City sign Mahrez for 60 mil? Jeezus, the rich get richer. Magnificent signing.
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According to pundits though, they overpaid for a guy in the downside of his career.
A bigger concern is, who is going to back up Fernandinho? Getting pipped for Jorginho by Chelsea when we had a deal already agreed upon will change things. Dinho is always good for a 3 match ban a season due to yellow accrual.
Also...340M euro for Ronaldo? Guy is one of the GOAT...but he's 33. Did you really need him to win Serie A? Again.
They want to win Champions League.
Mahrez on the downside of his career? Bull****! He was brilliant last season.
They'll have to beat the refs to win CL.
Chelsea sack Conte for Sarri...not smart IMHO. Conte is a very good manager. Now Willian is going to want to leave.
After what Chelsea did to Anders Frisk, they can suffer in perpetuity.
Chongo posted:Chelsea sack Conte for Sarri...not smart IMHO. Conte is a very good manager. Now Willian is going to want to leave.
Willian hated playing for Conte.
Fukkin' Klopp...
Klopp in July 2016: âOther clubs can go out and spend more money and collect top players. I want to do it differently.â
- Signs Van Dijk for ÂĢ75m - the most expensive defender ever
- Offers âŽ70m for Alisson - potentially the most expensive GK ever!
As if the rest of the EPL is any different....
No, they just donât cop fake righteous indignation.
Fedya posted:As if the rest of the EPL is any different....
As if Bayern is any different.
I never claimed they weren't, although they do have less money than EPL or La Liga teams
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.
3 5-1 victories is solid evidence of a good strategy against Arsenal.
Alphonso Davies signed by Bayern fir 13 million big ones. Only 17 years of age. Wow!
Last time an MLS teenager got this kind of attention things didnât end well for him. This wunderkind was also born in Ghana.
What Bayern got for their money: 
Too bad he isn't American.
Vidal to Barcelona. And people bitch about Bayern buying players.
Meet Albion's new mascot. Boiler Man. #wba pic.twitter.com/mPHt4jggcF
â Paul Suart (@PaulSuartWBA) August 4, 2018
If the Tweet doesn't embed with the video, go here, which also has photos.
Looks like an Albino Spongebob
Any top club is going to go through periods of spending money...and will bring whining from those who don't spend money. Or you get an asshat like Klopp who feigns disgust at clubs like City, or ManUre, for spending money, and then Liverpoo turns around and does the same thing.
Bayern never spend??? Try being a Spurs fan. They haven't purchased a single player this offseason. Not a sausage. Nothing! Zilch! So, quit yer whining.
They get outspent by the Spanish and English sides, and it's all about winning the CL.
They outspend half the Bundesliga by themselves. Heck, Bayern is essentially a Bundesliga all-star team.
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.
Was perusing adidas' web site to order some gear for my niece and nephew...there is just something wrong that they charge the same amount for a ManUre kit as they a Portland Timbers kit.
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.
Chongo posted:Was perusing adidas' web site to order some gear for my niece and nephew...there is just something wrong that they charge the same amount for a ManUre kit as they a Portland Timbers kit.
Yeah, clearly the ManUre **** was overpriced. 
Poor Tottenham fans ð pic.twitter.com/CvmWdLLnKV
â TheFootballRepublic (@TheFootballRep) August 9, 2018
So saaaad! Suicide watch at full alert in north London today.
Me? Celebrating the fact that we didn't sell Toby. I guarantee you Mourinho goes to bed every night masturbating to this line up:
Fukking Mourinho...bitching about the World Cup devasted the pre-season training for his squad...meanwhile, Guardiola's take is "so amazing for our players to be in the World Cup, it also allows so much time for our young kids to train with the first team. That is so so important."
Mou pouts so much, half the time he looks like a penguin.
I'm sorry they have such poor taste. 
The only time I'll ever agree with Ramos....STFU Schnitzel Britches!
Liverpool is the most whiny sports entity on earth. Somehow, they make Vikings fans seem stable.
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.
Good thing y'all signed Mahrez then. It will be such a pity losing one of the best players in the league. IMO, he was #2 only to Salah last year.
He's off to see the Knee Whisperer in Barthelona, Dr. Ramon Cugat...he's the Dr. James Andrews of soccer. Got Mendy back from ACL in 8 months.
Brighton putting ManUre to the sword. Great game.
Yeah they sold or loaned all their backup keepers...no bueno. Talking about a desperation loan for Keylor Navas. My guess is that falls through and they promote an ill prepared EDS kid.
I like the idea of Evan Dietrich-Smith as a goalkeeper. 
Or in Kiel's case, Erectile Dysfunction Syndrome**.
**HatefulTM
WTF, they actually enforce DUI's in England?
Donât they realize heâs French? Apparently, he could still walk when they busted him. What more can you expect from a Frenchman?
You can expect him to have a mistress on the side, too.
Or two...
Wolves 1 City 1?
Co-MVP for Wolves? The goalpost and referee Martin Atkinson.
English refs are the worst in the world.
This has been a recurring theme for City the last 18 months...inability to put bad teams away consistently, letting them hang around, etc when anything can happen.
This squad has too many nice guys...DeBruyne is the heavy hand on that squad, and they are soft without him. Long season...I think we'll be OK.
Hit the post 3 times and their goal was a handball? Yeah, you are probably okay.
LMFAO!!! Spurs turning it into the "Theatre of Reams," today!
Can't wait to go home. I get to watch it in sparkling 4K, no less. I bet Mourinho's pouting face is that much more spectacular in 4K.
No surprise, Mou acts like a complete and utter twat-whistle post-match. At least he didn't call it a fake result like the first time Pep beat him in the PL.
We get Barca!!!
F91 Dudelange become the first side from Luxembourg to qualify for a European competition, at least since the end of the Cup Winners' Cup.
Nice! Cool name too.
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
https://www.theguardian.com/fo...s-leroy-sane-germany
Hopefully coming from someone of Kroos' stature, it will have an impact on Leroy...a wake up call of sorts. But my gut tells me, like most self-absorbed millennials, it will probably have zero effect. Hope I'm wrong.
Yeah, he won't give a ****. He already knows it all.
SanÃĐ should just play the race card like Ãzil, and all the useless idiots in the media will fall for it.
At least Sane would have a leg to stand on being half black. Ozil is Turkish, he's Caucasian.
Sorry GL about Spurs...not having Dele hurt. 'Poo seems to be the cats pyjamas this year...we are all just looking up at them.
Liverpool were so much better than us. We needed to upgrade our roster, but when your owner is as cheap as ours...
Tis true...Ebenezer Levy is the George Halas of the EPL...he throws around nickels like man-hole covers.
Really large manhole covers. UFO sized ones, in fact.
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.
Also, the red on Ronaldo was a fukking joke.
Isn't it amazing how Ronaldo (and everybody else) did much worse at Madrid and never saw red, but the minute he leaves he gets sent off.
On City? It's a long fukking season.
So I take it you don't care for Real Madrid?
Fukk does anyone but me and GL talk about soccer anymore?
I would if I knew anything about it. Let me see if I can.
That kicker guy should score more goals. He sucks.
Kiel can give you some lessons on hand placement.
Chongo posted:So I take it you don't care for Real Madrid?
Everybody hates Real Madrid.
You seem to have an elevated disdain for them. Not a fan, but, maybe because my squad has never been roughed up by them in a match that had serious consequences.
Ramos is a twat though. One of these days karma's coming back around and gonna do him dirty in a big way.
Wow...Bayern sitting 7th in the table...didn't see that one coming.
Chongo posted:Wow...Bayern sitting 7th in the table...didn't see that one coming.
Yup! They are only going to win that league by 20 points this year. Pathetic!
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."
Loved that they signed Dele to a big contract. Still only 22. I don't think Mendy ever intended to hit Lamela. He wasn't even close with that swing.
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.
****ing French. How is that a free country?
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.
Actually, quite a few European countries have laws about what you can name your kids. Here's a story from Iceland about new approved names for children.
Accrington v. Sunderland called off due to torrential rain resulting in standing water on the pitch
Mark Spitz coming on for Sunderland to swim down the wing. Utter farce this now. One all on a manky stormy day in Accrington with 20 mins to go. Can't pass five yards. pic.twitter.com/m3zDOwwpYd
â Martin Emmerson (@Martycricket) December 8, 2018
Accrington play in the Wham Stadium. Does Cliff Richard have a stadium named after him?
I love it when Brits act as if racism only exists in the U.S., and is a thing of the past in the UK.
Chongo posted:France is a socialist country, where infringement on civil liberties are masked by stinky cheese and wine.
Well, at least they chose something pleasant to do the masking.
Chongo posted:I love it when Brits act as if racism only exists in the U.S., and is a thing of the past in the UK.
They do????
And now that he's the Unemployed One, who will ManUre turn to replace him? Listening to the TalkSport callers jack each other off over Pochetino and Hairy Kane as a package deal.
Is there a more delusional lot in soccer fandom than the Rags?
Yes. Liverpool fans.
I thought Poo fans were just run of the mill racist gutter trash...but I guess they can be delusional too.
Very! In fact, if they win the league this year I'm committing seppuku.
Chongo posted:I love it when Brits act as if racism only exists in the U.S., and is a thing of the past in the UK.
Anderlecht fans celebrate with chants of "Jews burn the best". 
WTF is going on at City and Bayern. We can't let Liverpool win the league. Either City or Spurs have to stop them.
Err, Spurs arenât doing shit. Need City to bring a halt to the Liverpool machine.
Pulisic to Chelsea? Dammit!
Please smash Liverpool today.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Citeh!
Man City 2 Liverpool 1
'Poo fans have rapidly become my least favorite. Total scouser trash!
Dug ourselves a pretty big hole, if we'd lost it was all over. Now at least we can put some pressure on them. Poo reminds me of Leicester in 2015-16...every break going their way. They are out of the FA Cup and soon to be out of the CL, so they can focus all energy on winning the PL.
Luckily we get Arse, CFC and Spurs at home...but must play ManUre at Old Twatford...and they are actually a decent side now that Mou is gone.
Many injuries to overcome...has not been a great year from that perspective...Aguero, KDB, Mendy and Silva all have missed a lot of games. It has shown.
OFFICIAL: #FCBayern signs 17-year-old US international Taylor Booth! ðšðļ
â FC Bayern US (@FCBayernUS) January 31, 2019
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Interesting there's been a run on American youth players signing with big European clubs...not sure what Bayern's plan is for this kid, but the training against top competition he will get will be better than anything he gets in MLS. Even if it's the dev squad.
Luckily we get Arse, CFC and Spurs at home.
Technically, everyone gets everyone else home and away.
The special one...
Symbolic of Muorinho's career.
20 goals
Fukking Klopp..."ve have zem right vare ve vant zem!"
Insinuating they intended to play for the draw.
Good luck scoring at the Allianz Herr Chompers!
Fukking Schalke...lucky to even be in that tie. #Joostice
And down goes RM to Ajax...JFC, to be a razor blade salesman in Madrid tonight...
VAR blows...and while I hate ManUre, I took special joy in PSG getting the shaft at the hands of it.
Crazy quarterfinal lineup so far...Ajax, Manure, Spurs, Porto...next week gonna be crazy too.
Atleti/Juve gonna be a good one. Even though it's at home, I am uneasy about Schalke. I expect Barca to win, but all Lyon needs is one goal to have a real shot at the upset...
BM v Poo could go either way, but I'm hoping the Allianz is too much for Herr Chompers.
Fedya posted:
Ridiculous! Cardiff bought him. Pay up, assholes, and next time get your record signing on a regular plane.
Chongo posted:And down goes RM to Ajax...JFC, to be a razor blade salesman in Madrid tonight...
Florentina Perez is in deep doo doo.
And Roma axes their manager. I'm stunned Sarri hasn't been axed. He may be headed for Roma. Where the chicks are under 15 stone, and you can smoke on the box.
Brings forward something I've said for years...
Shit written in the tabloids is hilarious. Even bashed him for buying a house for his Mum. The Liverpool influence goes deep within the media.
Unfortunately itâs not just the tabloids. Mainstream press do it too, although not to the degree of the Sun.
WTF Bayern
Was listening to Brian Bulaga on Michael Cohen's(the other Michael Cohen) podcast last night. Dude is a big soccer fag. I mean, loves the sport. Never played it either. Just came across a game between City and West Ham and fell hard for it. Other than golf, he doesn't watch any other sport except soccer which he watches religiously.
He's a City fan, BTW. Nobody is perfect, I guess.
Yeah, the EPL is increasingly the league for hipsters.
Yeah, what ISN'T for hipsters? Are hipsters even a thing any more? I mean, at every turn you see unkempt dudes with beards and horn-rimmed glasses and pasty white fat chicks with do-rags and arm tats.
There is only one true hipster. The hipster dufus. Everyone else is doing it wrong.
Germany looked solid vs. Netherlands in the first half...glad Lowe finally got Sane involved.
England looked great also...not that Montenegro and Czech Rep are exactly a murderer's row...
Suck it, Pep.
I'll "settle" for back to back PL titles and a domestic treble.
Love watching Herr Schnitzel-Chompers getting cornholed @Barca.
That's all Pep was able to get at Bayern. It's not much.
Because the Bundesliga is dog $hit compared to the PL. Those roadies to Schalke and Freiburg are a real bitch. A monkey in a suit could win at BM. LMAO
I cant believe what happened today. Wow!
Kicking myself.
Both days saw the scores early and figured the matches were over, so didn't watch.
I went to work yesterday. Iâve been so down on this Spurs team recently. Got busy and missed the whole second half. Couldnât believe what happened. Incredible!
I watched every minute of BarcaPoo...just waiting for ONE Barca goal to drop a turd in the Scouse pie.
I turned off Spurs Ajax at half...
All I can say goIng forward is COYS...
And City win the league.
Yup, that was most important to me because itâs the best league in the world...and it was a marathon with Poo nipping at our heels the whole time. We had little margin for error and way more key injuries than last year. Weâd get one key member back and then lose another one.
You could tell Kloppity and his boys were really down about not winning the league...CL is almost a consolation prize. CL there are too many factors...it doesnât always go to the best team in Europe. Spurs had a great comeback but if Kane were healthy, hell if Son were available for the first leg Ajax might have gotten run out the stadium in the first leg.
Its nice to see two English clubs in the final because of how hard league play is. Itâs not like Spain or France where you gave 4 tough fixtures all year.
But FFS I hate Poo...I should hate ManUre more but I canât. ManUre are the Bears, Poo are the Vajeens.
I've hated Liverpool for a long time. Being a child of the 80's when they were the Patriots of English soccer, everyone I knew was on their bandwagon. Those fans always had a reputation as a classy group until Everton started winning shit. Then the real Liverpool fans were out and they did shit like getting the rest of England banned from European competitions. They are in fact, the whiniest fans in world sport.
Hard for me to take a club seriously whose sone is "You'll Never Walk Alone."
Quite the race in the Bundesliga coming down to the last day like the PL...although the race seemed more about BM having issues than Dortmund playing at a high level.
Pleased City won the first ever English domestic treble and less than 24 hours later the day arrived all City fans knew would come....Kompany leaves City on his own terms.
Chongo posted:Hard for me to take a club seriously whose sone is "You'll Never Walk Alone."
We need more of this on Saturday.
Chongo posted:
No sympathy for Gareth Bale. He made more money than god and won 3 Champions League Titles at Real. Time to move on.
Anywhere else and he is a hero of massive proportions. At Real, he is a pariah because of his failure to replace Ronaldo.
Will be pulling hard for Spurs...may we all be singing afterwards "You'll Never Flop Alone"
Chongo posted:
How pretty. 
I must say he doesn't look all that much like a monkey any longer. Finally, his body caught up to his ears.
A couple of names I remember from the world cup last summer, Mohamed Salah -Liverpool,, and maybe Harry Kane-Tottenham, not to sure of his status. Liverpool a slight favorite, Estadio Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid Spain TV. 2pm TNT