Seem strange seeing Arsenal on top of the league, they seem to be on top form lately and with their win in the Europa league last week, seeing Newcastle in the top 5 of the league they seem to be having a good run, usually they are hanging around the bottom end of the league, that's a bit of a wild card. Than you got Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd losing today.

 

Arsenal first match after the WC is with West Ham, I think they could hold it when they return, with West Ham lingering at the bottom end of the table, as it stands its between Arsenal and Man City. Is it me or Man Utd have completely lost the plot this season.

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Seem strange seeing Arsenal on top of the league, they seem to be on top form lately and with their win in the Europa league last week, seeing Newcastle in the top 5 of the league they seem to be having a good run, usually they are hanging around the bottom end of the league, that's a bit of a wild card. Than you got Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd losing today.

 

Arsenal first match after the WC is with West Ham, I think they could hold it when they return, with West Ham lingering at the bottom end of the table, as it stands its between Arsenal and Man City. Is it me or Man Utd have completely lost the plot this season.

 

Utd, like a lot of teams struggle with the consistency at the moment. They'll point to injuries today.. story of Liverpool's season! Still think the glaring problem with Utd is Ronaldo. Ten Haag was rightly harsj on him a few weeks, but then makes him captain today? Very odd.

 

I thought Arsenal would slip away, and I still do. They have no depth and it will cost them imo. Reminds me a little of Liverpool in 13-14 albeit without the chaos that team had :lol:

Last season was where Man Utd lost the plot, comparing this stage of the season to the same stage of last season and we're a lot better now. It was a bad result today but in general we have been improving lately and the new signings that have come into our team are making a positive difference, Dalot from our previous squad has really improved also.

 

 

It's just a matter of time until Man City get top spot and pull away from the rest, Arsenal are fortunate that they haven't even played them yet otherwise they wouldn't be top today. Looking at the fixture list Arsenal's collapse will most likely happen from January onwards but they should surely get top 4 unless they have massive meltdown.

Looks like Southampton have recruited too many youngsters and not enough quality. They're really light up front. They're a strong candidate to go down

Thought Potter got his tactics wrong from beginning. Went way too offensive line up without defensive cover. Jorginho in a 2 man midfield against Arsenal with the way they play was suicide.

Southampton have sacked their manager Ralph Hasenhuttl in the wake of Sunday's 4-1 home defeat by Newcastle.

 

Hasenhuttl, who was appointed in December 2018, departs with the club in the Premier League relegation zone with 12 points after 14 games.

 

 

One too many defeats for Ralph! They could go down now without him though I suspect or maybe they are like Burnley and ran out of luck!

Early market to be the next Southampton manager:

 

Nathan Jones 1/3f

Marcelo Gallardo 5/1

Kjetil Knutsen 12/1

Sean Dyche 14/1

Mauricio Pochettino 16/1

Paulo Fonseca 20/1

Vincent Kompany 20/1

Nuno Espirito Santo 25/1

Pedro Martins 25/1

Steven Gerrard 25/1

Nathan Jones an interesting one he didn’t do well at Stoke albeit they are a poison chalice currently. He does an sterling job at Luton though considering the wage bill, would actually like him to stay there to see how high they can go, people forget they were in the national league 8 years ago!

Southampton have been given permission to speak to Luton Town boss Nathan Jones about their managerial vacancy after sacking Ralph Hasenhuttl.

 

Hasenhuttl left the club earlier on Monday in the wake of the Saints' 4-1 home defeat by Newcastle.

 

Southampton have won just one of their past nine matches and are in the Premier League relegation zone.

 

Luton will allow the club to speak to Jones after their Championship match at Stoke City on Tuesday.

Southampton have confirmed the appointment of Nathan Jones as their new manager.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63566631

Leeds seem to be enjoying results with 4-3 outcomes recently! A shame this one didn't go our way though.

Love their approach even under a new manager. Forget about defending just non stop attacks. More often then not it'll work!

Bielsa to Bournemouth?

 

https://theathletic.com/3835908/2022/11/11/...andidate/?amp=1

I think that Everton squad is really poor. They're pretty much where I'd expect them to be in the table and will need more than a change of manager to become a top 10 side

The break could definitely work to the advantage of teams with only a few players going to the World Cup.

The break could definitely work to the advantage of teams with only a few players going to the World Cup.

 

I think there are so many unknowns at this stage, but it's such an odd season that I could see Arsenal winning the league, West Ham gettign relegated and Newcastle finishing Top 4. Not too sure there will be that much impact for players who go out before the Quarter Finals - but for those players who get to the Semi Finals.. going to nbe hard to go back in to the regular season a week later after winning or losing.

 

And we forget there's a round of international friendlies coming up for those platers who did not go to the World Cup :lol:

After the Xmas fixtures there’s fa cup 3rd round and then is there a break or is it just the usual weekend off in January?

After the Xmas fixtures there’s fa cup 3rd round and then is there a break or is it just the usual weekend off in January?

 

No winter break this year - straight back to it. And that's without trying to sneak in an extra round of fixtures for all teams and then a secondary one for most of the teams still in Europe!

 

It's a mad season, probably feels like high 80s will win the league this year. Will be interesting to see how teams react post World Cup, there's bound to be mental and physical fatigue. I know the injuries part have been lumbered at Arsenal all season, but they might just get lucky? They've certainly had the luck so far whereas Liverpool and Chelsea haven't for example.

Peoples opinions on arsenals chances starting to move a bit, would be quite nice to see a different team on top. They are playing some lovely stuff although I’m not a fan of Arteta just annoys me!