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Football Thread 2016/17 |OT| Mou Money Mo Pogba
- Thread starter Lunar FC
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You guys deserve it
The most hilarious thing is that even if Benfica loses the next two matches Porto won't win the league anyway. It's such a joke rn. Hopefully we sack NES and hire a decent manager like Sérgio Conceição.
IDK how true this is and am too lazy to verify it, but it feels like West Ham away is always a really tough game. If it was at home I'd be more confident
Its weird how we are now scared of Arsenal getting 4th again like usual lol, despite how bad it feels they've been this season they could still get it. Would be lovely if Southampton could make them drop some points this week
Has there really ever been a challenge from any of the other clubs. Both Milan clubs are going through transition, Napoli lost Papito, Roma haven't been consistent for years now so. It's great for Juventus though, it just seems that the situation is becoming like Bayern in Germany.
Well last year is supposed to be the year Juventus failed to seize Serie A title after all lol. I mean it is literally the worst opening moment for Juventus due many core player moving away like Pirlo, Vidal, Tevez and Marchisio gettiing injury.
And guess what? All the other team bottled it so hard that Juventus can take the title lol.
And even if Napoli lose Pipita lol., They also receive that 45mil injection by Juventus. It is their own fault there lol. Not being able to find a proper change for that.^^ I do see Napoli is getting stronger every year there so they probably will end up the only team able to face Juventus head on there. Sarri is a great tactical coach after all.^^ Now what they need is a champions mentality and more depth for their bench, then i can see them challenge Juve.^^
cartoon_soldier
Member
So, if we don't win Europa League we are fucked.
Great.
Great.
Man this is crazy. So yeah, we've paid 40 million for Vinicius Jr but that price tag can increase to 61 million depending on bonuses. He'll join us for pre-season in 2018. I can't see us going for another striker this transfer window, and I surely don't see any of Benzema of Morata leaving.
We are totally gonna play Benzema, Cristiano and Morata in the #9 role and on the left, while they rotate. I can see Morata leaving in 2018 for Vinicius Jr to take over, maybe. But that would leave no reason for Mbappe. Cristiano is getting older though, so.
We are totally gonna play Benzema, Cristiano and Morata in the #9 role and on the left, while they rotate. I can see Morata leaving in 2018 for Vinicius Jr to take over, maybe. But that would leave no reason for Mbappe. Cristiano is getting older though, so.
cartoon_soldier
Member
I can see Benzema or Bale leaving in Summer. Morata is one I see being there for longer.
Florentino Perez is crazy about Benzema, and he got the backing of Zidane as well. Bale is basically his "Galactico" signing and he won't sell him to lose face. Neither will leave, I'm sure of it.
And thinking about it, I'm so glad about our current squad, that I really don't want to see anyone leave or any new players come in. The only one I would welcome with open arms would probably be De Gea, but I can't see many players improving our squad.
Anyway, there's a bunch of interesting matches this week I have to watch:
Any other interesting matches for the week? Something in the Portuguese or Dutch league?
I don't think Real Madrid would want to lose their huge marketing pairing BBC though.O_O
40 million for Vinícius Júnior
Madness.
40 million for Vinícius Júnior
Who? Born: July 12, 2000 (age 16 years) what?
Where that other guy from a scandinavian country who was supposed to be the next big thing?
McMoneyman
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While not so interesting for neutrals perhaps. Arsenal's game at Southampton on Wednesday, is one that me and fellow Liverpool fans will have a watchful eye on, hoping that Arsenal could drop points.
Can't see it unless our players are back from holiday mode
McMoneyman
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Another 0-0 would be great. Although Forster will probably go back to throwing goals into the back of the net again unfortunately.
I think they loaned Odegaard to some Dutch club.
We loaned him out to Heerenveen. This is normal practice at Real Madrid. He gets to develop in a more competitive league than la segunda, and we're hoping he gains experience from this little adventure so he can come back ready for the first team. But it might not go that way, time will tell.
Audioboxer
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Still a potential ability hero of FM16. In FM17 he is still great but nerfed slightly from FM16.
Balague doesn't know jack. James isn't a requirement at Manchester because they don't lack chances, they lack people who can score. I think Madrid and Manchester cannot do any deal this summer without each side loosing major players. Madrid wants de gea and Manchester prob wants more than one player so that deal won't happen
Superclásico on Sunday. One of football's great events.
Puel didn't say that. He said we don't want to sell him, Sky Sports just twisted it.
His Majesty
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when your left back has scored more goals than any United player except for Zlatan
Had him in my Fantasy team since the first month.
His Majesty
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Fabregas is pure class.
papercan55
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Conte is pure class, hugging and clapping the boro fans.
never seen that before.
never seen that before.
Unreal Champ
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I know Liverpool fans will probably disagree with me but even if we get CL football, I see this season as a failure. I believe we should have been challenging Chelsea for the title not struggling to get to get a CL spot. I know people will say but we had a lot of injuries etc etc. Although that is true, all that should have been taken care of in the summer. Instead of penny pinching, we should have also been buying player that would have provided cover in case things like that happened. Also I blame Klopp for letting his pride get in the way. When we were having defensive problems instead of playing Sakho and giving the man to redeem himself, no he sends him on a loan instead. He also sells a player that always seems to give us trouble to a team that also always gives us problems, only for that to come bite us in the ass wen we didn't need it to happen.
Dutch Gronk
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Loved that. Such a class act.
WhateverItTakes
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Disagree completely. Yes we looked good at the start of the season, but with our luck on injuries and the squad we have, we were not ready for a title challenge. Would you really say our squad beats out the rest of the top 7?
Our problem for years has been buying players that were just 'okay' and them taking up a place instead of pushing us for more. This squad we have now should be our bare minimum- even if it bit us in the ass for now, we need to now start building for replacements, have competition for places, we've seen how that's improved Mig's game. And buying quality means going with Klopp's judgement. Also on Klopp's judgement, if the manager doesn't want Sakho, he doesn't want Sakho. We don't know what was going on behind the scenes, but I imagine Klopp wants his ship ran his way. Yes it's a shame a player as talented as Sakho can't be used by us, but it's his fault for all the shenanigans he got caught up in.
Selling Benteke was both a smart business decision and something that can cost our rivals points as well, it's kinda dumb to think about the game we just lost in that way. We lost because we weren't good enough.
At times we are a team that can play electrifying football. But we haven't seen that consistently, or at all as of late (Firminho and Can bangers aside), but I believe with more training, and some savvy signings, we can start pushing for that. We're not fighting for the league because we aren't good enough. But we're gonna get there. Top 4 will help us do that, and I think it'll be a great achievement.
Cant see feyenoord choking that tbh.
I need to see more live football next! Hoping that my mate comes through and gets me a season ticket.
Klopp's biggest fuck-up this year, in my view. Also, starting the year with no reliable left-back. Liverpool got seriously lucky that Milner adapted to the position as well as he did.
Liverpool got a reputation in the first third of the season as a team that would roll over lower half teams 4 or 5 - nil. When was the last time Liverpool put in a Liverpool performance? I can't remember it.
One big excuse Klopp has to fall back on is the absence of Sadio Mané. A sturdy defence and Mané available all season and Liverpool may have been pushing Spurs. I still wouldn't call it a 'failure' though.
Not sure how 4th or 3rd for Pool can be in any way considered a failure. You don't have the squad depth for much else which was evident come Xmas and January.
The target now has to be to hold on to your best players, strengthen both the main 11 and the whole squad and hope that playing a load more games next year doesn't see your PL position suffer once again.
The target now has to be to hold on to your best players, strengthen both the main 11 and the whole squad and hope that playing a load more games next year doesn't see your PL position suffer once again.
Mata has 6 and Rashford has 5!
McMoneyman
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Everton on April 1st was probably the last great performance. Prior to that probably Arsenal at home(March something).
Also I wouldn't call this season a failure, but it is disappointing that we couldn't challenge Chelsea and Spurs after the promising start.
Guileless
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The first leg of the Lyon-Ajax Europa League semi was nuts last week, I'm looking forward to part two.