After a long wait it is back the most popular football\soccer league in the world the Barclays Premier League\English premier league (epl-as it is popularly known). People can finally get out of their states of depression due to boredom and having nothing to do and discuss since 24th may 2015. Sure there was the Copa America, International Champions Cup(which was very interesting by the way) ,Audi cup, Asia cup and other football competitions to keep us as well as the players busy but it just was not the same as the exciting, amazing, delightful, nerve wrecking and sometimes dreadful (depending on which team you support) league that is the EPL. There is that void in every epl fan that can be filled with nothing else but the epl itself.Now there will be a more reasons to look forward to the weekend, more friends and enemies to be made more loud, inconclusive and unproductive arguments to be had and more amazing moments to be shared all around the world. And according to me I think this is going to be the most exciting instalment of the competition yet going by the standards of quality being shipped in in terms of players.
Apparently most all teams competing this season were given the following:
Equal tv rights share to every clubs will be around £54.1 million (£27.57 million from oversees portion and £21.96 million for domestic + £4.39 with central commersial share) – Confirmed
Merit money starts with £1,236,083 for the 20th place and £1,236,083 will be added to each position rising up the table. (which means champions will pocket £24.7 million in merit based money) – Confirmed
Facility fee depend on how many times clubs match is shown live on tv in UK, If a club has 10 or less live matches they will be paid £8.75 million while Manchester United matches were shown live the most number of times in UK with total 27 times which means they will get £875,000 for every live match and that’s £21.47m million. (Confirmed)
Equal tv rights share to every clubs will be around £54.1 million (£27.57 million from oversees portion and £21.96 million for domestic + £4.39 with central commersial share) – Confirmed
Merit money starts with £1,236,083 for the 20th place and £1,236,083 will be added to each position rising up the table. (which means champions will pocket £24.7 million in merit based money) – Confirmed
Facility fee depend on how many times clubs match is shown live on tv in UK, If a club has 10 or less live matches they will be paid £8.75 million while Manchester United matches were shown live the most number of times in UK with total 27 times which means they will get £875,000 for every live match and that’s £21.47m million. (Confirmed)
In addition with the money they already earned by themselves the 20 clubs can now be able to have the confidence to spend more money as they already have a promised pay during the season. Due to this the clubs went all out to reel in as much talent as financially possible and some still are but a I am typing this blog on 7th of August 2015 the current transfers as confirmed by the official premier league website ( http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2015-16/summer-transfer-window-2015.html ) are as follows.
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Ian Harte Released
Josh McQuoid Released
Darryl Flavahan Released
Mohamed Coulibaly Released
Joe Partington Released
Miles Addison Released
Ryan Fraser (Ipswich Town) Loan
Brett Pitman (Ipswich Town) Undisclosed
Jayden Stockley (Portsmouth) Loan
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Ryo Miyaichi (St Pauli) Undisclosed
Semi Ajayi (Cardiff City) Undisclosed
Abou Diaby (Marseille) Free
Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Ipswich Town) Loan Full story
Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray) Undisclosed
Carl Jenkinson (West Ham United) Loan Full story
Wojciech Szczesny (AS Roma) Loan Full story
George Dobson (West Ham) Undisclosed Full story
Chuba Akpom (Hull City) Loan
Serge Gnabry (West Bromwich Albion) Loan Full story
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Darren Bent (Derby County) Free
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) Free
Andreas Weimann (Derby County) Undisclosed
Matt Lowton (Burnley) Undisclosed
Yacouba Sylla (Rennes) Undisclosed
Antonio Luna (SD Eibar) Undisclosed
Shay Given (Stoke City) Free
Fabian Delph (Manchester City) Undisclosed
Christian Benteke (Liverpool) Undisclosed
In
Nathan (Atletico Paranaense) Undisclosed Full story
Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) Loan Full story
Asmir Begovic (Stoke City) Undisclosed Full story
Danilo Pantic (Partizan Belgrade) Undisclosed Full Story
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Christian Atsu (AFC Bournemouth) Loan Full story
Didier Drogba Released
Gael Kakuta (Sevilla) Undisclosed
Petr Cech (Arsenal) Undisclosed
Mario Pasalic (AS Monaco) Loan
Josh McEachran (Brentford) Undisclosed
Izzy Brown (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan
Lewis Baker (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan
Marco van Ginkel (Stoke City) Loan
Tomas Kalas (Middlesbrough) Loan
Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace) Loan Full story
Filipe Luis (Atletico Madrid) Undisclosed Full story
Danilo Pantic (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan
Dominic Solanke (Vitesse Arnhem) Loan
Mohamed Salah (AS Roma) Loan
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Yohan Cabaye (Paris Saint Germain) Undisclosed Full story
Patrick Bamford (Chelsea) Loan Full storyConnor Wickham (Sunderland) Undisclosed Full story
Bakary Sako (Wolverhampton Wanderers) Free Full story
Out
Lewis Price Released
Owen Garvan Released
Peter Ramage Released
Stephen Dobbie Released
Jerome Thomas Released
Out
Antolin Alcaraz Released
Sylvain Distin (AFC Bournemouth) Free Full story
Out
Chris Wood (Leeds United) Undisclosed
Esteban Cambiasso Free Full story
Out
Steven Gerrard (Los Angeles Galaxy) Free Full story
Glen Johnson Released
Brad Jones Released
Sebastian Coates (Sunderland) Undisclosed Full story
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) Undisclosed Full story
Andre Wisdom (Norwich City) Loan Full story
Rickie Lambert (West Brom) Full story
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Enes Unal (Bursaspor) Undisclosed
David Faupala (Lens) Undiclosed
Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) Undisclosed Full story
Fabian Delph (Aston Villa) Undisclosed Full story
Patrick Roberts (Fulham) Undisclosed
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Scott Sinclair (Aston Villa) Undisclosed Full story
James Milner (Liverpool) Full story
Dedryck Boyata (Celtic) Undisclosed
Angelino (New York City) Loan
Micah Richards (Aston Villa) Free
Karim Rekik (Marseille) Undisclosed
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Memphis Depay (PSV Eindhoven) Undisclosed Full story
Matteo Darmian (Torino) Undisclosed Full story
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich) Undisclosed Full story
Morgan Schneiderlin (Southampton) Undisclosed Full story
Sergio Romero (Sampdoria) Undisclosed Full story
Out
Tom Cleverley (Everton) Free Full story
Ben Amos (Bolton Wanderers) Released
Tom Thorpe Released
Saidy Janko (Celtic) Undisclosed
Nani (Fenerbahce) Undisclosed
Will Keane (Preston North End) Loan
Robin van Persie (Fenerbahce)
Angel Di Maria (Paris Saint Germain) Undisclosed Full story
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Georginio Wijnaldum (PSV Eindhoven) Undisclosed Full story
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Anderlecht) Undisclosed Full story
Chancel Mbemba (Anderlecht) Undisclosed Full story
Ivan Toney (Northampton Town) Undisclosed Full story
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Jonas Gutierrez Released
Ryan Taylor Released
Adam Campbell Released
Remie Streete Released
Sammy Ameobi (Cardiff City) Loan
Adam Armstrong (Coventry City) Loan
Freddie Woodman (Crawley Town) Loan
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Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion) Undisclosed Full story
Youssouf Mulumbu (West Bromwich Albion) Free Full story
Robbie Brady (Hull City) Undisclosed Full story
Andre Wisdom (Liverpool) Loan Full story
Out
Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) Undisclosed
Mark Bunn (Aston Villa) Free Full story
Out
Artur Boruc (AFC Bournemouth) Free Full story
Jos Hooiveld Released
Cody Cropper Released
Omar Rowe Released
Jake Sinclair Released
Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool) Undisclosed Full story
Dani Osvaldo Released
Morgan Schneiderlin (Manchester United) Undisclosed Full story
Sam Gallagher (Milton Keynes Dons) Loan
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Thomas Sorensen (Released)
Wilson Palacios (Released)
Andy Wilkinson (Released)
Steven Nzonzi (Sevilla) Undisclosed
Asmir Begovic (Chelsea) Undisclosed Full story
In
Sebastian Coates (Liverpool) Undisclosed Full story
Adam Matthews (Celtic) £2million Full story
Jeremain Lens (Dynamo Kyiv) Undisclosed Full story
Younes Kaboul (Tottenham Hotspur) Undisclosed Full story
Yann M'Vila (Rubin Kazan) Undisclosed Full story
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El-Hadji Ba (Charlton) Undisclosed
Santiago Vergini (Getafe CF) Loan
Connor Wickham (Crystal Palace) Undisclosed
Out
Alan Tate Released
Gerhard Tremmel Released
David Cornell Released
Jazz Richards (Fulham) Undisclosed
In
Kevin Wimmer (Cologne) Undisclosed Full story
Kieran Trippier (Burnley) Undisclosed Full story
Toby Alderweireld (Atletico Madrid) Undisclosed Full story
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Jordan Archer Released
Cristian Ceballos Released
Bongani Khumalo Released
Paulinho (Guangzhou Evergrande) Undisclosed
Lewis Holtby (Hamburg) Undisclosed
Etienne Capoue (Watford) Undisclosed Full storyYounes Kaboul (Sunderland) Undisclosed Full story
Benjamin Stambouli (Paris Saint Germain) Undisclosed
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Sebastian Prodl (Werder Bremen) Free Full story
Giedrius Arlauskis (Steaua Bucharest) Undisclosed Full story
Jose Holebas (AS Roma) Undisclosed Full story
Matej Vydra (Udinese) Undisclosed Full story
Etienne Capoue (Tottenham Hotspur) Undisclosed Full story
Valon Behrami (Hamburg) Undisclosed Full story
Allan Nyom (Granada) Undisclosed Full story
Miguel Britos (Napoli) Undisclosed Full story
Jose Manuel Jurado (Spartak Moscow) Full story
Steven Berghuis (AZ Alkmaar) Undisclosed
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Jonathan Bond (Reading) Undisclosed
Lewis McGugan (Sheffield Wednesday) Undisclosed
Diego Fabbrini (Middlesbrough) Loan
Out
Graham Dorrans (West Bromwich Albion) Undisclosed Full story
Alex Jones (Birmingham City) Free
Kemar Roofe (Oxford City) Undisclosed
Youssouf Mulumbu Released
Chris Baird (Derby County) Free
Jason Davidson Released
Alex Palmer (Kidderminster Harriers) Loan
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Dan Potts (Luton Town) Free
Carlton Cole Released
Guy Demel Released
Jussi Jaaskelainen Released
Nene Released
Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) Undisclosed Full story
And with the transfer window closing on September 1st I expect a little more transfers. The transfers above do not include players who have come back from loan for example Origi who is back from Lille and Victor Moses who is back to Chelsea from Stoke and looking as strong as ever according to the pre-season.
Speaking of pre-season Arsenal had a very successful one. They won the Asia cup,Emirates Cup and beat Chelsea to win The Community Shield. This has resulted in Arsenal fans excitingly running around like headless chickens. You would have thought that they had won the Epl,Champions League and FA all at once while quite actually they won a four team tournament(Asia cup),A two day tournament(Emirates cup) and a one match tournament so in real sense they have won just 5 matches. But all credit to them I know no match is an easy match but they have to stop making a mountain out of a mole hill and also I personally give Petr Cech the credit for the 4 clean sheets he kept for them during those five matches and only letting one goal get through. All Arsenal players should be like Mathieu Flamini and thank Jose Mourinho for selling them the world class keeper.
Liverpool also had a good pre season and although having to sell Raheem Sterling to Man City
they were able to buy some very significant players of whom four by the names Divock Origi, Danny Ings , James Milner and Christian Benteke have already reached Mario Balloteli's scoring taly of last season and are proving to be promising signings.
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| Christian Benteke |
While on the topic of promising signings Chelsea who have been more quiet than usual signing four players so far and sending two on loan signed Radamel Falcao
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| Radamel Falcao. |
who had a rather dissapointing 2014/2015 season at Manchester United and Asmir Begovic who is not exactly a replacement for Cech but is a good enough substitute. Although Falcao had a shack start at the EPL I believe that if there is anyone who can fix him it is Jose Mourinho and if he can be fixed then he will most likely be out of the club and more presumably the league by February. I cant finish speaking about signings without talking about Manchester United.
The Man-U fans are overjoyed and ecstatic that they have been able to sign amazing players and are even confident that they can win the league because of them. I do wish to remind the man-u fans that their manager Louis Van Gaal has a certain talent in bringing out the worst in players. It was only last season that Man-u had the same excitement and expectations when they brought in Falcao and Di Maria and even later on brought in the keeper Victor Valdez from Barcelona who only played once as a sub and conceded a goal before being let go by the club.
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| Where these players were at the beginning of last season. |
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| Falcao now at Chelsea. |
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| Di Maria now at PSG. |
None of the players above lived up to their expectations and none of them even lasted to start this season.But before I make this long blog longer than it already is let me end by saying in real sense the past does not matter ,only the present. When that team gets on the field they will not start thinking of the previous match both teams will want to get maximum points there and then it wont be about what happened last time but what is happening now and thats why the EPL is so popular there are no small or big teams in only winners and losers this has been shown time and again by the so called giants fall to the underdogs.The EPL has always been unpredictable and amazing and I expect it to be no less this season.
Thanks for reading.
Deo omnis gloria.
