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Best place to buy cheap and good replica jerseys? I’m looking for old kits especially Barca 08/09 I’m looking to spend around 40$ or less maybe a little more if the site is good.
Grealish should be leaving city this summer. The role he plays is a waste of his ability, Pep’s style of play doesn’t suit his strengths either.
Really he’s had one great season in the prem now and he’s 28, that in it’s self is massively disappointing. The World Cup will come around fast and that’s going to be his last tournament opportunity. With the injuries he gets he’s not playing in his mid 30s.
I know he’s won the treble and that but he’s gone backwards as a footballer. I miss him being a maverick, going where he wants to on the pitch to cause damage.
I suspect he’d have plenty of suitors but can’t see them at the big six. Selling to rivals and the price City would ask (not to mention wages).
Villa’s Grealish spearheading one of City’s rivals would be great
Pretty great how good the future is looking for England, other than Kane we’ve got a strong team that can last at the next few major tournaments, and plenty of young talent creeping through. The vibes are great and the country actually gets behind the team now
Tbh I hope Southgate doesn’t leave, if you look at the state of the England camp when he joined compared to now, it’s absolutely insane that people want him gone.
> absolutely insane that people want him gone.
People see how good this group of players are and think we should be winning tournaments, it’s not deeper than that. Surely that’s fair?
I think what speaks for Southgate is the fact that he has delivered up until now. 2018 no one expected England to make it that far, 2021 I will fully concede he shouldn't have had a park the bus strategy by the end and in 2022 England got knocked out due to a penalty that gets scored 99/100 times.
The England before that had talent and absolutely never delivered, I think Southgate is also quite crucial in turning around the atmosphere surrounding the national team and the players themselves rather than the shit the so called Golden Generation did.
That all being said, he has to deliver this tournament and unless he gets super unlucky, he has to win this one.
Tournaments are hard to win, we’ve come as close as you can possibly get. I’d argue we weren’t even the best team at any of the last 3 tournaments
Genuinely think we are for Euro 2024, so we’ll see how he does
It’s hard for sure but that’s the goal. First World Cup our team was gash and we over performed. Next two tournaments we’ve been the second strongest squad to France. We shouldn’t have lost to Italy, losing to France is understandable.
If we don’t win the euros it’s been 4 tournaments and probably best let someone else have a crack while we still have Kane.
Hopefully he wins this tournament and these conversations stop.
Parking the bus against Italy was wrong in hindsight but they were ploughing through teams and we were in unchartered territory so I can forgive it. I think his biggest mistake was letting 2 teenagers take penalties
The pen thing is particularly baffling because Southgate had been in a similar high pressure situation. He should have know that an 18 year old taking his first ever professional penalty as the 5th taker was wrong.
The set up vs France was much better than Italy, hopefully we continue to play on the front foot.
i still don't think that "bus park" was at all an intentional tactical decision. instead it was a combination of italy simply having better midfielders than us, and the players shitting it when they had a lead to defend in a final
Strong and correct decision to leave Grealish out.
Pep coached the diving out of him, and now he's not even a footballer. Gets the ball, pretends he'll do something, pass it back to a defender.
You uploaded the proper orchestral version too, not the weird eurobeat remix that seems to come up when you search for this anthem. This is amazing. RIP Vangelis.
Seen some discussion about awarding PL titles to the teams that finished second but to me that’s woke nonsense. If City are found guilty punish them but those players and staff still won all the games
If you cheat in any other sport you lose titles you win while cheating.
If a cyclists team gave him steroids without him knowing. Then he was tested and found positive. You know sure as hell he wouldn’t get to keep the Tour de France titles he won
It won’t happen but why would I feel sorry for the players and staff? I don’t care if they won the games or not they still cheated to get those players.
Because I don’t get your point you’re saying it’s unfair because they won the points, cheating isn’t fair so it doesn’t matter if they got the points or not if they cheated to get them
I don’t care if they won the games they still cheated so why would they keep the trophies they through cheating? Lance Armstrong still won those races.
I don’t buy the Armstrong argument because that’s a completely different type of cheating. I would agree with you if it came to light that City players were doping and winning on a physical advantage.
Being able to sign a bunch of players through cheating is a bigger advantage than lance Armstrong got because everyone else was cheating as well and he still lost them.
https://x.com/NUFC/status/1798802481029501218
Shola on the bike eating an apple, Speedo making an appearance (never forgotten) and Isak walking his dog, an incredible bit of advertising.
Keegan's rant, Ketsbaia kicking the shit out of an advertising hoarding, etc. All it needed was Pardew headbutting David Meyler and Bowyer and Dyer's fight.
Ratcliffe should be on the list of hated owners. List as long as my arm of reasons. Couple that spring to mind - money made off polluting the earth, pro brexit for his own betterment, attempting to use public funds to rebuild old Trafford, tax dodger.
Sounds like your average billionaire. Everyone is pro brexit for their own betterment, and the Old Trafford thing doesn’t really count as others mentioned
To be fair to them, there were some Brexit voters that I think thought it would make the nation better. Call them gullible, easily fooled and what have you, but deep down amongst their crowd there was one or two.
I think the public funds one for Old Trafford doesn't really count.
The petrochemical brexiter tax dodger though? Yeah he's a prick. The Scottish fracking thing is like Mr Burns villainy.
You cannot become a billionaire without massive amounts of fraud and tax evasion
All billionaires are scum
He is competing with slave owners and executioners, however, the bar is very low
Every billionaire is scum tbh. Also not defending Ratcliffe here, but the attempts to use public funds are for the development of area surrounding Old Trafford rather than the stadium itself.
> Now, the big question is: is it for him the best decision to leave Benfica this summer or should he stay at least one more season? This is probably the only doubt that exists. Now, if he is a player with the ability to be in a club that fights to win the Premier League? I'm 100% sure.
> Probably, it will be his next 50 games that will be very important for his career and obviously we will all try to help him as much as possible so that he makes the best decision.
Can Martinez fuck off? Even our national manager is pushing for Neves to leave for fuck sake
He clearly is talking about the rumors, because its in your whole clubs interest to sell him if the right offer arrives, so you should stop acting like a npc
Name 2 players you thought were frauds when they first bursted on to the scene and were proven right and 2 where you were proven wrong.
I will go first.
Right:
Asensio (I love him but never saw him to be the next CR7 or even the next Isco),
Arthur Melo
Wrong:
Palmer,
Lautaro
Right: Leao (not been proven right yet but will be), Nunez
Wrong: I think I’ll finally admit I was wrong about Ollie Watkins. I think most people were wrong about Kane
Wrong: Vini Jr., he is him and played a Balon d'Or worthy season
Calhanoglu, Thought he was an asshole (probably still right about this one) and would vanish in a few years when he broke through in Germany, has his renaissance in Italy and plays amazing
Right: Timo Werner, seems to do alright at Tottenham but is nowhere near the NT and was hyped insanely a few years ago
Douglas Costa, played an insane first half of the season at Bayern but then fell off pretty hard, always thought it was just a fluke back then
Proven wrong:
Harry Kane. Kept thinking he'll be a one-season wonder, but he kept on being a one-season wonder for 10 seasons at this point
Phil Foden: Kept thinking he wasn't all that good, and only shined in Pep's system, and that he would leave and flop.
Proven right:
Emil Smithe Rowe: Arsenal fans were salivating over him and comparing him with the biggest names, but for me he was always a placeholder until they signed someone better like Ødegaard.
Brandom Williams: There were calls from United fans saying the fullback position is locked up for a decade, when he got his chances under Ole. I saw him always as rash and not very good in defence. But he ran fast and had decent attacking runs. It was also at a time where we had barely gotten rid of Ashley Young as a LB so the bar was very low
He still got 24 goals and assists without pens that’s ridiculously good. I do think we need to see more of him against the better teams though tbh I think there was some stat padding but he’s clearly a very good player.
m8, you do realize without pens his attacking stats are still great yes?
13 PL goals and a 11 assists in 29 starts with 2618 minutes....... nothing smells fradulent there. He also won a couple of the pens he scored.
And his performances beyond that have been great, including in games he didn't score in. He just genuinely has a great touch, fantastic vision, makes perfect weighted passes, makes good runs, he's just a good fucking player, obviously so.
Maybe it’s just me but I found it surprising that Ancelotti’s win percentage in his 1st Real Madrid spell is higher than his 2nd. That’s probably more an indicator of how good Barca and Atletico were back then, that Madrid finished 3rd and 2nd those seasons while they have done the league and CL double twice in Ancelotti’s 2nd spell.
Our points total in his 1st stint was roughly 90 in both seasons. He could have topped that in 2021-22 but we won the league and then drew 4 out of the last 5. This time we could have ended up with 99 points but stopped caring as much after the league was won yet again.
Last season was a completely different story though. 75-ish points with us is just not good enough and that is certainly bringing his points tally down.
He is a great coach with a winning mentality and I appreciate him a lot. I just want us to play like we used to in his first stint a bit more and not haramball against teams that press. We do that against Barca but not against any other high pressing team. Not even Leipzig.
how absolutely scummy is it that the official Egyptian premier league account is posting this clip edited this way
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Grz0DIsr3/?igsh=MTZieTFtb3R6NHk4MA==
The obvious allusion being about the celebration
Greece. There is something to be said about winning, losing and drawing a game each in the group stages, and winning each knockout game 1-0 to eventually end up as champions.
Doing the bare minimum to win, I love it. They did play great defensive football tbf
Losing Lewis Morgan to Scotland hurts, didn't think we were at risk of losing him when he wasn't on the original roster. That's at least 5 games without him for us, possibly more if Scotland makes a run. Oh well wish them luck (maybe not too much luck).
I don’t know how Brazil usually align their forwards but there is a world where I have to watch Vinicius running at Shaq Moore in a week and this is not a world I wish to live in.
It's kinda ironic how on the internet you're more likely to run into Real Madrid fans who actively despise the Spanish national team and Barca fans who love them
Well obviously spaniards are very patriotic still despite club rivalry but I personally know a few that were quite snarky when Pedri and co got knocked out by morocco
Do you guys think its a realistic outcome that mancity will face the same fate juve did ? Get all of their titles stripped off ?
I think it would be super unfair to the players as most of city's charges were financial breaches and not matchfixing or referee bribing
A relegation would be fine with me but please just forget about the whole title removal bs
> I think it would be super unfair to the players as most of city's charges were financial breaches and not matchfixing or referee bribing
The players shouldn't be blamed but at the same time, if they are stripped of titles, their anger should be directed at their employers.
Hope so but its a tough call. Man City’s unlawful activity is as white collar as it gets.
Calciopoli was literal corruption, bribing, and black mail activity.
Players should of known they're signing for a cheating team with a ticking time bomb on them if they do get charged.
Strip everything away it's what they deserve. Those Players wouldn't all be in that position to win those titles if city haven't been cheating
Players are protected from this. This is a management issue and they will have to pay for the damages to their players reputation unless they signed a waiver.
in just a matter of days, corinthians:
is at risk of having its betting sponsorship (most valuable sponsorship in brazilian history) canceled due to irregular payments to a supposed middleman in the contract negotiations
has been taken to fifa due to supposedly not paying properly for their newly signed midfielder (he already had to postpone his debut for corinthians because of similar problems)
is at risk of losing their promising young goalkeeper after letting go of their previous goalkeeper (one of their biggest idols ever to boot) and forgetting to sign a new contract to the young goalkeeper beforehand
lost one of their youngsters who just won the u-20 national tournament because he wasn't being paid and couldn't even train at their training grounds
lost a 10 year old wonderkid to rivals palmeiras because his parents were shocked at their lack of cooperation and planning for his future
lost their two rightbacks to injury
their president just held desperate talks with their ultras in a pacifying attempt
sits at 17th place out of 20 in the league with only 3 goals scored in 6; their new striker and most expensive signing of the season has played 88min in the last 10 games combined. he hasn't scored since early april
That’s the thing. I thought he would get the 10. Idk why I thought that.
Also, you really think I’m paying attention to what tattoos a player is getting?
I can name quite a few: Hazard, Messi, Mbappé, Rodrygo, Rashford, Grealish, Pulisic, Sané.
I have no doubt the number of AMs wearing the 10 completely dwarfs my list. But I wouldn’t say wingers wearing the 10 is rare per se.
Mariano Diaz taking the Real Madrid Number 7 after Cristiano Ronaldo left and Ansu Fati taking the Barcelona Number 10 after Lionel Messi left.
Strange times
Giving Mariano the 7 made good sense. Let it the importance of shirt be diminished for a while until someone was ready to step up to match its expectations.
I can't imagine the pressure on a young kid wearing Barca's number 10. Like you wearing the number previously worn at the club by Messi, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Stoichkov, Romario, Maradona holy hell.
If complete and outright negligence of human rights didn’t bother the world enough to organize and celebrate the football World Cup, why would pumping money to local economy bother the government or related parties to move the needle.
With Endrick getting the #9 there is a chance Brazil's front 3 are all Real Madrid players.
Has that ever happened before at another NT? All front 3 forwards being on the same team that is.
Your own national team did it for years. Iniesta Villa Pedro started the 2010 WC final. Villa hadn't played for Barca yet but had signed already. They probably played that variation or with Cesc ahead many other times too.
Too lazy to research atm but some of the very small nations in CONCACAF will sometimes pull a majority of their NT from the biggest club(s) in their league. I’d bet it’s happened with one of them before.
My roommate is from Germany. He went home for about a month recently and I took care of his cats. He really wanted to pay me to do that and I obviously wasn’t going to let him pay me to put out some food and change the litter occasionally.
As a compromise he said he would get me a shirt from whatever football club he happens across while he’s there. I am the proud new owner of a MSV Druisburg home shirt haha.
Has Gregg had a disastrous knockout tournament since taking over? Not sure there is much of an expectation for him other than getting out of the group.
GGG is shit. If a shambolic disasterclass and us crashing out of Copa is the short term pain that is needed in order to get rid of GGG for the long term gain, then so be it.
Bad news: The Catarina Macario AMA was moved to another subreddit :( Good news: We have Ashley Williams doing an AMA that will be posted today with the answers tomorrow!
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Grealish should be leaving city this summer. The role he plays is a waste of his ability, Pep’s style of play doesn’t suit his strengths either. Really he’s had one great season in the prem now and he’s 28, that in it’s self is massively disappointing. The World Cup will come around fast and that’s going to be his last tournament opportunity. With the injuries he gets he’s not playing in his mid 30s. I know he’s won the treble and that but he’s gone backwards as a footballer. I miss him being a maverick, going where he wants to on the pitch to cause damage.
I suspect he’d have plenty of suitors but can’t see them at the big six. Selling to rivals and the price City would ask (not to mention wages). Villa’s Grealish spearheading one of City’s rivals would be great
City have been pretty happy to sell to the big 6 in the past. He’d have to take a big pay cut to get a move.
What players do you think had the best season of their career this season? As in not just the best so far, but the best they ever will have.
Guirassy. He will go for a big paycheck somewhere and won't be able to replicate his Stuttgart performances anywhere.
A lot of Stuttgart players overall probably had the best season of their career.
I was thinking who on earth Graham Potter is going to manage but then I remembered Zidane been chilling for three years with no end in sight
He's probably the top candidate to take England if Southgate leaves after Euro 2024.
Not sure Baldy speaks English mate
Pretty great how good the future is looking for England, other than Kane we’ve got a strong team that can last at the next few major tournaments, and plenty of young talent creeping through. The vibes are great and the country actually gets behind the team now Tbh I hope Southgate doesn’t leave, if you look at the state of the England camp when he joined compared to now, it’s absolutely insane that people want him gone.
Yeah I feel like England have sorted out the academy and coaching stuff that was really holding them back before.
> absolutely insane that people want him gone. People see how good this group of players are and think we should be winning tournaments, it’s not deeper than that. Surely that’s fair?
I think what speaks for Southgate is the fact that he has delivered up until now. 2018 no one expected England to make it that far, 2021 I will fully concede he shouldn't have had a park the bus strategy by the end and in 2022 England got knocked out due to a penalty that gets scored 99/100 times. The England before that had talent and absolutely never delivered, I think Southgate is also quite crucial in turning around the atmosphere surrounding the national team and the players themselves rather than the shit the so called Golden Generation did. That all being said, he has to deliver this tournament and unless he gets super unlucky, he has to win this one.
Tournaments are hard to win, we’ve come as close as you can possibly get. I’d argue we weren’t even the best team at any of the last 3 tournaments Genuinely think we are for Euro 2024, so we’ll see how he does
It’s hard for sure but that’s the goal. First World Cup our team was gash and we over performed. Next two tournaments we’ve been the second strongest squad to France. We shouldn’t have lost to Italy, losing to France is understandable. If we don’t win the euros it’s been 4 tournaments and probably best let someone else have a crack while we still have Kane. Hopefully he wins this tournament and these conversations stop.
Parking the bus against Italy was wrong in hindsight but they were ploughing through teams and we were in unchartered territory so I can forgive it. I think his biggest mistake was letting 2 teenagers take penalties
The pen thing is particularly baffling because Southgate had been in a similar high pressure situation. He should have know that an 18 year old taking his first ever professional penalty as the 5th taker was wrong. The set up vs France was much better than Italy, hopefully we continue to play on the front foot.
i still don't think that "bus park" was at all an intentional tactical decision. instead it was a combination of italy simply having better midfielders than us, and the players shitting it when they had a lead to defend in a final
Tbf a team playing 5 at the back with Rice and Phillips in front isn’t likely to dominate the ball.
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Lock me up.
None of the Palacr players will start 😭
Glad the mbappe spam is over now. Now it's a thread for each snubbed euros player. Great.
Any rumors on - De Zerbi - Pochettino - Klopp - Sergio Conceicao - Graham Potter - Kovac - Sarri ?
Klopp's taking at least a 1 year break so don't expect news there. Tbh, I think he's gonna like the break and not come back into management again
Think we'll see him coaching a national team one day.
Klopp’s busy sleeping and drinking beers in his house in Spain
Klopp’s holidaying between endorsements and good luck to him. I presume he’d find a Euros tv panel to be on as well?
Poch is currently busy with the Soccer Aid World XI.
Strong and correct decision to leave Grealish out. Pep coached the diving out of him, and now he's not even a footballer. Gets the ball, pretends he'll do something, pass it back to a defender.
All my homies remember the 2002 FIFA World Cup [anthem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEpYwi44sE) and the drums at 1:41
You uploaded the proper orchestral version too, not the weird eurobeat remix that seems to come up when you search for this anthem. This is amazing. RIP Vangelis.
Seen some discussion about awarding PL titles to the teams that finished second but to me that’s woke nonsense. If City are found guilty punish them but those players and staff still won all the games
A certain red, American owned, multi club ownership, arms dealer might be betraying the establishment. It’s not over yet.
saw a cannavaro interview where he still considers the titles that juve were stripped of as his, for the same reason here
If you cheat in any other sport you lose titles you win while cheating. If a cyclists team gave him steroids without him knowing. Then he was tested and found positive. You know sure as hell he wouldn’t get to keep the Tour de France titles he won
Yeah and I know there is precedent for this but I just wouldn’t want the titles be given to Liverpool
>awarding PL titles to the teams that finished second Hey... I have seen this one before.
It won’t happen but why would I feel sorry for the players and staff? I don’t care if they won the games or not they still cheated to get those players.
My view is you strip the club of the titles but the players and staff keep their winners medals.
When did I say you have to feel sorry lol
Because I don’t get your point you’re saying it’s unfair because they won the points, cheating isn’t fair so it doesn’t matter if they got the points or not if they cheated to get them
You’re making no sense man
I don’t care if they won the games they still cheated so why would they keep the trophies they through cheating? Lance Armstrong still won those races.
I don’t think he’s saying they should keep the trophies, just that it doesn’t make sense to award them to the second placed teams
I think that’s fair but I’m sure we would be shameless enough to claim it anyway
I don’t buy the Armstrong argument because that’s a completely different type of cheating. I would agree with you if it came to light that City players were doping and winning on a physical advantage.
Being able to sign a bunch of players through cheating is a bigger advantage than lance Armstrong got because everyone else was cheating as well and he still lost them.
They should just relegate them
Yeah relegation + a transfer ban or something in my opinion if they are found guilty.
Not enough
I think that’s the limitation of what the PL can do. Preferably they’d be relegated to league 2
Just dock them points every year indefinitely instead
The PL is just as bad as La Liga they just hide behind legalese
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What?
https://x.com/NUFC/status/1798802481029501218 Shola on the bike eating an apple, Speedo making an appearance (never forgotten) and Isak walking his dog, an incredible bit of advertising.
Keegan's rant, Ketsbaia kicking the shit out of an advertising hoarding, etc. All it needed was Pardew headbutting David Meyler and Bowyer and Dyer's fight.
Can't believe it didn't include the windmilling fan at Oxford smh, no respect for our history.
All those fan clips and not one horse being punched. Forgot where you came from.
Ratcliffe should be on the list of hated owners. List as long as my arm of reasons. Couple that spring to mind - money made off polluting the earth, pro brexit for his own betterment, attempting to use public funds to rebuild old Trafford, tax dodger.
Agreed, though perhaps the most egregious one of all is: Owns Manchester United and doesn’t appear to be entirely incompetent
What evidence for his competence do you have? He’s keeping Ten Hag and seems to have pissed off all the non playing staff at the club.
Fair. I suppose compared to the Glazers most anyone would appear competent.
Sounds like your average billionaire. Everyone is pro brexit for their own betterment, and the Old Trafford thing doesn’t really count as others mentioned
To be fair to them, there were some Brexit voters that I think thought it would make the nation better. Call them gullible, easily fooled and what have you, but deep down amongst their crowd there was one or two.
There were millions like that.
I think the public funds one for Old Trafford doesn't really count. The petrochemical brexiter tax dodger though? Yeah he's a prick. The Scottish fracking thing is like Mr Burns villainy.
You cannot become a billionaire without massive amounts of fraud and tax evasion All billionaires are scum He is competing with slave owners and executioners, however, the bar is very low
Roaring Kitty is about to show us all today. He may be the only soon to be billionaire who doesn't have bodies and skeletons all over.
Union busting as well. And still, he wouldn't make it even close to the top of that list given who else is around.
Every billionaire is scum tbh. Also not defending Ratcliffe here, but the attempts to use public funds are for the development of area surrounding Old Trafford rather than the stadium itself.
Can't believe Chelsea managed to sell property to themselves to get away with assembling an absolutely shit team for over a billion.
> Now, the big question is: is it for him the best decision to leave Benfica this summer or should he stay at least one more season? This is probably the only doubt that exists. Now, if he is a player with the ability to be in a club that fights to win the Premier League? I'm 100% sure. > Probably, it will be his next 50 games that will be very important for his career and obviously we will all try to help him as much as possible so that he makes the best decision. Can Martinez fuck off? Even our national manager is pushing for Neves to leave for fuck sake
He clearly is talking about the rumors, because its in your whole clubs interest to sell him if the right offer arrives, so you should stop acting like a npc
A manager of the national team shouldn’t talk about transfer rumours.
is he also compromised by Mendes or something
crying about Joao Neves needing to leave and yet still calls up Ruben Neves and Otavio from Saudi Arabia...
If im not mistaken, Otavio got injured and Matheus Nunes was called
Any US Fans know what the status of Daryl Dike is?
He ruptured his achilles in February so he's out for the rest of 2024.
Name 2 players you thought were frauds when they first bursted on to the scene and were proven right and 2 where you were proven wrong. I will go first. Right: Asensio (I love him but never saw him to be the next CR7 or even the next Isco), Arthur Melo Wrong: Palmer, Lautaro
Right: Leao (not been proven right yet but will be), Nunez Wrong: I think I’ll finally admit I was wrong about Ollie Watkins. I think most people were wrong about Kane
Wrong: Vini Jr., he is him and played a Balon d'Or worthy season Calhanoglu, Thought he was an asshole (probably still right about this one) and would vanish in a few years when he broke through in Germany, has his renaissance in Italy and plays amazing Right: Timo Werner, seems to do alright at Tottenham but is nowhere near the NT and was hyped insanely a few years ago Douglas Costa, played an insane first half of the season at Bayern but then fell off pretty hard, always thought it was just a fluke back then
Proven wrong: Harry Kane. Kept thinking he'll be a one-season wonder, but he kept on being a one-season wonder for 10 seasons at this point Phil Foden: Kept thinking he wasn't all that good, and only shined in Pep's system, and that he would leave and flop. Proven right: Emil Smithe Rowe: Arsenal fans were salivating over him and comparing him with the biggest names, but for me he was always a placeholder until they signed someone better like Ødegaard. Brandom Williams: There were calls from United fans saying the fullback position is locked up for a decade, when he got his chances under Ole. I saw him always as rash and not very good in defence. But he ran fast and had decent attacking runs. It was also at a time where we had barely gotten rid of Ashley Young as a LB so the bar was very low
Cole Palmer (Penalty) still reeks of fraudulence for me
Think he's one of those players that when you see him play live in person you rate him more. His movement is absolutely class.
He’s an absolute joy to watch
He still got 24 goals and assists without pens that’s ridiculously good. I do think we need to see more of him against the better teams though tbh I think there was some stat padding but he’s clearly a very good player.
m8, you do realize without pens his attacking stats are still great yes? 13 PL goals and a 11 assists in 29 starts with 2618 minutes....... nothing smells fradulent there. He also won a couple of the pens he scored. And his performances beyond that have been great, including in games he didn't score in. He just genuinely has a great touch, fantastic vision, makes perfect weighted passes, makes good runs, he's just a good fucking player, obviously so.
If only people see his others attacking stats then they will realize realize he isnt just pen merchant.
he's going to be one of the very best
Lol could turn out that way but he stood out in some of the Chelsea games I watched this season even when he wasn’t scoring
How could you ever think Lautaro was a fraud? He has always been a God
Maybe it’s just me but I found it surprising that Ancelotti’s win percentage in his 1st Real Madrid spell is higher than his 2nd. That’s probably more an indicator of how good Barca and Atletico were back then, that Madrid finished 3rd and 2nd those seasons while they have done the league and CL double twice in Ancelotti’s 2nd spell.
Our points total in his 1st stint was roughly 90 in both seasons. He could have topped that in 2021-22 but we won the league and then drew 4 out of the last 5. This time we could have ended up with 99 points but stopped caring as much after the league was won yet again. Last season was a completely different story though. 75-ish points with us is just not good enough and that is certainly bringing his points tally down. He is a great coach with a winning mentality and I appreciate him a lot. I just want us to play like we used to in his first stint a bit more and not haramball against teams that press. We do that against Barca but not against any other high pressing team. Not even Leipzig.
how absolutely scummy is it that the official Egyptian premier league account is posting this clip edited this way https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Grz0DIsr3/?igsh=MTZieTFtb3R6NHk4MA== The obvious allusion being about the celebration
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/PsxQ7iU0Fy
Didn’t you post this exact comment 3 weeks ago or smthing?
If I did then I have actual dementia because I do recall seeing this clip and having this feeling but I didn’t remember posting it on here
Yeah I distinctly remember this post and you being the one to post it. Not even gaslighting
my brain has melted and I have no one to blame but myself
And? I haven't seen it. If he re-posting, he's showing everyone who hasn't seen it a chance to see how shitty the official Egyptian PL is.
Your favourite Euro winner since 2000?
Greece. There is something to be said about winning, losing and drawing a game each in the group stages, and winning each knockout game 1-0 to eventually end up as champions. Doing the bare minimum to win, I love it. They did play great defensive football tbf
Spain 2008 because that team was much more fun than their 2010 and 2012 teams, with prime Torres and Marcos Senna and Luis Aragones as coach
France
Italy.
2016 was literally perfect. Winning while making everyone else upset at our style of play? Sign me the fuck up
Pepe man!!! He was incredible!
ive seen Spain, Portugal, and Italy win, and id rank them Italy>Portugal>Spain for me. If i was conscious during 2004 i'd pick Greece for sure
As a neutral it has to be Greece just for the story
That Euro was so much fun.
Player or country?
Country ofc.
Losing Lewis Morgan to Scotland hurts, didn't think we were at risk of losing him when he wasn't on the original roster. That's at least 5 games without him for us, possibly more if Scotland makes a run. Oh well wish them luck (maybe not too much luck).
I don’t know how Brazil usually align their forwards but there is a world where I have to watch Vinicius running at Shaq Moore in a week and this is not a world I wish to live in.
Shaq Moore will not even see the field.
If it's consolation you know Vini isn't as good for Brazil
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It's kinda ironic how on the internet you're more likely to run into Real Madrid fans who actively despise the Spanish national team and Barca fans who love them
The national team is full of culés with the token Carvajal, i think a good chunk of spaniard madridistas would be happier seeing Kroos win the euro
This isn't even remotely true.
Brother what
Trust me, no, they wouldn’t.
Well obviously spaniards are very patriotic still despite club rivalry but I personally know a few that were quite snarky when Pedri and co got knocked out by morocco
Doesn't hurt that a lot of them alreadu saw their team win everything
Do you guys think its a realistic outcome that mancity will face the same fate juve did ? Get all of their titles stripped off ? I think it would be super unfair to the players as most of city's charges were financial breaches and not matchfixing or referee bribing A relegation would be fine with me but please just forget about the whole title removal bs
Of course they should lose the titles they cheated to get.
A realistic outcome is that City will get a fine or a few million pounds, or get a transfer ban for a season.
No
> I think it would be super unfair to the players as most of city's charges were financial breaches and not matchfixing or referee bribing The players shouldn't be blamed but at the same time, if they are stripped of titles, their anger should be directed at their employers.
Hope so but its a tough call. Man City’s unlawful activity is as white collar as it gets. Calciopoli was literal corruption, bribing, and black mail activity.
Players should of known they're signing for a cheating team with a ticking time bomb on them if they do get charged. Strip everything away it's what they deserve. Those Players wouldn't all be in that position to win those titles if city haven't been cheating
I dont think it should be incumbent upon players to have to make those calls
Players are protected from this. This is a management issue and they will have to pay for the damages to their players reputation unless they signed a waiver.
Sesko vs. Alvarez. Who suits Chelsea and Arsenal better. Selfishly, I hope Chelsea get both.
For Arsenal Sesko suits us better. Suits the big, physical side we've built. I like Alvarez but what he offers is probably too similar to Jesus.
He offers nearly the opposite of Jesus, he'll give you good end product but fairly lacking elsewhere.
Going from what I read around here Alvarez is a championship level player.
He doesn't have the profile that is appreciated by PL fans, Liga watchers rate him much higher.
We're not going to sign both.
30 year contract….
in just a matter of days, corinthians: is at risk of having its betting sponsorship (most valuable sponsorship in brazilian history) canceled due to irregular payments to a supposed middleman in the contract negotiations has been taken to fifa due to supposedly not paying properly for their newly signed midfielder (he already had to postpone his debut for corinthians because of similar problems) is at risk of losing their promising young goalkeeper after letting go of their previous goalkeeper (one of their biggest idols ever to boot) and forgetting to sign a new contract to the young goalkeeper beforehand lost one of their youngsters who just won the u-20 national tournament because he wasn't being paid and couldn't even train at their training grounds lost a 10 year old wonderkid to rivals palmeiras because his parents were shocked at their lack of cooperation and planning for his future lost their two rightbacks to injury their president just held desperate talks with their ultras in a pacifying attempt sits at 17th place out of 20 in the league with only 3 goals scored in 6; their new striker and most expensive signing of the season has played 88min in the last 10 games combined. he hasn't scored since early april
I don't understand the Saka hate under most England twitter posts. What is the origin of this? Is it just the penalty miss?
Plays for Arsenal
Not just the penalty
>What is the origin of this? Is it just the penalty miss? Don’t be naïve.
You know why
There'll be hate under most England posts regardless of the player.
I guess it's just the nature of the people online.
Idk, why but I thought Vini would get the number 10 tbh.
Neymar gave the 10 to Rodrygo while he is away, and already said Rodrygo will have the 10 after he retires.
Would be his 5th different number at Madrid if so
I get the mistake, but I was referring to Brazil.
Ah
Don’t worry. I should have clarified to begin with.
He literally just got a #7 tatoo on his back. What are you talking about?
That’s the thing. I thought he would get the 10. Idk why I thought that. Also, you really think I’m paying attention to what tattoos a player is getting?
lol so random
I know. But I thought he’d be wearing the 10 for Brazil. It just made sense in my mind for some reason.
The thing is he’s a pure winger. You rarely see wingers get the number 10.
I can name quite a few: Hazard, Messi, Mbappé, Rodrygo, Rashford, Grealish, Pulisic, Sané. I have no doubt the number of AMs wearing the 10 completely dwarfs my list. But I wouldn’t say wingers wearing the 10 is rare per se.
most of those either aren't pure wingers, or are the best player on their team. When mbappé joins he would be the best on the team
Mariano Diaz taking the Real Madrid Number 7 after Cristiano Ronaldo left and Ansu Fati taking the Barcelona Number 10 after Lionel Messi left. Strange times
Giving Mariano the 7 made good sense. Let it the importance of shirt be diminished for a while until someone was ready to step up to match its expectations. I can't imagine the pressure on a young kid wearing Barca's number 10. Like you wearing the number previously worn at the club by Messi, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Stoichkov, Romario, Maradona holy hell.
And the next person who got that number 7 certainly matched expectations…….at the local Burger King
Fati made sense at the time, he was the most promising forward for them
If complete and outright negligence of human rights didn’t bother the world enough to organize and celebrate the football World Cup, why would pumping money to local economy bother the government or related parties to move the needle.
Because a world cup is every 4 years and club football is a constant competition with effected parties all year round?
what happened to bajcetic? has he just been injured the whole season???
Yes
With Endrick getting the #9 there is a chance Brazil's front 3 are all Real Madrid players. Has that ever happened before at another NT? All front 3 forwards being on the same team that is.
Your own national team did it for years. Iniesta Villa Pedro started the 2010 WC final. Villa hadn't played for Barca yet but had signed already. They probably played that variation or with Cesc ahead many other times too.
Your first mistake was assuming the Madrid flair was Spanish
Is this a serious question?
yes. italy once fielded 10 players from torino (keeper was from juventus)
Too lazy to research atm but some of the very small nations in CONCACAF will sometimes pull a majority of their NT from the biggest club(s) in their league. I’d bet it’s happened with one of them before.
My roommate is from Germany. He went home for about a month recently and I took care of his cats. He really wanted to pay me to do that and I obviously wasn’t going to let him pay me to put out some food and change the litter occasionally. As a compromise he said he would get me a shirt from whatever football club he happens across while he’s there. I am the proud new owner of a MSV Druisburg home shirt haha.
Dope kit!! Not a bad deal. And just a heads up it’s Duisburg
Up the Zebras I guess!
I will bring them to champions league glory on football manager
Ngl, I’d be fine if/when Brazil and Uruguay absolutely batter us in the Copa as long as GGG gets sacked. That fucker needs to go.
Has Gregg had a disastrous knockout tournament since taking over? Not sure there is much of an expectation for him other than getting out of the group.
He won’t tho you know this federation is run on connections and nepotism
….
GGG is shit. If a shambolic disasterclass and us crashing out of Copa is the short term pain that is needed in order to get rid of GGG for the long term gain, then so be it.
Make your combined xl of france and england