The BIG Football Thread

[Shinigami357]

You know, I think the way people think of "transfer market" is limited. Like say, just English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian and some African players [I cannot list all them African countries, LOL].

I still remember SAF going trollface and stealing Chicharito right in front of everyone before the World Cup. When Wenger learns to find players anywhere outside of France, then maybe he'll rethink that ridiculous "market is overpriced" thinking.

Anyway...


According to the stats [and was plainly evident during the broadcast] other than that equalizer, Van Persie was held down to mediocrity for much of the match. He even had a Torres-like miss. Maybe there's hope for our defense yet.

PS

More friggin' injuries?!? Damn.

 

[Sick Wario]

40 million at best means signing one very good player at one or two good players. The inflation in the transfer market makes it difficult for clubs run on a sound financial structure. And even after transfer fees there's wages as well which could another four million a year per player. It all adds up, in fairness to Arsenal it is difficult for them to compete when the likes of Chelsea and Man City have unlimited money.

teams like Man City and Chelsea have fucked football.


Balotelli charged over 'stamp' on Parker

may as well add man utd, real, barcelona, milan, inter, juve, psg, malaga, anzhi to your 'fucked football' list

as for mario, it's a sad day for ALL of us when balo can be charged yet the spanish fa let pepe the animal off the hook

 

[rockstar99]

El Clasico again tomorrow... the Camp Nou now.

3-1...

We will play against Valencia should we win on aggregate against Madrid.


Anybody seen Real Sociadad's Griezmann? Amazing player.


Dortmund won on Sunday.... what an amazing league the Bundesliga is... a 1 point diff between 1st and 4th.
Been watching it for a month, mainly the Bayern Munich and Gladbach games.

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[Majorami]

Tell me more about this ball made out of feet.

 

[Satangel]

We may not be in position to spend lots of money, but hell you can't leave the team like it is right now, we don't have full backs, sagna, santos and gibbs are injured and we've lost many points because of that. We could buy a versatile player like vertonghen that plays most of the positions we need and it'll probably be enough until summer. Wenger's obstination is costing him a place for the team in CL (Where a lot of the money he doesn't spend comes from)

What, Vermaelen and Mertesacker aren't fullback enough for you? Koscielny? You've got loads of full backs, I think.... I'm not an expert though.

40 million at best means signing one very good player at one or two good players. The inflation in the transfer market makes it difficult for clubs run on a sound financial structure. And even after transfer fees there's wages as well which could another four million a year per player. It all adds up, in fairness to Arsenal it is difficult for them to compete when the likes of Chelsea and Man City have unlimited money.

teams like Man City and Chelsea have fucked football.


Balotelli charged over 'stamp' on Parker

may as well add man utd, real, barcelona, milan, inter, juve, psg, malaga, anzhi to your 'fucked football' list

as for mario, it's a sad day for ALL of us when balo can be charged yet the spanish fa let pepe the animal off the hook

The ones in bold are the ones who really have unlimited money, and who don't look at their debts. The other teams (Juve especially, wtf are you saying?!) haven't spend that much money the past few years and are working to slowly get rid of their debts. Calling Utd an unlimited money club is just plain ridiculous if you see our last transferperiods. Get your facts straight, hater.

 

[Shinigami357]

The City fan felt insulted. Let him be.

 

[lufere7]

We may not be in position to spend lots of money, but hell you can't leave the team like it is right now, we don't have full backs, sagna, santos and gibbs are injured and we've lost many points because of that. We could buy a versatile player like vertonghen that plays most of the positions we need and it'll probably be enough until summer. Wenger's obstination is costing him a place for the team in CL (Where a lot of the money he doesn't spend comes from)

What, Vermaelen and Mertesacker aren't fullback enough for you? Koscielny? You've got loads of full backs, I think.... I'm not an expert though.

I may be wrong since I'm not familiar with football terms in english, but, aren't fullbacks the defenders in wide positions? The ones you mentioned are centrebacks which is a position we do have covered, but we don't have healthy LBs(Santos and Gibbs) or RBs (Sagna and Jenkinson)

 

[Puregamer]

for the longest time i thought this thread was about american football . Where the Barca fans at?

 

[Satangel]

Watching Barcelona - Real Madrid now, really really enjoyable so far. Only 10 minutes far but the game has started on a crazy pace with lots of chances for both sides.

We may not be in position to spend lots of money, but hell you can't leave the team like it is right now, we don't have full backs, sagna, santos and gibbs are injured and we've lost many points because of that. We could buy a versatile player like vertonghen that plays most of the positions we need and it'll probably be enough until summer. Wenger's obstination is costing him a place for the team in CL (Where a lot of the money he doesn't spend comes from)

What, Vermaelen and Mertesacker aren't fullback enough for you? Koscielny? You've got loads of full backs, I think.... I'm not an expert though.

I may be wrong since I'm not familiar with football terms in english, but, aren't fullbacks the defenders in wide positions? The ones you mentioned are centrebacks which is a position we do have covered, but we don't have healthy LBs(Santos and Gibbs) or RBs (Sagna and Jenkinson)

Oh okay, wrong terms of me probably, sorry. I don't know any of your LB's/RB's if I'm honest

for the longest time i thought this thread was about american football . Where the Barca fans at?

I'm quite a fan of Barca, more of my local team but can appreciate Barca. If you love football you can't dislike Barca at the moment I guess

 

[Satangel]

NVM

 

[emigre]

Is it possible for both Liverpool and Cardiff to lose the League Cup final?

 

[Harumy]

FCB 2 - 2 RMA at the moment... maybe real will score in the last minute

EDIT: guess i was wrong

 

[kakashi919]

Good clasico this time... until the referee decided to go mental in the last 10 mins

 

[Ritsuki]

Good clasico this time... until the referee decided to go mental in the last 10 mins

Yeah, but you must admit that the last 10 mins were pretty tense...

I loved how Sergio Ramos went to shake the referee's hand after his red card

 

[Flame]

Is it possible for both Liverpool and Cardiff to lose the League Cup final?

i want Cardiff to win. fuck liverpool.

 

[Puregamer]

damn barca 2-2 madrid. It was a good game though, too bad no goal for messi

 

[rockstar99]

Valencia next round

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[Satangel]

damn barca 2-2 madrid. It was a good game though, too bad no goal for messi

This was an excellent game, excellent entertainment. Referee showed why they need technology though..... I hate to say it, but Real deserved more today, especially in the first half of the game they should have been up 1-3 or so. Unlucky + referee prevented that.

 

[Puregamer]

damn barca 2-2 madrid. It was a good game though, too bad no goal for messi

This was an excellent game, excellent entertainment. Referee showed why they need technology though..... I hate to say it, but Real deserved more today, especially in the first half of the game they should have been up 1-3 or so. Unlucky + referee prevented that.

I have to admit your right, madrid deserved that game, but then again, luck is a major factor in determining the outcome as well

 

[kakashi919]

So... Bayern Munich trolled their fans

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1013302/bayern-munich-anger-fans-with-%27new-signing%27-pr-stunt?cc=3888

I would be angry if it happened to me.. but still funny lol