Newcastle Fan Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Just looking at Nice's squad this season and they got some big name in, Ballotelli, Belhanda, Dante they all have something to prove but well done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 just flew back from majorca yesterday into newcastle airport - prominent NUFC advertising hoardings one with sissoko, one krul and the other showing gini. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 just flew back from majorca yesterday into newcastle airport - prominent NUFC advertising hoardings one with sissoko, one krul and the other showing gini. Like the NUFC calendar your gran gets you every christmas. Someone on there is getting sold in January Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
summerof69 Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 at 3:40, holy s*** they do research ? What's wrong with that bit?? He mentions doing research. I'm surprised they do research. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport We could be plenty good in spite of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsted Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport That apostrophe is a fucking abomination. Spacing and non-capitalisation also. Fuck, I'm such a pedant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 which apostrophe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsted Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 which apostrophe Stoppit, you know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 So relentles'sy odd. Fayre plai. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport We could be plenty good in spite of that. Aye you've arl been saying that for about twenty years now. No chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 I don't have Twitter but someone should tell Peter Murphy that his wallpapers look like fucking shit. I've never seen worse.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 https://www.facebook.com/pilottheatre/videos/10153602226847132/ Thought the first half of that was pretty funny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 http://www.newcastlefalcons.co.uk/news/story/kingston-park-to-host-newcastle-legends-football-game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 He did get a Croatian passport so he could move to Dortmund before 18, so I guess you're excused. Don't want to get too bold here, but with him and a lot of our other top prospects, we could be pretty good in 5-7 years / you'll never be good unless your country significantly changes it's attitude to the sport With the best athletes in the world, massive investment, and massive immigration from football-playing nations, the US will only continue to improve, tbh, regardless of any attitude towards it. Though I do question how much better their results will actually be. In my opinion, the US actually massively overachieves at this point. Despite a fairly lacklustre player set, they rubbish the the terrible teams in CONCACAF, compete with Mexico (who have far superior players), and make the knockout rounds of the World Cup. Unless you are on the level of Germany, I don't understand what else you will be doing out of North America. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Lots of talk that Aymeric Laporte is going to switch to Spain. That would be a huge boost to our CB options, which aren't too good after Piqué/Ramos. I'm actually really surprised Laporte doesn't have a single France cap at this point, he's class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Ketsbia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Jim White replacing Colin Murray on TalkSport. Sounds grim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Lots of talk that Aymeric Laporte is going to switch to Spain. That would be a huge boost to our CB options, which aren't too good after Piqué/Ramos. I'm actually really surprised Laporte doesn't have a single France cap at this point, he's class. Would have gone to the Euros if not for the injury. Though it's Deschamps so probably not... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Might be old news to many but thought this was pretty interesting: http://thesetpieces.com/world-football/beating-system-wales-planned-seeding-success-calculator/ "The crucial upshot is this: for the most part, friendly matches are damaging to the top countries’ ranking points – even wins." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/05/paul-scholes-non-league-football-premier-league You hear about people saying English football’s the best football there is around. I think Spain’s by far the best league. Germany has better teams. In Italy probably the strength in depth isn’t great. They talk about Italy being a bad league but I don’t think English people look at it. They say it’s boring. No chance. The Juventus team would beat any team in this league. They came up to Manchester City and beat them easy. But we have this interpretation of the Italian league that it’s rubbish. They only try to defend. No chance. A little hard to read at times but agree with all of it, apart from enjoying non-league football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Prefers non-league so much he's picked a team, changed their colours and pumped a ridiculous amount of money in to get them away from non-league. Horrible, dirty Ginger scrote. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Might be old news to many but thought this was pretty interesting: http://thesetpieces.com/world-football/beating-system-wales-planned-seeding-success-calculator/ "The crucial upshot is this: for the most part, friendly matches are damaging to the top countries’ ranking points – even wins." Good read, thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Marca just ran a "Descendant of Spanish immigrants" best XI. Not too bad. http://e00-marca.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2016/09/05/14730690858248.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I would not have guessed Senderos had Spanish blood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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