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Football Thread 13/14 |OT13| Top 15 finish for AC Milan: Sogno Possibile
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By that logic, shouldnt City be the favorites since they finished 2nd?
Bear in mind that your run in is fucking horriffic. If you're still in the FA cup/CL in March you're guaranteed to drop points. Even City and Chelsea with their depth would get bitch slapped a few times with those fixtures.
Shanks D Zoro
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Nope, I do it more out of courtesy and respect for the Champs. Just like I view Spain favourites for the WC and Munich for the CL, because everyone is trying to replicate what they did.
I hope we can make deep runs, players buzz off winning and progressing. You play 19 teams twice a season. I have never really thought it mattered what order you play them in.
So you considered Chelsea favourites for UCL when they won UCL yet finished 6th in the league?
Shanks D Zoro
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Yes, everyone was trying to win it off them. There was no reason that they couldn't have done it again. Except they came up against the mghty Juve.
Edit: it is why i didnt consider anyone favourites in the Europa League at the start.
Who's the fat guy?
Frank the Great
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Well, we do need a backup DM to De Jong, especially if Seedorf will continue playing with two holding midfielders. If are starters are De Jong/Monto and are backups are Essien/Cristante, it's not that bad. If Essien comes, it probably means the end of Muntari, which is an amazing thing.
I still think we need a pacier player to play alongside De Jong, but that will have to be a more significant purchase and I guess it would come in the summer.
Shanks D Zoro
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Anderson left for Fiorentina mate.
LabouredSubterfuge
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MEN saying after the Mata deal is done we're going after Vidal, Pogba and Mangala.
Lolercopters.
Lolercopters.
Frank the Great
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Bud, now look at what you've gone and done to that TR thread.
Shanks D Zoro
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You gonna have any cash left after the secret bung to Jose?
Good. I guess its safe to ignore your posts and opinions from now in.
They should bite PSG's hand off quickly. Pogba has 2 years left on his deal? and he has that kunt of an agent Raiola. Dunno if his value is going to get any higher.
Shanks D Zoro
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Why were they not favourites? That side that stank up the league managed to win the whole thing despite finishing 6th.
You can say Barca had a better squad and should have been favourites, but the simple truth was Chelsea were the champions. Their squad delivered the trophy, not anybody else's.
I don't like Chelsea, but I respected what they did.
Just like people saying Spain are not the favourites. Pls. that side are the World Champs and two times European champs. It is theirs to lose.
GHG
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We need to be taking advantage by loaning players out across the premiership. Gnabry to Everton, Bendtner to Newcastle, etc etc.
Wenger needs to learn to play the game, not be played.
LabouredSubterfuge
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PSG making a mockery of FFP by claiming to have the highest 'commercial' revenue in the world.
:lol
Shanks D Zoro
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I do think they should deal, but they need Verratti. Pirlo is in decline and he needs to be replaced. If they sell Pogba then they lose an incredible player for them and still have an ageing Pirlo with no replacement.
They get Verratti and then at least they have their Pirlo replacement for the next decade and 40-50m in the bank to improve the squad.
PrematureQuiche
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The rare away game I've went to over the last 3 seasons (like twice I think) we put them both on my dad's season card so he got loyalty points, I've got zero. Which means I am going to miss out on the £40 tickets
£76 ffs.
£76 to see your team get smashed :lol
PSG making a mockery of FFP by claiming to have the highest 'commercial' revenue in the world.
:lol
Yeah, they give it to themselves!
Shanks D Zoro
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PSG making a mockery of FFP by claiming to have the highest 'commercial' revenue in the world.
:lol
Man City too.
I am surprised that Chelsea's isn't higher. I walk into any store in Korea and I can buy chelsea nuts, coffee, and even crisps that I found today. Yet to see Chelsea toilet paper here, but I do own United toilet paper. I would love to rotate between the two.
You got tonked by City, drew with Chelsea. You are going to lose to one of them again and that will be the end. You couldn't even beat Moyes.
the better twin
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How do Bayern have a higher commercial revenue than United and Barca? That one doesnt seem right to me either.
PSG making a mockery of FFP by claiming to have the highest 'commercial' revenue in the world.
:lol
They signed a new deal with Deutsche Telekom recently. Probably what put them ahead.
Shanks D Zoro
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There are 19 other teams in the league. You don't win or lose the league by playing against two teams
Unless it is Spain.
After all it is not like Chelsea or City are going to win every remaining game.
Edit: Also people seem to forgot that we have the most points over the last 12 months.
While the Mata situation is obviously quite different as it is a permanent transfer it does need to be considered in the context that Everton, Liverpool and Manchester United have been strengthened by City/Chelsea in a way that only impacts their rivals and not themselves. Mourinho has been pretty brazen about the loaning of Lukaku to Chelsea and if those two are going to continue stockpiling players then there should be some restriction on their ability to loan them to Premier League clubs
Does not matter you take the deal. PSG do not have to give up Verratti because they don't give a fuck about money. The owners could not care less and would just have him rot on the bench like players at City. If PSG really offered that much you take the money and run, that can build a whole team for Juventus lol.
LabouredSubterfuge
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LabouredSubterfuge
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Mata-copter update: Mata-copter has been delayed by rain.
"smashed"
pls we are the killer of teams in the top half
Hixx fuck wembley. Too expensive, and the I thought goin south of Sheffield made you queasy?
Plus the stadium is shite. Massive speakers blaring Swedish house mafia and the corporate wankers upstairs. Go late is my advice.
Enjoy it though if you can get tixx
It does, I already feel annoyed that I have to go to London. But I've not been to the new Wembley, only the old one.. and y'know, Sunderland are in the final of a cup. I kind of have to go.
Because it's quite different, it doesn't need to be considered in that context. Wenger is chatting Rafa-level shite.
You'd get no argument from anyone sane about Chelsea's loans being absurd. But a lot of these managers who will pontificate about fairness will turn around and lobby to be allowed to field B teams in the championship.
Fans, I think even more than Barca now. 3 CL finals in the last 4 years. We have revenues with Telekom, Allianz, Adidas and Audi (250 million together).
Shanks D Zoro
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£76 quid for a cup final? of course you go.
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