AUGUST: Europe, fitba and the MAGIC OF THE CUP

[Raoul Duke]

A foul and the other guy was offside, but like fuck are City getting a VAR decision any time soon from UEFA :D

EDIT: Christ on a bike, Raheem

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Gahahahaahahahahahaahahahaha.

Moussa :cool:

[Waffdon]

Hahahahahhaahha. I love Sterling. He is absolutely bobbins in front of goal. I’m not even surprised he missed that

[Giggles]

That’s some quality defending.

[Giggles]

Is that the twat used to play for Celtic?

[randomlegend]

Ederson is absolute dogshit.

[Gray Fox]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Get fucked small time club.

[Raoul Duke]

Lol @ Edison, what a fanny

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that the twat used to play for Celtic?

Yep :)

[Gray Fox]

If City defend like this against Bayern we're in for a Cricket score.

Lyon*

[Lewis]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Get fucked small time club.

Their official Twitter has just posted this as evidence of how intense their rivalry with Liverpool is.

[Gray Fox]

If they had any fans to reply it might be worth reading.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

7th in Ligue 1 so no Champions League football for Lyon unless they win it.

[Lewis]

I can see 'Pep' responding to this by selling all of their black players. Are there any youth prospects United might fancy?

[Danny]

Sterling acting like De Gea is in goal and City chucking it away is perfect.

[Waffdon]

Harry Kane was right not to square it

[Waffdon]

Dembele four goals in three against Man City. He’s quality when he isn’t injured. Ex SPL players have been loving the CL recently

[Gray Fox]

Unconfirmed reports that Barca will have to pay out some sweet sweet add-on money to Liverpool if Coutinho wins the Champions League with Bayern. That'd be beyond funny.

This intensifies.

[SincereTheRebel]

Has Pep lost his job yet? Im still waiting on Lampards walking papers

[Lewis]

Has Pep lost his job yet? Im still waiting on Lampards walking papers

He's their biggest name. They wouldn't sack him for raping someone.

[niko_cee]

How has that been allowed to stand :D

It's not offside and Laporte just fell over.

Ruling on the field stands.

In the same way that had the ref bought Cornet's shit when he went down under minimal contact it probably would have stood as a penalty.

Why does Guardiola always change the way they play in European quarter finals?

With Silva leaving, and Aguero a bit of a crock City really miss a lot of guile and cutting edge. Goals that get them ahead in games that matter. Better go and shell out a couple of hundred million on (hopefully) more mooks. Rodri and Cancelo definitely £120m well spent, or whatever it was.

[-james-]

Lol at attempting to infer team strength from these knockout games rather than just appreciating them for the highly entertaining slightly weighted dice rolls that they are. Nearly all of the ties in both competitions were incredibly minor events away from going the other way.

[randomlegend]

It's not offside and Laporte just fell over.


How is it not offside? Him being there clearly interferes with play.

[Lewis]

Lol at attempting to infer team strength from these knockout games rather than just appreciating them for the highly entertaining slightly weighted dice rolls that they are. Nearly all of the ties in both competitions were incredibly minor events away from going the other way.

This is the nonce version of my mother thinking every shot should go in because they earn loads of money.

[Giggles]

How is it not offside? Him being there clearly interferes with play.

Like everything in spot, it’s not offside if you want
said team to lose.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

95/96 was the last time there were no English or Spanish sides in the semi-finals of the Champions League. It was Juventus (who won ofc), Panathinaikos, Ajax and Nantes.

[Giggles]

Can red bull and PSG meet in the final? That would be panty twisting enough.

[niko_cee]

How is it not offside? Him being there clearly interferes with play.

He doesn't touch the ball and he doesn't impact on any City players (trying to play him offside doesn't count).

We've had this rule for god knows how long. It's shit in certain circumstances, but it's hardly an unknown quantity. It's not even the most egregious example of how to be shafted by the modern offside rule, tbh.

[Kikó]

City 😂

[Manc]

The Sterling miss is stupendous.

[Dquincy]

The Ronaldo fanboys winning the long game. I think it was only us and Multi at one point battling away. :cool:

Someone want to tell him that Juve were also knocked out...

[randomlegend]

he doesn't impact on any City players (trying to play him offside doesn't count).


Of course he does.

[Dquincy]

Talksport were questioning why Pep had changed the formation tonight from his usual successful set up. I know it's Talksport, but they make a fair point.

[Lewis]

The City defender should have milked the obstruction like NRL big men.

[niko_cee]

Of course he does.

How?

That's the rule.

It has its deficiencies - I think usually around defensive players making poor decisions due to pressure from 'offside' players (even though they're not interfering with play) - but in the present case City play offside against a guy (or they don't I don't know, probably not), he doesn't touch the ball or impede a City player so he is, be definition, not offside. It's like pushing out from a corner and catching 7 players offside but not the twat making a run from outside the box. It's galling, but it has been this way since the early 90s. Interfering with play is definitely drawn too narrowly, although I don't know that Mr through his legs tonight actually materially impacted any City player.

[Waffdon]

Of course he does.

He doesn’t even attempt to go for it. He jumps over the ball so he literally doesn’t interfere. It’s very simple.

[Lewis]

That video of 'Carra' reacting to the miss is an ear-splitter. Jesus.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Don]

Lads, get on Pacheco for Ballon D'or next year cause everything is coming up Millhouse now. Oh Jesus :drool:

Also, if Bayern don't win it I'll nosh off every one of you mans. Just checked odds though and it's at 1.5 so allow thinking I'm some big man with that shout.

[Luca]

Just seen the highlights of City-Lyon. Fucking hell, Sterling. :D

[Mellberg]

Good to see England's 10 year domination of Europe lasted approximately 12 hours.

[Waffdon]

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:harold:

You’ve been baited

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck.

It's not even well hidden.

[Andy]

That team selection and general approach was awful.

You can point to the two big moments with the goal that could have been ruled out and then Sterlings big miss but really Pep got it so wrong.

At 1-1 they had a ludicrously high line with Rodri and Gundogan pushed up into the positions where David Silva, Bernado or Foden would be super effective yet they left them on the bench.

What's the point of two holding players if theres that much space behind the back line?

Mahrez and Foden have been Citys two best player since the restart, both should have started.

[Dquincy]

Good to see England's 10 year domination of Europe lasted approximately 12 hours.

:D

[SincereTheRebel]

These one-legged euro games are amazing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I, for one, welcome our new French overlords.

[SincereTheRebel]

Im late but :D

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[Don]

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:********)

[Lewis]

https://i.imgur.com/hfG6B5W.jpg?1

'Do you have the Rodri login?'

[Shindig]

"Hussein, we have a problem."

[Gray Fox]

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:********)

This keeps getting better.

Forever small time.

[Ian]

Martin Keown will be fucking fuming that he's suggested reading a book.

[Lewis]

He's not entirely wide of the mark. If somebody more generally respected really went in on the losers of Football Twitter (the fan accounts especially) they would be doing the internet a massive service.

[niko_cee]

Isn't it just better to ignore them? Or at best treat them like the comments section on anything? There for amusement value only.

Owen Hargreaves hot take that after tonight everyone is going to be after Diego Carlos as he's the most underrated centre half in world football probably suggests he's never personally been near football twitter, football rumours, or probably football news.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A penalty? I'm stunned.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's a ludicrous penalty finish.

[Don]

Another fucking Bruno wankathon for 2 hours ffs.

[Lewis]

Why is that a penalty when it's ten minutes after he got the shot away?

[Waffdon]

Fuck me. Someone really has to be making bank on them scoring penalties

I’ve only seen that given on FIFA

[Danny]

Shocked it was given but thats a nasty tackle.

[randomlegend]

Late tackle is a foul anywhere else on the pitch so dunno why it shouldn't be in the box.

Fernandes is unreal at penalties.

[Lewis]

Every one of these fancy cunt penalties builds up to him missing the costliest one like an absolute spaz.

[Manc]

Who kicked this jumping shit off? Just take the fucking penalty and get off the heroin.

[Lewis]

My left foot is better than Fred's right foot.

[randomlegend]

Fernandes doesn't always do it, but the first time he did it was years ago.

[John]

Banega is a delightful player. He seems to have that prime Iniesta quality of just carrying a three yard pocket of space around with him wherever he goes.

[Don]

My lottery numbers are coming in this week.

That Carlos geezer (whose lack of physical attributes should have been the end of the discussion) has played himself out of a move with that Adama one and this Rashford challenge. Both absolutely retarded.

[phonics]

They’re going to have to give United another 2 or 3 penalties to make sure they get to the final at this rate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Rashford is entering Ronaldo territory in terms of free kicks.

Never go in but the commentators are always wanking over the "TECHNIQUE" and claiming it's dangerous.

[Ian]

Get up Williams, you fucking tart.

[Pen]

Banega is a delightful player. He seems to have that prime Iniesta quality of just carrying a three yard pocket of space around with him wherever he goes.

Shame he’s apparently on his way to Saudi-Arabia next. I’ve always rated him too.

[Manc]

Harry Maguire is absolute Bobbins. £80m. :happycry:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We're being Super Keepered again.

[Don]

If they survive this battering and qualify :drool:

[Don]

Heartwarming to see Williams being tutored by Bruno on the art of feigning injury.

[Giggles]

:D there’s not a player in the game doesn’t do it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D there’s not a player in the game doesn’t do it.

I think you'll find that no Liverpool player past, present of future have ever done so.

[Raoul Duke]

This is the problem with Utd - we've got nothing on the bench that can change a game

[Lofty]

Isn't it just better to ignore them? Or at best treat them like the comments section on anything? There for amusement value only.

Owen Hargreaves hot take that after tonight everyone is going to be after Diego Carlos as he's the most underrated centre half in world football probably suggests he's never personally been near football twitter, football rumours, or probably football news.

To be fair to Hargreaves he is doing it right as a multi millionaire retired in his 30s, having better things to do than trawl the internet to see what the shit munchers are saying. On the other hand if I was Silva I wouldn't bother responding either, just take my private yacht out for a spin in the south of France with an instagram model attached to each bollock.

[Giggles]

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:face:

[Giggles]

What the fuck was 29 at?

[Don]

That defending gahahahaha. Yeah, sign Sancho lads.

[randomlegend]

We've defended appallingly tonight.

I think the first 11 are absolutely knackered.

[John]

Lovely to see Tony from Men Behaving Badly has landed on his feet. He's done well to get the Sevilla job.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Daniel James on to save us :face:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Lopetegui deserves something here, he was shafted in his two big jobs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

James is shocking.

All he can do is run in straight lines and there, when the defender gave him the outside and a straight line to run into he tries to cut inside...

[phonics]

Lindelof called Mendes a penalty merchant after Fernandes had a go at him :D

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[Lewis]

Thank fuck that shit season is over. Ole Gunnar Binman is on probation next year.

[Giggles]

Lindelof called Mendes a penalty merchant after Fernandes had a go at him :D

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Who’s Mendes?

[Danny]

If you had offered me 3rd and 3 semi finals in December when were 8th and 14 points behind the top 3 I would have taken it.

Squad has nothing that can really change a game past the first 11. Summer is massive .

[SincereTheRebel]

Just to be clear, all these binmen that are in english football, the worst legend at their respected club somehow squeezed a trophy out of this season.

(whoever came up with the binman phrase deserves money)

[Gray Fox]

What a weekend of sport that was.

[niko_cee]

Suso. :cool:

[Dquincy]

Just come on here to laugh at Man Utd. :D

[randomlegend]

Lindelof called Mendes a penalty merchant after Fernandes had a go at him :D

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No he didn't.

He used that stock Spanish/Portuguese "shove it up your arse son of a whore" phrase.

[Kikó]

We actually performed pretty well yesterday but couldn't finish properly or defend properly when required. Lindelof is a pussy.

[randomlegend]

I feel pretty optimistic about our team at the moment to be honest. Yes games like last night are frustrating, but as you say we actually performed pretty well. When you take into account how young most of our first team is I think we're a pretty exciting prospect.

People lol at the defence (and they were bad last night) but we have one of the best (arguably the best) defensive records in Europe.

[niko_cee]

So do City though, and their defence is rank bad.

[Ian]

The defence is, broadly speaking, pretty decent. However as a unit they're prone to massive lapses in concentration or organisation which costs us tight, important games. I don't know that I rate Maguire much as a leader.

Sevilla were lucky not to concede goals in that flurry after half time but then we were probably lucky Sevilla played in exactly the sort of way that suits us with lots of space to gallop or pass into. Even if we had better options off the bench I doubt it would have come with more of a plan from Solskjaer beyond "keep playing quickly and hope we find a way through."

I think he's probably something of a motivator manager (for example, the impact he appears to have had on Martial's attitude) but who doesn't have the nous to mitigate against flaws or come up with that much of a plan beyond "plug better players into the attack and hope they figure it out."

[Don]

Pretty decent, yeah.

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[Ian]

Yeah, pretty decent.

[Kikó]

They've all got massive strides to take to be very good defenders. Maguire is skinned too often for a top defender, lindelof gets the basics wrong too often, AWB can't actually play football and Williams is a kid learning. Still needs a couple in there and a proper centre mid instead of that twat Pogba.

[Ian]

Yeah we could do with not letting Wan-Bissaka do anything outside his own half / penalty area.

[Giggles]

Maguires main issue is that he's not a top defender.

[phonics]

https://i.imgur.com/qlKr4Iw.png

That's a forever meme

[Giggles]

Where’s the pouty lad used to play for Tottenham?

[Giggles]

Eriksen.

[Reg]

Yeah we could do with not letting Wan-Bissaka do anything outside his own half / penalty area.
Would probably be an outside centre back for Pep or a trendy Pep/Bielsa follower.

FM attributes sum it up - 20 for tackling, everything else 10.

[bruhnaldo]

https://i.imgur.com/qlKr4Iw.png

That's a forever meme

there's an exact moment where Richards goes from joy to pure despair and u can pinpoint it exactly and i tell ya :drool:

[Mike]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EminentFancyBarasingha-small.gif

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How I've missed watching an Antonio Conte team...

[Shindig]

Oh, I forgot Ashley Young's a Serie A player.

[Don]

Lukaku's second just then, dear lord. And they fucking binned him off so that useless Rashford can play :D

[Baz]

Mellberg who is gonna play in net for Villa?

[Mellberg]

Depends who's fit. Heaton and Steer both have ligament injuries and are first and second choice respectively. Nyland's in until they're sorted, but Heaton did his in January so should be back for the start of the season.

[Don]

This VAR business' failings...it's offside if Mbappe scores but cause it's saved PSG play on from the corner without intervention :face:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Shit keeper.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Only Neymar wants them to bottle it.

[Don]

Leipzig have got their shape all wrong, can't press at all so it's piss for PSG. This is what happens when you wear trousers too short for you and no socks, Julian, you monstrous bender.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was horsehit by Mukiele.

Slips over and complains from the ground playing everyone onside.

[Spoonsky]

I can't wait for Bayern to make Neymar cry in the final.

[Spoonsky]

Here comes Mr. Upstate New York to turn things around again.

[Lewis]

Dire Maria doing the business yet again.

[Mellberg]

Just had a rare moment of being a completely boring statto cunt and checked the last set of semis with no English, Spanish or Italian clubs. 90/91. Marseille, Spartak, Red Star and Bayern.

Now you know.

[Waffdon]

I hope PSG scud Bayern in the finals assuming Dembele doesn’t do the business

[Gray Fox]

All aboard the Bayern hype train.

[phonics]

While the entire enterprise is despicable, it has been quite funny to watch people coming to terms with the fact that having Neymar and Mbappe might counter the whole 'French teams always bottle it' thing.

Neymars the best player on the planet and it's a shame he's such a massive knob.

[Don]

Best player on the planet? Brav, this ain't FIFA, the fucking malnourished cunt ain't got shit against proper players and competent refs and is a stain upon the sport.

[phonics]

Best player on the planet? Brav, this ain't FIFA, the fucking malnourished cunt ain't got shit against proper players and competent refs and is a stain upon the sport.

Stats have made you care too much about Papa Bouba Diop regens being fucking average and making 800 10m sprints per game.

Neymar is actually better at football than any one else. The sheer talent you have to have to make mid-table professional footballers look like it's Sunday league is immense.

He could have been Michael Jordan and he absolutely fucked it.

[niko_cee]

Not really sure about this Neymar chat but I'd quite like PSG to win it if they play Bayern, doubt they will though, most of their side is pretty wank for however many hundred bajillion whatevers it cost to assemble. Obviously they'd win 1-0 against Lyon in a dreadful shitfest, which would be distressing for all concerned.

[John Arne]

Just a reminder that Ronald Koeman scored 239 goals in 685 games, playing primarily as a centre-back.
Also, a little less known, Fernando Hierro scored 102 in 439 games for Real Madrid, although he did play some games in midfield early on in his career.

In the 1991-92 La Liga season, Manolo won the Pichichi with 27 goals. Hierro was second with 21, Stoichkov 3rd on 17 and Koeman 4th with 16.
#DefendersWhoScore

[niko_cee]

Yeah, Koeman's goal records was mad.

[Ian]

That's probably the sort of thing Pep hopes for when he gets to the "hard on for centre-mids in defence" stage of the Guardiola Boom-Bust cycle but forgets that it's uber-organised wankers like him turning football into a grinding borefest that makes it impossible.

[SincereTheRebel]

Where those set peice goals? I'll run a compilation and report back

[niko_cee]

26 freekicks and 46 penalties for Barcelona.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That still leaves nearly 1 in 4 from open play. I know there were liberos and things in those innocent times, but still.

[niko_cee]

Winning goal in the dream team European Cup final and then top scored in the Champions League 2 seasons later as well.

I hadn't appreciated how long his managerial career has been. Definitely not a binman.

[SincereTheRebel]

He was definitely slamming them in from range. His goal compilations is full of scorchers. I was thinking, he was just going to score headers at the back post every game because of his size.

[Giggles]

:rolleyes: He's such a fucking blowbag.


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[Kikó]

What do you disagree with?

[Giggles]

The illusion that the whole game isn't solely about money now rather than just two big bad clubs.

He's a blowhard cunt in general anyway.

[Kikó]

That wasn't his point though. Have you watched it?

[Don]

Also, those Arab cunts aren't in it for the money, you fucking mong.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If a pundit said that in UK they would not go on TV again, at least for a rights holding broadcaster. The truth is bad for business.

[Giggles]

That wasn't his point though. Have you watched it?

Why would you think I’d post it without watching it for fuck sake? I watched that little sound bite and the rest in the broadcast.

Not the match for you, he says. There’s barely a soccer match exists for you if you don’t like dodgy owners.

[niko_cee]

Other than being able to lol at Neymar/the French I don't really have much problem with PSG, but it is disingenuous to say that all successful clubs achieve their success in the same way. There's money and then there's limitless money.

Bayern are just as bad for their domestic football environment as PSG, probably worse.

There's probably nothing really in it, but I think it's interesting that the final is likely to be contested between two teams who sometimes lack for (cliché alert) 'battle-hardened match-readiness' in the normal knock-out swing of things (due to their noncompetitive domestic environments) - an issue that the restart has sort of erased.

[bruhnaldo]

Ooooooh he said the fuckin S word.

[phonics]

The Community Shield is next week...

[Baz]

The fixtures are out at 9am tomorrow.

Haven’t they usually leaked by now?

[niko_cee]

There's always stuff about them being accidentally leaked (this time via FPL) but they never seem to be true. This year's leak has both Manchesters at home in week 1, I don't know if that's even possible.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dd-composite-leaked-pl-fixtures-v1-1.jpg?w=670

I dunno if that image is working in the tags.

[Giggles]

Why would they not? One Saturday and one Sunday. Plus, there probably won’t be fans at them anyway.

[bruhnaldo]

Speaking of fans they're apparently going to be allowing fans into some MLS matches including Orlando City.

It's a helluva thing that they're going to scheme this out so that if people say, oh i don't know, value their health more than MLS they'll just forfeit those tickets... whereas previously the idea was "any ticket unused would qualify for a 2021 ticket".

I realize it's a business and all but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[niko_cee]

Why would they not? One Saturday and one Sunday. Plus, there probably won’t be fans at them anyway.

Yeah, I hadn't really thought about the lack of fans - I guess that's why the rule exists.

Another fly in the ointment is there's a strong suggestion City and United are both going to face League Cup round 2 exempt teams (ie CL qualified ones and Arsenal) as they'll be playing their opening game midweek rather than on the opening weekend (when I think the league cup is meant to be on - Spurs are also UEFA Cup qualifying I think). I would think the league would be keen to try to avoid a real mega match on the opening weekend so it'll be a mix of Leicester and Arsenal for the Manchesters, would be my guess.

[Giggles]

The quality difference is so apparent in this one after only seven minutes that the Hungarians will be disappointed if they only score 4.

[Trancemeister]

No idea what the fuck Djurgården are trying to pull here. Usually play 4-2-3-1 with possesion heavy football. This 5-3-1-1 crap or whatever it is just garbage. Like we surrendered before the match even started.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You're up against the mighty Fradi, just be glad to have lived at all.

[Waffdon]

No Dembele in starting line up. Boateng is a lucky boy

[Giggles]

Should be ahead now, won’t break these down to often.

[Spoonsky]

https://i.imgur.com/DNqPc37.png

Wonder of my stream to pause right there. Looked a certain goal.

[Waffdon]

Bayern are a mess defensively. Cornet could have a great time against Kimmich

[Lewis]

I thought this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53801271) was tremendous when I read it earlier. The quote from the Premier League idiot about 'moral causes' is ripe for testing against what looks a lot like genocide, so hopefully some Muslim player gives it properly large eventually and drops the overseas broadcasting right in it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bayern's full backs are pushing up far too high right now, especially Kimmich.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Woof.

That's brilliant by Gnabry.

[Waffdon]

What the fuck was that

[Giggles]

Some wallop that.

[Waffdon]

Lyon should have been 3 up now it’ll end about 6-1

[Giggles]

Sorry, I mean big throbbing veiny ebony cocks. [/TAZ]

[Raoul Duke]

Lyon should be about three up, but that's a beast of a finish Gnabry

[Spoonsky]

I, too, think Lyon should have scored three goals by now.

[Gray Fox]

Was that Serge 'Not good enough for Arsenal or West Brom' Gnabry?

[Spoonsky]

It's ridiculous how many this Bayern team score.

[Waffdon]

Neymar and Mbappe are going to have the time of their life against Bayern’s high line. Should be about 5-3 someone

[phonics]

Was that Serge 'Not good enough for Arsenal or West Brom' Gnabry?

He wasn't rejected by Arsenal, he signed for Bayern via Bremen.

[bruhnaldo]

to be fair phonics you just killed Koeman yesterday for not making a young Sadio Mane into the world beater he is today so does the same not apply for Gnabry's time at Arsenal?

[phonics]

It's not my fault people have to live in a world where everyone is either AMAZING or SHIT and can't consider anything inbetween.

I'm just not sure how offering a contract to a player and them not signing it means the club rejected him.

[bruhnaldo]

I'd like to consider a lot of things which is why I asked you, friendo.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Could have played him a bit to make him want to stay.

[phonics]

Could have played him a bit to make him want to stay.

His knee blew up you mong. :cab:

[Giggles]

You seem angry.

[Don]

I thought this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53801271) was tremendous when I read it earlier. The quote from the Premier League idiot about 'moral causes' is ripe for testing against what looks a lot like genocide, so hopefully some Muslim player gives it properly large eventually and drops the overseas broadcasting right in it.

That's my wanking material sorted for the night. And Demba the responsible party too, what a turn.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

His knee was blown out for his entire Arsenal career?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Looking at his Wiki. You loaned him out to West Brom in 2015/16 (after his knee had blown up) re-called him in January as he wasn't playing there and decided not to play him yourselves.

[bruhnaldo]

So is Koeman worse off for having played Sadio Mane and Sadio Mane not been who he was in 2020... or is Wenger worse off for having not played Gnabry at all?

[phonics]

Not sure what part of this makes him a reject?

Edit: @bruh you know what everyone was saying about Arsenals 2016. They’ve got a really firm grasp on contracts and transfers...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wenger clearly didn't fancy him, he'd have given him games if he had.

Clear case of rejection.

[bruhnaldo]

I hope Neymar puts 5 passed Bayern.

[Don]

Bayern have looked very ordinary at times here and if they keep playing this high line Mbappe will cause some trouble and get PSG a couple of goals in response to Bayern's 6.

[Danny]

I hope Bayern put 5 past them and he cries. Again.

[Spoonsky]

I think it's gonna be a nice final.

[Shindig]

I hope UEFA put on all the bells and whistles for an empty stadium.

[Gray Fox]

I hope Bayern put 5 past them and he cries. Again.

This is the correct answer.

Neymar should be in no way vindicated for his antics and bellendery.

[Giggles]

They should ban fans and play this mini tournament every year.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This is the correct answer.

Neymar should be in no way vindicated for his antics and bellendery.

100%

Fuck Neymar the twat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Credit to PSG for somehow contriving to make FC Bayern München look like the lovable good guys and the people's champions.

[Ian]

Bayern have a reassuringly cold, Teutonic sort of evil cultivated by grinding their domestic scene into dust for decades. They've earned the hate the hard way.

[John Arne]

How old are we saying that Alphonso Davies really is... 22, 23? #NoRacist

[Reg]

The Community Shield is next week...
And there are internationals over the following weekend. Way to ruin the new season excitement guys. Not like you’re dealing with a pandemic.

[randomlegend]

Apparently one of the United scouts presented over 40 reports to the club telling them to sign Alphonso Davies but they weren't interested :happycry:

[Shindig]

Those fixtures seem alright for us. Not a bad start. Matty Longstaff looks set to stay with us as well.

[Kikó]

Apparently one of the United scouts presented over 40 reports to the club telling them to sign Alphonso Davies but they weren't interested :happycry:

Is he really better than AWB?

[Don]

Davies is all on Bayern. If he went to some dogshit English club there's no way he'd be anything other than struggling with his donkey dick flapping about in the windy conditions getting in the way of his forays forward as a deadbeat winger out on loan to Rochdale Wanderers AFC.

The pitchside angle of his assist where he beats Messi and retires Semedo is fucking iconic :drool:

[randomlegend]

Is he really better than AWB?

He's better than Luke Shaw

[Kikó]

(He's better than both)

[randomlegend]

He's a left back though so being better than AWB or not is fairly irrelevant

[SincereTheRebel]

I dont know if that was Bayern's original plan but he was originally a winger. Alaba got injured so they put him at LB. Alaba came back and went to a CB

[phonics]

They're going to play games behind closed doors and they're not going to show them on tv either. Madness.

[Mellberg]

Baz

Heaton back in full training and likely to start from first game.

[Lewis]

Davies is all on Bayern. If he went to some dogshit English club there's no way he'd be anything other than struggling with his donkey dick flapping about in the windy conditions getting in the way of his forays forward as a deadbeat winger out on loan to Rochdale Wanderers AFC.

The pitchside angle of his assist where he beats Messi and retires Semedo is fucking iconic :drool:

Yeah, he'd be cutting in from the right and falling over himself like an actually twenty-four year old Tahith Chong.

[John Arne]

Why the bollocks is the Champions League final on a Sunday. Sod staying up till 2am to watch that on a school night.

[Waffdon]

Slab head arrested whilst on holiday in Greece. Hope it doesn’t affect his captaincy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why are they on holiday now? I thought they were meant to 'holiday' during the shutdown and then crack on now?

[Gray Fox]

The teams involved in Europe at the end were given a bit of extra time off. Same reason City and United don't play in week 1.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I thought that would have just meant time before playing their fixtures, rather than jetting off to wherever on holiday. Still, he deserves it.

[Lewis]

Slab head arrested whilst on holiday in Greece. Hope it doesn’t affect his captaincy.

He did it for them plane spotters. Captain, Leader, Legend.

[Shindig]

Something from nowt. Lukaku is great. :) Luuk de Jong, you bugger. :D

[Pleb]

This ref is something.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ref should have just knocked Conte out.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Luuk De Jong > Lukaku.

[Shindig]

Ian Darke just reminding everyone how shit he was for us. :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not a bad game thus far.

[Shindig]

Sevilla look much the better side but Inter are being clinical.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not sure why Diego Carlos has attempted that but fair play.

I thought it was going in anyway live but that looks like it was going wide.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A Premiership reject trio coming on to save Inter :drool:

[Shindig]

You'd love to see it.

[Kikó]

Very happy seeing Lukaku missing a big chance then scoring an OG.

[Lewis]

Did he do that big man Thierry Henry celebration like when he used to score a tap-in?

[Waffdon]

Sevilla are absolute dons

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Also nice to see Diego Carlos have a major hand in the goal despite the fact he should have been sent off in the semi-final and earlier in the final.

[Kikó]

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[Ian]

I can't believe a team featuring the top 3 players in the world, Lukaku, Young and Sanchez, that United are the worst club ever for letting go didn't win the game.

[Dquincy]

You Man U lot are out in force tonight...

[Lewis]

That second Sevilla goal is the best header I've seen in a while.

[Waffdon]

Was nearly as good as Ivanovic’s when Chelsea won it with the last touch of the ball the other year

[John Arne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhJ6ksSi9Q

[SincereTheRebel]

I think Bayern will be too strong for PSG, but it would be good if PSG win. Neymar with his second and Mbappe with his first medal in the competition would be good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It would not. The less medals and the more tears Neymar has the better.

[Waffdon]

I’ve just heard Mbappe speak for the first time. His English is better than Harry Kane’s.

[Spoonsky]

Predictions?

I think 3-1 Bayern though I'd love to see some kind of 5-2 nonsense.

[Don]

Mbappe brace and Lewi is due a rout so hattrick for him. You add on Davies' goal to mark the birth of a legend and then add on Bayern's other 2.86 xg from other players and I'm coming out with 6.86-2.

[niko_cee]

In my mind PSG can defend a bit (I have no idea if this is accurate) so I could see them springing a surprise on Bayern (as long as they don't still have a 35 year Thiago Silva tooling around holding a high line). Bayern's defence is pretty hopeless from what I've seen of it and you'd hope Neymar or Mbappe would take their chances a bit better than the feckless Lyonnais folk the other night. There's upsides to either winning (mostly the upside being lolling at the ones who don't win) which is quite nice for a final, where you often have a clearly defined good/evil delineation of the teams. There is no underdog.

[SincereTheRebel]

I'll go 4-2 PSG.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

6-2 Bayern.

[Mike]

3-2 psg

[phonics]

I can't decide. It's the best team in the world vs the two best players. If PSG can keep their foot on the ball and not collapse under pressure I think they could sneak it 1-0 maybe 2-1 aet but I don't have much hope for that so I'm going 4-2 Bayern.

[Giggles]

1-1, Bayern on penalties.

[Shindig]

I can't call it. Bayern probably look the better side but PSG won't be as wide open as Barca. This might be PSG's best chance to do it.

[John Arne]

3-0 psg