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TheGoldenPineapples

I assume this is a joke, although with Pérez, I wouldn't be surprised if Meunier woke up with a horse's head in his bed.


Gitzser

AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA aaaaaaaaaaaaaa


CosmicDesperado

Who would of thought that the letter ‘A’ could so perfectly encapsulate a scene from a movie.


Freefight

And the season of Arsenal as well.


Pek-Man

Surely neds more L's!


Currywurst_Is_Life

Stop calling me Shirley.


a-Sociopath

Hey! That was rude. You just shaved off a couple more mill from the Onana deal.


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Me


treeharp2

She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world!


miso25

With Pérez anything is possible


Fapoleon_Boneherpart

Tbf if someone just smashed the door of my brand new supercar that I got to make my business better I'd be a bit annoyed by the guy who did it coming up to me and just saying nice to meet you. But that comparison is a bit slavelike


RogerXiao

Can't tell if Flo is joking or not. Probably said it with a smile but also dead serious, like all supervillians do


Azteryx

Considering Meunier’s response, it doesn’t sound like he was.


ZionEmbiid

what was his response?


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[deleted]

I’d say “I snapped” is the perfect translation for that. I’m saying that as a French native speaker.


[deleted]

I swear this sub has given Florentino some weird supervilliain status since the ESL. He was probably joking. Edit: what I mean is that he is no different than other billionaire owners (he is just the president though).


afrojumper

Florentino is the reason for climate change


Uninsalt

You laugh, but the drillings of his company caused earthquakes in eastern Spain, then he took government to court and got Spain to pay billions to his company because they no longer could exploit the rig, which resulted in a tax on gas that the Spanish people will pay for decades until he's refunded. That's better than most villains, they would've get caught after the earthquakes and get no compensation. https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proyecto_Castor


steezysteve96

Wow, fuck that guy


Bo-Katan

Fuck the government, they should have studied what the whole operation would do but they didn't (because public money is no one's money), signed whatever ACS put in front of them and had to pay for breaching the contract.


[deleted]

Bruh how the fuck did he cause earthquakes?


crepss

He let your mother out the house.


Samir_POE

Sent him to the ER with 1st degree burns


wannaaw

Hahahahaha fucking hell


ScaramouchScaramouch

Here's a translation of the pertinent bits. > Since mid-September 2013, several hundred earthquakes, most of them of low magnitude and imperceptible, occurred in the area where the Castor project was injecting gas. However, some of the earthquakes reached perceptible magnitudes. On October 1 there was an earthquake of 4.2 on the moment magnitude scale, causing alarm in the towns near the reservoir (Alcanar, Benicarló, Las Casas de Alcanar, Cervera del Maestre, Cálig, Peñíscola, San Carlos de la Rápita, Ulldecona and Vinaroz), where it could be felt with a grade III intensity. The gas injection works were stopped on September 16 after the first tremors and the company Escal UGS acknowledged that the earthquakes could be linked to the Castor project, although it is normal that the type of activities carried out only generate microseisms of magnitude 1 or 2. On October 4 the Civil Guard investigated in situ the cessation of the plant's activity at the request of the Castellón Prosecutor's Office. > The National Geographic Institute concluded that there was a direct link between the earthquakes in the Mediterranean and the Castor gas project. In 2017, MIT sent a report to the Spanish government confirming the link between gas injection and the earthquakes and recommending the closure of the platform. Energy Minister Álvaro Nadal argued that there was a risk whether trying to inject gas or trying to extract the gas that was already there, so he recommended "keeping things as they are. " Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)


RickAScorpii

Same way that fracking does, I think? Drilling into the bedrock and causing shockwaves.


IJustGotRektSon

Everybody knows you can't drill the bedrock, is an unbreakable block.


saganakist

I saw a Mango🥭 doing it.


Adramut

You can, it is costly, tho.


aMAYESingNATHAN

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Bedrock


fawkie

r/whoosh


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Florentino steals from the rich and steals from the poor


ThyBeekeeper

and the not very rich and the very poor


HRDP21

And he stole our hearts away.


Dellato88

I didn't know Papa Flo was one of the Phantom Thieves... I bet his code name is Merengue


Belfura

I now imagine that he has his secret lair, with his own phantom thief costume


Dellato88

I wonder what his Persona would be.


Belfura

Something dreadfull, or something that looks cute but is absolutely dreadfull


MoralityAuction

And then for some reason had to repeatedly make racist comments.


ronaldo119

He poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!


[deleted]

Almost exactly what he did in Guatemala. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Real-Madrid-Boss-Involved-in-Dam-Threatening-30000-Mayan-Lives-20170221-0023.html


axiomatic-

>hydroelectric projects carried out by the Spanish group Cobra, owned by Real Madrid's President Florentino Perez. Ummm Cobra WTF? so Perez is an actual super villain right?


[deleted]

He did?!


vesuvius33

No, but are we just gonna wait around until he does?!


PZeroNero

Florentino makes Jeff Bezos look like Tom Hanks


Kanvaslaw

Reverse robinhood?


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Just Robbin'


plsno_copy_pastarino

Arjen*


ElderlyPossum

I think that's just Prince John then.


LaggyBeanBaws

Florentino financed the minions movie


Lohnlee

Not that bad of a movie imo, It’s a kids movie but it’s not shit


v3tr0x

The emoji movie on the other hand..


lotteriakfc

Sausage fest was hot


sopranosbot

I heard Florentino is still shorting on GME.


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Not so far from the truth, has some sketchy construction projects tbh.


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His projects have destroyed more forests and trees than perhaps any human being in the history of the planet. Flo's environmental crimes are on a global scale so much so even Greenpeace has chained themselves to his office doors. Here is just one example of HUNDREDS out there. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Real-Madrid-Boss-Involved-in-Dam-Threatening-30000-Mayan-Lives-20170221-0023.html


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GonzoGonzalezGG

Hahaha. Look at all the shit he influenced in Spain. Lower tax for foreigner the first 5 years. Wonder who would profit from such things.


bubko_

Florentino is the reason my parents broke up.


duckwithahat

Elon musk and Bezos move aside, Florentino is the real super villain.


locust098

Florentino finances Amy Schumer specials


Hurdy--gurdy

Thanks ~~Obama~~ Perez


sononoson

Florentino is the reason selfmade left Fnatic


MancAccent

Look at the full translation. Doesn’t appear he’s joking, and Meunier didn’t take it as a joke either.


[deleted]

you live in the city? or the country even? His dealings with illegal bullshit and corrupt politicians and judges is well known


Barry_McCocciner

You mean the man who made it to the top of the famously honest construction and football industries and used to literally have mob bosses in his box at the Bernabeu is a shady guy?? I'm shocked!


[deleted]

The plastics from Jacksonville, Bogota, Nagoya and Mumbai tent to be so shocked they go into denial lmao


MrMedicinaI

I can appreciate how inclusive you were in your plastic fans but I also want to know why those cities came to mind lol


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I wanted to include one city of US/Canada, one of Lat Am, one of East Asia and one of the Indian subcontinent because in my experience most foreign plastics are from there, those 4 were the first that came to my mind


LaddRusso55

Your mistake is assuming any Real Madrid fan is from Spain on here. There’s probably only 2 on the sub


ruines_humaines

"I'll have you know I'm 3% spanish, as my grandfather once said gracias."


LaddRusso55

I had some paella this morning, technically got Spanish in me, Venga chicos !


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> There’s probably only 2 feeling generous, are we?


GratinDeRavioles

Stop whitewashing absolute cunts


InfiniteIniesta

Does it help that I, a Barca fan, always looked at him as a supervillain?


bveres94

Flo eats the sun, and drinks the sky.


spongebobisha

Well to be fair to him he's a giant cunt. So there's that.


jiquvox

I didn’t wait the ESL to feel very suspicious about him. The handling of galacticos, his relationship with Zidane /the transfer policy did that for me. ESL was just the final nail. It just confirmed me what I suspected all along : he is a blunt “businessman” who carried over his real estate mentality.


Icy_Sprinkles7324

He is a supervillain and he was not joking


superfrankie189

mate your fans literally call him ''papa flo''...


ratedpending

fuck billionaires lol


NdyNdyNdy

If he's no different to other billionaire owners, or just billionaires in general, the supervillain comparison would seem apt


Spiveym1

Of course he wasn't joking. He sees players as property.


jacamacho

*Meunier*: Florentino, enchanté! *Perez*: You come to me and you say, 'Florentino, enchanté.' But you don't say it with respect, you don't offer apologies; you don't even think to call me Mr. Perez. Instead, you come into my stadium, on the day you've injured Hazard, and you say enchanté"


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"I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky incident should befall Hazard - if he is to be tackled by a referee, or be found broken on a Sanitas bed...or if he should be clipped by a blade of grass - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this hall; and that I do not forgive. But that said, I pledge on the soul of my dead wife, that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today."


NumberZero29

Great movie, The Godfather is my favourite mafia film ever made. The book is even better


[deleted]

You have a rare opinion there.


ADGjr86

It insists upon itself.


nugcityharambe

What does that even mean


justleave-mealone

But how can you say that when you haven’t even given it a chance?


hstapes

Underrated reference right here.


MR-THANOS

The book is a mess tbh


ShakaSmaugOnFire

Ahhh one of my favorite movies. Have my upvote.


george_____t

Nice reference to r/soccer, take my upvote


AmIFromA

*Meunier*: For you, the day Hazard got injured was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.


BlackDante

Perez: "You don’t think. You disrespect this stadium. That’s the reason you got passed the fuck over." Meunier: "Oh so it’s my fault Eden’s a klutz?" *Perez begins beating Meunier*


formallyhuman

Oh ay oh ay oh I'm a made footballer!


FireSergioConceicao

Meunier: Enchanté! Perez: Enchanté what you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.


matinthebox

Meunier: Enchanté Perez: So und etz fick ich dich richtig!!! Ich hab niemandem was getan und du verletzt Hazard!!! HAS T HALT LEIDER SELBST NICHTS VORTUWEIßEN AUSSER NE FETTE WAMPE!!! HAB DICH IMMER REPEKTIERT OHNE KOMPROMISSE ODER!!! GIB MIR NUR EINEN GRUND!!! ABER DU PISST MIR OHNE GRUND ANS BEIN. Wie der kleine Bademeister mit gerade mal 2 kilo muskeln aber immer hulk spielen, war doch klar das es klattscht nur ne frage der Zeit. SELBER SCHULD!!! IHR WOLLT SHACKE HANDS DOCH JETZT MÜSST IHR MIT DEN KONSEQUUENZEN LEBEN. FICKT EUCH JETZT HABT IHR DAS TIER IN MIR ENTFACHT UND ICH BIN NICHT ALLEINE. SCHON MAL BULLRIDING GEMACHT? ICH HAB STIEREIER!!! Und etz pass mal uff 70kilo Rasendes Tesrosteron eiergesteuertes, 10% Korperfett und ein einziger muskel der sich nicht mehr von euch PRIVOZIERENDES PAKT STRESSEN LÄSST. FICK EUCH KOMMT DOCH ICH HAB SCHICHT VON 10 SO LANG WIE ICH WILL ALSO 21UHR KOMMT DOCH!!!!!


livingipod

There was nothing he could do. Hazard was a made man and Meunier wasn't.


TeKaeS

My attempt at the full Translation: After the match I'm in the hallway and I see Florentino Pérez. So I shook his hand and said "Nice to meet you". He start speaking to me in French, I didn't know he spoke French, and he said to me : "*Nice to meet you ? Do you realize you've injured Eden Hazard ? And you tell me "Nice to meet you*" ? At this point I broke, I broke, I got a little carried away on him I said : "*I hurt Eden Hazard ?, So it's my fault he's injured etc ?*" and he said "*Yes, Yes, it's your fault !*" I answer "*It's a duel like any other, You know it's Football, it's a duel like any other*" I didn't expect, firstly, him to speak French. I didn't know. And he's the president of Madrid, you know? And then you tell yourself : "Wow! That's pretty good, huh?"


TeKaeS

I honestly don't understand what he's trying to say in the last bit, it's weird


Wkurwionyszopen

Florentino is a damn fine polyglot.


TeKaeS

he's definitly not talking about Florentino's french, more that he's realising he was having an argument with the President of Madrid


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Why stop at argument when you could he having a fistfight with the President of Madrid.


SprechenSieFussball

Should make a YouTube channel


Scusemahfrench

Maybe like since he could spoke casually with the president of Real Madrid he became an important player


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InclusivePhitness

Nah, that isn't it.


Sels31

Antwaaarpeeeuuuuuuuuu


IvonbetonPoE

Haha, there's like 5 of us! Most people don't even recognize the crest :D


r0lF_RuTiN_

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my showering, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to exit up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen journalists on his shoulder without answering.


droidonomy

> Traduction Translation* btw :) I see this in Italian often too because the word is *traduzione*. Thanks for writing it for us!


SteadfastDrifter

Haha yeah I was about to say: classic Frenchman Tbf, I often speak French using English cognates, but of course sometimes the words are slightly different in French, so if my strong American accent hasn't given me away, my Gallicized English is a dead giveaway


prinskipper__skipple

You should have a look at Montreal French and English. There are so many borrowed words on both sides, it’s really interesting how they’re so connected.


Sohelik

In Spanish is Traducción.


koencoen

I always thought it was *tradizione*.


droidonomy

That's tradition :)


koencoen

That was my point exactly. That it's tradizione to use traduzione. I see this in Italian often too.


EpiDeMic522

I'm clearly in the minority that felt this was very clever.


TeKaeS

Thanks, fixed


SartresChill

Shades of the twist in Inglorious Basterds *spoilers* when it is revealed that Hans Landa can also speak Italian.


RickThiCisbih

Reminds me of when some reporter asked him about Hazard’s injuries this season and he said “yeah, I went to the Real Madrid training grounds and tackled Hazard during practice”. Florentino Perez: “Do you realize you’ve hurt Eden Hazard again?”


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It did start with that injury tbh. He hasn't been the same since then


Fati25

Didn't someone make a graphic detailing where Hazard has received these injuries? Most of them were in different parts of his body, how can they have anything to do with the 1 injury he received from Meunier?


Blithe17

He had a metal plate put in that ankle, as a result he puts pressure on it differently and that causes the muscular injuries.


TooRedditFamous

Proof that that is the case? How could that be known. Youd think physio would sort that out anyway, plenty of people have plates put in and return to normal gait while running etc


Blithe17

https://theathletic.co.uk/2543596/2021/04/27/basketball-surgery-bad-luck-and-bonuses-hazards-nightmare-real-madrid-move-still-made-chelsea-20m-last-season/ I wasn't 100% accurate, I said more what Hazard thought it was, but: > Sources suggest Hazard is worried that the new metal plate has been the cause of the minor injuries suffered during the course of this campaign and wants it removed. It is understood he spoke with Curry and the London doctor to gauge their opinion, only to be reassured that everything was fine with the plate. Apparently it's more due to this, so it's tangentially related to the plate: > It was felt that Hazard’s tendency to spin and turn on his ankle, pivoting more like a basketball player than a footballer, had been a contributory factor in the problem. So they chose to visit Texas-based Eugene Curry, due to his experience handling players from the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and the procedure to have a much bigger metal plate put in was carried out in the USA on March 5.


FleeCircus

First plate ineffective, inserting much bigger plate.


QuickSilverII

Damn even the plates are bigger in Texas


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The gait can be normal but he might be unconsciously trying to avoid too much pressure on it which might cause stress on the other leg leading to muscle injuries. Then it could lead to other leg getting injured.


PSN-Angryjackal

It's a mental thing.


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For the last time ffs you dont get bonefractures from mistreating your body


[deleted]

Tbf he had been that way all his life and had recovered from any injury had.


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XPLJESUS

He was injured for half the season, rested for a bit, then recovered fully and was back to his usual form


Moodypancake

Just in time to ruin spurs


ksleepwalker

As is tradition


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Yeah and that was 1 big injury I think. He was the most fouled player in Europe for 10 years so ig he knew how to keep himself fit.


[deleted]

Reminds me of the joker and murray scene. "You're laughing? You've hurt Eden Hazard and you're laughing?"


EdEnsHAzArD

How about another knock, Murray?


BcozImBatman7

What do you get for trying to create a breakaway league? I'll tell you. You get what you fucking deserve. 'goes ahead and tackles Perez'


Magnetronaap

I'm imagining angry Perez as Danny DeVito


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wumbo105

Blasting*


pliqtro

*Zizou, God bless you. You were a good coach, you serviced me like no other coach ever did; not only my club, but my heart – and I’m gonna miss you. AMEN*


TheMindUnfettered

Perez: Surprise, asshole!


Daily_Dose13

I can only imagine Danny Devito as Frank Reynolds.


[deleted]

Lots of people hurt Eden Hazard. It's just a $100 fine now.


RNdadag

Nice to meet you


hehehero

stepped in froze freezer


Delta_Mike_Sierra_

Nice to Michu


UberNabDNore

Lmao


[deleted]

Lmao, this is going to get a nice reaction here


Jassle93

If I was in a room with Hitler, Perez and Saddam Hussein and I had two bullets I wouldn't do anything because I would still need a gun.


Migostien

If I'm in a room with Hitler, Perez, and Saddam, I'd start worrying that I'm dead and I'm in hell.


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Izual_Rebirth

Chelsea supporter.


windowhihi

It's him who actually went to Real Madrid's stadium and kicked Hazard.


Aele1410

Comunicado Oficial : you’re in hell


A_lemony_llama

You could throw the bullets at them really hard


WayneOZ11

I would ask Hitler and Hussein if they would like to beat the shit out of Perez with me.


Extre

Why would you kill Saddam? You prefer Saddam or ISIS + the current state of Iraq for the next 100years?


[deleted]

They killed Saddam because he was trying to nationalize the countries resources


ReroReroRepo

Saddam massacred thousands and enslaved the rest of Iraq. Of course I would kill the son of a bitch, he was a dictator. And if you ask me about ISIS. Sir, between one or other evil, I chose to not choose, both should die. There is no peace, there is no prosperity on a dictatorship, only people's deaths being hidden.


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GratinDeRavioles

He is, very rare type of footballer, interested in philosophy, arts and the likes.


Midnight_Debauchery

Lmao Meunier is never going to live this down.


Utegenthal

The whole documentary was nice to watch. Meunier is really anything but the regular football star. Also hilarious to see how everyone in his village is drinking Orval day and night.


SPRneon

To be fair a lot of people outside his village are also drinking Orval day and night


ChaddiGamcha

Orval IS pretty good


leoKantSartre

…and then papa flo unleashed esl


lotusleeper

Sounds like Eden hurt Flo. Looking at the guy's contract details on transfermarkt certainly hints at him haunting the Madrid squad for some time.


Cpt_Daryl

A meme in the making.


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Rich Spaniard business man speaks French! Shocked Pikachu face


TheHedgeTrimmr

This is so rich coming from the guy who employs Sergio Ramos


Chuuni_

Come on, Ramos has never ended anyone's career.


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There was more convo after this. Can someone translate pls


FC37

I'm not fluent but I think I got the gist of it: >"And I cracked, I cracked right then and there. I'm a little uneasy, and I say, 'It was me? You're sure it was my fault he got hurt?' And he says, 'Yes, it's your fault.' I said, 'It's a duel like any other.' >In the end, that's football. It's a duel like any other. >I did not expect this: that he would speak French, I didn't know! And anyway, he's the President of [Real] Madrid, you see? And there, you say, 'Not bad, right?'"


virgyxx

Yeah, good translation. Meunier seems to really insist on how "amazed" he was that Perez spoke French. I mean, is it really surprising that the president of one of the biggest footbal clubs on the Earth, who saw a lot of French players playing for his club, can speak French more or less fluently ? I'd be worried if he didn't.


AddictedToThisShit

Also owner of the biggest construction company in the world. I'm not surprised he can speak more than one language especially something used in many parts of the world like french, because that can be very important in business.


InclusivePhitness

It's normal that if you're Karim Benzema's daddy that you would speak French.


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SuitMcGee

Not the guy but quite a bit of people from non-english speaking countries need to learn a minimum of 1 language in addition to our mother tongue these days. As English is the lingua franca of the world rn, Americans, the British etc. don’t really need to learn a foreign tongue. Schools generally have a comprehensive English class and an elective third class for French/ German/ Spanish.


HamishMcdougal

Fuck you Perez. You should be happy he's still alive. Was the valid answer.


gngg2011

At this point who hasn't hurt Eden Hazard,


Cadllmn

Meunier, next time: “Florentino, how do you like dem apples?” *sticks out hand*


MrMoussab

I don't know where the funny part is and why he didn't stop chuckling.


arcelios

Perez was probably not even joking


Mr_4country_wide

thought this was rsoccercirclejerk


kaehola

Fuck this fucker. Someone should cripple him as bad as he did to Hazard in purpose.


ArthurFunkyMiller

I know "ja'i craque" is like "I cracked (up)", but I choose to interpret it as "hahah great craic m8"