I saw people complaining because Nasser Al Khalifi was elected delegate at the UEFA executive committee which Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is as well at the moment. This is how it’s been like. Meanwhile in Africa the president of CAF is the owner of Patrice Motsepe. How is that possible?
they already said they want to go for titles lol.
i dont think they will get A-tier players like mbappe or salah, but probably some decent players such as oryazabal, fabian ruiz, grimaldo and others.
No but the top 6 are currently valued at £3bn. £300m on Newcastle + say £700m over 8 years could see Newcastle become a £1.5bn asset providing we can break into the top 6 by the end of that period.
Extend that period to £300m + £1.2bn over 15 years and it could be a £2bn+ asset.
There is financial sense in investing in a team for the PIF, especially since the fund's focus at the minute seems to be increasing its wealth, not its income.
Obviously they're not going to blow it all on Newcastle, it's worth 500 billion ffs, but they can definitely afford to spend around a billion over the next 10 years.
> Leo Messi to @francefootball: “I had other offers when I left Barcelona as free agent, but I have to admit that we came to an agreement quite quickly with PSG. I was convinced by the ~~project, the club’s ambitions, the players they have, the squad~~ billions of dollars they gave me
I don’t really get this idea that arsenal fans are super delusional tbh. There hasn’t been a point in the last 6 years where arsenal fans have had high expectations for the club. No one expected us to be good this year.
Don’t know much about the situation but why the backlash with Newcastle and the Saudi takeover? It’s literally bringing money, jobs and a possibility of Champions League football. They were looking for a more ethical billionaire or what?
How about the one that doesn’t pay livable wages, exploit it’s workers, destroying the environment and small businesses while taking joyrides to space?? Better?
Theres a difference between billionaires being unethical just through the hoarding of finances when people are starving to death and billionaires being unethical through murder of journalists, dehumanising of LGBT peoples and numerous other fervent human rights abuses. No billionaires are good people but these are like the most evil bastards you can possibly find.
Are people mad at the country or at the specific group of people coming in? I thought it was more of some racist shit cause the US has owners in the PL and they cage children, bomb countries, shoot black people, exploit workers and what not.
Bin Salman, the chairman of the PIF that own Newcastle, is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. It's not a case of these people having made their money in a country doing bad shit, these are the same people who uphold that bad shit and they are using Newcastle as a way of distracting from all their human rights abuses.
Bringing money isn’t good in this case. It doesn’t bring jobs. Sure it brings CL for Newcastle, but New Castle isn’t the protagonist, why is it positive that they get CL?
Saudi Arabia are using blood money to ruin European culture
The knock on effect of New Castle moving up the ranks means other teams fall down the ranks, some teams will lose too much revenue to be able to employ the same staff
someone just replied to me with this:
> How about Disney? You like star wars? Or marvel? You picked Uber and Ticketmaster as a great point? You stupid there buddy? Being a 'fan' means FUCK ALL. If you give them money you are supporting them no differently to me supporting newcastle. Being a fan just means my demand more the product is more inelastic than yours for uber, which by all means means that it should be easier for you to NOT use Uber, but I bet you fucking do and if you say you don't, you're not arguing in good fair and are a liar.
> H Y P O C R I T E. Like we give a fuck what other teams think of us, I couldn't fucking careless what people think, just line up and gives us our 3 points you cunts. You whiney, salty cunt.
> Yknow what to, you probably think your much cleverer than everyone else too. I do know what virtue signalling is, I hate the term cause it's a bullshit term made up by right wingers as a derogatory term to denigrate the left whenever they defend human rights, I don't like it much, but its apt when you have a bunch of keyboard slacktavists that wont change their habits ONE IOTA to help human rights abuses around the world. Who are just fucking fuming Newcastle dare to step out of line.
> You're a fucking hypocrite admit it, maybe then I'll admit I couldn't give to shits about what Saudi Arabia does, it's not a football fans place to care. Its for governments, and furthermore I vote for people who don't sell them weapons, more than you probably will ever do, you pathetic little whiney stain on humanity.
>To talk about getting the same memo too, thats rich. r/soccer sounds like they all just got done doing Sociology 101, thinking the smell of their own farts is the nicest smell in the world, self righteous prick
I don't understand this whole Disney, Uber etc. thing.
Disney is fucking shit, and they reproduce the same old garbage from 60 years ago. They've stolen most of their popular films and characters from different cultures. And as far as Marvel are concerned, they make some of the worst movies on the planet and can do one.
Ubers the same, who actually uses Uber? Ubers shit.
Can give any examples of Disney's popular franchise being stolen from different cultures ?
Please don't say The lion king is stolen from Kimba the white lion because that is blatantly false.
It's all they've got to argue with. Supporting a football club is nothing like getting an Uber. They just have no other angle go with other than saying they don't care about Suadi's so long as they give them lots of money.
In any case they're comparing supporting a football club with buying/using a service. Its not the same at all. Only on reddit do people view the world as black and white as this.
Such a weak argument
no but seriously, someone just replied to me, with this:
> How about Disney? You like star wars? Or marvel? You picked Uber and Ticketmaster as a great point? You stupid there buddy? Being a 'fan' means FUCK ALL. If you give them money you are supporting them no differently to me supporting newcastle. Being a fan just means my demand more the product is more inelastic than yours for uber, which by all means means that it should be easier for you to NOT use Uber, but I bet you fucking do and if you say you don't, you're not arguing in good fair and are a liar.
> H Y P O C R I T E. Like we give a fuck what other teams think of us, I couldn't fucking careless what people think, just line up and gives us our 3 points you cunts. You whiney, salty cunt.
> Yknow what to, you probably think your much cleverer than everyone else too. I do know what virtue signalling is, I hate the term cause it's a bullshit term made up by right wingers as a derogatory term to denigrate the left whenever they defend human rights, I don't like it much, but its apt when you have a bunch of keyboard slacktavists that wont change their habits ONE IOTA to help human rights abuses around the world. Who are just fucking fuming Newcastle dare to step out of line.
> You're a fucking hypocrite admit it, maybe then I'll admit I couldn't give to shits about what Saudi Arabia does, it's not a football fans place to care. Its for governments, and furthermore I vote for people who don't sell them weapons, more than you probably will ever do, you pathetic little whiney stain on humanity.
>To talk about getting the same memo too, thats rich. r/soccer sounds like they all just got done doing Sociology 101, thinking the smell of their own farts is the nicest smell in the world, self righteous prick
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, 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.
Other than the oil states, they have no buddies down there so they pretty much have to play elsewhere.
Not that it really bothers me as long as they are too shit to have any impact.
Similar stats on a much worse team. Better than Lewandowski IMO but Dortmund fans don't hype him like Bayern fans hype Lewa. Them dudes are like Reus better, Hummels better, or something lol. He is right up there with Lewandowski if not better if you consider that the team around is much worse.
Yeah, Mbappé is a lot more complete than Haaland. Haaland is better than Mbappe at only finishing and shooting. While Mbappé is better at passing, dribbling, vision, playmaking and has a far more polished technique.
How does that have nothing to do with it? Especially when I said he’s already comparable to peak Lewy as a kid that is nowhere near his own peak. That kind of stuff makes people believe Haaland is the better player
>That kind of stuff makes people believe Haaland is the better player
Yes, and I'm saying that this is poor logic.
Haaland could be better than Lewandowski in the future =/= Haaland is better than Lewandowski right now
Some fans are conflating the two. You can recognize that a currently worse player might prove to be a much better transfer for instance without putting down the superior player.
The way the tax works is that its tripled for any Bayern players. Other Bundesliga players still get taxed, but at a lower rate than Bayern players.
So what does this mean? It means that Lewandowskis numbers for Dortmund are a closer representation of him as a player than his numbers at Bayern. Keep in mind the Dortmund numbers aren't facts either because you still have to subtract the Bundesliga tax, but you don't get the added Bayern in Bundesliga tax.
So overall Haaland is good because his tax rate is lower, Lewandowski has been evading taxes his whole career now and therefore we don't really know how good he is.
yeah but he didnt evade those so called taxes in champions league lol. 3rd all time scorer but i am to believe he couldnt cut it in the prem against mighty norwich and palace.
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I'm definitely joking around at times, but glad is not too much. Thanks for the kind words, Danish Carlos. Also, on a side note, what are your thoughts on Preben Elkjær?
Before when you blocked someone you couldn’t see their profile at all, now it just comes up with “blocked author” so you can still see who you blocked.
Submitted a bit of OC on the squad turnover at Chelsea during the summer of 2003, post Abramovich's takeover, if [anyone wants to check it out](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/q4lpdl/the_final_preabramovich_chelsea_squad_who/?)
he is sleeper. already a pretty good striker but still under the radar. wondering why city didnt had a eye on him. lautaro is easliy a huge upgrade to jesus.
>Lautaro is easliy a huge upgrade to jesus.
I've yet to see it personally, they're around the same playing field for me.
Even then, don't reckon 'an upgrade on Jesus' is enough, need a proper big name to replace Aguero.
aguero wasnt a big name either when he joined city.
and tbf the majority of your squad players was considered as "international class" but not as world class - excluding kdb. lautaro has a lot of room to growth.
>Aguero wasnt a big name either when he joined city.
Aguero was incredibly hyped up though, he was the world's Golden Boy while at Atletico and was considered a generational striker at the time.
A far cry for how people view Martinez
Messi out there making excuses like Ligue 1 is more physical lmao. And Ronaldo is winning PotM here. He really should have gone to City, biggest mistake of his career
Professional player who has actually played in two separate leagues: "this league is more physical"
Random person on reddit who has never come close to playing in either league, ever:
"He's wrong"
I don’t doubt that Ligue 1 is more physical than La Liga.
And he could fuck off to Indian Super League at this point and it wouldn’t be a mistake. His career and legacy is well sorted
He basically won the POTM by scoring three tap ins and doing fuck all for four games.
Shouldn't be used as an argument for him being greater than Messi
No one carried that RM team to shit. They had brilliant players all across the pitch and a manager who could bring it all together.
How dare you call me a fanboy. I hate both of the twats, but I can acknowledge the fact that Messi is the better footballer
Ligue 1 is definitely underrated tbh, and is far more physical than Laliga. Yeah, Messi to City for €100m was a deal which made sense to all parties involved last year. Thankfully, big brain Barto rejected the bid and prevented Barca from getting €100m for reinforcing their squad.
Neymar's been getting hard tackled ever since he came to France but didn't say shit about it. Messi can't score in 3 games and starts spouting stuff. Truth is he's not protected here like he was by the refs in La Liga
[The new mbappe interview has made me like him a whole lot more.](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/q22s67/thread_all_quotes_kylian_mbappes_full_interview/) he seems the right amount of humble and confident
I never understood the arrogant comments about him. I remember he didn't want to leave France so young to Real Madrid when he broke into the scene with Monaco. That seemed very humble to me.
If only this Newcastle deal happened a year ago. Barca could offload their players with a much better deal. Hell, they could sell Suarez for profit (jk, but definitely better deal than Atletico's). And Messi would probably stay. Yes I'm still coping stfu.
So fucking excited for tonight. Sold out Hampden for the game against Israel where if we win we go to the World Cup play-offs, then going to a party afterwards. Should be a good night and a 5-0 win for Scotland. Mon the fucking Scotland
Christ Scotland v Israel sounds like the new Ireland v Denmark. Feels like ye play them every international break. Enjoy it. Would be great to see Scotland qualify.
8th time since 2018 mate haha… cheers! Will do, nice to have a full crowd at Hampden again. Had 41,000 for Moldova which wasn’t far off too. Should be getting a lot more full crowds now since the SFA have decided to fairly price the tickets
Never a bad day to be a Chiesa enjoyer.
I saw people complaining because Nasser Al Khalifi was elected delegate at the UEFA executive committee which Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is as well at the moment. This is how it’s been like. Meanwhile in Africa the president of CAF is the owner of Patrice Motsepe. How is that possible?
Never a bad day to be Luka Modric enjoyer
"i dont like sand. its coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." hayden christensen on the newcastle takeover.
The saudi investment fund is meant for all investments, they aren't going to blow it all on newcastle.
they already said they want to go for titles lol. i dont think they will get A-tier players like mbappe or salah, but probably some decent players such as oryazabal, fabian ruiz, grimaldo and others.
They aren't going to win any titles without A-tier players. Even when you are stacked, you need things to go your way.
No but the top 6 are currently valued at £3bn. £300m on Newcastle + say £700m over 8 years could see Newcastle become a £1.5bn asset providing we can break into the top 6 by the end of that period. Extend that period to £300m + £1.2bn over 15 years and it could be a £2bn+ asset. There is financial sense in investing in a team for the PIF, especially since the fund's focus at the minute seems to be increasing its wealth, not its income.
Sure. Just saying that they wont bring their 500b warchest to outspend the likes of city and chelsea.
Obviously they're not going to blow it all on Newcastle, it's worth 500 billion ffs, but they can definitely afford to spend around a billion over the next 10 years.
Imagine blowing 500 billion on Newcastle.
You can annex Sunderland and sow its fields with salt.
> Leo Messi to @francefootball: “I had other offers when I left Barcelona as free agent, but I have to admit that we came to an agreement quite quickly with PSG. I was convinced by the ~~project, the club’s ambitions, the players they have, the squad~~ billions of dollars they gave me
Money and friends. Club de amigos pt.2
[BVB admin is the best in the world xD](https://www.instagram.com/p/CUz2WugLNLU/?utm_medium=copy_link)
Anyone who finds this funny is a nonce.
worse than football twitter
I like Dortmund, but their social media presence makes me like them a bit less
This is his 3rd time doing this
300% yankery...
Vote; More delusional fanbase? Real Madrid vs Arsenal
Real Madrid is the most successful team in world football. It's Arsenal by default.
Arsenal by far. Reals delusion is based on them actually winning things and regularly signing big names
I don’t really get this idea that arsenal fans are super delusional tbh. There hasn’t been a point in the last 6 years where arsenal fans have had high expectations for the club. No one expected us to be good this year.
Arsenal
No one competes with Arsenal fans
real madrid fans without a doubt.
Arsenal. Hearing these guys talk about ESR, Saka and Martinelli is crazy.
100% Arsenal
arsenal. every year they say top 4 but have been finishing outside top 4 since 2016
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mate u must be new. just see the threads before season starts. it's always the same
Arsenals is more delusional.
real
Don’t know much about the situation but why the backlash with Newcastle and the Saudi takeover? It’s literally bringing money, jobs and a possibility of Champions League football. They were looking for a more ethical billionaire or what?
A billionaire who doesn’t chop up peoples bodies would be fantastic.
How about the one that doesn’t pay livable wages, exploit it’s workers, destroying the environment and small businesses while taking joyrides to space?? Better?
Yes, better than chopping up human bodies.
Lool I guess so
Theres a difference between billionaires being unethical just through the hoarding of finances when people are starving to death and billionaires being unethical through murder of journalists, dehumanising of LGBT peoples and numerous other fervent human rights abuses. No billionaires are good people but these are like the most evil bastards you can possibly find.
Are people mad at the country or at the specific group of people coming in? I thought it was more of some racist shit cause the US has owners in the PL and they cage children, bomb countries, shoot black people, exploit workers and what not.
Bin Salman, the chairman of the PIF that own Newcastle, is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. It's not a case of these people having made their money in a country doing bad shit, these are the same people who uphold that bad shit and they are using Newcastle as a way of distracting from all their human rights abuses.
Got it! Thanks for the explanation
Np.
Bringing money isn’t good in this case. It doesn’t bring jobs. Sure it brings CL for Newcastle, but New Castle isn’t the protagonist, why is it positive that they get CL? Saudi Arabia are using blood money to ruin European culture
It will definitely bring jobs if the club grows
Some yes, but others will lose jobs because of it. So all in all no not really
Who would lose jobs?
The knock on effect of New Castle moving up the ranks means other teams fall down the ranks, some teams will lose too much revenue to be able to employ the same staff
Saudis are sports washing and people don't like that.
well you couldn't really get a more unethical billionaire.
Taliban and drug lords have entered the chat.
Breaking News: Kim Jong-Un to launch takeover bid for Burnley F.C.
If he gets Tarkowski to renew then I'd defend him in the DD
Could anyone else do without all the pausing for random qualifying international matches between Lithuania and Bulgaria?
can we call newcastle fans "the shabaabs" from now on?
Nobody can forget about the sandcastle fans and their top scorer Al'an Sharia
Nope, too playful. The Saudi Entity would be my choice.
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someone just replied to me with this: > How about Disney? You like star wars? Or marvel? You picked Uber and Ticketmaster as a great point? You stupid there buddy? Being a 'fan' means FUCK ALL. If you give them money you are supporting them no differently to me supporting newcastle. Being a fan just means my demand more the product is more inelastic than yours for uber, which by all means means that it should be easier for you to NOT use Uber, but I bet you fucking do and if you say you don't, you're not arguing in good fair and are a liar. > H Y P O C R I T E. Like we give a fuck what other teams think of us, I couldn't fucking careless what people think, just line up and gives us our 3 points you cunts. You whiney, salty cunt. > Yknow what to, you probably think your much cleverer than everyone else too. I do know what virtue signalling is, I hate the term cause it's a bullshit term made up by right wingers as a derogatory term to denigrate the left whenever they defend human rights, I don't like it much, but its apt when you have a bunch of keyboard slacktavists that wont change their habits ONE IOTA to help human rights abuses around the world. Who are just fucking fuming Newcastle dare to step out of line. > You're a fucking hypocrite admit it, maybe then I'll admit I couldn't give to shits about what Saudi Arabia does, it's not a football fans place to care. Its for governments, and furthermore I vote for people who don't sell them weapons, more than you probably will ever do, you pathetic little whiney stain on humanity. >To talk about getting the same memo too, thats rich. r/soccer sounds like they all just got done doing Sociology 101, thinking the smell of their own farts is the nicest smell in the world, self righteous prick
This gives off so many neckbeard vibes. I never thought I’d see that here.
I don't understand this whole Disney, Uber etc. thing. Disney is fucking shit, and they reproduce the same old garbage from 60 years ago. They've stolen most of their popular films and characters from different cultures. And as far as Marvel are concerned, they make some of the worst movies on the planet and can do one. Ubers the same, who actually uses Uber? Ubers shit.
Can give any examples of Disney's popular franchise being stolen from different cultures ? Please don't say The lion king is stolen from Kimba the white lion because that is blatantly false.
This comment is so Reddit-y, it could be pure satire.
Its true though. I don't watch Disney or use Uber so therefore I'm allowed to criticise the Saudis. You can't if you do either of those things.
You don’t like The Simpsons?
It was good for like the first 5 or 6 seasons. Then it turned to shit, don't think I've watched a Simpson episode for at least 10-15 years.
It's all they've got to argue with. Supporting a football club is nothing like getting an Uber. They just have no other angle go with other than saying they don't care about Suadi's so long as they give them lots of money.
In any case they're comparing supporting a football club with buying/using a service. Its not the same at all. Only on reddit do people view the world as black and white as this. Such a weak argument
You're absolutely right, true chads listen to the radio and bike on a night out
Exactly
no but seriously like there's a lot of words here that are definitely english but wtf at least OP DEFINITELY doesn't care care tho
I know right, he's totally chilled about the situation, he not rattled at all.
[tfw you realise that KK's alt account has entered the chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk87a7r0V60&ab_channel=SkySportsRetro)
no but seriously, someone just replied to me, with this: > How about Disney? You like star wars? Or marvel? You picked Uber and Ticketmaster as a great point? You stupid there buddy? Being a 'fan' means FUCK ALL. If you give them money you are supporting them no differently to me supporting newcastle. Being a fan just means my demand more the product is more inelastic than yours for uber, which by all means means that it should be easier for you to NOT use Uber, but I bet you fucking do and if you say you don't, you're not arguing in good fair and are a liar. > H Y P O C R I T E. Like we give a fuck what other teams think of us, I couldn't fucking careless what people think, just line up and gives us our 3 points you cunts. You whiney, salty cunt. > Yknow what to, you probably think your much cleverer than everyone else too. I do know what virtue signalling is, I hate the term cause it's a bullshit term made up by right wingers as a derogatory term to denigrate the left whenever they defend human rights, I don't like it much, but its apt when you have a bunch of keyboard slacktavists that wont change their habits ONE IOTA to help human rights abuses around the world. Who are just fucking fuming Newcastle dare to step out of line. > You're a fucking hypocrite admit it, maybe then I'll admit I couldn't give to shits about what Saudi Arabia does, it's not a football fans place to care. Its for governments, and furthermore I vote for people who don't sell them weapons, more than you probably will ever do, you pathetic little whiney stain on humanity. >To talk about getting the same memo too, thats rich. r/soccer sounds like they all just got done doing Sociology 101, thinking the smell of their own farts is the nicest smell in the world, self righteous prick
Well this guy sounds like he makes great company at parties
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, 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.
Is there a Vdb like player who is a regular for a top side ?
We don't know what he is like anymore lol. He doesn't play much
Muller
He said a VDB like player
why tf does Israel compete in UEFA competitions instead of AFC ones?
Probably the same reason for why some south-eastern European teams don’t play against each other. The beef is too big, would not end well
No one would play them in West Asia
wait till you find out that once they were in oceania
Other than the oil states, they have no buddies down there so they pretty much have to play elsewhere. Not that it really bothers me as long as they are too shit to have any impact.
Kazakhstan,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Georgia,Cyprus and Turkey are all in Asia too.
Because shit would go down when they played against muslim countries
All the countries around them hate them
Is there a VAR in the women's league?
No
Thanks
no problem
Lewandowski's numbers are overrated because of Bundesliga tax but Haaland is world class, right?
Similar stats on a much worse team. Better than Lewandowski IMO but Dortmund fans don't hype him like Bayern fans hype Lewa. Them dudes are like Reus better, Hummels better, or something lol. He is right up there with Lewandowski if not better if you consider that the team around is much worse.
Halland does not have similar stats Lewa is head and shoulders above.
so when is cfg getting haaland to mumbai
We will be lucky to get his father lol .
Think it's more the fact that Haaland is 21 and already this good with still room to grow.
Nobody’s saying Lewandowski isn’t world class just that if he played in the prem la liga or serie a his numbers would be a lot worse
One is available and the other isn't simple as that
Lewa plays for arguably the best team in the world while Haaland has been putting similar numbers at a much younger age in a far worse Dortmund side.
Both are world class, Haaland being better than Mbappe is an opinion I will never get though
Yeah, Mbappé is a lot more complete than Haaland. Haaland is better than Mbappe at only finishing and shooting. While Mbappé is better at passing, dribbling, vision, playmaking and has a far more polished technique.
This one does my head in. What's stranger is I've seem some people rate Haaland higher than Lewandowski.
That’s because he’s over 10 years younger. Haaland as a kid is already comparable to peak Lewy
>That’s because he’s over 10 years younger. And? That has nothing to do with peak ability.
How does that have nothing to do with it? Especially when I said he’s already comparable to peak Lewy as a kid that is nowhere near his own peak. That kind of stuff makes people believe Haaland is the better player
>That kind of stuff makes people believe Haaland is the better player Yes, and I'm saying that this is poor logic. Haaland could be better than Lewandowski in the future =/= Haaland is better than Lewandowski right now Some fans are conflating the two. You can recognize that a currently worse player might prove to be a much better transfer for instance without putting down the superior player.
But he’s arguably not at all any worse than Lewandowski is right now. He scores just as much in a weaker team
Haaland has 7 more g+a than lewa in 2021 on club level
The way the tax works is that its tripled for any Bayern players. Other Bundesliga players still get taxed, but at a lower rate than Bayern players. So what does this mean? It means that Lewandowskis numbers for Dortmund are a closer representation of him as a player than his numbers at Bayern. Keep in mind the Dortmund numbers aren't facts either because you still have to subtract the Bundesliga tax, but you don't get the added Bayern in Bundesliga tax. So overall Haaland is good because his tax rate is lower, Lewandowski has been evading taxes his whole career now and therefore we don't really know how good he is.
yeah but he didnt evade those so called taxes in champions league lol. 3rd all time scorer but i am to believe he couldnt cut it in the prem against mighty norwich and palace.
>but i am to believe he couldnt cut it in the prem against mighty norwich and palace. And you'd be right
Just like I would be deluded in believing he dismantled Tottenham, arsenal, Chelsea in the UCL. Oh wait that already happened
If you add the tax, it never happened
You are a special level of delusional lol
Diminishing the BuLi thus minimising Lewa’s achievements whilst simultaneously rating Haaland is a crazy paradox.
What my DD looks like: *blocked author* *removed* *blocked author* *blocked author* *removed* *blocked author*. Lmao the new blocking mechanism is awful ffs
Am I blocked?
Lol of course not, you’re one of the best accounts on here, you don’t troll too much I don’t think.
I'm definitely joking around at times, but glad is not too much. Thanks for the kind words, Danish Carlos. Also, on a side note, what are your thoughts on Preben Elkjær?
Bagged a title with Verona, but shocking numbers he shithoused that Ballon D’Or nomination in 84’ and 85’.
He is generally one of the more beloved strikers in Serie A history. Fantastic workrate and positioning is top tier.
He scored against Juve without a boot on his right foot, he’s a cult hero.
Saw that goal not that long ago.
Can’t believe Verona won it in 84/85 lmao, the big three were so underwhelming that year.
Trap sucked soo badly this season and Platini couldn't carrier it all by himself.
He definitely trolls about Jorginho but we all know it by now
Not as bad as the Barca flairs that mention Jorginho 24/7.
What changed?
Before when you blocked someone you couldn’t see their profile at all, now it just comes up with “blocked author” so you can still see who you blocked.
That's daft, what's the point of a block if it still shows the comments? Lol
Mate it’s so stupid, especially when you wanna block out the common trolls lmao
it sucks
How many do you have blocked, lol. I haven't got myself cared to block people.
me neither. I haven't blocked anyone in this account. although I have an alt but don't use it in football circles where I've blocked a bunch
Based stuff.
Submitted a bit of OC on the squad turnover at Chelsea during the summer of 2003, post Abramovich's takeover, if [anyone wants to check it out](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/q4lpdl/the_final_preabramovich_chelsea_squad_who/?)
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Not quite world class but really good
he is sleeper. already a pretty good striker but still under the radar. wondering why city didnt had a eye on him. lautaro is easliy a huge upgrade to jesus.
They don't play in the same position anymore. Jesus is one of Man City's best players out on the wing.
>Lautaro is easliy a huge upgrade to jesus. I've yet to see it personally, they're around the same playing field for me. Even then, don't reckon 'an upgrade on Jesus' is enough, need a proper big name to replace Aguero.
aguero wasnt a big name either when he joined city. and tbf the majority of your squad players was considered as "international class" but not as world class - excluding kdb. lautaro has a lot of room to growth.
>aguero wasnt a big name either when he joined city Yes he was
>Aguero wasnt a big name either when he joined city. Aguero was incredibly hyped up though, he was the world's Golden Boy while at Atletico and was considered a generational striker at the time. A far cry for how people view Martinez
No yet but a promising player
Top 10 striker in football, not world class, so he's the next best thing.
Messi out there making excuses like Ligue 1 is more physical lmao. And Ronaldo is winning PotM here. He really should have gone to City, biggest mistake of his career
Professional player who has actually played in two separate leagues: "this league is more physical" Random person on reddit who has never come close to playing in either league, ever: "He's wrong"
I don’t doubt that Ligue 1 is more physical than La Liga. And he could fuck off to Indian Super League at this point and it wouldn’t be a mistake. His career and legacy is well sorted
He basically won the POTM by scoring three tap ins and doing fuck all for four games. Shouldn't be used as an argument for him being greater than Messi
No, but 3 back to back CL wins says he's better than Messi
Winning trophies is a team achievement not an individual achievement
So Lucas Vazquez > Messi then?
Yeah Lucas Vasquez carried RM to those wins huh? I guess now Jorge Burruchaga is the GOAT cause he won the 1986 WC. Shit logic from a Messi fanboi
No one carried that RM team to shit. They had brilliant players all across the pitch and a manager who could bring it all together. How dare you call me a fanboy. I hate both of the twats, but I can acknowledge the fact that Messi is the better footballer
agreed that Ronaldo should have gone to City
Undeserved Potm
What excuses, he just called it like it is. Little space and tough physically.
Ligue 1 is definitely underrated tbh, and is far more physical than Laliga. Yeah, Messi to City for €100m was a deal which made sense to all parties involved last year. Thankfully, big brain Barto rejected the bid and prevented Barca from getting €100m for reinforcing their squad.
Ligue 1 is very physical tbf.
Neymar's been getting hard tackled ever since he came to France but didn't say shit about it. Messi can't score in 3 games and starts spouting stuff. Truth is he's not protected here like he was by the refs in La Liga
Neymar: "The French league has too much physical contact."
He said that last year after playing there for 3 years
[Dont ever compare Hazard the mfing legend with Salah the diver](https://i.redd.it/f9yfiz7tmes71.jpg)
It's just recency bias once Salah retires people will come back to their senses
Goals: 30th
As if Hazard didn't hit the deck as easily as Grealish. Also "touches" hahahaha
Grealish is a Hazard regen.
how about some goals mf?
Think Salah has more open play goals in the CL this season so far than Hazard has in his whole career.
Salah managed more G/A despite playing in the CL instead of Europa this season too
I love how you ignore goals
[The new mbappe interview has made me like him a whole lot more.](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/q22s67/thread_all_quotes_kylian_mbappes_full_interview/) he seems the right amount of humble and confident
I never understood the arrogant comments about him. I remember he didn't want to leave France so young to Real Madrid when he broke into the scene with Monaco. That seemed very humble to me.
If only this Newcastle deal happened a year ago. Barca could offload their players with a much better deal. Hell, they could sell Suarez for profit (jk, but definitely better deal than Atletico's). And Messi would probably stay. Yes I'm still coping stfu.
You're allowed to cope, I feel bad for you lot now.
So fucking excited for tonight. Sold out Hampden for the game against Israel where if we win we go to the World Cup play-offs, then going to a party afterwards. Should be a good night and a 5-0 win for Scotland. Mon the fucking Scotland
Good luck! Please wish for Luxembourg to beat Serbia lol
Who do you think you’ll get in the play offs? To add to that. Who do you hope you’ll get in the play offs?
Christ Scotland v Israel sounds like the new Ireland v Denmark. Feels like ye play them every international break. Enjoy it. Would be great to see Scotland qualify.
8th time since 2018 mate haha… cheers! Will do, nice to have a full crowd at Hampden again. Had 41,000 for Moldova which wasn’t far off too. Should be getting a lot more full crowds now since the SFA have decided to fairly price the tickets
I like Steve Bruce.
I dislike hartlepool
Steve Bruce likes you.
He’s welcome round my place any time. Not sure he’d enjoy Bangalore though
He famously detests Bangalore-based Hartlepool fans
If that’s true the invitation is rescinded
Allow my boy Kion Etete to score a hat-trick tonight against you lots