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Vegetable posted:I don’t understand how there are these international tournaments that take place square in the middle of a footballing season lol. It seems like the kinda coordination problem an international or regional organization might be designed specifically to deal with eurocentric much?
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On the years where the cups happen, there should be an attempt to move the club games. That’s what I mean. The people in charge all talk to one another and make things work. All of the authorities funnel up to FIFA one way or another; the hierarchy seems to exist for this kind of coordination. And yes that’s my point — they literally did this with the 2022 World Cup already.
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Ulio posted:Every team is losing players due to AFCON except City who have no African players after Mahrez left. Pep is at it again
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L.H.O.O.Q. posted:eurocentric much? As is all the money in football, and all the good football clubs, and 90% of the good international teams. Almost as if it’s a European sport. The premier league matters more, noone is paying lots of money to watch the African or Asian cups.
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wooger posted:As is all the money in football, and all the good football clubs, and 90% of the good international teams. Almost as if it’s a European sport. Lol wotta oval office. May as well do away with the lower leagues as well, they just get in the way.
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we should have some kind of competition where only the biggest best teams play each other so we don't have to waste time with everything else
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wooger posted:The premier league matters more, noone is paying lots of money to watch the African or Asian cups. Japanese national team is easily top five in revenue among national teams, and Japanese business is all over sponsorship of Asian Cup and World Cup qualifiers. It’s them and Saudi essentially. Just because the FIFA window for northern hemisphere summer traditionally has the World Cup and Euros and there’s either offseason (for European leagues) or a stronger break for others (like MLS and the J-League) doesn’t mean the African Cup or Asian Cup are less deserving or prestigious among those national teams.
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What to watch today? None of the matchups seem too interesting
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If you're open to non-PL then Celtic / Rangers is on now, Palace v Brentford later this afternoon should be a decent one as well
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both non 3pms have potential for something very funny. as for 3pms i think wolves everton could be really good
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Yeah Wolves are in great form and Everton have dropped back a bit
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Thanks Ants posted:If you're open to non-PL then Celtic / Rangers is on now, Palace v Brentford later this afternoon should be a decent one as well Ah, cool. Never watched this league. I put it on
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wooger posted:As is all the money in football, and all the good football clubs, and 90% of the good international teams. Almost as if it’s a European sport. Been saying this op, it's also why we should get rid of women's football and generally speaking any sport where people are not "paying lots of money to watch"!
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it's golf all the way down
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You can't use total revenue in nominal terms to determine which country loves football the most because of 'income effects' -- in wealthy countries, everything costs more. The advanced stat you want is revenue from football as a share of GDP: F_REVENUE / GDP
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J Hume posted:You can't use total revenue in nominal terms to determine which country loves football the most because of 'income effects' -- in wealthy countries, everything costs more. The advanced stat you want is revenue from football as a share of GDP: Based on the fact that players choose where to go based on love of the game and the fans, I'm guessing Saudi Arabia.
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probably some fail-rear end island state with two dozen people on it where there's nothing to do except sports or getting eaten by dingoes
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i don't know when the transfer window thread gets posted but Hugo Lloris to LAFC is a done deal. farewell hugo. you spent a decade at our silly football club without winning poo poo, made some great saves and also a poo poo tonne of clangers in your last season but so did everyone. enjoy the palm trees. https://twitter.com/lafc/status/1741172161833017456?s=46
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i don't know when the transfer window thread gets posted but Hugo Lloris to LAFC is a done deal. farewell hugo. you spent a decade at our silly football club without winning poo poo, made some great saves and also a poo poo tonne of clangers in your last season but so did everyone. enjoy the palm trees. Larkhall Athletic??
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Now just 1 differential away from falling below Chelsea which is incredible.
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Arsenal’s meltdown is happening [checks calendar] a few weeks earlier this season, but that’s global climate change for you.
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We're just saving all the goals for the FA cup tie
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Spurs might sign a centre back this week.   Rumours are that it's a romanian guy called dragusin from genoa.
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Transfer thread Someone who can post images without logging in can do the Jan thread
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Jippa posted:Spurs might sign a centre back this week. The last Romanian CB for spurs worked out so well
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Made one for January. Now I can spend the rest of the year shitposting about Man U to avoid my anxiety about the Liverpool boom bust cycle: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4050880
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