Guest palnese Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Debuchy might be out for 3 months hehe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Can anyone do a Best XI of recently active managers? So for example you could have players such as Seedorf, Guardiola, Laudrup, Blanc, van Basten in there because they've recently managed at clubs. Preferably an XI without Maradona as that makes it a bit boring Current manager and half decent player in their time XI Preud'homme (Brugge) Karanka (Boro) - de Boer (Ajax) - Mihajlović (Samp) Enrique (Barça) - Deschamps (France) - Simeone (Atleti) - Cocu (PSV) Mancini (Inter) Palermo (Arsenal de Sarandi) - Klinsmann (USA) Bench of: Zola, Bruce, Strachan, Montella and Montanier In mildly related news Doriva, the old Boro gadgy is Vasco da Gama manager these days. Excellent effort I would definitely have Blanc over at least Bruce on the bench, but that's pretty awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Just an observation, but Seems like a generation of Dutch players are ALL getting into management and/or coaching of some kind (Cocu, De Boer bros, Bergkamp, Kluivert, RVN etc) But generally the same generation of say English players are not - they get into media. They probably look at the likes of Paul Merson and think "If he can earn a living doing that, anyone can..." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Zola ahead of Palermo also? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Punditry is a safe game for them. Guaranteed job pretty much once you've got your feet under the table, no pressure, no having to go down the leagues etc. I guess the money Sky/BT/BBC etc offers ex pros hammers what other countries offer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 We do have a few ex-pros serving as pundits, too, but not in the staggering amounts you do. We still have mostly professional "journalists" doing most stuff. Not that the average Spanish football journo is going to win the Pullitzer anytime soon, mind. The best journalist that writes about Spanish football is a brit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Punditry is a safe game for them. Guaranteed job pretty much once you've got your feet under the table, no pressure, no having to go down the leagues etc. I guess the money Sky/BT/BBC etc offers ex pros hammers what other countries offer. Less pressure, just as much (or more) pay, less work each week, etc. You see a lot of the more successful NFL coaches going into TV more too, can't blame them it's a much more sensible decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 We do have a few ex-pros serving as pundits, too, but not in the staggering amounts you do. We still have mostly professional "journalists" doing most stuff. Not that the average Spanish football journo is going to win the Pullitzer anytime soon, mind. The best journalist that writes about Spanish football is a brit. Speaking of which, I'm reading Lowe's weekly La Liga article (great read if you're interested in our OMGWEMIGHTFINISHTHIRD-crisis), and found this great bit: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jan/12/lionel-messi-barcelona-unite-crisis-for-now “The whore that gave birth to you,” he shouted. Which, dramatic and bizarre though it sounds is a pretty common and relatively harmless phrase in Spanish. Sadly true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The College Dropout Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 The Journalists on the Sunday Supplement are unbearable. On the Guardian football podcast the journalists sound much more astute and I think some of then go on that show - so maybe it's just their faces. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Being a pundit is bloody easy. Sounness sounds like a decent pundit but he was an awful manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 personally preferred Stephanie Roche goal but hey they were all great goals so why get upset over it Thought James Rodriguez's was the worst out of the three Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 “The whore that gave birth to you,” he shouted. Which, dramatic and bizarre though it sounds is a pretty common and relatively harmless phrase in Spanish. Sadly true Was trying to explain to my friends that it's really not that bad, and usually not really aimed at the person in that kind of way. I use it quite a lot whenever I rage But it's never really aimed to offend anyone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 "The whore that gave birth to you" Foreign insults tend to be great, remember "your mother in thong" when the whole of Uruguay was going to murder Paul Dummett? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. I'd hazard a guess at that being right, yeah. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. I'd hazard a guess at that being right, yeah. Weren't we one of the richest until the mid 2000s or something? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. I'd hazard a guess at that being right, yeah. Weren't we one of the richest until the mid 2000s or something? Depends if you class rich as in the daft way Deloitte do ie turnover or rich as in actually having money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. I'd hazard a guess at that being right, yeah. Weren't we one of the richest until the mid 2000s or something? If my memory serves me right it would have been Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Us up until Chelsea came in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 According to Deloitte we were the 5th richest in the world in '97-98. We came back onto the list in the other CL years, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 A Liverpool fan friend of mine just told me that "Newcastle were one of the richest clubs in England the 90s", in the middle of a "money doesn't buy success" tirade. Is that true? I know you were actually one of the top clubs in England (money-wise) in the 2000s, but not too sure before that. I'd hazard a guess at that being right, yeah. Weren't we one of the richest until the mid 2000s or something? Depends if you class rich as in the daft way Deloitte do ie turnover or rich as in actually having money. Ah right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity lads. Any Dragon's Den viewer knows this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Can anyone do a Best XI of recently active managers? So for example you could have players such as Seedorf, Guardiola, Laudrup, Blanc, van Basten in there because they've recently managed at clubs. Preferably an XI without Maradona as that makes it a bit boring Current manager and half decent player in their time XI Preud'homme (Brugge) Karanka (Boro) - de Boer (Ajax) - Mihajlović (Samp) Enrique (Barça) - Deschamps (France) - Simeone (Atleti) - Cocu (PSV) Mancini (Inter) Palermo (Arsenal de Sarandi) - Klinsmann (USA) Bench of: Zola, Bruce, Strachan, Montella and Montanier In mildly related news Doriva, the old Boro gadgy is Vasco da Gama manager these days. Just an extra thought on this, you could technically have Zidane in there too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ads Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30797971 'Shock the world' Guy was in tears in the summer when he wasn't allowed to leave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cort Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Raphael Honigstein @honigstein · 22h 22 hours ago Re TOTY. I'll never forget the intl PL player who told me he watched "some football but not 90 mins of a CL game - I'm not a freak" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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