Football 17/18

[Gucci Piggy]

Where on earth did Yaya Toure expect to be in the starting XI last season? Ahead of KDB or David Silva?

[jyoung]

8 hours ago, Gucci Piggy said:

Where on earth did Yaya Toure expect to be in the starting XI last season? Ahead of KDB or David Silva?

I thought he was talking about him time at Barca?

[The Nal]

21 minutes ago, jyoung said:

I thought he was talking about him time at Barca?

He was talking about City too. 

Wild and dangerous stuff from Yaya. Basically calling Pep a racist. Alternating between accusing Guardiola of having problems with "African" and then "black" players. Despite Citys match day squads having 8 or 9 black players in it. Danilo, Kompany, Sterling, Mangala, Delph, Mendy, Jesus, Fernandinho etc. 

The filthy African hating bastard is just about to sign Mahrez too.

[Hugh Jass]

Who doesn't want to see him go to Arsenal for a pound a week though?

[The Nal]

Fred the Red. Seems decent for 50m ish. Don't know anything about Dalot but hes clearly going to be the next Carlos Alberto. 

[jyoung]

The rumours about Yaya going to a top six club for one pound to spite Man City?!?!?!

[Dan R]

16 minutes ago, jyoung said:

The rumours about Yaya going to a top six club for one pound to spite Man City?!?!?!

Seen plenty of mention of it being Man United. Great way to destroy his legacy in City and sit around making no money in his last few earning years. Mourinho deffo seems petty enough for it though.

[jyoung]

7 minutes ago, Dan R said:

Seen plenty of mention of it being Man United. Great way to destroy his legacy in City and sit around making no money in his last few earning years. Mourinho deffo seems petty enough for it though.

Yeah this has got Mourinho written all over it to be fair.

[eFestivals]

57 minutes ago, Dan R said:

Great way to destroy his legacy in City

Yaya has a legacy at City?

For being an arrogant plank, maybe. Very decent player, but not as good as he seems to think he is.

[Hugh Jass]

27 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

Yaya has a legacy at City?

For being an arrogant plank, maybe. Very decent player, but not as good as he seems to think he is.

They named a training pitch after him, which suggests he was pretty popular up there.

Ignore the massive wages and birthday related histrionics and he was an absolute beast for them for three/four seasons.

Edited June 5, 2018 by Hugh Jass

[The Nal]

Emery off to an odd start. Signed Lichtsteiner from Juve. 

They named a training pitch after him, which suggests he was pretty popular up there.

Played over half of his career games with City. Scored the winner in the Fa Cup final, their first trophy for 150 years. 

Edited June 5, 2018 by The Nal

[WS_Jack_III]

Villa served a winding up order?

[Gucci Piggy]

5 hours ago, The Nal said:

Emery off to an odd start. Signed Lichtsteiner from Juve. 

What's odd about that? Desperately need a back up for Bellerin and he's free and comes with bags of experience. Probably got 2 years left in him by which time they'll be hoping one of their youth prospects is up to the job of being back up.

[Hugh Jass]

14 hours ago, WS_Jack_III said:

Villa served a winding up order?

There were a lot of rumours going around before the Play-Off final that if they didn't go up they were in big, big trouble financially.

Looks like it's true.

[TheGayTent]

The Benik Afobe transfer to Stoke via Wolves is an unusual one 

[Dan R]

11 minutes ago, TheGayTent said:

The Benik Afobe transfer to Stoke via Wolves is an unusual one 

Pretty sound bit of business from Wolves, got him via a release clause and selling him for more. Kind of like Morata between Juve and Real Madrid, was bought back just to sell on but ended up staying an extra year.

[Hugh Jass]

Looks like Villa are pretty fucked.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/inside-story-behind-aston-villa-12655774

Even though they are our dear neighbours and rivals it's hard to take any pleasure in this. All it demonstrates is how fucked the games is and how we are all completely at the mercy of oversees business men buying your club and completely fucking it up, be that through incompetence or something more sinister.

What's happening to Villa can happen anywhere.

[TheWaters]

Has the Buffon to PSG deal gone through or did it fall through? Saw a lot of talk but heard nothing in the last few days.

[zahidf]

Wow. I wonder how many other foorball players feel the same. Fair play to danny rose for bringing it up

and another very open interview

 

 

Edited June 6, 2018 by zahidf

[jyoung]

Massive respect for Danny Rose and I hope this helps the press and fans see the players in a more human light. It's brave of him to come out one week before the tournament and talk like this. It could help fellow pros and even fans who feel similarly. I'm glad he's feeling refreshed and enjoying his time in the England camp, here's to a positive future. Respect!

One week today, lads!

[The Nal]

Amazon have bought the remaining Premier League package for 2019/2020. 20 games. Either 20 matches from one bank holiday and one midweek fixture programme or 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes. 

So if you want access to all matches you'll need Sky Sports, BT Sports and Amazon now. 

[jyoung]

13 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Amazon have bought the remaining Premier League package for 2019/2020. 20 games. Either 20 matches from one bank holiday and one midweek fixture programme or 20 matches from two midweek fixture programmes. 

So if you want access to all matches you'll need Sky Sports, BT Sports and Amazon now. 

And so it begins... Sky Sports is on borrowed time. It's inevitable that eventually almost all of the Premier League will end up online - Amazon, YouTube, whatever it may be. 

Edited June 7, 2018 by jyoung

[The Nal]

Just now, jyoung said:

And so it begins... Sky Sports is on borrowed time. It's inevitable that eventually almost all of the Premier League will end up online - Amazon, YouTube, whatever it may be. 

Sky have lost La Liga too. The games have been bought buy that cretin who owns Leeds. No news yet on where they'll be shown. Still could be on Sky. 

[jyoung]

3 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Sky have lost La Liga too. The games have been bought buy that cretin who owns Leeds. No news yet on where they'll be shown. Still could be on Sky. 

Wonder how that  old Guillem Balague chap feels about that. I never even watch La Liga to be fair. Bundesliga tops it for me.

[The Nal]

Just now, jyoung said:

Wonder how that  old Guillem Balague chap feels about that. I never even watch La Liga to be fair. Bundesliga tops it for me.

Id imagine he'll be on the new show, whatever it is.

I'm a La Liga fan. Standard Saturday/Sunday viewing. 2 or 3 teams granted but they're the best players in the world.