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Pretty boring if you ask me. "Journalists" these days do write an insane amount of bullshit anyway.

That Benfica - Ajax will turn into a goal fest it seems. Horatio got it right yet again

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No player in Europe's top five leagues has registered more assists than Lionel Messi (4) in 2022 &#55357;&#56336; <a href="https://t.co/WpenRgTCVq">pic.twitter.com/WpenRgTCVq</a></p>— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a...

it became a premium competition and it is sold like a premium competition. i for one would be ok to a return of the original champions cup format - all champions to battle it out in a pyramid. but we already know that there is no going back to that since money took over.

no, big clubs just want to cut out the middle men aka UEFA. by doing this they can negotiate directly with sponsors and make their own rules. i think they figured out already that their first proposal was kind of stupid as you have to get on board the smaller clubs too. let's be honest, the...

morata himself said that deal was very close. he was first choice for barca. but atletico wouldn't budge and we switched to auba as arsenal desperately wanted to get rid.

Then why should teams play for real in their domestic leagues over the same period? After all the CL brings in more money and is the 'premium' competition for most clubs right? If it's the 'premium' competition I would expect premium games, not the big teams flexing their muscles and barely...

Nope, I'm against the current CL format for quite some time. Even before the SL project came to light, I was writing in here how the CL groups are shit and it's all about KOs for big clubs. The original SL concept had flaws and was rushed, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved. League +...

Super League can't come soon enough. CL groups are worthless and then most big teams play EL level opponents in first KO round. For elite teams it's basically quarters and semis to play for. So 4 games to reach the final and you don't really have to be excellent in all of them.

it's good to have options and variation in our play. but for that spot we theoretically have ansu, who is much more unpredictable in his shooting and clinical in his finishing.

people are frustrated at club splashing good money on another player that isn't a true winger or a striker. let's not forget that this is a club that wanted morata as striker but luckily ended up with auba. not only he's not a good dribbler but he lacks explosiveness and unpredictability. it's...

I was referring to their output. Not play styles, positioning on pitch, role or length of their hair. It's not clear what you meant when saying forward is not 2nd striker.

2nd striker/no 10 is a defender now? winger, winger-forward, no 10, false 9, striker, 2nd striker - they are all forwards mate. pep tinkered a bit with ferran and some people got it into their heads he is david villa 2.0 or some other shite.

so basically griezmann for half the price and half the defensive contribution. a steal from laporta.

nah, we don't do that here. 70M for dani olmo sounds like a better deal. cope.

seems that we keeping him for photo shoots and modelling. oh and also as pique's house pet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1HgpRqNRfo

buffon and toldo would cost over 50M each, if you take inflation into account and how football transfers were influenced after neymar to psg. neuer would cost over 50M in today's market also. ederson was 40M 5 years ago. so around 50M today. de gea also would be around 50M now. donnarumma...

Easy to say scouting and analytics when many transfers we did proved otherwise. Only Oblak was somewhat cheaper, from the current crop of top GKs. The rest would cost 50M or more today. Mendy or Maignan are not top GKs, regardless of the forum's fantasies. So if you want the next best thing on...

that's why the qataris paid a fortune. they wanted to raise their profile immediately so went for the biggest names around. they got the biggest players of the last 15 years. messi is messi, neymar was the supposed heir of messi/ronaldo to being the best(and he kind of was based on talent...

i was talking about the fact we might have to shell 50M or more for a new GK. stegen isn't even in top 5 GK salaries. but let's say an 'unknown' will probably get less than him. who are those GKs that impress for medium/small clubs on a regular basis? or GK that have experience in top leagues...