Ligue 1 is on, PL back next week, let's goooo

LOL. Messi on a Discotheque of a team.

Anyway, Lukaku is on the way, so you mofos will be kneeling
again this year.


And you will not get invites this year.....



RIP Aston Villa....

Barca: The transfer of funds should hit your account now.


Messi (AT THA BANK AFTER THE NUMBERS DON'T CHANGE): https://gfycat.com/newhospitableeagle

https://twitter.com/verobrunati/status/1423758056794599429

man, gonna be weird when Ramos headbutts Messi in their first training.

.

if we get Messi+Ramos but lose Mbappé next summer then I can’t say it’ll have been worth it. And with a Neymar nearing 30 as our leader?*shudders*

Also that tweet looks like a random account, nothing official so far

More of that please.

first, and last, touches on a sweet team goal

https://shop.veneziafc.it/products/home-shirt-21-22

Seen a bunch of fire Kappa kits drop.

https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1425024189623422979

Not as fond of the homes (don't love the half-sleeves), but I'm sure they'll grow on me.

https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1424818765791907843

Bad look to start a season this uninspired against a promoted team. Still expect them to pull the 3pts back but whew

>Still expect them to pull the 3pts back but whew

and it never does

didnt realize the squad was in such a state today

i dont think Leeds has crossed midfield since ive put it on

Greenwood is absolutely brilliant in front of goal

went with Bamford instead l o l

That 6-2 last year could've been 4-4 on another day. This has been absolute domination. Leeds havent had a sniff all day.

Nathaniel’s younger brother. This is huge. We should have never sold Nate,
but at the time there was log jam at the MF position, and he wanted more PT.

Reece James is on the bench. Per Tuchel : “Trevor has forced his way into
our thinking.”

Shittt...That boy might be better than Nate.

Other than that, nothing too unusual about our lineup.

Werner has to prove he can finish this season. If not, there
is no place for him here.

Chelsea v. CP will be on peacock....SMH

>Chelsea v. CP will be on peacock....SMH

The cable-authentication/streaming hybrid model is lame af

I hate streaming stuff at times...it’s cool for Netflix and amazon, but for sports
I just want to flick the remote.

this current system frustrates everyone IMO. Really shouldnt be hard in 2021 to make games available on streaming while still having them on cable (that’s what the french channel I subscribe to does, praise the VPN gods). But if these providers cared about users we would know by now

I’m a minimalist, and pretty much calm with most things.

But this and family members (lol) have a way of making me
agitated.

Also, I’m a tech guy. But my screen just shows Netflix, Amazon and YouTube.
I deleted the rest of the apps from my TV.

Everything else is straight cable.

I know some people who got screwed during the Super Bowl, because they
cut the cord and went with CBS’ streaming app. The app experienced issues,
so the streaming kept shutting off.

>Werner has to prove he can finish this season. If not, there
>is no place for him here.

Good for Carabao games or something.

He will start regardless I believe. His speed and passing are crazy. Just
can’t score.

He will be on the left side of Lukaku, and probably play main striker
when Big Rom is resting.

Havertz is on the bench right now. In an opener.

So many YOUNG ass weapons. Shit is crazy.

Just to fawk with teams I would line up:

Werner - Lukaku- Ziyech

Mount -Havertz-Kante-Pulisic

Rudiger -Christensen- Chalobah

I dare you to stop our attack! Lol Nothing but speed.

Dude wasted no time. Position is his, period.

Teams will get smashed and eaten alive....no Mercy

3-nil. So far

Bailey was influential from the moment he came on, Traore played like he wanted to make Villa regret spending money on Buendia, and the fightback was at least a minor positive.

We get Dougie back from Olympic duty next week too, which will do wonders for our ability to build play.

didn’t expect he’d be integrated into the squad so seamlessly. He’s been there what, a week?

wasted what ended up being maybe city's best opportunity of the match by choosing to go down for a marginal foul near the 18 instead of being through on goal.

what a performance by Spurs.

Nuno is great, but its amazing how much better a side looks when Jose leaves.

after minimal contact.

it was nice to hear the bbc announcer come with the "the pot calling the kettle black."

hopefully the players will adjust quickly because the number of players who were just lightly tumbled over or whatever and went looking for the referee for a call that never came was just sad, but as a viewer it was great.

for headbutting his own teammate?

one of the weirdest things i've ever seen. gonna be a fun locker room i'm sure.

Pretty lively 1st half for a meaningless game.

Reus should have scored

i think a year w/o Sancho doing all the creating will push him out the door there. he looked so frustrated. still an animal though. Reyna is going to have to hit lightspeed on his development to complement Haaland/Reus

do we know his best position yet? does dortmund? seems like every time i put on a dortmund game he's in a different position.

*had it on in the background and wasn't totally focused so i could be wrong.

FILTHY goal from Ings. Douglas Luiz came in and settled the whole team down. Jacob Ramsey was fantastic. Great win with Watkins, Bailey and Traore all out.

Comfortably top 10, or more of a struggle?

But in reverse. I expect we’ll be pretty uneven as players find their feet early in the season and then have a hellacious run from like Boxing Day onward. So like 9th on 60 points.

games like these are why we cannot seriously compete. should be slinging southampton around like a ragdoll

they look utterly lost rn

Lukaku’s hold up play is that of Drogba’s and Diego’s.

And with the fast, technical play of the attacking players
around him, it’s just a matter of picking your poison on
who will score.

Just come on the pitch and assume the position.....meet your
doom and your death.

>Lukaku’s hold up play is that of Drogba’s and Diego’s.

PSV has been the better team for most of the tie, but that doesnt get you much.

Lot riding on this. Group stage this year, Madueke's and Gakpo's futures at PSV, and Netherlands (#7) stalking down Portugal (#6) in the FIFA rankings. If/when that flips,the Eredivisie will get 2 autobids to the group stage.

cmon peasants!

would be a nice feel-good to see him back in CL this year

Killa Cam Archer with a hat trick on his first start. Jadon Philogene-Bidace looks like he'll be some player. Yes, it's Barrow, but the kids all looked more than capable.

Just, top notch shithousery all around:

https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-you-may-have-missed-anwar-el-ghazis-outrageous-panenka-penalty-20210825

Referring to Mbappe and Bale
"If you agree to the specified price.. contact us..
Or complete the season with the golfer"

https://twitter.com/khm_althani/status/1430294877183565829?s=20

I'm fucking dead!

Harry was never in the game.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/25/pep-guardiola-reveals-manchester-city-departure-date-and-details-future-plans

https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-transfer-talk/story/4462024/transfer-talk-cristiano-ronaldos-agent-in-town-amid-manchester-city-links

If this happens, I'm going to roll my eyes so hard when he scores at Old Trafford and refuses to celebrate.

Ronaldo *has* to join City now, with City in the same group as PSG.

my only other thought: if Citeh do get Ronaldo, gonna be interesting to see he and Messi clash again.

and there's no smoke towards doing it.

plus all the people we still wont sell or just buyout & release, because we value them too highly and their wages are too high

not management.

At Chelsea, our management will not accept anything other than trophies,
good or bad. So Chelsea will fire every coach until they get the right coach.

And we truly have an academy that develops players...we don’t always keep them
but we develop them.

Shit, I never hear anything about MU’s academy.

He ain't gonna track back, I don't think.

and scored 36 goals in all comps last season?

uh, sure.

Over/under 20 this year.

Legacy intact
Boy these niggas found some money for Ronaldo real quick but crickets on a CDM

i really like dude. that said, i'd love to have another so Matic doesn't EVER have to see the field, and i realize there are better CDMs out there but i do thing McTominay is quite good and getting better.

Also he’s getting groin surgery so he’s about to be out for a bit. We don’t have to settle for “quite good and getting better”. We can aim for the top

he's like a lovable loser type, lol.

but, i do rate McTominay.

as you say though, definitely can't hurt to improve the squad and then there's the injury to factor in (fuck, i'm gonna have to see Matic on the pitch, huh *sobs quietly*)

You know what time it is.

You’re a good dude, so we will make it as painless
as possible.

Brace yourself!

10 reds under Arteta now. Not that it wouldve mattered for the result if he held himself back. But a full charge 2 footer like that is pretty cut and dry

>10 reds under Arteta now. Not that it wouldve mattered for
>the result if he held himself back. But a full charge 2 footer
>like that is pretty cut and dry

Clearly his hand was in a natural position.. it came off his thigh first.
His thigh stopped the ball first.

Focking ref didn’t even look at the monitor.

Dirty handballs only the start.

and then the ball hit his hand.

What are you talking about?

Ball went to his hand on the deflection.

You making shit up.

Ref looked at a fucking freeze frame. ..didn’t even study the
process of the act.

The act has to be deliberate...and it wasn’t.

cmon lol

Translation: go watch Serie A

If lukaku stays healthy, they win the league.

🤮

And we still got a point after that bum arse ref put us
down to 10 men.

Held off Liverpool for 45 mins!!

bless AWB for getting back to cover there

somebody tell this boy this is the EPL and you dont get 50 yds of space to ramp up. this shit where you get the ball, look up, see a defender and pass it back is ultra cowardly. Rashford does the same shit

somehow he's the only one that understands "get the ball and go" like how Ronaldo used to for us.

that'll go away tho

not only in his general peformance, but this guy passed the ball to Wolves MORE than a handful of times.

get it together bruh.

lucky to get the full points for sure.

but yeah, you was more than right. even McTominay IS the guy, we need ANOTHER guy cuz having to have Pogba play back just totally clogged up the whole ish.

what a fucking shitshow this summer, but a good landing spot for him and with Olmo, starting to pick Leipzig as my german squad, given the masia connections. and Gavi being promoted + 20 mil >>> Ilaix for the squad right now.

Had high hopes for Ilaix.

which, yes, get his salary off the books and just make the transition to the kids but also, goddam atletico would have just stolen money from barca.

AND to do it after messi was forced to leave? just ridiculous. the finances must be even shittier than we thought. insane.

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you think we playing chess, but i'm playing mad-making. Basaglia

But man, I would have loved to see Messi and Memphis together.
I've been seeing people talk about how Griezmann hasn't done a damn thing, looking lost on the pitch. And I just shake my head.

Both Emis are with the Argentine national team for the break despite Red Zone restrictions, so they'll miss the Chelsea game in isolation.

I like Jed Steer as a backup though, even if he is an order of magnitude not the keeper Martinez is. As far as Buendia goes, it's a shame he's going to continue to have a stop-start intro to his time at Villa, but I think we've got the depth to compete between Bailey becoming available, El Goalzi, and Jaden Philogene-Bidace.

You’re such a proactive guy.

Anyway, it will be like army ants at a picnic.

Red cards can’t even stop us.

What the fuck are we even doing right now?

Dest is so much better offensively and also seemed more willing to make a strategic foul. Emerson's good, but not a huge loss, imo, with Dest there and Minqueza able to play as back up RB(also, considering the forwards we've sold/loaned, I suspect koeman's going to use a 3-5-2 and/or 4-2-3-1 more). the club finances are obviously disasters and not being able to offload couts, umtiti and pjanic meant others needed to go just for finances, sadly.

but this + griez and letting messi go because of finances is a mess. how do you do this business in this order? couldn't you have done this and other moves earlier and kept messi? wtf?


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you think we playing chess, but i'm playing mad-making. Basaglia

and borderline insane that Real Madrid offered that for a 22 y/o whos going to come for free next year anyways

either PSG is INSANELY principled, or INSANELY rich, or both.

cuz you just gonna let homie walk and NOT get a quarter billion?

must be nice.

Keeping that squad together with Messi on top gives them the best chance at that, obviously.

If there's any justice in the world, they fail to win it again (sorry Benny), and they fail miserably hosting the WC in '22

>If there's any justice in the world, they fail to win it again
>(sorry Benny), and they fail miserably hosting the WC in '22

I still follow the team and will watch out of morbid curiosity (tho I was out on vacay the last 2 weeks and it was low-key great not watching/listening to any sports), but the more we go full Avengers the less invested I feel. Tbh I've started to watch Paris FC in Ligue 2, the level is clunky at times but it feels more genuine

since he can come as a free transfer next season.

Their concern is either Mbappe wins everything this year and loves playing with Messi and Neymar so much he re-signs, or when he hits the open market he gets his head turned by Juve, Liverpool, City, or even Bayern. By acting like they want to buy, they get to sit down with him and lay the groundwork, 5 months before any of those other clubs can (because they sure as shit weren't bidding). The risk is PSG calls their bluff, but they a) don't need the money and b) are desparate to win the Champions League.

man, everyone waited barca out and got people for CHEAP knowing how bad barca's situation was this year

(glad pjanic's out. overpaid and at best 5th midfielder on the roster. i hope he does well, always seemed decent just square peg, round hole for this barca)
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you think we playing chess, but i'm playing mad-making. Basaglia

You gotta wonder if we could have made these moves earlier... Pjanic, Griez, Emerson etc, could we have kept Leo

And the Son of Smut will kneel before me,
and all of Liverpool.

Red cards will not save you anymore. You will
kneel before the season is over with.

I promise you...

>And the Son of Smut will kneel before me,
>and all of Liverpool.
>
>Red cards will not save you anymore. You will
>kneel before the season is over with.
>
>I promise you...

I guess we are waiting for Rice next year? I think it's already in motion for us to get Haaland

the logic being we apparently have 6 people that can already play that position

never mind the fact that none of them do it at a top level

or the fact that after McT, Fred, Pogba and maaaybe Lindelof at a stretch , I can't imagine who are the other 2 people they think could do it.

but whatever. the plan is clearly to just put the ball in the net a lot. and we are more than capable of doing it. and winning the title this year. and we have the GOAT back. i cant wait to see how this season unfolds.

El Salvador is much improved and will be a tough out; I was impressed with them during the Gold Cup (nice comeback against Qatar, really could have tied if not for a barely offsides call, and also nearly drew against Mexico)

got the point, but it was just sloppy kickball for a lot of the game

One of the most average players to every rock the shirt. At least have blazing pace or be a crack shot. Dude is 6/10 at every part of the game

like dude is just a nothing burger as a manager.

yes, he got two trophies this summer. did he do that, or did the players do that. anyone coulda stood on the sidelines and let the kids do all the work.

shit, he didn't even pick the right players for these WCQs.

assuming Pulisic is back for Canada, it will provide some MUCH needed cutting edge you'd have to think.

last night was ugly.

Kid was a major part of Villa's FA Youth Cup win last season. Was brilliant against Barrow in the League Cup. Started in the 1-1 draw with Brighton and had a decent 60 mins. And now he's captained the England U-19s to a 2-0 win over Italy.

https://twitter.com/Chukwuemekaa10/status/1433720395534905352


Think we've got a player here.

did the damn thing for Belgium.

He should just leave Real Madrid. Systems all wrong for him.
He should have allowed the Juve loan to happen.

Dayuuuum.

Brazilian currency.
200m Euros.
237m USD.

Wild scenes when the Brasilian health officials bum-rushed the show to try to detain/deport the 4 Argentinian players who flew in from the UK.

At least Alves and Messi got to chop it up in the hallway during the shenanigans.

why didn't they just pull them from the game before it started? truly bizarre to run on the field after 5 minutes, as if they wanted to make a scene

as
>if they wanted to make a scene

Messi was caught on camera telling the refs something like "we've been here for three days"

Before he went off, Davies was roasting 2nd half, followed by Buchanan on the other wing

Sargent was a zero as a sub

but hey, he wears cool shoes.

...please, please, no.

I saw something about them considering it for the Women's World Cup, which everyone is pretty much against too. I get it a little in that case though only because it is so successful and a good way to keep eyes on it and try to grow it if a temporary thing maybe, but the seasons are still busy enough either way as is, and they need to leave room for other things to grow. Like yeah, now that I think about it, it reeks of them just trying to interrupt other competitions, club or countries, from making money lol.

https://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/football-news/sergio-busquets-against-biennial-fifa-world-cup-says-players-will-explode.html

"On the World Cup every two years, (the players) have little say on that (decision). We just see the calendar has become busier and busier, and they do not care about the players. They want more Euros, more World Cups, more club World Cups, more league games, more games for every competition. There will be a moment when the players will explode because the games are becoming more and more demanding and we have less time to rest. So it is so difficult to handle as we have seen recently with this pandemic, where some different competitions have clashed. All of this will bring some consequences, so it would be necessary to have a meeting and listen to all the parties."

read the L'Equipe interview where Wenger laid out his arguments and he kept claiming they wanted to do it to "improve football", not for money, and that it wouldn't increase the workload for players. Just unbridled gaslighting from start to finish. Also using the fact that 165 federations were in favor as a claim that it was a democratic move.

>read the L'Equipe interview where Wenger laid out his
>arguments and he kept claiming they wanted to do it to
>"improve football", not for money, and that it wouldn't
>increase the workload for players. Just unbridled gaslighting
>from start to finish. Also using the fact that 165 federations
>were in favor as a claim that it was a democratic move.

Obviously I'm biased towards him, but very disappointing.

apparently he broke the bubble one night by going out out. next night he had a girl come to the hotel.

no reyna, dest or weston tonight in a borderline must win after the loss at home on sunday.

wonder what it would take for berhalter to get the boot.

>wonder what it would take for berhalter to get the boot.

that was pitiful. I'm not even a soccer head and it was still upsetting to watch:

- the starting formation
- not being able to string together three passes in a row
- Pulisic running go routes and turning it over amid 4 defenders
- the zone defense after a turnover, where everyone marked a 5-yard circle of grass
- whatever TF Sands, Brooks and Sargent were doing, but it didn't look like soccer

also, McKennie isn't good enough to be acting that selfish. the US survived the first three games; we'll see if they are humbled and Gregg stops getting in their way.