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habeasdorkus posted:I wonder what American teams would end up paying players without a draft and rookie contract salary scales/arbitration? Mookie Betts is probably no worse than the 3rd best player in baseball right now, and he's stuck waiting for six full years of service time to accrue before he can be a free agent. He's only making $20m this year at age 26, and won't be a free agent until he's 29. But if a team could sign him when he was coming off his breakout age 23 season, he'd have gotten way, way more than that (and he only earned $950,000 for his age 24 season since he was still pre-arbitration under the union contract). The feel-bad story of the year right here, boys.
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Moktaro posted:The feel-bad story of the year right here, boys. Baseball players on their early contracts are severely underpaid relative to their value and the money is instead kept by a literal cartel of rich white racist owner guys who rig the rules
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A Buff Gay Dude posted:Baseball players on their early contracts are severely underpaid relative to their value and the money is instead kept by a literal cartel of rich white racist owner guys who rig the rules It’s only because they’re protected by the US government and immune to monopoly laws though. It’s truly America’s pastime.
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baseballl??!?! did someone say baseball?!? yeeeehaw
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Hahahah apparently Barca's squad vetoed Griezmann's signing, meaning hes left in limbo.
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May 30, 2019 12:24
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Woah, what do the Barca players have against Griezmann?
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habeasdorkus posted:Woah, what do the Barca players have against Griezmann? He’s a French oval office who snubbed them once, presumably
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CyberPingu posted:Hahahah apparently Barca's squad vetoed Griezmann's signing, meaning hes left in limbo. he's gonna end up in manchester city or some other rich club, it's no big deal i guess
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May 30, 2019 12:55
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advanced statsman posted:he's gonna end up in manchester city or some other rich club, it's no big deal i guess Seriously, any big club would have him. I hope he scores 8 against them in the champions league.
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May 30, 2019 13:08
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May 30, 2019 13:38
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He's going to join his international teammate mbappe at Newcastle for a real challenge when this totally legit sheikh buys the club
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Jose posted:He's going to join his international teammate mbappe at Newcastle for a real challenge when this totally legit sheikh buys the club Mbapppe Welcome to Newcastle | Best Skills | Goals | 2019 | 4k
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Griezmann is a little twink bitch Hello Griezmann. Would you like to play in the Europa League next season?
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May 30, 2019 14:27
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Are man utd going to have a sporting director in before the transfer window opens or is ed Woodward sure he can do it right this time
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May 30, 2019 14:28
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it will of course never happen, ever, but man would grease man be a great fit at liverpool. instead we'll have to continue watching whoever the bargain bin out of position replacement is for sturridge desperately stink whenever firmino isn't on the field
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Jose posted:Are man utd going to have a sporting director in before the transfer window opens or is ed Woodward sure he can do it right this time I don’t think anyone, including Ed Woodward, knows the answer to that.
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My favourite Griezmann memory is him going blackface for Halloween a couple years ago Surprised a team with Suarez in it vetoed his move there
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an_mutt posted:My favourite Griezmann memory is him going blackface for Halloween a couple years ago Suarez isnt a fan of French cuisine
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CyberPingu posted:Suarez isnt a fan of French cuisine Yeah he prefers Dutch, Serbian and Italian.
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May 30, 2019 15:23
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bewbies posted:it will of course never happen, ever, but man would grease man be a great fit at liverpool. Why wouldn't it happen? CL finalists, possible champions, PL runners up by a miniscule margin? Liverpool's a big deal again.
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Gigi Galli posted:Why wouldn't it happen? CL finalists, possible champions, PL runners up by a miniscule margin? Liverpool's a big deal again. We wont spend the money required
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Gigi Galli posted:Why wouldn't it happen? CL finalists, possible champions, PL runners up by a miniscule margin? Liverpool's a big deal again. pretty old to be an FSG/Klopp signing unless it is on a free if he's available for less than $100mm or so i think that's solid value but i cant see them actually writing that check. that said he'd be super useful in a rotation with firmino and mane
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That's a lot of money to spunk down on essentially a depth signing. I can't see FSG being on board with that unless Mane actually leaves (he wont).
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May 30, 2019 15:39
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Diva Cupcake posted:That's a lot of money to spunk down on essentially a depth signing. I can't see FSG being on board with that unless Mane actually leaves (he wont). if liverpool is ever going to beat city they have to have world class players coming off the bench. they have that in midfield but poo poo is dire at all three forward positions after the big three (and also defense but baby steps). also it seems unlikely that all of the big three go another full season without any of them missing significant time with injury
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May 30, 2019 15:44
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It'll be interesting to see what type of players Liverpool goes in for this summer. Their best 11 is as good as anyone else in the world, but they desperately need better rotation players. Or who knows, maybe Ock is secretly great?
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It'd be a tiny bit frustrating if Liverpool do what they say they will. Salah and Mane have both demonstrated that they can play through the middle when needed, so it's not like they need a specific Firmino replacement. They've got three top class players for three spots, and they could easily accommodate a fourth as rotation and injury cover. Plus, they've got no big needs, tons of money sloshing around and there's lots of good players available like Fekir, Greizman, Pepe and a bunch of others. It'd seem like a missed opportunity not to sign one
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Liverpool really need a back up attacking player, a backup left back, and a backup keeper (assuming Mignolet leaves which isn't guaranteed). That's basically it unless there's departures in central defence. There's a relatively decent chance if, assuming the players are available, we don't spend any more than £50-60m this summer. Klopp's fairly well established now as preferring a smaller squad with players who can fill multiple roles so even if there is a bit of an exodus of the fringe players we won't necessarily be replacing any of them.
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CyberPingu posted:We wont spend the money required You can use the Mane money from Real Madrid to buy him.
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Whatever happened with Fekir last year? He failed the physical after terms were agreed and later it was reported that they wouldn’t be revisiting bringing him in. Very strange.
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man i would've thought a few months ago that sancho would be in play for liverpool but he seems to now be completely unavailable
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Blue Star Error posted:Patrick Roberts from Man to Norwich City on loan is doing the rounds. This has happened, it seems.
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Diva Cupcake posted:Whatever happened with Fekir last year? He failed the physical after terms were agreed and later it was reported that they wouldn’t be revisiting bringing him in. Very strange. I think Liverpool think his knees are ticking time bombs.
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tarbrush posted:I think Liverpool think his knees are ticking time bombs. This is the same team that signed Daniel Sturridge.
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May 30, 2019 18:13
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Shrapnig posted:This is the same team that signed Daniel Sturridge. Yes, but they were desperate then
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Diva Cupcake posted:Whatever happened with Fekir last year? He failed the physical after terms were agreed and later it was reported that they wouldn’t be revisiting bringing him in. Very strange. There's a lot of speculation and we'll probably never really know (or at least until someone writes an autobiography in about 50 years). The facts are that we tried to rush through a deal before the World Cup because of Aulas being weird, which meant that we did the promos before the full medical report was done. Something in that report gave us second thoughts and we ended up pulling the deal. It may not be that there's an issue currently with him, it could be a future thing where he might need surgery at some point or there's a weakness or something like that. Shrapnig posted:This is the same team that signed Daniel Sturridge. He played in 43 games the season before we signed him, 28 in the season we signed him, and 33 in 13/14. He had injury troubles but it's not as if he was an Andy Carroll style-crock from the off. He's played double figures every season and his lowest was last season when he played 14. Admittedly, I don't know how many of those were sub appearances.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Apparently Arsenal target Dayot Upamecano is not interested in joining a Europa League team. We’re gonna sign a bunch of Ligue 2 kids.
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