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Bobby Digital posted:I heard Selecao legend Zika is coming out of retirement! emptysnype
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Healbot posted:https://twitter.com/LAGalaxy/status/694913558727909376 Nice to see him go to a club where me may actually win trophies huahehauahahaeha
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Spangly A posted:south america's an up and coming continent, keep your eyes on the Brazil olympics for all the emesis and serious infection records those fine athletes will set the Zika virus has now been sexually transmitted, bad news for the Rio Olympics Sex Village
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GMEEOORH posted:Xi Jinping's been making a lot of noise about wanting China to be a big football nation. So lotsa rich fuckers have sensed it's probably a good ''investment'' to pump a lot of money into football-related stuff. Yea China routinely makes grandiose statements of intent and then they follow through with their execution poorly and without planning. This is why Jackson Martinez will apparently now be the 5th most paid footballer in the world. It's a common thing to set a goal in China no matter how unrealistic and then try to achieve it hamfistedly and quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign China is also incredibly obsessed with accruing soft power at the moment despite generally failing at it. It explains the football push and stuff like the Olympic concentration camps for kids. It's just super bizarre that all these moves are happening now and not like five years ago. The Chinese economy is unraveling as all the cracks are beginning to show and people realize the numbers the govt has put out have been bunk forever. You would think rich people would invest money in something safe instead of football in a country where the gates must be like 10k a game and copyright law does not exist so TV money is probably next to nil. I expect the trend to end in a few years as their economy slows down drastically and Martinez and others also get screwed on payment.
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China's entire economy is based on copying others poorly so I doubt a single businessman has thought "is football profitable??" They just know other rich people buy teams so obviously they should also do that.
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boro have sold a kike http://www.mfc.co.uk/news/article/2016/middlesbrough-kike-2936917.aspx
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I feel like one of these new Chinese signings deserves a Jozy-style prediction thread.
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:boro have sold a kike Well they just signed another one and you can't concentrate too many of them in one place.
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Ciprian Maricon posted:China's entire economy is based on copying others poorly so I doubt a single businessman has thought "is football profitable??" They just know other rich people buy teams so obviously they should also do that. You just did a China to my post. But seriously yea China's behavior is bizarre and is at times horrifying, mystifying, and entertaining to watch. Tim Cahill sucked towards the end of his Redbull tenure and got benched and he now has 11 in 28 in China apparently. Imagine what kind of decent Shaktar-esque team they could've put together poaching young South Americans instead of spending 50 million on Jackson Martinez. Seltzer fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Has there been a situation yet where one of these insanely overpaid old men/wash-ups has been injured? Imagine if Martinez goes down early in his first season, then what?
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TheBigAristotle posted:Has there been a situation yet where one of these insanely overpaid old men/wash-ups has been injured? Imagine if Martinez goes down early in his first season, then what? They turn around and run over him again so they don't have to pay the doctor's bills.
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Why is it always LA and NY getting these over the hill European ex-internationals, I thought there was a limit of like 2 per team Send them to Columbus Ohio and see how keen they are on the 'challenge' of the MLS then
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Monday Bandele posted:Why is it always LA and NY getting these over the hill European ex-internationals, I thought there was a limit of like 2 per team Perhaps this is controversial, but I'd rather live in Columbus, Kansas City, or even Salt Lake City before I moved to loving "The air is real poison" China
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Monday Bandele posted:Why is it always LA and NY getting these over the hill European ex-internationals, I thought there was a limit of like 2 per team MLS will literally change the rules to allow big market teams to hire those marquee players.
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MoPZiG posted:I feel like one of these new Chinese signings deserves a Jozy-style prediction thread. race to le poumon noir
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Seltzer posted:Yea China routinely makes grandiose statements of intent and then they follow through with their execution poorly and without planning. This is why Jackson Martinez will apparently now be the 5th most paid footballer in the world. It's a common thing to set a goal in China no matter how unrealistic and then try to achieve it hamfistedly and quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign During your meltdown did you consider the outrageous idea that maybe some Chinese people are just like regular people who like football and aren't just mindless politburo drones trying to achieve maximum evil
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why is this lovely thread for the worst transfer period ever still open
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ephex posted:why is this lovely thread for the worst transfer period ever still open The best transfer will be this thread to the gas chamber
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ephex posted:why is this lovely thread for the worst transfer period ever still open Goooooood question.
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