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  1. Maradona37

    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    To be fair, Walton Goggins would probably make more impact than Mount in the Barca team.
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    I get your point but to take Man United - as an example - they have only really had two successful periods in their history - under Busby and Ferguson. Otherwise they have been non-entities in the success area. Man City were a bigger club than them for decades after both were founded, and Man...
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    Women's football

    I didn't actually watch the game but bit surprised Sweden pumped the Germans, though would be tighter than that. Tonight's group to confirm the last 8 will be interesting, with one of France, Netherlands and England having to miss out (likely Netherlands).
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    Aye I had something of a meltdown, which I apologise to everyone for. I just feel passionately that there should be more equality in football. But obviously that isn't achieved by having state-backed clubs either.
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    Barca 2025 pre-season

    LOL more proof (as if it was needed) that Lewandowski is a low IQ moron.
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    Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi V2

    He doesn't run around aimlessly like a blue arsed fly though, so apparently wouldn't make it in Europe. Never mind passing, dribbling finishing when you can 'work hard and press' (yawn). Be better off with Mason Mount, he will run the hard yards.
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    @serghei What I am really arguing for is what you mentioned in passing before - a salary cap and more balance. And (rough) NFL style structure. The way I wanna see football is with wealth and player distribution, and where any (or most) of the 20 teams can go into a league and have a realistic...
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    Also (sorry for the multi posts). The Federer point is more like if the Middle East pumped a fortune into tennis in Africa, unearthed previously unfound talent, then all of a sudden Somalians started winning everything, destroying the grand slams, a few years down the road. And people were...
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    Anyway, I have had something of a meltdown (jamrock is right on that) and thrown out a few digs that were unnecessary and uncalled for. I got too heated as I sometimes do. So apologies for those. I still maintain my general argument though about clubs not deserving to just rule forever because...
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    '100% of great tennis champions for example were born into wealth. Why do you think there's no Kenyan or Somalian multi slam winner? This doesn't mean Federer is a fraud or doesn't deserve his success. Just because he had conditions others didn't. It's still meritocracy in an imperfect world.'...
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    I don't view meritocracy only as propagation of wealth, that's too simplistic of my argument. And you made good points with tennis. Ultimately, no argument is perfect. Fair enough. It's probably more of a difference in how we see the world. Two things: 1) as stated, I do like and generally...
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    No, I am saying a lot of what they did was immoral and enabled by local benefactors too, even if you consider it 'smart'. Hence, they're no better than the plastic oil clubs that Barca and United and Liverpool fans like to claim are morally worse than them. 'Smart' doesn't mean 'moral'. Man...
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    Real Madrid 'earned' it through Franco's nonsense in the 50s? That corruption still benefits them now in Europe through an affinity and belief that dates back to those 5 European cups. I already told you about Man United getting a leg up from Davies and Gibson, and floating on the stock...
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    If anything your priorities are deeply fucked up - you care far more about the fact that Newcastle's owners want to deprive Barca of trophies in a game of football than you do the fact those same owners are taking political prisoners and executing gay people.
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    Yeah, originally based on a leg up (in the case of United, Liverpool, moreso than Barca). And now because of that and the glory hunters and hence revenue streams it attracts, it creates a compounding effect - winning stuff leads to more money, which leads to winning stuff, which leads to more...
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    Ultimately, it's a food chain that you've been at the top of for so long, the apex predator. You and other clubs like United and Liverpool just don't like that there's a new evolution and a new apex predator. You can still feed on 99.9 percent of animals, but there's two or three who can devour...
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    If you say so. I consider the individual TV deal immoral or at least morally grey, in a sporting capacity. If you don't then there's something wrong with you. Other stuff like attracting glory hunters and fleecing the working classes for tickets and subscriptions is morally grey too. But I do...
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    Also, you continue to evade points and trying to make new arguments not related to what I said. It's extremely disingenuous. You know the individual TV deals is a perfect point that you cannot argue against, hence you constantly ignoring it and trying to deflect to other aspects.
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    But it's based on unchangeable history (nepotism in effect), immoral earnings (fleecing supporters, like all clubs do), attracting glory hunters (very shallow) and keeping others down (individual TV deals). You act like it's purely innocent, like Bale earning more because he's better at acting...
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    Also, nobody forced Barca or Man United to be laughably run in recent years, and waste fortunes on players who didn't work out. You have had more than enough resources to be a sufficient club but fucked it up, hence being in the dire financial predicament you and United now find yourselves in...

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