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blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

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blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer

Jeeeeesus. Someone made this thing.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQxn1FrM6N8

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


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https://twitter.com/WestHamUtd/status/866266072885989376

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

lol

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

:stare:

Brony Car
May 22, 2014

by Cyrano4747
Posted on Divock Origi's Instagram in response to his post congratulating Lucas Leiva on his 10th anniversary with Liverpool:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTUdq-uFQhD/?taken-by=divockorigi

quote:

anindita_adyaPlease develop your game, at MU they have ibrahimovic, chelsea have costa, totham have kane, eve have romeolukaku, arsenal have sanches, lfc got you? Pffft. Develop your game, you like no progress, you are not young anymore mate ..... plis focus big four for ucl. Thanks. #YNWA🔴🔴

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


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mods please rename chaz Romeo Lukaku

Tokyo Sexwale
Jul 30, 2003

some guy named kane plays for totham too

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


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eleven extra elephants
Feb 16, 2007

Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!
united fans ftw

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

lol

paddyboat
Feb 20, 2013

Maxi, Maxi Rodriguez
Run down the wing for me

Gg please make this the thread title for the europe league final tia your the best

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




gently caress sake

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

i wouldnt call stockholm heaven

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.


lmao this guy owns

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/...D230%23lastpost

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




wrong thread

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/arsene-wenger-jeremy-corbyn-arsenal-labour-middlesbrough-match-report

quote:

He's the Monty Python Black Knight of politics, daring Theresa May to call a snap election while hopping. Would the Labour membership vote him in again, considering the recent polling that's put Corbyn's Labour 21 points behind the Tories? Well, yes, probably - and thereby confirming they're Weekend at Bernies-ing the Labour leadership. Just let it go guys, he's starting to smell funny.
And so to Wenger, football's very own Black Knight, only one who claims not to have seen any of the incidents in which his limbs have been removed. He, too, is apparently at liberty to decide his own fate, with another two years on the table if he wants it. Help a guy out and pass that signing hand lying on the floor over there.

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

jre posted:

wrong thread

is there a meaningless pablum thread

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

follow the white dove





TRP Post of the Month October 2021

Then there's this in reply.

https://twitter.com/ManUtd_HQ/status/867496371905064960

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack
really great when corporate brands can use a tragedy to tweet a message to generate social media "likes" lets see what more they have in store

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


African AIDS cum posted:

really great when corporate brands can use a tragedy to tweet a message to generate social media "likes" lets see what more they have in store

right thread

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

African AIDS cum posted:

really great when corporate brands can use a tragedy to tweet a message to generate social media "likes" lets see what more they have in store

its the reduction of the message to a hashtag that really grates for me

PirateBob
Jun 14, 2003

Don't see what's ridiculous about this. I posted almost the exact same thing on FB. The dead kids were watching us beat Ajax from heaven.

Simone Poodoin
Jun 26, 2003

Che storia figata, ragazzo!



mls was a mistake

https://twitter.com/MLS/status/867843251415506946

Andnook
Mar 10, 2005
Beluga Whale in the Spurs logo?

Xabi
Jan 21, 2006

Inventor of the Marmite pasty
wrong thread

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


Xabi posted:

wrong thread

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Andnook posted:

Beluga Whale in the Spurs logo?



unspoilering the pic be ause it doesn't work on iphone

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

African AIDS cum posted:

unspoilering the pic be ause it doesn't work on iphone

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer

Pictured: Seattle Sounders fan Fight, and Win, his son.

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer
I've thought about this long and hard and I figure I'll just go ahead and give my thoughts considering this is a conspiracy thread:

Before Mourinho came back in 2013, it was well known that Abramovich loved Pep Guardiola and the style of football he had for his teams. He tried his very best to lure Pep out of his sabbatical after we parted ways with Di Matteo. Once that didn't work, we needed an interim manager and we got Rafa Benitez. Roman thought he could try again after the 12/13 season to lure Pep again to Chelsea. Roman fails again as Pep agreed to become the next manager of Bayern Munich. Giant blow to Abramovich as the manager he longed for did not seem much interested in the Premier League for the moment.

Despite winning the Europa League and Rafa steadying the ship to get us 3rd, we haven't won the league since 2010, and want to get back to winning trophies more consistently. Since Rafa was leaving and Pep was headed to Bayern, Roman knew he had to swallow his pride and get the best available manager. So Jose Mourinho came back.

This is where it gets interesting. Roman never wanted Jose back but he knew he had to suck it up and do what was best for the club. Mourinho didn't want a Chelsea return either. It's well documented Sir Alex contacted Mourinho about potentially joining Manchester United as next manager but was told he was already agreed to join Chelsea. You have to remember, in 2013, Mourinho had spent almost 5 years away from English football. While Mourinho long desired to join a club like Manchester United, his decision to join Chelsea as opposed to hold out for the United job was simply down not knowing how well his tactics and style of football would play out. He's so afraid of failure that he didn't want to get to United and fail after not coaching in the country for 5 years. He chose to join Chelsea to get his feet back in the water while also getting revenge on those that forced him out.

You see despite all the grandstanding, Mourinho never cared about Chelsea. The man has played way more youth and believed in more youth products at Man United than he did at Chelsea and we have the better Academy! Romelu Lukaku, Kevin de Bruyne, Ryan Bertrand, Thibaut Courtois. Just 4 of the players that could have set Chelsea up for the next 10 years all sent away by Mourinho initially. Despite the first year's striker options being Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto'o, and Demba Ba, Mourinho refused to give Lukaku a chance and later moved on to Everton for an astounding £28m. After alienating Juan Mata and selling him to United despite being 2 time Chelsea player of the year and showing endless amounts of quality, Mourinho decided it was time to play Oscar and that Oscar was the better option in the no.10 role. What about De Bruyne? No De Bruyne not good enough so he has KdB sold to Wolfsburg. No quality no.10s gone in sacrifice for Oscar who's never lived up to the hype and isn't even at Chelsea anymore. Mourinho didn't see Courtois as the #1 at first as he went back to his preferred Petr Cech and we signed Mark Schwarzer. And Ryan Bertrand. Never even given a chance. He was a budding young player that's seen it all in a relatively short period of time. Jose didn't see Ashley Cole as a reliable option any more which is understandable given his age. But instead of playing Ryan Bertrand, he moved Azpilicueta to LB. Ryan Bertrand would soon thereafter move to Southampton and show how good he really is.

Had Mourinho kept these players (Mata and Lukaku especially) we probably would have won the league in 2013/14. Crippling losses to Sunderland, an annoying draw to West Ham hurt us that season.
Fast forward to the next season we win the league and the League Cup which is great. But some more signs appear that hurt the squad's morale and ended up being his undoing. He introduced more youngsters into the squad this season. Ruben Loftus-Cheek being the most notable. Mourinho hypes this lad up. Saying he's going to be the greatest thing English football has seen. Expectations are so high for this kid. He's 18 going on 19 years old and he gets his first Champions League appearance. Wow this is really happening? We've got a special one on our hands here! Mourinho says that preseason that Dom Solanke, Izzy Brown and Ruben Loftus-Cheek will all be playing for England within 3 years. Ruben is the only one involved with the first team. He rarely plays throughout the season after that one Champions League appearance. There's no sign that Mourinho actually believes in him. It's been almost 3 years and none of them are close to playing for England. Solanke is close to leaving Chelsea, Izzy had an okay loan spell at Huddersfield and RLC is certainly going to leave on loan in the summer (Brighton have been linked). After losing 2-1 to Newcastle away, our form really dropped. A very underwhelming draw to Southampton, we beat West Ham but then get demolished 5-3 to Spurs at White Hart Lane. Our form for the remainder of the season was dire and we were lucky Man City or Arsenal couldn't keep up. In the FA Cup, we lose 4-2 in embarrassing fashion to Bradford City. A full day removed from Mourinho saying if Chelsea lose to Bradford City it would be a disgrace. In Champions League, Mourinho goes into the 2nd leg with a nice 1-1 away goal advantage v PSG. They go down to 10 men and still Mourinho got outclassed by Laurent Blanc of all people and we get eliminated. Mostly because we were set up not to lose rather than to actually try and kill the tie. They were quick and dangerous, we were slow and uninspiring and were set up like that. Hazard was basically playing LWB ahead of the LB Azpilicueta. It was more or less a 4-4-1 formation because Oscar was incredibly anonymous the entire match.
Fast forward to our post season tour of Australia. We win 1-0 against Sydney FC in a friendly. Ruben Loftus-Cheek starts that match but was taken off after like 23 minutes. After the match, Mourinho took his moment during his press conference to absolutely shred Ruben to pieces talking about how bad he is off the ball and how he didn't care about playing for Chelsea and how he didn't take this serious enough. Again, it's a loving friendly and Jose is ripping him like it was the Champions League Semi Final.

His final season at Chelsea. We start preseason strangely late. Middle of July. We lose 4-2 to New York Red Bulls who basically played all their kids because they had a match 2 days prior. We lose 1-0 to Fiorentina at home, 1-0 to Arsenal in the Charity Shield. Our best players Costa and Hazard come back fat and ineffective. We draw 2-2 to Swansea and Mourinho decides hey yanno what? gently caress THIS PHYISO WE GOT HERE. It's week 1 of the new season and he's already stirring poo poo up. The media turns it into a sexism thing because he apparently called her a filha da puta. Then reports of players leading a revolt and Fabregas trying to force Mourinho out, then Fabregas gets his license suspended, losses pile up and in his final press conference as Chelsea manager, he says he brought these players to a level they actually aren't and they betray his game plan.

He's sacked, the pressure is on Louis van Gaal at Manchester United, he sits in his house in London waiting because he knows what job is about to open up. The bookies already make him the favourite for the job. Once he gets the job, media speculates about Juan Mata's future at United. Jose says no no no Mata is a great player. I need him here. I need him more now that I did at Chelsea (which is loving poo poo). He's playing and trusting more youth at United, he's patting the badge at United like he's already a legend, he's thrown shots at Chelsea and Chelsea fans. He dubbed himself Judas. Not the Chelsea fans. Many were/are okay with him going to United.

All in all, he ruined some of our best talent or sold them elsewhere and Chelsea were left with lack of depth in the squad (still are really). I didn't think he expected us to win the league, but he's at United now with one of the most beloved players in recent Chelsea history. He's suddenly good enough in Jose's eyes but not at Chelsea. Oh and lest I forget. Before the 15/16 season started, Jose called Hazard better than Ronaldo, putting all this unnecessary pressure on him and then he goes and has the worst season anyone will ever see from a reigning Player of the Year.

There's nothing to prove my theory but with hindsight, it makes perfect sense. He went back to Chelsea to prove himself in English football, and while there he managed to get revenge on Abramovich for everything that led to his departure the first time in 2007 by managing to let coveted prospects leave when they could have helped us, play poo poo football, fail in Champions League, barely get over the finish line in 14/15 and then go the full half a season 1 point above the relegation zone that allows Chelsea to wind up having it's worst season since the late 80s.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe

Mou is playing 4D chess and the rest of you are playing checkers

Blasmeister
Jan 15, 2012




2Time TRP Sack Race Champion

Chelsea may never recover from Jose's vicious sabotage.

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010

African AIDS cum posted:

unspoilering the pic be ause it doesn't work on iphone

Thanks for the consideration posting friend

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013





whenever I consider moving to the PNW I'm reminded that I'll be surrounded by FIGHT, AND WIN types on all sides

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African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Troy Queef posted:

whenever I consider moving to the PNW I'm reminded that I'll be surrounded by FIGHT, AND WIN types on all sides

He goes to Europe every summer to learn new chants

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