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tetsman posted:
We need a crying Corsican flag for Ajaccio.
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Gignac scores before five minutes, nice equalized the same. What a start we're off to!!
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And both Ajaccio and Sochaux lost to Ligue 2 teams. Also, 3 goals in the first 20 minutes, whoa, that Marseille Nice game.
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tetsman posted:And both Ajaccio and Sochaux lost to Ligue 2 teams. Also, 3 goals in the first 20 minutes, whoa, that Marseille Nice game. Make it 4.
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2-2 so far the first half. It's gonna be a total bloodbath.
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3-2 Nice at the half. Hard to understand how OMs defense gets constantly shredded this season after sucking the life out of every game last year with basically the same players.
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Gignac just scored an incredible goal with a scissor kick putting Marseille into a position to make this a well contested game. Edit: that last four minutes had me on the edge of my couch screaming. Marseille lost, but what a hell of a way to lose. Quantumfate fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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So Falcao got scanned and apparently he misses the World Cup. That loving sucks and why the gently caress was he playing against an amateur side anyways. It's a bit strange that he was flown to Porto and the medical was done by FC Portos doctor Jose Carlos Norona
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Meanwhile, at Marseille, somebody added some artwork outside OM's training complex... "Why Adri and not José?" Referencing the fact that OM's interim manager and sporting director José Anigo's son was shot and killed by hitmen a couple months ago in Marseille.
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Can anyone tell me stuff about Sochaux's Vincent Nogueira? Apparently, he is close to joining MLS/Philadelphia. He's good, right?
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So the league's top spots haven't changed and the league has been as exciting as watching the corpse of an animal on the road, but this Sunday PSG is traveling to Monaco for a game that may be interesting, as a victory would place Monaco just 2 points behind PSG. In other news, the Coupe de la Ligue final (next April 19) will be played by PSG and Lyon after a couple of fun matches in the semifinals.
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I'll just weigh in with my terrible American opinions and say that yeah, the Ligue has been pretty boring, even the last few OM games have been a little stale. The PSG v. Monaco game on Sunday should be something, but I'm mostly in this for OM, anything other matches tomorrow worth checking out?
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Quantumfate posted:I'll just weigh in with my terrible American opinions and say that yeah, the Ligue has been pretty boring, even the last few OM games have been a little stale. The PSG v. Monaco game on Sunday should be something, but I'm mostly in this for OM, anything other matches tomorrow worth checking out? Yeah, every single match I've caught this year (mostly Friday games) has been deathly dull. PSG and Monaco are locked into first and second place, not much excitement to be had other than the last CL club, either Lille or OM could take it, that might be the most interesting story until the end of this season. So yeah, watch PSG and Monaco if you can, it'll be one of the more meaningful matches going forward, but even at that PSG should stomp Monaco.
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French football is like watching a passionless, even more ponderous version of Italian football and it's glorious for it.
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trem_two posted:Yeah, every single match I've caught this year (mostly Friday games) has been deathly dull. PSG and Monaco are locked into first and second place, not much excitement to be had other than the last CL club, either Lille or OM could take it, that might be the most interesting story until the end of this season. Yeah, Falcao going out pretty much killed any possible suspense for this season. Hopefully Rybolovlev goes on another spending spree and the league is somewhat competitive next year, which is a pretty depressing thing to hope for.
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If you're looking for a team besides the top ones that might have interesting matches, you could try Montpellier. They've been on a good run lately, and their best young player (on loan from AC Milan) is currently attempting to break every traffic law in France.
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Method Mango posted:If you're looking for a team besides the top ones that might have interesting matches, you could try Montpellier. They've been on a good run lately, and their best young player (on loan from AC Milan) is currently attempting to break every traffic law in France. Cool-I'm a know nothing plastic but I've always kinda liked Lyon, I'll try to catch some of their games. Also, the cashico is on now and gently caress BEin and gently caress Barcelona.
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This is pretty entertaining so far.
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The goal was pretty jammy, but PSG were comfortably the better side in the first half. Pastore was quite good. E: looks like I'm wrong, owned me 
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Wow, Thiago Silva own goal to bring things level. E: pretty decent game, both keepers made immense saves in the last couple of minutes to keep things level trem_two fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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That ibrahimovic attempt in the last few minutes was intense. A good game all told, more entertaining than anything yesterdayThe SituAsian posted:Cool-I'm a know nothing plastic but I've always kinda liked Lyon, I'll try to catch some of their games. Likewise, I'm pretty plastic, but I'll try to follow montpellier as well as OM, worth giving it a shot.
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The late match today is of significance for the CL/EL spots, Saint Etienne vs. Marseille. Saint Etienne can pull within a point of Lille for the last CL spot with a win, Marseille would jump Lyon and Saint Etienne into 4th place, the only EL spot awarded for league position.
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Feb 16, 2014 18:59
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How has Cabaye been doing for PSG?
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Scott Bakula posted:How has Cabaye been doing for PSG? I listened to the PSG - Valenciennes game on the radio on Friday, the announcers were praising him. Prior to that he'd only had two 20 minute sub appearances.
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Big game for Les Verts, this. The past couple of years, they usually lose these clashes. I feel like they can finally break through to CL football this year.
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Woof! Just scraped by with a draw. Last minute heroics from Brandao. Monaco and PSG are coming up, these next few weeks are going to be huge.
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Thiago Motta signed a two year extension through 2016. His contract was set to run out this summer, and he had been mentioned as a possible target this coming transfer window for a few Italian clubs since PSG have about 50 midfielders.
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trem_two posted:Thiago Motta signed a two year extension through 2016. His contract was set to run out this summer, and he had been mentioned as a possible target this coming transfer window for a few Italian clubs since PSG have about 50 midfielders. He still plays pretty regularly right? I think he must be because he's on a lot of Prandelli's lists for possible world cup players.
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Gigi Galli posted:He still plays pretty regularly right? I think he must be because he's on a lot of Prandelli's lists for possible world cup players. Yeah of their midfielders, only Matuidi has played more minutes.
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Are the French clubs allowed to give youth players a professional contract like England is? I'm mainly asking because I was just wondering about PSGs longterm plans re:youth talents. I guess they would go down the Man City route and pick the best prospects from others clubs if possible, but the French youth system is a bit strange as I think its one of the only countries that have centralized a lot of it's youth development into elite academies like Clairefontaine? Speaking of which, how does the elite academies work? Is there like a draft system to get the best talents?
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Hegav posted:Are the French clubs allowed to give youth players a professional contract like England is? To that question I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, because I remember it was a sort of a big deal when Rabiot signed a professional contract with PSG when he was like 16 or 17.
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Hegav the french academies are regional, so the best players from various regions go to the elite academies and the ones who aren't so good join up the club academies like normal.
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trem_two posted:To that question I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, because I remember it was a sort of a big deal when Rabiot signed a professional contract with PSG when he was like 16 or 17. Ok, cheers! Ho Chi Meeeeee posted:Hegav the french academies are regional, so the best players from various regions go to the elite academies and the ones who aren't so good join up the club academies like normal. So they join the academies already tied to a club?
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Hegav posted:Ok, cheers! The academies are only until they are like 16 or whatever.
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Ho Chi Meeeeee posted:The academies are only until they are like 16 or whatever. Yeah but in modern football talents are picked up at the age of 10 or so, but I guess the clubs are allowed to negotiate with them before the academies release em.
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Bumping this thread for PSG-OM which just got started. OM already did something ridiculously stupid on defense that almost cost them a goal. If PSG wins, it'll pretty much put the championship away since Monaco lost yesterday.
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This gif is a good metaphor for Ligue 1, except for the ending:
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FIFA has given Nantes a transfer ban until June 2015, they were charged with causing Ismael Bangoura to break his contract with Al Nasr in 2012 in order to move to Nantes. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11825/9200991/ligue-1-nantes-must-observe-a-16-month-transfer-embargo-after-appeal-fails
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trem_two posted:FIFA has given Nantes a transfer ban until June 2015, they were charged with causing Ismael Bangoura to break his contract with Al Nasr in 2012 in order to move to Nantes. What does this actually do? I thought I heard before there was a litany of workarounds for this.
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