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Football Thread 2014/15 |OT1| Wes to make an awesome 2014-2015 OT1
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Who would you expect your standard back four to be this year? (Feel free to post your starting eleven if you want, I really don't know what formation to expect this year from you guys and which players will be starting any position).
I've decided to put Davies into my starting 11 for fantasy football and just want to make sure he's going to get some points
Lightning critically under rates you guys, you had a bad season last year but still finished decently even with AVB and tactics tim. This year with MoPo should be a good year for you guys.
Please let us beat you this year, our opening fixtures are hard
LFMartins86
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We only own 60% of Carvalho, we are not going to sell him for a low price. Slimani might get sold, apparently Leicester has made a bid of 8M which would be a decent deal for us since we paid 500.000 for him last year.
He was asked a direct question and gave an answer. What the heck is he supposed to say. Any rational person would jump to the conclusion that Lampard's signing was somehow related to FFP and homegrown restrictions for CL.
Yep. Where you driving from? I'd have to leave from Kendall at 5 lol, absolute nightmare getting to Miami Gardens, and if there is an accident then good night.
He hates the term, that's what I read.
Aren't you guys skint though? And I hear the bank that owns the other 40% had to get bailed out by the Portuguese government to the tune of 5 billion euros or something and are trying to recoup as much money as they can. It might or might not be correlated to how much you end up getting for him though. I think it comes down to negotiating a fee that Sporting are happy with for their 60%. I got most of my info from this link http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/w...ing-midfielder-william-carvalho-on-the-cheap/
Gonna be leaving around 430 from the Grove area. Will take at least an hour in all the traffic, but if I wait any later it'll just be gridlocked.
Willkiller
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I can't believe we've spent around 40 Million, and we're not done yet
LFMartins86
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I really can´t see us selling him for less than 35, 40M. We had profit last year, we´ve gone through strict financial changes, cutting the budget by 50% and the wage bill for almost 60%. Things aren´t as bad as 2 years ago, Benfica is the one who´s going through some dark times at the moment. They were more connected with that bank than we.
Freewheelin'
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So GoTG was pretty great, lots of fun lines.
Pratt is awesome.
Pratt is awesome.
And considering Bruno de Carvalho is just a mini Pinto da Costa in the making, I'm sure he will not budge and stick with demanding the other teams pay what they want. Unless of course Godinho Lopes signed an agreement that Sporting has to sell William for 2 bags of chips and a cup of Nutella if someone appears in Alvalade with one shoe in the top of his head.
William Carvalho will cost at least 30M like it or not. If you don't want to pay it so be it. If you want to find good players for bargain prices go look in other place because only Benfica is having a fire sale. FC Porto continues on their annual rip-off crusade by selling the erratic Mangala for 32.5M....
Seems like Rodwell to Sunderland is happening:
Pete O'Rourke @SkySportsPeteO · 17m
Sunderland are in talks with Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell with player on Wearside now. #SAFC #MCFC
Welcome Sagna:
Both MLS and the Australian league have a different ownership style compared to European football. They would never agreed, specially MLS, to let their franchises become a City feeder club with the MLS club paying all their wages. They also have a very strict amount of players that can be on loan and have higher wages ("designated players" in MLS). Plus, the Australian club can't loan anymore players since they've used their quota and obviously New York City can't use Lampard since the season hasn't started.
So, you can always say "No comments" on a direct question when you don't know anything about the subject (which he himself said, ""I don't know the rules well enough", but then kept on talking). And, as previously said, the real police (UEFA) had already been notified by City.
He has a very strict 22 player squad policy, would mean that someone else would be sold.
Pete O'Rourke @SkySportsPeteO · 17m
Sunderland are in talks with Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell with player on Wearside now. #SAFC #MCFC
Welcome Sagna:
Both MLS and the Australian league have a different ownership style compared to European football. They would never agreed, specially MLS, to let their franchises become a City feeder club with the MLS club paying all their wages. They also have a very strict amount of players that can be on loan and have higher wages ("designated players" in MLS). Plus, the Australian club can't loan anymore players since they've used their quota and obviously New York City can't use Lampard since the season hasn't started.
So, you can always say "No comments" on a direct question when you don't know anything about the subject (which he himself said, ""I don't know the rules well enough", but then kept on talking). And, as previously said, the real police (UEFA) had already been notified by City.
He has a very strict 22 player squad policy, would mean that someone else would be sold.
30m euros? I think we'd pay that. Might even stretch to 35.
johnthequad
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Doesn't Sporting owe like 375 million from stadium debt?
He just signed a new deal this weekend for 1 more year but his buy out clause was lowered to 35M instead of 40M, so the sale is coming in the next 12 months.
Fernando also resigned this January with the promise that he would be sold for a low price.
If anyone gives 35M for Jackson Martinez they should rethink their scouting practices. He's good for a team like Porto but he's not a world class striker.
It's mind-boggling. I love it.
Ok. I think Monaco might go for him if they sell Falcao. He is a decent CF, but not as good as some people make out.
johnthequad
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30 million for Carvalho seems awfully high based off one good season. That's the sort of fee world class players command.
It just means we rate him more.
The stadium didn't cost that much. The problem was the other investments, buying players, paying agents, staff paid to do nothing that were paid with money loaned by banks especially by the bank that had to be saved yesterday.
It will take some months but truth will come out about the loans from the 3 major Portuguese clubs and they will have to repay all the money loaned sooner or later or they will have take all their assets and sell them at the lowest price which includes players and infraestructure. The Portuguese football (like a lot of other things connected with that bank) is very near to a collapse.
As a Porto fan I would gladly sell him for 35M. Unfortunately in this miserable Lopetegui era we would probably sign some shitty Spanish striker that was a sub for Racing Santander. When Lopetegui is fired in November there will be so many Spanish players unhappy in that locker room...
30m hasn't been the fee for a world class player in quite a while.
Kroos? Nasri? Cesc?
No doubt. You guys have bought quite a few players from Spain this summer, but you have bought well IMO. I personally like Ghilas, but not sure he would be able to fill the void of JM.
Kroos was in the last year of his contract, Arsenal could've held out for at least 15m more for Fabregas and Nasri is nowhere near good enough to even fit in the conversation.
Two out of three ain't bad.
:lol
Kroos was widely regarded as steal for the price he went for.
Apparently he's going to be sold/loaned as well. He's not Spanish so he has no place in Lopetegui's team.
Schneiderlin doesn't deliver in big games (/Wenger) and doesn't want to fight for his place.
He was considering he went for less than Lallana. LOL!
I think most clubs want the guys to train for a week or two before they're actually available. You would think that the Germany and Argentina players won't play for any club until the first week of the season.
That's a pretty fair price. He's still quite young and has shown flashes of brilliance here and there. I'm amazed one of the newly promoted clubs isn't knocking down the door for him -- you'd think they'd want to replicate what Hull did (sturdying up the center of the park by bringing in Livermore and Huddlestone). I still think there's a very good player in there if he can somehow figure out how to stay fit. We should throw in Richards for free if someone signs Rodwell.
No one but a deluded person would think it had anything to do with FFP. The benefit to signing him now is that NYCFC can spend the next 7 months advertising him as one of their DPs -- they're trying to drive season ticket sales. You don't have a news story if he signs for Man City and they say oh he'll then transfer to NYCFC in 5 months, we promise!
For the record, his salary will probably be $4-5m per year which equates to about £57k a week on the high end. Even if Man City weren't actually paying his wages, that's a drop in the bucket. Wenger needs to quit worrying about other clubs and start worrying about the fact Arsenal have been a laughing stock for nearly a decade. That should be the only thing he ever worries about publicly. If he was asked about Lampard and City, he should have said something like, "It will be strange to see Lampard playing in another shirt but it will only be for a short period before he moves to America." Short and sweet.
But with 3x the wages
Rodwell will be a great signing until his leg falls off in September.
Mugs like Snodgrass are going for £8m. If you want players with PL experience but you aren't in the top 4 you are going to get ripped off. It's the price you pay. Which is why Lallana was £25m instead of the £12-15m he is worth.
IVE JUST DESTROYED MY OWN LOGIC HERE
Liverpool are in the top four and still got ripped off
FUCK
Mugs like Snodgrass are going for £8m. If you want players with PL experience but you aren't in the top 4 you are going to get ripped off. It's the price you pay. Which is why Lallana was £25m instead of the £12-15m he is worth.
IVE JUST DESTROYED MY OWN LOGIC HERE
Liverpool are in the top four and still got ripped off
FUCK
With Musacchio about to join I would think this is our 'ideal' first XI:
Lloris
Walker Musacchio (Dawson) Vertonghen (Kaboul) Davies
Scheniderlin (Capoue) Bentaleb
Lennon Lamela Eriksen
Adebayor
Due to transfers not yet being done/World Cup rustiness I expect the players in brackets will start the first game against West Ham.
The_Hitcher89
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That's easy to say when your own team already has a complete squad with two good players in every position
Meier, you're having a mare.
City have already threatened the integrity of FFP by signing a very questionable financial deal with one of the relatives of the owner, and it would be right to question their intentions with the current "project." I'm honestly surprised the City fans here are getting so up in arms about an inoffensive comment.
He didn't even say anything definitively, anyway.
LFMartins86
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Rojo has already been training with the team for a week now and even played on Friday against Lazio.
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