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Fedya posted:

I never claimed they weren't, although they do have less money than EPL or La Liga teams

Sounding like they are getting ready to do a fire sale making some big names available, among them Thiago, Boateng, Vidal and Bernat (according to BILD).

I don't pay close enough attention to BM to know if it's because they have slipped, or if they are at max value and Bayern want to re-tool for the CL run.

Again, my issue is not that Liverpoo are spending the cash...if you have it, spend it, but when 2 years ago the manager basically criticizes clubs for doing so, then is happy as a clam to do it, it bugs me. Truth be told, I used to really like Klopp...had wished they brought him in to replace Pellegrini. However, having heard his rhetoric now for almost 3 years, he's kind of a twat.

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Chongo posted:

Hoping Spurs hold firm on Alderweireld and don't let him go to ManUre. My guess though is it would cost Mou between 75m-100m pounds...if nothing else, you can smell his desperation...and Poo paid 75m for Van Dijk so the bar has been set.

Yeah, it's not that easy. Spurs really do want to sell Alderweireld ASAP, because they don't want to meet his pay demands. Next year he has an option to become a free agent. They won't come close to getting 75 for him unless another team enters the fray.

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DeBruyne goes down today in training with serious knee injury...not good. Nothing official, but rumors are at the least it's an LCL tear which last time he had kept him out 2 months...could be an ACL, which would mean 9 months minimum.

Huge opportunity for Bernardo Silva and wunderkind Phil Foden if he is out for any length of time. Also a nice luxury since City has an abundance of wingers, they can move Bernardo to a central attacking role.

Toni Kroos throwing some shade on Leroy Sane for having all the talent in the world, but apparently not that motivated. Explains why Loew left him off the WC squad. Also explains why Pep benched him last year early on, and now this year.

Can only write it off to "youthful immaturity," for so long, and then it becomes he's just a difficult little twat. 22 is old enough to decide you are a serious footballer.

Hope Leroy gets his $hit together, not just for City but for Die Mannschaft

Any City fan who thought 2018-19 was going to be a repeat of 17-18 has had a nice dose of reality the last month.

Winning in the PL is hard...repeating as Champions even harder. Right now City is an absolute mess without DeBruyne. An at home humiliation to Lyon is being written off as "City has no tradition in the CL, thereforce, they don't value it like other clubs."

Mmm...not buying that one. This team is inconsistent because it is built with a couple of lunchpail guys (Fernandinho, DeBruyne, David Silva, Jon Stones, Aguero) and the rest are young guys who show up for matches when they feel like it. Jesus is starting to become a disappointment...he's been hanging out with Neymar too much, flopping all over the goddamn field. It's shameful.

By no means am I writing anything off, but these next 4-6 matches are critical because they will be without KDB. Pep's got his work cut out for him. It will be entertaining to see how it plays out.

Fuggin Delph...dude's been reading his press clippings. He was an absolute liability vs Lyon...lowest rated player in the match...2's and 3's. As soon as Mendy comes back, he's back where he belongs...in CDM roll or on the bench.

Scousers are the class of the league right now.

Not sure if you saw the Spurs/City match in the NFL appointed goat pasture, but Mendy has lost his fukkin mind.

Number one, he looked slow AF, but the haymaker he threw at Lamela (and luckily didn't land) was crazy. Lamela was working him all game, and I get the frustration, but the dude seems like he's becoming the Pac-Man Jones of the PL.

Sadly with Delph on the Shelf, he's our best option at LB. Saw Spurs locked up Dele for 6 more years. Harry Hickford will be "totes stoked."

Irish club apologises after falsely reporting player's death

An amateur Irish football club has apologised after it falsely reported the death of one of its players.

Dublin club Ballybrack FC had informed the Leinster Senior League side that Fernando Nuno La-Fuente had died in a traffic accident.

Their game against Arklow Town on Saturday was postponed while a minute's silence was held before other fixtures.

However, it emerged that La-Fuente is alive in his native Spain and the league has launched an investigation.

Griezmann Mbappe: French authorities could stop baby being named after World Cup winners

Parents who have named their baby boy Griezmann Mbappe after France's two World Cup winners could be stopped from doing so by French officials.

The baby was born in Brive in southern France, where the matter has been referred to the public prosecutor, the mayor's office confirmed to BBC Sport.

And for some background:

In 2015, a French court prevented a couple from naming their baby girl Nutella after the hazelnut spread, ruling that it would make her a laughing stock. The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead. 

More seriously, they could always name the kid Antoine Kylian.  Or Equanimeous.

 

France is a socialist country, where infringement on civil liberties are masked by stinky cheese and wine.

One of my good friends spent 30 years traveling to Paris and Toulouse on business...at one point, he was a huge Francophile. But he said the last 15 years, Paris has become a sewer. Working class neighborhoods he used to frequent to visit tobacco shops (to get Cuban cigars, he got to know the owners so well they would swap out different cigar bands so he could get them through customs), have become impoverished, crime-ridden ghettos.

Accrington v. Sunderland called off due to torrential rain resulting in standing water on the pitch

 

 

Accrington play in the Wham Stadium. Does Cliff Richard have a stadium named after him?

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