Roland_Gunner
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Espanyol are completely exhausted. Sevilla are going to have to play 30 guys if they want to keep this pressure up all season.
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Football Thread 2016/17 |OT| Mou Money Mo Pogba
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True Savior
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They need defenders much more comfortable with the ball though. And better.
Nah, he also posted some racist shit and also called a person who had been hit by a car on the motorway weak and sad.
I really doubt FSG would sell unless they offered billions, and I really don't know how to feel about Chinese government backed owners, especially as who knows how committed they'll be once they get what they want (to host a World Cup), or if we go through some bad times. Would be nice being as rich as the others though.
Real_Madrid
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I know that sounds cool, but I would rather have a club run like Arsenal or Bayern than City or Chelsea to be honest. Sugar daddy's can have a purpose, like in Spain where they buy-out clubs that have heavy debts like Valencia, Espanyol and even Atletico Madrid.
Liverpool like every other premier league team can invest ridiculously huge sums in players, I don't see the need for a sugar daddy for such teams honestly.
Real_Madrid
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A good visualization for the Real Madrid squad: Real squad from AS. Zidane already said that Real is done with the transfers.
Obviously a pretty good squad, with one very strange absence in the central midfield. That's why everyone expected that James would be sold and Pogba or Gomes would be bought. That would have made it a near perfect squad.
Imagine that Casemiro gets a major injury early in the season... That said, you can easily rest Casemiro and Modric against smaller teams.
Real (and Atletico) will almost certainly have a transfer-ban for the next 2 transfer windows, so apart from the central midfield, I also have concerns about Coentrao and Modric. They are very injury prone.
The big advantage of this squad is that only Ronaldo and Pepe are over 30 years old. Makes a case for investing heavily in young players imo, Real hasn't really bought a big player for 2 transfer windows now and the club is doing better than ever.
Irrelevant in this case, but that's why I don't understand Juventus paying 90 million for an almost 29 years old striker. If you buy a young player like Benzema, you're set for more than 10 years. It's just so much cheaper in the long run.
Obviously a pretty good squad, with one very strange absence in the central midfield. That's why everyone expected that James would be sold and Pogba or Gomes would be bought. That would have made it a near perfect squad.
Imagine that Casemiro gets a major injury early in the season... That said, you can easily rest Casemiro and Modric against smaller teams.
Real (and Atletico) will almost certainly have a transfer-ban for the next 2 transfer windows, so apart from the central midfield, I also have concerns about Coentrao and Modric. They are very injury prone.
The big advantage of this squad is that only Ronaldo and Pepe are over 30 years old. Makes a case for investing heavily in young players imo, Real hasn't really bought a big player for 2 transfer windows now and the club is doing better than ever.
Irrelevant in this case, but that's why I don't understand Juventus paying 90 million for an almost 29 years old striker. If you buy a young player like Benzema, you're set for more than 10 years. It's just so much cheaper in the long run.
Yeah, I'd rather be well run, then just made instantly super rich due to a sugar daddy, and FSG has been really excellent owners, taking us from the brink of administration (literally like days away before they took over), to healthy and profitable in a pretty short time. But I can't say I'd be against the takeover, Liverpool's biggest restriction is wages, we just can't come close to matching United, City and Chelsea in that regard and I'd hate for the Chinese investors to go and make someone else in that bracket instead.
GeordieMark
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Middlesbrough look alright. Sunderland look terrible though.
Mini United won't be a problem. They look lost.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
West Ham food prices are mad.
You'd have to be a monster to purchase food at a stadium.
https://twitter.com/elliothackney/status/741661399919779841
Saints do a great burger for £4. Locally sourced beef from a butcher in a brioche bun and a slice of swiss cheese. But yeah in generally the food is shit
I don't like round stadiums though. Makes the fans sit too far away from the pitch for my liking.
We're top of the table due to a better goal difference. 22 goals in the first 6 games.
Oh, so 1st place woah. That's nice! 3 exciting matches coming up. Aab, FCK and Viborg. I don't care about Panathinaikos anymore, fuck them.
Cruel. Apparently we did but were rejected after an eternity.
West Ham did, got turned down though, he wants to bring Milan back to the top.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...-stay-at-ac-milan-following-west-ham-interest
Real_Madrid
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Even Barcelona could use him.
It's a shame that AC Milan has gone from a top tier team, to a very very mediocre team where even Bacca is too good for them. And that in a very short time. After Ibrahimovic and T. Silva left them it was over.
Imagine being an AC Milan fan (or Inter Milan for that matter).
At least some rich Chinese have taken over the club this summer, so their fans be at least a little bit optimistic now.
Rawr Its Ry
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Baaaaaaale!!!!!
Hala Madrid!
Hala Madrid!
Don Draper's Hat
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Mick McCarthy is too good for this football club. The things he's done for us, with such a pittance, is nothing short of remarkable.
Im seriously loving our current squad. It is 95% perfect. It just needs a backup defensive midfielder.
I'm also so thrilled that Morata and Asensio are finally part of our team. What a wonderful finish by Asensio and as always, Carvajal does very well.
Marcelo have been horrendous. If he continues this way I would substitute him with Nacho during the second half. Casemiro, Kroos, Ramos and Varane are solid and doing well.
I would say Morata and Carvajal were probably our best players during the first half.
I'm also so thrilled that Morata and Asensio are finally part of our team. What a wonderful finish by Asensio and as always, Carvajal does very well.
Marcelo have been horrendous. If he continues this way I would substitute him with Nacho during the second half. Casemiro, Kroos, Ramos and Varane are solid and doing well.
I would say Morata and Carvajal were probably our best players during the first half.
Before you had him all Ipswich fans wanted 'someone like Mick McCarthy' now that you have him and he hasn't achieved instant success (a playoff with so little investment is a decent achievement) people are getting on his back.