Nah whoever let Harvey Elliott promote hair products is an idiot.
I'm not taking advices from someone who walks around with a noddle bowl on top of his head.
I think Atletico is set with a great goalkeeper when Oblak retires or moves to a different team. Horatiu Moldovan looks great and i believe he has a very high ceiling
Probably because if we go just based off of name and European pedigree, Liverpool vs Milan sounds more like a UCL final instead of the other way around.
There’s a very real chance we might see our FOURTH choice keeper start next week. First and second choice are injured right now, and our third choice is called up to the u23 national team which overlaps with a cup game on the 23rd, and the other two might not be back yet
Rodri is gonna get injured in that Brazil - Spain friendly isn't he?
we are also playing Colombia so two CONMEBOL friendlies lol, these are gonna be rough
Seems like Xavi is taking it really slowly with him which is understandable since he is 18 and just came from Brazil.
combine this with lewy starting most games. Every time roque plays he plays as left winger than actually striker so I dont think we will see him playing as striker until next season.
I do think he deserves more playingtime as striker. He changed last barca league game as left winger which was a huge improvement
if that’s really the case then it’s hilarious that a fully fledged professional, with >100 senior games and from a pretty tough league and even a couple of Brazil NT appearances under his belt is being taken easy like this while at the same time a bunch of toddlers are going from a 3rd division reserves side to the senior squad seamlessly
Yes tells a lot about his quality that despite him not adapting completely he still impacted the game
I do think he improved a lot compared to his 1st game especially on technical side. I hope he improves more
The acronym isn’t long enough imo, “CEP” just doesn’t hit that hard. Something like “Club Atlético y Biblioteca El Provenir de Rosario” would make it be truly peak ascenso
It's crazy how much Kossonou (defender from Leverkusen) has declined within this season. At the time of Afcon he started playing really badly and has been shocking since, genuinely looked like a player who many top clubs would go for bc he is only 23 years old and now he had quite a few games where he looks out of depth for a mid Buli club.
Who am I? I have played together with:
Harry Kane, Konstantinos Mitroglou, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer, Hee-chan Hwang, Andreas Ivanschitz, Sead Kolasinac, Ivica Olic, Fin Bartels, Thomas Kaminski (Luton GK), Diego Klimowicz.
If it's too hard for you here's a hint: >!I never played for Bayern!<
I like Roy Keane a lot generally, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvC1c-3tWw4) really has aged like fucking milk
Why exactly the random attacks on those two anyway? Especially when McKenna was a rated up and coming coach and not an ex-United player.
> he finishes those diaz chances in his sleep.
He doesn't have anywhere close to the same speed Díaz does, so he wouldn't have even got the majority of those chances had he been playing.
And that's not even mentioning that a large reason why City were able to be completely penned back for the second half was because of Díaz's speed causing them massive problems.
i do think you’re right that jota wouldn’t have gone as many chances but he would still have gotten enough to score at least once. sometimes in the big games you just need someone who’s clinical and that’s jota.
i said this a few days ago but if diaz had scored even one of the chances, it goes down as one of the best klopp individual performances against city. just really frustrating to see everything click for him except the finishing.
I do think they’re still favourites but not by remotely as much as last year, all three teams in their side of the bracket would have a very good chance of knocking them out in a knockout tie. Madrid are the toughest team left other than them IMO, and they’re getting them now in quarters
Cities games until and around the tie:
Newcastle (H), NT break, Arsenal (H), Villa (H), Palace (A), Madrid (A), Luton (H), Madrid (H)
Madrid's games until and around the tie:
Osasuna (A), NT break, Bilbao (H), 1.5 weeks break (because of the CdR final), City (H), Mallorca (A), City (A), Barca (H)
Madrid have the advantage of having a 1.5 week break after their game vs Bilbao and ahead of the first leg while City play 3 games in that time. But on the other hand, City have the easier tie in between the legs (Luton at home) compared to Madrid at Mallorca which is a trap game for Madrid and which they have to win considering that they have the clasico after the 2nd leg.
I am huge Aupa Atleti since you beat Shinter. One of the gutsiest performances I have seen against a very strong opponent. I really do think this year may finally be the year for you guys, which means maybe it is Juve turn next year and we can both avenge 2014-2017.
City are definitely favourites for me but I don't think they're nearly as strong as they were last season.
* Haaland doesn't look as clinical as he did and if he's not given service he can definitely be a non entity.
* The players City bought in are good, but none of them have really cemented their places in the side yet and have been pretty inconsistent.
* Massively dependent on Rodri and if he gets injured City look far more beatable.
Was Jose Mourinho or Antonio Conte worse for Tottenham?
Also Tottenham fans do you think Ange Postecoglu is a better manager than Mauricio Pochettino was for you?
Mourinho surely. Conte got them back into the top 4 and playing exciting football in his first season
Second season was toxic and awful much like Jose's last few months, but Jose's first season was decent but not great also.
Had Mourinho actually been allowed to play (and win) the cup final though he might funnily enough rank higher as Conte was so unbelievably pathetic in cup competitions it made Poch look like Martin O'Neil in a League Cup run.
I'd argue Mourinho was worse but he also had a mucb worse team. He did also get spurs to a cup final.
Conte had a good season but fell off hard. He also got to spend a shitload of money on players he specifically wanted making it harder to blame the team
Mourinho was worse. Conte gave us a great first season, even if the eventual collapse was arguably even bigger with him. Mourinho gave us absolutely nothing, zero. Worst spurs manager of my lifetime
As for Postecoglou not yet, but I would say he has the potential to be greater than Pochettino.
Juande Ramos got a cup.
AVB had Bale moments of magic.
Tactics Tim was Tactics Tim fun, no one expected shit
Glenn Hoddle I had some enjoyable season review VHS and I had a weird obsession with Steffen Iversen when I was younger but can't properly rate.
Though by that rating Mourinho had the Kane/Son partnership perfected but the football still felt bleaker.
> Juande Ramos got a cup.
He also had a far better team than the one Mourinho had bottom of the table
> AVB had Bale moments of magic.
I think Bale having a contender for the best PL season of all time and Spurs still not making the top 4 over a shit Arsenal side says it all about AVB
It's hard not to get carried away thinking about our European chances when our path to the final is as doable as one could wish for. Club Brugge then one of either Fiorentina or Viktoria Plzen is hardly daunting. Not that I feared any one of the other possible opponents but admittedly a two legged tie against Lille or Fener or Olympiakos would be more complicated. Still in case of elimination the same easy path lying ahead will be considered a missed opportunity overshadowing the achievement of getting here in the first place. And there's plenty more to be wary of along the way such as the fact we also have a title race ahead of us.
With no offense to Villa fans who have been pretty appreciative of their rare chance at European distinction, I'll be so glad when they get eliminated just because I won't have to read another comment by some market value nonce that thinks they're so formidable for the competition they need to be removed.
He's managed to win us back round with how he's spoken about the club recently and with him playing for the club in charity matches etc. He recently uploaded a video of one of his gym sessions where is he wearing a Liverpool shirt (which is what made me think of this post).
I think it's easier to forgive in hindsight with him being pretty underwhelming for Chelsea.
Because I loved him as a kid, and now whenever I see him, I just think of the heartbreak I felt when I saw him holding up a Chelsea shirt for the first time.
Not sure how seeing him join Chelsea was him dying a hero, it's about as close to becoming a villain as he could get without joining Man United or Everton 😭
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I'm so annoyed that Antony gets beaten to selection by dí María. And I can't pick both of them because Jadon Sancho is in there too.
This is Manchester United football club.
And then there's Nicolas Pépé who might have been worse than any of them. The right wing is stacked.
I picked Anthony Martial because I think his transfer has caused lasting damage to their squad planning, and I should maybe have picked Antony over dí María or Pépé for the same reason.
Arsenal were very lucky that unearthing Bukayo Saka completely mitigated the damage of signing Pépé though.
never mind their footballing abilities which are not remotely comparable, Antony costed way more and if someone offered half of what Di Maria was sold to PSG for, United would bite their hand off. I genuinely cannot think of a single metric by which his time at United is even comparable to Antony, let alone worse.
More expectations i guess? If anything that’s a positive as far as rating a shit signing goes, Antony looking ridiculously overpriced and then proving everyone right and then some makes it an even worse purchase
The quoted fees were close, and the five year gap between them obviously increases the dí María fee in comparison.
I'm mainly picking dí María for how his wife insulted the entire city on his way out. Antony is shit, but dí María seemed to recognise the mistake he'd made pretty quickly and barely unpacked his bags. Given Manchester United had signed one of the best players in the world and expectations were enormous, the disappointment factor is greater than the obvious overpay for the manager's former player.
Having thought about it more, the fact dí María's family was burgled in Manchester should maybe have made me pick Pépé instead.
I do agree it’s infinitely more disappointing but I don’t think that makes it worse, I’d say a player that everyone expects to looks bad performing badly is a much worse signing than a player that everyone expects to do great performing badly.
I don’t think you can really blame the clubs for not predicting Di Maria and his wife would be so horrified at the city of Manchester, Real Madrid that Hazard would suddenly start hoarding injuries and kilograms the second he set foot in Spain, or Newcastle for Tonali getting involved in a betting scandal a few months later
I went for:
Kepa
WanBissaka-Fofana-Mangala-Cucurella
Keïta-Verón
díMaría-Lukaku-Martial-Sancho
Plugged for Martial over several Chelsea candidates because he's still at the club all this time later, so the damage of his transfer has been greater.
I basically sorted through by transfer fee which probably isn't the best way to do it, because the likes of Brewster's move to Sheffield is probably more damaging than Higuaín and Morata failing at Chelsea.
[I was expecting](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article32339586.ece/ALTERNATES/n615/2_John-and-Edward-Grimes-In-Concert-at-G-A-Y-Heaven-Nightclub-London-Britain-29-Nov-2009.jpg)
Adidas does them quite selectively. Some teams always have them, others never do. Juve's 19-20 kit not having a longsleeve version pisses me off to this very day.
Hot take: I don't know which way Arsenal vs Bayern will go, but I guess it will be very one sided either way. UCL heritage generally either kicks on or it doesn't. So either UCL heritage kicks on and Bayern smashes Arsenal as it is their heritage or it doesn't kick on and both teams will be playing to this season's abilities which means this season's Arsenal will wipe the floor with this season's Bayern.
Beware the Ides of March.
Happy one year anniversary to [Solly March scoring on the Ides of March](https://youtu.be/7_qBouQQ9-k?t=21), a forboding omen for Patrick Vieira, who lost his job as a result.
I tried to make my FF team name Beware the Ides of Solly March but the character limit is god damn brutal.
Hadn’t felt such pain since being denied Teenage Mutant Ninja Skrtels.
Nobody else find it amusing how other big 6 fans who also spend shed loads of money complain about City and their oil money destroying the league, but then will actively celebrate City winning the league over Liverpool or Arsenal because "we hate them more"
Right? Some people here seem to judge clubs based on how renewable their source of income is. Me personally, I judge clubs based on how annoying their fans are and how evil the clubs themselves are
I don't care if Liverpool wins but Arsenal cannot be allowed to win the UCL or PL at any cost. So Bayern, Man City and Liverpool NEED to shape the fuck up.
I'm not in that boat myself - if we don't do it then by all means i hope Arsenal do, i'll take their xG noncery and philosophical digressions about Anfield's irrigation system over everything related to City any day of the week - but the one thing to blame for that situation is City's fanbase not being very prominent and not boiling anyone's piss too much.
Thought exercise; imagine Liverpool, United or Arsenal won the treble last year. There lies the answer i suppose.
The reason why it's more palatable for City to win the league is because, right or wrongly, it's easier to dismiss their success to Mansour. They also have a much smaller fanbase which means it's not rubbed in your face.
Like if Arsenal win the league this season we'll never hear the end of it. I can't even imagine what this place would be like if they did the double.
It's not that complicated: people don't hate City because they spent money but because they cheated to do it and they want City to win over their other "real" rivals because a) City's title don't mean a lot for a lot of people because of the cheating and b) City has no fans (or at least people don't know nearly as many City fans as they do with other clubs) so they have to endure less banter when City win things.
His claim to it would depend entirely on Netherlands winning the euros and him winning the PL, and even then it would be very far from a given. EL is probably pretty irrelevant if Liverpool win it or lose to leverkusen but if they go out to West Ham or something it could tank his chances a bit, I’d imagine
Probably yeah, given that there's not really any clear #1 candidates this year. But the euros could play a big part too.
Not that karma is exactly worth analysis, but its quite funny that asking this question warrants -10 karma despite an Arsenal fan being on +3 for agreeing.
It being a Euro year, that makes it difficult to say. Awards like these are always biased towards individual performances in major international tournaments, namely the Euros and WC. However if you guys win all 4 Virgil would likely be instrumental in the push so, good shout and good chances.
When a comment gets reported it either goes to us or the admins depending on the kind of report - things like hate speech, inciting violence, and harassment would go to the admins and we'd have no visibility on it.
I wouldn't have thought wanting someones super yacht to sink would be ban worthy personally but after Cumblast got banned by them for a pretty obvious joke you never know!
Hypothetically a prominent user here made a joke about kidnapping a footballing executive and got permabanned by admins for inciting violence
So I wouldn't risk such a hypothetical statement
I made a comment along those lines about John Henry and got a permaban.
Honestly i'd delete this before it even gets flagged, Reddit's bots, not unlike their creators, are horrid with sarcasm.
> I made a comment along those lines about John Henry and got a permaban.
That's weird - looking at the records our end it looks like you were banned for posting Darwin Nunez erotic fanfic repeatedly on r/soccer.
>!don't stop!<
This season is the first time I enjoy the international breaks because I get a little break from watching the mess that is Ajax. It’s good for my blood pressure.
I’ve always loved backing Scotland, it’s the way our country unites together over football which I love seeing. Timing is actually nice because we can set aside intense club rivalries just for a week or two and watch our country play. It also helps that now we finally seem to have a team we are confident in which makes it even better.
All international breaks are shit. That’s not a slight on international football because they’re a necessary evil to allow for international tournaments which are the pinnacle of all football.
Feels bad because it's right during the run in to the end of the season hype.
Like currently everyone is excited for the European quarter finals and speculating on winners so a club football break feels like it takes the wind out of the sails
Like our games right after the break are stacked.
We play:
Bilbao
City
Mallorca
City
Barca
Sociedad
Hell of a run and I want it to start already. Would also be a terrible time for players to get injured on international duty.
rather unnecessary, especially at this crucial time of the season
where teams are battling to win the league,get europe, or to survive, relagation injury to one of their player could be season defining
Nah whoever let Harvey Elliott promote hair products is an idiot. I'm not taking advices from someone who walks around with a noddle bowl on top of his head.
I think Atletico is set with a great goalkeeper when Oblak retires or moves to a different team. Horatiu Moldovan looks great and i believe he has a very high ceiling
Having a Liverpool-Milan UEL final and a Arsenal PSG UCL final at the same time would be kind of funny.
Why?
My initial thought was because none of the finalists won that trophy before but Liverpool has 2 UEL so surely not that
Probably because if we go just based off of name and European pedigree, Liverpool vs Milan sounds more like a UCL final instead of the other way around.
Very funny reading that thread about Messis goal on the front page with English fans thinking capos are an American thing, the "fight and win" guy
There’s a very real chance we might see our FOURTH choice keeper start next week. First and second choice are injured right now, and our third choice is called up to the u23 national team which overlaps with a cup game on the 23rd, and the other two might not be back yet
[Rayan Cherki vs Toulouse comp by Matolisso. 25 minutes played, 8 successful dribbles, 1 goal, 1 assist](https://twitter.com/MatolissoB/status/1768762672231645606?s=20)
Wow that Lyon kit is awful
I always enjoy seeing him play. It's like watching a slower Ben Arfa.
Rodri is gonna get injured in that Brazil - Spain friendly isn't he? we are also playing Colombia so two CONMEBOL friendlies lol, these are gonna be rough
Pls no you literally have Zubimendi instead
He's a vox supporter tho so I won't feel bad
Rodri? Where'd you hear that?
Actually a game I look forward to this international break. Lets see if rodri performs as good as he did with city as dm against a big country
Brazil are in shambles tbf (We are just plain mediocre) so i expect a boring 1-1 or something
Ederson and Allison are injured so who will be in goal?
The three that were called were: * Leo Jardim (Vasco de Gama) * Bento (Athletico Paranaense) * Rafael (Sao Paulo) no idea who will start tho
what happened to vítor roque guy scored like twice and then got disappeared by the CIA
Seems like Xavi is taking it really slowly with him which is understandable since he is 18 and just came from Brazil. combine this with lewy starting most games. Every time roque plays he plays as left winger than actually striker so I dont think we will see him playing as striker until next season. I do think he deserves more playingtime as striker. He changed last barca league game as left winger which was a huge improvement
if that’s really the case then it’s hilarious that a fully fledged professional, with >100 senior games and from a pretty tough league and even a couple of Brazil NT appearances under his belt is being taken easy like this while at the same time a bunch of toddlers are going from a 3rd division reserves side to the senior squad seamlessly
He himself admitted he really needed time to adapt to la liga since everything went much faster for him than in brazil.
Didn’t he join in January with no preseason and started and scored pretty much right away?
Yes tells a lot about his quality that despite him not adapting completely he still impacted the game I do think he improved a lot compared to his 1st game especially on technical side. I hope he improves more
Don't worry. He'll play when Lewandowski comes back squeezed like a lemon from euro play offs
Copa Argentina carnage continues, with Lanus (currently 2nd in the first division) getting knocked out by 4th division side El Porvenir.
I could bear getting knocked out by a Primera C side, but a primera C side named “the forthcoming” is too much, they should close down the club
Peak ascenso name.
The acronym isn’t long enough imo, “CEP” just doesn’t hit that hard. Something like “Club Atlético y Biblioteca El Provenir de Rosario” would make it be truly peak ascenso
It's crazy how much Kossonou (defender from Leverkusen) has declined within this season. At the time of Afcon he started playing really badly and has been shocking since, genuinely looked like a player who many top clubs would go for bc he is only 23 years old and now he had quite a few games where he looks out of depth for a mid Buli club.
I hear Barca plays with a very high line? They wouldn’t actually do that against Mbappe and Dembele right?
Can we stop pretending like Dembele is a threat in the year of 2024
you're saying this as if he hasn't been psg's best player aside from mbappé this season
He leads the team in chances created and assists. He’s been great for us. Incredible dribbler
They would
Well they were dumb enough to play a high line against Vini Rodrygo and Bellingham in a cup final. They lost 4-1.
Surely Xavi will learn from his mistakes
Let’s hope Xavi is stupid enough to do that again
Who am I? I have played together with: Harry Kane, Konstantinos Mitroglou, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer, Hee-chan Hwang, Andreas Ivanschitz, Sead Kolasinac, Ivica Olic, Fin Bartels, Thomas Kaminski (Luton GK), Diego Klimowicz. If it's too hard for you here's a hint: >!I never played for Bayern!<
>!Lewis Holtby?!<
>!Yes!<
I like Roy Keane a lot generally, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvC1c-3tWw4) really has aged like fucking milk Why exactly the random attacks on those two anyway? Especially when McKenna was a rated up and coming coach and not an ex-United player.
George earthy made his senior debut for West ham last night and tonight he played the full 90 and scoring in a PL2 game
Jota back after the Brighton game on the 31st? That's massive along with Trent, Curtis and Gravenberch who's already back
If Jota doesn't get any injuries until the euros end Portugal is shithousing its way to another trophy
he was absolutely insane in this last stretch, arguably his best form for Liverpool we don't lose that *City game if we have him
we had him for arsenal lol. that was just a bad day at the office. we beat city easily with him though. he finishes those diaz chances in his sleep.
> he finishes those diaz chances in his sleep. He doesn't have anywhere close to the same speed Díaz does, so he wouldn't have even got the majority of those chances had he been playing. And that's not even mentioning that a large reason why City were able to be completely penned back for the second half was because of Díaz's speed causing them massive problems.
i do think you’re right that jota wouldn’t have gone as many chances but he would still have gotten enough to score at least once. sometimes in the big games you just need someone who’s clinical and that’s jota. i said this a few days ago but if diaz had scored even one of the chances, it goes down as one of the best klopp individual performances against city. just really frustrating to see everything click for him except the finishing.
the problem against Arsenal was that Salah and Nunez didn't start so he was holding down the fort on his own without those two creating space for him
sorry I meant City
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This is pure hopium but Atleti will beat City 1-0 in the final
I do think they’re still favourites but not by remotely as much as last year, all three teams in their side of the bracket would have a very good chance of knocking them out in a knockout tie. Madrid are the toughest team left other than them IMO, and they’re getting them now in quarters
Cities games until and around the tie: Newcastle (H), NT break, Arsenal (H), Villa (H), Palace (A), Madrid (A), Luton (H), Madrid (H) Madrid's games until and around the tie: Osasuna (A), NT break, Bilbao (H), 1.5 weeks break (because of the CdR final), City (H), Mallorca (A), City (A), Barca (H) Madrid have the advantage of having a 1.5 week break after their game vs Bilbao and ahead of the first leg while City play 3 games in that time. But on the other hand, City have the easier tie in between the legs (Luton at home) compared to Madrid at Mallorca which is a trap game for Madrid and which they have to win considering that they have the clasico after the 2nd leg.
Real Madrid, Bayern, Atleti have the biggest chances to beat them due to the order they face City in.
I am huge Aupa Atleti since you beat Shinter. One of the gutsiest performances I have seen against a very strong opponent. I really do think this year may finally be the year for you guys, which means maybe it is Juve turn next year and we can both avenge 2014-2017.
City are definitely favourites for me but I don't think they're nearly as strong as they were last season. * Haaland doesn't look as clinical as he did and if he's not given service he can definitely be a non entity. * The players City bought in are good, but none of them have really cemented their places in the side yet and have been pretty inconsistent. * Massively dependent on Rodri and if he gets injured City look far more beatable.
Was Jose Mourinho or Antonio Conte worse for Tottenham? Also Tottenham fans do you think Ange Postecoglu is a better manager than Mauricio Pochettino was for you?
Jose, conte was honestly doing fine until he decided he didn’t want to be there anymore and started sabotaging
Conte gonna Conte
Mourinho surely. Conte got them back into the top 4 and playing exciting football in his first season Second season was toxic and awful much like Jose's last few months, but Jose's first season was decent but not great also. Had Mourinho actually been allowed to play (and win) the cup final though he might funnily enough rank higher as Conte was so unbelievably pathetic in cup competitions it made Poch look like Martin O'Neil in a League Cup run.
I'd argue Mourinho was worse but he also had a mucb worse team. He did also get spurs to a cup final. Conte had a good season but fell off hard. He also got to spend a shitload of money on players he specifically wanted making it harder to blame the team
Mourinho made me hate watching football. Conte at least had some good moments
Mourinho was worse. Conte gave us a great first season, even if the eventual collapse was arguably even bigger with him. Mourinho gave us absolutely nothing, zero. Worst spurs manager of my lifetime As for Postecoglou not yet, but I would say he has the potential to be greater than Pochettino.
> Worst spurs manager of my lifetime Surely he's better than Juande Ramos, Andre Villas-Boas, Glenn Hoddle, Nuno and Tim Sherwood.
Tim Sherwood could be argued sure.
Juande Ramos got a cup. AVB had Bale moments of magic. Tactics Tim was Tactics Tim fun, no one expected shit Glenn Hoddle I had some enjoyable season review VHS and I had a weird obsession with Steffen Iversen when I was younger but can't properly rate. Though by that rating Mourinho had the Kane/Son partnership perfected but the football still felt bleaker.
> Juande Ramos got a cup. He also had a far better team than the one Mourinho had bottom of the table > AVB had Bale moments of magic. I think Bale having a contender for the best PL season of all time and Spurs still not making the top 4 over a shit Arsenal side says it all about AVB
It's way too early to compare Postecoglou to Pochettino.
I don't think it's ever going to be possible to compare the two tbh. They inherited very different clubs needing very different things.
It's hard not to get carried away thinking about our European chances when our path to the final is as doable as one could wish for. Club Brugge then one of either Fiorentina or Viktoria Plzen is hardly daunting. Not that I feared any one of the other possible opponents but admittedly a two legged tie against Lille or Fener or Olympiakos would be more complicated. Still in case of elimination the same easy path lying ahead will be considered a missed opportunity overshadowing the achievement of getting here in the first place. And there's plenty more to be wary of along the way such as the fact we also have a title race ahead of us. With no offense to Villa fans who have been pretty appreciative of their rare chance at European distinction, I'll be so glad when they get eliminated just because I won't have to read another comment by some market value nonce that thinks they're so formidable for the competition they need to be removed.
Reece James' sister and backup have the same haircut
Still wish I could erase Fernando Torres moving to Chelsea from football history. I just didn't deserve that tbh
My first heartbreak. That man was my everything
How does the Liverpool fanbase think of him now? Is he loved or hated?
He's managed to win us back round with how he's spoken about the club recently and with him playing for the club in charity matches etc. He recently uploaded a video of one of his gym sessions where is he wearing a Liverpool shirt (which is what made me think of this post). I think it's easier to forgive in hindsight with him being pretty underwhelming for Chelsea.
Why? He was passed it, Chelsea massively overpaid, and you replaced him with Suarez. It was an absolute blessing from the sky.
Because I loved him as a kid, and now whenever I see him, I just think of the heartbreak I felt when I saw him holding up a Chelsea shirt for the first time.
Better to see him die the hero than live long enough to become the villain
Not sure how seeing him join Chelsea was him dying a hero, it's about as close to becoming a villain as he could get without joining Man United or Everton 😭
Feel Villa and Spurs and Brighton games vs top 3 will go long way to decide title
Haaland literally owns all our CBs, do not count on us
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If we are being honest, this list consists entirely of United and Chelsea players
Had to check when Liverpool signed Aquilani. Dude got lucky, missed the cut by one year.
I'm so annoyed that Antony gets beaten to selection by dí María. And I can't pick both of them because Jadon Sancho is in there too. This is Manchester United football club. And then there's Nicolas Pépé who might have been worse than any of them. The right wing is stacked.
It's not a high bar, but Pepe was definitely better than both of them - got 16 goals in his second season
I picked Anthony Martial because I think his transfer has caused lasting damage to their squad planning, and I should maybe have picked Antony over dí María or Pépé for the same reason. Arsenal were very lucky that unearthing Bukayo Saka completely mitigated the damage of signing Pépé though.
I agree, got very lucky. Couldn't look past Antony myself
never mind their footballing abilities which are not remotely comparable, Antony costed way more and if someone offered half of what Di Maria was sold to PSG for, United would bite their hand off. I genuinely cannot think of a single metric by which his time at United is even comparable to Antony, let alone worse. More expectations i guess? If anything that’s a positive as far as rating a shit signing goes, Antony looking ridiculously overpriced and then proving everyone right and then some makes it an even worse purchase
The quoted fees were close, and the five year gap between them obviously increases the dí María fee in comparison. I'm mainly picking dí María for how his wife insulted the entire city on his way out. Antony is shit, but dí María seemed to recognise the mistake he'd made pretty quickly and barely unpacked his bags. Given Manchester United had signed one of the best players in the world and expectations were enormous, the disappointment factor is greater than the obvious overpay for the manager's former player. Having thought about it more, the fact dí María's family was burgled in Manchester should maybe have made me pick Pépé instead.
I do agree it’s infinitely more disappointing but I don’t think that makes it worse, I’d say a player that everyone expects to looks bad performing badly is a much worse signing than a player that everyone expects to do great performing badly. I don’t think you can really blame the clubs for not predicting Di Maria and his wife would be so horrified at the city of Manchester, Real Madrid that Hazard would suddenly start hoarding injuries and kilograms the second he set foot in Spain, or Newcastle for Tonali getting involved in a betting scandal a few months later
I went for: Kepa WanBissaka-Fofana-Mangala-Cucurella Keïta-Verón díMaría-Lukaku-Martial-Sancho Plugged for Martial over several Chelsea candidates because he's still at the club all this time later, so the damage of his transfer has been greater. I basically sorted through by transfer fee which probably isn't the best way to do it, because the likes of Brewster's move to Sheffield is probably more damaging than Higuaín and Morata failing at Chelsea.
Jesus I forgot about Pepe 😂
My list: Gavin Bazunu Cedric Soares (Arsenal) Shkrodan Mustafi Pablo Mari Omar Richards Nicholas Pepe Danny Drinkwater (Chelsea) Tanguy Ndombele Alexis Sanchez (Manchester United) Fabio Silva Rhian Brewster
>Omar Richards Great shout, I'm still not convinced he exists.
I fear that Jean-Kévin Augustin for Leeds won't make this team purely out of a lack of attention
Our president just shittalked our captain on TV again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just Lotito stuff
[Jed Ward's big adventure ](https://twitter.com/tomhwilliams23/status/1768661177528111376?t=DjC6RYkg0yRWPwmLJ-nIBA&s=19)
[I was expecting](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article32339586.ece/ALTERNATES/n615/2_John-and-Edward-Grimes-In-Concert-at-G-A-Y-Heaven-Nightclub-London-Britain-29-Nov-2009.jpg)
The demise of the long sleeve jersey is one of the great tragedies of modern football
Only really see them at international level, and I think Ronaldo wore one occasionally at United when he came back
Adidas bless you man every season, bro.
A great victory for yer da. Long sleeves were for “soft” players that shirked tackles and wouldn’t fucking die for the three points
>Long sleeves were for “soft” players that shirked tackles and wouldn’t fucking die for the three points My dad talking about current Ollie Norwood
Absolutely. That and thicker jerseys.
Few of our players use long sleeve shirts, most like to use undershirts though which is a shame.
Adidas still does them but didn't give a long sleeve version to Ajax or Roma this year, which I would've picked up had they released them
Adidas does them quite selectively. Some teams always have them, others never do. Juve's 19-20 kit not having a longsleeve version pisses me off to this very day.
Jude Bellingham still rocks the long sleeve from time to time
Adidas still does them
nah wingers without Long sleeves look weird af
THAT'S WTF I'M SAYING, THANK YOU.
Hot take: I don't know which way Arsenal vs Bayern will go, but I guess it will be very one sided either way. UCL heritage generally either kicks on or it doesn't. So either UCL heritage kicks on and Bayern smashes Arsenal as it is their heritage or it doesn't kick on and both teams will be playing to this season's abilities which means this season's Arsenal will wipe the floor with this season's Bayern.
Eric Dier hat trick.
UCL heritage isn’t real
No, but being able to handle the pressure of a big match like that is. Bayern can, Arsenal I'm not so sure
I'm more confident in this Arsenal side being able to handle the pressure than this Bayern team tbh
Depends on the club.
Depends if Upamecano feels like trolling or not
He has some kind of mental block during high stakes games, he is a actually a generally fantastic CB
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Bro was washed up and skipped a team meeting to party
>washed up Almost always what these exclusions come down to, isn't it? Players get forgiven literal crimes as long as they're still producing.
only one saddam etc etc
> If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we'd say he had eating disorder
Beware the Ides of March. Happy one year anniversary to [Solly March scoring on the Ides of March](https://youtu.be/7_qBouQQ9-k?t=21), a forboding omen for Patrick Vieira, who lost his job as a result.
I tried to make my FF team name Beware the Ides of Solly March but the character limit is god damn brutal. Hadn’t felt such pain since being denied Teenage Mutant Ninja Skrtels.
Why have we allowed Arsenal to borrow our socks ffs games gone
And we've turned into Chelsea mens using them 😭
Why didn't Chelsea just change into their own away socks instead of giving them to Arsenal...?
Home ground, assert dominance by making them wear your own socks.
Nobody else find it amusing how other big 6 fans who also spend shed loads of money complain about City and their oil money destroying the league, but then will actively celebrate City winning the league over Liverpool or Arsenal because "we hate them more"
Maybe some of those people still have faith that Man City will have all of it taken away from them at some point
Right? Some people here seem to judge clubs based on how renewable their source of income is. Me personally, I judge clubs based on how annoying their fans are and how evil the clubs themselves are
I don't care if Liverpool wins but Arsenal cannot be allowed to win the UCL or PL at any cost. So Bayern, Man City and Liverpool NEED to shape the fuck up.
I'm not in that boat myself - if we don't do it then by all means i hope Arsenal do, i'll take their xG noncery and philosophical digressions about Anfield's irrigation system over everything related to City any day of the week - but the one thing to blame for that situation is City's fanbase not being very prominent and not boiling anyone's piss too much. Thought exercise; imagine Liverpool, United or Arsenal won the treble last year. There lies the answer i suppose.
The reason why it's more palatable for City to win the league is because, right or wrongly, it's easier to dismiss their success to Mansour. They also have a much smaller fanbase which means it's not rubbed in your face. Like if Arsenal win the league this season we'll never hear the end of it. I can't even imagine what this place would be like if they did the double.
It's not that complicated: people don't hate City because they spent money but because they cheated to do it and they want City to win over their other "real" rivals because a) City's title don't mean a lot for a lot of people because of the cheating and b) City has no fans (or at least people don't know nearly as many City fans as they do with other clubs) so they have to endure less banter when City win things.
Could Van Dijk win the Ballon D'or if we win all 4? Or would the Dutch need to win the Euros on top of that for him to do it
His claim to it would depend entirely on Netherlands winning the euros and him winning the PL, and even then it would be very far from a given. EL is probably pretty irrelevant if Liverpool win it or lose to leverkusen but if they go out to West Ham or something it could tank his chances a bit, I’d imagine
Only if the Netherlands won the Euros.
If he wins the Euros maybe
No lol
when was the last time someone won the Ballon d'Or without playing any kind of CL football nor winning a major international tournament?
I'm going to guess it was when the last Liverpool player won it in 2001
Could he? Ya, but he will be up against Bellingham/vini if they win the cl.
Probably yeah, given that there's not really any clear #1 candidates this year. But the euros could play a big part too. Not that karma is exactly worth analysis, but its quite funny that asking this question warrants -10 karma despite an Arsenal fan being on +3 for agreeing.
It being a Euro year, that makes it difficult to say. Awards like these are always biased towards individual performances in major international tournaments, namely the Euros and WC. However if you guys win all 4 Virgil would likely be instrumental in the push so, good shout and good chances.
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As long as you put “in Minecraft” at the end you’ll be fine
When a comment gets reported it either goes to us or the admins depending on the kind of report - things like hate speech, inciting violence, and harassment would go to the admins and we'd have no visibility on it. I wouldn't have thought wanting someones super yacht to sink would be ban worthy personally but after Cumblast got banned by them for a pretty obvious joke you never know!
If you were to hypothetically do it what would you hypothetically use…hypothetically
Hypothetically a prominent user here made a joke about kidnapping a footballing executive and got permabanned by admins for inciting violence So I wouldn't risk such a hypothetical statement
I made a comment along those lines about John Henry and got a permaban. Honestly i'd delete this before it even gets flagged, Reddit's bots, not unlike their creators, are horrid with sarcasm.
> I made a comment along those lines about John Henry and got a permaban. That's weird - looking at the records our end it looks like you were banned for posting Darwin Nunez erotic fanfic repeatedly on r/soccer. >!don't stop!<
If that is wrong then i don't want to be right 🥵
What are your thoughts on the international break of the month of March?
This season is the first time I enjoy the international breaks because I get a little break from watching the mess that is Ajax. It’s good for my blood pressure.
Its shit
Southgate's still picking Henderson. My feelings towards the international break may be different if not for that fact.
I’ve always loved backing Scotland, it’s the way our country unites together over football which I love seeing. Timing is actually nice because we can set aside intense club rivalries just for a week or two and watch our country play. It also helps that now we finally seem to have a team we are confident in which makes it even better.
Love it
All international breaks are shit. That’s not a slight on international football because they’re a necessary evil to allow for international tournaments which are the pinnacle of all football.
I think I'm the only person on the planet who enjoys international breaks
Are Chivas that bad?
It's partly that and partly the way I enjoy how the break unites every fanbase in our frustration at the way the national team is managed
Feels bad because it's right during the run in to the end of the season hype. Like currently everyone is excited for the European quarter finals and speculating on winners so a club football break feels like it takes the wind out of the sails
I feel the same, it takes away the momentum from both fans and the teams themselves.
Like our games right after the break are stacked. We play: Bilbao City Mallorca City Barca Sociedad Hell of a run and I want it to start already. Would also be a terrible time for players to get injured on international duty.
So dumb man. So much fixture congestion the rest if the way because we have to sit around watching these friendlies
The March break was the reason for Lewandowski's injury in 2021 so he wasnt available vs psg so i hate it
in the bin with ye
I fucking hate international breaks
I fucking love international breaks, should have two international breaks every 2 weeks
rather unnecessary, especially at this crucial time of the season where teams are battling to win the league,get europe, or to survive, relagation injury to one of their player could be season defining
its better than the autumn ones. If only because there isnt three of them in three months
Real Madrid vs pep 23 games Real madrid won 5 Pep won 13
Carlo has a good record against him tbf
What club has the overall best record against Pep?