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Just a month or two after Brazilian legend Carlos Alberto accused Manchester United of "raping Brazilian football" the club is now participating in "minor slave trading" according to Ligue 2 club Le Harve, who are upset that Man Utd have lured France U-16 captain Paul Pogba to Old Trafford.
Rape, slave trading, I hope United's scouts keep it up, I want to hear what the next accusation is. |
08-01-2009, 10:34 AM | #154 |
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I accuse them of asshattery in general.
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08-01-2009, 05:59 PM | #155 |
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As a diehard Man U fan, these allegations both hurt and amuse me
Seriously though, from what I can tell the club had a verbal agreement with his parents that when he turned 18 he would sign for Le Harve...so Man U coming in and offering more money/opportunities to the parents isnt illegal in any way im aware of. While the club will certainly feel hard done(getting relegated didnt help im sure), im not sure Man U is really in the wrong in this case.
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08-04-2009, 01:58 PM | #158 |
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Real Madrid and Liverpool have agreed on a fee for Xabi Alonso. Great news if you root for an EPL team other than Liverpool.
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Since when did Xabi become a world class player?
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08-04-2009, 02:19 PM | #160 |
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He was really good last season, he would be my pick as the hardest squad member for Liverpool to replace behind Gerrard and Torres. There's a reason he was rumored to leave for £12m last summer and the fee is around £30m this summer.
Even with Aquilani, Poulsen, Defour or whoever else they're looking at I don't think they'll be as good as Alonso. |
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I think the fee rising reflects his good season, but also reflects the transfer market inflation.
Xabi is good, but I think he's far from irreplaceable. Based on your "replaceable" metric, I would argue that Mascherano, Carragher, or Reina could be just as/more irreplaceable than Xabi. It's a loss, for sure, but I think its weatherable.
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Real Madrid overpayed for Xavi, but the main reason besides him being a good player is that he is Spanish, and R.Madrid staff wanted to sign an Spanish top player to make the fans happy. Villa was the first attempt, but as it failed, Xavi became even more necessary, so it forced them to overpay.
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Real has a truly rdiculous roster right now though. Basically 22 players that could start on a champions league contender ... And that´s not even counting guys like Huntelaar they want to get rid off .
Goal : Cassillas/Dudek defense : Pepe, Metzelder, Albiol, Garay, Ramos, Arbeloa, Torres, Marcelo (only Torres not a national team member) Midfield : Kaka, Alonso, Guti, Van der Vaart, Sneijder, Robben, L.Diarra, M. Diarra, Drenthe, Granero attack : Benzema, Higuain, Negredo, Raul, Ronaldo, Huntelaar, Van Nistelroy that´s 27. Even if you don´t count the relative youngsters and get rid of Huntelaar and Sneider/Van der vaart this is incredible ... according to wikipedia they payed 10+ mio Euros for 18 of those players and 20+ for 12. Last edited by whomario : 08-05-2009 at 08:34 AM. |
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Excited to see Barca tonight. I know we'll get killed but who cares......
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Well I thought Altidore had been loaned to Olympiakos some time ago, that must have just been a rumor that my brain registered as a finalized deal or something. According to his twitter page he will be joining Hull City on loan for the upcoming season. It will be easier to follow him there than in the Greek league, so that's cool. Apparently Hull have nobody else good up front so he could get a lot of playing time.
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Cmmon Altidore! if he can have a good year he can get moved to a club that cares about him.
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I think Hull probably cares for him a great deal. In a vaguely related story, I saw that Fulham has named a bar near the stadium that they own "McBride's" for his performance in keeping them up.
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If anyone reading this wants to help out in the 20Q thread and finish it off, that would be great. I answered incorrectly already.
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Celtic will stay in Europe, scoring an injury time goal to win the second leg 2-0, on aggregate 2-1. It's their first away win in European play in 23 matches, and a loss here would have knocked them out of Europe entirely (starting with the next round, at least some of the losing teams go to the Europa League)
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08-05-2009, 11:43 PM | #172 |
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Messi looking good in preseason
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08-06-2009, 09:41 AM | #173 |
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Paraphrased from watching 5 min last night with some people who don't watch soccer normally.
"Seattle looks terrible compared to Barcelona. Why is MLS so bad?" "That's Barcelona my friend. Man U looked that bad against them." Last edited by BishopMVP : 08-06-2009 at 09:41 AM. |
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LOL! Yeah, saying the MLS sucks so bad because Seattle is getting pwned by Barca is funny as Hell.
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08-06-2009, 10:52 AM | #175 |
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I think Seattle's entire team makes as much as Messi does in two or three months, roughly.
More Euro transfer news: Papers say Aquilani to Liverpool is a done deal pending a medical, £17-20m. Klaas Jan Huntelaar goes from Real to Milan for €15m. Milan will not sell Andrea Pirlo to Chelsea. Hull City have an option to buy Altidore for £6m if they like what they see during his loan spell. |
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fair enough. i was just guessing and being funny more than anything else. what is seattle's payroll like? it can't be that big - i know it seems like 3/4 of the Revs guys are making peanuts
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as of july 08 toronto's payroll (benchmark for an expansion team) was 2.8mil
that's 1.9mil euros 12.6 weeks so yeah...3 months
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Reading this I just kept having an image of super relegation. You lost? You are hereby banned from the Continent of Europe. Celtic, you may return to Europe if you can prove yourself with a good season in Africa. Off you go boys.
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Remind the North American-centric fan here what the Europa League replaced.....if it did replace something. Was it the EUFA Cup?
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UEFA, but yes.
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oops, I pselled it rwong huh?
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It's okay - you're from Texas. Nobody expects you to be able to spell.
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ESPN Adds Premier League To Soccer Line Up | EPL Talk
ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 7:45am ET Saturday game and the 3pm ET Monday game.
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So literally starting next weekend they'll be broadcasting in HD on ESPN or ESPN2, not just sticking soccer on Deportes or Classic? Awesome.
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Unknown if it will be in HD, but yes, they'll be broadcasting on ESPN 2.
First game, the Saturday 7:45 game, will feature Jozy Altidore and Hull City vs Chelea
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(I assume you mean vs. Chelsea) I'd be a lot more excited for that game if the US wasn't playing in Mexico City ~60 hours beforehand and/or if Jozy had actually had more than 1 full practice with his team by then. Still fantastic news. Fingers crossed for the Sky announcers or at least Andy Gray.
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I wouldn't mind Derek Rae as long as he didn't bring Tommy Smith with him.
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For those who know a lot about the qualifying for the World Cup. What are the odds that U.S. doesn't qualify? I know they are in 2nd in the final stage but the second leg seems to have some tough road games.
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Just in case anyone has missed it, FOFC Premier League Fantasy Football is starting again shortly - For more info follow the link.
Fantasy Premier League 2009/10 - Front Office Football Central This weekend I will move the thread to general discussion to try to get a few extra players. |
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Even with the expected loss in Mexico next week the US will still have a great ( > 95% imo) chance of qualifying. They should win against El Salvador and Costa Rica at home and probably away to T&T as well. Even another road loss at Honduras won't keep the US out of the top three (top three get an automatic berth, fourth places gets into a playoff against the fifth best team in South America) if they win the games they should. By my hasty calculations, two wins, two losses, and a draw in the last five will guarantee third place even in a worst-case scenario where CR, MEX, and HON win all their games against ES and TT while beating each other at home and never splitting the points. Basically it will take a lot of choking and some bad luck for the US not to qualify from here. |
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Why did one of my fox sports network tell me Houston v. Dallas was on when they were showing tha Bama-Utah Sugar Bowl?
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Top 10 worst football kits for 2009-10 | The Sun |Sport|Top 10s
Worst kits for this upcoming season. My god, some of these are horrible. Newcastle!!!
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It's fitting, considering how utterly screwed up Newcastle has been.
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