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Title: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: headwalk on July 20, 2018, 10:55:35 AM: New season and all that.

Fantasy PL code: 825937-185279
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: headwalk on July 20, 2018, 10:55:52 AM: Start with this:
(https://i.redd.it/hdqwfehnx1b11.jpg)
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: warcock on July 20, 2018, 11:02:19 AM: I left club football for a couple of years and focused more on combat sports, all the diving this WC has reinvigorated my thirst. Time to dust off the old ram rod.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: BisMarckie on July 20, 2018, 11:18:36 AM: I entered the fantasy league.
My approach was to stockpile as many average players as possible :doge
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 20, 2018, 01:16:27 PM: Oooh fantasy league yez plz

Finally some good people posting
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: headwalk on July 21, 2018, 05:59:28 AM: i'm glad everton have learned from their mistakes of last summer and are going to throw £50m at watford for richarlison who hasn't scored or assisted since last year.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 21, 2018, 04:00:03 PM: Well he is a pacy winger

Last year everton got like 7 number 10s
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Post by: BisMarckie on July 21, 2018, 04:15:30 PM: I am still struggling to come to terms with the new football economy. 70+ mil for Alisson is nuts, 50 mil for Richarliison is utter insanity.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 21, 2018, 04:54:54 PM: Plz remember we only paid 60 mil for Aubameyang
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Post by: BisMarckie on July 21, 2018, 10:30:22 PM: Quote from: Premium Lager on July 21, 2018, 04:54:54 PM
Plz remember we only paid 60 mil for Aubameyang

Can't stand the guy, but yeah compared to the prices paid on the market it was a bargain.

As someone who has adopted Chelsea as my favorite English team during the Vialli and Zola days, I expect some Maurizio Sarri fuckery this season, that guy is a loose cannon.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: BisMarckie on July 21, 2018, 10:32:58 PM: Which leagues do you follow?
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Post by: BisMarckie on July 21, 2018, 10:38:52 PM: Quote from: Exodust on July 21, 2018, 10:34:25 PM
Not much anymore but I'm a dirty Internazionale stan so when I do, it's usually Serie A.

Yeah, I know, stones from glass houses and all that.

I also tend to like the Bundesliga.

Inter :respect

I started rooting for Inter when my Italian friend growing up was a huge Milan fan, so by default I had to pick Inter :doge

Bundesliga is boring, especially since my favorite team is 2 tiers below it. More time for other leagues though :rejoice
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Assimilate on July 21, 2018, 10:41:23 PM: I don't have the patience to follow the individual leagues anymore. I do what i do with all sports... i follow the playoffs

Which for this sport is the Champions League.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: BisMarckie on July 22, 2018, 12:16:24 AM: The Champions League has some really good teams playing each other, but that's it.
Football is so amazing because of the culture around it and you get nothing or very little of that in the Champions League. It is pretty much a football dystopia where every bit of passion
has been eliminated to be as pleasing as possible for the sponsors.
Football needs rivalries and you only find them in the leagues, although the Premier League all but eliminated football culture from the stadiums, you'll find more of that in the pubs these days.
I've been to 6 PL games in recent years and there were long stretches where there was absolute silence and the crowd behaved more like a Tennis audience.
It's a similar situation in Italy btw, the Ultras have been pretty much purged(some for valid reasons though) from the stadiums and the days where the stands were an absolute madhouse are gone. I was at the Genoa derby 10 years or so ago and didn't even bother to watch the game itself because the show in the stands was 10x more entertaining.

TLDR: I am just salty about modern football.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Mandark on July 22, 2018, 12:28:29 AM: I didn't pay attention last year and there was so much turnover I don't recognize half of Arsenal's roster.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 22, 2018, 12:16:05 PM: Quote from: Assimilate on July 21, 2018, 10:41:23 PM
I don't have the patience to follow the individual leagues anymore. I do what i do with all sports... i follow the playoffs

Which for this sport is the Champions League.

Lmaoooo couldnt be more wrong
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 22, 2018, 12:16:50 PM: Quote from: Mandark on July 22, 2018, 12:28:29 AM
I didn't pay attention last year and there was so much turnover I don't recognize half of Arsenal's roster.

We dropped a lot of deadwood like sanchez, wallcot, gibbs etc
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: curly on July 22, 2018, 04:10:33 PM: It's weird going into an Arsenal season not knowing ahead of time how it'll turn out.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 22, 2018, 04:19:55 PM: Well with Ozil quitting the German NT I think his mind will be focussed on proving the haters wrong

Expect us to fight for the top 4
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: BisMarckie on July 24, 2018, 04:49:49 PM: Quote from: Premium Lager on July 22, 2018, 04:19:55 PM

Expect us to fight for the top 4

#loweredexpectations :P
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 01, 2018, 03:06:32 AM: Shut up :lol

Salah has over 50% ownership now, really dont want him in my side but...
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: headwalk on August 08, 2018, 05:52:08 AM: wan-bissaka is this year's FPL legend.
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: BisMarckie on August 10, 2018, 03:37:30 PM: ManUtd dominates early, scores the first goal and then plays Mourinho ball to let Leicester back in the match. :rejoice
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: headwalk on August 12, 2018, 08:09:08 PM: today summed up: https://streamable.com/jzmxv
Title: Re: Football Thread 2018/19
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on August 15, 2018, 03:17:52 AM: Always so shit when Pep decides to rotate. If he benches Aguero in any of the upcoming games I swear Im dropping all my City players.