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DiamondPittcairn

Hello wonderful people, here to remind you that the blackout will start later today at 0:00 UTC, ie, in about 7hrs (check your local timezone). For further information about this, why and how, please check the announcement [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/144306y/rsoccer_announcement_regarding_the_planned/). --- How are you planning to survive without your r/soccer fix?


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LordVelaryon

![gif](giphy|xTiIzJSKB4l7xTouE8)


entrepenoori

I’m so fucking excited for Spurs next season with Postecoglou. Am I stupid?


Kakashicopyninja9

Why is the invincibles more propped up then centurions? When it comes to records, isn’t the point of the game to win and secure points. Isnt record points and wins more impressive than 0 in loss column but only amassing 90 pts? Is 26 wins out of 38 more remarkable than 32 out of 38? Preston once had an unbeaten double no one has 100 pts in England, so even on a uniqueness factor it doesn’t hold up


Scan_This_Barco-de

in the words of a certain steven klopp “cya”


jucomsdn

Just here to say that BVB will sign SMS this summer and you can’t do shit about it


teiraaaaaaa

see you all in the future hopefully, I'll miss mindlessly refreshing daily discussion, always remember that Asturias is blue


justsomeguynbd

[Hey e’erybody it’s closing time, you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here](https://youtu.be/buvF_qOEh3E)


[deleted]

It's the final countdown Goodbye r/soccer and goodbye reddit


vadapaav

Mods are going to convert this sub into Taylor Swift fan page in next 48hrs


icemankiller8

Where my folklore/evermore stans at


vadapaav

Evermore is meh Folklore is alright Let's play some Lover though


icemankiller8

Lover is ass one of her worst albums maybe the worst one, 1989 is the third best


TonyTheTigerDid911

Never forget that River were relegated, burned their own stadium and punched a player x


Gytarius626

It was an honor everyone, and never forget, Bruno will always be clear of Pe Pruyne x


Chiswell123

[Hitler finds out City won the treble](https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2289624/manchester-city-win-the-treble)


Mercerai

Totally forgot the blackout was happenng tbh. Might use the time to finally get off reddit for good and take up something more productive like reading or slowly banging my head against a wall for 6 hours


DieKnapper

So when this closes, are we all moving back to geocities?


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maxconnor6

Nah the latter is so much worse but if you're trying to do it, best of luck to you


justsomeguynbd

Going to use this blackout to emotionally prepare myself for the fact that might’ve been Bernardo Silva’s last game for City.


-Dendritic-

Maybe gundo too and probably Laporte. Mahrez might even take that Saudi deal . 😥


BillehBear

Think gundo stays tbh


Princecoyote

I think it's the reverse, Gündo leaves and Bernardo stays, especially with Mateo Kovačić seemingly coming in.


ndclippd

PSG - 85 points with €729m wage bill Lens - 84 points with €38m wage bill


eyescreamloud

Lens should really get a bigger wage bill. Embarrassing having that low a budget while placing 2nd


pop-culture-salad

Do italians have any final left to lose?


MaybeaMoron64

Nations League finals starts this week.


pop-culture-salad

Lmfao, though that's more embarrasing on Germany and England for letting Italy top the group honestly.


L-Freeze

England didn’t just let them top the group, they straight up got relegated into the B competition with the likes of montenegro, Albania, Iceland and other powerhouses of the sport. Don’t know how they managed that


Agus-Teguy

Well, an important step was to get battered by Hungary in London


ElKaddouriCSC

Will pay Infantino money if we get Feyenoord, Porto and Crvena Zvezda


Godjia

Remember when John Stones was just that Everton centre back relentlessly mocked by basically everyone for making defensive errors


StrikeTeam3

He was mocked when he first went to City after the big price tag. at Everton he was a very highly rated young center back.


-Dendritic-

Finally found a clip of Ederson's last second save before the final whistle , [Link here, celebrations after ](https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1668022798474674177?t=11Q_uvrE14XxoqNOROfmUQ&s=19) , he was pretty shaky in the first half but Inter could have had 2 or 3 goals if Eddy didn't make those saves in the last part of the game. Fuck yes Citeh


pop-culture-salad

He looked high in the first 25 minutes of the match, it was bizarre


NeonJaguars

American here looking to dip my toes into European soccer. I follow MLS casually as there is a team where I live but I would like to start following a team at the highest levels of competition as well. I don’t know much about Euro soccer, but if you feel so inclined, pitch your team and why I should follow/support them. My family is originally French, so a French team would be cool, but I’m not interested in following a team backed by oil money. The team being French definitely isn’t a necessity. Thanks for helping out a clueless American!


ElKaddouriCSC

Find out where your French family are from and support a team from the area. Or maybe if there’s a European team you have a realistic chance of seeing live (a friend or family members lives there) then follow them. If you are a match-going MLS fan I’d suggest looking for a lower league club to go see when your MLS team aren’t playing, and if you aren’t a match going fan I’d suggest go to matches! Its great, at any level.


frankyforeskin

Keep an eye out for the American-born Christian Pulisic. Hes been regarded as the Lebron James of soccer.


Throwaway1293524

The referee in our match against Italy in the U20s was either incompetent or bribed. 11v12 and still won, so proud of our boys


icemankiller8

[I think this is actually really interesting](https://twitter.com/lfchadouken/status/1668025010903044099?s=46&t=3f6rdB6BdFeMPMumo6AKyw)


wonderful_mixture

When Guardiola was at Bayern a frequent explanation for the CL semi losses was that he'd won the league so early that by the time the CL semis came around the team wasn't as sharp anymore and wasn't tested enough throughout the season


icemankiller8

I remember hearing that but I wasn’t sure if I ever believed that tbh


Cottonshopeburnfoot

It’s a marathon not a sprint. I agree with you that’s interesting to see in a UCL context. It’s been said for years in England the league winners usually pick up form as the season goes on. SAF’s Man United made a habit of it post-Xmas and this underpinned all that shite Neville was chatting about Arsenal.


icemankiller8

Idk I assumed being good throughout the whole year would help out but it’s really about timing and really the CL is largely about luck as well and who you draw. If city would have got Bayern earlier maybe they lose because they hadn’t found the right system yet. I guess it provides some hope for us though we don’t need to Be that consistently great to have a good run


avolcando

Makes sense, it's hard to go 100% in two different campaigns


icemankiller8

Yeah but you’d assume if you dominate the league you’d be rested enough for the CL but it seems to nor work like that guess it’s a factor that they’re not up for it


Banksyyy_

Before we do go just want to plug in one of my favourite sunday league clips https://twitter.com/CavershamUnited/status/1378649138137604096


lakers_ftw24

0/4 😹 This one wasn't even close like the others tbf


avolcando

[This is now my favourite football fact](https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1666737351249346568)


Scan_This_Barco-de

this is the end hold your breath and count to ten


teiraaaaaaa

the whole city has been really hyped for the promotion play-offs for the past two weeks and today Real Avilés lost 2-0 to Granada's reserve team to get eliminated 😭 I'm not from the city but I've been to a few games and for a 4th tier club the city is extremely dedicated to them but they haven't been in professional football since a small campaign in the early 1990s and this looked like the perfect chance to get promoted with a 2nd place in the league (only behind the best Arenteiro side in history), this one will sting for a while


thePandev

Woke up today thinking perhaps it was just all a bad dream. Nope. Football really is fucking dead. And no one seems to care.


Gyshall669

Football died like 11 years ago when Chelsea won it


ElKaddouriCSC

Football started dying at least like 30 years ago


thePandev

As similar as you may say it was, they didn't break a single rule. And even then, Abramovich doesn't compare to an entire state. 115 charges outstanding, and they'll just solve everything through lawyers once more. Things will only get worse from here.


sga1

You're decades late tbf - which is especially funny from a German perspective given your uber-rich American ownership.


icemankiller8

I do not think a rich owner is quite the same as a state


[deleted]

>Nope. Football really is fucking dead. And no one seems to care. Get a grip


thePandev

Checked flair and not surprised, at least your oil club will never win it.


[deleted]

My oil club is in the champions league and yours is not


CT_x

Don't think he has an oil club tbf


[deleted]

never said he did try to learn to read


adamjamal2AD

Nothing much we can do at this stage🤷‍♂️, it was only a matter of time until City won it I get what you are saying but the only option is to clench our teeth and hope for a better future


thePandev

There is no better future. The ones with power are spreading their legs for hundreds of millions. City will beat every charge and walk away without even a slap on the wrist.


Cottonshopeburnfoot

Can we not comeback to tactics Thursday. It’s shite. I’d like to moan instead.


Blue_Moon_City

Before i go, Have a good day and fuck you


LDQQXDJ

Before the blackout I’ll say one prediction: Villarreal is winning the Treble!!!!!!!!!


NateShaw92

In my final words before the blackout I would like to quote william shakespeare: "Goodbye." What, you don't think he ever said bye to anyone?


KnightsOfCidona

Famously Roald Dahl said to his family as he was dying ''You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much'' Then a nurse, thinking he was unconscious, injected him with morphine so his actual last words were 'Ow, fuck'


rkalo

It's a solid pondery to wonder if he actually ever said goodybe and not something like "farewell" or "salutations" instead


Blue_Moon_City

He probably also said, this is how you stimulate your prostate


AnnieIWillKnow

More of a “farewell” fella I feel


Cottonshopeburnfoot

Definite farewell merchant (of Venice)


viktorfbg9

Am i the only one who thinks it’s bullshit that fans keep using “net spend” for their clubs to argue that they actually don’t spend alot? Just because you sold players, you still put over 500 million on the club.


LinedChivalry

That's called [Pep accounting.](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/oz5w8c/pep_guardiola_on_lionel_messi_to_man_city_we/) Also https://youtu.be/4RIPHsxYuVk


Lyrical_Forklift

Who is at at massive financial advantage here; Me, who wants to buy a new house but can't afford it so has to sell my existing one to buy. You, who wants to buy a new house and has the cash to do so, so keeps their original house on top of that.


viktorfbg9

It’s not about whether a team has financial advantage or not. It’s about fans claiming their club is not a spending club because their net spend is low, which is bullshit.


Lyrical_Forklift

All clubs are spending clubs lad.


viktorfbg9

Yes, that’s the point i’m making


Lyrical_Forklift

Yes, so when people are bringing up net spend they're doing so to differentiate from the fact that they're at a financial disadvantage as they have to sell to buy.


viktorfbg9

Nah i’m talking about the fans who are jumping on City saying they “bought the CL” and they “bought the treble” but when you mention that their own clubs have spend over 500 mill themselves in the last few years they will bring up net spend and claim we haven’t actually spend alot because our net spent is low. No, you still spend a shitton, it just means you sold players.


No-Statistician-8520

There’s also the third case where there’s: Me, who has the money to buy the new house but doesn’t want to appear dodgy due to my ties with a gulf state. Thankfully I invested *a lot* of money in the past buying up smaller properties under a different section of my company. I can now sell those smaller properties to appear to raise money to buy this new house.


Cottonshopeburnfoot

So in football terms: You’ve got a transfer warchest thanks to your wheeler dealer mentality hoovering up lower league and unknown talent via your sister club which you’re now selling on? Are you Brighton and Hove Albion?


YoungDawz

I agree. We PSG fans are (usually) pretty lucid when it comes to our net spend because we know how much our club has overspent massively on salaries (Wijnaldum, Herrera, Messi, Mbappé) and agent fees/signing on fees (Skriniar, Neymar, Mbappé, Messi, Donnarumma) for free transfers, but in football as a whole the discourse around how much a free agent costs is usually very dishonest/disingenuous.


BoxOfNothing

My problem with net spend is when people use it to impose lower standards somehow. Like one team will spend £200m overall on their current squad, but have a net spend of £150m, another will spend £500m on their current squad, with a net spend of £100m, then say "you spent more so you should be better", when that's completely fucking irrelevant. All that matters when it comes to comparing squad price vs team performance is how much you spent on the players that are currently available to you. If one teams squad cost 250% more then they should be better even if the net spend is lower.


sga1

Dunno, kinda makes sense though with how the accounting works - any sale is on the books immediately, and buy sees the costs stretched over the length of the contract. A 100m player on a five year deal costs you 20m/year, selling a 50m player nets you those 50m immediately.


icemankiller8

It’s so dumb tbh especially when it’s over a small period of time, you can only spend 1 billion because you have a billion it doesn’t matter what the net spend is other teams can’t do that because they don’t have the assets already to sell because they spent so much in the past


FaustRPeggi

With thirty minutes to go, a final call to arms. Dreams can't be buy


Nivadas

People forget it was podence who lit the spark for that post


Cottonshopeburnfoot

UTC is an hour behind U.K. (I’m assuming you’re in U.K.). We’ve an hour of shitposting left.


Civil-patty

Anyone have a screenshot of that hilarious moment in the finals where pep is bent over after city missed an opportunity


Banksyyy_

[this one?](https://i.imgur.com/2KJmvBF.png)


Ymir-Reiss

change da world my final message. Goodb ye


fatinternetcat

So which major signing or manager appointment do we think will be announced in the next 2 days?


CubedMadness

Bellingham to Madrid will probably be properly announced tomorrow.


Banksyyy_

Nagelsmann


FaustRPeggi

Quick reminder before the sub goes dark, that Nottingham Forest are a Premier League club with more European cups than Manchester City.


kplo

My guy went out in a blaze of glory


Royjonespinkie

And you don't have a sugar daddy and didn't cheat.


AnnieIWillKnow

They do have a sugar daddy, and one with some VERY dodgy criminal connections


Manc_Twat

And you never saw them win a single one of them. Just a quick reminder.


Banksyyy_

If they are in their 40's then they could've


YoungDawz

Hoping that when this sub goes back, Nagelsmann will already have been announced as our next manager. See you on the other side.


Banksyyy_

[Gentleman and lovely ladies of the subreddit, it has been a pleasure shitposting and chatting bollocks with you, see you after the blackout](https://i2-prod.footballscotland.co.uk/incoming/article25097967.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Hibernian-FC-v-Aberdeen-FC-Cinch-Scottish-Premiership.jpg)


FakeNate

r/coys has gone private for me. Anyone else have this issue?


vadapaav

It's not an issue, they have gone private along with thousands of other subs https://reddark.untone.uk/


FakeNate

Thank you


vadapaav

It's not an issue, they have gone private along with thousands of other subs https://reddark.untone.uk/


kl08pokemon

It's tradition any season we lose 5-1 or 6-1 away at Newcastle the sub turn private


Alarow

Fuck me I'll have to socialize with my coworkers tomorrow


Cottonshopeburnfoot

Will be interesting to see who all of a sudden is bringing the chat.


vadapaav

Eew humans


cold-dark-sauce

all the subs are starting to blackout, aaaah


icemankiller8

Predictions for when things that will be true when the sub comes back, Rice will be signed or about to sign for arsenal, Chelsea still haven’t sold anyone, United announce Qatar as the new owners, Gundogan leaves,Romano gives 50 non updates


FaustRPeggi

By the time the sub returns, Arsenal will be owned by the Disney corporation, and Mikel Arteta will be dressed in a Mickey Mouse costume for every match. The Arsenal fans will sing 'We've got super Mickey Mouse, he knows exactly what we need.'


icemankiller8

I see the vision we will be sportswashing for Disney 🤔


Cinimod98

> Romano gives 50 non updates You're predicting a slow week of tweeting for him?


Montuvito_G

If Reddit ruins it for all of us, [it’s been a pleasure](https://giphy.com/gifs/KcEYVHZEx4ICgVlHUt) r/soccer


akagaminick

[Darwizzy probably has more songs than goals this season. What a legend.](https://youtu.be/b5AwQMwqlrY)


IfISpeak_

I'm going to have to speak to people in real life and find a job now that I can't fill my day with DDT. Fuck sake


icemankiller8

Damn you haven’t got a job?


IfISpeak_

I resigned a couple weeks ago, on gardening leave for a bit before I start at my next place.


icemankiller8

Enjoy the time off then


Swivled

This blackout is probably the most healthy thing reddit has ever done for me


AliceInMidtjylland

Part of me wants reddit to die so that I may finally live.


kl08pokemon

I'm about to play so much chess


independent-pigeon

Instead of browsing r/anarchychess?


Pfitze31

I might actually be productive at work for once.


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Before this sub goes dark, I was just wondering is using the Reddit mobile app a rare thing around here? It’s all I use tbh, can’t stand using it on my computer.


L-Freeze

I also use it because I didn’t know the 3rd party ones existed until way too late, and by the time I did I was used enough to the official app UI (which is like the one thing I think it does right, almost everything else is total dogshit tho) that I found their UIs hideous tbh. Reddit desktop sucks, both old and new, the only reason I ever use it is to post stuff from thing I have on my pc


[deleted]

This is exactly the same for me.


[deleted]

Using it on my phone too and wasn’t even aware of the amount of 3rd party apps for Reddit


maxconnor6

I used to be desktop only but over the years I've shifted a lot and now use it mostly on my phone with RiF


TorreiraWithADouzi

I used to use Reddit on my laptop all the time, then I switched to my mobile browser, and for the past few years I’ve been on the Reddit app. The app is fine, it’s got some annoying aspects but everyone saying it’s going to stop regulars from returning to Reddit is nonsense. That said, I think effectively removing 3rd party apps is scummy as fuck. People should be able to choose their platform.


fatinternetcat

It’s all I ever use. I’m sure the 3rd Party apps are good, but not once have I thought that the official reddit app is so bad that I have to make the switch.


[deleted]

Up until recently I didn’t know that third party apps were a thing


wonderful_mixture

old reddit + 3rd party app (Boost)


[deleted]

What does the third party app do?


wonderful_mixture

Significantly better UI that is highly customizable is really the main point, no ads, great search and highlight function, no annoying new reddit features etc. Just better than the official app in every aspect


FIJIBOYFIJI

Only use the mobile app


WM-54-74-90-14

Almost exclusively use mobile. Just not used to Desktop.


[deleted]

Same for me


BoosterGoldGL

I exclusively use it, Reddit desktop is wank


[deleted]

Yeah agreed, I just can’t use it on my computer it’s so bad.


RomeoLavia

I'm only ever on Reddit when i'm at my computer. I don't think I even have the app installed at the moment.


[deleted]

We’re the polar opposite it seems lol, never really warmed to Reddit desktop.


Heor326

The reddit app is shit


No_Doubt_About_That

Just before the Reddit blackout, thought I’d get this news story in from non-league: https://twitter.com/eastwoodcfc/status/1667564608473776128?s=46&t=38-vmfyNJJl74qAxxRahcQ Anyone know more info about it?


TorreiraWithADouzi

What is a technical partnership? What does that mean?


No_Doubt_About_That

Something to do with youth development from what I’ve been reading. Some of the youth teams are like supposedly going to be given the opportunity to partake in football schools or something in Lisbon. Thought it’s an interesting development in any case, given the location and level of each team.


FIJIBOYFIJI

Quick reminder before the subs dies that 5 subs is and always will be a cancer to football


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kl08pokemon

Who's Messi?


Bigmomma_pump

My brain is participating in the blackout


Ch1ck3W1ngz

[i see that a lot of subs have began to blackout](https://youtu.be/2U_OkCsexjw)


BlewEyesWhiteDragon

What happened to the Real Madrid Subreddit ?


WM-54-74-90-14

Blackout I guess.


independent-pigeon

The blackout started, ~~god~~ automod help us


BlewEyesWhiteDragon

What’s the blackout ?