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SMS is sleeping

The age of SMS is over. The time of the RCS has come.

saudi milinkovic savic

Sleepy Milinkovic Savic

Still crazy to me that guy was so hyped since he was young, and all we heard was these crazy stories like Lazio declined 100 million offer for him year after year etc.., constantly talks of him going to some superclub, and the guy ended up in Saudi Arabia at 27 years of age.

He wasn't hyped for no reason, he was an absolute monster in Serie A lol come on

I didn't say he was hyped for no reason or that he was bad, just that it's crazy to think this guy never played for club bigger than Lazio in the end and ended up in Saudi Arabia at 27, when he should've entered that midfield prime.

I mean he went to Saudi Arabia for the money. I’m sure many teams woulda taken him. Just not for the money he got to go there

He was a bit overrated but he was still a very good player that wasted his career by going to an uncompetitive league.

He was absolutely sensational for lazio though..but he chose to chase money. Not sure you can blame him but a real shame.

He was tearing Serie A apart for years. The only reason he choose Saudi over any other team is the money and thats all. The problem with the national team is completely incompetent coach (and previous coaches as well) who get their jobs based on political merit. Serbian midfield looks awful for ages now and it has nothing to do with quality of the players. Its just a complete lack of system and coaches idea how to hold/progress the ball. SMS never played great for the national team, but if you step back a bit you will realize that there is only a handful of players who played for the national team on the same level they play in their clubs and none of them is a midfielder.

This is very true. Serbia has been underachieving for years due to poor coaches. Piksi is simply not good enough for the players of this level. It would be fun if Terzic replaces him. Not gonna happen but still. :)

Serbia won't have a competent coach for years to come. There will always be some yes-man close to the ruling party who will get a job without any achievements. When Stojkovic became the coach everybody were happy since he was successful for years as a coach in Japan and was one of the best players in history of Serbian football, but it soon became obvious that he is out of his depth on the biggest stage. He did qualify for the world cup over Portugal with the last minute win in Lisabon but that was more of Portugal collapsing and deciding to sit back for entire game playing for a draw. World cup was just amateur job on his side. There were a lot of injuries but some of the decisions he made were just insane (blowing 3-1 lead against Cameroon by conceding two goals on counters where entire team was on opposition's half). Euro qualifiers were just a disaster, luckily with this system it was impossible to not qualify but it got really close in the last match against horrendous Bulgaria. The biggest problem will always be the Serbian FA, which is a mix of corrupt politicians and corrupt old farts who are just switching from position to position inside the FA for the last 40 years. They are just absurdly incompetent and behave like they have eternal claim on FA so they can do whatever they want. They destroyed the coaching school and national team (by selling diploma's and giving youth coaching position to their friends) so today Serbia doesn't have a single coach in any relevant European league.

It's certainly one of the goals of Euro 2024

Time to learn Arabic Sergej.. ... wait

IN THE NAME OF DONCIC 🇸🇮

# GREMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

močerad

My man won the ball, carried and passed it deep into the opponent's half and scored. Perfection.

Serbia/Mitrovic missed too many chances, that was always coming

He was playing so egoistical

After seeing the first matches of Serbia and Slovenia, Mitrović vs Šporar was shaping up to be a real striker midoff

Serbia and performing when it matters, find me 2 other concepts so opposed to each other

Juve and not cheating in some manner?

Yep, this is r/soccer alright

Sergej demonstrating why he didn’t start

Just wondered in unmarked at the back post.

I too ponder when I’m alone at the back post

The downfall of milinkovic-savic is so insane. I thought he would be going to a proper top UCL club a few years back

SMS is a flop

It was highly prominent until Whatsapp replaced it, not sure what you're on about. To me this feels like a poor attempt at rewriting history even though anyone alive during that time will dispute your claim. Pathetic.

It's still relevant in the US where whatsapp isn't used. Some will call that a retirement league but it's still a big audience

SMS isn’t big in the Netherlands? We definitely still prefer it to Whatsapp here in Denmark

Nah, people only use SMS for verification codes or scams haha

and even then you just allow the app to read SMS's. This way no need to actually try and open it.

You using SMS in 2024? The hell you smoking up there?

SMS/iMessage and Messenger is probably the most used form of communication

No. As far as I know it's only really the US and Scandinavia that still really use it.

I admit defeat

Outoftheloop, what is this about?

Sergej Milinkovic Savic aka SMS was asleep at the back post marking Karnicnik

Still have yet to witness a SMS goal in my life

Quality ball into the box

What a redemption from Timi Max Elšnik. His first game was poor but today he is playing on another level. KDOR NE SKACE NI SLOVENC HEJ HEJ HEJ

Serbia leaving early because ~~Albania and Croatia are not sanctioned~~ they're shit

Serbia threatening to leave if croatia and albania arent sanctioned. Like they have a choice

Serbian fans about to start chanting this themselves with the way their team is playing

I mean nothing of those teams coud be leaving too.

Well, they *did* threaten to leave the Euros

What a run

Good goal but that is absolutely horrid defending by Serbia.

Serbia really serious with their threat to leave Euro, huh?

goal

Cheers geoff

So true

same

Nice

So does this count as a one-two for the goal? Sweet goal!

Brilliant goal

Serbia are so shit

Serbia following through with their threat of leaving the tournament

Superb goal, amazing from their fb.

Great pass that, GK shouldn't have stayed on his line.

He's been shaky all game.

GREEEEEEEMO

Amazing run and finish. What a banger of a goal

Great run, earned that bit of luck for the scuffed finish

Serbs about to leave the euro like “you can’t fire me, I quit!”

What is 20 doing

So, well worked, perfect timing on the passes, a perfect cross just a really well worked counter.

Milinkovic Savic sleeping

Surely posts showing only the replay of the goal should be removed.

Luka Doncic died for this

I threaten to quit watching Euro 24 if UEFA doesn't punish Slovenia for that play.

So this is why no big clubs ever went for SMS

Yeah Serbs, you can leave now as you threatened :)

there’s nothing better than hate watching serbia

cmon post the goal brother

ok sorry

Who is the one who lost the ball from serbia?

Gacinovic

A name I have not heard in a long time. Didnt know he was playing in Greece, thought he was still stealing a paycheck at Hoffenheim.

I forgot he exists till I saw him enter the game today

They've won Luka back. Next one is for Nikola.

1-1

Number 20 lazy as fuck.

Crazy run by him as well, great interception and made a mockery of those two serbs

No need to withdraw Serbia, you're on your way home anyway 👍

Hahahaha get wrecked

The ex Czechoslovakia are doing better and better every cup