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what an odd choice of club for him to go to, honestly can't see him playing much beyond run outs vs lower league opposition in cups and if/when chelsea are through in the cl groups and he'd probably play in whatevers left. Kinda daft Arsenal didn't look at him considering the length of time Girouds out and the fact they need a striker anyway regardless of the Giroud injury, I'd have actually expected him to play there but Chelsea? He just doesn't seem a Mourinhio forward

I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? tend to agree with most of that with one additional bit is the fact champions league losers get into it, why? They lose and get rewarded with a spot in the europa league? Am I supposed to take this thing seriously when UEFA are all but calling it the losers tournament? It has no merit of its own its just champions league lite for those not good enough to get into the real tournament.

boring

No, they sold him to Arsenal last season.

refs lost it here

so that moyes chap wasn't so bad was he?

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anyway sporting justice done in celtic going out.

lucky for me I don't like either of them! on the other hand I support newcastle so swings and roundabouts

wearing the no 5 shirt, f*** that s*** you don't have a striker wearing number 5!!!! http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/images/import/-images-g-gallas_shirt2.jpg don't remind me ugh hate shit like that.

wearing the no 5 shirt, fuck that shit you don't have a striker wearing number 5!!!!

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good fucking grief

De Jong is exactly what you need tbh. Surely though Man Utd are going to get a real top class cb too, the replacement for Vidic and Ferdinand can't just be Rojo.

christ that defense and midfield is horrific

still got ripped off

how much did he cost?

take it to its logical extreme, are flags now banned full stop?

its really opening a can of worms for themselves, other charge is just plain silly too, theres only one all seater stadium for the league of ireland clubs to begin with.

I was gonna post that earlier, that's my hometown club Fining a club for flying the flag of a FIFA nation, it's ridiculous, that fine is massive to a club like Dundalk who get attendances of about 2k a week and who only break even on league prize money if they finish in the top 2. huge amount of money for them, iirc the winners last year only got 100k. And if they had any player worth selling to get the money for the fine he'd already be sold so thats that avenue closed.

He's an incredible player but not what they need. There really doesn't seem to be much thought or any kind of plan put into Man Utds transfer dealings post fergie just throw money randomly around and hope you get it right.

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