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Football Thread 2017/18 |OT| Relegated to Community
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BMO = GOAT
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Im happy they won, but our defense still looks ehh. Maybe because of a tiring schedule, but for now Ancelotti is still safe.
Alex_Mexico
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I clicked this thread without knowing if this was about American or Association Football, lol. Happy to see that America's ubiquitous presence in GAF is not total haha.
Alex_Mexico
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Mexico here. I don't have a particular alliegence for any European club. I like rooting for the underdog so that's why I find the Spanish league so boring. I do love international tournaments with nations the most. Eurocup, Copa America, Confederations, WC, you name it. Champions League I like to see but with the games in the middle of the week at 1pm for me I never get to see them except for the final that's on a Saturday.
Can't wait for next year's WC!
brokenbeans
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Alex_Mexico watch the Premier League if you wanna support the underdog always an upset round the corner.
Not sure we will get a Leicester outcome any time soon but the FA cup is full of hilarity when it comes to upsets.
Not sure we will get a Leicester outcome any time soon but the FA cup is full of hilarity when it comes to upsets.
welp, thats one trophy in the books, but the team looked bad after the abysmal pre-season, we havent replaced Semedo, we havent replaced Ederson, we haent replaced Lindelof, and the only good booking so far seems to be this Seferovic dude, who looks good (scored again today) but we already had 3 good strikers so...yeah :/
Süle and Rudy will lead us to CL glory
BMO = GOAT
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That PK by Süle was good wasn't it 😏
Havent seen it !
Fucking hell, being in china sucks for being a german football fan.
im glad when i return to germany and can watch games at 15:30 again!
or CL at 8:45PM and not at 2:45 AM :S
Johnny Cage
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I remember Moreno's first game for us where he scored against Tottenham and he was ace. Always wanted him to live up to that first match but he never ended up getting there. Looks like he may be getting back to that by the last few matches. He's still better at attacking that defending though but hey, that's too much to ask for lol.
I remember signing him for Burton Albion back on Football Manager 2010. Strange to think he's one of the best players in England right now.
There's definitely a place for him in the team for our home matches cos I reckon the majority of our home matches will just be teams like West Brom, Man Utd etc having 11 men behind the ball for the 90 minutes.
We concede on the inevitable counter attacks a lot though. And Moreno's pretty useless under pressure.
Very true, but we suffered from the same problem last season (even without Moreno in the team) so I think it's worth taking the risk. I haven't seen much of Robertson so I'm not sure how good he is going forward or whether he's good enough for us, but I just really don't want to sit through another season of teams defending deep at Anfield, the ball going out wide to Milner, and him either lofting in a shite cross to no-one in the box, or cutting onto his right foot to pass into midfield where there's no space whatsoever.
GHG
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This is me every morning when I realize Benzema is still our only striker.
Now imagine going through 4 years realising Giroud is your only striker every morning.
I was so surprised that anybody would be interested in signing him...seriously, he is so unbelievably bad. I'm just glad Frankfurt doesn't need to bother with him anymore.
True Savior
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RocknRola explain me Miguel Silva. It seems he plays for a team on the pitch but it's not Vitoria.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
FM Touch mode is where it's at.
I've played all of 6 hours of normal FM this year. Too bloated.
Unreal Champ
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According to this report, Leipzig are actually in debt and promised Liverpool that they would sell them Keita and they went back on their word. Interesting.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/635026/Liverpool-Transfer-News-Naby-Keita-RB-Leipzig-Premier-League-Jurgen-Klopp
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/635026/Liverpool-Transfer-News-Naby-Keita-RB-Leipzig-Premier-League-Jurgen-Klopp
RocknRola
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Honestly, it's mostly the fault of the coach. Last year he was supposed to be the 1st keeper on team to continue on his good debut year before that. Alas, we has benched hard for 90% of the season, only playing cups. He is young, he has quality, he NEEDS to play more to gain more experience.
True Savior
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He looks like Neuer against Sporting though. Against Benfica he looks like Ventura. Yesterday, a cns goalkeeper would have looked more solid. Can't understand it.
RocknRola
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Again, needs to play more. Also, the defense really didn't help him yesterday. That 3rd goal, ugh... amateur hour.
Edit:
It's a bit like Rui Patricio when he first came on the scene. He made quite a few mistakes during his first 2 or so years, but he kept playing and now is one the best in Europe (and the world). We can't expect Miguel to get better if he doens't get to play, it simply can't happen. Hopefully this year the coach won't keep on betting on DOuglas (which also makes plenty of mistakes too).
That's a pretty shitty source. It's also quite nonsensical to argue about debt given the Bundesliga license system and given that Red Bull is behind the club. Just at first glance, based on those quotes, the guy...doesn't really seem to know what he's talking about. The club is technically in debt with Red Bull, but...there are questions about that.
Roberto Larcos
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They also bought Podolski in the same window (coming off a season where he'd scored more Bundesliga goals than he had in any season previous), and England-regular Welbeck in 2014. Walcott was trying to be a centre-forward at stretches during this period, too.
Arsenal have had other strikers, it's just that none of them have been good enough to displace Giroud for any meaningful period of time.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Dailystar aren't exactly reputable
A Serious Man
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Sell Costa already.
And bring me Sandro and Bale.
And bring me Sandro and Bale.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
No Ozil or Sanchez...We're fucked.
Arsenal XI vs. Chelsea: Cech; Holding, Mertesacker, Monreal; Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Welbeck, Iwobi; Lacazette.
Chelsea XI vs. Arsenal: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill; Moses, Fabregas, Kante, Alonso; Willian, Batshuayi, Pedro.
Arsenal XI vs. Chelsea: Cech; Holding, Mertesacker, Monreal; Bellerin, Elneny, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Welbeck, Iwobi; Lacazette.
Chelsea XI vs. Arsenal: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill; Moses, Fabregas, Kante, Alonso; Willian, Batshuayi, Pedro.
Unreal Champ
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I'm just posting it, I didn't say they were reputable. Dailystar isn't the only one posting about how much they are in debt though. Also according to FFP, I thought a company is suppose to be self efficient and not loan from the parent company. Also Daily Star is reporting this from a podcast, they didn't make up the quotes.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
It's probably true, I think the red bull teams situation is shady as fuck
RocknRola
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Are they injured or is Wenger pulling a Wenger?
A Serious Man
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Morata on the bench, not too shocked really.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Honestly no idea. Sanchez was in training yesterday doing bicycle kicks.
Chelsea looking pretty weak too.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
They are? I'd still say their side is stronger than ours
That is basically Chelsea's strongest squad they could put out currently other than maybe swapping bats for Morata. Though bats has looked good in the preseason.
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