apps at the start of the season seems a decent break point. That’s basically three full years or four partials before you’re ineligible.

Guys like TAA would have a year left. Rashford wouldn’t be eligible, obviously Sterling and Silva wouldn’t be.

 

[Havre]

Obviously always a balance for any manager in terms of how positive you want/need to be. It made sense to be very positive in the beginning, but that was never going to be permanent. There need to be some accountability from the players as well. Only time will show is OGS will get this balance right. Mourinho is a good example of someone that could get away with a lot early on in his career while he in recent years clearly hasn´t got that balance right (when to be positive, when to support your players, when to challenge them etc.).

 

[Albatros]

Mourinho despite his weaknesses mostly has method in his madness, Solskjær just looks exposed.

 

[robertmac43]

With the way Arsenal are playing today we could give Man U some help. If we don't take the points here and get some separation Man U gets away with their terrible performance of today. The question becomes can OGS rebound if given the chance?

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Mourinho despite his weaknesses mostly has method in his madness, Solskjær just looks exposed.

It's a poorly constructed squad. 80% of the fault rests with their upper management team.

 

[HoseEmDown]

The correct six, an absolute no brainer of a shortlist (it's Bernardo, not David BTW, for anyone who is just scrolling by).

It'll be Van Dijk, and correctly so.

Shortlist for Young Player:

Sterling, Alexander-Arnold, B. Silva, Rice, Brooks, and Rashford.

Sterling would make the most sense, but often they treat it as more of a "breakout player" rather than best player in the age group who may already be established, so I wouldn't be shocked if it were Alexander-Arnold.

Team of the Year will be something like this:

Aguero - Sterling
Hazard - Silva - Silva - Mane
Robertson - Laporte - VvD - Alexander-Arnold
Allison​

Sterling and Rashford shouldn't be there, too proven and been in the league too long. Would like to have seen one of the Leicester guys in Chillwell or Maddison and Nevas from Wolves.

 

[SSF]

Wan-Bissaka got hosed by being left out of the young POTY

 

[les Habs]

Mourinho despite his weaknesses mostly has method in his madness, Solskjær just looks exposed.

LOL, Mourinho's been getting exposed for years now just as he was at United.

 

[Albatros]

Mourinho has won the Premier League 3 times, no other active manager has done it more than once.

 

[les Habs]

Which does nothing to demonstrate he hasn't been exposed not to mention that most if not all active managers haven't had as many years in the Premiership as he has.

 

[Live in the Now]

Those three titles were in the past. It doesn't matter what a manager did but rather what they will do.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[The Abusement Park]

Mourinho despite his weaknesses mostly has method in his madness, Solskjær just looks exposed.

I mean I’d at least wait until next year to really start critiquing Ole. I do think hiring him was way to emotional of a decision, but I’d like to see what he can do when he gets a a couple new players and a full offseason to get the players adapted to his system.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Mourinho has won the Premier League 3 times, no other active manager has done it more than once.

And also been in the league twice as long as Pep and Klopp.

 

[Burner Account]

 

[Live in the Now]

Wish they were coming west again. Was great craic the last time.

 

[YNWA14]

Really loved the game in Michigan this past summer against United. Was awesome to sit one row off the field, too. The atmosphere was surprisingly good. I might go again this summer.

Also FFT released its top 50 players of the season for the EPL.

http://www.sportbible.com/football/...st-premier-league-player-this-season-20190423

 

[Live in the Now]

I sat around 5th row at the Rose Bowl, I thought when I got there that I had picked a seat too close to the field, until I sat down and realized the stands are slightly raised off the field. Listened to Conte and Klopp going absolutely nuts with their instructions during a preseason game of all things. You don't forget that.

That was also the season Chelsea won the title and we got back in top four. What I realize in the aftermath of that was the level of instruction making that goes into creating a top team. Everything to the finest level of details is coached in the extreme.