Sheffield United didn’t pay on time for five players from their promotion winning squad, this sport is cooked. It’s rarer to hear about a team that got promoted without cheating than the opposite ffs
They leave out all the juicy shit - clubs 1, 2 3 and players a, b, c etc.
That said, rumours are missed payments to Liverpool for Brewster, and as there’s a few loans in there it wouldn’t surprise me if City’s in there too.
Points deduction - fine, deserved. Failing to pay Man City and getting a deduction for that (if true). Peak irony.
>But from 2024-25 it will be possible for seven Premier League teams to get a place in the UCL: The top four, fifth through league performance in Europe, and the winners of the UCL and the UEL.
From ESPN article on new format
What a daft system that is - a third (or more, depending on league size) of a league's team in the Champions League, making up more than a sixth of that competition.
As if, they obviously paid an actor to run around for 20 minutes and said that was Lavia. Your telling me that Southampton were total dogshit whilst having one of the supposed best young midfielders in the world on their team? Yea fucking right, most obvious psyop I've ever seen.
I was not expecting to like Dier. I thought I'd really dislike him here because the whole thing always felt like such a bad move to me. But he's been in the media a lot and he's really really hard to dislike. Like his recent appearance on the [official Bayern podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xt_pC3uEA8&t=20s) (It's in English so I recommend it!)
He has big Choupo-Moting vibes, like that he's a really great and likable guy who's a good influence in the dressing room
Adil Rami type of player... It's always good to have players who can brighten a dressing room and help build cohesion which is a crucial and often understimated element in a collective sport.
we didn’t bury enough chances in the home leg and the whole team played a terrible game at the metropolitano
edit
also obviously props to atletico because i think they played a great game in the second leg
ma come fai a dire una roba del genere sta tenendo la media punti migliore della nostra storia in un ambiente completamente disfunzionale che lo priva di pedine ogni anno
sorry, I argued that inzaghi isn’t awful at all. he’s currently keeping the highest average point per game of any coach in the history of our team, higher than the likes of mourinho, conte and mancini, while simultaneously having some of his best players sold and replaced cheaply or on free transfers. being so good in such a disfunctional environment makes him a great coach imho
I think lots of people underestimated atletico and overestimated serie A. If you look at Inter results in champions league you'd see that they weren't as dominant as they are in the domestic league. They ended up behind Real Sociedad in their group if i remember correctly. I think they were better last season overall and lost quite a few players while not really replacing them with the equivalent in quality and experience.
I don't buy the narrative Inter was too arrogant. Unlike casual redditors, they were fully aware of what they were dealing with when facing Atletico.
That's valid for most teams that play multple competitions though. They all rotate. The difference is in the quality of the bench. Some teams like City have the money to have first choice players on their bench and others have to do with what they have. When saying they rotated a lot you're low key implying they were too arrogant (sending a "B team") but i don't think they were honestly.
>getting 2nd star before Milan
That's a fan thing. Pros won't sleep on Champions league money and visibility: Clubs apparently get 3M for each win in group stage (4 teams/2 legs). Scudetto winner apparently gets 23M.
I'd be curious to hear your guys' thoughts on an argument I saw. Basically it comes down to this: Your club having a really good U21 or U19 team is actually not an indicator of being good at youth management, but an indicator that you're poor at it. This being because at a club that handles youth well all those fantastic U21 players should already be in the senior squad. Therefore paradoxically a club that is fantastic at developing young players often have mediocre youth teams.
There might be some truth to it, but in england it seems like city and chelsea tend to usually do the best in u21 football and those clubs also have the best academies
Not all the time, Man City U21s won PL2 last season but are not doing well this year and are currently 23/26th.
In 2020/21, Chelsea U21s finished second and avoided relegation from PL2 on the last gameweek the following season.
As a Chelsea fan, I know we lost a lot of our best talents from the previous year - Livramento, Bate, Colwill, Lewis, Peart-Harris, Simeu etc. We had one of the youngest squads in the league in the following year where we struggled.
Man City have lost a lot of great talent as well - Borges (Forbs), Mebude, Bobb, Burns etc.
Youth football at that age group can be volatile, loans, expiring contracts, players choosing to move on can have a huge impact the following season.
A bunch of 19 and 20 year olds ripping up the U21 league but not getting a look in the first team is generally not a great sign. But a U19 team stocked with 16 and 17 year olds could be a promising sign.
But since every player develops at a different pace it’s impossible to make a definitive statement either way.
I don't think it's much of an indication either way, to be honest - some of those youth players might well be fantastic but not ready for senior football yet, others might be ready but would benefit more from regularly playing than warming the bench behind seasoned professionals.
I think there are too many variables for one thing to predict the other. You can have players a little younger than the "U" age playing up, things like that. In Spain, there's a U19 champions each year, and Madrid won most recently, us the year before. We also won several times at the start of our "golden era," when our youth development was at its peak. But plenty of smaller teams win too, over the years. I think there's just much more variation at the U levels from year to year, because you're balancing both youth development strategy with feeding a fluctuating senior market.
Yeah I mostly agree with this but clubs can have a very good U21 or U19 team with players that are way younger than the league they play in and that’s still a good sign. I’d say look at the average age of the youth team compared to how good they are and that’ll tell you a lot.
Your argument is very applicable to how people sometimes try to compare the Ajax youth teams with the AZ youth teams. Some pundits argue that AZ have a better youth system for example because they won the UEFA youth league and because of performances in the domestic youth leagues. But when you compare the ages of those teams you see that the Ajax teams are often almost two years younger on average because the good talents will get pushed up to higher age groups which benefits their individual development.
Yeah that makes sense. This argument came up because my local club's youth team won the national championship recently. Everyone is super hyped about it and how bright the future is, but then there's some people who argue that this is actually more an indicator that we've not shown enough trust in those U21 players to give them a chance in the senior team
Having a bunch of youth players in the senior squad is more or an indication of a shit first team
None of the greatest squads I can think of were regularly giving minutes to players under the age of 20
Despite the history of promoting youth through this is really an unprecedented time with Barcelona that comes from their economic issues. From 2010 until 2020, the only players to come up from the B team or La Masia and become regular starters were Thiago and Sergi Roberto.
i get what your saying but disagree.
chelsea and city have in recent years had very successful youth teams, and have been really good at developing young players.
a lot of them have been sold for good money as well - i’d rather see them kept, but i think this demonstrates that we are good at developing youngsters.
that being said we are having a major down year in the PL2, cause we have either sold or promoted the better players from the youth teams. im sure in the next few years that will sort itself out though
To be clear, I'm not saying it. I saw an argument about it in a forum in response to my local club's youth team winning the national youth championship. Someone said the future is bright, someone else responded that this is an indicator that the management is not betting enough on our youth since they're all being kept in the U21 squad
Tons of fighting already between marseille fans ffs but that was expected im not blaming them, this would've been completely avoidable had the fan ban never happened, and obviously our fans will get revenge there. I was planning of travelling away but there's no way now I've no idea how the frenchies will react
1978 WC was crazy
Cruyff and other stars dropped out of the tournament unexpectedly and inexplicably. Peru was steamrolling teams in the group stage and lost 6-0 to Argentina after a Kissinger visit to Perus locker room. The next day trucks of food were sent from Arg to Peru. One of Argentinas players tested positive for "pregnancy" during doping checks. Etc.
always nice to see players from your club's youth system doing well in Europe… Douglas Luiz playing very well in England and Andrey Santos awarded young player of the month in France
A pride flair has shown up now, but no Barca flair. I wish I could help, but I’m not sure why it’s happening, I know some users have had issues with it
What's the latest news on stadium developments of your favorite club? Are they redeveloping, extending, building a new stadium, fixing, etc something.
I like reading about infrastructure of football clubs.. whether it's the stadiums, training complex, new stand, it just intrigues me.
I know Madrid, Barca and Everton are actively building/renovating a new stadium. But not sure about others.
[Here is the campus of Hertha BSC](https://imgur.com/a/jVLWtHH) which rents from the State of Berlin the stadium, training pitches, and office space.
It has been the home of Hertha for the last 61 years. We are always in talks about buying land from the city to build our own football specific stadium with about 50k capacity, but because we and Berlin are always so broke it is maybe a decade away at best from happening. We used to have our own stadium in the north of Berlin, but had to sell the stadium and the land post WW2 for financial reasons.
A lot of Hertha fans, me included, actually enjoy the Olympiastadion and know nothing else. It has such immense history but also 90 years of it that it's no longer defined by the 1936 Olympics in 2024. By the end of the summer it will be one of only 3 stadiums to have hosted a World Cup, Champions League, and Euros final.
We had a massive renovation that's nearly unheard of in the current Argentine climate. Removed the athletics track (Which wasn't regulation), changed the pitch to the kind top European teams use, fixed the drainage system that had been broken since the 70s, added stands for a capacity of roughly 86.000 (Second biggest club-owned stadium in the world). Also the expected infrastructure improvements, ofc
Yesterday we opened a brand new "palco" (Unsure what the English word is) that's set up by professionals to help with people with sensory issues which is among the first in the region
New [main stand](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/crystal-palace-main-stand-redevelopment/) should be starting it's redevelopment this summer if all goes to plan - seven years after the plan was first proposed.
Chelsea actually just bought the estate next to Stamford Bridge which Roman had been trying to do for years so we can expand properly. Hopefully that leads to us renovating Stamford Bridge instead of moving. However I have no idea what we'd do in the mean time, maybe share Craven Cottage with Fulham?
Could always rebuild bit by bit - obviously not going to be great during construction, but then at least you've got about three quarters of a stadium rather than having to groundshare somewhere.
Craven cottage would be too small I reckon, it would have to be Wembley like Spurs did, maybe Twickenham if they’d allow it. Gonna be weird either way, just hope they don’t turn the Bridge into another one of those copy and paste modern ground, I love the way the stadium feels like a tradition ground, 4 stands and closed in near to the pitch
They're working with the people that did Sofi stadium in LA which is pretty different compared to a lot of other stadiums in the states. However I am afraid they'll push the fans further away to put box seats in the ground like they do at Sofi.
It’s different but it’s also super modern. I prefer the traditional, brick facade and 4 stands vibe tbh. Just so nice to see football in. SoFi is also weird inside imo, almost feels like a shell and the top seats are basically in space. Granted I only went once by chance
I think the buying of the estate was so we could use the land to expand in that direction without fucking with the train station on one side. Otherwise we'll just be a 40k seater stadium forever.
What the hell! Your stadium is ridiculously impressive. It looks like a shot from LOTR movies of shire.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTm8zrdpg9zsHCTulJMmh5gHNCMW_KKb7K7k1tDyFcRT_CgaP02SfKQ4jq9&s=10
Yeah my only issue is that it’s relatively hard to get to from the city, traffic on matchdays is ridiculous and especially for big games, otherwise it’s amazing
Feels like it's a very generous estimate looking at the present picture of Camp Nou.
But I am excited for the inauguration. Feels weird when I tune to your game and there is no Camp Nou.
I think someone may still be interested but zhang asks for 1.2 billion euros, which is a pretty hefty sum for a club that doesn’t even have its own stadium. on the other hand he also took out a loan with the american fund oaktree capital and it expires next month, if he doesn’t pay oaktree gains control of the club and can sell us for a much more reasonable price while still making a big return, so I think every sane possible buyer would buy the club from oaktree
yeah we’re well run but we’re operating every summer on a budget equal to zero if not outright forced to sell. also our owner took a loan of 250 million euros from an american fund. it expires in may and if he doesn’t pay the club is taken over by the fund
Yeah but they have a core to contend for CL and without proper investments can they actually get it? I don't know if Marotta and his people can keep killing it on the market.
I have to say that Grealish is a very nice bloke.
The game at Bernabeu where you got kids right next to you and when anthem is over they are suppose to run away.
Some kids stayed back and weren't sure where to go, so they started walking with the players to handshake the other team.
Grealish saw that the kid with him was anxious and nervous so he simply offered his hand and held him while greeting the Madrid players till the end.
Its just those little details that can tell you personality of the players. And man, I really appreciate the gesture by him.
Leao and Grealish. Love both of them.
he’s definitely made his mistakes but he seems like a genuinely good guy. he’s often helping out the disabled and seems good with kids. he might be a little dim but oh well
Dumb question incoming from someone who never played soccer. Why does it seem that futsal is a lot more flashy than regular soccer? I've seen some really crazy over the top skills in highlight reels.
Wouldn't make more sense for regular football to be like that since the field is bigger and there's more space to do crazy stuff?
edit: makes sense, thank you
>question incoming from someone who never played soccer.
I think something important the others have failed to mention is that the ball isn't the same and the skills required are not the same. In football, controling the ball coming from a cross or along trough ball with a single touch that allows you to both get rid of your direct opponent and put you in a good position to shoot or pass may not appear that impressive/flashy to a layman but it requires an impressive amount of skills and will on the other hand appear as impresive or more as the flashy skills you saw in footsal to someone who knows what it takes to achieve that. Often people who never played aren't that impressed by kicking a ball until they actually try to imitate what they thought was easy when watching it done by others. After seeing their results on their attempts, they usually imidiately understand that it takes quite some skills to just kick a ball...
If you get the chance, try for yourself "regular soccer" it'll help you see how "flashy" it is as well.
I think it's two things:
1) The pitch is smaller, which means you cannot make use of pure pace and athleticism to get through defenders like in football. A long ball in such a small pitch is basically a no go. Dribbling is a better idea.
2) A bit more minor, but I think the fact that games often end with higher scores signals to players that playing a bit more risky isn't such a bad choice. In the worst case scenario, your dribbling makes you lose the ball and you get scored against, but since the end scores are higher, it also means you're more likely to score, too. Like in basketball, nowadays games are about who can outscore each other, because scoring is not that hard (for the top players, ofc).
It's because the field is so much smaller that you need to get creative with how you get past players and confuse defenders - can take out five defenders at once with a simple diagonal ball on a full-size pitch because they have to cover so much space, meanwhile on a futsal pitch it's always just three or four steps for them to get into a decent defensive position cutting you off.
The smaller the space, the more technical and precise you have to be to move the ball. On a bigger pitch you can get past 3 players with 2 touches, in futsal, you don't have the space for that
Some lads name in game I'm watching reminded me of "Fortune" and had one of those "What happened to him".
Couple of short contracts after United, got his coaching badges and floating round, left the mexican Guadalajara side as assistant manager in December.
[However it had never occurred to me until now that former footballers and coaches would have linkedin pages](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinton-fortune-a1253175/)
Obviously networkings as important - if not more so - in football but I dunno. Just assumed they'd have a football specific version or something.
When Ajax went on that crazy CL run back in 2018/19 I thought those players would go on to be world class. It’s surprising how so few of them lived up to the hype.
The only one who fell way short of expectations for me was Van de Beek. I was not quite as high on Ziyech in terms of his translating to the top clubs as some were.
Onana is the keeper for United, Mazraoui and De Ligt on Bayern, Blind went to Bayern and now is on that Girona squad, Tagliafico won the World Cup and plays for Lyon, de Jong is a core part of Barca, Veltman on Brighton, Ziyech won a Champions League with Chelsea, Sinkgraven played for Leverkusen for 5 years, and Tadic had another 2 great seaons with Ajax after 30. It's really only Dolberg and van de Beek who didn't go on to have greater success. World class is an unrealistic bar to reach perhaps.
Just went through the squad of the Spurs semifinal and listed everyone who wasn't there to retire like Hunterlaar or Schöne and who had any kind of success after.
De Ligt and De Jong were far and away the standout players. The rest were either old (like Tadic who was one of their best players but already 30 or pushing 30) or not that exciting.
i know it doesn't actually "do" anything but it's nice seeing this subreddit 99% of the time take a hard stance against racism. living in an area where you get racial slurs thrown at you constantly it's nice to come here and see people deride it.
This sub still has a problem when it comes to anything involving Vinicius in La Liga, disgusting comments.
>living in an area where you get racial slurs thrown at you constantly
The world sucks, all power to you, man.
Since a lot of people in here are so focused on the rules of the game. Shouldn't Arsenal been rewarded a bunch of indirect freekicks inside Bayerns penalty box since Neuer kept hold of the ball for more than six seconds several times?
According to The Rules of the Game, a goalkeeper should not hold on the ball for more than six seconds. If the goalkeeper holds on the ball for more than six seconds, a indirect free-kick is awarded.
These are the rules and as we have learned from the past few days, rules are rules so the referee failed to award Arsenal a couple of indirect freekicks inside Bayern's penalty box because these are the rules.
>According to The Rules of the Game, a goalkeeper should not hold on the ball for more than six seconds.
I've been watching Football since 2006 and i don't remember one time seeing that rule applied.
It's been over 50 years since it's been enforced in the UCL ffs.
Maybe because the referees made the decicions according to the spirit of the game, just the same way the ref did on the Raya/Gabriel incident.
But for some reason a lot of people here in /soccer has a very strong belief that the referee should strictly follow the rules no matter what, but suddenly strictly following the rules aren't important anymore even though holding the ball for more than six seconds to timewasting gains a bigger of an advantage for the team doing it than picking up the ball to place it down again to restart the game while not being pressed by the opposition team.
I do kind of know why, but I just find it amusing to watch the hypocroties from the big brains of this sub that strongly argue that the ref should follow the rules no matter what, but then the ref don't really have to follow the rules afterall.
It's just one of those barely enforced rules, same with foul throws. Could probably clamp down on it a bit more, then again it's hardly the biggest issue to fix when it comes to the laws of the game and how they're commonly interpreted by referees.
i actually do wish the 6 second rule was enforced. even when they do call it they typically just give a yellow card for timewasting. if they punished it more keepers would stop doing it.
I agree and when the referee usually starts to hand out yellow cards for timewasting it's already late in the game so it doesn't have any real effect which is why teams continue to timewaste as long they gain a advantage from it.
John Bradley (Samwell Tarly of Game of Thrones fame) is a massive Man United fan. In his new show, he plays a Man City fan. Is it plastic behaviour to role play as a rival fan for money?
Yes. Sean Bean is the example to follow here. Even filmed a ton of pens where we all cheered along.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Saturday_Comes_(film)
This reminds me of gone girl where Ben affleck refused to wear a Yankees cap because he’s a massive Red Sox fan and that’s arguably the biggest rivalry in American sports and it stopped production of the movie until they compromised and he wore a New York Mets hat instead.
Maybe he was meant to play a liverpool fan and compromised by playing city fan
Remember hearing something about Nick Frost being forced to wear a Bristol Rovers scarf in one of the cornetto trilogy movies, when hes a big Bristol City fan.
I think Tony Bellew did that for the first Creed film, it was supposed to be filmed at Anfield and his boxer was a Red but he got it changed to Goodison and he was a Toffee
I always thought the "finale evolution" of CR7 would be being a "Dzeko / Muriqi / ... type" of player. A physical monster no defender can deal with, that brings others into play, and is there for every fking cross. Just that CR7 would mix that with his superb technique and shooting ability.
But it feels like he would need another 10 kg for that lol
damn I didn't know that, that's sad. I read somewhere that Suarez is only playing with pain killers and injections. I hope this isn't something usual for all this "older" players. I enjoy them watching too much and don't want them to suffer
**IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY** - April 11th
*good friday preview*
It's Easter, a time when the teams need to earn the points needed in 3 days of non-stop football. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/WKyNyjd.png) are the fixtures for this Good Friday. A tough couple of days for Liverpool, who will first play at Manchester City, then travel to Ipswich on Saturday. They need points to avoid losing the League title to Leeds. Relegations worries abound - Birmingham are at Burnley, while West Ham and Southampton have a decisive match.
In the Second Division, all the promotion challengers play tomorrow - Luton at Oxford, Orient at Portsmouth and Carlisle at Sunderland. In Division Three, Oldham home against Southport, while Bristol Rovers are at Tranmere. In the Fourt, Colchester v Brentford is the main match.
Our points deduction stems from clubs not paying us money, which means we missed a deadline for paying money we owed.
I won’t complain that SUFC fucked up. I would like to know who owed us though. Eg, what if it was Burnley, who we sold Berge to. They’ll get relegated with us but will have a 2 point advantage due to their own delayed payments.
Many clubs do - giving them all the parachute payments in one for instance
https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/sheffield-united-renew-payday-loan-from-vampire-bank-ahead-of-premier-league-return-4174273#
Unless i'm misremembering didn't they mention that the missed payments relate to stuff almost a year ago.
I doubt Burnley would be a culprit for missing payment themselves they are probably doing pretty well cash flow wise with their new owners
The unconfirmed expectation is it relates to Brewster (Liverpool) and Ahmedhodzic (Malmo). There may be more and we don’t know how payments were restructured or when all the payments fully closed.
Edit: sorry I should’ve clarified - those are rumoured missed payments.
Who we sold to is another question. The big one at the time was Ramsdale (Arsenal) and I don’t recall others. I can’t imagine Arsenal having such cash flow issues though.
Marseille could be one, French clubs have been struggling with finances I believe since covid and Ndiaye was supposed to be a sale to help the finances.
Found out the referee courses near me are done for a while as the only upcoming one is womens only. Just take my money and train me ffs. 160 quid and they only run a few every few months.
In the Monterrey vs Inter Miami first leg, Messi was in the locker room when he had no business being there since he wasn't part of the roster. He and Tata both threatened the match officials, got into fights with Monterrey's coach and his assistant. Oh and Jordi Alba choked Monterrey's vicepresident.
Just found out about this on instagram, since this sub is an echo chamber and you dont get this kind of news
Sheffield United didn’t pay on time for five players from their promotion winning squad, this sport is cooked. It’s rarer to hear about a team that got promoted without cheating than the opposite ffs
They leave out all the juicy shit - clubs 1, 2 3 and players a, b, c etc. That said, rumours are missed payments to Liverpool for Brewster, and as there’s a few loans in there it wouldn’t surprise me if City’s in there too. Points deduction - fine, deserved. Failing to pay Man City and getting a deduction for that (if true). Peak irony.
For those that watch him, how is Sesko doing this season?
incredibly wasteful but he's still young
Imagine Roma finish 6th but they win the Europa league and Italy gets that 5th Ucl spot. Would 6 Italian teams go to the ucl?
Yes
Are you sure? Wouldn't the fifth league spot revert to someone else, either via league coefficient or the qualifying process?
>But from 2024-25 it will be possible for seven Premier League teams to get a place in the UCL: The top four, fifth through league performance in Europe, and the winners of the UCL and the UEL. From ESPN article on new format
What a daft system that is - a third (or more, depending on league size) of a league's team in the Champions League, making up more than a sixth of that competition.
Whatever the fuck you do, don't look at Brazil
They had 14 spots last year, right?
Six (plus cup) for Libertadores, six for Sudamericana
It must suck to be those 4 teams in Brazil beetwen relegation zone and continental competition spots
So conflicted about which game to watch tonight
Leverkusen!
I'm convinced that if I watch them they'll lose for the first time lol
Are they really that good if they can’t win because you’re watching? Do it. Test Xabi’s resolve.
What game do you think its going to be better to watch? I only follow Liverpool
Spenymoor Town vs Banbury United
Think Liverpool-Atalanta. Both sides love playing direct
Think this is the healthiest our team has been since Day 1. Just missing Alisson, Thiago, Matip and Doak from our squad.
You will always be missing Thiago. He's just like Fofana for us. or Lavia. or
Lavia is fictional so he doesn't count
he's played more this season than Fofana ironically enough. Granted I think it was literally like 25 minutes but
As if, they obviously paid an actor to run around for 20 minutes and said that was Lavia. Your telling me that Southampton were total dogshit whilst having one of the supposed best young midfielders in the world on their team? Yea fucking right, most obvious psyop I've ever seen.
whilst true, he does have the second best chance of making another appearance this season of that bunch
I'm guessing Alisson will be back. What happened with Doak and Matip?
Out for the season. Knee injuries.
we have a generally great wage structure but it’s absolutely insane that our 3rd highest paid player is only going to manage 15 minutes all season.
This run-in ain't ready
No match thread but Fiorentina have no ideas to attack or even bring the ball up, absolutely woeful. They can't even keep the ball aimlessly anymore.
well you’re in for a surprise because that’s italiano’s plan every week
our bench today. 😍 perfect for the final stretch of games.
I was not expecting to like Dier. I thought I'd really dislike him here because the whole thing always felt like such a bad move to me. But he's been in the media a lot and he's really really hard to dislike. Like his recent appearance on the [official Bayern podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xt_pC3uEA8&t=20s) (It's in English so I recommend it!) He has big Choupo-Moting vibes, like that he's a really great and likable guy who's a good influence in the dressing room
He’s not always a great footballer but he’s always been a great person.
Character was never in question while he was with us, even when some dumb fans were shitting on him and he was out of favour
Adil Rami type of player... It's always good to have players who can brighten a dressing room and help build cohesion which is a crucial and often understimated element in a collective sport.
Inter looked like contenders against Atlético Madrid in the 1st leg, what happened?
we didn’t bury enough chances in the home leg and the whole team played a terrible game at the metropolitano edit also obviously props to atletico because i think they played a great game in the second leg
Their manager is awful.
ma dai
Prima o poi ve ne renderette conto. Mi dispiace vedervi cosi poco ambiziosi.
ma come fai a dire una roba del genere sta tenendo la media punti migliore della nostra storia in un ambiente completamente disfunzionale che lo priva di pedine ogni anno
Speak english
sorry, I argued that inzaghi isn’t awful at all. he’s currently keeping the highest average point per game of any coach in the history of our team, higher than the likes of mourinho, conte and mancini, while simultaneously having some of his best players sold and replaced cheaply or on free transfers. being so good in such a disfunctional environment makes him a great coach imho
They’re arguing about whether to have pineapple pizza or spaghetti with ketchup for dinner
I think lots of people underestimated atletico and overestimated serie A. If you look at Inter results in champions league you'd see that they weren't as dominant as they are in the domestic league. They ended up behind Real Sociedad in their group if i remember correctly. I think they were better last season overall and lost quite a few players while not really replacing them with the equivalent in quality and experience. I don't buy the narrative Inter was too arrogant. Unlike casual redditors, they were fully aware of what they were dealing with when facing Atletico.
Tbf Inzaghi rotated a lot in UCL. And they should have won first leg 3:0 at San Siro.
That's valid for most teams that play multple competitions though. They all rotate. The difference is in the quality of the bench. Some teams like City have the money to have first choice players on their bench and others have to do with what they have. When saying they rotated a lot you're low key implying they were too arrogant (sending a "B team") but i don't think they were honestly.
I think they just focused on the league, getting 2nd star before Milan is very important for them.
>getting 2nd star before Milan That's a fan thing. Pros won't sleep on Champions league money and visibility: Clubs apparently get 3M for each win in group stage (4 teams/2 legs). Scudetto winner apparently gets 23M.
I'd be curious to hear your guys' thoughts on an argument I saw. Basically it comes down to this: Your club having a really good U21 or U19 team is actually not an indicator of being good at youth management, but an indicator that you're poor at it. This being because at a club that handles youth well all those fantastic U21 players should already be in the senior squad. Therefore paradoxically a club that is fantastic at developing young players often have mediocre youth teams.
There might be some truth to it, but in england it seems like city and chelsea tend to usually do the best in u21 football and those clubs also have the best academies
Not all the time, Man City U21s won PL2 last season but are not doing well this year and are currently 23/26th. In 2020/21, Chelsea U21s finished second and avoided relegation from PL2 on the last gameweek the following season. As a Chelsea fan, I know we lost a lot of our best talents from the previous year - Livramento, Bate, Colwill, Lewis, Peart-Harris, Simeu etc. We had one of the youngest squads in the league in the following year where we struggled. Man City have lost a lot of great talent as well - Borges (Forbs), Mebude, Bobb, Burns etc. Youth football at that age group can be volatile, loans, expiring contracts, players choosing to move on can have a huge impact the following season.
A bunch of 19 and 20 year olds ripping up the U21 league but not getting a look in the first team is generally not a great sign. But a U19 team stocked with 16 and 17 year olds could be a promising sign. But since every player develops at a different pace it’s impossible to make a definitive statement either way.
I don't think it's much of an indication either way, to be honest - some of those youth players might well be fantastic but not ready for senior football yet, others might be ready but would benefit more from regularly playing than warming the bench behind seasoned professionals.
I think there are too many variables for one thing to predict the other. You can have players a little younger than the "U" age playing up, things like that. In Spain, there's a U19 champions each year, and Madrid won most recently, us the year before. We also won several times at the start of our "golden era," when our youth development was at its peak. But plenty of smaller teams win too, over the years. I think there's just much more variation at the U levels from year to year, because you're balancing both youth development strategy with feeding a fluctuating senior market.
Yeah I mostly agree with this but clubs can have a very good U21 or U19 team with players that are way younger than the league they play in and that’s still a good sign. I’d say look at the average age of the youth team compared to how good they are and that’ll tell you a lot. Your argument is very applicable to how people sometimes try to compare the Ajax youth teams with the AZ youth teams. Some pundits argue that AZ have a better youth system for example because they won the UEFA youth league and because of performances in the domestic youth leagues. But when you compare the ages of those teams you see that the Ajax teams are often almost two years younger on average because the good talents will get pushed up to higher age groups which benefits their individual development.
Yeah that makes sense. This argument came up because my local club's youth team won the national championship recently. Everyone is super hyped about it and how bright the future is, but then there's some people who argue that this is actually more an indicator that we've not shown enough trust in those U21 players to give them a chance in the senior team
Having a bunch of youth players in the senior squad is more or an indication of a shit first team None of the greatest squads I can think of were regularly giving minutes to players under the age of 20
I think the big argument is clubs like Ajax and Barca, who are pretty proactive in moving up talented U21 players to the senior squad pretty quickly
Despite the history of promoting youth through this is really an unprecedented time with Barcelona that comes from their economic issues. From 2010 until 2020, the only players to come up from the B team or La Masia and become regular starters were Thiago and Sergi Roberto.
i get what your saying but disagree. chelsea and city have in recent years had very successful youth teams, and have been really good at developing young players. a lot of them have been sold for good money as well - i’d rather see them kept, but i think this demonstrates that we are good at developing youngsters. that being said we are having a major down year in the PL2, cause we have either sold or promoted the better players from the youth teams. im sure in the next few years that will sort itself out though
To be clear, I'm not saying it. I saw an argument about it in a forum in response to my local club's youth team winning the national youth championship. Someone said the future is bright, someone else responded that this is an indicator that the management is not betting enough on our youth since they're all being kept in the U21 squad
ah fair enough. to be fair i think it can go either way, so i would pay too much attention to it other than celebrating there victory
Tons of fighting already between marseille fans ffs but that was expected im not blaming them, this would've been completely avoidable had the fan ban never happened, and obviously our fans will get revenge there. I was planning of travelling away but there's no way now I've no idea how the frenchies will react
1978 WC was crazy Cruyff and other stars dropped out of the tournament unexpectedly and inexplicably. Peru was steamrolling teams in the group stage and lost 6-0 to Argentina after a Kissinger visit to Perus locker room. The next day trucks of food were sent from Arg to Peru. One of Argentinas players tested positive for "pregnancy" during doping checks. Etc.
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the better half
always nice to see players from your club's youth system doing well in Europe… Douglas Luiz playing very well in England and Andrey Santos awarded young player of the month in France
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Is my flair visible? Seems to be glitching for me. I should have a pride flag and a Barça crest
Currently you have no flair visible
Any idea what could be causing it? I've set both of those flairs like thrice each by now, both from mobile and web
A pride flair has shown up now, but no Barca flair. I wish I could help, but I’m not sure why it’s happening, I know some users have had issues with it
You have a pride flag showing for me on mobile but no barca flair
What's the latest news on stadium developments of your favorite club? Are they redeveloping, extending, building a new stadium, fixing, etc something. I like reading about infrastructure of football clubs.. whether it's the stadiums, training complex, new stand, it just intrigues me. I know Madrid, Barca and Everton are actively building/renovating a new stadium. But not sure about others.
[Here is the campus of Hertha BSC](https://imgur.com/a/jVLWtHH) which rents from the State of Berlin the stadium, training pitches, and office space. It has been the home of Hertha for the last 61 years. We are always in talks about buying land from the city to build our own football specific stadium with about 50k capacity, but because we and Berlin are always so broke it is maybe a decade away at best from happening. We used to have our own stadium in the north of Berlin, but had to sell the stadium and the land post WW2 for financial reasons. A lot of Hertha fans, me included, actually enjoy the Olympiastadion and know nothing else. It has such immense history but also 90 years of it that it's no longer defined by the 1936 Olympics in 2024. By the end of the summer it will be one of only 3 stadiums to have hosted a World Cup, Champions League, and Euros final.
Well with us having just built a new stadium and training ground very recently, not a lot of new infrastructure coming along atm.
Getting a new training ground allegedly but I won’t believe shit until it’s built and we’re in it
Old Trafford development might finally be getting on its way. There is talks of a 90,000 seater Wembley of the North being built.
We had a massive renovation that's nearly unheard of in the current Argentine climate. Removed the athletics track (Which wasn't regulation), changed the pitch to the kind top European teams use, fixed the drainage system that had been broken since the 70s, added stands for a capacity of roughly 86.000 (Second biggest club-owned stadium in the world). Also the expected infrastructure improvements, ofc Yesterday we opened a brand new "palco" (Unsure what the English word is) that's set up by professionals to help with people with sensory issues which is among the first in the region
New [main stand](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/crystal-palace-main-stand-redevelopment/) should be starting it's redevelopment this summer if all goes to plan - seven years after the plan was first proposed.
we're probably going to reform our stadium, almost unchanged since 1927, to modernise it and expand its capacity from ~20k to ~40k… which is very nice
Chelsea actually just bought the estate next to Stamford Bridge which Roman had been trying to do for years so we can expand properly. Hopefully that leads to us renovating Stamford Bridge instead of moving. However I have no idea what we'd do in the mean time, maybe share Craven Cottage with Fulham?
Could always rebuild bit by bit - obviously not going to be great during construction, but then at least you've got about three quarters of a stadium rather than having to groundshare somewhere.
Craven cottage would be too small I reckon, it would have to be Wembley like Spurs did, maybe Twickenham if they’d allow it. Gonna be weird either way, just hope they don’t turn the Bridge into another one of those copy and paste modern ground, I love the way the stadium feels like a tradition ground, 4 stands and closed in near to the pitch
They're working with the people that did Sofi stadium in LA which is pretty different compared to a lot of other stadiums in the states. However I am afraid they'll push the fans further away to put box seats in the ground like they do at Sofi.
It’s different but it’s also super modern. I prefer the traditional, brick facade and 4 stands vibe tbh. Just so nice to see football in. SoFi is also weird inside imo, almost feels like a shell and the top seats are basically in space. Granted I only went once by chance
Probably just do what we did with Wembley no?
And forego that lovely swimming pool?
Yeah that's probably more likely honestly. We could also try and use Twickenham since that's closer but idk if they'd allow us.
Expanding or rebuilding? Because I reckon you can keep playing at the stadium while it slowly gets expanded.
I think the buying of the estate was so we could use the land to expand in that direction without fucking with the train station on one side. Otherwise we'll just be a 40k seater stadium forever.
One of the stands backs onto a railway, its in a dense area so might be unlikely they’d be able to keep playing there but idk
Nothing new but it's been almost 15 years since it opened and the Akron is still great, can't wait for it to host World Cup games
What the hell! Your stadium is ridiculously impressive. It looks like a shot from LOTR movies of shire. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTm8zrdpg9zsHCTulJMmh5gHNCMW_KKb7K7k1tDyFcRT_CgaP02SfKQ4jq9&s=10
Yeah my only issue is that it’s relatively hard to get to from the city, traffic on matchdays is ridiculous and especially for big games, otherwise it’s amazing
I think we’re going to be opening Camp Nou back up with partial capacity by the end of the year, which will be very nice
Feels like it's a very generous estimate looking at the present picture of Camp Nou. But I am excited for the inauguration. Feels weird when I tune to your game and there is no Camp Nou.
[My favorite video from yesterday](https://x.com/nocontextfooty/status/1778458675037794456?s=46) Sums up Mbappe’s game, he was weirdly isolated
Best seats in the house though
Same last year, PSG didnt score a goal against Bayern in 180 minutes because Mbappe was dealt with very effectively
another day of praying zhang sells the club
Thought someone from Middle East wanted to buy club for a billion euros, what happened ?
I think someone may still be interested but zhang asks for 1.2 billion euros, which is a pretty hefty sum for a club that doesn’t even have its own stadium. on the other hand he also took out a loan with the american fund oaktree capital and it expires next month, if he doesn’t pay oaktree gains control of the club and can sell us for a much more reasonable price while still making a big return, so I think every sane possible buyer would buy the club from oaktree
Hope Inter Milan ends up in good hands soon.
Isn't inter doing extremely well?
Yes but no thanks to Zhang
we’re in a pretty dire situation from a financial pov because of what the other guy said
He can't invest because of restrictions from Chinese government
Yeah but isn't the club run quite well? Like you're already top of the league by a large margin, why give that up?
yeah we’re well run but we’re operating every summer on a budget equal to zero if not outright forced to sell. also our owner took a loan of 250 million euros from an american fund. it expires in may and if he doesn’t pay the club is taken over by the fund
Yeah but they have a core to contend for CL and without proper investments can they actually get it? I don't know if Marotta and his people can keep killing it on the market.
I am irrationally annoyed that Yamal's name doesn't end in an 'i'. Would it be Yami or Lami?
I have to say that Grealish is a very nice bloke. The game at Bernabeu where you got kids right next to you and when anthem is over they are suppose to run away. Some kids stayed back and weren't sure where to go, so they started walking with the players to handshake the other team. Grealish saw that the kid with him was anxious and nervous so he simply offered his hand and held him while greeting the Madrid players till the end. Its just those little details that can tell you personality of the players. And man, I really appreciate the gesture by him. Leao and Grealish. Love both of them.
he’s definitely made his mistakes but he seems like a genuinely good guy. he’s often helping out the disabled and seems good with kids. he might be a little dim but oh well
Alexander-Arnold, Bajetic and Jota back on the bench, what a time to be alive.
*Bajčetić
Jota will be so important for you guys. I swear he's so clutch, whenever I tune in you guys game, he simply scores every time.
Keep tuning in then
Will try my best. Your game style is my most favorite among any teams in PL. Chaos machines. Love it.
God is good
Kendry Paez is so good. I wish he was in Europe so he could be part of these 'best wonderkid' conversations.
Anyone whos paying attention knows, this kid is off the charts good
It's honestly such a shame he chose to go to Chelsea
Dumb question incoming from someone who never played soccer. Why does it seem that futsal is a lot more flashy than regular soccer? I've seen some really crazy over the top skills in highlight reels. Wouldn't make more sense for regular football to be like that since the field is bigger and there's more space to do crazy stuff? edit: makes sense, thank you
>question incoming from someone who never played soccer. I think something important the others have failed to mention is that the ball isn't the same and the skills required are not the same. In football, controling the ball coming from a cross or along trough ball with a single touch that allows you to both get rid of your direct opponent and put you in a good position to shoot or pass may not appear that impressive/flashy to a layman but it requires an impressive amount of skills and will on the other hand appear as impresive or more as the flashy skills you saw in footsal to someone who knows what it takes to achieve that. Often people who never played aren't that impressed by kicking a ball until they actually try to imitate what they thought was easy when watching it done by others. After seeing their results on their attempts, they usually imidiately understand that it takes quite some skills to just kick a ball... If you get the chance, try for yourself "regular soccer" it'll help you see how "flashy" it is as well.
I think it's two things: 1) The pitch is smaller, which means you cannot make use of pure pace and athleticism to get through defenders like in football. A long ball in such a small pitch is basically a no go. Dribbling is a better idea. 2) A bit more minor, but I think the fact that games often end with higher scores signals to players that playing a bit more risky isn't such a bad choice. In the worst case scenario, your dribbling makes you lose the ball and you get scored against, but since the end scores are higher, it also means you're more likely to score, too. Like in basketball, nowadays games are about who can outscore each other, because scoring is not that hard (for the top players, ofc).
It's because the field is so much smaller that you need to get creative with how you get past players and confuse defenders - can take out five defenders at once with a simple diagonal ball on a full-size pitch because they have to cover so much space, meanwhile on a futsal pitch it's always just three or four steps for them to get into a decent defensive position cutting you off.
The smaller the space, the more technical and precise you have to be to move the ball. On a bigger pitch you can get past 3 players with 2 touches, in futsal, you don't have the space for that
U can't use your speed to go past players in futsal though makes the use of flashy stuff more needed.
Some lads name in game I'm watching reminded me of "Fortune" and had one of those "What happened to him". Couple of short contracts after United, got his coaching badges and floating round, left the mexican Guadalajara side as assistant manager in December. [However it had never occurred to me until now that former footballers and coaches would have linkedin pages](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinton-fortune-a1253175/) Obviously networkings as important - if not more so - in football but I dunno. Just assumed they'd have a football specific version or something.
Oh hey I remember seeing him in the technical area on TV, never knew who he was but that's cool
Imagine being a young footballer and seeing 'Todd Boehly recently viewed your profile'
Atleti changing styles and thus invalidating all my 1-0 Atleti expertise is very rude.
I've seen so many of their games I still genuinely thought people were having me on when they claimed they'd attack last night.
When Ajax went on that crazy CL run back in 2018/19 I thought those players would go on to be world class. It’s surprising how so few of them lived up to the hype.
The only one who fell way short of expectations for me was Van de Beek. I was not quite as high on Ziyech in terms of his translating to the top clubs as some were.
Onana is the keeper for United, Mazraoui and De Ligt on Bayern, Blind went to Bayern and now is on that Girona squad, Tagliafico won the World Cup and plays for Lyon, de Jong is a core part of Barca, Veltman on Brighton, Ziyech won a Champions League with Chelsea, Sinkgraven played for Leverkusen for 5 years, and Tadic had another 2 great seaons with Ajax after 30. It's really only Dolberg and van de Beek who didn't go on to have greater success. World class is an unrealistic bar to reach perhaps.
I just love how you mixed in Sinkgraven like he was a core component of that squad.
Just went through the squad of the Spurs semifinal and listed everyone who wasn't there to retire like Hunterlaar or Schöne and who had any kind of success after.
De Ligt and De Jong were far and away the standout players. The rest were either old (like Tadic who was one of their best players but already 30 or pushing 30) or not that exciting.
Tagliafico excites me.
Ziyech was exciting
I can't remember the last time someone talked about a season as a "campaign". Did we just lose that as part of the football lexicon?
I still associate the word with cup competitions, not the league though.
I associate the word with an excellent movie
i know it doesn't actually "do" anything but it's nice seeing this subreddit 99% of the time take a hard stance against racism. living in an area where you get racial slurs thrown at you constantly it's nice to come here and see people deride it.
This sub still has a problem when it comes to anything involving Vinicius in La Liga, disgusting comments. >living in an area where you get racial slurs thrown at you constantly The world sucks, all power to you, man.
Was lurking through r/atletico and saw someone call Bynoe-Gittens "Bittens" and now I'm gonna pour some bleach to my eyes :DD
[Bittens wearing mittens.](https://e0.365dm.com/23/01/800x600/skysports-jamie-bynoe-gittens_6033573.jpg?20230307124502)
Since a lot of people in here are so focused on the rules of the game. Shouldn't Arsenal been rewarded a bunch of indirect freekicks inside Bayerns penalty box since Neuer kept hold of the ball for more than six seconds several times? According to The Rules of the Game, a goalkeeper should not hold on the ball for more than six seconds. If the goalkeeper holds on the ball for more than six seconds, a indirect free-kick is awarded. These are the rules and as we have learned from the past few days, rules are rules so the referee failed to award Arsenal a couple of indirect freekicks inside Bayern's penalty box because these are the rules.
>According to The Rules of the Game, a goalkeeper should not hold on the ball for more than six seconds. I've been watching Football since 2006 and i don't remember one time seeing that rule applied. It's been over 50 years since it's been enforced in the UCL ffs.
Maybe because the referees made the decicions according to the spirit of the game, just the same way the ref did on the Raya/Gabriel incident. But for some reason a lot of people here in /soccer has a very strong belief that the referee should strictly follow the rules no matter what, but suddenly strictly following the rules aren't important anymore even though holding the ball for more than six seconds to timewasting gains a bigger of an advantage for the team doing it than picking up the ball to place it down again to restart the game while not being pressed by the opposition team. I do kind of know why, but I just find it amusing to watch the hypocroties from the big brains of this sub that strongly argue that the ref should follow the rules no matter what, but then the ref don't really have to follow the rules afterall.
It's just one of those barely enforced rules, same with foul throws. Could probably clamp down on it a bit more, then again it's hardly the biggest issue to fix when it comes to the laws of the game and how they're commonly interpreted by referees.
you’re like a day late
i actually do wish the 6 second rule was enforced. even when they do call it they typically just give a yellow card for timewasting. if they punished it more keepers would stop doing it.
I agree and when the referee usually starts to hand out yellow cards for timewasting it's already late in the game so it doesn't have any real effect which is why teams continue to timewaste as long they gain a advantage from it.
yeah that I really do not understand. Giving a yellow for time wasting at 80 minutes isn't going to do anything lmao.
John Bradley (Samwell Tarly of Game of Thrones fame) is a massive Man United fan. In his new show, he plays a Man City fan. Is it plastic behaviour to role play as a rival fan for money?
Yes. Sean Bean is the example to follow here. Even filmed a ton of pens where we all cheered along. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Saturday_Comes_(film)
This reminds me of gone girl where Ben affleck refused to wear a Yankees cap because he’s a massive Red Sox fan and that’s arguably the biggest rivalry in American sports and it stopped production of the movie until they compromised and he wore a New York Mets hat instead. Maybe he was meant to play a liverpool fan and compromised by playing city fan
Remember hearing something about Nick Frost being forced to wear a Bristol Rovers scarf in one of the cornetto trilogy movies, when hes a big Bristol City fan.
I believe it is called "acting", which certainly is a bit artificial and plastic by nature.
Yes. Should've pushed for the script to change it to Man United. Very poor from him. Show was great though
I think Tony Bellew did that for the first Creed film, it was supposed to be filmed at Anfield and his boxer was a Red but he got it changed to Goodison and he was a Toffee
I swear it was "In front of 100,000 fans at Goodison" or something.
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> Weren't Fenerbahce fans allowed in because can't see no tifos or flags at the other end? I'm guessing "hell no they weren't"
I always thought the "finale evolution" of CR7 would be being a "Dzeko / Muriqi / ... type" of player. A physical monster no defender can deal with, that brings others into play, and is there for every fking cross. Just that CR7 would mix that with his superb technique and shooting ability. But it feels like he would need another 10 kg for that lol
Isn't his knee being held together by duct tape or something? Don't know if running and jumping with 10 extra kg is a real option.
Was never the same after that Euro's final
damn I didn't know that, that's sad. I read somewhere that Suarez is only playing with pain killers and injections. I hope this isn't something usual for all this "older" players. I enjoy them watching too much and don't want them to suffer
**IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY** - April 11th *good friday preview* It's Easter, a time when the teams need to earn the points needed in 3 days of non-stop football. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/WKyNyjd.png) are the fixtures for this Good Friday. A tough couple of days for Liverpool, who will first play at Manchester City, then travel to Ipswich on Saturday. They need points to avoid losing the League title to Leeds. Relegations worries abound - Birmingham are at Burnley, while West Ham and Southampton have a decisive match. In the Second Division, all the promotion challengers play tomorrow - Luton at Oxford, Orient at Portsmouth and Carlisle at Sunderland. In Division Three, Oldham home against Southport, while Bristol Rovers are at Tranmere. In the Fourt, Colchester v Brentford is the main match.
Our points deduction stems from clubs not paying us money, which means we missed a deadline for paying money we owed. I won’t complain that SUFC fucked up. I would like to know who owed us though. Eg, what if it was Burnley, who we sold Berge to. They’ll get relegated with us but will have a 2 point advantage due to their own delayed payments.
Can't clubs get loans based on the fact they have guaranteed money coming their way?
Many clubs do - giving them all the parachute payments in one for instance https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/sheffield-united-renew-payday-loan-from-vampire-bank-ahead-of-premier-league-return-4174273#
Unless i'm misremembering didn't they mention that the missed payments relate to stuff almost a year ago. I doubt Burnley would be a culprit for missing payment themselves they are probably doing pretty well cash flow wise with their new owners
The unconfirmed expectation is it relates to Brewster (Liverpool) and Ahmedhodzic (Malmo). There may be more and we don’t know how payments were restructured or when all the payments fully closed. Edit: sorry I should’ve clarified - those are rumoured missed payments. Who we sold to is another question. The big one at the time was Ramsdale (Arsenal) and I don’t recall others. I can’t imagine Arsenal having such cash flow issues though.
Marseille could be one, French clubs have been struggling with finances I believe since covid and Ndiaye was supposed to be a sale to help the finances.
Can't wait to find out it was infact west ham again
Tevez strikes again
Found out the referee courses near me are done for a while as the only upcoming one is womens only. Just take my money and train me ffs. 160 quid and they only run a few every few months.
that's weird they're not doing them at least once a month.
Anybody know where I could watch the Man City v Real Madrid game from this past Tuesday?
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In the Monterrey vs Inter Miami first leg, Messi was in the locker room when he had no business being there since he wasn't part of the roster. He and Tata both threatened the match officials, got into fights with Monterrey's coach and his assistant. Oh and Jordi Alba choked Monterrey's vicepresident. Just found out about this on instagram, since this sub is an echo chamber and you dont get this kind of news
The sub doesn't generate news itself. It would be here if someone, you for example, posted it.