General Football Nonsense

[Niall_Quinn]

Chinks offering "top English stars" like Alli and Barkley ( :haha: ) £800k per week to go and play there. Would love to see their business model. If you pay every half decent mercenary squidillions of quid a year, then where's the profit coming from? Do they have really, really big stadiums? Or do the billions out in the Chinese sticks all have cable TV and footie subscriptions?

[Goonermerree]

Chinks offering "top English stars" like Alli and Barkley ( :haha: ) £800k per week to go and play there. Would love to see their business model. If you pay every half decent mercenary squidillions of quid a year, then where's the profit coming from? Do they have really, really big stadiums? Or do the billions out in the Chinese sticks all have cable TV and footie subscriptions?

Probably backed by their Government, which we subscribe to by buying Chinese products, so we're paying for their wages!:wacko:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can't remember what I posted to post an alternative. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

For anyone who missed any of the Rooneyfest. Here are the top football experts to explain why Wazza is the greatest of all time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZEgwxAallI

[Goonermerree]

Claudio Ranieri is officially Fifa's world coach of 2016. He deserves it!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

For anyone who missed any of the Rooneyfest. Here are the top football experts to explain why Wazza is the greatest of all time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZEgwxAallI

The rest of the Premier League would have Rooney in their squad. :haha:

[GP]

Firing squad

[Globalgunner]

The rest of the Premier League would have Rooney in their squad. :haha:

He once scored the greatest goal the world has ever seen. An overhead kick where he did a 360deg whirl. Tapped the ball with both feet while upside down and headed the ball into the top left corner.

[Niall_Quinn]

The rest of the Premier League would have Rooney in their squad. :haha:

He's a beautiful footballer. Beautiful!

He also plays beautiful football and he's beautiful.

[Niall_Quinn]

He once scored the greatest goal the world has ever seen. An overhead kick where he did a 360deg whirl. Tapped the ball with both feet while upside down and headed the ball into the top left corner.

He also got that goal against Arsenal when he was playing for Everton. Arsenal are that team Pires played for, when he dived and stopped Portsmouth becoming undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

[Marc Overmars]

Rooney was a top player but he's been on the slide for several years now, it's ridiculous how they won't accept that and still think he's somehow still a key player. His best years have been and gone, it happens, get over it.

I do respect his achievements though. He will retire as record goal scorer for club and country and has every honour to his name with United. Not bad tbf.

[Marc Overmars]

Plans for a 48 team World Cup have been approved. :lol:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Plans for a 48 team World Cup have been approved. :lol:

Fantastic, what i felt was really missing from recent tournaments was more pointless games

[Goonermerree]

If it follows the format of the Recent Euros with more teams going through from the group stages it will boring. Teams going for draws when previously they had to win to get out of the group. I know England was crap and deserved nothing, but that last group game against Ukraine ( I think it was) would have been far more interesting if Ukraine had had to avoid defeat.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

If it follows the format of the Recent Euros with more teams going through from the group stages it will boring. Teams going for draws when previously they had to win to get out of the group. I know England was crap and deserved nothing, but that last group game against Ukraine ( I think it was) would have been far more interesting if Ukraine had had to avoid defeat.

Slovakia

[Goonermerree]

Slovakia

The point is still the same though.

[Niall_Quinn]

Plans for a 48 team World Cup have been approved. :lol:

I liked the old days when pure, unadulterated greed was under the table. Always there, but never boasted about. It was more polite. A cunt back then had a bit more class.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fantastic, what i felt was really missing from recent tournaments was more pointless games

Pointless?

MUCHO MOOLAH! What's pointless about that?

Fucking arseholes. Next they'll be hosting the tournament in some shitty desert.

[Goonermerree]

They're in it for the money and it will work because all the fans will still go and watch anyway.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Pointless?

MUCHO MOOLAH! What's pointless about that?

Fucking arseholes. Next they'll be hosting the tournament in some shitty desert.

Christ......please.....nobody tell him

[Niall_Quinn]

They're in it for the money and it will work because all the fans will still go and watch anyway.

By fans you mean tourists, I guess.

[Goonermerree]

By fans you mean tourists, I guess.

It will be both I guess, but the money will roll in.

[Letters]

http://newsthump.com/2017/01/10/48-team-world-cup-to-provide-england-with-even-more-teams-to-finish-behind/

[fakeyank]

May be Bangladesh can finally make the World Cup! :dance:

[LDG]

May be Bangladesh can finally make the World Cup! :dance:

They haven't made the developed world yet.

[fakeyank]

They haven't made the developed world yet.

Once we do, I am sure we will knock England out ;)

[GP]

Well that's no achievement.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

May be Bangladesh can finally make the World Cup! :dance:

Stick to Cricket

You can actually beat England in that

[Letters]

Do I not like that...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38599231

Hopeless England manager, frankly.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Do I not like that...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38599231

Hopeless England manager, frankly.

True but bloody hell, that's a turn up

72 is no age these days.

I loved his England Team - Carlton Palmer, Gazza, Ian Wright, Paul Merson.....otherwise known as "the remedials"

[Letters]

It's not Bowie though, is it? 2017 needs to up its game, frankly.

[LDG]

It's not Bowie though, is it? 2017 needs to up its game, frankly.

Do you end all of your posts frankly?

[GP]

Do you end all of your posts frankly?

No, some of them end with 'du jour'

[Letters]

Do you end all of your posts frankly?

Yes.

[Ernesto]

It's a terrible shame that Graham Taylor's gone. It was around the end of his England tenure (and THAT game in Rotterdam) that I began to follow football. I admired him at first for the number of Arsenal players he had in the squad (Wright was overlooked by the crook for the two to three years following Taylor's sacking)

He appeared to be a lovely chap off the pitch, too.

Those some tabloid hacks that destroyed him will be eulogising him tomorrow. Make me sick.

RIP graham taylor

[Goonermerree]

RIP I think he was a good man. The press was terrible about him.

[Xhaka Can’t]

RIP, he did not deserve the hell the press who will tomorrow eulogise over him like they always thought he was a hero.

Ask any Watford fan and they'll tell you what a great man and manager he was.

[Globalgunner]

The press are arseholes. Sheep mentality in the main. When they sense some weakness or vulnerability in a public persons position they are like a pack of hyenas. They will do everything they can to run the individual down. Just to sell papers.
England havent won anything in donkeys years yet they blame the succession of managers for these failures. Never the type of players that the English system breeds. The last manager who had the potential to win anything with England was Hoddle. Even though a Spud, he had then enough about him to do at least as well as Robson did. They hounded him out for a stupid belief in Karma, which most if not all of us subscribe to in some fashion. Now they have a nonentity as manager, preceded just before that by a buffoon. How long before Gary Neville is England manager?

[Globalgunner]

In other news. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the new king of England. He said it only took him 3 months to depose her majesty. Something Prince Charles has not been able to do in 20 years.

[GP]

Speaking of arseholes...

[Niall_Quinn]

The press are arseholes. Sheep mentality in the main. When they sense some weakness or vulnerability in a public persons position they are like a pack of hyenas. They will do everything they can to run the individual down. Just to sell papers.
England havent won anything in donkeys years yet they blame the succession of managers for these failures. Never the type of players that the English system breeds. The last manager who had the potential to win anything with England was Hoddle. Even though a Spud, he had then enough about him to do at least as well as Robson did. They hounded him out for a stupid belief in Karma, which most if not all of us subscribe to in some fashion. Now they have a nonentity as manager, preceded just before that by a buffoon. How long before Gary Neville is England manager?

The press feeds the people. It'll do anything it takes to get attention from the people and get their money. That's the game. A long way from being an independent voice with the aim of speaking truth to power. When the people in the main decided they couldn't give a shit about the big issues, or were powerless to influence those issues, so fell back on entertainment the press seized on that as an easy win. So blame the people. They get the press they deserve.

Many of the same people are having a go at Trump. But when was that last time a US president stood on the podium and called out the media as fake? That was a big moment. It stung because it's truth. And the truth goes further than the media and lands right on the heads of the irresponsible and complacent people. That it has taken a man like Donald Trump to do this is an even greater indictment. When we all decide to get responsible and serious the press will follow along, because that's what they do. Same with the sports media. When they next descend on a man they have already set up to fail and rip him to shreds for the entertainment of the masses we'll all have a choice, let them away with it or show them it's unacceptable by withholding the thing they crave - money.

[Niall_Quinn]

:haha:

Deli Alli :haha:

97mill :haha: :haha:

Must be because of all the trophies he's delivered.

Some of the more hilarious estimates in bold, plucked from a genuinely hilarious list. I guess this is what insanity looks like when you quantify it. 217 mill for Neymar - a fifth of a billion. 120mill for Kane - LOL. Historians will look back at this period in our history with utter condemnation. Time for this game to collapse so we can turn it into a game again.

THE TOP 100 MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALLERS IN THE WORLD
1. Neymar (Barcelona and Brazil) - £217m
2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina) - £150m
3. Paul Pogba (Manchester United and France) - £136.5m
4. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid and France) - £132.2m
5. Luis Suarez (Barcelona and Uruguay) - £127.7m
6. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £122.4m
7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal) - £111.2m
8. Paulo Dybala (Juventus and Argentina) - £100m
9. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £97m
10. Eden Hazard (Chelsea and Belguim) - £89m
11. Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus and Argentina) - £86m
12. Anthony Martial (Manchester United and France) - £81.3m
13. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City and England) - £75.2m
14. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid and Wales) - £73.8m
15. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Atletico Madrid and Belguim) - £73m
16. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City and Argentina) - £70m
17. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City and Algeria) - £68.7m
18. Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan and Argentina) - £68.3m
19. Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City and Belguim) - £67.5m
20. Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal and Chile) - £67.1m
21. N'Golo Kante (Chelsea and France) - £65.5m
22. Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid and Spain) - £64.1m
23. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid and Germany) - £62.8m
24. Ousmane Dembele (Borussia Dortmund and France) - £62.4m
25. Romelu Lukaku (Everton and Belgium) - £62.3m
26. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur and Denmark) - £62.2m
27. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland) - £61.9m
28. Hector Bellerin (Arsenal and Spain) - £61.8m
29. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £61.1m
30. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and Gabon) - £60.5m
31. Koke (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £59m
32. Diego Costa (Chelsea and Spain) - £58.3m
33. Leroy Sane (Manchester City and Germany) - £57.4m
34. Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £57.2m
35. Mohammed Salah (Roma and Egypt) - £57m
36. Raphael Varane (Real Madrid and France) - £56.3m
37. Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £55.9m
38. Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City and Argentina) - £55.5m
39. Sadio Mane (Liverpool and Senegal) - £53.5m
40. Shkrodan Mustafi (Arsenal and Germany) - £53.2m
41. James Rodriguez (Real Madrid and Colombia) - £53.1m
42. Virgil Van Dijk (Southampton and Holland) - £52.9m
43. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid and Slovenia) - £52.5m
44. Andre Gomes (Barcelona and Portugal) - £52.2m
45. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.6m
46. Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea and Belgium) - £48.5m
47. Willian (Chelsea and Brazil) - £48.4m
48. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.3m
49. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool and Holland) - £47.2m
50. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus and Bosnia-Herzegovina) - £46.2m
51. Bernardo Silva (Monaco and Portugal) - £46.1m
52. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City and England) - £45.9m
53. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid and Spain) - £45.4m
54. Radja Nainggolan (Roma and Belgium) - £44.5m
55. David Alaba (Bayern Munich and Austria) - £44.4m
56. Lucas Moura (PSG and Brazil) - £44.3m
57. John Stones (Manchester City and England) - £43m
58. David de Gea (Manchester United and Spain) - £42.9m
59. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid and Croatia) - £42.8m
60. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea and Belgium) - £42.3m
61. Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona and France) - £41.9m
62. Mesut Ozil (Arsenal and Germany) - £41.8m
63. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal and Switzerland) - £40.5m
64. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £40.3m
65. Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon and France) - £40.1m
66. Andrea Belotti (Torino and Italy) - £39.7m
67. Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £39.6m
68. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona and Croatia) - £39.5m
69. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea) - £39.4m
70. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona and Spain) - £39.2m
71. Antonio Rudiger (Roma and Germany) - £39.1m
72. Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund and Germany) - £38.2m
73. Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £38m
74. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus and Italy) - £37.8m
75. Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen and Germany) - £37.7m
76. Daniele Rugani (Juventus and Italy) - £37.5m
77. Piotr Zielinski (Napoli and Poland) - £37.4m
78. Nathan Redmond (Southampton and England) - £37.3m
79. Isco (Real Madrid and Spain) - £37.2m
80. Konstantinos Manolas (Roma and Greece) - £36.8m
81. Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid and Argentina) - £36.5m
82. Dimitri Payet (West Ham United and France) - £36m
83. Fabinho (Monaco and Brazil) - £35.9m
84. Alessio Romagnoli (AC Milan and Italy) - £35.8m
85. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur and Belgium) - £35.7m
86. Alex Sandro (Juventus and Brazil) - £35.6m
87. Denis Suarez (Barcelona and Spain) - £35.5m
88. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea and Spain) - £35.4m
89. Marco Verratti (PSG and Italy) - £35.3m
90. Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City and England) - £35.2m
91. Pedro (Chelsea and Spain) - £35m
92. Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich and Brazil) - £34.6m
93. Emre Can (Liverpool and Germany) - £34m
94. Felipe Anderson (Lazio and Brazil) - £33.5m
95. Marquinhos (PSG and Brazil) - £33m
96. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid and France) - £32.9m
97. Kevin Gameiro (PSG and France) - £32.8m
98. Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli and Senegal) - £32.6m
99. Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich and Portugal) - £32.2m
100. Michail Antonio (West Ham United and England) - £31.8m

[GP]

Time for this game to collapse so we can turn it into a game again.



Yep, it really does need that. It's become a disgusting money pit.

[LDG]

Dier? Fucking Dier! :haha:

61m!! :haha:

And Ozil is 41m

Yeah, that's right. What is wrong with the world.

Fuck football needing to reboot. Everything needs to start all over again. It's fucking retarded.

[GP]

Giant meteor :pray:

[Globalgunner]

Yep, it really does need that. It's become a disgusting money pit.

Even the Chinese are no longer daft enough to pay those ridiculous prices. Pie in the sky BS

[Niall_Quinn]

Latest Sunday Supplement Wazza Worship session. The team are really on form today. Brilliant stuff. Only criticism I'd have is that they had all that non-Roonet related stuff in the program, for whatever reason.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3tsef7cKzo

[AFC Leveller]

I know who i'd sign if i wanted to win the league, Dier over Ozil any day of the week!

[Niall_Quinn]

Just to be clear...

http://i1035.photobucket.com/albums/a433/qwerty12343/Screen%20Shot%202017-01-22%20at%2011.45.31_zpsj2q6byju.png

[Niall_Quinn]

Sports headlines: A look inside Pogba's new house.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4196312/Manchester-United-star-Paul-Pogba-buys-2-9m-mansion.html

I guess it's another one of those pieces designed to bring the players closer to the plebsfans.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

:haha:

Deli Alli :haha:

97mill :haha: :haha:

Must be because of all the trophies he's delivered.

Some of the more hilarious estimates in bold, plucked from a genuinely hilarious list. I guess this is what insanity looks like when you quantify it. 217 mill for Neymar - a fifth of a billion. 120mill for Kane - LOL. Historians will look back at this period in our history with utter condemnation. Time for this game to collapse so we can turn it into a game again.

THE TOP 100 MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALLERS IN THE WORLD
1. Neymar (Barcelona and Brazil) - £217m
2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina) - £150m
3. Paul Pogba (Manchester United and France) - £136.5m
4. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid and France) - £132.2m
5. Luis Suarez (Barcelona and Uruguay) - £127.7m
6. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £122.4m
7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal) - £111.2m
8. Paulo Dybala (Juventus and Argentina) - £100m
9. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £97m
10. Eden Hazard (Chelsea and Belguim) - £89m
11. Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus and Argentina) - £86m
12. Anthony Martial (Manchester United and France) - £81.3m
13. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City and England) - £75.2m
14. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid and Wales) - £73.8m
15. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Atletico Madrid and Belguim) - £73m
16. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City and Argentina) - £70m
17. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City and Algeria) - £68.7m
18. Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan and Argentina) - £68.3m
19. Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City and Belguim) - £67.5m
20. Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal and Chile) - £67.1m
21. N'Golo Kante (Chelsea and France) - £65.5m
22. Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid and Spain) - £64.1m
23. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid and Germany) - £62.8m
24. Ousmane Dembele (Borussia Dortmund and France) - £62.4m
25. Romelu Lukaku (Everton and Belgium) - £62.3m
26. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur and Denmark) - £62.2m
27. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland) - £61.9m
28. Hector Bellerin (Arsenal and Spain) - £61.8m
29. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £61.1m
30. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and Gabon) - £60.5m
31. Koke (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £59m
32. Diego Costa (Chelsea and Spain) - £58.3m
33. Leroy Sane (Manchester City and Germany) - £57.4m
34. Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £57.2m
35. Mohammed Salah (Roma and Egypt) - £57m
36. Raphael Varane (Real Madrid and France) - £56.3m
37. Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £55.9m
38. Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City and Argentina) - £55.5m
39. Sadio Mane (Liverpool and Senegal) - £53.5m
40. Shkrodan Mustafi (Arsenal and Germany) - £53.2m
41. James Rodriguez (Real Madrid and Colombia) - £53.1m
42. Virgil Van Dijk (Southampton and Holland) - £52.9m
43. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid and Slovenia) - £52.5m
44. Andre Gomes (Barcelona and Portugal) - £52.2m
45. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.6m
46. Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea and Belgium) - £48.5m
47. Willian (Chelsea and Brazil) - £48.4m
48. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.3m
49. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool and Holland) - £47.2m
50. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus and Bosnia-Herzegovina) - £46.2m
51. Bernardo Silva (Monaco and Portugal) - £46.1m
52. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City and England) - £45.9m
53. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid and Spain) - £45.4m
54. Radja Nainggolan (Roma and Belgium) - £44.5m
55. David Alaba (Bayern Munich and Austria) - £44.4m
56. Lucas Moura (PSG and Brazil) - £44.3m
57. John Stones (Manchester City and England) - £43m
58. David de Gea (Manchester United and Spain) - £42.9m
59. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid and Croatia) - £42.8m
60. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea and Belgium) - £42.3m
61. Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona and France) - £41.9m
62. Mesut Ozil (Arsenal and Germany) - £41.8m
63. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal and Switzerland) - £40.5m
64. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £40.3m
65. Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon and France) - £40.1m
66. Andrea Belotti (Torino and Italy) - £39.7m
67. Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £39.6m
68. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona and Croatia) - £39.5m
69. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea) - £39.4m
70. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona and Spain) - £39.2m
71. Antonio Rudiger (Roma and Germany) - £39.1m
72. Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund and Germany) - £38.2m
73. Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £38m
74. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus and Italy) - £37.8m
75. Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen and Germany) - £37.7m
76. Daniele Rugani (Juventus and Italy) - £37.5m
77. Piotr Zielinski (Napoli and Poland) - £37.4m
78. Nathan Redmond (Southampton and England) - £37.3m
79. Isco (Real Madrid and Spain) - £37.2m
80. Konstantinos Manolas (Roma and Greece) - £36.8m
81. Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid and Argentina) - £36.5m
82. Dimitri Payet (West Ham United and France) - £36m
83. Fabinho (Monaco and Brazil) - £35.9m
84. Alessio Romagnoli (AC Milan and Italy) - £35.8m
85. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur and Belgium) - £35.7m
86. Alex Sandro (Juventus and Brazil) - £35.6m
87. Denis Suarez (Barcelona and Spain) - £35.5m
88. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea and Spain) - £35.4m
89. Marco Verratti (PSG and Italy) - £35.3m
90. Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City and England) - £35.2m
91. Pedro (Chelsea and Spain) - £35m
92. Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich and Brazil) - £34.6m
93. Emre Can (Liverpool and Germany) - £34m
94. Felipe Anderson (Lazio and Brazil) - £33.5m
95. Marquinhos (PSG and Brazil) - £33m
96. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid and France) - £32.9m
97. Kevin Gameiro (PSG and France) - £32.8m
98. Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli and Senegal) - £32.6m
99. Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich and Portugal) - £32.2m
100. Michail Antonio (West Ham United and England) - £31.8m

Hmm Ozil not worth very much but then again I guess you wouldn't be if you looked like a cross between Marty Feldman and Jeff Goldblum post transformation in the Fly.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38802113

Whilst I agree with the sentiments fans have about Red Bull Leipzig, throwing cans and bottles at away fans is nothing but incredibly thinly veiled thuggery.

I like the way German clubs are run and how beholden they are to their fan bases, and Leipzig is nothing more than a corporate entity. But using that dislike as a front for violence, pathetic.

[Marc Overmars]

Using football as a front for any kind of violence is the hallmark of a knuckle dragger.

[Niall_Quinn]

Not up to speed on Leipzig, but as far as I understand it they haven't done a chav or gypo routine by buying up everyone's playas. Or am I wrong in that?

Seems to me that the real story here is Dortmund should be doing a hell of a lot better than Frankfurt and Hoffenheim, but they aren't. Maybe the Dortmund fans should throw cans at their own team, or get them to start drinking Red Bull so they have a bit more energy for the fight.

What about Volkswagen and Bayern and Wolfsburg, particularly Wolfsburg. Hasn't that team seen a ton of cash being pumped in by a corporate?

[Niall_Quinn]

Using football as a front for any kind of violence is the hallmark of a knuckle dragger.

Not in all cases. It now turns out that Fergie throwing a boot in Beckham's face was highly appropriate.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Not in all cases. It now turns out that Fergie throwing a boot in Beckham's face was highly appropriate.

Total lies, he kicked it in his face. That way he was able to claim it was a fluke

Jesus that game was almost 14 years ago. Everyone thought United were favourites because Henry was rested but that Giggs sitter aside we actually won quite comfortably.

[Niall_Quinn]

Total lies, he kicked it in his face. That way he was able to claim it was a fluke

Jesus that game was almost 14 years ago. Everyone thought United were favourites because Henry was rested but that Giggs sitter aside we actually won quite comfortably.

Provided it hit him in the face I'm not sure it really matters how it was propelled.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Provided it hit him in the face I'm not sure it really matters how it was propelled.

well if you throw a boot at someone you can less credibly claim not to have meant to do it

It was obvious Ferguson did mean to do it, but he couldn't make the defence that he hadn't meant to do it had he thrown it unless he had an attack of muscular dystrophy.

[LDG]

Not in all cases. It now turns out that Fergie throwing a boot in Beckham's face was highly appropriate.

Ahem....that's Sir Beckham

[Niall_Quinn]

well if you throw a boot at someone you can less credibly claim not to have meant to do it

It was obvious Ferguson did mean to do it, but he couldn't make the defence that he hadn't meant to do it had he thrown it unless he had an attack of muscular dystrophy.

??? Why would you want to avoid taking credit for smashing Sir Beckham's face in? Wouldn't that be a tad much on the modesty front?

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38802113

Football :rose:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

??? Why would you want to avoid taking credit for smashing Sir Beckham's face in? Wouldn't that be a tad much on the modesty front?

Because it's technically assault and you don't want it on a PNC record

[Niall_Quinn]

Government thugs breaking their own laws on behalf of corporate scum.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-4205306/Premier-League-streaming-crackdown-sees-five-arrested.html

Excuse me, cunts! Remind me why it is Norwegians can get all our games for pennies while we have to pay a fortune to see just a few of them? Thieving cunts.

[LDG]

The Sun banned from Anfield.

Bang on. Fair play. :clap:

[Marc Overmars]

A little bit harsh to punish those that had no part in the false reporting from Hillsborough.

[GP]

A little bit harsh to punish those that had no part in the false reporting from Hillsborough.

Yeah it was like a million years ago they need to get over it already

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38978373

:lol:

Those crazy a-rabs!

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I remember last year bringing a bottle of rum back in my carry on luggage through security at Abu Dhabi (during Ramadan no less)....they must have seen it due to the xrays but didn't seem to care.

I was relieved and surpised considering this is a country where you can get arrested for kissing your girlfriend in public

Ha love the idea of unethical hair......would have loved it even more if they called him a "bloody hippie"

[Niall_Quinn]

Sad to see the BBC being so racist.

[Marc Overmars]

Apparently Ranieri has been sacked. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's official now.

[Marc Overmars]

Those players should be ashamed of themselves.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:rose:

Shame, but hardly surprising. Strange for them to do it now though, after the not-exactly-horrific result to Sevilla.

A mix of players just not caring (the likes of Mahrez), players who were playing massively above their level (like Simpson) and players who put everything into last season and who have nothing left (like Morgan).

You can't blame him wanting to lead them into Europe, but it probably would have been better for him to retire there and then, standing with Bocelli.

[Marc Overmars]

Wonder who they'll get in. They'll need a strong personality to get a reaction from those players because they've completely checked out.

[GP]

Wenger :pray:

[AFC Leveller]

When Leicester are more ruthless and decisive than Arsenal it's a bit embarrassing.

[Niall_Quinn]

Apparently Ranieri has been sacked. :lol:

The harsh reality of the football world.

Something that will never trouble us at Arsenal.

[GP]

When Leicester are more ruthless and decisive than Arsenal it's a bit embarrassing.

Yeah it's a shame we never did that when we were in danger of going down.

[GP]

It's official now.

Dilly Ding Dilly Gone.

[The Dismantler]

Apparently Ranieri has been sacked. :lol:


Well done Leicester
Something the Arsenal board have been afraid to do for the past 13 years

[Marc Overmars]

Well Wenger hasn't been needing the boot for 13 years. It does show how cut throat the life of a manager can be though, Wenger has been well protected in his bubble.

I'm not sure what's better, relentless underachievement or a year of glory followed by a down year and rebuilding. Chelsea are a better example than Leicester though, as I don't think they were ever in danger of going down like Leicester are.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Well done Leicester
Something the Arsenal board have been afraid to do for the past 13 years

If we had sacked Wenger in the final stages of the Invincibles season, the fans would have burnt Highbury to ashes.

[GP]

Nuttall in?

[Globalgunner]

Well Wenger hasn't been needing the boot for 13 years. It does show how cut throat the life of a manager can be though, Wenger has been well protected in his bubble.

I'm not sure what's better, relentless underachievement or a year of glory followed by a down year and rebuilding. Chelsea are a better example than Leicester though, as I don't think they were ever in danger of going down like Leicester are.

What I dont get. from my lofty throne of Arsenal PL security is why these teams are so afraid of going down to the Championship. If you are handed £60m on your way down and cannot bounce back immediately. Then you deserve to stay there. IMO.
Then again, who wants to be going to places like Carlisle and meeting hordes of mongrels like Millwall fans every weekend. I think I get it

[Niall_Quinn]

What I dont get. from my lofty throne of Arsenal PL security is why these teams are so afraid of going down to the Championship. If you are handed £60m on your way down and cannot bounce back immediately. Then you deserve to stay there. IMO.
Then again, who wants to be going to places like Carlisle and meeting hordes of mongrels like Millwall fans every weekend. I think I get it

You can make a hell of a lot more than 60 mill in the PL. Long term planning and a slow and methodical process of building a team is dead at the top level. There's so much money you just buy what you need and hope you bought better than the rest. Then you grab as much cash as you can and pray you don't end up with the 60 million quid booby prize.

[Letters]

Last two managers who have won the league got sacked the following season.
Wenger knows what he's doing.


Wenger :bow:

[Power n Glory]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dlcf_H01k

These fucking players! Football. :rose:

[Gooner23]

I really hope Leicester get relegated now. Ranieri is one of the good guys and gave them something that will never ever be repeated. Deserved better than this.

[Niall_Quinn]

Premier League clubs could be set to earn up to £10million more from sponsorship after talks to add a sponsor to the sleeves of shirts opened ahead of next season.
Sporting Group International have brokered a deal with eight top-flight teams to sell the rights for their kit's sleeve to the same sponsor.
The space is valued at around a fifth of that of a main kit sponsor, and so clubs such as Manchester United, who receive £47million-a-year from Chevrolet to be on their shirts, could see a further £10m invested in the club.

About time! Football has been crying out for this.

[Letters]

Cool. There isn't enough money in football and I'm sure the extra money will go towards reducing ticket prices for fans.

[Niall_Quinn]

BT Sport has retained exclusive rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League until 2021 in a deal worth £1.18billion.

The new three-year contract runs from the start of the 2018-19 season and is worth around £394million per year.

Some had hoped that BT, whose viewing figures for Champions League games have often been low, would decide to sub-licence coverage of some matches to a terrestrial channel such as ITV.

But since the new deal also includes highlights packages, there will not even be a highlights programme on ITV from 2018, let alone live matches.

Expect the price of broadband and line rental to go up then. Happy days!

[Marc Overmars]

What a crock of shit. So much for UEFA's concerns about viewing figures, as long as money is rolling in then it's all good.

The European part of my package will certainly be removed at the end of the season when my introductory offer expires.

[Niall_Quinn]

What a crock of shit. So much for UEFA's concerns about viewing figures, as long as money is rolling in then it's all good.

The European part of my package will certainly be removed at the end of the season when my introductory offer expires.

Make sure you do it yourself, because otherwise they just start billing. I hadn't signed up to anything, I'd just been given access to BT Sport for free which was one of the reasons I signed up for BT. Then the free access was removed and suddenly I was being billed a tenner a month. I guess I must have inadvertently agreed to a whole bunch of hidden small print legal bullshit when I initially signed up.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I don't see how, given the ratings this makes financial sense to BT. They are likely to have to up subscriptions across the board, even to non sports fans.

It'll make them more uncompetitive.

I like BT Internet as a product. It is reliable, but when things go wrong, a phone call with their customer service would send Mahatma Gandhi on a killing spree.

Which is just as well as all the cunts are based over there.

[Niall_Quinn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_International_Champions_Cup

Bayern again :doh:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Aitor Karanka been given the heave ho by Steve Gibson.

[Globalgunner]

Aitor Karanka leaves Middlesborough. Pity that. Maybe we should consider Herbert Chapmans suggestion back in the 1930s that half the league be relegated each season. It would reduce the stigma of relegation and stop the bloodletting. I feel for Borough. It took them about 5 years to get back to the PL, but at the end of the day 3 teams have to go down.

[Globalgunner]

What is all this "woe is me crap" by Rio Ferdinand in all the papers. Is he trying to sell a new book or something. Cant people just grieve in private nowadays?. A few months from now he will claim reporters are hounding him.

[Niall_Quinn]

Just marking myself: SAFE.

Haven't done it in a while, knew you'd all be worried.

It's a delicate world now. Little snowflakes fluttering here and there.

[Globalgunner]

I actually thought you`d be on your way back from Brussels, making sure Teresa`s letter was delivered. Good to know you`re OK though.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I actually thought you`d be on your way back from Brussels, making sure Teresa`s letter was delivered. Good to know you`re OK though.

Brussels??, he barely leaves his own house.

Unless he runs out of Johnny Walker's amber restorative.

[Marc Overmars]

Celtic win the league with 8 games to spare. 28 wins and 2 draws. :lol:

That league is a shambles.

[Globalgunner]

That Brendan Rodgers chap is hell of a manager. He should try his hand in the EPL.......Oh!

[Letters]

In unrelated news, I've decided to become a Celtic fan.
Champions! Champions!

[AFC Leveller]

Saw this quiz online and can't find the answer.

"I played with Ashley Williams, Joe Allen, Dan Gosling, Jose Fonte, James Mccarthy, Idrissa Gyue, Shane long, Gareth Barry and Tom Cleverly.

Who am i?

[GP]

Morgan Schneiderlin?

edit: No, can't be.

[AFC Leveller]

Morgan Schneiderlin?

edit: No, can't be.
I thought of him and Coleman but it's neither.

I was thinking it must be somebody who went out on loan a few times but can't figure out who.

[GP]

There's been an explosion near the Dortmund team bus. Marc Bartra is in hospital.

WTF

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Three explosions in total.

[GP]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-fears-baby-suffered-brain-10208544

Definitely happened.

[Niall_Quinn]

AC Milan sold to the Chinese. That won't end well.

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39628280

:lol:

[Letters]

AC Milan sold to the Chinese. That won't end well.

Does that mean that an hour after every game you want to watch another?

:rimshot:

[AFC Leveller]

Alexis Sanchez: 19 goals, 9 assists in the PL yet hes not in the team of the season.

Mane has 13 goals and 5 assists is in though.

[KSE Comedy Club]

He got a bit stroppy for a while so that went against him.

So did his hair, boots, the pitch, etc & he was a little bit jaded to be included.


The point is, the idiots who pick these teams are biased fucking retards usually :good:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Isn't it voted for by players? So yeah, retards.

Plus they tend to vote for these things ridiculously early, hence Rose being in there even though he's been out since January.

Also it's a team of the season. If it's not a league medal, then :shrug:

[GP]

Ugo Ehiogu has died.

[Letters]

Was just about to post that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39664839
44.
Bloody hell!

:rose:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

RIP Ugo

[Marc Overmars]

That's terrible, 44 FFS.

RIP.

[Globalgunner]

Really sad news. I was hoping to hear he had pulled through. Way too young at 44.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Really sad news. I was hoping to hear he had pulled through. Way too young at 44.

I didn't think it was life threatening in all honesty.

Some of these footballers seem to have these congenital heart problems - Marc Vivien Foe, Fabrice Muamba, Daniel Jarque, Antonio Puerta

[Marc Overmars]

Kante wins player of the year and Dele Ali gets the young player award.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I mean Kante is very good for what type of player he is but Player of the Year. Jesus.

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39716009

:popcorn:

And

http://newsthump.com/2017/04/26/west-ham-and-newcastle-united-raided-by-police-after-fraudulently-claiming-to-be-football-teams/

:lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Joey Barton banned for 18 months for breaching rules on betting. :haha:

[GP]

Apparently he's devastated.

He had £500 on it being 2 years.

[Niall_Quinn]

Joey Barton banned for 18 months for breaching rules on betting. :haha:

What did he do? Sign up a major betting firm as a sponsor?

[Letters]

Spurs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39729568

:bow:

:rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

Not really general nonsense, rather very specific nonsense. After tax - so he'll get a million a week I guess. Obscene doesn't work any more, I think we're verging on evil. And it's not even his football that attracts the cash, it's his name. This diving, cheating scumbag who is an average footballer at best. His name should be mud after all his antics, but somehow this "sport" has made his name worth a million a week.

I would suspect this is just jealousy on my part. In his shoes I'd take the money without a care in the world that this ludicrous inequality must eventually crash the species. Nothing to worry about at all, just keep piling it on and the good times will never end.


Diego Costa is closing in on a move to China that will see him become the best-paid player in world football.

Tianjin Quanjian believe they have an agreement in principle to complete a stunning £75million deal for the Chelsea forward this summer having failed with an attempted swoop in January.

Sportsmail revealed on April 20 how Tianjin, who are managed by Fabio Cannavaro, were plotting a second bid for Costa.

And the Chinese club are now confident of making the money-spinning signing in the coming weeks.

If, as expected, the switch is ratified, Costa will become the highest-paid player on the planet - earning an eye-watering £620,000 per week after tax.



In 2012 approximately 1.5 million millionaires lived in China. In 2013 the number increased further to 2.4 million. Eventually, the number of millionaires is projected to double again until 2015. Without a doubt impressive numbers. But according to senior government development official Zheng Wenkai over 82 million Chinese still live on less than about US$1.25 a day. Hence, plenty of people that did not benefit from China’s incredible growth rates so far. This number is even higher if the World Bank’s definition of extreme poverty is taken into account. Those are people who have less than US$1 a day. Thus, as Wenkai admits the number of poor Chinese can be considered to be actually closer to 200 million. This implies that every sixth Chinese person is poor. The fragments of Chinese peoples have not only the insufficient of capital but also have no access to clean water, electricity and health care. They frequently live in rural areas that are regularly hit by natural disasters such as earth quakes, droughts, and floods.

[Marc Overmars]

It's pretty disgusting tbh.

This sport needs to burn to the ground.

[GP]

It does. It's so ridiculous now. It's nothing like the sport we grew up watching.

Reboot the whole thing.

[Niall_Quinn]

It does. It's so ridiculous now. It's nothing like the sport we grew up watching.

Reboot the whole thing.

But we'd lose Stan if we got rid of all the easy cash.

[GP]

But on the plus side Arsene would still be here.

[Letters]

People keep buying the TV Packages, buying the shirts and going to games.
If everyone collectively thought "well screw this" and stopped it would all grind to a halt.
Supply and demand :shrug:

I see the Emirates Cup is running again this summer. Bet they fill the ground again :rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

But on the plus side Arsene would still be here.

That's happening either way. He'll never leave us.

[Globalgunner]

That's happening either way. He'll never leave us.

He loves us too much

[LDG]

I see the Emirates Cup is running again this summer. Bet they fill the ground again :rolleyes:

That should be boycotted more than Geoffrey.

[Niall_Quinn]

That should be boycotted more than Geoffrey.

That's one for the kids. Maybe the only time they get to go to the Emirates in a season. Le Grove has the best idea. Target the Sunderland game. People who don't want to protest openly, stay away, but don't sell the ticket. Eat the £40 cost as an investment in getting rid of Wenger. Those who do want to protest, do it loud. A half empty stadium with protests ringing around it. Stan will have to pay attention.

Trouble is, just how many Wengerites are still out there. A lot I think. And if they aren't Wengerites in terms of outright support, their unwillingness to do anything about the situation amounts to the same thing. Even so, if enough people could be convinced to play along, there's still a chance enough discomfort and bad press could be generated.

Not that anyone should need to make such plans. Any normal club would have acted long ago. It's a fucking joke.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

That's one for the kids. Maybe the only time they get to go to the Emirates in a season. Le Grove has the best idea. Target the Sunderland game. People who don't want to protest openly, stay away, but don't sell the ticket. Eat the £40 cost as an investment in getting rid of Wenger. Those who do want to protest, do it loud. A half empty stadium with protests ringing around it. Stan will have to pay attention.

Trouble is, just how many Wengerites are still out there. A lot I think. And if they aren't Wengerites in terms of outright support, their unwillingness to do anything about the situation amounts to the same thing. Even so, if enough people could be convinced to play along, there's still a chance enough discomfort and bad press could be generated.

Not that anyone should need to make such plans. Any normal club would have acted long ago. It's a fucking joke.

Even if the attendees are all Pro Wenger, a stadium turnout that would look poor for a championship club will send a big enough message

No-one can justify going to a game like that if they actually want managerial change.

[Niall_Quinn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSsstAItsQk

[Niall_Quinn]

Even if the attendees are all Pro Wenger, a stadium turnout that would look poor for a championship club will send a big enough message

No-one can justify going to a game like that if they actually want managerial change.

I don't think it's the turnout that will cause the issue, because those cynical bastards in charge will know it's a one-off. But if the atmosphere is fierce and determined, that might cause them to think. Do they want that all the way through a new season rather than just the end of this one? Because we all know Wenger will fuck up again if he stays. A season long bad atmosphere and division is no good for anyone.

Why the fuck hasn't Wenger got the message already? What goes on in his head that he's unable to figure this out? Why has he let it get to this stage? He must be absolutely desperate to stay, to the exclusion of all considerations.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

He must be absolutely desperate to stay, to the exclusion of all considerations.

I thought that was obvious

[Niall_Quinn]

I thought that was obvious

Means he has no pride and no self respect.

[Globalgunner]

If Chelsea win the league tonight. Will Wenger claim it was only because he sold them Fabregas. Who will now go on to join the many ex Arsenal stars who had to dump Wenger to win the EPL?. Sad.
Ok. Cesc won it with us in 2004. That was a different Wenger in a different lifetime. Cesc was a teen looking up at a team of legends.

[Marc Overmars]

If Chelsea win the league tonight. Will Wenger claim it was only because he sold them Fabregas. Who will now go on to join the many ex Arsenal stars who had to dump Wenger to win the EPL?. Sad.
Ok. Cesc won it with us in 2004. That was a different Wenger in a different lifetime. Cesc was a teen looking up at a team of legends.

He already won it in 2015.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He has already won the league with them?

However this season how many times has he started?

[Globalgunner]

He has already won the league with them?

However this season how many times has he started?

I totally forgot. That somehow makes it worse. He won it twice away from us while we have won it 0 times since he left.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39949621

Ha from our situation to the ridiculous, by Watfords standards he must be a veteran manager

Apparently it came as a result of discussing the clubs future and transfers etc

Would have been interesting conversation considering Mazzari has never bothered learning English

Scuzzi?

[AFC Leveller]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39949621

Ha from our situation to the ridiculous, by Watfords standards he must be a veteran manager

Apparently it came as a result of discussing the clubs future and transfers etc

Would have been interesting conversation considering Mazzari has never bothered learning English

Scuzzi?

They are owned by Italians so i dont think it was an issue.

Still, even the likes of Watford have shown ambition.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Juve v Lazio in the Coppa Italia final on SS4.

Italian national anthem :bow:

Needs the music though, none of this a cappella nonense.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 Juve, Dani Alves.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 Bonucci.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

They are owned by Italians so i dont think it was an issue.

Still, even the likes of Watford have shown ambition.

In fairness i didn't know that

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Jamie Vardy reportedly punches himself in the face

Bit daft

He could just ask someone else to do it for him

[Niall_Quinn]

Jamie Vardy reportedly punches himself in the face

Bit daft

He could just ask someone else to do it for him

Where would he find the time to sort through all the applications? Quicker to do it himself.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Where would he find the time to sort through all the applications? Quicker to do it himself.

Well it's refreshing to know that in living his life's motto "chat shit get banged" he does not exclude himself

[Letters]

Tekkers!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39947732

:haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

FA are going to impose 2 game bans on divers who cheat and and win a penalty or cause an opponent to be red carded. On the surface, a good idea. Then again, having a ref is theoretically a good idea but in practice isn't all that.

Graham Poll has already warned refs will need to be on the lookout to distinguish between cheats and those who go down to avoid injury.

FA Rule 234.A (Para 1) states:

If any player whose surname commences with the letter X should fall, trip, stumble or otherwise lose their footing inside the bounds of the opposition penalty area; that player shall be: 1) Sent from the field of play and thereafter be prohibited from participating in any English or European sanctioned football match for a period of no less than 2 games, 2) Fined a monetary sum amounting to £10,000 multiplied by the number of occasions during the match in which Wayne Rooney or Harry Kane are forced to fall into the opposition penalty area in order to avoid injury.

(Para 1) sub-clause 1 states:

This rule shall be waived if the offending player's surname does not rhyme with Xhaka.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sunday Supplement, Ollie Holt - "We don't give Rooney enough love."

No, he really said this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He's right, I saw this too.

[Niall_Quinn]

Thank God. I thought I was hallucinating.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

All the fawning over him become Man Utd's top goalscorer never happened.

Also, how does he get away with performing like utter shit for at least four seasons and then is expected to be heralded as our best since Gazza?

[Niall_Quinn]

You're not giving him enough love :sulk:

[GP]

Fat Sam has left Palace.

I bet the board don't even grasp this opportunity to upgrade our manager.

[Globalgunner]

England squad with only 1 Arsenal player in it
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/25/wayne-rooney-left-out-england-squad-face-scotland-france

Gibbs cant get a look in neither can Walcott or Welbeck(I cant believe he missed that.....again)...All below average players.

Wengers ruination of Arsenal is almost complete. In 2 months time Ox may not even be an Arsenal player anymore.
Onwards and Upwards!

[Ralpheroo72]

Looks like the gypos are gonna throw another horrendous amount of money at Pep, £45M for a 23 year old keeper.

[GP]

Fun Fact: Huddersfield Town have won more league titles than Spurs.

[Letters]

*Googles*

Bloody hell, they have too! :haha:


But have they ever won or shared the Norwich Hospital Charity Cup? Well, have they?
Exactly.

[AFC Leveller]

Gabriel Jesus was painting roads before the 2014 world cup!

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18740612_10155500400043901_4873980113018600220_n.j pg?oh=0cefb5cd7813232237cbd38cd363567e&oe=59A7086B

[Globalgunner]

Barefoot too!!!

[Niall_Quinn]

http://newsthump.com/2017/05/22/john-terry-retires-from-football-to-focus-on-adultery-and-racism/

[Niall_Quinn]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/01/21/4102661B00000578-0-image-a-16_1496348604582.jpg

Madrid :bow: (The other one)

Sunderland :haha:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Jesus Chiek Tiote is dead

That'll teach him for that goal he scored against us in 2011

[Globalgunner]

This sudden death thing is a real menace. Sorry for his poor family, now bereaved.

[Marc Overmars]

Bloody hell. :blink:

That's awful.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

WTF?

[Niall_Quinn]

The Premier League are considering a package of late-morning Sunday kick-offs for the extra 22 live games to be included in the next three-year rights sale starting in season 2019-20. The 11.30am or noon kick-off times are designed to appeal to the Asian market where the matches would be broadcast at peak time.

[AFC Leveller]

Neymar has been rated as the most valuable player at 185m.

However, when you see that Alli has been rated as the 2nd most valuable player at 155m, you begin to laugh out loud.

[Niall_Quinn]

At current rates of hyperinflation in football, expect to see the billion quid player in the next 3 seasons. Or sooner if the Chinese ever manage to land one of their targets. Did you see they were offering Ronaldo around 1.5mill a week? After tax!

This is very good news for football fans. It means the whole rotten, stinking shit pile of an industry is exhibiting all the key signs of catastrophic collapse. The "fans" that can afford to consume this football product aren't the same type as the die-hard fanatics that have been forced out.

[Niall_Quinn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-oy5d8XDE0

No Rooney or Alli :doh:

Yashin instead of Hart :haha:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Pickford for 30 million ????

Interesting purchase from Everton

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40271696

So apparently the Tv money meant to improve the quality of the premier league

:haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40271696

So apparently the Tv money meant to improve the quality of the premier league

:haha:

Reminiscent of the .com boom where absolute pubbers were living it up before they'd learned to write a line of code. GreedyDonkey.com.

[GP]

Reminiscent of the .com boom where absolute pubbers were living it up before they'd learned to write a line of code. GreedyDonkey.com.

Well luckily that went from strength to strength.

[Letters]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40271696

So apparently the Tv money meant to improve the quality of the premier league

:haha:

Why would it though? :shrug:
Players costing 10 times more than they used to isn't going to make them 10 times better.
Who knows what anyone is worth any more? It got ridiculous years ago, I'm not sure there is a word for it any more.

[GP]

'Arry is trying to sign John Terry at Birmingham :lol:

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Why would it though? :shrug:
Players costing 10 times more than they used to isn't going to make them 10 times better.
Who knows what anyone is worth any more? It got ridiculous years ago, I'm not sure there is a word for it any more.

That was my point

But that was the argument being made after the tv deal

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Germany beat England on penalties in the U21s :faint:

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-40419819

:popcorn:

[GP]

Brendan Rodgers named his son Anton.

That's way funnier to me than it should be.

[Globalgunner]

Watching the confederations cup penalty shootout a few days ago got me thinking about new ways to resolve a stalemate game. Ronaldo:pal:
If after 90 mins there is no winner, then 4 officials. 1 rep from each team, 1 from the governing football authority, (Fifa, UEFA, FA...) plus one independent auditor will be locked up in a room without any means of communicating with the outside world and a coin is tossed to determine the winner. This will not be announced to anyone and now the extra 30 mins is played. The 2 teams on the pitch dont know who has won the toss but they do know that actually winning the game in the 30 mins extra time will negate the outcome of the toss. If you win it in real time it cancels out the coin toss. if its still stalemate after 120 mins. go with the toss up.

Should be a real incentive to play harder for 30 mins.
Also allow 2 extra changes per team in the 30 mins.

[Marc Overmars]

Big Man has signed for Villa.

Rors. :lol:

[Letters]

http://newsthump.com/2017/07/03/aston-villa-wags-on-lockdown/

:lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Wycombe's new keeper's kit. Not a joke, apparently.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/06/10/421450F400000578-4670622-image-a-34_1499332971807.jpg

[Thierrymon]

Definitely too jazzy.

[GP]

I like it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Its throat grabbed by the advance of corporatism, the rapacity of agents, the crippling fear of failure, the impatience for success and the headlong flight from its roots, the voice of romance in football has been growing ever more faint with each season that passes.

So says Ollie Holt about the plight of our game.

But lo! Over the horizon comes a saviour. A romantic warrior to lead us all by example, to the utopia where the beautiful game was birthed and should rightly be berthed today. Why... It's Wayne Rooney! Wazza the poet. Shrek the idealist. Rooooo-neh the Reinvented.


But Rooney wants to go back to Everton because he loves the club. He wants to go back because he wants his kids to see him playing in Everton blue. He wants to go back because he feels it will rejuvenate him. He wants to go back because Everton is in his heart. Because he is a romantic too.

Once the vomit has exploded and your brain rattling has subsided, I think you'll see Ollie has a point. Because to read any of his shit will send you as mental as he is, and probably make you just s shameless.

Rooney FFS! I swear he must be paying these journo shitheads. He must be.

[Letters]

Rooney, Mr £250k a week, is being held up as a misty-eyed reminder of how great football was before the money men took over?

:lol:

:ilt:

[Niall_Quinn]

Who can ever forget his Shakespearian performances in the opposition penalty box? Or the artistic license he was granted when tackling his victims? Or the painful cries from his heartbroken and axe wielding fans as he plotted his dramatic move across the city, once a blue and any blue will do.

[GP]

https://streamable.com/yx5xk

The cringe is off the charts.

Why are they keeping a footballer in the stock room of a shop?

[Letters]

http://newsthump.com/2017/07/10/romelu-lukakus-agent-hospitalised-after-wanking-himself-into-a-coma/

:d

[AFC Leveller]

So apparently Rooney has always been a blue and has kept his Everton pajamas.

Pretty sure iv seen him score for Man ure at goodison park and kiss the badge in front of the Everton fans.

[Letters]

He's a nasty piece of work, completely ludicrous that he is held us as some kind of example.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ollie Holt writes something sensible for a change:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4699736/Kyle-Walker-shows-Premier-League-lost-mind.html

Can't recall if he ever wrote an article condemning Rooney's ridiculous 300k per week wages. Things were very silly at some clubs long before the mega money arrived.

[Letters]

BLitW :bow:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-yT7PZP20

[AFC Leveller]

City have spent 127 m on fullbacks only!

Guardiola trying to buy the league it seems.

[Letters]

A City manager trying to buy the league?

:faint:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkW-u0HzNP0

:haha:

[Xhaka Can’t]

What! An! OG!

I thought Lee Dixon's would never be beaten.

I thought wrong.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkW-u0HzNP0

:haha:

Genuine Frank Sinclair

[Letters]

Are you watching, Lee Dixon?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Are you watching, Lee Dixon?

He was.

Two posts ago.

[Master Splinter]

Letters :haha:.

[Letters]

Dammit! <_<

I was at that game when Dixon did that. How we laughed. It was only Coventry, after all.

:getcoat:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

KondOGbia. :bow:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Dammit! <_<

I was at that game when Dixon did that. How we laughed. It was only Coventry, after all.

:getcoat:

That was the first Arsenal match I ever attended.

[GP]

Mine was Anfield 89.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That was my fourth.

[Letters]

Anyone for tennis?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I can't. Moving house today.

[AFC Leveller]

How come Spurs played in the "international champions cup" last night when they havent won shit for years?

[GP]

How come Spurs played in the "international champions cup" last night when they havent won shit for years?

IT's just preseason meaningless bollocks.

[Niall_Quinn]

IT's just preseason meaningless bollocks.

Well why have they released a major DVD series about it then?

[Letters]

Netherlands 1 - England 0
#womensfootball #feminism

[GP]

Have you been watching this?

I've seen better technique out of Gervinho.

[Letters]

Watched a bit but gave up when it went to 2-0 #WengerOut

[Niall_Quinn]

Do they take their top off when the score? If not, what's the point of it?

[Letters]

"If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that women should stick to women's sports like hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such"
- Homer J. Simpson

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Marketing v Man Utd in the Super Cup Final, BT Sport 2.

Casemiro hit the bar not so long ago.

Pogba was crap on the counter attack not so long ago.

[GP]

Pogba is just a dabbing Djemba Djemba

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid: Navas; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric; Isco, Benzema, Bale.

Man Utd: De Gea; Valencia, Lindelof, Smalling, Darmian; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Mkhitaryan, Lukaku, Lingard.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Marketing 1-0 Man Utd, CASEMIRO!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It was probably offside.

Mourinho tears. :lol:

[GP]

LOL

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Drinks break. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lukaku. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pogba fucks it up again.

[GP]

Lukaku is a bit of a oaf.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lukaku with a tame header.

Hargreaves using it as signs of a great partnership between Pogba and Lukaku.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 HT.

[GP]

ISCO!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 ISCO!!!!

:haha:

[GP]

LUKAKU!

What a miss!!! OMG!

:haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lukaku! How much?!!!

:haha:

[GP]

Here comes the cavalry.

On comes Fellaini.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Who is Casemao?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bale smashes the bar.

Bale, Pogba and Lukaku all with ridiculous misses.

And Benzema too. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-1 Lukaku pubs it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fellaini. :lol: