Premier League Boxing Day Winners and Losers: Liverpool cruise on; City, United, Spurs battle for banter supremacy
The Premier League banter club title remains locked in a magnificent three-way battle between the Manchester clubs and Spurs.
The Premier League banter club title remains locked in a magnificent three-way battle between the Manchester clubs and Spurs.
Ruben Amorim and Ruud van Nistelrooy are finally together in abject misery, along with Bernardo Silva and Brentford. Mo Salah, Nuno and Vitor Pereira shone.
A Pep Guardiola resignation is more likely than a revival after Ruben Amorim’s masterclass. It would follow the two most justified sackings in recent memory.
Robbie Savage has been in Kyle Walker’s position and understands the embarrassment the Man City defender will feel in the wake of Manchester turning red…
Thomas Frank, Andoni Iraola, Marco Silva and Nuno Espirito Santo must be looking awfully attractive to Spurs and Newcastle. Russell Martin, less so.
Robbie Savage can’t believe how open Tottenham left themselves, while Cole Palmer and Jadon Sancho helped make Chelsea the big Winners…
It genuinely feels more likely that Pep Guardiola resigns than he turns this around. Liverpool and Bukayo Saka are brilliant. Newcastle and Everton are not.
Ruben Amorim is a Premier League winner. Hear us out. There is praise for Ange Postecoglou and Gary O’Neil but Man City, Steve Cooper and Sean Dyche get it.
Liverpool and Brighton take top winner honours, while it should take about 0.3 seconds to realise which dafties are getting both barrels in the losers.
Bournemouth, Joe Gomez and Nottingham Forest’s assistant are praised. But Arsenal and Julen Lopetegui are in trouble and Cole Palmer must improve.
Premier League winners and losers covers Erling Haaland, Cole Palmer, Crystal Palace and Arsenal but the bulk of it goes to Erik ten Hag and Man Utd.
Arsenal, Newcastle and Russell Martin are creating their own problems, while brilliant Bournemouth, Arne Slot’s Liverpool and Leicester’s subs all impressed
Bukayo Saka, Brighton, Michail Antonio and even Erik ten Hag had positive enough weekends. But Ange Postecoglou and Wolves particularly disappointed.
We’ll understand if you just want to scroll straight down to the losers bit and Manchester United getting another thorough kicking, but there’s praise too for Spurs.
Arsenal join Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca, Fulham and Caiomhin Kelleher as Premier League winners putting West Ham, Eddie Howe and Everton to shame.
Eddie Howe eased the managerial pressure while Sean Dyche’s position only became more shaky. Kai Havertz and Jhon Duran had a better time than Evanilson.
Liverpool were great, Manchester United were terrible, and Manchester City are already threatening to be more crushingly unstoppably relentless than ever before.
Chelsea’s ridiculousness shows no sign of slowing down, while Newcastle and Liverpool are among those not to get done what they wanted to get done.
Man United remain a long way from being back, but ignore all the other nonsense it does look on paper like a very decent transfer window. Same for West Ham. ...
Chelsea get some grudging credit where it’s due while the other half of Winners and Losers contains, inevitably, a great deal of Man United and Everton.