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Liverpool B team 3-0 down against Villa in the league cup 1/4s ?

2 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Liverpool B team 3-0 down against Villa in the league cup 1/4s ?

Klopp out.

16 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Klopp out.

? 4-0 now.

Just seen why its the B team, they are playing tomorrow in the World Club Championship not sure why the authorities could not have moved this.......................

9 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Italy's anti racism poster

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Wow. How did they get even more racist?! ??

Just a theory, the designer is secretly a racist

The Club World Cub is worthless really, it's only value is in the qualification requirements of having to win the CL to get in. The league cup is the major trophy and the CWC I would class as an exhibition trophy for the European team.
The Liverpool youth team probably would stand a chance of winning the CWC if they were sent out there in my opinion.

Premier League Stats from the last decade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50685505

At the start of this decade, Manchester United were Premier League champions, Portsmouth were in the top flight, Frank Lampard was a Chelsea player and the record transfer fee paid by a British club was £32.5m.

A lot has happened since.

The Premier League trophy is still held by a Manchester club - but it is in the hands of City, who have averaged a piece of silverware a year since 2010. Portsmouth are in League One, following three relegations and a promotion. Lampard is now Blues manager. And Paul Pogba's move to Manchester United has added more than £50m to the record transfer fee that was set by Robinho's switch to Etihad Stadium.

A total of 3,774 games have been played, 10,382 points earned, 10,323 goals scored and more than £10bn spent by top-flight clubs on players in pursuit of largely unrealised glory.

As the 2010s draw to a close, BBC Sport casts an eye back to identify the key names and numbers and paint a statistical picture of the past 10 years of the Premier League.

Man City rise to prominence

Who won what in England?
	Premier League	FA Cup	League Cup
2009-10	Chelsea	Chelsea	Manchester United
2010-11	Manchester United	Manchester City	Birmingham City
2011-12	Manchester City	Chelsea	Liverpool
2012-13	Manchester United	Wigan Athletic	Swansea City
2013-14	Manchester City	Arsenal	Manchester City
2014-15	Chelsea	Arsenal	Chelsea
2015-16	Leicester City	Manchester United	Manchester City
2016-17	Chelsea	Arsenal	Manchester United
2017-18	Manchester City	Chelsea	Manchester City
2018-19	Manchester City	Manchester City	Manchester City

It has been increasingly Manchester City's decade on the pitch.

The Blues entered the decade having not won the top-flight title since 1968 and without a major trophy since 1970, but with significantly enhanced prospects following the 2008 takeover of the club by the mega-rich Abu Dhabi United Group.

They lifted the FA Cup in the first full season of the 2010s and have rarely looked back, winning the first of their four Premier League titles in 2012 under Roberto Mancini, the second under Manuel Pellegrini in 2014 and also in the past two seasons with Pep Guardiola in charge.

Of the past six major domestic trophies on offer - Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup - City have claimed five of them, only failing to win the 2018 FA Cup.

However, while they will end the decade as champions, they will not end it on top of the table, with leaders Liverpool 14 points clear of them - and 10 above second-placed Leicester City - with two games to play.

The main rivals to City's 2010s success are Chelsea, who won the double in the first year of the decade and added five more trophies over the next nine.

Other teams had significant moments - Sir Alex Ferguson would close his glittering Manchester United reign with two more Premier League crowns in 2011 and 2013, while Leicester shocked everyone to achieve arguably the most remarkable league triumph of them all in 2015-16.

The Foxes were one of only four sides other than Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United to win a major domestic trophy during the 2010s. Wigan, Birmingham and Swansea were the others, and all of them suffered for their temerity with relegation to the Championship.

There was also success in Europe for English clubs - Chelsea (2012) and Liverpool (2019) won the Champions League, while the Blues (2013 and 2019) and Manchester United (2017) won the Europa League.

Manchester City's dominance is reflected in the overall Premier League table of the 2010s. They sit top, are the only side to have earned more than two points per game and have an unmatched win percentage of 65.87%.

Their 3-0 win at Arsenal on Sunday took their goal difference to 500, with 838 goals scored - 127 more than nearest rivals Chelsea.

Overall Premier League table of the decade
	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts	PPG
Manchester City	378	249	65	64	500	812	2.148
Manchester United	377	218	87	72	313	741	1.966
Chelsea	377	218	80	79	331	734	1.947
Liverpool	377	204	92	81	309	704	1.867
Tottenham	377	205	84	88	115	699	1.854
Arsenal	378	205	85	88	267	700	1.852
Everton	378	149	113	116	70	560	1.481
Sheffield United	17	6	7	4	5	25	1.471
Leicester City	207	85	49	73	36	304	1.469
Southampton	283	92	80	111	-28	356	1.258
Stoke City	323	99	94	130	-102	391	1.211
Newcastle	321	105	73	143	-100	388	1.209
Crystal Palace	245	80	52	113	-60	292	1.192
West Ham	339	104	91	144	-99	403	1.189
Swansea	266	82	66	118	-77	312	1.173
Bournemouth	169	52	40	77	-69	196	1.160
West Brom	304	85	87	132	-90	342	1.125
Wolves	149	41	42	66	-63	165	1.107
Blackburn Rovers	94	27	22	45	-42	103	1.096
Bolton Wanderers	96	28	19	49	-50	103	1.073
Watford	169	48	37	84	-84	181	1.071
Burnley	187	52	42	93	-96	198	1.059
Fulham	209	57	50	102	-111	221	1.057
Wigan Athletic	133	33	39	61	-85	138	1.038
Brighton	93	23	27	43	-49	96	1.032
Blackpool	38	10	9	19	-23	39	1.026
Sunderland	284	69	84	131	-125	291	1.025
Birmingham City	56	12	21	23	-32	57	1.018
Norwich City	169	42	44	83	-109	170	1.006
Aston Villa	263	63	75	125	-151	264	1.004
Hull City	132	29	31	72	-95	118	0.894
Cardiff City	76	17	13	46	-69	64	0.842
QPR	114	22	26	66	-84	92	0.807
Portsmouth	18	3	5	10	-18	14	0.788
Middlesbrough	38	5	13	20	-26	28	0.737
Reading	38	6	10	22	-30	28	0.737
Huddersfield Town	76	12	17	47	-84	53	0.697

There are few surprises at the bottom, where Huddersfield - one of seven sides clocking in with less than a point per game - prop up the rest. The Terriers' disastrous second season in the top flight largely undermined all the good they did in their first.

Just above them are two sides that lasted just a season each - Middlesbrough and Reading - and Portsmouth, whose relegation at the end of the 2009-10 season was just a taste of the further pain to come for them.

Six into four won't go

The decade began with a 'big four' - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United - but it ends with a 'big six', with Manchester City and Tottenham pulling up a chair to sit at the top table.

The status of this group is borne out in the overall table, with a sizeable gap in points earned per game between them and Everton in seventh, while they are the only teams with a goal difference in credit to the tune of three figures across the decade.

Interestingly, and perhaps a sign of the growing disparity in England's top division, only Everton, Leicester and Sheffield United join the top six in having a positive goal difference - although the Blades have only played 17 games.

The fact only one club can win the title, and four qualify for the Champions League, has led to some almighty jockeying for position amongst the country's premier six sides over the past 10 years.

And there are a few notable strands to pick at.

City's points-per-game rise over the decade is almost the inverse of Manchester rivals United's fall, with the latter steadily dropping from an end-of-Ferguson-era high and the former building to a Guardiola-inspired peak.

There has been a huge tussle for superiority in north London. In the first seven final tables of the decade, Arsenal finished above Tottenham - and by only one place in the first four.

But the past three seasons have seen a Spurs resurgence, culminating in them sneaking ahead of the Gunners by just 0.002 points per game over the entire 10 years.

Current Premier League leaders Liverpool's running points-per-game total dropped as low as 1.489 at the end of 2011-12, before Sir Kenny Dalglish made way for Brendan Rodgers as manager.

Under Rodgers, and especially his successor, Jurgen Klopp, the Reds' points-per-game tally has improved significantly to 1.867. And their stunning form over the first 16 matches of this season has seen them claim a place in the top four with just a few games of the decade to go.

With Manchester City the most successful side of the decade, it is no surprise to find one of their chief architects topping the manager charts.

Guardiola, winner of 20 major trophies in his career - including five in England - can add an extra (albeit minor) feather to his cap, courtesy of an unrivalled top-flight win percentage of 74.62% and points per-game haul of 2.374.

Few other bosses come close, with Ferguson's 69.70% win percentage and 2.273 points per game the next best.

Klopp is fourth on the list, but is likely to move ahead of former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte given their points-per-game records are separated by only 0.002 points and with the Reds in such a rich vein of form.

Arsene Wenger managed in the most games during the 2010s (323 for Arsenal) and claimed the most points (608), but his record leaves him eighth in the overall points-per-game list of those to have been in charged for at least a season's worth of matches, behind the aforementioned managers and a trio of title-winning bosses - Mancini, Carlo Ancelotti and Jose Mourinho.

The bottom of the complete list is populated with a host of managers who failed to clock up a season's worth of games, including infamous figures such as Pepe Mel, who took just 15 points from his 17 games as West Brom boss, Remi Garde, who managed just 12 points from 20 games at Villa, and poor Jan Siewert, who amassed only five points from his 15 games at Huddersfield.

However, Siewert is spared being bottom of the pile by Frank de Boer, who did not win a single point at Palace before his four-game stint as boss was ended.

Of the managers to have taken charge of at least a season's worth of games, Avram Grant (with Portsmouth and West Ham) has the dishonour of possessing the worst win percentage this decade (just 18.18%), which is ever so slightly worse than another Huddersfield boss, David Wagner (18.33%), and Alex McLeish (19.64% from his stints at midlands rivals Birmingham and Aston Villa).

Grant did earn marginally more points per game than Wagner, though - 0.855 to 0.8 - with Neil Warnock (QPR and Cardiff) completing the bottom three on 0.892.

Jordan, James and Jamie

Jordan Henderson has been unduly maligned at various junctures in his career, but he must be doing something right because he has played more Premier League games than any other player in the 2010s - 306 of them for Sunderland and then Liverpool.

There is only a game in it, though, with Henderson's Reds team-mate and former Aston Villa and Manchester City midfielder James Milner clocking up 305 games, during which he has probably played in every position except goalkeeper.

Unsurprisingly, four keepers do make the top 10 - Ben Foster, David de Gea, Petr Cech and Joe Hart (who is level with left-back Leighton Baines on 271) - with only one man on the list, Manchester City midfielder David Silva, what you might describe as an attacking player.

Foster's 303 games have included a decade-high 983 saves, Cech has kept the most clean sheets - 107 in his 274 matches - while Silva has far and away the most assists (89 - 27 more than next-best Christian Eriksen) and chances created (his 768 completely eclipsing the 595 fashioned by second-placed Eden Hazard).

The leading goalscorer chart for the decade presents few surprises - with Manchester City's Sergio Aguero out front, followed by Tottenham's Harry Kane. Wayne Rooney and Romelu Lukaku are the other two with over 100 top-flight goals in the 2010s.

Of all the players on this list, Jamie Vardy has perhaps the most interesting personal narrative.

He began the decade playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels in the Northern Premier League - the seventh tier of English football - but will almost certainly end it as the leading goalscorer in the top flight this season, and having earned 26 England caps and a Premier League winners' medal.

He will also emerge from the 2010s with the strongest statistical claim to being the most lethal striker in England, possessing an unmatched top-flight conversion rate of 23.3%.

Vardy's nearest rivals, and the only two other players to have 50 goals to their name and a conversion rate above 20%? Aguero? Nope. Kane? Nah. Take a bow... Javier Hernandez and Diego Costa.

How much?!

As the amount of television revenue spent on Premier League rights has dramatically risen, so has the spending by top-flight clubs.

The three-year domestic and foreign broadcasting deals struck in 2010 were worth an estimated £3.2bn. The most recent deals, which started in August 2019 and will end in 2022, are expected to break the £9bn barrier.

It is no wonder then that clubs have ploughed this money into players they hope will keep them where the money is at, often unsuccessfully. For every Virgil van Dijk there is an Andy Carroll.

For the sake of comparison, the combined transfer windows (both before and during the season) for 2009-10 saw £480m spent by clubs, according to data supplied by Deloitte's Sports Business Group. Ten seasons on, the summer window alone comprised over £1.4bn worth of deals.

As previously mentioned, Robinho's £32.5m move to Manchester City was the record incoming transfer in English football history at the start of the decade.

The first £50m move came when Fernando Torres left Liverpool to join Chelsea in January 2011. This fee was surpassed in August 2014 when Manchester United paid Real Madrid £59.7m for forward Angel di Maria.

United topped the lot in August 2016, though, when they spent a then world record fee of £89m to bring midfielder Paul Pogba back to the club from Juventus.

Assisted by ever-increasing revenues, which this year hit a new high of £627m, United are responsible for the three biggest incoming transfers in English football history, with the purchase of Pogba ahead of last summer's £80m deal for defender Harry Maguire and the July 2017 £75m signing of striker Lukaku.

 

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Of the managers to have taken charge of at least a season's worth of games, Avram Grant (with Portsmouth and West Ham) has the dishonour of possessing the worst win percentage this decade (just 18.18%)

That caught my eye.

Liverpool singed Minamino from Red Bull Salzburg, around 7m. 9 goals 11 assists from 22 games.

Viva Los Rayados!!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50839639

On 17/12/2019 at 16:59, Gol15 said:

I get the point, but still think that they could have used pics of cats instead. Differenct colors = but still a cat ?...This monkey business may have the exact opposite effect of what was desired.

15 hours ago, sonic90 said:

The Club World Cub is worthless really, it's only value is in the qualification requirements of having to win the CL to get in. The league cup is the major trophy and the CWC I would class as an exhibition trophy for the European team.
The Liverpool youth team probably would stand a chance of winning the CWC if they were sent out there in my opinion.

I see it as a glamour cup for bragging rights the only positive I can see is the potential from a business perspective to grow your brand.

Hazard not in the starting lineup in the El Classico...But Courtois is.

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

I see it as a glamour cup for bragging rights the only positive I can see is the potential from a business perspective to grow your brand.

I remember some South American team won against us and that for them was a big deal.

45 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I remember some South American team won against us and that for them was a big deal.

I guess it was this one, thanks to Bounder.friardale

2 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I remember some South American team won against us and that for them was a big deal.

It was Corinthians, they built us 1-0. There was a Brazilian guy I use to bump in to at a former job who supports them and it was a big deal to him. He use to call me Mr Chelsea 

3 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I remember some South American team won against us and that for them was a big deal.

I seem to remember hearing at the time it was a big deal for South Americans but not sure if it was because they have to go through the Europeans Champions or if it's the actual prestige of the cup itself. David Luiz was crying when we lost and that had me raising an eyebrow.

3 hours ago, sonic90 said:

I seem to remember hearing at the time it was a big deal for South Americans but not sure if it was because they have to go through the Europeans Champions or if it's the actual prestige of the cup itself. David Luiz was crying when we lost and that had me raising an eyebrow.

Yep, I remember the players being emotional about the defeat.

On 17/12/2019 at 13:12, Scott Harris said:

Premier League Team of the Decade 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50502851

 

Here's my non biased team.

 

Here's my non-biased team:

Caught 20 mins of Everton against Leicester last night.

The irrepressible giant we call Duncan Ferguson up against Roger's resurgent Leicester.

Leicester at 59mins were leading 2-0 and their work rate was impressive in closing Everton down who were struggling to string a few passes together and Everton's front men just could not hold the ball. 

Kean the sub than crosses to the on rushing midfielder Davies who finishes with a neat volley.

Leicester still looked favourites and then Rogers decides to change it with three at the back and they then concede a late cracker from Leighton Baines though eventually Leicester won on penalties.

With Everton going out of the cup it could be a good time to appoint a new manager whether Ancelotti will take it or is the right man is another question.

 

 

 

20 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I remember some South American team won against us and that for them was a big deal.

Whilst I do understand that the World Club Cup is not a fixture/trophy that captures the wider public's imagination, I am even now still aggravated that we lost to Corinthians. Not many clubs can say that we 'we're World Champions' and if you're going to go to the trouble of winning the European Cup, you might as well go and pick up the WCC trophy as well. And I'm pretty sure we are the only European side not to have won it in over the last 10 years.

And whilst feeling generally aggravated, I notice that the Liverpool loving BBC have followed their "why you should cheer for Liverpool" article with one that suggests their latest signing is the second coming of Christ and Pele rolled into one. I'm pretty sure that they are well aware of their nauseating bias and really don't care.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/19/liverpool-adam-lallana-club-world-cup-final

 

Reminds me of that one kid we all knew who got drunk for the first time at the age of 17 then claimed to be an alcoholic.