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Football Thread 2016/17 |OT| Mou Money Mo Pogba
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Loads of new clients, followed by a visit from the cops.
she got loads alright
Swansea have gone from 'how to run a club rising through the ranks' to how not to run a club. They pulled the trigger a bit early on Laudrup and then treated Garry Monk terribly because they were panicking. They've treated fans horribly and sold some of their best players. I won't be sorry to see Swansea relegated at all.
Roberto Larcos
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Sacked Guidolin too soon as well. I understand that they'd only picked up one win, but Guidolin's 7 PL fixtures were: Burnley (W), Hull (L), Leicester (L), Chelsea (D), Southampton (L), Man City (L) and Liverpool (L). How many points could they realistically expect to take from that run of fixtures? Maybe something away at Southampton, but that's tricky - and they did only lost 1-0. Could've got something against Hull, but they were red hot at the start. The rest were always going to be tough - and they didn't even get spanked in any of them! Worst defeat he had was a 1-3 at home to Man City.
His price just went up another £5m
I was only looking at the potential 7pt gap to 5th.
I'm a Saints supporter and find it boring.
Unreal Champ
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Anyone know anything about Quincy Promes? I have never seen him play and since Liverpool is linked to him, I was wondering if anyone thinks he's worth the money they are asking for. I would rather Liverpool didn't do a Depay.
The_Hitcher89
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Even if he flopped we'd still have a choice of Mane, Coutinho and Firmino (possibly Origi and Ojo too) to play in his position. Depay was very much bought to be in and around the 11 iirc, and him turning out to be a pile of shite threw a massive spanner in the works
Oscar and Tevez make up the top 4 highest paid footballers in the world. I'm not sure how Chinese football became this powerful, but it's mad nevertheless.
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wut the hell.
Is there no lows to which this man will not descend ?
The_Hitcher89
Member
Don't think he's bummed a 15 year old like his mates Franck and Karim, so there's that.
Clyne probably did though....
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Samir Nasri is being investigated by the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency over treatment he received at a LA clinic
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Samir Nasri is being investigated by the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency over treatment he received at a LA clinic
More: http://bbc.in/2iuzAoB
The_Hitcher89
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Roberto Larcos
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If it makes people in Europe give a shit about the Club World Cup, I'm tempted to say it'll be worth it.
Also, I wonder whether the Chinese League may perhaps catch on in the Middle East and Africa as the Premier League has. If it did, they'd recoup their investment.
GoldenCrow
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If China tune in the rest of the world won't matter. China has been the true golden egg in football for a long time now.
privitsan02
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Anyone else think Wijnaldum has been a largely ghost of a buy? We seem to have more stability with him in the team over Emre I guess? Yet Emre scores more and creates more. He's literally the Lallana of this season it seems. Gives stability but hasn't been creating or scoring.
Maybe, but we do need players like that in there. It can't all be attacking midfielders.
McMoneyman
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Think he's been a great signing. He does the hard work that gets no credit.
This is what I was thinking during the first few matches. But he has been really solid, not needed to create much but just gain and maintain possession in crucial areas of the field.
The_Hitcher89
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I veer between 'reasonably efficient yet uneffective clogger' and 'keeps us solid, doesn't lose the ball, and creates space and plays the right pass for the 4 forwards' game by game with Wijnaldum. On current form he's one of the players we could look to improve on, but he's shown enough that there's no problem if he's in the team. Same as Lovren really.
Not much between what he's doing now and what Allen was doing in his sporadic appearances last season. Funnily enough they've kinda swapped roles. Wijnaldum plays with much more discipline than he did at Newcastle from what I saw last season, and Allen plays with much more abandon and freedom to get well into the penalty area at will with Stoke.
Not much between what he's doing now and what Allen was doing in his sporadic appearances last season. Funnily enough they've kinda swapped roles. Wijnaldum plays with much more discipline than he did at Newcastle from what I saw last season, and Allen plays with much more abandon and freedom to get well into the penalty area at will with Stoke.
So the new MLS.
MLS taken to the most extreme.
Developed by Sports Interactive.
Cristiano Ronaldo: Chinese club offered Real Madrid £250m move, says agent
Also, there are no stakes; if Real had lost the Final people would've had a chuckle for 5 minutes and moved on.
It won't. As long as the CWC is slapped in the middle of the season and aired at times unfriendly to Europeans, no one will care.
Also, there are no stakes; if Real had lost the Final people would've had a chuckle for 5 minutes and moved on.
True Savior
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I would love that China grabs all the great players from Spain/England/Germany/Italy so this countries can go through the same shit as all the other ones in europe. Then let's see the popularity of those shitty big clubs.
It'll remain exactly the same. No one's going to start watching the Chinese league.
Very unlikely. MLS hasn't really seen global appeal despite taking on quite a few Europeans on massive wages. These Chinese clubs are operating at a massive loss because there are no rules against it in their league. They've been targeting over-the-hill veterans and former Wonderkids. China haven't taken a single player or manager that anyone would miss yet. It's a completely unsustainable model.