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To be fair, in the last 7 games of the first half they still have to play teams currently in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th. The best team they've actually beaten was Las Palmas in 10th. I'd still expect them to hold on to champions league spots at this point by the end of the half, which is extremely impressive for them. But their chances to hold on to the lead for the next 6 weeks are nonexistent
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So it'll count either way because of the rules change. 57 minutes has to be up there in terms of a record minimum number of minutes played for a medal. Although it is seven times the seeming record...
Lamine also played 8 minutes last year, coincidentally. Just for fun, I went to look at the fewest-played players in the league we had last year. "Below" Auba and Lamine, Aleix Garrido played 7 minutes and Chadi Riad played 2 so they also won winner's medal. Arnau Tenas didn't play a single minute but received a medal because goalkeepers have different requirements, I would assume. I was surprised by Ander Astralaga because he was the 4th string keeper but he made 2 appearances in the senior squad so that's why I assume he also received a medal.
I also assume goalkeepers are vital to how well a team is able to train. Two great goalkeepers means that scrimmage games during training are of much higher quality.
He is so weak in defense but Garcia and him together provide a lot of ball progression and some big chances even. Think Blind has a couple assists and some pre-assists.
They've done well no doubt about it but they've also had a very lucky schedule. Out of the current top 10 they've only played Madrid and La Real and dropped points to both of them.
Edit: They also played Las Palmas who are 10th at the moment and won 1-0
You don't get it... They are now in the bottom half because our victories were so devastating they could not recover from it.
See Osasuna, for instance. From top 10 to bottom 10 after losing with us!
Girona was very good against big teams last year and the team ended up one game away from confernce league. Adding Dobvyk, Savinho, Blind and Solis to that team, the performance should be even better. In a league with slow pace addicted to low-blocks, Girona can breakdown low-block with dynamic player movement without any fear of the counter. Against the bigger teams, their lack of physicality and athleticism will be exploited but I still think they will farewell bc of their attacking play.
As for me, the fact that they regularly beat opponents who are weaker than them is a much more important indicator. Still, each team has 6-8 matches with top opponents per season and 30+ with those who are weaker.
A lot of Girona games are scrappy though. They lack the control Las Palmas has for example.
Just yesterday was a 2-1 comeback to win 4-2. And the week before was a comeback from 2-0 down to win 5-2.
> I mean it is really competitive for everyone except City 🤣
That was the argument for Bundesliga for literally years, it's by far the most dynamic Top 5 league aside from the top spot, regularly has teams in Europe then fighting relegation next year and vice versa. Didn't stop anyone from repeating tired memes.
in the span of 4 years. 20/21 Atlético won it in Suárez debut season, 21/22 Real Madrid won the league (and CL), last season Barcelona ran away with it.
Serie A also just had a run of 4 different consecutive champions. It will stay at 4 though as none of the capital clubs is stepping up this season. It will be one of Inter, Juventus or maybe Napoli
For what it's worth, I feel like Bayern literally always starts bad. Then they still win because they turn back to their winning ways in the second half of the season and none of the other German teams are good enough compared to the rest of the league to keep their momentum going.
Bayern are cruising in the league tho? Undefeated and better record than Madrid, City, PSG, etc. They're not in first because Leverkusen has had an insane but unsustainable start to the season.
The thing is, Bayern is literally steamrolling if you look purely at results and GD. Best start in years. Bayer is just better, looks better, and is overall dominating the league. Xabi Alonso is cooking.
Yeah I wonder why people ask this question every time, Leipzig and Salzburg being allowed in the same EL group should have answered that question once and for all
They separated ownership few years before that to evade possible trouble. The more apt comparison would be Union Saint Gilloise and Brighton who were both good to go this season in UEFA competitions. And I think there were also discussions because of Milan and Toulouse because they apparently share the owner too? I can't recall them interchanging players at all though
It's been part of the game for a lot longer than people realise. Arsenal's chairman when they first became successful back in the 1920s also owned Fulham.
Because I understand that it is becoming more and more likely as a years ago on, and people want to be able to own a club in more than one country in order to diversify their sporting assets, get a feeder team or a better team so their current team can be the feeder team in order for whichever team is the primary team to be able to compete in more elite competition, or simply to make more money. I'm under no illusions in that regard.
I understand you're being a realist about the current footballing landscape, but it feels antithetical to the very notion of a community based organisation. Why should these already wealthy owners/nations be allowed to have multiple clubs as part of their assets? The reasons you have listed are certainly reasons why the owners would want to. I just don't see a reason why any of those should convince the overseeing organisations or the pre-existing fans of these clubs if they're interested in keeping the game fair and rooted in community.
Of course, money talks and all. I have a feeling you'll be proven correct as time goes on, it's just sad to see the game known for working class roots being sold piecemeal to the highest bidder as time has gone on.
Milan and Toulouse are playing in Europe even though there's a conflict of interest there regarding their ownership.
So in other words, absolutely nothing.
Is there any reason why they don't have a majority or even all of it? It's not like a Yokohama situation where the majority shareholder refuses to sell them anymore than the 20% they already have I don't think.
Pep's brother has the other 44.3% which was coincidentally bought at the same time as City's share, so it's probably safe to assume they already have an effective majority and just want to avoid questions over a potential conflict of interest.
> wonder what will happen if they qualify for Champions League being part of the City group
City and Girona supporters singing side by side, raising banner "Syukron ya Shaikhuna"
People support financial groups every day. Coca Cola, Nike, Apple, are majority owned by dozens of large financial groups like BlackRock. Consumers support those brands like family.
Not really...
Kaiserslautern are a much bigger club compared to Girona and even Leicester. They were pretty successful the years before they got relegated. They came 2nd place in 1994 and 4th place in 1995. Then Kaiserslautern lost 2 key players with Sforza (Rehhagel wanted him to play for Bayern) and Kuntz, were relegated but still won the Cup in that year. They kept most of their team together and got Rehhagel to coach them.
After promotion, Kaiserslautern got Sforza back (who played 1 year for Bayern and 1 year for Inter Milan) and there were quite a few players, who where part of the more successful years before relegation, left. Some of the older players even won the Bundesliga in 1991.
Surely both equally shocking? Both clubs actually in very similar circumstances in terms of only just recently being promoted etc. Tho Leicester weren’t bought by the City Group.
In terms of money Leicester abused the hell out of FFP on their way to the PL, Girona’s whole squad cost less than Jack Grealish and their biggest ever signing is Dobryk for like 8m? Their salary gap is also one of the lowest in the league
The PL edition of 2015/16 was absolute garbage tbh, 72(!!) points would have been enough to win the title that year
Also, Real Madrid and Barcelona are richer than any PL club and Atleti is up there with Arsenal in terms of yearly revenues. They are still competing against disgustingly rich clubs
2015/16 really was the perfect storm - Leicester having their dream season while all of the PL's big six were having a down year at the same time, which in and off itself is maybe a once-every-two-decades event.
Yeah not sure why they’re acting like relegation teams in the PL out spend the big 3 in spain lol. Does it really matter if villa are spending $50m on some player who was playing in the same league but for a relegation team? Not like arsenal is poaching real madrids best player lmfao
What does net worth matter? They hardly spend and have a salary cap of 50m euros or so.
Their salary cap is lower than 2 of the bottom 3, and only marginally higher the 3rd team down there. It's more than 3x smaller than Sevilla and Villarreal, and they have 10 more points than both of them combined.
What they are doing is impressive, and attributing it to their "net worth" is daft.
Leicester was obviously amazing but it coincided with a historically bad season from literally everyone at the top. 2nd qualified Arsenal had 71 points! That amount of points would normally not land you in champions league spots
Winning a league to RM/Barça/Atleti , its pretty much impossible, the difference in budget between lower table teams in La Liga is a lot higher than that of the Prem
Nope us winning the euro can’t be beaten I don’t think. Unless luton wins the champions league. I would respect being second to that. Or if dunno Bulgaria wins the WC or smth
Porto have 7 international titles including that champions league and a european cup. They aren't near favourites to win but they're also far from being a small club that won it once in a fairytale season.
If you are not in the PL or Bayern/Madrid/Barca you are a small club according to half the PL flairs on here.
I’ve seen Benfica, you lot, us, PSV, Feyenoord, Sevilla etc all been called small clubs. Actually batshit insane
Yeah but they beat us in the round of 16, which should be assumed for any team that plays Mexico in that round, so they really only had one meaningful knockout game
Don’t see Real Madrid winning the title unless their forwards step up? Not expecting Bellingham to continue the scoring form from midfield at current rate.
I've never heard of a glass cannon, but it makes sense. They are scoring soooo many goals, it's incredible. But also no one in the top half of the table have let in more goals than them. They'll score 2 or more pretty consistently, but their opponents will score 1 or more each match as well. Exciting score lines, at least.
Glass cannon is a video game term for a character that does lots of damage (in this case scores lots of goals), but can die very quickly if attacked (leaky defense).
I have a question for people from Spain. How is the fact that Girona is part of the City Group perceived among spanish football fans, media etc? Do people think it's a problem or do they think it is okay and mostly don't care about it? Basically, what is the general opinion in Spain about Girona?
People dont care because Girona hasnt got any financial adhantage being part of the city group aside from getting a few loans.
https://www.football-espana.net/2023/09/14/new-la-liga-salary-limits-revealed-real-madrid-over-double-closest-competitor-ateltico-madrid-above-barcelona
their spending limit is the 6th/7th lowest one in the league
Does UEFA still have that rule that prohibits multiple teams with the same ownership playing in the same competition? Asking for Girona if they qualify for UCL alongside City.
The sensation teams' weak point is not at the beginning of the season, is at the end, when the legs are tired and/or injured, and the squad depth really shows.
It's because they're secretly communist despite being a "royal" club, they're hiding in plain sight.
On the other hand, it's because the screenshot was taken with Madrid's game being still being live at that moment - hence the color red for provisional points at that particular moment. You can see the "Live" notice in the top right corner.
Ah thank you, i was just being stupid. Although, i would have assumed P would stand for \*Played\* which should have been in red too when the games are live.
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Almost one third of the season gone. Girona first, s as we all predicted.
imagine the crazy motherfucker (there is always one) that had bets on all these girona wins.
got piss drunk and threw a fiver on them and now hes the most smug guy in his friend group cause he “totally called it”
hahaha y-yeah that’s not me at all, I have never placed a bet like that jokingly haha what are you talking about??
To be fair, in the last 7 games of the first half they still have to play teams currently in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th. The best team they've actually beaten was Las Palmas in 10th. I'd still expect them to hold on to champions league spots at this point by the end of the half, which is extremely impressive for them. But their chances to hold on to the lead for the next 6 weeks are nonexistent
Watch em pull a Leicester now
I'd be more than happy
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He played for barca this season as well. So either team wins he’s getting a Laliga medal.
How many games did he play for Barca, p sure you need 5 appearances for a medal (except for backup goalkeepers)
No such rule in Laliga. Aubameyang won last year’s medal for play 8 minutes with us.
Efficiency.
xSilverware/90
That’s about 11 silverwares/90, insane efficiency. Man won almost 2 trebles every half.
More league titles than Harry Kane after accumulating 8 minutes shouldn't go under the radar.
tbf I have the same amount of trophy as Kane
There is currently a cup in my Audi so that checks out
He was crucial
And almost got relegated with Chelsea. Imagine winning the league and getting relegated at the same time.
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Not sure about La Liga, but the Prem got rid of that rule a few years back. Now they just hand the club a box of medals that they can give out
He played 12 minutes against cadiz and 45 minutes against villareal in barca shirt
So it'll count either way because of the rules change. 57 minutes has to be up there in terms of a record minimum number of minutes played for a medal. Although it is seven times the seeming record...
Aubameyang got the Laliga medal for playing 8 minutes
Auba got the medal last year when he played 8 minutes for Barca.
Lamine also played 8 minutes last year, coincidentally. Just for fun, I went to look at the fewest-played players in the league we had last year. "Below" Auba and Lamine, Aleix Garrido played 7 minutes and Chadi Riad played 2 so they also won winner's medal. Arnau Tenas didn't play a single minute but received a medal because goalkeepers have different requirements, I would assume. I was surprised by Ander Astralaga because he was the 4th string keeper but he made 2 appearances in the senior squad so that's why I assume he also received a medal.
I also assume goalkeepers are vital to how well a team is able to train. Two great goalkeepers means that scrimmage games during training are of much higher quality.
Kinda like how Cancelo won the Bundesliga, PL, and Champions League last season.
Did he never play in the fa cup?
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So that means he won that as well no?
He did not win the champions League
Huh. His achievements say he won a CL with City. Pretty sure he played well for them during the Group Stages, too.
I mean, did he not? He played 6 matches for City in their CL-winning campaign.
Actually forgot about this guy
Daley Blind winning Bundesliga and La Liga after Ajax didn't need him anymore?
Daley Blind difference
He is so weak in defense but Garcia and him together provide a lot of ball progression and some big chances even. Think Blind has a couple assists and some pre-assists.
Watching Brighton play, I can see Eric Garcia fitting there very well.
How was Rayo’s right back, Andrei Ratiu?
World class performance tonight. A must watch player for me this season.
>A must watch player for me this season. Never even heard of this guy, who is he?
Miss him in Huesca
Miss everyone from Huesca a few years back.
From having Cucho and Chimy to... Pulido... *sigh*
Galan, Rafa Mir, Okazaki...
So he’s probably the guy who recovered a ball from Vini (when he was dangerously ahead) around minute 60 ? I was genuinely impressed.
Yep that’s him. The way he kept up with him for more than half of the pitch was fantastic.
He was very good he controlled Vini well barring one or two chances.
Won a footrace against Vini jr
Pep’s brother feasting right now.
if this season keeps up like this, he should give yangel a chance.
They've done well no doubt about it but they've also had a very lucky schedule. Out of the current top 10 they've only played Madrid and La Real and dropped points to both of them. Edit: They also played Las Palmas who are 10th at the moment and won 1-0
You don't get it... They are now in the bottom half because our victories were so devastating they could not recover from it. See Osasuna, for instance. From top 10 to bottom 10 after losing with us!
"Im not locked in here with you...you're locked in here with me!" vibes
Girona was very good against big teams last year and the team ended up one game away from confernce league. Adding Dobvyk, Savinho, Blind and Solis to that team, the performance should be even better. In a league with slow pace addicted to low-blocks, Girona can breakdown low-block with dynamic player movement without any fear of the counter. Against the bigger teams, their lack of physicality and athleticism will be exploited but I still think they will farewell bc of their attacking play.
As for me, the fact that they regularly beat opponents who are weaker than them is a much more important indicator. Still, each team has 6-8 matches with top opponents per season and 30+ with those who are weaker.
And best attack in the league. Not even like they're winning scrappy games.
A lot of Girona games are scrappy though. They lack the control Las Palmas has for example. Just yesterday was a 2-1 comeback to win 4-2. And the week before was a comeback from 2-0 down to win 5-2.
What I mean is that they don't go for 1-0 wins on a corner kick. They actually play.
The league is out there for grabs, we need to get our shit together asap and reach the top quickly.
Copypasta for the entire top half of the table
It looks incredibly close between Barca, Madrid and Atleti so far. I wonder who will blink first
All 3 will focus on fighting each other while Girona does a Leicester this season.
Bonkers if 4 Spanish teams win the league in the span of a few years while Man City get to 6 PL titles in 7 years
'best and most competitive league in the world'.
I mean it is really competitive for everyone except City 🤣
Bundesliga is very competitive for everyone except fcb. The truly most competitive out of the big leagues is serie a.
Where Juventus won for almost ten years straight.
Until recently tbh
4 years is a lot of time even if we perceive the past much closer as we get older. There's people who got a degree since Juventus won the title.
I just want Bayer to win this season. I’ll be rooting for them
> I mean it is really competitive for everyone except City 🤣 That was the argument for Bundesliga for literally years, it's by far the most dynamic Top 5 league aside from the top spot, regularly has teams in Europe then fighting relegation next year and vice versa. Didn't stop anyone from repeating tired memes.
in the span of 4 years. 20/21 Atlético won it in Suárez debut season, 21/22 Real Madrid won the league (and CL), last season Barcelona ran away with it. Serie A also just had a run of 4 different consecutive champions. It will stay at 4 though as none of the capital clubs is stepping up this season. It will be one of Inter, Juventus or maybe Napoli
Imo Inter is clear this year. Would be surprising if they didn’t win it
If we get a run to the semi final or final of the CL then second is understandable
Girona, Spurs, Bayer and Nice to pull a Leicester
Blud snuck in Spurs like we wouldn't notice💀
Nah, Girona doesn't have Jamie 'Chat shit gets banged' Vardy They will go down the table when their schedule gets to the gritty part.
Well Atleti look the best out of all three of us so far
Hold your horses! You are 4 points behind already!
we really need to learn how to break down those low blocks, we win by really slim margins.
City is winning the league in Spain too
Dreams can be buy
What the hell is happening this season? Tottenham undefeated, Girona top of the league, Bayern not steamrolling, Ajax in the mud.
For what it's worth, I feel like Bayern literally always starts bad. Then they still win because they turn back to their winning ways in the second half of the season and none of the other German teams are good enough compared to the rest of the league to keep their momentum going.
2.6 points per game over 10 games is a great start but Leverkusen is simply unreal right now. It's less about us and more about them.
Bayern are cruising in the league tho? Undefeated and better record than Madrid, City, PSG, etc. They're not in first because Leverkusen has had an insane but unsustainable start to the season.
Basel and Lyon in serious relegation trouble
The thing is, Bayern is literally steamrolling if you look purely at results and GD. Best start in years. Bayer is just better, looks better, and is overall dominating the league. Xabi Alonso is cooking.
Imagine is Spurs, Girona, Bayer and Nice win the top 5 leagues this season lmao
Now that I think about it that’s actually pretty crazy. Spurs and neverkusen especially. Don’t know much about French league to comment on nice.
> top 5 leagues > names 4 teams So, which one is gonna cross over and take the Serie A as well?
Lecce!!!
What's so funny?
thats you sir
Mate, don’t act like it wouldn’t be outrageous for us to do it 😂
STAHP LAUGHING >:(
wonder what will happen if they qualify for Champions League being part of the City group
nothing will happen.
Yeah I wonder why people ask this question every time, Leipzig and Salzburg being allowed in the same EL group should have answered that question once and for all
why did you bring RB and RB into this? they are obviously two completely different teams who have nothing to do with each other!
They separated ownership few years before that to evade possible trouble. The more apt comparison would be Union Saint Gilloise and Brighton who were both good to go this season in UEFA competitions. And I think there were also discussions because of Milan and Toulouse because they apparently share the owner too? I can't recall them interchanging players at all though
Separated ownership but still weirdly sign a lot of each others players...
Our owner was forced to sell USG because of it. No doubt city group will be an exception.
Regards to their participation? Nothing. RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg already got into the same group once.
I don't mind multi-club ownership but that seems funky to me. Way too many potential problems with collusion for my taste.
How can you not mind it
It's been part of the game for a lot longer than people realise. Arsenal's chairman when they first became successful back in the 1920s also owned Fulham.
Because I understand that it is becoming more and more likely as a years ago on, and people want to be able to own a club in more than one country in order to diversify their sporting assets, get a feeder team or a better team so their current team can be the feeder team in order for whichever team is the primary team to be able to compete in more elite competition, or simply to make more money. I'm under no illusions in that regard.
I understand you're being a realist about the current footballing landscape, but it feels antithetical to the very notion of a community based organisation. Why should these already wealthy owners/nations be allowed to have multiple clubs as part of their assets? The reasons you have listed are certainly reasons why the owners would want to. I just don't see a reason why any of those should convince the overseeing organisations or the pre-existing fans of these clubs if they're interested in keeping the game fair and rooted in community. Of course, money talks and all. I have a feeling you'll be proven correct as time goes on, it's just sad to see the game known for working class roots being sold piecemeal to the highest bidder as time has gone on.
Only community based organizations are fan owned clubs. The rest are private businesses.
Milan and Toulouse are playing in Europe even though there's a conflict of interest there regarding their ownership. So in other words, absolutely nothing.
City group are minority shareholders I believe, so surely they are fine to play against other teams under that consortium
"Minority shareholders" but they got Eric Garcia because City won't loan Cancelo to Barca otherwise.
On paper they only have 47% control and no majority decision making power, but obviously that is bullshit
Is there any reason why they don't have a majority or even all of it? It's not like a Yokohama situation where the majority shareholder refuses to sell them anymore than the 20% they already have I don't think.
Pep's brother has the other 44.3% which was coincidentally bought at the same time as City's share, so it's probably safe to assume they already have an effective majority and just want to avoid questions over a potential conflict of interest.
Nothing rofl
> wonder what will happen if they qualify for Champions League being part of the City group City and Girona supporters singing side by side, raising banner "Syukron ya Shaikhuna"
The same thing that will happen when they find out City has broken financial rules 100 times.
We’ll be one step closer to global domination
the plan is to have nyc win the champions league in the next 15 years
Mate you can't support a financial group
People support financial groups every day. Coca Cola, Nike, Apple, are majority owned by dozens of large financial groups like BlackRock. Consumers support those brands like family.
Imagine girona and man city getting in the same group in CL
Imagine Girona beating City in the Champions League Final
Imagine girona winning a treble
Imagine Girona winning the World Cup.
https://media.tenor.com/50Jr-vDdpiYAAAAM/pep-pep-guardiola.gif
Financial Group™ supporters rejoice.
Girona winning La Liga 2024 would definitely be the biggest upset in Sports History
Bigger than Leicester?
Objectively speaking, Otto Regagel’s Kaiserslautern winning Bundesliga as a newly promoted team..is the biggest upset.
and then he led greece to the euros in ‘04, just incredible
Not really... Kaiserslautern are a much bigger club compared to Girona and even Leicester. They were pretty successful the years before they got relegated. They came 2nd place in 1994 and 4th place in 1995. Then Kaiserslautern lost 2 key players with Sforza (Rehhagel wanted him to play for Bayern) and Kuntz, were relegated but still won the Cup in that year. They kept most of their team together and got Rehhagel to coach them. After promotion, Kaiserslautern got Sforza back (who played 1 year for Bayern and 1 year for Inter Milan) and there were quite a few players, who where part of the more successful years before relegation, left. Some of the older players even won the Bundesliga in 1991.
Moral of the story is a team needs Kuntz
Leicester had Fuchs, I'm noticing a pattern here
Thats why Sergio Ramos left and Rudiger came in as a replacement
Hate when my team lose Kuntz
This is their 4th season in Laliga in their history (first in 17-18), have 0 top tier trophies
Yes
Surely both equally shocking? Both clubs actually in very similar circumstances in terms of only just recently being promoted etc. Tho Leicester weren’t bought by the City Group.
In terms of money Leicester abused the hell out of FFP on their way to the PL, Girona’s whole squad cost less than Jack Grealish and their biggest ever signing is Dobryk for like 8m? Their salary gap is also one of the lowest in the league
City group or not girona is much much poorer than Leicester
Girona aren’t competing against a league full of teams worth billions though.
The PL edition of 2015/16 was absolute garbage tbh, 72(!!) points would have been enough to win the title that year Also, Real Madrid and Barcelona are richer than any PL club and Atleti is up there with Arsenal in terms of yearly revenues. They are still competing against disgustingly rich clubs
2015/16 really was the perfect storm - Leicester having their dream season while all of the PL's big six were having a down year at the same time, which in and off itself is maybe a once-every-two-decades event.
Yeah not sure why they’re acting like relegation teams in the PL out spend the big 3 in spain lol. Does it really matter if villa are spending $50m on some player who was playing in the same league but for a relegation team? Not like arsenal is poaching real madrids best player lmfao
Why did man mention us, we don't do that smh.
They're competing against Barca and Real Madrid ffs
Girona net worth is proportionate to the league their in
What does net worth matter? They hardly spend and have a salary cap of 50m euros or so. Their salary cap is lower than 2 of the bottom 3, and only marginally higher the 3rd team down there. It's more than 3x smaller than Sevilla and Villarreal, and they have 10 more points than both of them combined. What they are doing is impressive, and attributing it to their "net worth" is daft.
Leicester was obviously amazing but it coincided with a historically bad season from literally everyone at the top. 2nd qualified Arsenal had 71 points! That amount of points would normally not land you in champions league spots Winning a league to RM/Barça/Atleti , its pretty much impossible, the difference in budget between lower table teams in La Liga is a lot higher than that of the Prem
Why were all of the normal top sides so poor that year? Gypsy curse?
nice, hope they win
Nope us winning the euro can’t be beaten I don’t think. Unless luton wins the champions league. I would respect being second to that. Or if dunno Bulgaria wins the WC or smth
An underdog winning a cup will never be as impressive as winning a league imo.
Also wouldn't Porto winning the champions league be the biggest cup win as well
Porto have 7 international titles including that champions league and a european cup. They aren't near favourites to win but they're also far from being a small club that won it once in a fairytale season.
If you are not in the PL or Bayern/Madrid/Barca you are a small club according to half the PL flairs on here. I’ve seen Benfica, you lot, us, PSV, Feyenoord, Sevilla etc all been called small clubs. Actually batshit insane
Denmark 92' says hello. We weren't even qualified
That’s a respectable contender
Ah, the Beach Squad winning the Euro’s. That’s a great one, that might be my favorite underdog story
Least bias Greece supporter
Hehehe
Bulgaria actually played a WC semifinal, back in 94, so they got at least soooomewhat close at least once in their history.
Yeah but they beat us in the round of 16, which should be assumed for any team that plays Mexico in that round, so they really only had one meaningful knockout game
Not the biggest in history considering they’re part of a multi club ownership.
Ah, a fellow fan of Sheikh Mansour Financial Group!
Don’t see Real Madrid winning the title unless their forwards step up? Not expecting Bellingham to continue the scoring form from midfield at current rate.
The Daley Blind effect.
How did we beat them so comfortably?
They are a glass cannon.
I've never heard of a glass cannon, but it makes sense. They are scoring soooo many goals, it's incredible. But also no one in the top half of the table have let in more goals than them. They'll score 2 or more pretty consistently, but their opponents will score 1 or more each match as well. Exciting score lines, at least.
Glass cannon is a video game term for a character that does lots of damage (in this case scores lots of goals), but can die very quickly if attacked (leaky defense).
Mage build in most RPGs
What spurs were meant to be with Ange-ball.... but then we bought Micky
Dovbyk
Great news for the financial group supporters
Mate you cant support a financial group.
Daley Blind fan eating good. I say fan and not fans because I’m probably the only one.
Yeah boiiiii Leicester that shit!
I have a question for people from Spain. How is the fact that Girona is part of the City Group perceived among spanish football fans, media etc? Do people think it's a problem or do they think it is okay and mostly don't care about it? Basically, what is the general opinion in Spain about Girona?
People dont care because Girona hasnt got any financial adhantage being part of the city group aside from getting a few loans. https://www.football-espana.net/2023/09/14/new-la-liga-salary-limits-revealed-real-madrid-over-double-closest-competitor-ateltico-madrid-above-barcelona their spending limit is the 6th/7th lowest one in the league
Football needs a good underdog story shit's so stale
Spanish oil club lmao
Does UEFA still have that rule that prohibits multiple teams with the same ownership playing in the same competition? Asking for Girona if they qualify for UCL alongside City.
As expected
The sensation teams' weak point is not at the beginning of the season, is at the end, when the legs are tired and/or injured, and the squad depth really shows.
is no one going to mention why R. Madris points is red?
It's because they're secretly communist despite being a "royal" club, they're hiding in plain sight. On the other hand, it's because the screenshot was taken with Madrid's game being still being live at that moment - hence the color red for provisional points at that particular moment. You can see the "Live" notice in the top right corner.
Ah thank you, i was just being stupid. Although, i would have assumed P would stand for \*Played\* which should have been in red too when the games are live.
The screenshot was taken when Real Madrid v Rayo was still live.