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Post by RocketMan on Aug 4, 2021 8:16:30 GMT -5
Wasn’t he extremely popular in the NT because he was so loyal to his club? Not really, he's just a bit of golden boy with his cheeky smile and flair football and marketability. No-one sensible thought he was loyal after seeing how he went from being Irish to being English once his talent became apparent - except Villa fans, of course, who seem to have thought that he put a faith clause in his last contract because he was devoted to staying forever. They're now at the "acceptance" phase of the grief cycle, I think. Should be a City player within 48 hours. I see. German Media spoke about him like he was the last loyal player in England
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Post by funhouse on Aug 5, 2021 14:25:46 GMT -5
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 5, 2021 19:41:42 GMT -5
Perhaps we should pay Free plus £1 for Messi.
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Post by RocketMan on Aug 6, 2021 6:09:03 GMT -5
As much as i think Barcelona deserves this, it infuriates me that simultaneously city spends 100mio from swimming in oil money and nobody does something about it. Everything’s so fucked up.
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 6, 2021 6:52:06 GMT -5
As much as i think Barcelona deserves this, it infuriates me that simultaneously city spends 100mio from swimming in oil money and nobody does something about it. Everything’s so fucked up. What could be done? The Grealish transfer was covered by City's player sales over the last year. The £55m for Sane was a delayed payment until this summer, they get £12m from United's Sancho buy, and they've been auctioning off loan players/academy graduates for months now: Harrison for £15m, Angelino for £17m, Nmecha for £8m, Tosin for £2m, etc. Plus the freed wages for Aguero, and they'll most likely be selling Bernardo for around ~£50m soon too, freeing up more wage money. This is the strategy - use the academy as a cash cow first, and as a means of developing City players only in rare cases (Foden). Now, what WILL give you a reason to be angry is when they spend £150m on Kane next week Although, again, you could probably drum up that kind of money after winning the Premier League, never mind getting to the UCL final. Plus, they did get a £500m investment from an American firm last year. Personally, I think system should be that the level of owner/sponsor should be inversely proportionate to a club's current wealth - so you can invest more into a club like Villa than you could City. But in the end what will be needed is direct fan ownership - but that's true of all of the rest of society. As long as you have capitalism, this is how football works.
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Post by RocketMan on Aug 6, 2021 8:11:46 GMT -5
As much as i think Barcelona deserves this, it infuriates me that simultaneously city spends 100mio from swimming in oil money and nobody does something about it. Everything’s so fucked up. What could be done? The Grealish transfer was covered by City's player sales over the last year. The £55m for Sane was a delayed payment until this summer, they get £12m from United's Sancho buy, and they've been auctioning off loan players/academy graduates for months now: Harrison for £15m, Angelino for £17m, Nmecha for £8m, Tosin for £2m, etc. Plus the freed wages for Aguero, and they'll most likely be selling Bernardo for around ~£50m soon too, freeing up more wage money. This is the strategy - use the academy as a cash cow first, and as a means of developing City players only in rare cases (Foden). Now, what WILL give you a reason to be angry is when they spend £150m on Kane next week Although, again, you could probably drum up that kind of money after winning the Premier League, never mind getting to the UCL final. Plus, they did get a £500m investment from an American firm last year. Personally, I think system should be that the level of owner/sponsor should be inversely proportionate to a club's current wealth - so you can invest more into a club like Villa than you could City. But in the end what will be needed is direct fan ownership - but that's true of all of the rest of society. As long as you have capitalism, this is how football works. You’re completely right, it’s just my general frustration speaking and there’s not a lot we can do about it since the people in charge wouldn’t want changes that effects their own pockets. So what could we do about it in a utopian World? Well we could close all the loopholes in financial fairplay and maybe learn a thing or two from American sport which is ironically way more balanced and dare I say socialistic than in Europe. But we all know that won’t happen because UEFA is just part of the problem and gets money from the same pool as PSG for example. They wouldn’t want to wave that money goodbye. Honestly I think it’s already too late, when even a pandemic didn’t change anything and the super rich clubs keep on spending huge amounts of money because they have a cheat code and literally countries backing them. I just hope as a fan that city and psg will never win the CL so at least i get satisfaction out of that
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Post by matt on Aug 6, 2021 8:46:14 GMT -5
City, Chelsea, PSG, they’re all the same. It’s all either blood money obtained by crooked means. And I couldn’t care less where Messi goes because the likelihood is to one of these plastic clubs.
That and the fact none of those clubs have anything of any worthwhile interest or culture behind them. They truly epitomise modern football. The days of a Mr Wenger or Fergie coming into a ho-hum club and transforming it through veritable means is long gone.
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Post by Manualex on Aug 6, 2021 11:37:49 GMT -5
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Lol Harry "I couldnt make Levy sell me to city now i'm saving face after being awol" Kane
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Post by RocketMan on Aug 7, 2021 3:54:11 GMT -5
This new PSG Team looks even more “galactico” than Real Madrid around 2003. Messi, Neymar, Mbappe is insane
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Aug 7, 2021 8:11:41 GMT -5
Steven Gerrard:
Who scored the Dundee United goal?
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Post by globe on Aug 8, 2021 6:48:03 GMT -5
Steven Gerrard: Who scored the Dundee United goal? Jamie Robson.
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Post by RocketMan on Aug 15, 2021 6:53:59 GMT -5
Gerd Müller has passed away. Undeniably the greatest Striker Germany has ever produced
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Post by matt on Aug 15, 2021 15:02:52 GMT -5
City fans causing havoc at Spurs and ripping down the LGBT rainbow flag. Loyal fans obviously, following the beliefs of their owners...
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Post by matt on Aug 15, 2021 16:44:19 GMT -5
City fans causing havoc at Spurs and ripping down the LGBT rainbow flag. Loyal fans obviously, following the beliefs of their owners... Pretty poor form of a tweet, to be honest. Even Spurs fans who were there are saying the altercation was because of stewards being rough with kids who wanted to run onto the pitch and get Grealish's shirt, and fans trying to get down to help them. Nothing to do with causing havoc, and certainly nothing to do with it being the Pride flag. The tweet feels worded in a very specific way to create the most controversial idea possible, no matter how much correlation it has to reality. Almost seems to want to imply that Gundogan's injury was because of some flowing over of violence, too, rather than the normal game injury that it was. Didn't know the reality of the situation to be honest, just having a dig at the homophobic regime that owns the club.
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Post by mimmihopps on Aug 23, 2021 4:28:36 GMT -5
All those "die hard" supporters (hooligans) singing a stupid song to the minister of health in the stadium who attended to watch a match of his favourite club yesterday, get a grip and wash your stupid brain. Idiots. That was nothing to do with football or "love for your club".
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Aug 25, 2021 23:41:41 GMT -5
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 25, 2021 23:54:18 GMT -5
Wenger for Arsenal always, mate.
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Post by funhouse on Sept 14, 2021 3:33:20 GMT -5
A bit late on this, but it's absolutely disgusting in the way football as a whole just ignores the issues with Ronaldo. In an ideal world, it would be a PR nightmare(instead of the opposite) for Man United to bring him back as a hero in shining armour, considering the fact that he's a SELF ADMITTED RAPIST. www.google.se/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/international/europe/cristiano-ronaldo-new-documents-emerge-in-rape-allegations-a-1241349-amp.htmlThis state of affairs is absolutely depressing and I'm still just a guy. I can't imagine the feeling of being a woman and see all the adoration of this scumbag, let alone a woman who has been raped. Let's just hope a carreer ending injury isn't too far away.
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Post by oasisserbia on Sept 14, 2021 6:46:47 GMT -5
This new PSG Team looks even more “galactico” than Real Madrid around 2003. Messi, Neymar, Mbappe is insane All 3 of them are overrated.
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Post by RocketMan on Sept 14, 2021 10:22:27 GMT -5
This new PSG Team looks even more “galactico” than Real Madrid around 2003. Messi, Neymar, Mbappe is insane All 3 of them are overrated. Neymar and Mbappe maybe, but how is Messi overrated?
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Post by RocketMan on Sept 14, 2021 11:22:54 GMT -5
Neymar and Mbappe maybe, but how is Messi overrated? Mbappe can be considered over-rated until he thrives in a tougher league, perhaps, but Neymar is a great player who would be generational without the Big Two, and Messi is comfortably the best football player who's ever lived. I agree on Mbappe, will be interesting to see what he can do as a solo-star at Madrid, even though I think Haaland could potentially steal his spotlight. Neymar to me is a: to injury-prone and b: too much off a diva to be considered one of the greatest. And c: he choked in the CL-Final against Bayern, that was his chance to get the crown and he disappeared. Messi is the goat in talent, but Ronaldo, to me, his work ethic and determination to win, the way he adjusted his play style over the years, I think it’s pretty close between the two but I’d say as of right now I’ll take Ronaldo over Messi. And just to be clear I don’t like Ronaldo at all
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Sept 14, 2021 15:52:46 GMT -5
Today we are asking, did Ronaldinho live up to his full potential? Leave answers in the comments below.
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Post by The Escapist on Sept 14, 2021 15:57:30 GMT -5
Mbappe can be considered over-rated until he thrives in a tougher league, perhaps, but Neymar is a great player who would be generational without the Big Two, and Messi is comfortably the best football player who's ever lived. I agree on Mbappe, will be interesting to see what he can do as a solo-star at Madrid, even though I think Haaland could potentially steal his spotlight. Neymar to me is a: to injury-prone and b: too much off a diva to be considered one of the greatest. And c: he choked in the CL-Final against Bayern, that was his chance to get the crown and he disappeared. Messi is the goat in talent, but Ronaldo, to me, his work ethic and determination to win, the way he adjusted his play style over the years, I think it’s pretty close between the two but I’d say as of right now I’ll take Ronaldo over Messi. And just to be clear I don’t like Ronaldo at all I honestly don't think it's even close. No player is near Messi's level - he's on a planet of his own. If the Ballon D'Or was actually given to the best player every year, he'd have about ten of them by now. Never seen anything like him. Neymar is definitely great. Dislikeable and a diver, but a great player without question. Mbappe is exciting, but needs something to follow up that World Cup to really set him apart. Right now, Haaland feels like the young talent more likely to actually take over the world, to me.
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Post by matt on Sept 14, 2021 16:34:16 GMT -5
Today we are asking, did Ronaldinho live up to his full potential? Leave answers in the comments below. That's a great question. He won everything but he only had a peak for two years. So strangely there is still a lingering feeling with me that he underachieved with all that talent. Similar to the Brazilian and real Ronaldo, if they had applied themselves to the fitness and work ethic of Cristiano Ronaldo, I think they would have surpassed him on a technical level.Some of the things they did with a football is something Cristiano Ronaldo couldn't do, which is saying something. Not sure about surpassing Messi's quality (I struggle to think anyone who'd surpass him) but Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were just sublime footballer regardless of their relatively poor fitness (both would happily indulge and pile on the pounds at various times).
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Post by Headmaster on Sept 14, 2021 19:27:00 GMT -5
Ronaldinho may be the most skillful player who ever lived and won almost everything a football player could ask for: Ballon D'or, Fifa player of year, Champions league, Libertadores, La Liga, World Cup..., but at some point in his career he just lost interest in football I guess, after the 2006 W.C. to be precisely, too much party and lack of discipline ( a commom problem with brazilian players ), also he didn't have that competitive mentality like Ronaldo or Messi, he is more of a magician, his nickname in Brazil is "O Bruxo" ( The Witcher ) he was more worried about his ball skills than winning, which was great for him but not so much for his teammates.
As for brazilian Ronaldo, he had two knees made of glass and hyphothyroidism, he peaked too early, by the age of 19 he was already a complete player, skilled, fast, strong and explosive, but because of that later on his body paid a price, injuries and weight gain, still don't know how he could play after that horrifying injury which almost ended his carrer and he wa only 23 years old. He was an outstanding player in 2002 W.C. but even then he knew he wasn't the same "phenomenon" anymore as he used to be in his pre injury era.
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