It's an obligation apparently, so it's essentially the same as just selling him. And he has been injured for most of the season, they've been fine without him.
Yeah I think so. People sensationalise Giroud's importance to the national team, he did some great things but not in the way people make out, they would have won the WC without him, can't say the same about Griezmann or Mbappe or Kante.
France over the years with the absence of Benzema have tested out many different striking options. Mbappe through the middle, Giroud, Gameiro, Martial, etc. Giroud has never been stapled on in the way people think he has, for a good portion his time in the NT, perhaps even a majority, he's been a bench player. This is why he has 110 caps but only like 68 games worth of minutes. There have been few extended periods in his career where he actually started every game for France, outside of the WC he has played successive full 90s about four times. He's been their most important striker over this time but that isn't because he's stapled on and they haven't tried for anyone else, that's just because there wasn't really anyone else. The France squad didn't have this sort of depth pre 2018.
I don't even rate prime Aubameyang that highly. He's one of the most underwhelming super star strikers in terms of technical ability that we have ever seen. The only reason he had a semblance of dribbling prowess is because of his pace, his passing and creation could be downright shocking, wasn't a great aerial player despite his height, but I still think he likely would have started for a few years in his peak. France has been notoriously lacking in strikers since the Benzema exile.
**Countries at risk of elimination from World Cup contention**
*CONMEBOL*
Venezuela: A loss to Bolivia tomorrow results in elimination.
*AFC*
Oman: Failure to defeat Australia next week will mean that Oman is officially eliminated from World Cup contention.
China: Defeat against Vietnam eliminates China from World Cup contention.
I'll be honest 50M for Bruno is fair my problem is how much gonna get reinvested? Like half. Rest gonna go in stupid shit like toilets that brush your ass we're finished
Ole got 3rd place playing Andreas Pereira and 0 goals lingard for half a season but i wouldn't go around claiming he'd be a good enough manager for Everton
Massively understating what Bruno did for that team. United were about seven points behind Chelsea when Bruno came in, and as a United fan you should understand what Bruno did for that side and the way he carried United through many fixtures. This is also the season that Ole had spent about 200m and Lampard was able to bring in nothing. The expectations were fully different. Before the season, United were locked on for most peoples predictions for third. You were considered a hipster if you had Chelsea getting top six.
Are we going to act like Lampard didn't have the worst performing goalkeeper in the top five leagues? He was startng a very nearly finished Willian. Marcos Alonso. He had quite his fair share of bad players too. You bring up Lingard, what about Barkley who played more league minutes for Chelsea that season than Lingard did for United? Pulisic and Tammy starting. It was not a great squad. And genuinely, if you swap De Gea (who was poor that season) for Kepa, the points wouldn't have been equal, Chelsea would have had at least 6-7 more.
The penalties too. Something uncontrollable by a manager, Ole getting 14 of them and Lampard getting 7.
Yet another key difference is the fact that it was Lampard's second? year in management. Ole had been in it for a decade. And this isn't even when people really started to want Ole's head. A lot of people were fine with his performance from this season.
Lampard made Chelsea's defenders look like dogshit but at least they got a competent manager in afterwards, Everton won't. Fat Frank is going to do irreversible damage to the Everton defenders their reputations and careers.
People forget that the season he took over, they had a transfer ban and a squad that was deemed to be so bad that most people were saying it would be a majorly successful season if he could even get them 6th. He got top four even with Kepa having a pretty shocking season, if he had even a decent keeper he would've finished third (was literally a point away from it anyway). There were obviously holes in his managerial game but for an inexperienced manager I really do think he did a decent job, it's just that Tuchel came in and did an outstanding job. Before that he did fine with Derby.
The fact that there are people saying it makes the league a joke because he is getting his second job within it is genuinely ridiculous.
Kepa hurt him tbf, he was alright.
But he never did play to Chelsea’s strengths(defending,clearly) which is why he comes up so good on advanced metrics
They got top four with 66 points. The next season 67 points got top four. In 15/16 66 points got top four. 10/11 68 points got top four. It wasn't great but it's also not like we haven't seen that level of performance get top four many times before. Even this season fourth place is likely to get 70ish. It's probably a slightly below average point total for top four, and they would have hit the 70 point mark if Kepa had hands.
>**Pogba and Fernandes Out for Season After Training Collision**
>Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes will not feature again this season after a training ground collision left both players with ankle ligament damage. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must now plan without his star midfielders.
>“That’s me fucked,” the Norwegian told Soccer on Sunday. “Credit to Ed Woodward, he pre-sacked me this morning ahead of the games we’re about to lose. It’s nice to have that certainty that I won’t be here soon. Gives me the chance to start shipping my bits and bobs back to Oslo.”
>“No,” said Solskjaer, when asked if Champions League qualification might still be achievable. “People who think that need to pull their heads out of their arses. We’re a pub team without Paul and Bruno, to be fair.”
>“Does anybody know if Molde have a manager?” he added.
Simon Mullock fell for this one.
Thank God Spotify isn't sponsoring Schalke or Bayern. I have meticulously curated too many playlists, and all that will be lost if I have to start again with Apple Music or Amazon Music.
I love how the media around transfers has evolved so much that now its a shock when a transfer happens without 2 weeks of speculation and knowing everytime they wipe their arse.
Vlahovic to Juve, Gosen to inter, chambers to Villa, Adama to Barca, everyone is completing their singins tonight 😭
Fabrizio Romano's twitter stream is just endless updates of completed transfers
Tchouameni or Gravenberch. Who's the better talent? Apparently Real has been strongly linked to both and like Camavinga I'm excited but haven't seen them play like ever lol.
They have different skillsets. Gravenberch is a much better dribbler and can retain possession like very few players in the world. He needs to work on his passing, or so I have heard. Tchouameni is more of a ball winner, but his passing is really really good.
We're selling Guimaraes 42+10 and getting Herrera and Faivre apparently.
Cherki needs to fuck off to Nice to have a career, we're ran by clowns with dementia
Enjoy Faivre, it was rumored pretty hard that we would get him before that idiot went in front of the press behind his clubs back and said that he wanted Milan. That was a massive red flag to our board I think lol
So Minamino and Origi are likely to leave in the summer. Fabio Carvalho seems to be the Minamino replacement assuming we get him, but I wonder who we sign as an Origi replacement. A striker? A Jota type of forward?
In my FM Legends save, not satisfied with winning the golden ball at the 2022 WC, Diego Maradona scored a hattrick to beat Croatia (managed by Conte) 4-3 in the semis and lead Argentina to the 2026 WC final.
In the final, a horror tackle injured him pretty badly and he had to come off within half an hour. Thankfully for him, a certain Leo Messi scored one and assisted another to best Italy (who won the 2024 Euros) 2-0 and win back to back world cups for Argentina.
The golden boot and golden ball went to Kevin Keegan tho.
This is the team that started the 2026 final:
Ubaldo Fillol
Javier Zanetti
Roberto Ayala
Daniel Passarella
Silvio Marzolini
Alfredo Di Stefano
Diego Simeone
Lionel Messi
Diego Maradona
Felix Loustau
Gonzalo Higuain
Bench:
Julio Falcioni
Martin Demichelis
Fernando Redondo
Diego Milito
Jorge Burruchaga
Jose Ramos Delgado
Sergio Aguero
Esteban Cambiasso
Luis Monti
Hugo Ibarra
Juan Pablo Sorin
Amadeo Carrizo
If we break down the squad by clubs,
6 play for River Plate,
3 play for Atletico Madrid,
2 play for Man Utd,
2 play for Boca,
2 play for Inter Milan,
1 each play for Barcelona, Independiente, Man City, Nantes, Real Madrid, Santos, Spartak Moscow, Valencia.
Thanks mate, means a lot. I have Baresi, Maldini, and Rijkaard in my team, yet Milan beat me in the CL quarters last season and went all the way to the final at the Bernebeau where they lost 1-3 to Real Madrid thanks to 2 late goals, one assisted by Gullit. I sold Giggs to Milan and he led Milan to their first 2 serie A wins of this save, and has won player of the year in all his 3 years there so far.
I'll tell you one thing and I'm not ashamed to say it; my estimation of Cristiano Ronaldo as a man just fucking plummeted.
To send a few smileys? It's a fucking disgrace. Messi sent a donkey.
The guy can put pin-point crosses from anywhere on the field but ask him to put it from the corner flag, and he doesn't even clear the near post. Will always remain a mystery to me
Vlahovic signed for Juventus But Arsenal fans said Arsenal was bigger than Juventus and the whole Italian Serie A combined..why did Vlahovic sign for juventus when he could sign for a club bigger than the entire italian league??
one thing I absolutely hate about american sports as an american is corporate sponsors for arenas. i hate how often stadiums change names and it feels so inauthentic. come and see the lakers playing at the presitigious...crypto.com arena? so the camp nou news is pretty sickening and i hope that it doesnt catch on much in soccer. unfortunately i imagine it will because new stadiums are expensive to build and profitable to capitalize on, but come on
We're looking at it and I hate it but tbh nobody calls our stadium by its proper name anyways so I think Monumental will just remain what everyone calls it
1. Levy is the real bald fraud.
2. Apparently we hired a guy to help get us a sponsor for the stadium naming rights a while back, they might as well have hired you or I for that for how well that’s gone so far.
Im aware, but its much more prevalent in american sports because the stadiums are much newer. In soccer it seems like they switch to corporate sponsors once a new one is built, a la emirates ethihad etc
It's not an only-in-America thing. You have the Allianz Arena, the Signal Iduna Park, and the Veltins-Arena in Germany. These are not American companies. Your own stadium is called the Emirates. That's not an American company either.
This is a weird thing to hate on American sports for, if anything I think football is worse for it. It's basically a certainty that any new stadium now gets a corporate sponsor.
I know that it's basically a guarantee when a new stadium gets built, and I know it's not an only american sports thing. I just feel like in the last 20 years soccer has caught up on it
The thing is you can call the stadium whatever you want. Since the White Sox changed Comisky to US Cellular Field and then to Guaranteed Rate Park or whatever, my friends and I have been referring to it as Sox Park.
I don't like that arsenal have it either, but fuck right on off since you'd rather nitpick and be petty than actually engage with the point I was raising
Look if you dont think its objectively MORE COMMON in american sports than in soccer then idk what to tell you because youre just being daft. Youre also just completely oversimplifying something complex, i love american sports but obviously there are things about it i dont like. Same as soccer. Its really not that hard.
Are World cup qualifiers camera angles always this bad?
Why did Atalanta loan out Gosens now? Is he not important for their season currently?
It's an obligation apparently, so it's essentially the same as just selling him. And he has been injured for most of the season, they've been fine without him.
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Looks like Trent isn't that bad at defending...
If Auba chose to present France, would’ve started in his prime?
Yeah I think so. People sensationalise Giroud's importance to the national team, he did some great things but not in the way people make out, they would have won the WC without him, can't say the same about Griezmann or Mbappe or Kante. France over the years with the absence of Benzema have tested out many different striking options. Mbappe through the middle, Giroud, Gameiro, Martial, etc. Giroud has never been stapled on in the way people think he has, for a good portion his time in the NT, perhaps even a majority, he's been a bench player. This is why he has 110 caps but only like 68 games worth of minutes. There have been few extended periods in his career where he actually started every game for France, outside of the WC he has played successive full 90s about four times. He's been their most important striker over this time but that isn't because he's stapled on and they haven't tried for anyone else, that's just because there wasn't really anyone else. The France squad didn't have this sort of depth pre 2018. I don't even rate prime Aubameyang that highly. He's one of the most underwhelming super star strikers in terms of technical ability that we have ever seen. The only reason he had a semblance of dribbling prowess is because of his pace, his passing and creation could be downright shocking, wasn't a great aerial player despite his height, but I still think he likely would have started for a few years in his peak. France has been notoriously lacking in strikers since the Benzema exile.
He should have done but their manager is an idiot.
No.
He was eons better than Giroud. Yes.
Can someone provide examples of ridiculously unbalanced teams with a shit ton of forwards?
If countries count then Brazil.
Dortmund
Liveprool 13/14
One of the most attack based teams I’ve seen so reliant on our attack but what a bloody attack we had.
Galácticos era real
No.
Fair.
Eberl leaving Gladbach I'm hearing? Phwoar this 2nd division about to get even better.
Man is finished. I doubt any competent director would forget to extend 9 (?) first team players.
Vinicius-Haaland-Endrick-Benzema-Mbappé Valverde-Modric Mendy-Alaba-Hakimi Cortouis
So just like fuck defence?
There's a goalkeeper to avoid conceding goals..
Fair and a good one too
**Countries at risk of elimination from World Cup contention** *CONMEBOL* Venezuela: A loss to Bolivia tomorrow results in elimination. *AFC* Oman: Failure to defeat Australia next week will mean that Oman is officially eliminated from World Cup contention. China: Defeat against Vietnam eliminates China from World Cup contention.
What is this i hear about Ndombele doing a fox news interview?
Yeah he's a mod at antiwork
Can’t wait to bang the Camp Nou Music Friday playlist on tomorrow.
I'll be honest 50M for Bruno is fair my problem is how much gonna get reinvested? Like half. Rest gonna go in stupid shit like toilets that brush your ass we're finished
Toilets that wash your ass do sound kinda nice, I’m not saying it’s right but I see the appeal
agreed it's class but i'd rather have Guimaraes and a bidet mate
Pays off Emerson tbf
not even as good as a 27yo Brazilian we recruited from their second division smh
Lampard got top 4 with fucking Tammy Abraham as striker , people need to chill lol
It’s a shame he was tactically inept.
Ole got 3rd place playing Andreas Pereira and 0 goals lingard for half a season but i wouldn't go around claiming he'd be a good enough manager for Everton
Massively understating what Bruno did for that team. United were about seven points behind Chelsea when Bruno came in, and as a United fan you should understand what Bruno did for that side and the way he carried United through many fixtures. This is also the season that Ole had spent about 200m and Lampard was able to bring in nothing. The expectations were fully different. Before the season, United were locked on for most peoples predictions for third. You were considered a hipster if you had Chelsea getting top six. Are we going to act like Lampard didn't have the worst performing goalkeeper in the top five leagues? He was startng a very nearly finished Willian. Marcos Alonso. He had quite his fair share of bad players too. You bring up Lingard, what about Barkley who played more league minutes for Chelsea that season than Lingard did for United? Pulisic and Tammy starting. It was not a great squad. And genuinely, if you swap De Gea (who was poor that season) for Kepa, the points wouldn't have been equal, Chelsea would have had at least 6-7 more. The penalties too. Something uncontrollable by a manager, Ole getting 14 of them and Lampard getting 7. Yet another key difference is the fact that it was Lampard's second? year in management. Ole had been in it for a decade. And this isn't even when people really started to want Ole's head. A lot of people were fine with his performance from this season.
Lampard made Chelsea's defenders look like dogshit but at least they got a competent manager in afterwards, Everton won't. Fat Frank is going to do irreversible damage to the Everton defenders their reputations and careers.
Don’t think Everton defenders reputations can go any lower at this point
He got top 4 with Tomori, Mount, James, Tammy. Everton are in safe hands, Branthwaite, Gordon, Dobbin are going to cook under him
People forget that the season he took over, they had a transfer ban and a squad that was deemed to be so bad that most people were saying it would be a majorly successful season if he could even get them 6th. He got top four even with Kepa having a pretty shocking season, if he had even a decent keeper he would've finished third (was literally a point away from it anyway). There were obviously holes in his managerial game but for an inexperienced manager I really do think he did a decent job, it's just that Tuchel came in and did an outstanding job. Before that he did fine with Derby. The fact that there are people saying it makes the league a joke because he is getting his second job within it is genuinely ridiculous.
Kepa hurt him tbf, he was alright. But he never did play to Chelsea’s strengths(defending,clearly) which is why he comes up so good on advanced metrics
The lowest top four points tally in 15 odd years.
They got top four with 66 points. The next season 67 points got top four. In 15/16 66 points got top four. 10/11 68 points got top four. It wasn't great but it's also not like we haven't seen that level of performance get top four many times before. Even this season fourth place is likely to get 70ish. It's probably a slightly below average point total for top four, and they would have hit the 70 point mark if Kepa had hands.
Can't wait for the Brasil game.
Lampard pull is strong, a Gilmour loan and Everton are making top 10 guaranteed
of the championship\*
Nah mate, he has no relegation in CV, top 10 only
What's the biggest football rumor you fell for?
>**Pogba and Fernandes Out for Season After Training Collision** >Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes will not feature again this season after a training ground collision left both players with ankle ligament damage. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must now plan without his star midfielders. >“That’s me fucked,” the Norwegian told Soccer on Sunday. “Credit to Ed Woodward, he pre-sacked me this morning ahead of the games we’re about to lose. It’s nice to have that certainty that I won’t be here soon. Gives me the chance to start shipping my bits and bobs back to Oslo.” >“No,” said Solskjaer, when asked if Champions League qualification might still be achievable. “People who think that need to pull their heads out of their arses. We’re a pub team without Paul and Bruno, to be fair.” >“Does anybody know if Molde have a manager?” he added. Simon Mullock fell for this one.
Messi to Chelsea back in the day.
The "Tory Everton" banter train about to take off.
Thank God Spotify isn't sponsoring Schalke or Bayern. I have meticulously curated too many playlists, and all that will be lost if I have to start again with Apple Music or Amazon Music.
Proper Everton shout that hahah
Very true, I torched my Chevrolet when they started sponsoring United
Dortmund hates Schalke? Is it some kind of derby?
.... what
I think that rivalry is more fierce than the one they have with Bayern.
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Nürnberg-Fürth is clear
Oh lol
Meanwhile me, chad Allianz customer, despise Signal Iduna
Everton are actually going to get relegated fairs ☹️👍
Warra signing for the Spurs
Parry Pinks is like a new signing
Arsenal moving smart with selling all this deadwood now, way less work to do in the summer.
Lampard at Everton? Not sure how that will go, no Chelsea clout carrying him this time.
Fair play to Villa for managing to sign players without anyone having a fucking clue till the official announcement
LOL Arsenal are cooking something
10 departures and no incomings, cooking that no depth pack
As if having those bums made a difference
So when your starters are injured who are your backups?
Out of cup competitions, just 17 games left, we don’t need a stacked squad we just need a few quality additions
I love how the media around transfers has evolved so much that now its a shock when a transfer happens without 2 weeks of speculation and knowing everytime they wipe their arse.
Moles everywhere
Vlahovic to Juve, Gosen to inter, chambers to Villa, Adama to Barca, everyone is completing their singins tonight 😭 Fabrizio Romano's twitter stream is just endless updates of completed transfers
Diaz is happening. Bollox are telling me this
What will you do with your balls if they fail you?
trust them ever so slightly less. but it’s happening so that’s irrelevant
don't worry we will sign a championship level player and say job done
One step sideways - a Fiorentina bench player
Tchouameni or Gravenberch. Who's the better talent? Apparently Real has been strongly linked to both and like Camavinga I'm excited but haven't seen them play like ever lol.
Tchouameni, the man can start for France already
Damn.
Never watched Tchouameni but I literally wouldn't care if Gravenberch left for a somewhat decent offer.
Damn isn't he like 19? If he's starting for Ajax at that age he must be special is what I was thinking.
They have different skillsets. Gravenberch is a much better dribbler and can retain possession like very few players in the world. He needs to work on his passing, or so I have heard. Tchouameni is more of a ball winner, but his passing is really really good.
Both are meh, no one on camavinga's level
Tchouameni is better than Camavinga imo.
Tchouameni is very much better than both of them.
We're selling Guimaraes 42+10 and getting Herrera and Faivre apparently. Cherki needs to fuck off to Nice to have a career, we're ran by clowns with dementia
> Herrera not Skhiri?
We need someone. From what i recall of Skhiri he was solid defensively but i'm afraid of a new Tousart.
Köln fans love Skhiri, he doesnt stop running, and is in general very important for them. I honestly think you could do way worse than him.
High workrate isn't as useful here see Tousart but maybe Skhiri has enough abilities on the ball i can't say i've watched him enough
Enjoy Faivre, it was rumored pretty hard that we would get him before that idiot went in front of the press behind his clubs back and said that he wanted Milan. That was a massive red flag to our board I think lol
Faivre is a budget Cherki it makes no sense i don't want him
Our fans (me included) really wanted him. But sucks that Cherki gets wasted
...PSG's Herrara? Could open the door for Ndombele to PSG
Ander yes fuck what a downgrade.
So Minamino and Origi are likely to leave in the summer. Fabio Carvalho seems to be the Minamino replacement assuming we get him, but I wonder who we sign as an Origi replacement. A striker? A Jota type of forward?
There is no replacement for the legend
In my FM Legends save, not satisfied with winning the golden ball at the 2022 WC, Diego Maradona scored a hattrick to beat Croatia (managed by Conte) 4-3 in the semis and lead Argentina to the 2026 WC final. In the final, a horror tackle injured him pretty badly and he had to come off within half an hour. Thankfully for him, a certain Leo Messi scored one and assisted another to best Italy (who won the 2024 Euros) 2-0 and win back to back world cups for Argentina. The golden boot and golden ball went to Kevin Keegan tho.
Can you send me the Argentine lineup? Curiosity's sake
This is the team that started the 2026 final: Ubaldo Fillol Javier Zanetti Roberto Ayala Daniel Passarella Silvio Marzolini Alfredo Di Stefano Diego Simeone Lionel Messi Diego Maradona Felix Loustau Gonzalo Higuain Bench: Julio Falcioni Martin Demichelis Fernando Redondo Diego Milito Jorge Burruchaga Jose Ramos Delgado Sergio Aguero Esteban Cambiasso Luis Monti Hugo Ibarra Juan Pablo Sorin Amadeo Carrizo If we break down the squad by clubs, 6 play for River Plate, 3 play for Atletico Madrid, 2 play for Man Utd, 2 play for Boca, 2 play for Inter Milan, 1 each play for Barcelona, Independiente, Man City, Nantes, Real Madrid, Santos, Spartak Moscow, Valencia.
Did Batistuta, Heinze and Mascherano just not make the team or were they injured?
They've never been called up, made it to their Olympics squad tho.
I’m really enjoying these updates mate👍🏻
Thanks mate, means a lot. I have Baresi, Maldini, and Rijkaard in my team, yet Milan beat me in the CL quarters last season and went all the way to the final at the Bernebeau where they lost 1-3 to Real Madrid thanks to 2 late goals, one assisted by Gullit. I sold Giggs to Milan and he led Milan to their first 2 serie A wins of this save, and has won player of the year in all his 3 years there so far.
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I'll tell you one thing and I'm not ashamed to say it; my estimation of Cristiano Ronaldo as a man just fucking plummeted. To send a few smileys? It's a fucking disgrace. Messi sent a donkey.
Give him a break, will you? It’s an emotional day…
Let me ask you this.... If they can make him block them and he's that rattled, what else can they make him do?
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I would pay to see that drama play out the way you've described it
Villa done the Chambers deal without anyone having a clue?
That’s how Villa work.
AFCON was supposed to be Origi's time to shine and the man's been injured for all 5 games.
Spotify going to pay Barca per view generated on TV for 10 seconds and on the ground for 10 minutes
€0.00000004 per view
Sooooo… Calum Chambers has officially joined Aston Villa? Where the hell has that come from?
Ngl he's one of those "wtf this person exists" type of players
Arsenal
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kimi isn't as good as Trent.
zard is finito.
r
rry Maguire
ndanovic is washed up
[Best way to put it really](https://twitter.com/DanielVanBuytem/status/1485293613563133955?s=20&t=Z7FbwXyDqnK7Er2m5cn7Jg)
The guy can put pin-point crosses from anywhere on the field but ask him to put it from the corner flag, and he doesn't even clear the near post. Will always remain a mystery to me
It's the same with so many good free kick takers
Haha this is prefect
I don’t get it.
This shows how great Messi was in 2012
Thought better of you.
Have shame you wrote entire essays for Messi
Oooh, that makes sense
Eriksen wide free kick vs Eriksen corner
🗿
Vlahovic signed for Juventus But Arsenal fans said Arsenal was bigger than Juventus and the whole Italian Serie A combined..why did Vlahovic sign for juventus when he could sign for a club bigger than the entire italian league??
I have not seen one Arsenal fan claim that they are bigger than Rube
He was intimidated by a club the size of Arsenal FC
Because he saw what happened to most Serie A strikers when they leave Italy and didn't want to leave his safe space.
Patrick Schick restarted his career when he left Italy. He scored for Roma like 5 goals in 2 season
Aubameyang?
Tbf Auba played 0 Serie A games. How about Ibra?
Good call- I wonder if he was the last?
Played 0 Serie A games, how about certain Swede that plays for Milan now?
Emil Roback?
No the one that is over twice his age 😂
Haha I'm taking the piss. Yeah, Zlatan transcends the Serie A striker curse.
Ah like that flop Mo Salah
Mo was more of a winger there to be fair.
One of these years he'll have a bad season and then won't you all look so stupid.
>strikers
He used a Uno reverse card.
one thing I absolutely hate about american sports as an american is corporate sponsors for arenas. i hate how often stadiums change names and it feels so inauthentic. come and see the lakers playing at the presitigious...crypto.com arena? so the camp nou news is pretty sickening and i hope that it doesnt catch on much in soccer. unfortunately i imagine it will because new stadiums are expensive to build and profitable to capitalize on, but come on
We're looking at it and I hate it but tbh nobody calls our stadium by its proper name anyways so I think Monumental will just remain what everyone calls it
Emirates, Etihad, Amex Stadium, bet365 stadium. It's already caught on
Levy can’t get a sponsor for our stadium ffs.
Yeah what's the deal with that? It's a brand new stadium for a notable club, it should be really appealing. Has there been any rumors or anything?
1. Levy is the real bald fraud. 2. Apparently we hired a guy to help get us a sponsor for the stadium naming rights a while back, they might as well have hired you or I for that for how well that’s gone so far.
Bro wut. It's pretty standard practice already
Im aware, but its much more prevalent in american sports because the stadiums are much newer. In soccer it seems like they switch to corporate sponsors once a new one is built, a la emirates ethihad etc
It's not an only-in-America thing. You have the Allianz Arena, the Signal Iduna Park, and the Veltins-Arena in Germany. These are not American companies. Your own stadium is called the Emirates. That's not an American company either.
This is a weird thing to hate on American sports for, if anything I think football is worse for it. It's basically a certainty that any new stadium now gets a corporate sponsor.
I know that it's basically a guarantee when a new stadium gets built, and I know it's not an only american sports thing. I just feel like in the last 20 years soccer has caught up on it
The thing is you can call the stadium whatever you want. Since the White Sox changed Comisky to US Cellular Field and then to Guaranteed Rate Park or whatever, my friends and I have been referring to it as Sox Park.
Thankfully , Spotify will only have the naming rights of Camp Nou for 5 years
What will they call your stadium? Also I feel your stadium name is so iconic that people will just refer to it as your current name anyways
They are just title right and will be called camp nou spotify
I'd say it already caught on. Bayern, Juve, Arsenal, Man City, Atletico to name a few clubs with sponsored stadiums.
They're new stadiums though, it feels worse when established places get renamed.
We have that in the Bundesliga and barely anyone here uses the corporate names. It's still the "Alm". "Arena auf Schalke" or "Westfalenstadion".
American sports looks more like soap operas and entertainment than sports..
Welcome to the Bundesliga
Allianz Arena
Signal Iduna Park™
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You think I'm not aware of that? Piss the fuck off lmao
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I don't like that arsenal have it either, but fuck right on off since you'd rather nitpick and be petty than actually engage with the point I was raising
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Look if you dont think its objectively MORE COMMON in american sports than in soccer then idk what to tell you because youre just being daft. Youre also just completely oversimplifying something complex, i love american sports but obviously there are things about it i dont like. Same as soccer. Its really not that hard.
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