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are chelsea really going to tell kante to get out not even one entire year after i had to hear endless talk about how good he was and why he was the reason they won the CL lol
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1531896830094622722?t=6h7bwIfx5_oQD2JqKbECiQ&s=19 bro how is this poo poo still going on. how do they just keep signing people despite not being allowed to. its nuts
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liverpool shoudl sell salah alongside mane and just call next year a wash. theres a loving world cup in the middle of things so its gonna be weird as hell anyway. buy that canadian kid thats good in france or whatever idk
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Jun 3, 2022 23:24
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hes genuinely pretty good no?
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Jun 4, 2022 18:30
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i have quite literally no idea why every club is seemingly enamored with scammaca
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you laugh now, but will you be laughing when wales inevitably crash out in the group stages? probably
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Total Meatlove posted:They’ve always got out of their group though well "always" it was like 60 years ago
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TheRat posted:I feel like Liverpool spending 85mil on a player with 1 good season is very out of character. yeah i'm not super enamored with this transfer tbh but it looks like its gonna happen so i hope i'm just proven wrong
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Jun 8, 2022 20:18
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arsenal will forget about the bad days with pepe and auba and co pretty shortly because their current forwards are legitimately quite good and all like 14 years old so they're only going to get better
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sounds like nunez has a medical tomorrow. not totally sure how i feel about this transfer, feels a little bit like keeping up with the joneses in a bad way. hopefully he scores a lot of goals though its been ages since liverpool have played with a real striker. kinda think a midfielder is needed more than another forward tho
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i really despise barcelona and hope they dissolve
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madrid too i'm sick of those pieces of stealing cl titles
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Jun 15, 2022 20:42
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i sincerely think bayern are going to be very happy with mane. he's excellent and if he can carry his last 6 months of form going forward he's easily one of the best players in the world. i had a friend that support bayern munich tell me he'd get frustrated from time to time with lewa's lack of involvement in some matches and you really wont see that with mane, even when he's off form he still puts in outrageous effort
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TheRat posted:Wasn't his drop in form before that related to long covid, or was that just an internet myth? i have no real idea, but there was genuinely a few months where he was on the wing where he would run with the ball toward the corner flag, ineffectually cut back and then just run into a defender. i've got a friend on discord who tells me his Advanced Stats were still good during that time but when watched it was like he had literally no idea how to actually get something done lol
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greazeball posted:It can be both. The Premier League and the Championship both disallow loanees from playing against the lending club, there's no contractual clause that will allow it. UEFA, on the other hand, have said that 'any "private contract" between clubs which might influence the other's team selection is "null, void and unenforceable so far as Uefa is concerned", with any attempt to enforce such a clause a "clear violation" of the regulations, which would prompt sanction' (from an article about the Courtois match in 2014). La Liga has no stance on the issue so most clubs put the 'this player can't play against us' clause in the loan agreement, but Real Madrid removed it from their loans in 2019. coutinho scoring 2 vs barcelona was genuinely one of the funniest football moments i've ever seen. what a farce of a club
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i thought milan were rich now or something. indian billionaires or redbird idk theres too much stuff to remember
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Vegetable posted:Who else is gonna pay him that much though lol. Madrid or City, maybe. No one else has that kind of money. And that’s not even including the transfer fee. psg's front line is looking a bit thin
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Jippa posted:Spurs seem to be close to buying richarlison and loaning clement lenglet from barca. richarlison is loving terrible
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barcelona are taking out a mortgage on their future tv revenue to up their bid on lewandowski from 35m to 40m and still get no answer from bayern munich
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Reek posted:
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TheRat posted:Just what chelsea need, another forward who can't finish i maintain that the miss vs lyon is legitimately the worst i've ever seen given the quality of chance and moment necessary
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Blinkz0rz posted:What happened to Sterling? A couple of years ago it feels like it would have been unthinkable for City to sell him at all much less let him go to a competitor. hmm... pep getting rid of sterling, ake, fernandinho in one window.... what could be the commonality...
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trem_two posted:Sid Lowe posted an article early today that allegedly explains Barca's short term financial situation, aka "how are they getting away with this?", but since it's Sid Lowe it faffed around for a few paragraphs without getting to the point and I gave up reading it. if theres any interest i could do a thread on their annual report when its out in english. i read through the 20/21 one and its fairly grim, but its hard to tell how much worse it is due to COVID. barca also have a bunch of long-term debt becoming current within the year and its not like this is a particularly great time to restructure that lol. for a heuristic, apparently their debt is bbb-, which is one step above junk
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Mickolution posted:Obviously, they've been terribly run and haven't been looking to the future for ages, but realistically how are they not hosed by selling off future TV rights? Is this purely to keep them afloat in the short term and they'll be in bigger trouble down the line or do they have any sort of plan to raise money by selling off naming rights or the training ground or something? They're not necessarily "hosed" in the future from what I can tell, but they're also not in a good place Barcelona are facing 2 issues at the same time. 1 - short term. Basically, La Liga has some relatively strict rules on registration and wage caps based on p/l, and barcelona's losses were/are bad enough that they are having difficulty literally registering players, as in the app that la liga clubs do it through legitimately will not allow them to click the button to register kessie and co. to solve this, they need cash now so losses don't look so bad, hence selling assets like future tv revenues and the merchandise wing. 2 - mid to longer term: they have a shitload of debt, a lot of which is coming current soon-ish, and interest rates are going up worldwide + barcelona have a pretty poo poo credit rating. this one, ironically, isn't as bad as bullet point 1 because for whatever reason, all spanish speakers on earth that don't support real madrid are more than happy to throw money at the club no matter what they do. if barcelona normalize their cash flow they're probably completely fine within a few years and able to handle the debt they have, just cuz they legitimately make so much loving money. the above relies on the idea that they wont start handing out 500k/w contracts to jermaine defoe knockoffs or whatever again, which is a big ask for this club, but my genuine opinion is that they'll be completely fine within a few years, even if they're playing with an absurd amount of fire right now. to me, it feels wild to pump this money into player acquisitions, which as a business strategy, feels ludicrously variable (what if lewandowski snaps his leg in half against levante or whoever) and not really worth it (the prize money difference for 1st or 2nd in la liga is minor, they should be high enough quality to get out of the group stages before most of these transfers in the CL, etc. and i don't really consider raphina and co. like some insane marketing opportunity) were also now in a world where shutdowns are a much bigger possibility than they were pre-COVID, so while of course that was a black swan event, once you see one of those it's more likely you'll see another. but i guess then you get into political question territory, i cant imagine most of the world would handle large scale shutdowns again so even if there was a reason to do it, who knows if it'd actually happen i'm still waiting on the annual report to see audited numbers, but overall: condition is really bad, they're gambling a lot to normalize things, but in most circumstances they should be fine
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Vegetable posted:I mean Lewandowski is absolutely gonna continue being a goal machine for at least another two years, so I don’t think pulling out all stops to register him is that bad or shortsighted an idea. from a business point of view, there's really not a whole lot of difference between winning la liga and coming 2nd. i don't really buy the argument that there's a world of different marketing opportunities if they happen to win, which is sometimes put forward. i would reckon barcelona's ability to secure advertising contracts would be roughly equal whether they come in 1st or 2nd. its the CL where they kinda NEED to get out of the group stages, and it was pretty bad for them that they didn't last year, but i'm also of the opinion that the transfers in the winter window should be enough to get them to the knockout stages (and similarly, i'm of the opinion that even with Lewa and Kessie and them, they're still not serious CL contenders at this point) part of whats tempering my opinion on them is that they are legitimately great at making money. revenues for barcelona are huge, bigger than any english club. if the fans werent rabid monsters, the smartest thing to do IMO would be live with coming in 2nd to madrid for a few years and just reaching the CL knockouts and maybe winning a copa del rey and then start investing once it's clear we're beyond the worst of the debt issues (and once espai project is completed). but the democratic nature of the club means that this is impossible, if laporta isn't making big signings there's going to be a billion spaniards online calling for the election of whoever the enron CEO was
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Wazzerphuk posted:Fulham have signed Israeli international winger Manor Solomon - apparently you can sign anyone you want who plays in Ukraine without paying? The official site doesn't mention that it's a loan but Wikipedia does, and the wording everywhere else says that he's "suspended" his contract with Shakhtar Donetsk, so maybe he'll be going back later? idk m8. However I will NOT be bolding this, since he can't be registered until August anyway and the whole thing sounds very complicated. But here he is wearing the lovely pink shirt: iirc non-ukrainians can unilaterally suspend their contract until, i believe, june 2023 which is why its considered a "loan". i guess nobody knows if ukraine will still exist at that point for them to go back and play within
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Hegay posted:How can Barca sign Lewa, Pablo Torre, Andreas Christensen, Francl Kessie with Azpi and Alonso rumored but they're not willing to pay Frenkie de Jong the salary he deferred lol its built on a house of cards and i'm genuinely loving praying some stupid poo poo happens in teh CL group that ends with them going bust
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Hegay posted:The Spanish "tax payer" probably ends up with the bill. Also hello friend, hope life is well. as to you my man, i got a sick new job about 3 months ago so i can say things own a lot lately
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paddyboat posted:I refuse to believe this is a real person thats the kid that ran to give taa the ball for the corner against barcelona edit: alright responding to posts before reading the rest isn't a great idea
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curried lamb of God posted:I thought so too, but PSG apparently had a real shot at him the biggest sign for me that tchouameni has his head on straight is that he decided to avoid the clown show of psg, i'm sure it was tempting but i genuinely have to imagine madrid are better for his career, which feels weird to type
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it would be cool if liverpool signed a midfielder so the options aren't entirely (1) 30+ year olds running on fumes (2) 30+ year olds whos hamstrings are suggestions rather than facts or (3) children
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Just Chamber posted:Well Salah plays on the right and Saka has often been deployed on the left even if he has flourished on the right so I think it could be pretty lethal honestly. I just hope it doesn't happen. Basically if Arsenal don't get 4th and champions League with 2 years left on his contract I can see his head being turned. If not by Liverpoo then someone else. if liverpool's next two purchases are not midfielders i will lose my loving mind. seriously, here are the options in the squad rn: elliot: best midfielder lately, also a child jones: also a child, not that great, injured pretty commonly carvalho: also a child, supposed to be a forward henderson: has not been good for about 18 months, cannot play 90 minutes twice in 7 days anymore fabinho: has not been good for about 6 months, one of the few i actually have faith in to be good going forward though thiago: injured literally 60% of matches milner: 600 years old keita: injured literally 75% of matches its genuinely insane that they're seemingly refusing to address this in the hopes of a superstar bid for jude bellingham who will inevitably go to city/madrid anyway
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FullLeatherJacket posted:still lolling every day that once you cross out PSG bullshit, and despite all of the clown prices this summer, Aston Villa still have the most expensive footballer in the history of the sport it genuinely is pretty remarkable how dogshit most of the Super Expensive Transfers have been overall
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