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RideTheSpiral
Sep 18, 2005
College Slice

Monday Bandele posted:

Looking forward to football hipster journalists making more excuses for Bielsa after another failure

well managing leeds is a reasonable excuse

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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://twitter.com/realmadrid/status/1006549413886603265

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo
https://twitter.com/htafcdotcom/status/1006566788589608967

Huddersfield did a thing.

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



I’d very much like Newcastle to do a thing, like signing Rafa

Hashtag Banterzone
Dec 8, 2005


Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM

I googled him and it sounds like he's big in the middle East and fast during the day

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


This post brought to you by the finest Miami cocaine money can buy ----->
Seems Justin Kluivert is headed to Roma, pending a Medical

brocked
Oct 25, 2005

All shall love me and despair!

Hashtag Banterzone posted:

I googled him and it sounds like he's big in the middle East and fast during the day

He won't last more than 5 weeks

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

That’s a random choice, hiring a coach two days before his first big tournament

E: apparently he worked for Porto for a season and a half without winning anything

poty fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jun 12, 2018

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

Never have I seen a manager less likely to make it through a whole season.

Monday Bandele
Apr 26, 2008
Marca and AS have about 30 pages to fill every day, but neither had any clue about Zidane leaving, nor the manager of the national team holding talks with the biggest club in the country just before the World Cup. Toilet paper.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together

blue footed boobie posted:

Never have I seen a manager less likely to make it through a whole season.

"Hire a guy out of nowhere and replace him internally halfway through the season" worked out before

Weaponized Cum
Aug 31, 2004


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Monday Bandele posted:

Marca and AS have about 30 pages to fill every day, but neither had any clue about Zidane leaving, nor the manager of the national team holding talks with the biggest club in the country just before the World Cup. Toilet paper.

"journalism"

I would be depressed if I were a football journo

Bea Nanner
Oct 20, 2003

Je suis excité!
Guardian is reporting Torreira as done. Midfield needs a lot of work, so hopefully he adapts quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/12/arsenal-sampdoria-lucas-torreira-agree-deal-transfer


e: Ornstein is a bit more reserved.
https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david/status/1006637146235723776

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Bea Nanner posted:

Guardian is reporting Torreira as done. Midfield needs a lot of work, so hopefully he adapts quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/12/arsenal-sampdoria-lucas-torreira-agree-deal-transfer


e: Ornstein is a bit more reserved.
https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david/status/1006637146235723776

Arseblog reckons it’s ‘expected to go through’ so fully expect to wake up tomorrow seeing him in a Liverpool shirt.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


Bea Nanner posted:

Guardian is reporting Torreira as done. Midfield needs a lot of work, so hopefully he adapts quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/12/arsenal-sampdoria-lucas-torreira-agree-deal-transfer


e: Ornstein is a bit more reserved.
https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david/status/1006637146235723776

More excited that he confirmed we're interested in a goalkeeper

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




blue footed boobie posted:

Never have I seen a manager less likely to make it through a whole season.

Rafa was only a few years ago

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY
http://www.atleticodemadrid.com/noticias/principio-de-acuerdo-con-el-monaco-para-el-traspaso-de-lemar

Lemar to Atletico seems to be done, but I’m not holding it because I can’t read this.

I’m just glad someone bought him so now he can stop being linked to everyone.

E: I guess it’s an agreement in principal? Weird thing for a club to announce.

Shrapnig
Jan 21, 2005

blue footed boobie posted:

http://www.atleticodemadrid.com/noticias/principio-de-acuerdo-con-el-monaco-para-el-traspaso-de-lemar

Lemar to Atletico seems to be done, but I’m not holding it because I can’t read this.

I’m just glad someone bought him so now he can stop being linked to everyone.

E: I guess it’s an agreement in principal? Weird thing for a club to announce.

Same thing United did with Fred. He isn't officially signed yet.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




The Kimoa Kid posted:

More excited that he confirmed we're interested in a goalkeeper

Apparently that goalkeeper is Bernd Leno from Leverkeusen. Commenters can't agree over whether he's a great keeper or one who makes frequent idiotic mistakes, so he's already an Arsenal keeper imo.

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

NTRabbit posted:

Apparently that goalkeeper is Bernd Leno from Leverkeusen. Commenters can't agree over whether he's a great keeper or one who makes frequent idiotic mistakes, so he's already an Arsenal keeper imo.

Was coming here to post exactly this.

wicka
Jun 28, 2007


NTRabbit posted:

Apparently that goalkeeper is Bernd Leno from Leverkeusen. Commenters can't agree over whether he's a great keeper or one who makes frequent idiotic mistakes, so he's already an Arsenal keeper imo.

Welcome to Arsenal [checks notes] Wojciech Szczesny?

Wengy
Feb 6, 2008

All my german friends say Leno is trash, so I don’t know lads

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Spain have sacked him in a fully sick own.

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO
All the lols. Poor Newcastle fans, Rafa seems like an obvious hire.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




lmao @ RM deciding they're bigger than anything else in Spanish football and torpedoing the national side for PR purposes

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

tarbrush posted:

All the lols. Poor Newcastle fans, Rafa seems like an obvious hire.

i wouldn't blame him at all but he seems a bad choice for spain with no preparation

Mickolution
Oct 1, 2005

Ballers...I put numbers on the boards

Jose posted:

i wouldn't blame him at all but he seems a bad choice for spain with no preparation

Yeah, Rafa isn't a "quick-fix" manager, he'd need time.

I've always thought he'd be a great international manager, though. For a big nation, 90% of games are gimmies and for the other 10% it's about being hard to beat, which his teams are good at.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




A quick fix is two weeks before with a dozen training sessions and a friendly for the new manager to work with, 2 days is promote the most senior assistant for the duration and hope for the best territory

Gigi Galli
Sep 19, 2003

and then the car turned in to fire

NTRabbit posted:

lmao @ RM deciding they're bigger than anything else in Spanish football and torpedoing the national side for PR purposes

They are though

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
real madrid making him manager an announcing it is no reason for the spanish FA to sack him even if the timing is bad. its a very nice meltdown

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Using the new manager bounce to win the world cup. A bold strategy

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Using the new manager bounce to win the world cup. A bold strategy

this is great

Mickolution
Oct 1, 2005

Ballers...I put numbers on the boards

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Using the new manager bounce to win the world cup. A bold strategy

So you're saying...Pardew?

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO

Mickolution posted:

So you're saying...Pardew?

Think bigger.

Think Allardici

Mickolution
Oct 1, 2005

Ballers...I put numbers on the boards

tarbrush posted:

Think bigger.

Think Allardici

There are few smaller.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Well I'm suddenly very glad I put Portugal over Spain in my wife's work bracket

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO

NTRabbit posted:

A quick fix is two weeks before with a dozen training sessions and a friendly for the new manager to work with, 2 days is promote the most senior assistant for the duration and hope for the best territory

They've appointed Fernando Hierro who I believe is exactly that.

tao of lmao
Oct 9, 2005

Wolverhampton exercised the purchase option for Benik Afobe from Bournemouth for 10 mil, then turned around and flipped him to Stoke for 12 mil less than 2 weeks later.

Apparently they plan on replacing him with a Mexican national from Benfica, Raul Jimenez.

tao of lmao fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 13, 2018

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Bournemouth not Sunderland

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tao of lmao
Oct 9, 2005

Oh poo poo you’re right let me edit.

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