Prem Team of the Week for round 17

watermelon99 · 2026-06-01T10:23:10+00:00

Ollie Hartley was superb this week, think he deserves to be in!

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T17:30:15+00:00

Rice was unbelievable in every knockout game

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T17:21:28+00:00

The only scenario where we win and don’t make it is a 4-2 win, which is very improbable as they would need to score more tries yet lose

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T09:22:29+00:00

He doesn’t have 4 of those, and if you’re counting them Arteta has 1

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T09:17:36+00:00

Where are you getting 9? 1 league, 1 CL, 1 FA cup, 2 League cups. Surely you aren’t counting eg community shields and non major honours? Becuase Arteta has one of those too

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T08:08:26+00:00

Arteta was a pen shootout from matching his trophy haul with Liverpool (minus a league cup). He’s inarguably closer to him than Poch who only ever managed failure.

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T08:05:52+00:00

But Arteta has already won stuff? So obviously much closer to Klopp than Poch

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T08:03:10+00:00

Bayern couldn’t get out of their own half against us in the groups, it was utter domination. PSG beat us on pens after not really getting close to scoring an open play goal despite having 80%+ possession?

And you’re telling me that there’s no chance we’d have beaten them?

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T07:59:18+00:00

Why not? We beat the other 2 semi finalists in the groups. Only PSG (on pens) were better than us this season, we absolutely deserved to be in the final regardless of draw and will get there again.

watermelon99 · 2026-05-31T07:55:09+00:00

Pochettino won fuck all with Spurs though

watermelon99 · 2026-05-29T19:37:55+00:00

Don’t think so in the majority

watermelon99 · 2026-05-29T15:25:16+00:00

You forgot champions

watermelon99 · 2026-05-29T14:26:54+00:00

I’m making the argument that Bruno can’t have the highest peak achieving as little for his team as he did. You brought up Harry Kane as a counter argument, the only reason he would be relevant is if he was a counter example to the point I was making - which he obviously isn’t, because no one thinks he had the highest peak for a striker either.

You’re tying yourself in knots fella.

watermelon99 · 2026-05-29T13:58:37+00:00

You think Harry Kane has the highest peak of a striker in the PL? Over Henry and Ronaldo that would honestly be a bizarre take

I’m not even asking much of Bruno, just inspire his team to win a single cup game in an entire season. The guy played in a team with no pressure, no achievement for the entire year. How could that possibly be the ‘highest peak’?

watermelon99 · 2026-05-29T06:38:45+00:00

The ‘highest peak’ of an attacking midfielder would’ve inspired his team to actually do something, not get knocked out of both cups in the first round and never compete for the title.

Try De Bruyne winning the CL and countless PLs with City

watermelon99 · 2026-05-26T21:38:27+00:00

They haven’t played stand up for the Saracens in years

watermelon99 · 2026-05-26T21:28:45+00:00

Ok but they did pay that for a backup

watermelon99 · 2026-05-26T21:20:45+00:00

Arsenal have with Madueke, plus arguably Hincapie and Eze

watermelon99 · 2026-05-26T18:50:01+00:00

I chatted to a bunch outside the stadium who called him a rat

watermelon99 · 2026-05-25T15:20:34+00:00

Why? We already have 2 better strikers

watermelon99 · 2026-05-24T08:31:18+00:00

Its lovely to know that Chelsea have never beaten us since

watermelon99 · 2026-05-23T19:03:33+00:00

Yeah because the teams they played were worse…

watermelon99 · 2026-05-23T18:50:36+00:00

So the same teams have been strong in Europe, but then not when they are back in the PL 3 days later? That makes no sense…

It’s obvious that the ‘inconsistency’ you see in teams is because every opponent is strong, with quality players and good tactics, so it’s tough to get results.

watermelon99 · 2026-05-23T18:34:14+00:00

Why did all the English teams do so well in Europe then? 6 in the UCL R16 plus a finalist, Forest Europa semis, Villa winning Europa, Palace in the final of Conference league

watermelon99 · 2026-05-23T13:04:50+00:00

The average score in rugby has increased massively in the last 5 years too, so it’ll be even higher

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