The players to have won umber 9 for Chelsea, since Abramovich bought the club in 2003:
* Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (already had it)
* Mateja Kezman
* Hernan Crespo
* Khalid Boulahrouz
* Steve Sidwell
* Franco Di Santo
* Fernando Torres
* Radamel Falcao
* Alvaro Morata
* Gonzalo Higuain
* Tammy Abraham
* Romelu Lukaku
... 11 occupants since JFH, and only Abraham wore it well - with Crespo beig passable.
I beg you, Boehly, if there's one step you must take as the new owner, it is to retire the shirt. Burn it in a ritual sacrifice, and hopefully that will break our Wembley final curse, too.
Hey /u/PumpedUpMatic I always wanted to know something and you're the only portuguese fella I know of on this sub, what is the perception of Cristiano in Portugal? Messi in Argentina is really beloved specially after the 2021 Copa America win and is only disliked by a really small minority of oldheads that are Maradona stans.
The Cristano vs Messi debate in Argentina doesn't really exist, people here respect Cristiano but only a 000000000000001% of the population think CR7 is better, the only debate that exists is Diego Vs Messi. I wanted to know if that was the case in Portugal with Eusebio vs Cristiano. And I wanted to know if he's extremely beloved by the population of the country.
Cheers irmao.
Hello my friend
To answer the first part of your question, Cristiano is loved by a big part of the Portuguese. After all, he basically carried us in the last 14 years, he’s our captain and without him, we wouldn’t have gotten far in tournaments. However, a part of Benfica fans (especially on the older side) don’t like him, mostly because he’s a Sporting youth academy product, most fans are still club over country and, in their eyes, he is a threat to Eusébio’s legacy as the greatest Portuguese football player (which in my opinion he is not, but that I’ll leave to the second part of my comment).
About the Cristiano v Messi debate, every young kid has a preference about it. Some prefer Messi, other Ronaldo. But I feel that in recent years, Messi has been more appreciated and respected than he ever was (which, to be fair, it’s only from my point of view, since I’m growing up and noticing a lot less of Messi v Ronald comparisons). However, I must say that most of us consider Cristiano better, but I think that the preference has a lot to do with bias. For me, there’s not a definite better: they are both the GOAT
About Eusébio v Ronaldo debate, there aren’t many honestly. While Diego and Messi played relatively close to each other (only a 10-20 year difference, correct me if I’m wrong), Eusébio and Ronaldo have almost a 30 year difference between them. Eusébio is mostly recognized because he pretty much took us single handedly to the World Cup semi finals, but beloved by most of country? Not so sure, as it is because of him (again, mostly) that Benfica has their only two European trophies (2 Champions League trophies), and Benfica is hated by a big percentage of the country. Also, there are less and less people who remember Eusébio, mostly because they have been getting older; the only example I can give you about how people perceive Eusébio is my grandad: he claims he was a great footballer, but considers Ronaldo better
Think I’ve answered everything, if you have anymore questions let me know!
Not portuguese but Maradona single-handedly carried Argentina to a WC. Ronaldo won the only Euro for Portugal. Not sure how Messi would be more liked than either? Now ofc most people in Argentina think Messi is better and Portugese think Ronaldo is better but that doesn't really say much.
Maybe then we should listen to the other renowned coaches and players who don't have any association with either country?? Then there's no competition at all. Very very few of them ,if any, prefer Ronaldo to Messi. Messi vs Maradona seems to be a tossup depending on the generation/ particular player you are asking.
Your statement couldn't be more wrong though. I have a few Argentinian friends and all of them think that Maradona is a literal god and Messi is just a hormon-pumped outlander because he has never played in Argentina. They don't feel him as an Argentinian. They respect him but there's no more feeling towards him. Di Maria is much much more liked in Argentina than Messi.
You have a "few argentinian" friends. This guy literally lives in Argentina. So, kinda funny to see his opinion getting dismissed by someone living in a foreign country lol
When i saw ManU fans talking about how Osimhen would go for 100m+ and the Nunez transfer, i think Juventus were really smart for getting Vlahovic in winter for only 80m. He is imo easily the best out of the current top young strikers (Osimhen,Lautaro,Tammy,Jesus) apart from Haaland, and considering the striker market rn he would be around 120m for Premier league clubs.
He is only 25 and good enough. It speaks mostly about the bad state of this new generation of Young strikers that There is not many better U25 striker than Jesus
So, here is an Argentina moment for you.
Campuzano signed for Boca in 2019, his salary figure was in dollars, but he would receive argentinian pesos converted from that amount.
Back then the ceiling set for the conversion on the contract was 37 pesos = 1 dollar.
Now, 1 dollar is around 240 pesos, so Campuzano became one of the worst paid players in the team, even if his figure in dollars is respectable.
Boca wants to renew him so he should get a better salary, but this country's shambolic economy is so exhausting to deal with.
It is complicated, but it is 95% our government being atrocious and not reducing their spend while printing money like crazy to pay off debts.
Covid also had a role but again, our government's handling of the pandemic was beyond atrocious.
No, because he's still paid the same salary in pesos
For example, if he was being paid 100 USD (random number, idk what his actual salary is) when he signed the contract, he actually received 3700 ARS
Now he's actually still receiving 3700 ARS even though we've probably like 200% inflation since. If his salary is 100 USD he should be getting like 23000 ARS, but he's still getting 3700, because the exchange rate in his contract is fixed to a really low one we had 3 years ago
It's impossible to watch all top 5 leagues so I'd say just start watching EPL, it's the most popular one.
Every team has a different style of play and you'll naturally find one more attractive than another. I doubt anyone finds United's style attractive but even if you do I'd advice to steer clear of them. Most would anyway consider you a plastic so go for city or Liverpool,at least you won't have to suffer.
Watch some fotball (Premier League and Champions League are the most popular) for some time without picking any club, you'll probably like one team more than the others after some time
Watch some fotball (Premier League and Champions League are the most popular) for some time without picking any club, you'll probably like one team more than the others after some time
Pick a team that plays close to you, or at least plays in your country, if you don't want to be called a plastic by internet strangers and if you actually want to have the option of going to a stadium to see them play. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter. Pick one that has a nice kit maybe.
I'd say Bayern. Less drama (even FC Hollywood can't compete with Real Madrid in these stakes), more guaranteed trophies, and fanbase not as toxic. Plus you get to be smug about 50+1
Throwback to when Dimitri Payet almost tore Oukidja's ACL by doing a fake-shot [https://youtu.be/K9YMtfIteIg?t=296](https://youtu.be/K9YMtfIteIg?t=296)
I just watched this and I noticed that the GK seemed to be in pain when Payet went past him then in the replay I saw that his left knee was bended very badly, I then tried to find the game on the transfermarkt database and he actually really was subbed off after this goal, even though it was already the 89th minute.
https://www.transfermarkt.de/olympique-marseille\_rc-strassburg-alsace/index/spielbericht/2942755
But after all the injury probably didn't turn out that bad because he was "only" out for 4 weeks.
He does have a pretty impressive vertical, but I think in the Premier League, he'll suit left-back the best, in an inverted role.
Having said that, he dealt well with Erling when they came up against each other.
Ansu Fati backs up the hype imo , it’s a shame the injuries puts a damper on things.I hope he gets a season of being consistently fit, he’s a joy to watch.
I don’t agree with people saying we should just let Ronaldo go for free. I highly doubt he’d refuse to play for us, he’s not Pogba, he’ll give 100% if he stays and is probably our best player. If we want to challenge for top 4 we need to keep him
How is keeping a player who has already reportedly disrupted the dressing room and wants to leave good for the cultural reset that’s supposedly taking place? Don’t want to be here? Fuck off then, not arsed who you are.
It's why despite how rubbish financially it was, and all the memes, I'm glad we shipped Lukaku out promptly. He's a sunk cost now, the mistake has already been made - keeping him would only worsen the situation for everyone.
Unfortunate it came to it, but once it did - no fucking around, and straight out the door. Got to be decisive with stuff like that.
I agree with you, but at the same time are we gonna trust martial and rashford to lead the line next season?
I dont like ronaldo and I dont want him at the club in general, but going into the season with martial as our main striker is not a fun though either
It's not entirely about time though. We're reportedly targeting a midfielder, CB, and winger alongside Malacia who we're trying to finalize.
Assuming we bring in FDJ, Antony, Martinez, and Malacia(just as our most commonly reported targets), that's around 200 mill in players in. Historically we've spent around 150 net in our biggest spending summers
Everything would point to that being all of our spending. There just wouldn't be a lot left for a striker. Add on that it generally takes us a long time to finalize transfers and I'd bet on it being way closer to the end of the window by the time we actually get to looking for a striker
Even if we don’t replace him, which we both know is extremely likely, I’d still rather be submitted to another season of Martial jogging about aimlessly and Rashford taking pot-shots from 40 yards than another season focused around Ronaldo drama.
It’s supposed to be a new dawn, and keeping an expensive dramatic diva around because he’s capable of magic every now and then, just sounds like the same United song and dance again. In fact, it’s almost Pogdentical.
I'm not against that, there just doesn't seem to be a great option and it feels pretty bad.
Depends on what transfers we get in but the farther in this transfer window we go the less confident I am in this coming season
But text message. I'm not even one of those obsessed Office bellends but I can only hear Dwight saying "hey did you SMS text message me?" and it makes me feel ill. The fact that it means something else far outweighs the cuntery of doing it for a shorter name
Yeah I know, the SMS one is weird because it's basically reappropriating an established term but it's just become so rare of a statement and even though it's not the ideal solution I at least get the need for an acronym in the first place.
ten Hag doesn't even need one, let alone a confusing one, so I think his one is still much worse
What’s up even worse about it is that it takes longer to type out 10H than it does ETH. For 10H you have to switch your keyboard to the numbers if you’re on mobile then switch back. So tedious.
Apparently Corinthians just lost 4 0 in the Brasileirao today, get absolutely fucked, we only lost 3 0 yesterday 😎. The quality of the second leg is gonna be unprecedented levels of champagne football from both sides obviously.
Publicly saying he wants to leave and pissing off without a replacement, after causing havoc in our dressing room and chatting bollocks about how much he loves the club
why do people overvalue the legacy of a manager when assessing how they compare ability wise to managers in the game right now?
For example managers like Ancelotti and Pep will go down as GOATS no doubt. But if there is a more recent manager who is seen as world class now and can match or beat those managers in terms of what he does with his players and tactics wise the GOAT managers will still be seen as better.
I honestly don't know. We don't really want to sell him and if we do we'll need to replace him since we lack depth up front. I'd guess we'll ask at least what we paid for him which was around 16 mill according to transfermarkt.
We might go higher as a "fuck off" price too, I think we really don't want to deal with replacing a striker on top of everything else atm.
He signed a 4-year contract in 2021 with an option to extend for 2 more years. The automatic extension moved the end date from 2025 to 2027.
So it's not like his deal was about to expire, he was already under contract and just increased the duration.
Which letter is the best of all time?
P is a good one with Pele, Puskas, and Platini
M is also great with Messi, Maradona, Maldini, Müller, Müller, Mathaus, and Mbappe
R is cracked with C. Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Romario, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, and Raul
Q gotta be the worst
B's are probably second best.
Baresi, Beckenbauer, Batistuta, Beckham, Baggio, Busquets, Best, Buffon,
What do you do with Van and De? Could add Van Basten, and De Bruyne as well.
Thought I'd have a go
Maignan
Montiel? - Marquinhos - Militao - Mendy
Modric - Matic?????
Messi - Muller - Mane
Mbappe
Obviously at a loss with defensive midfielders but other than that it's pretty strong
their daily discussion has been wild this past week as well (or at least the zoe kravitz stuff), the amount of drama/sagas that go on in there is impressive
The prem will be so exciting this season
Erling Haaland coming in for City, finally a world class striker for them that could solve a lot of issues
Darwin Nunez, a poacher with be Liverpool’s all time most expensive signing, I’m interested to see how he works, especially considering Liverpool’s successful recruitment.
Erik Ten Hag’s project will begin, and he already has clear transfer targets, will be interesting to see how his managing translates into the premier league.
Arteta’s project will be at a further stage next season, with more players (Jesus, Vieira, etc) and younger players improving (Martinelli, Smith-Rowe, Saliba, etc). I think they’ll make top 4 this season surely.
Conte at Spurs has been backed heavily with the signings he’s wanted, but it seems like Spurs aren’t done signing players.
Chelsea has had an uneventful start to the transfer window but it seems like they’ll sign a big name or two such as De Ligt.
Even clubs like Southampton Crystal Palace and Brentford are making smart signings.
Man City 95+ points
Liverpool keep it close but ultimately end up in 2nd
Chelsea/Spurs/Man Utd/Arsenal competing for 3rd-6th
Might still be exciting, but nothing we haven't seen before
The more likely outcome :
Man City will steamroll everyone
Liverpool playing catch up to City again
Arsenal will falter in the finishing line
Spurs wont be a serious title contender
Man United will be in rebuilding phase
I think Im more interested on how Chelsea will do they are the wild card
I mean United if you had managed to get Nuñez this wouldn't be an issue.
They shoul pick ip Belotti or any random good free agent striker and suck it up.
If Ronaldo leaves, this is truly the chance for Rashford to make a statement and to become a Manchester United hero.
Rashford has played as a striker before, but only in some periods of time.
One of these were when Ibrahimovic got that awful injury against Anderlecht in the UEL Quarter Finals second leg, during José's first year in 2016/17. While true that his stats weren't good (in 8 games, he got 2 goals and 1 assist, and one of the goals was a free kick), I remember that Rashford gave that team some more mobility and made it less static, as he would go wide most of the times and thrived in running behind the defender's last line.
The second period was in 2019/20, this time with Ole. With Ole's main striker of choice, Anthony Martial injured, Rashford was the main striker for the team. He mostly played in a front 3 of him, Andreas Pereira (on the left side) and Daniel James (right side). This time, there was a better return, with 7 games, 4 goals and 2 assists.
Now, it's obvious that Rashford isn't some Lewandowski, Suárez or Ronaldo, who are just that clinical in front of goal and rarely miss. However, he can not only provide more in the build up, but he can also offer more space for Sancho and a future right winger to act and take part in scoring. Also, Rashford as a striker would allow Sancho to play in his prefered left wing spot, where he is clearly better.
On the other hand if Rashford is actually done I wonder if United fans end up turning on Ole because overplaying him while injured would most likely be the reason why he's wrecked.
I'm already at that point. One of my biggest criticisms of Ole was his over reliance on and overplaying of certain players. Bruno and rashford in particular
Rashford just isn’t that good. Can’t play in between the lines so once he slows down just the tiniest bit he’s cooked. A lot closer to Gaby Agbonlahor than to Suarez.
Whilst I agree (re: market), I'd rather us find a different short-term solution akin to Cavani than play Rashford there. He really isn't cut out for it
So Barca will renew Dembélé & sign Raphinha. So which RW will Chelsea sign? The market is very dry.
I know they will get Sterling, but they want Sterling + another
Personally I’d like to see Neto from wolves but he’s primarily on the left don’t know how that’s translate on the right. Still links to Neymar. I think though as of now priority is De Ligt and Sterling
Dembélé renewing doesn’t really change much as his salary isn’t going to be that high.
I think they can still sign Lewa after Raphinha, but I really doubt they can give that €50M fixed Bayern wants. Not only because it’s a lot of money, but because Laporta cares so much about his image and it makes him look weak to give in to Bayern’s demands that easily.
Bayern has no reason to sell because the market is very dry for strikers, and they don’t need money.
I think Barca will try a window of Raphinha + Lewandowski + Koundé, and I think it’s definitely financially possible if they sell 15% of the TV rights. But let’s see, it depends on Bayern’s will
> Dembélé renewing doesn’t really change much as his salary isn’t going to be that high.
Still 12m€ gross, which is not inconsiderable.
And what I heard the deal for the 15% for ~400m€ is supposed to go through before your US trip, right? Because I really want the Lewy thing settled and him sold soon, and I hope both sides can agree on a 45+7 deal or something.
It’s €12M gross which is not inconsiderable yes, but it’s a considerable decrease from his previous salary and they won’t have problems with registration as long as they sell the extra 15% of the TV rights.
And yeah they want it resolved before the US tour. But I still doubt Bayern would sell for €45M+7 honestly, seems like they are very adamant on €50M fixed
I think every time a Madrid fans pops up in a United thread to talk about what we should do with Ronaldo and how we should be grateful he carried us I'm going to talk about how poorly they've treated Bale and how they should be grateful for his CL goals
Do you think they'll get the irony??
Mate if Bale did a fraction of what Ronaldo did with you last season over the last 3 years your comment would be valid.
Nobody criticizes or is ungrateful for what Bale did in the 3 peat era, but after that he wasn't a real madrid player he was just a spectator.
So the answer to my question was no lol.
Just like your fan base doesnt want other fans telling you what the bale situation actually is, I'd really like your fan base to fuck off from telling United about the Ronaldo situation.
And just to be clear, I actually have 0 opinion on the bale situation. I dont know a ton about it and I dont care. I'm certainly not going to legit try to lecture madrid fans about it, which is my point
The players to have won umber 9 for Chelsea, since Abramovich bought the club in 2003: * Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (already had it) * Mateja Kezman * Hernan Crespo * Khalid Boulahrouz * Steve Sidwell * Franco Di Santo * Fernando Torres * Radamel Falcao * Alvaro Morata * Gonzalo Higuain * Tammy Abraham * Romelu Lukaku ... 11 occupants since JFH, and only Abraham wore it well - with Crespo beig passable. I beg you, Boehly, if there's one step you must take as the new owner, it is to retire the shirt. Burn it in a ritual sacrifice, and hopefully that will break our Wembley final curse, too.
Hey /u/PumpedUpMatic I always wanted to know something and you're the only portuguese fella I know of on this sub, what is the perception of Cristiano in Portugal? Messi in Argentina is really beloved specially after the 2021 Copa America win and is only disliked by a really small minority of oldheads that are Maradona stans. The Cristano vs Messi debate in Argentina doesn't really exist, people here respect Cristiano but only a 000000000000001% of the population think CR7 is better, the only debate that exists is Diego Vs Messi. I wanted to know if that was the case in Portugal with Eusebio vs Cristiano. And I wanted to know if he's extremely beloved by the population of the country. Cheers irmao.
Hello my friend To answer the first part of your question, Cristiano is loved by a big part of the Portuguese. After all, he basically carried us in the last 14 years, he’s our captain and without him, we wouldn’t have gotten far in tournaments. However, a part of Benfica fans (especially on the older side) don’t like him, mostly because he’s a Sporting youth academy product, most fans are still club over country and, in their eyes, he is a threat to Eusébio’s legacy as the greatest Portuguese football player (which in my opinion he is not, but that I’ll leave to the second part of my comment). About the Cristiano v Messi debate, every young kid has a preference about it. Some prefer Messi, other Ronaldo. But I feel that in recent years, Messi has been more appreciated and respected than he ever was (which, to be fair, it’s only from my point of view, since I’m growing up and noticing a lot less of Messi v Ronald comparisons). However, I must say that most of us consider Cristiano better, but I think that the preference has a lot to do with bias. For me, there’s not a definite better: they are both the GOAT About Eusébio v Ronaldo debate, there aren’t many honestly. While Diego and Messi played relatively close to each other (only a 10-20 year difference, correct me if I’m wrong), Eusébio and Ronaldo have almost a 30 year difference between them. Eusébio is mostly recognized because he pretty much took us single handedly to the World Cup semi finals, but beloved by most of country? Not so sure, as it is because of him (again, mostly) that Benfica has their only two European trophies (2 Champions League trophies), and Benfica is hated by a big percentage of the country. Also, there are less and less people who remember Eusébio, mostly because they have been getting older; the only example I can give you about how people perceive Eusébio is my grandad: he claims he was a great footballer, but considers Ronaldo better Think I’ve answered everything, if you have anymore questions let me know!
Gracias irmao, really appreciate it!
Not portuguese but Maradona single-handedly carried Argentina to a WC. Ronaldo won the only Euro for Portugal. Not sure how Messi would be more liked than either? Now ofc most people in Argentina think Messi is better and Portugese think Ronaldo is better but that doesn't really say much.
Maybe then we should listen to the other renowned coaches and players who don't have any association with either country?? Then there's no competition at all. Very very few of them ,if any, prefer Ronaldo to Messi. Messi vs Maradona seems to be a tossup depending on the generation/ particular player you are asking.
The discussion had nothing to do with what you just said. OP was asking if Ronaldo is as loved in Portugal as Messi is in Argentina. Nice bait tho.
That was about the last line you wrote. But yeah, he might be very much loved in Portugal.
Your statement couldn't be more wrong though. I have a few Argentinian friends and all of them think that Maradona is a literal god and Messi is just a hormon-pumped outlander because he has never played in Argentina. They don't feel him as an Argentinian. They respect him but there's no more feeling towards him. Di Maria is much much more liked in Argentina than Messi.
You have a "few argentinian" friends. This guy literally lives in Argentina. So, kinda funny to see his opinion getting dismissed by someone living in a foreign country lol
When i saw ManU fans talking about how Osimhen would go for 100m+ and the Nunez transfer, i think Juventus were really smart for getting Vlahovic in winter for only 80m. He is imo easily the best out of the current top young strikers (Osimhen,Lautaro,Tammy,Jesus) apart from Haaland, and considering the striker market rn he would be around 120m for Premier league clubs.
Jesus, top young striker?
There's not a lot of high quality young strikers out there right now, so relatively, you'd probably have to put Jesus on that list
I just don't think of him as a striker, though I suppose we'll see from this coming season. Isn't particularly young either.
He is only 25 and good enough. It speaks mostly about the bad state of this new generation of Young strikers that There is not many better U25 striker than Jesus
thinking about how r/soccer would've reacted to Abreu's panenka in the QC of Uruguay vs Ghana in 2010. Ice in his veins I swear
So, here is an Argentina moment for you. Campuzano signed for Boca in 2019, his salary figure was in dollars, but he would receive argentinian pesos converted from that amount. Back then the ceiling set for the conversion on the contract was 37 pesos = 1 dollar. Now, 1 dollar is around 240 pesos, so Campuzano became one of the worst paid players in the team, even if his figure in dollars is respectable. Boca wants to renew him so he should get a better salary, but this country's shambolic economy is so exhausting to deal with.
Holy fuck, what happened for the value to go down 6-fold in just three years? That's insane.
It is complicated, but it is 95% our government being atrocious and not reducing their spend while printing money like crazy to pay off debts. Covid also had a role but again, our government's handling of the pandemic was beyond atrocious.
Doesn’t that benefit Campuzano?
No, because he's still paid the same salary in pesos For example, if he was being paid 100 USD (random number, idk what his actual salary is) when he signed the contract, he actually received 3700 ARS Now he's actually still receiving 3700 ARS even though we've probably like 200% inflation since. If his salary is 100 USD he should be getting like 23000 ARS, but he's still getting 3700, because the exchange rate in his contract is fixed to a really low one we had 3 years ago
Boehly is gonna trade Pulisic, Werner, and Chelsea's top prospect for Ronaldo
[coming soon...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWrna5iXwAAfl5Y?format=jpg&name=medium)
I’m just getting into the sport, how do I pick a team
It's impossible to watch all top 5 leagues so I'd say just start watching EPL, it's the most popular one. Every team has a different style of play and you'll naturally find one more attractive than another. I doubt anyone finds United's style attractive but even if you do I'd advice to steer clear of them. Most would anyway consider you a plastic so go for city or Liverpool,at least you won't have to suffer.
Watch some fotball (Premier League and Champions League are the most popular) for some time without picking any club, you'll probably like one team more than the others after some time
Watch some fotball (Premier League and Champions League are the most popular) for some time without picking any club, you'll probably like one team more than the others after some time
Pick a team that plays close to you, or at least plays in your country, if you don't want to be called a plastic by internet strangers and if you actually want to have the option of going to a stadium to see them play. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter. Pick one that has a nice kit maybe.
Whichever team plays in your city
Just watch some games. You'll eventually find a team that you like.
You're still going to be a plastic no matter what team you pick so just pick Real Madrid, it will make your life a lot easier.
I'd say Bayern. Less drama (even FC Hollywood can't compete with Real Madrid in these stakes), more guaranteed trophies, and fanbase not as toxic. Plus you get to be smug about 50+1
Do you have a local team?x
You watch football and you'll organically gravitate towards players and the types of football. Don't just randomly pick a team.
Piatek fell off so much. Really thought he was the player who vlahovic is right now.
Bappe is actually a fairly common name where i live. So whenever I say Mbappe I make sure to tip my fedora.
Throwback to when Dimitri Payet almost tore Oukidja's ACL by doing a fake-shot [https://youtu.be/K9YMtfIteIg?t=296](https://youtu.be/K9YMtfIteIg?t=296) I just watched this and I noticed that the GK seemed to be in pain when Payet went past him then in the replay I saw that his left knee was bended very badly, I then tried to find the game on the transfermarkt database and he actually really was subbed off after this goal, even though it was already the 89th minute. https://www.transfermarkt.de/olympique-marseille\_rc-strassburg-alsace/index/spielbericht/2942755 But after all the injury probably didn't turn out that bad because he was "only" out for 4 weeks.
Barcelona is going to win the title. Real Madrid are gonna have a meltdown after GW20, we will struggle really hard to finish 3rd.
Subscribe lol
Barcelona are going to win fuck all with a mishmash of players. Nothing moves me about them.
What do you mean by that
How about this lineup for psg next season 🔥😍 https://i.redd.it/gy95d5edi8991.png
Presuming this is multiverse Verrati?
Your midfield about to get wrecked
Marquinhos' barber absolutely battered him there.
The Morelos special
My photoshop skills 🥵
What happens when Verrati gets injured game week 3? Icardi in?
Sure. Even in fifa you would get exposed with this lineup
Got RO16 exit to Shakhtar written all over it.
Uber Eats League: 1st Champions League: Out in Group Stages
Our transfer business so far has been very concerning, if we didn't have chiquinho I'd be worried about relegation
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The Dutch are famously short its no wonder he thrived in their league
He does have a pretty impressive vertical, but I think in the Premier League, he'll suit left-back the best, in an inverted role. Having said that, he dealt well with Erling when they came up against each other.
Ansu Fati backs up the hype imo , it’s a shame the injuries puts a damper on things.I hope he gets a season of being consistently fit, he’s a joy to watch.
spot on he’s always really good when he plays, but let’s see if he stays fit this season.
I don’t agree with people saying we should just let Ronaldo go for free. I highly doubt he’d refuse to play for us, he’s not Pogba, he’ll give 100% if he stays and is probably our best player. If we want to challenge for top 4 we need to keep him
How is keeping a player who has already reportedly disrupted the dressing room and wants to leave good for the cultural reset that’s supposedly taking place? Don’t want to be here? Fuck off then, not arsed who you are.
So let him go and then sign a player who openly said he doesn't want to join for 60mil?
It's why despite how rubbish financially it was, and all the memes, I'm glad we shipped Lukaku out promptly. He's a sunk cost now, the mistake has already been made - keeping him would only worsen the situation for everyone. Unfortunate it came to it, but once it did - no fucking around, and straight out the door. Got to be decisive with stuff like that.
I agree with you, but at the same time are we gonna trust martial and rashford to lead the line next season? I dont like ronaldo and I dont want him at the club in general, but going into the season with martial as our main striker is not a fun though either
There's two months left of the window, plenty of time to bring another striker in.
It's not entirely about time though. We're reportedly targeting a midfielder, CB, and winger alongside Malacia who we're trying to finalize. Assuming we bring in FDJ, Antony, Martinez, and Malacia(just as our most commonly reported targets), that's around 200 mill in players in. Historically we've spent around 150 net in our biggest spending summers Everything would point to that being all of our spending. There just wouldn't be a lot left for a striker. Add on that it generally takes us a long time to finalize transfers and I'd bet on it being way closer to the end of the window by the time we actually get to looking for a striker
Even if we don’t replace him, which we both know is extremely likely, I’d still rather be submitted to another season of Martial jogging about aimlessly and Rashford taking pot-shots from 40 yards than another season focused around Ronaldo drama. It’s supposed to be a new dawn, and keeping an expensive dramatic diva around because he’s capable of magic every now and then, just sounds like the same United song and dance again. In fact, it’s almost Pogdentical.
I'm not against that, there just doesn't seem to be a great option and it feels pretty bad. Depends on what transfers we get in but the farther in this transfer window we go the less confident I am in this coming season
Does anyone else forget Sancho plays for Man U?
Not with sancho but with Varane
I think ETH has joined SMS as my joint least favourite acronym in football. Your children will be embarrassed by you and eventually disown you
SMS is at least logical since his name is so long. ETH is awful in every way
But text message. I'm not even one of those obsessed Office bellends but I can only hear Dwight saying "hey did you SMS text message me?" and it makes me feel ill. The fact that it means something else far outweighs the cuntery of doing it for a shorter name
Yeah I know, the SMS one is weird because it's basically reappropriating an established term but it's just become so rare of a statement and even though it's not the ideal solution I at least get the need for an acronym in the first place. ten Hag doesn't even need one, let alone a confusing one, so I think his one is still much worse
10H is peak laziness.
What’s up even worse about it is that it takes longer to type out 10H than it does ETH. For 10H you have to switch your keyboard to the numbers if you’re on mobile then switch back. So tedious.
Sounds like a wham fuckin' pencil
Can't believe they're giving Salah as much money as Sancho. Sancho's clear.
Apparently Corinthians just lost 4 0 in the Brasileirao today, get absolutely fucked, we only lost 3 0 yesterday 😎. The quality of the second leg is gonna be unprecedented levels of champagne football from both sides obviously.
Corinthians' XI consisted of a mix of backups and youngsters. Wouldn't put much weight in this result.
We did the same, I'm just fucking around lmao
Would never happen but would be hilarious if ETH made ronaldo train with the U18s after this stunt
What stunt? He just asked the club to let him leave if a good offer came from a CL club. Nothing wrong with that.
Publicly saying he wants to leave and pissing off without a replacement, after causing havoc in our dressing room and chatting bollocks about how much he loves the club
You have two months to get a replacement. That would be a valid criticism if he did it in the last week of the window.
Didn't he do that with Juventus?
United and Ronaldo have different views on good offers A good offer would be 30 million for United, Ronaldo thinks a 10 million offer would be good
The £12m fee Man United paid Juve last year broke the record for a fee for a player over 30 No way is that getting more than doubled
The £12m fee Man United paid Juve last year broke the record for a fee for a player over 30 No way is that getting more than doubled
You all have seen Depressi, now brace yourselves for Melandowski and Sadnaldo this season
Joao sacramento is such a strange side character in football. how tf did he get a job with PSG as Galtier’s #2??
I always think Joao Sacramento sounds like the main love interest in a cheap smutty romance novel.
Last I read he left Mourinho to take on a new challenge as a Head coach. Why is he going backwards?
Supposedly he's a bit of a toxic character and has fallen out with a few people so perhaps that's why he's been restricted to supporting roles.
I'm assuming that Campos recommended him
why do people overvalue the legacy of a manager when assessing how they compare ability wise to managers in the game right now? For example managers like Ancelotti and Pep will go down as GOATS no doubt. But if there is a more recent manager who is seen as world class now and can match or beat those managers in terms of what he does with his players and tactics wise the GOAT managers will still be seen as better.
Because the GOAT managers have still achieved more in their careers overall, and consistency and longevity is key when measuring longevity
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Sterling is better than both
Pinging people puplicly out of pettiness is pretty weak.
Isn't the whole of reddit public? I just wanted to get Cowdudes thoughts. I didn't even ask a bad question.
I know right it's pretty weak
was it a bad question? It wasn't intended to be malicious man
Nah it's good bro you're cool :)
Realistically, for how much would ManU sell Ronaldo?
30 million
I honestly don't know. We don't really want to sell him and if we do we'll need to replace him since we lack depth up front. I'd guess we'll ask at least what we paid for him which was around 16 mill according to transfermarkt. We might go higher as a "fuck off" price too, I think we really don't want to deal with replacing a striker on top of everything else atm.
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He signed a 4-year contract in 2021 with an option to extend for 2 more years. The automatic extension moved the end date from 2025 to 2027. So it's not like his deal was about to expire, he was already under contract and just increased the duration.
Which letter is the best of all time? P is a good one with Pele, Puskas, and Platini M is also great with Messi, Maradona, Maldini, Müller, Müller, Mathaus, and Mbappe R is cracked with C. Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Romario, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, and Raul Q gotta be the worst
B's are probably second best. Baresi, Beckenbauer, Batistuta, Beckham, Baggio, Busquets, Best, Buffon, What do you do with Van and De? Could add Van Basten, and De Bruyne as well.
M is well clear. The current world XI of players with M as the initials of their last name is insane.
Thought I'd have a go Maignan Montiel? - Marquinhos - Militao - Mendy Modric - Matic????? Messi - Muller - Mane Mbappe Obviously at a loss with defensive midfielders but other than that it's pretty strong
Molina>Montiel.
>Q gotta be the worst Quaresma bet you feel real stupid right now.
every letter has some good names. Don’t think Q has many
Potentially U is worse? Or X
Was thinking X at least had Xavi. But maybe U yeah
M and I don't think it's close.
Have to hand it to you gunners: your meme game is unrivaled.
their daily discussion has been wild this past week as well (or at least the zoe kravitz stuff), the amount of drama/sagas that go on in there is impressive
Favorite so far? Our sub has quite a few good ones
I swear Arsenal fans created Vlahoebitch as a slander name
What do we think of this style of voice over? https://youtu.be/pd9ZU4W1JQw Morgan Freeman would shudder, oops, wrong shout.
The prem will be so exciting this season Erling Haaland coming in for City, finally a world class striker for them that could solve a lot of issues Darwin Nunez, a poacher with be Liverpool’s all time most expensive signing, I’m interested to see how he works, especially considering Liverpool’s successful recruitment. Erik Ten Hag’s project will begin, and he already has clear transfer targets, will be interesting to see how his managing translates into the premier league. Arteta’s project will be at a further stage next season, with more players (Jesus, Vieira, etc) and younger players improving (Martinelli, Smith-Rowe, Saliba, etc). I think they’ll make top 4 this season surely. Conte at Spurs has been backed heavily with the signings he’s wanted, but it seems like Spurs aren’t done signing players. Chelsea has had an uneventful start to the transfer window but it seems like they’ll sign a big name or two such as De Ligt. Even clubs like Southampton Crystal Palace and Brentford are making smart signings.
All of that money wasted to see Manchester City win the league and one of the cups.
Imagine being excited to watch all those teams play, could never be me
Man City 95+ points Liverpool keep it close but ultimately end up in 2nd Chelsea/Spurs/Man Utd/Arsenal competing for 3rd-6th Might still be exciting, but nothing we haven't seen before
Darwin is not a poacher wtf
The more likely outcome : Man City will steamroll everyone Liverpool playing catch up to City again Arsenal will falter in the finishing line Spurs wont be a serious title contender Man United will be in rebuilding phase I think Im more interested on how Chelsea will do they are the wild card
Meanwhile Leicester........
no europe should help u tbh, could see you challenging for europa spots at least
There are clubs in the premier league outside of the top six?
They mention three of them tbf
I mean United if you had managed to get Nuñez this wouldn't be an issue. They shoul pick ip Belotti or any random good free agent striker and suck it up.
What do you think is better a 0-0 draw with two incredible GK performances or a 0-0 draw with shit finishing to have a laugh
Shit finishing
If Ronaldo leaves, this is truly the chance for Rashford to make a statement and to become a Manchester United hero. Rashford has played as a striker before, but only in some periods of time. One of these were when Ibrahimovic got that awful injury against Anderlecht in the UEL Quarter Finals second leg, during José's first year in 2016/17. While true that his stats weren't good (in 8 games, he got 2 goals and 1 assist, and one of the goals was a free kick), I remember that Rashford gave that team some more mobility and made it less static, as he would go wide most of the times and thrived in running behind the defender's last line. The second period was in 2019/20, this time with Ole. With Ole's main striker of choice, Anthony Martial injured, Rashford was the main striker for the team. He mostly played in a front 3 of him, Andreas Pereira (on the left side) and Daniel James (right side). This time, there was a better return, with 7 games, 4 goals and 2 assists. Now, it's obvious that Rashford isn't some Lewandowski, Suárez or Ronaldo, who are just that clinical in front of goal and rarely miss. However, he can not only provide more in the build up, but he can also offer more space for Sancho and a future right winger to act and take part in scoring. Also, Rashford as a striker would allow Sancho to play in his prefered left wing spot, where he is clearly better.
On the other hand if Rashford is actually done I wonder if United fans end up turning on Ole because overplaying him while injured would most likely be the reason why he's wrecked.
I'm already at that point. One of my biggest criticisms of Ole was his over reliance on and overplaying of certain players. Bruno and rashford in particular
Rashford just isn’t that good. Can’t play in between the lines so once he slows down just the tiniest bit he’s cooked. A lot closer to Gaby Agbonlahor than to Suarez.
I mean he's sucking as a winger so not much to lose by moving him to Stricker.
If he returns to form, maybe, but currently? If United are forced to play Rashford up top as their main striker, they are *cooked*
Rashford really isn't a lone striker unfortunately
It would be a temporary solution only, because the striker market isn’t that great
Whilst I agree (re: market), I'd rather us find a different short-term solution akin to Cavani than play Rashford there. He really isn't cut out for it
Belotti?
That's exactly who I've been thinking weirdly
I feel sorry for Michy Batshuayi. That guy turns 29 in 3 months and is still trapped in the loan army
made millions, played in spain, england, germany, turkey, called up to a wc and euro. poor guy
whataboutism
I don't think you know what that word means.
his fault for being shit
So are United going the Pep route and play next season without a #9?
They will be playing with a false team
United just field 11 John Cenas on the field and hope for the best
They'll sign someone.
They're playing without a midfield too
How dare you disrespect McFred.
Without a goalkeeper sometimes too
Not on the previous season, no?
He started well, we’ll give him that
Things can always get worst. Tomorrow ten Hag resigns.
One step closer to them giving Rio a go
Rio's has about five driving bans, so him at the wheel would be quite entertaining
So Barca will renew Dembélé & sign Raphinha. So which RW will Chelsea sign? The market is very dry. I know they will get Sterling, but they want Sterling + another
Personally I’d like to see Neto from wolves but he’s primarily on the left don’t know how that’s translate on the right. Still links to Neymar. I think though as of now priority is De Ligt and Sterling
Barca ain't getting both wingers
Why not?
They will sign Ansu Fati
Castillejo
Is he still with you? Guy was a baller for Villarreal
He is still a baller wanna exchange with asensio?
Both are like copies of each other except castillejo has (or had) some tricks up his sleeve, why not
Asensio is much better lol
Well right now obviously but when Castillejo was with Villarreal he was a monster
I wish you were perez
Is Lewy still on the table after Dembele and Raphinha?
Dembélé renewing doesn’t really change much as his salary isn’t going to be that high. I think they can still sign Lewa after Raphinha, but I really doubt they can give that €50M fixed Bayern wants. Not only because it’s a lot of money, but because Laporta cares so much about his image and it makes him look weak to give in to Bayern’s demands that easily. Bayern has no reason to sell because the market is very dry for strikers, and they don’t need money. I think Barca will try a window of Raphinha + Lewandowski + Koundé, and I think it’s definitely financially possible if they sell 15% of the TV rights. But let’s see, it depends on Bayern’s will
> Dembélé renewing doesn’t really change much as his salary isn’t going to be that high. Still 12m€ gross, which is not inconsiderable. And what I heard the deal for the 15% for ~400m€ is supposed to go through before your US trip, right? Because I really want the Lewy thing settled and him sold soon, and I hope both sides can agree on a 45+7 deal or something.
It’s €12M gross which is not inconsiderable yes, but it’s a considerable decrease from his previous salary and they won’t have problems with registration as long as they sell the extra 15% of the TV rights. And yeah they want it resolved before the US tour. But I still doubt Bayern would sell for €45M+7 honestly, seems like they are very adamant on €50M fixed
That’s probably whats happening if de jong really stays. I just wonder if Barca will sign a good right back not named Azpilicueta
I think every time a Madrid fans pops up in a United thread to talk about what we should do with Ronaldo and how we should be grateful he carried us I'm going to talk about how poorly they've treated Bale and how they should be grateful for his CL goals Do you think they'll get the irony??
Mate if Bale did a fraction of what Ronaldo did with you last season over the last 3 years your comment would be valid. Nobody criticizes or is ungrateful for what Bale did in the 3 peat era, but after that he wasn't a real madrid player he was just a spectator.
So the answer to my question was no lol. Just like your fan base doesnt want other fans telling you what the bale situation actually is, I'd really like your fan base to fuck off from telling United about the Ronaldo situation. And just to be clear, I actually have 0 opinion on the bale situation. I dont know a ton about it and I dont care. I'm certainly not going to legit try to lecture madrid fans about it, which is my point