GlobalVillan Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 With these 2 tournaments taking place very soon, a few of our rivals' players will be off for several weeks. Liverpool will lose Salah, Spurs will lose Bissouma, Son and maybe 1 or 2 more and surely there will be other clubs losing key players. Who else will be missing and how much of an advantage does this give us in the race for CL qualification? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sharkyvilla Posted December 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted December 8, 2023 Utd will lose Onana unfortunately. 1 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 Looks like Arsenal will lose Partey and Liverpool will lose Matip too. Not sure Newcastle but thats a few players missing for top 6 sides. We wont be losing anyone so thats gotta help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, GlobalVillan said: Looks like Arsenal will lose Partey and Liverpool will lose Matip too. Not sure Newcastle but thats a few players missing for top 6 sides. We wont be losing anyone so thats gotta help. Matip has done his ACL recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 hour ago, GlobalVillan said: Looks like Arsenal will lose Partey and Liverpool will lose Matip too. Not sure Newcastle but thats a few players missing for top 6 sides. We wont be losing anyone so thats gotta help. We lose one player the magic man himself, Traore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Liverpool lose salah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Tomiyasu Arsenal, Mitoma Brigthon and Endo Liverplop will likely play for Japan right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted December 8, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 8, 2023 This only covers a couple of games doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Not sure if 100% correct but probably not that far off. Arsenal Mohamed Elneny (Egypt) Thomas Partey (Ghana) Takehiro Tomiyasu (Japan) Aston Villa Bertrand Traore (Burkina Faso) Bournemouth Dango Ouattara (Burkina Faso) Brentford Yoane Wissa (Congo) Ji-Soo Kim (South Korea) Saman Ghoddos (Iran) Frank Onyeka (Nigeria) Brighton Simon Adingra (Ivory Coast) - injury doubt Tariq Lamptey (Ghana) Kaoru Mitoma (Japan) - injury doubt Burnley No players. Chelsea Nicolas Jackson (Senegal) Crystal Palace Jordan Ayew (Ghana) Everton Idrissa Gana Gueye (Senegal) Fulham Fode-Ballo Toure (Senegal) Calvin Bassey (Nigeria) Alex Iwobi (Nigeria) Liverpool Wataru Endo (Japan) Mohamed Salah (Egypt) Luton Issa Kabore (Burkina Faso) Man City No players. Man Utd Andre Onana (Cameroon) Sofyan Amrabat (Morocco) Amad Diallo (Ivory Coast) Newcastle No players. Nottingham Forest Serge Aurier (Ivory Coast) Willy Boly (Ivory Coast) Ibrahim Sangare (Ivory Coast) Cheikou Kouyate (Senegal) Moussa Niakhate (Senegal) Ola Aina (Nigeria) Sheffield United Anis Ben Slimane (Tunisia) Yasser Larouci (Algeria) Tottenham Pape Sarr (Senegal) Heung-Min Son (South Korea) Yves Bissouma (Mali) West Ham Nayef Aguerd (Morocco) Mohammed Kudus (Ghana) Wolves Hee-Chan Hwang (South Korea) Rayan Ait-Nouri (Algeria) Boubacar Traore (Mali) Justin Hubner (Indonesia) https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13039129/which-premier-league-players-will-miss-january-action-through-the-africa-cup-of-nations-and-the-asia-cup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 It only affects 2 PL games at most and maybe just 1 PL games for those countries that get knocked out quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Man city lose no players, that surprised me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 I'd rather them players stayed at Chelsea and Man Utd. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 18 minutes ago, chrisvilla4 said: Man city lose no players, that surprised me. Don't worry, Pep will still complain about it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted January 8 VT Supporter Share Posted January 8 (edited) I was watching Egypt with Mo Salah versus Tanzania (with SAMATTA!) today. It’s fascinating to watch. A window into how football used to be played in Britain. So many long range shots and 50 yard lobbed passes. And physicality! Edited January 8 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 (edited) 4 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said: I was watching Egypt with Mo Salah versus Tanzania (with SAMATTA!) today. It’s fascinating to watch. A window into how football used to be played in Britain. So many long range shots and 50 yard lobbed passes. And physicality! Need Egypt to go all the way really. Whilst I can't see us catching Liverpool (as I expect them to be 2nd or 3rd with Man City pissing the league), it may help us stay closer to them with Salah out for 5 weeks. That said, they won at Arsenal yday so who knows. Edited January 8 by GlobalVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sne Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Ivory Coast off to a good start. 1-0 after 5 mins or so against Guinea-Bissau. Both nations with really nice vibrant kits. Not quite Nigeria good but still nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theboyangel Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Caught some of the Nigeria vs Equitorial Guinea match and the standard was so bad. How Napoli can demand a stupid amount for Osimen is beyond me - he looked terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlobalVillan Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 (edited) 38 minutes ago, theboyangel said: Caught some of the Nigeria vs Equitorial Guinea match and the standard was so bad. How Napoli can demand a stupid amount for Osimen is beyond me - he looked terrible. Having never watched a second of any AFCON tournament ever, I read so many posts like this. The standard os always reported to be terrible. And yet the amount of Premier League players from Africa over the years is staggeringly high. What is the reason clubs go out of their way to spend millions on players from a continent with such a poor standard instead of bringing through local talent of their own? For every Drogba and Salah there are scores of bog standard/piss poor players (mostly called Cisse or Traore it seems). Never come close to winning a WC either. Yet come the summer, there will be tons of African players on their way to the PL or Championship. Then AFCON comes around and people pretty unanimously say it's terrible. Edited January 15 by GlobalVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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