English Football 2022/23

[Lorric]

Brighton must be @Firnen's favourite English team, not only does he enjoy watching them play, they pounded Liverpool earlier in the season, now they're scoring a wonderful goal in injury time to knock Liverpool out of the FA Cup! I just put the end of the game on on a whim, and they scored that goal within seconds of me doing so. FT 2-1.

[bugylibicska]

Brighton knocked out Liverpool from the FA cup with a superb 92nd minute goal by Mitoma, 2:1!

[Firnen]

Brighton must be @Firnen's favourite English team, not only does he enjoy watching them play, they pounded Liverpool earlier in the season, now they're scoring a wonderful goal in injury time to knock Liverpool out of the FA Cup! I just put the end of the game on on a whim, and they scored that goal within seconds of me doing so. FT 2-1.

Liverpool got away with 2 red cards in this match as well.

Brighton is fleecing other teams in the transfer market when selling their players (and coach) and replace the players they sell for a minimum cost - Mitoma is the latest example.

It's a very nice city as well!

[Lorric]

Wrexham, the last surviving non-league side, are primed to advance, I put the second half on, they were 1-0 down, but are now a goal up and a man up with 4mins left...

[bugylibicska]

3:3 in Wrexham between the home team (5th tier) and Sheffield United 2nd in the championship.

[Lorric]

It didn't happen. Sheffield United rescued themselves from a corner at 90+5' to force a replay. 3-3 FT.

[Lorric]

Chelsea still at it, Malo Gusto on a 7 and a half year contract, £30.7M from Lyon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64444185

A few days ago, UEFA announced they'd be putting a limit of 5 years on how long you can stretch out your transfer fee in FFP in direct response to what Chelsea is doing. It won't be applied retroactively.

[bugylibicska]

FA Cup fifth round draw in full (games to be played on the week March, 1st)

Southampton v Luton Town or Grimsby Town

Leicester City v Blackburn Rovers or Birmingham City

Stoke City v Brighton & Hove Albion

Wrexham or Sheffield United v Tottenham Hotspur

Fulham or Sunderland v Leeds United

Bristol City v Manchester City

Manchester United v Derby County or West Ham United

Ipswich Town or Burnley v Sheffield Wednesday or Fleetwood Town

Meanwhile, Derby County - West Ham 0:1 at the half.

[bugylibicska]

West Ham won 2:0 at Derby, so travel to Old Trafford in the next round.

[Oldelpaso]

4th round devoid of shocks beyond a couple of replays. At this point holders Liverpool losing to Brighton is an expected result.

[bugylibicska]

The Magpies going to Wembley! Last time in 1999 in the FA cup final against MU and now again.

[Lorric]

Chelsea are actually insane. They just broke the British transfer record, £107M for Enzo Fernandez from Benfica. Don't know the details of the contract yet.

When this window is over, I'd love to see a breakdown of how much they've curtailed themselves for buying players in future years. They've seemingly committed themselves to this group of players for years to come.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64463077

Spent nearly £600M this season.

[Firnen]

Todd Bohely has spent 600M in 6 months to finish 6th at best.

[macgregorc93]

With the money they spent on this winter window, I can't imagine what the summer window is going to be like in 3/4 months time. Todd Bohely about to go full throttle.

[rpo.castro]

With the money they spent on this winter window, I can't imagine what the summer window is going to be like in 3/4 months time. Todd Bohely about to go full throttle.

How will Chelsea look in 1 or 2 years to come? Like Barça after Bartolomeo?
I hope they hit rock bottom. Its just absurd spending this obscene quantity of money.