Kanj

So Rudi Garcia to Malaga and possibly Rene Girard to Lille then?

In my opinion there should be a tour in a nice sunny weather country that would help promote the club, bond the players, and be a welcome success early in the pre season followed by some small matches vs local or nearby sides and/or smaller sides from Europe sprinkled around after and a nice 4 team tourney at SJP before we start the season. So if that means a training camp in Portugal followed by jetting off to the USA to play a few teams in the NE like Philly, New York, Boston area etc then jet back and play some local NE sides and maybe welcome some smaller European clubs to SJP and then a 4 team cup? I don't know if thats too many matches mind you - just seems like it would do the following: get the players fit, bond the players and staff, get much needed match time for our ENTIRE squad, (including the first 11 and young ones and then finally get them at home on our pitch for a few matches before we begin the league campaign) and finally give the club more exposure to key targeted markets.

infographic-tastic

I fully expect (hope) Debuchy sees the best of his career here and hope (expect) Mapou develops into the top class centre back everyone has billed him up to be throughout his career. I'm honestly sick of these teams buying up players out no where its such a drag on the game and seems to be some new team added to the list every summer. Hopefully this is all press bull as I'm a massive fan of the type of players we've been bringing in as they seem like top guys on and off the pitch.

Monaco can fuck off. Seriously. This type of shit in football is such crap.

Wullie's on point here.

The blue pin stripe in our black stripe is what makes it worse than our current kit. I think our current kit is actually quite good - its a decent collar, the spikes basically have become un-noticable to me and the shorts and socks looked good too. Honestly, this kit is joke. Blue fucking stripe within our black stripes.

That blue stripe in the black stripes is disgusting. Almost already thankful its a one season wonder.

Seriously that's the worst kit I've ever seen us have. An absolute joke that the club ok'd this. Piss take of the highest order.

Some of those Roma kits from Kappa were fucking class. They did it perfect and right nearly every time.

2ish years from now.... I say Kaka.

So as of today our pre-season plans are pretty shit no? Or are other teams in similar predicaments as us?

We backed up the talk of being a big club during those days by marketing and performing on the pitch. It was a big draw with a big vision. Now a days the manager opens up each window with this defeatist mentality that any of our top players are susceptible to the "big clubs." This same crap is veiled all over the club now a days I'm afraid.

He'd have to double his weight man, not even you could expect that much from him. Although I can see him winning everything with Barcelona within a year or two (thanks to Messi) and then going back to being Brazil and losing himself in the mountains of cocaine. If we get a Ronaldinho kind of deal from him, where we win stuff and still earn back our transfer free when he starts not giving a f***, I'll be happy. VI - whats the Barca lineup looking like with Neymar in the mix and whoever else you decide to buy or promote from within?

This. Nees on point. Ref should have sent off 2 Bayern players. Crazy as this sounds, I was totally gutted at that result. Still am.

He actually needs to start saying that and needs to show a bit of confidence.

Kloppo man. What a man. His interviews are insanely entertaining and his team/philosophies are basically what the sport is all about.

Krul Debuchy MYM Colo Santon Sissoko Cabaye Ben Arfa Marv Aubameyang Cisse If we sign Aub and nobody else in attack.

Who's everyone cheering for besides a cracking match? Dortmund for me. Klopp and Lewandowski.

If Taylor were to leave, his injury record would improve massively and he'll be fit as ever. You just know it Seriously can't see him going to OM and living in France man.

RVP? Wat.

This forum has missed Baba a helluva lot. Top post man.

Post above, ftw. That would be dreamworthy stuff

A front 6 of Cab & Sissoko in CM with Aub, HBA, Bony, and Cisse? Me like.

Only Ben Arfa has vids of him boxing one summer, driving around tourists in his car in town, or playing some offseason footie with friends/randoms.