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Wow, Milan were truely shit. Inter has a cozy little squad too.

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Eto'o wasn't very good for us tonight tbf.

Diving is awful. However there are legitimate cases where a player goes down after a lawful tackle. It's easy to lose your balance if there's contact, hence I don't see a clear way to persecute this. Of course if you make a big deal of it to get a penalty awarded you lose legitimacy. However, I am a bit uneasy regarding after-the-fact refereeing. Where do you draw the line? UEFA is now admitting that Eduardo's penalty should have not been awarded. What if that penalty won the tie for Arsenal? Should the result be changed? Isn't it a moral hazard to admit the result was not lawful but allowing it to stand?

Looks like Chygrynsky is a done deal and will be closed after today's game. He should play 45 minutes for each side tonight.

Isn't Butt one of the few players to have played in the EPL every single season?

UEFA is the main culprit though, with the bloated CL money and the privileges it gives big clubs and leagues (four places, seeding, byes, etc...) that makes it an exclusive group hard to break, and devalues other competitions that are easier to break in, and could work as stepping stone otherwise.

And we rant about Real and then go and spend €60m on Ibrahimovic. I would love to see the whole madness brought down, mind you.

Thanks.

Can't wait for Arsenal trashing all those mediocre teams and all the British media calling them the second coming of football.

You'd think they'd say right 70m for Ribery plus Robben. Current rumour is that Van der Vart will also be thrown in the deal. If they don't, though, I think Real Madrid will have seriously undermined their squad advantage with getting rid of all the Dutch players. If thy get Ribery just call the other teams off, as it's a straight race between Barca and Madrid.

Group G is very open: Sevilla, Rangers and Stuttgart + some shit... all 3 have a chance and would be a fresh presence in the second round.

Inter, awesome. Eto'o to score a hattrick. Oh wait!

You'd think they'd say right 70m for Ribery plus Robben. Current rumour is that Van der Vart will also be thrown in the deal.

Arjen Robben to Bayern for €25m. Does this mean Ribéry will be travelling the other direction in short?

Netherlands "B" list of football notables (the Overmars, De Boers, Kluivert, Rijkaard, Winters, Robben, Wouters, Stam, etc...) is far above what Portugal regularly produces.

Probably mr. djmattis can enlighten us more on the matter, but I seem to remember that Fiorentina were gently pushed back up. Didn't they even skip a division?

Still wondering if I should be happy that Real is getting rid of an excellent player and reducing their depth advantage, or unhappy because they are cashing in and reducing their bloated wage bill.

I keep misreading the current title as "Shearer-led bid".

Haven't seen the game (obviously) but this thread is epic. Do you need a resident Barça fan?

Tbh out of Spurs, Everton, Villa or Man City if one of them had to break the top 4 I'd rather Spurs. I don't care as long as it's not Man City. Nothing against the club on itself, but I prefer a club that's been building itself over time and not using tons of outside money to buy success. It just feels more sporting.

Well, I still wonder why Kasper Schmeichel pissed his career going there too.

I fully expect them to get stuck in CCC/League 1 for years paying massive wages and bleeding money all over.

FM thinks he's pretty amazing too. That settles it then.

Heh, I remember when we were linked with Kezman many many moons ago and me and some friends were preparing a "Sign Kezman!" banner. We ended up with Eto'o! (which makes me look like a tool in retrospective) Otherwise we are heavily linked for a €25m move for Chygrynsky (I have seen it spellt a million different ways already), which is an awful lot for a CB, but Guardiola thinks he's great.