Author Topic: Football/Soccer 2015-18 (Read 179658 times)

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #840 on:** July 20, 2015, 10:26:55 AM »

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33591332

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #841 on:** July 21, 2015, 08:29:53 AM »

suppadoopa · « **Reply #842 on:** July 23, 2015, 05:00:44 AM »

https://vine.co/v/e6VpaO2H1DY

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #843 on:** July 25, 2015, 01:07:52 PM »

Republic of Ireland in the Group of shit + Bale

That group A tho'

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #844 on:** August 02, 2015, 11:57:37 AM »

You Irish Breh?

Arsenal

Chelsea

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #845 on:** August 04, 2015, 03:07:13 PM »

Fuck Ajax

Maybe next time just play with 12 year olds and be surprised you lose

Sausage · « **Reply #846 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:17:38 AM »

Arsenal

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #847 on:** August 09, 2015, 10:19:47 AM »

Cech sabotaging them from the inside. What a plan by Mourinho.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #848 on:** August 09, 2015, 11:45:55 AM »

That arsenal backline

Not to take away from West Ham because Payet was outpacing them and putting through balls perfectly all day and West Ham will probably be a side the big teams will struggle to get a result at along with Swansea. But still, Arsenal

headwalk · « **Reply #849 on:** August 09, 2015, 07:13:18 PM »

IRONS

VomKriege · « **Reply #850 on:** August 09, 2015, 07:38:43 PM »

Bielsa resigning from the Olympique de Marseille head coach position right at the end of the first game of the season is GOAT trolling.

headwalk · « **Reply #851 on:** August 09, 2015, 07:48:40 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on August 09, 2015, 07:38:43 PM

Bielsa resigning from the Olympique de Marseille head coach position right at the end of the first game of the season is GOAT trolling.

still sulking that we nicked their best player and chose bilic over him.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #852 on:** August 11, 2015, 05:33:23 PM »

What a game

Shame sevilla didnt win

VomKriege · « **Reply #853 on:** August 11, 2015, 11:33:45 PM »

Quote from: headwalk on August 09, 2015, 07:48:40 PM

Quote from: VomKriege on August 09, 2015, 07:38:43 PM
Bielsa resigning from the Olympique de Marseille head coach position right at the end of the first game of the season is GOAT trolling.

still sulking that we nicked their best player and chose bilic over him.

Oh God, Valbuena coming back to the French league after a year in Russia... at the Olympique Lyonnais

. The OM is considering un-retiring his number as a revenge. I didn't even know they did that, so ridiculous. You won a champion's league with an all star team you muppets.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #854 on:** August 16, 2015, 02:43:05 AM »

Disastrous start of fpl, need to use that card asap

Have a feeling things will get worse today and tomorrow too

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #855 on:** August 16, 2015, 03:49:37 PM »

Haha chelsea

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #856 on:** August 16, 2015, 06:17:52 PM »

Only got to see Arsenal v Crystal Palace today and Arsenal got off lucky. Palace couldn't keep the pace at the back but Coquelin should have seen a red, easily. Feel for any Palace Supporters because that was a rough game and they should have had a draw at least with the way they played.

Chelski though

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Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #857 on:** August 17, 2015, 01:10:41 AM »

Dude my fpl team was based on Chelsea And Southampton :'(

Instead of easy points I had the two worst rounds since my daugther was born and half my team was injured

Using wildcard this round

suppadoopa · « **Reply #858 on:** August 18, 2015, 06:12:12 PM »

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #859 on:** September 18, 2015, 05:14:59 AM »

My teams can't catch a break

Sure Ajax is first in the league and Arsenal is top 4

But Holland is doing shit, and Arsenal and Ajax are off to crap starts in Europe

Football is dead

Dutch football is in the shitter big time and soon we will lose our CL ticket

VomKriege · « **Reply #860 on:** September 18, 2015, 05:28:44 AM »

Dutch and Belgium football really did get fucked in the ass by 90's reforms, esp. how the C1 has become a tool to make all the rich teams richer. Last I take a look at, those leagues were slowly becoming farm teams for the English clubs.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #861 on:** September 18, 2015, 05:43:51 AM »

Thats how it is.

What really upsets me is how illogical all of the things surrounding football are. On one hand the Bosman ruling of course makes sense in the light of EU regulation of freedom of movement and labour etc. This would mean football is considered a business as any and the same rules should apply to the clubs right?

Wrong! If clubs are a normal business then why can't a club from lets say, Germany, play in the PML? If there truly is an open market and clubs are just a business as any other there should be no barrier of entry for Bayern Munich to play in England, or Aston Villa to play in the Serie A.

Also how are players not able to QUIT their jobs like other normal people? De Gea wants to go to Real but can't? What happened to giving your fucking notice and leaving? Is there some non compete clause in all of their contracts?

All of this just means everything is arbitrary bullshit meant to screw over the small leagues. Obviously football is a different animal then manufacturing, thats why we have world cups etc., maybe there should be special rules as well as this way the sport is going to hell.

VomKriege · « **Reply #862 on:** September 18, 2015, 06:09:43 AM »

I think a player is in theory able to buy back his remaining contract (it's mandatory in Spain to have a clause like that) but it's so prohibitive that it's just not feasible. To a layman like me, players are as much commodities/assets than employees and yeah you don't see anywhere else a company paying 50m to another company to snatch a guy, even a high ranking CEO that may be bound by a multi year contract. Or employee being owned in shares by different investors like Tevez was. Except maybe in showbusinesses, if even.

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #863 on:** September 18, 2015, 06:57:17 AM »

I have a hard time caring about players not being able to quit, they could just sign smaller contracts and not get stuck with one, but it's all about making as much cash as possible. Which is fair enough as well, but if you get yourself a huge deal for 5 years, it's hard to feel much sympathy when they want out a year early to go to Madrid or whatever. You brought up De Gea yourself, which in itself is a hilarious case and shows just how much the players and agents themselves are at fault for the situation, as he signed a new contract a week or two later with Manchester. So much for him missing his home city.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #864 on:** September 18, 2015, 07:36:05 AM »

I think there is a clause that Real can buy him for 40 million, but other clubs can't.

Still it's silly you can't just quit. I mean no matter how good your job is, you should always be able to walk away if you want. You get paid weekly/monthly anyway.

It's not as much as caring about their feels, as finding it odd that in one case (Bosman) its all about freedom but in this case they can't do it.

VomKriege · « **Reply #865 on:** September 18, 2015, 07:40:43 AM »

I think Premium Lager point was less about being militant about that and more that football players are under a peculiar if not unique status and as such should maybe respond to exceptional laws. I'd say though that I think that while players themselves do accept the system, they're probably the less guilty party of all the actors.

I would be curious to see a system where a player can quit (with maybe a special notice period adapted to the game, 6 months or something). Not sure if feasible.

Honestly, European football is in dire need of a salary cap. That's the only measure that could curb the obscene wages and even the playing field at the top (League level and UEFA level) and a further boost at forming your own players. Financial Fair Play was an half-measure only there to avoid catastrophic collapse at the cost of entrenching old money in the game. The current European Cups set up is a disaster as well for the sport (but not for the pockets of clubs). The 90's setup of C1, C2, C3 was pretty much perfect.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #866 on:** September 18, 2015, 08:41:36 AM »

Look at the line up of the 1995 Ajax team in the CL finale

I don't know if salary caps can fix anything at this stage, nationality rules are probably impossible to enforce now though.

Momo · « **Reply #867 on:** September 18, 2015, 08:45:50 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on September 18, 2015, 08:41:36 AM

Look at the line up of the 1995 Ajax team in the CL finale

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oh my god

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #868 on:** September 18, 2015, 08:45:56 AM »

Fair point. But eh, I guess I just have a hard time caring for it either way.

and Christ, you really easily forget how long van der sar and seedorf played.

Fifstar · « **Reply #869 on:** September 18, 2015, 11:53:35 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on September 18, 2015, 08:41:36 AM

Look at the line up of the 1995 Ajax team in the CL finale

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I don't know if salary caps can fix anything at this stage, nationality rules are probably impossible to enforce now though.

Such a team, i still have my (albeit fake) Litmanen jersey from that team.

I'm starting to feel your pain though. Even the Bundesliga (sans Bayern of course) will become a farm league for the EPL if things continue like they currently are. The winner takes it all indeed.

At the very least FIFA has to heavily restrict lending of players.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #870 on:** September 18, 2015, 06:52:03 PM »

Dude I had a shirt with all the authograps from the 95 team but I gave it away

Kara · « **Reply #871 on:** September 18, 2015, 07:50:17 PM »

If I walked away from a contract unfulfilled and unilaterally I would definitely face some repercussions. Wage labor is permitted more freedom of movement because to a large extent it's fungible.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #872 on:** September 19, 2015, 06:11:43 PM »

What a travesty, Mourinho and Costa are both disgusting human beings

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #873 on:** September 19, 2015, 06:38:00 PM »

I think we should focus on what a dirty team Arsenal are. 3 red cards in 2 matches? That's disgraceful.

Fifstar · « **Reply #874 on:** September 22, 2015, 03:28:03 PM »

Lewandoski just scored 5 goals in 9 minutes against Wolfsburg, unbelievable

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #875 on:** September 23, 2015, 07:52:23 AM »

"Yeah Lewandowski is a good striker, but we already have Giroud, Welbeck and Walcott for that position"

-Arsene Wenger

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #876 on:** September 23, 2015, 07:59:07 AM »

Meanwhile in Munich

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #877 on:** October 04, 2015, 04:19:57 PM »

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/195175-liverpool-fc-part-company-with-brendan-rodgers

https://vine.co/v/e2OFtXVuh2V

VomKriege · « **Reply #878 on:** October 04, 2015, 04:22:22 PM »

LFC cycle complete.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #879 on:** October 08, 2015, 07:31:55 AM »

Platini and Blatter banned for 90 days from FIFA and UEFA activities. Blatter is basically fucked and Platini will probably have to resign from UEFA

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/08/sepp-blatter-suspended-fifa

Being thrown to the wolves now the Swiss have opened a corruption investigation. Almost impossible to think of a year ago

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #880 on:** October 08, 2015, 04:58:00 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on October 04, 2015, 04:22:22 PM

LFC cycle complete.

Klopp is the new Liverpool manager. The cycle begins anew

Also watching the Ireland/Germany match and keeping an eye on the Scotland/Poland match

Fifstar · « **Reply #881 on:** October 09, 2015, 11:07:42 AM »

So perfect

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #882 on:** October 09, 2015, 12:16:34 PM »

Man what a bunch of pussies in the Mannschaft.

Guess well finish the job ourselves.

VomKriege · « **Reply #883 on:** October 10, 2015, 02:50:16 AM »

Klopp looks like a legiut exciting signing for Liverpool, to be honest.

French media coverage of Platini succession seems hilarious. I listened to a radio news flash yesterday and it was framed as "A man that could always campaign on probity is now being taken down by someone who hates him and will lose the FIFA chair for it" or some such.

I think Platini has decent convictions regarding the game and would be a step in the right direction (though it must be said that he did not accomplish that much as the UEFA head) but let's not kid ourselves, he's a politician through and through and he has been involved in the same shady backstage stuff that any of the FIFA goons. He was approached and lobbied by Qatar (along with then president Sarkozy) for the matter of the PSG ownership, lavish sport and media related investments in France & and probably the whole World Cup con, his son had been hired at that time as the head of a company owned by the Qatar sovereign fund for instance.

Still, I'm not too clear on what that arbitration council that handed the suspension is ? It's an internal FIFA thing ? If so, there could be some devious scheming in that whole masquerade.

Samson Manhug · « **Reply #884 on:** October 10, 2015, 10:26:22 PM »

Mexico is playing well. Hope US can pull this off after that embarrassing Gold Cup. I want to see them in the Confederations Cup again.

suppadoopa · « **Reply #885 on:** October 11, 2015, 12:41:13 AM »

Bobby Wood deserves better

VomKriege · « **Reply #886 on:** November 24, 2015, 08:42:37 AM »

FIFA internal council is asking for Platini to be banned for life

French media scrambles, it's battling for the headlines with the shot down Russian plane.

Is it a Blatter vendetta ? Maybe. Is it entertaining ? Definitely.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #887 on:** November 24, 2015, 01:11:10 PM »

Ides of ~~March~~ November at FIFA

Leicester City topping the Premier League at almost the half way point of the season

What a time to be alive

benjipwns · « **Reply #888 on:** December 03, 2015, 04:03:01 PM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/sports/fifa-scandal-arrests-in-switzerland.html

Quote

ZURICH — Swiss authorities began a new series of pre-dawn arrests Thursday in the broad investigation, led by United States officials, into corruption in international soccer. Sixteen people were expected to be charged by day’s end, law enforcement officials said, nearly doubling the size of an already huge case that has upended FIFA, soccer’s multibillion-dollar governing body.

Some of the arrests took place at the same luxury hotel where other FIFA officials were arrested in May. Swiss police entered the hotel, the Baur au Lac, through a side door at 6 a.m. local time. A hotel manager told visitors in the lobby they had to leave the property because of “an extreme situation.”

The police were targeting current and former senior soccer officials on charges that include racketeering, money laundering and fraud, authorities said. The new charges were expected to hit South and Central American soccer leaders particularly hard, the officials said.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #889 on:** February 23, 2016, 05:25:53 AM »

Let's hope for some of this tonight

Go on you Arsenal

Your Stalker · « **Reply #890 on:** February 23, 2016, 02:49:33 PM »

hold me brehs

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #891 on:** April 25, 2016, 05:10:18 PM »

Leicester City are three points away from winning the Premier League title and will secure it if they beat Manchester United this weekend.

2016 Premier League

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #892 on:** April 26, 2016, 04:20:50 AM »

Everyone in the world must be rooting for Leicester now, except Spurs fans.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #893 on:** April 26, 2016, 05:52:17 AM »

Best to watch is not the same as best.

I don't think I'd waste 2 hours of my life watching some random Seria A, Bundesliga or Primera Division game.

I'd watch Norwich - Stoke though.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #894 on:** April 26, 2016, 05:53:55 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on April 26, 2016, 04:20:50 AM

Everyone in the world must be rooting for Leicester now, except Spurs fans.

It's better than any of the big five and watching them all implode all season has been spectacular. (The LFC Cycle is already kicking in. Next year will be our year if we don't win the Europa, la)

Both don't have easy run ins. It's technically possible for Spurs to win if they win all of their next games and Leicester lose all three. But Leicester has a really sketchy form Man U this weekend and then a pretty abysmal Everton before Chelsea at the end of the season. Spurs have Chelsea, a Southampton who are fighting for a potential Europa spot and a resurgent Newcastle on the last day. Leicester don't even have to win any more games as if Spurs lose any of those, Leicester win the title (And I reckon Spurs will really bottle it against Southampton who are a pretty underrated side this season)

But then Europe has had a pretty shit season in general. Liegue 1, Serie A and Bundesliga are just one team leagues. At least the La Liga dogfight is entertaining as well as the EPL.

Take My Breh Away · « **Reply #895 on:** May 02, 2016, 04:59:16 PM »

Mods rename thread to "Football/Soccer: CHAT SHIT GET BANGED" pls

Leicester

Tottenham imploding at Chelsea

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #896 on:** May 03, 2016, 01:28:12 AM »

Happy for the Foxes, its a good day for football

Now if only Spurs drop below Arsenal everything will be perfect

VomKriege · « **Reply #897 on:** May 03, 2016, 03:40:26 AM »

Total brain fart as I haven't watched United in a long time, but part of me wonder if they should have kept a steady stance on David Moyes.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #898 on:** May 03, 2016, 03:54:58 AM »

No, Moyes also didn't hack it in Spain, United needs someone that can carry the burden like LvG.

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #899 on:** May 04, 2016, 08:58:30 AM »

Fuck Spurs

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