European Football 18/19

[walkerleeds]

Why does Zidane hate Bale so much? 

[CosbehFox]

Those quotes of Zidane criticising Bale are not real. 

Just as the Roy Keane one this weekend doing the round isn't. 

[Voll Blau]

On 12/05/2019 at 17:32, Voll Blau said:

Paderborn pumped Hamburg today, so it's the former or Union Berlin for the remaining automatic spot.

 

Another Hamburg derby to look forward to next year.

Paderborn up after Bochum managed to hold Union to a draw, so Union v Stuttgart in the two-legged playoffs. Hoping for a Union win, would be great to see a Berlin derby in the Bundesliga.

[Stadt]

Union and Hertha haven't played each other in 40 years or something, chaos if they go up

[CosbehFox]

17 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Union and Hertha haven't played each other in 40 years or something, chaos if they go up

Played each other in around 2011 and 2013 when both teams in Bundesliga 2 

[MC Prussian]

23 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Union and Hertha haven't played each other in 40 years or something, chaos if they go up

No chaos, both fan factions are on friendly terms with each other, no antipathy around whatsoever.

 

Hertha fans are actually looking forward to Union coming up a division.

[AjcW]

Sell Pulisic for £60m

 

Buy Brandt and Hazard for £48m

 

Well played Dortmund... well played  

 

Premier League clubs continuing to get royally screwed and seemingly be fine with it! 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, AjcW said:

Sell Pulisic for £60m

 

Buy Brandt and Hazard for £48m

 

Well played Dortmund... well played  

 

Premier League clubs continuing to get royally screwed and seemingly be fine with it! 

Chelsea no doubt brought Pulisic knowing they'd be losing Eden Hazard. To them that's a cheap price compared to what they'd probably have to pay for him this summer.

 

Dortmund not messing about though with their business! 2 very good players there for a collective sum of £48m is good business.

[MC Prussian]

20 hours ago, AjcW said:

Sell Pulisic for £60m

 

Buy Brandt and Hazard for £48m

 

Well played Dortmund... well played  

 

Premier League clubs continuing to get royally screwed and seemingly be fine with it! 

 

18 hours ago, StanSP said:

Chelsea no doubt brought Pulisic knowing they'd be losing Eden Hazard. To them that's a cheap price compared to what they'd probably have to pay for him this summer.

 

Dortmund not messing about though with their business! 2 very good players there for a collective sum of £48m is good business.

Dortmund are just doing what Bayern have been doing for years, if not decades: Buy the best talent in the domestic league in order to weaken the immediate opposition.

£48m is still a lot of money for a Bundesliga club, not many can afford that kind of dough for only two players. Dortmund stocks are also available for purchase on the market, so that's where they've got a fair share of their investment from.

 

Football on the whole thrives on underdogs winning things, and our title was so far the last real triumph for the sport, not just in romantic terms.

Long gone are the Kaiserslauterns or Werder Bremens winning the Bundesliga title. The last ten years have seen only two teams win the "salad bowl", as the trophy is known in the football scene. Bayern are currently on 17 title wins out of the last 25 seasons! Utter dominance, no wonder people cheer on teams who manage to beat them.

Edited 23 May 2019 by MC Prussian

[MC Prussian]

The tale of the Unionistas de Salamanca and the two Murphy brothers:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48296119

[Finnegan]

13 hours ago, StanSP said:

Chelsea no doubt brought Pulisic knowing they'd be losing Eden Hazard. To them that's a cheap price compared to what they'd probably have to pay for him this summer.

 

Dortmund not messing about though with their business! 2 very good players there for a collective sum of £48m is good business.

 

Buying Pulisic to replace Hazard is like buying Ghezzal to replace Mahrez. 

[KrefelderFox666]

19 hours ago, AjcW said:

Sell Pulisic for £60m

 

Buy Brandt and Hazard for £48m

 

Well played Dortmund... well played  

 

Premier League clubs continuing to get royally screwed and seemingly be fine with it! 

They also bought Schulz who is another highly rated player in Germany and exactly what Dortmund needed. Dortmund are really stocking up and along with RB Leipzig pushing themselves, next season could be very interesting.

[Suzie the Fox]

If anyone is interested and needs a Football fix Monaco play away to Nice at 20.05 tonight. Its a decent opportunity to see Silva playing. There will be streams on reddit but chances are they will have French commentators. 

[Izzy]

8 minutes ago, Suzie the Fox said:

If anyone is interested and needs a Football fix Monaco play away to Nice at 20.05 tonight. Its a decent opportunity to see Silva playing. There will be streams on reddit but chances are they will have French commentators. 

Mercy bowcoup Suze 

[MC Prussian]

Union with a slight advantage after the 2-2 draw away at Stuttgart, home win now at the Alte Försterei, please.

[Koke]

 

 

 

 

Edited 25 May 2019 by Koke

[Corky]

Oh Claudio

 

[Super_horns]

Sadly does kind of sum up the problem in Italy - didn't the Juve captain actually blame his own team-mate when there was racism!

 

 

 

 

[Costock_Fox]

****ing hell Claudio.

 

Last day of Serie A today and a win for Atalanta sees them in the champions league for the first time ever. I would imagine they won’t play the games in Bergamo which is a shame but I’ll still try and get over for a match I recon.

[MC Prussian]

Racism in football exists, racism in Italian football exists. The problem is how it is portrayed - not just in the media - and how widespread and accepted it truly is.

 

I mean, bias aside, if I had to pick between a veteran calcio player and manager with tons of Serie A matches under his belt and the opinions of English football fans on an internet forum, whom would I call more credible...?

 

Condemn racism in football, but also condemn the whipped-up media frenzy about racism in football.

 

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

****ing hell Claudio.

 

Last day of Serie A today and a win for Atalanta sees them in the champions league for the first time ever. I would imagine they won’t play the games in Bergamo which is a shame but I’ll still try and get over for a match I recon.

Playing in Sassuolo’s ground - the stadium in Bergamo is being refurbished too. The main Curva is rubble at the mo 

[Nalis]

Ranieri's comment are a bit like when an eldery uncle/ grand uncle comes out with something ignorant. You still love them but you just wish they'd shut the fvck up on some things.

[Costock_Fox]

15 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Playing in Sassuolo’s ground - the stadium in Bergamo is being refurbished too. The main Curva is rubble at the mo 

Yeah exactly. It wasn’t rubble before mate, I couldn’t walk for a week after sitting on that ?

[lestajigs]

I know its early yet, but how stupid of atalanta, to start work on the ground now so basically they have to play there last home game at the away team, probally one of there biggest games ever, to qualify for the champions league!!!! There losing 1.0 

Edited 26 May 2019 by lestajigs

[Costock_Fox]

28 minutes ago, lestajigs said:

I know its early yet, but how stupid of atalanta, to start work on the ground now so basically they have to play there last home game at the away team, probally one of there biggest games ever, to qualify for the champions league!!!! There losing 1.0 

It’s a bit of a strange one but they aren’t allowed to play in Europe in at as it stands so I guess the logic is to rush it through for that.