Football (Soccer)

[Tone]

The football world's gone mad!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3889532/Footballer-s-rich-list-Cristiano-Ronaldo-Lionel-Messi-despite-Gareth-Bale-s-new-346-000-week-deal-10.html

[Megatron1505]

Crazy money being paid these days.

[Dion]

Just looked up what the clubs ''earned'' last CL season: Citeh being the highest paid one with 83,853 mio € with only reaching the semi-finals :-[.

Edit: And by the way: Congrats to ManCity for beating Barcelona tonight.

[Dion]

4rsenal back at it again :D.

[Megatron1505]

I just managed to buy a fully autographed Barcelona team shirt for my boys Christmas present. He is going to freak out big time 

[Dion]

Guess who's going to be the sponsor of the kit from the next season?

Rakuten

[501IH]

Just learned about behated Bayern losing in Dortmund. Ah, how sweet it is! Love very few things more than seeing these ******** lose!

[Dion]

Citeh being ripped apart by Leicester at the moment…

[neph93]

Pep needs to go back to the drawing board. I wonder if he'll spend big in January?

[Tone]

Just seen City's stats:

7 - The total of City’s tackles on Saturday the fewest in the Premier League, matched only by Crystal Palace. Everton made 22 in their 3-2 defeat at Watford.

[neph93]

Saw that myself… didn't put a single tackle in for the first 35min apparently [emoji1]

[spitfiredealer]

Pep just learnt there are more than 2 good teams in this league! He has come from leagues where there was one or two dominant teams.

[No.88]

^^
City will not win the league with PG playing that stupid sweeper-keeper nonesense.
It's too easy to nullify by pressing high up the pitch, where inevitably the keeper will try and play out from the back & make a mistake, or pass it to the defender who then comes under pressure. Bravo is a liability, as is Stones. You can see how both keeper & defender get flustered when being pressed, resulting in what they should have done in the first place and play it up the pitch. We saw this against Leicester. At one point Stones had the ball on his own goal-line with Vardy pressing him, & Slamani on the keeper. Resulting in the ball being hoofed up the pitch. The EPL is too fast, & PG is being found out.

In the UK keepers & defenders are not trained, from a young age, to piss about on their own 18yd line. They are in those positions because they are not skillfull enough with their feet. Let the keeper concentrate on stopping the ball going in the net, & let defenders defend.

The system can be played if you're in a league where the game is played at a glacial pace, (Germany, Spain, Italy), with defenders who are comfortable playing out with the ball at their feet.

[louisbosco]

U-N-I T-E-D
united are the team for me, with a knick knack paddy wack, give a dog a bone,
why don't city f**k off home…

[Dion]

What's up with all the amazing scorpion goals lately :D?

[David_pll]

Great start to my day, watching Spurs win.

Chinese super league throwing money around is a load of shit though.

[Megatron1505]

Great to see the Toon back on top

[neph93]

@Megatron1505:

Great to see the Toon back on top [emoji41]

Rafa is quality. It pleases me that he's found a club where he obviously feels at home again. Looking forward to seeing him and N'castle back in the Prem.

[Megatron1505]

He is an absolute gift for us, only the fat idiot tat shop retailer could mess this up 

[neph93]

@Megatron1505:

He is an absolute gift for us, only the fat idiot tat shop retailer could mess this up 

And lets be honest, that is sadly a distinct possibility.