WC draw starting in 5mins

tho I guess he got some good practice with those booking.com ads

...I've just got the Guardian's blog up. Seems less icky.

gonna go ahead and assume a draw against england will be crucial.

>gonna go ahead and assume a draw against england will be
>crucial.

Because I'd assume that England will shred the US. Also assume that the US can handle Iran and probably get the job done against whichever playoff winner. And if not, then they don't deserve to move on....

IF fully healthy they are intriguing on paper.

I just don't trust their MLS lifer manager.

...are more realistic goals than a draw v. England. But who knows?

i think Euro proved that they arent even going to try to do that

maybe spain/germany/japan? portugal/ghana/uruguay also could be, but all of those teams are not as good as prior gens.

FIFA and UEFA have clearly shown they want more and more teams involved in these competitions, and with the way these instances are set up, it makes sense that more countries would support an agenda that gets them in the draw. This can only dilute the group stages, and in fact a friend of mine is pointing out that even the Round of 16 won't feel like a massive game in most cases, with the real deal starting in the Quarters. I support a so-called big team (and better football in general) so of course I'd be annoyed about it, but this is the way things are going and there's not too much that can be done about it

Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Netherlands, Senegal

Group B: England, Iran, USA, Scotland/Wales/Ukraine

Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland

Group D: France, UAE/Australia/Peru, Denmark, Tunisia

Group E: Spain, Costa Rica/New Zealand, Germany, Japan

Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia

Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon

Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea

Making Wolves look like City.

https://twitter.com/thehollowhorn/status/1510289921801703430

the European charge is over. Looks like another summer of regenerating starting with locking down Coutinho and spending way too much on a holding midfielder(unless Nakamba continues to look like prime Vieira under Gerrard when he gets back-- and yes, I know that's the fourth summer running. That's what happens when you take over from a clown car and have jumped up 28-30 league positions in three years)

It kills club chemistry. Players who report for national team duty come back
fatigued, and players who are inactive come back a little rusty.

Chelsea were all over the place against a bottom dweller.

Thank the mighty skylord that the season is almost over with.

Let’s wrap up the season by winning the CL.

Villa doing its yearly middle table clinch! Sup, Magilla

And with a game in hand. I don't think anyone saw this coming when Xavi took over. We were in 9th at that point. Currently 14 games unbeaten, the longest streak in Europe right now. If Madrid hits a bad spell, we could even catch them. Not betting on that happening, but a few months ago, it was outside the realm of possibility. Now, it's unlikely, but not unthinkable.

And Pedri's goal yesterday was a thing of beauty.
Pedri Potter indeed.

And then show me where I said Barça would win La Liga.
Ain't you say we were gonna finish 4th?

And I’m glad we are on the same page.

Also, I said 4th or 3rd.

Chelsea has success almost every year due to a plethora of
talented players. The success of Barca for the past two decades was
due to a system built around Messi. Now that he is gone we will
see If Barca deserves to be in the same universe as Real Madrid.


Pedro/ Fabregas came to Chelsea and went to a whole other level.

You got some talented prospects paired with MU and Arsenal rejects.
Im not sure that spells glory.

I mean no harm, just stating facts.

Success almost every year huh? Let's see... they last won the EPL in 2017. They won it in 2015. And before that... 2010. That's "almost every year" in your estimation? Not winning for 5 year is "almost every year?"

Due to a system built around Messi. Hmm... no mention of having arguably the best midfield ever? No mention of the coaching? No mention of talents like Suarez, Neymar, Villa, Henry or even Pedro?

Same Pedro went to a "whole other level" with Chelsea despite scoring, in his best season with them, a whole 10 goals less than his best season with Barça? Fascinating.

MU and Arsenal rejects. Hm. You're describing a whopping two players. One of whom, Arsenal would have gladly kept, if he had actually wanted to be there. He forced his way out. We all know that. And referencing Man U when talking about Memphis is going back as long as it's been since Chelsea's last EPL title. And it's ignoring his entire spell at Lyon, where he outscored Pedro's best season with Chelsea. Not only that, over that period, there isn't a single Chelsea player that had a better single season goal haul. Not even your beloved Hazard.
But if that's really the route you wanna go... you've got a squad of Man U and PSG rejects yourself. If that's the route you wanna go.

Just stating facts.

So again. What place is Chelsea in?

Chelsea wins a trophy almost every year, and the world didn’t really know
who Pedro was until he came to Chelsea. He was living under Messi’s shadow
in Barcelona.

We are champions of the world right now. No one is thinking about
Barcelona.


I wish you well though.

from Alves to Pique to Suarez to Neymar, etc. There is no denying that.

However, it was all built around Messi, and he outshined his teammates.

The last time Barcelona won the CL was in 2015. Since then, Real Madrid
has won 4, and Chelsea won last season and might win another one this
season.

Smarten up, fam.

Anyway, did you cry when this happened? I was on hiatus from the board in 2012.
What were your feelings like on that day?


https://youtu.be/RjML0SxBshI

"the world didn't know Pedro"
No. You didn't know Pedro.
He scored a goal in the fucking Champions League final against Man U with Barceona.
The world knew him.
You didn't.

The guardian did a article on how Pedro was under appreciated in Barcelona ,
even though he was doing great things.

He came to Chelsea and was treated like a God. Dude became a legend
in less than 3 seasons.

He was not appreciated or recognized the way he should have been when he
was in La Liga.....


“And yet those expectations remain surprisingly low. While Catalonia might be talking seriously about Pedro, it can feel as though few others are. Beyond Barcelona there is still an assumption that he is one of few players in the Barça team who is not really that good.

Pedro denies it publicly, but others insist that during the clásico Cristiano Ronaldo looked at him and said: "And who are you?" Even if the story is apocryphal – and it may be – it says something. Others would ask the same thing. When Fernando Torres left Liverpool for Chelsea, many wondered why he did not hang on for a bid from Barcelona. The answer was simple: there would not be one, because of Pedro.“


https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/feb/12/pedro-barcelona-pep-guardiola

Dembele finally healthy for a stretch and on fire

the kids with moments of brilliance (that Pedri goal)

Xavi caught that magic again

I can’t wait til he eventually takes over arsenal . It’s destiny imo

As for today, Tavares clearly wasn’t ready, nor was gabriel ready to help him either

Goddamn shame Gallagher is Chelsea property

that Abramovich shouldn’t have been sanctioned, and Abramovich is part
of the peace talks team that has been trying to broker an agreement
between Russia and Ukraine to stop the war.

Chelsea fans are in the streets protesting against the Ricketts family because they
don’t want the family to have ownership of the club. I’m in agreement with the protest.

Want that blood money flowing again.

those back-to-back counters from Real, mamma mia

Benzema's link up play on the first goal was nuts!
And the placement of his header on the second!

And lol at Mendy on the third. Yikes bro.

https://twitter.com/lmechegaray/status/1511803573612519424

...of the disintegration and eventual collapse/relegation of Chelsea FC, but I maintain that the rot predates that event, all the way back to the dismissal of national hero Lampard.

This is Chelsea, not Arsenal or MU. As long as Marina and Cech are there,
we are good. Marina for the business dealings, and Cech for the football scouting.

Even if there is a complete overhaul, Chelsea will not fall to the relegation zone.

Chelsea fans are way too demanding. They will no sit around like
Arsenal and MU fans and watch their teams go to shite.

>...of the disintegration and eventual collapse/relegation of
>Chelsea FC, but I maintain that the rot predates that event,
>all the way back to the dismissal of national hero Lampard.

Between the CL win, & lampard floundering trying to keep Everton up, it’s clear he’s not built for it

This is of no relevance to your aim, but unless Marina goes, nothing changes with Chelsea, even with a new owner.

They'll be fine. Prolly thrive to be honest, given the platform abramovich built.

Meanwhile Marina is obviously the best football exec in the game, other than *maybe* begiristain. I don't give AF what Cech does. The scouts all answer to her.

*This* is why I want her deported, preferably to Canada for her own safety.

If she leaves, it'll be like Tywin Lannister dying

Marina the best at a high spending club, but what Monchi has done to make Sevilla compete with the bigger clubs on his budget? shit. it's fucking impressive.

>Marina the best at a high spending club, but what Monchi has
>done to make Sevilla compete with the bigger clubs on his
>budget? shit. it's fucking impressive.

I'm still annoyed he passed on that, tho he prolly figured anything post wenger was going to be a mess too big to fix quickly, and more importantly he wouldn't get the time to do it right.


I don't deny he's excellent. I'd *easily* take him over everyone arsenal has had since david dein, to state the obvious.

>>Marina the best at a high spending club, but what Monchi
>has
>>done to make Sevilla compete with the bigger clubs on his
>>budget? shit. it's fucking impressive.
>
>I'm still annoyed he passed on that, tho he prolly figured
>anything post wenger was going to be a mess too big to fix
>quickly, and more importantly he wouldn't get the time to do
>it right.

exactly what was happening at Roma, i think, in his mind. he built a team of youth and veterans and wanted to have 3-4 years to see the youth grow up and he didn't have the time. people are so focused on his youth signings and development, they don't see his history of also buying a bunch of solid veterans as a stable core. he's also definitely better with a limited budget, his bigger money signings at roma weren't that good.


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

He opted to rebuild what had been a pretty damn successful core, and not only got that wrong but huge $$$ on the likes of Schick, N'Zonzi, Pastore, Kluivert, etc... just woeful. And as usual all this happening within the complete insanity that is Rome didn't help.

Glad he got to get back to Sevilla, which is clearly the right environment for him.

She tried, and failed at that. That’s why Michael Emanelo left. She was interfering
with his job. and we went through sort of a 2 year funk under Sarri....

Cech knows talent and is responsible for the success of this team...
Mendy was his find.

Marina knows BUSINESS and FINANCE....She doesn’t know shit
about football talent. Players come to Chelsea because of Tuchel and
Cech.

Marina was a genius at getting Chelsea in compliance with FFP and
brokering great transfer deals to make Chelsea self sufficient.....That’s
her stuff.

>They'll be fine. Prolly thrive to be honest, given the
>platform abramovich built.

Maybe, except that platform ran at a massive annual loss most years...

Magilla and I go back and forth talking crap, same with Hitoriki,etc
It’s all banter. That goes for Promo, Brooklyn and all them other wack ass
MU supporters. We’ve been crap talking as far back as 2009..

However, they actually have teams that they follow. I follow a team.

Seriously, what team do you follow?

You’ can’t talk shit about someone’s club and not have one that you follow.

Chelsea annual spending far exceeds its revenue, and to maintain its top-4 status Abramovich "loaned" it hundreds of millions of pounds annually. If a new owner was unwilling to do that, perhaps insisting that the club broke even, became self-sustaining, the club would have much less money at its disposal. This is well-known, so I don't know what you're upset about.

>Seriously, what team do you follow?

Solihull Moors. They really needed the win Tuesday v. Halifax, but I still think they can just about squeeze into a playoff slot, if Halifax keep dropping points. Wrexham is catch-able too, though they've been on a tear and have a game in hand. Barnet coming up on Saturday, and while that should be a win, you can't take them lightly.

Chelsea has been FFP compliant since 2014, and the money that
Abramovich loaned Chelsea was prior. Chelsea is sitting on a surplus
of revenue, due to funds that were generated from the sale of players
such as Morata, Hazard, and Luiz ( got 50 million from PSG....then brought
him back for 30 million a few years later...a 20 million dollar profit)

Hell, Chelsea made 200 million in 3 seasons just by selling
small time players. Chelsea got over 50 million for Zappacosta and
Drinkwater. Suckered MU to give us 40 million for Matic. Sold
Tammy to Roma for close to 40 million. Sold Tomori to Milan
for 26 million.

https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/transfer-news/uk-premier-league/2021/08/chelsea-set-make-120m-player-sales-this-summer

We are possibly the biggest selling club in all
of soccer.

Plus you throw in the enormous soccer kit deal with Nike, and the sponsorship
deal with 3 is a pretty huge deal as well. Chelsea’s revenue generation far exceeds
their spending.

All the new owner has to do is come in and make appearances, the foundation is
healthy and set.


Also, the teams you mentioned, you can keep them shits. I should have never
asked. I’ll take the L for that.

Head to head with Wrexham, to draw level on points. Wrexham still have the game in hand, but obviously this is a must-win. Halifax have Altrincham, so no help there.

Chesterfield still a factor, but their form's been spotty. They'd have to run the table, really.

Solihull's BIG Villa territory

Per what I read on the Wikipedia page. Be a good place to visit someday. Plus, it produced Napalm Death, which is all the trivia I need to invent a temporary fandom.

And I actually did take the Moors all the way to the Premier League in FM a few years ago. Took like 9 seasons, and then we didn't have the infrastructure to stay there, really, so I abandoned that game.

2 goals on the road.

I had two issues with Tuchel’s lineup. He left out Alonzo and went with
an old AZP at left wingback, and Pulisic is better coming off the bench.

Alonso provides great attacking ability, even though he sucks defensively.
AZP is more defensive and is too old at this point.

I’m not mad at Mendy. Dude has been a beast for both club and
country, and is probably still tired from being on national duty.

We will make the adjustments.

An argument can be made that Benzo is the best striker in the world....Barcelona can
attest to that ( lol).

there have been other players who have maintained a high level of performance well into their mid-30s, but this dude is actually IMPROVING his game

Leading RM through the CL as the prospective Balon D'Or favorite?

Quite a vibe.

so it's now only this season and the WC will be in the 2023 one.

figure its going to be whomever of lewa/benz gets farthest in the euro and wtf happened to bayern yesterday?
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you think we playing chess, but i'm playing mad-making. Basaglia

He is a blue through and through, came up through the academy.
We’re bringing him back home.

It’s time to move on from Kante.

Cause dude is putting on a goalkeeping clinic right now.

But Ings also looked like prime Heskey out there with some of his miskicks. We don’t take our chances, Spurs do and that’s the difference.

I mean, I know he scored, but c'mon.

The guy has to have missed more sitters than anyone in world football in the last 10 years. It's becoming comical.

could have had hat tricks.

We destroyed the shit out of South Hampton.

The difference was Alonso. He is an offensive stud. I know he
is a defensive liability, but his offense can’t be denied. He must start
against Real Madrid.

We are going to win.

City have:
Brighton
Watford
Leeds
Newcastle
WHU
Villa
Wolves

LFC have:
MU
Everton
Newcastle
Spurs
Villa
Southampton
Wolves

Dunno where City drop any points. Maybe West Ham?

Mason Mount has been in insane form.

Top ten player in the world right now!

Pedri Dish ain’t even in the same universe as him.....

Let’s win this shit!

is this part of their bid to make Mbappe feel like home?

Does seem like RM forgot to bring the required level of intensity though.

He had no control of that. It bounced off the player to his hand.

Alonso, man, pure beast on the wing. He is unplayable.

Pace, passing, strike, IQ....

God damn. But I’m happy.

Werner’s speed and footwork are insane. Only trouble is his finishing,
and even that is somewhat unlucky.

Werner-Havertz-Mount....speed kills..

Blueeeeeeee

saw snippets of their press conference yesterday where Nagelsman was like "the only mistake made in the first leg is that Villareal did not kill us off", like some villain in a cheesy Stallone movie, and Neuer was also pontificating about how they was gonna whup that ass. L M A O

To think Bayern was so quick to discard Hansi Flick for this dude.

hes trying to get them to change the way they play, but they arent built for that

they dont have a right sided wingback, and i dont think the directors office wants Kimmich to do that much running at this point. so they do weird 3atb formations to make up for the fact that Pavard is a glorified centerback.

He failed to close down Vinny. He just let him slot that pass to Benzo
for the easy header.

but it’s time for you guys to go.

Poor performances by both.

That’s the priority for the summer...bring in Declan Rice and get another
CB, and possibly a striker.

Team is stacked...just makes those minor changes.

We got 15 mins to win this...come on Chelsea!

But Tuchel focked up the first match with that bullshit
lineup.

Today’s lineup would have destroy Real like it did tonight.

Well, it’s Real Madrid for the rest of the way.

Now Chelsea can get some rest and close out the season.

fair play to Chelsea, they really showed up (helped by Madrid's unbelievable apathy). These games are kinda fun when your team's not involved and a historical collapse may be in the cards.
Benzema man, what more can you say. With Lewy out it's fair to say he's locked up the Ballon d'Or?

>Benzema man, what more can you say. With Lewy out it's fair to
>say he's locked up the Ballon d'Or?

The first match put them in a hole.

Y’all ain’t won shit since Fergie was slobbing off Refs.

the other is to say they let Chelsea have a little kickabout for a while before Modric and Benzema decided to wake up

Pulisic blew two easy chances and so did Jorginho.

That Modric pass was fluke as hell and Silva allowed Vinny
to pass to Benzema for the header. That’s all RM did.

Chelsea was on 10 for the majority of the match.

That was complete domination by Chelsea, but they ran
out of legs in extra time.

And actually it was the substitutions that Ancelotti made that
spirited RM...Camavinga changed the game. That dude is the truth,
and of course he is from France ( not fair!)

Ronaldo! GOAT. There is no debate. I have finally put him over R9.
R9 lacked longevity.

CR7
R9
Messy
Pele
Maradona

absolutely apoplectic team outside of him and fred this year

Dude got his foot turned around the complete wrong way off a standard 50 50

We stay eating!...never starving.

Send your team over to look out trophy cases!

Come on over, Magilla

10 league titles to Chelsea's 8
7 FA Cups to Chelsea's 8
5 League Cups to Chelsea's 5
1 European Cup to Chelsea's 2
1 UEFA Super Cup to Chelsea's 2

Yeah you have newer trophies. But the cabinets are similarly full.

And Chelsea has 4 European cups....2 Europas,.2 CLs little homie.


We have won everything.

Damn, I wish Smut was here....we are about to get in Liverpool’s
ass.

yes, I should have included y'all's UEFA Cups.

THE ONLY silver lining to this season is that our abject failure may propel Liverpool to the title at City's expense.

anything we can do to hurt them? i'll take it.

That’s the last thing I want to see

for whatever reason (probably cuz Pool had some players i really liked over the years) i just don't hold the hate for them (unlike most United fans, why i say "fair") that i do for City who i hate and have no respect for any player they've ever issued a kit for.

Expel these dudes to the championship league. God damn disgrace
of a club.

I'm sorry y'all had to get the short end of the stick but damn, the fluidity and creativity of their attack is just amazing.

but he was exactly what they needed

5 defenders + Matic? lol

4 guys who can make something happen offensively, with one being a teenager, is puzzling

and ronaldo's newborn son dying so he is out indefinitely

some kind of Fury Road warboys nursery?

They are spitting out talent at an insane rate.

Camavinga, man, damn. He is perfect. He can do everything.
and he is only 19/20. And he has such a calm demeanor.

From Makalelee to Kante to Camavinga

>Camavinga, man, damn. He is perfect. He can do everything.
>and he is only 19/20.

Every decade I follow a player who plays the game the right way. Last decade
it was Hazard( forever favorite). Previous decade it was Donovan.

He will be in blue...somehow someway....we always get our Frenchmen

Claude
Malouda
Anelka
Kante
Giroud

still have never seen a match he started

We got bigger fish to fry, though.

Still 5 points up with a pretty fair schedule.

We good.

We put a B team out there with Sarr and Azp.
They had no business playing today.

fuck 'em girl. fuck 'em. (c) Martin Lawrence

More shite to come! Guaranteed

this quote is why:

Murtough and Fletcher, according to sources, chose Ten Hag as their No.1 candidate because of all the options considered he was the one who "most closely aligned with the club's identity and strategy."

one of the biggest issues MU fans have is that the "leadership" (whooo boy do i use that word losely) want a minion they can control on the touchline.

Fletcher, god bless him for his time on the pitch, has no business being in that job. he has it cuz he himself is controllable.

so, when i hear quotes like that i'm like "ah yeah, they found they guy who won't come in tear shit up" which is EXACTLY what is needed.

to be fair, i didn't see a lot of compelling candidates out there for our situation, but we coulda waited until the end of the season to see if the right guy became available - but again the right guy is not the guy the bankers get to control.

we'll see. my optimist and skepticism are about equal.

Poch was the puppet choice of management

whereas ETH came in and was pretty much like "so yall supposedly scouted every RB in the world and decided AWB was the one? yall are fucking morons" and shredded our whole recruitment and planning strategy in the interview process

a lot is going to change. whether it will work remains to be seen but no point in being skeptical about it. Murtaugh aint Woodward and him chasing social media metrics and impressions in the transfer market was half of our problem.

i just hope upper management knows next season is a writeoff as well. between the incoming transfers and youth promotions we're looking at like 8-10 new players and all these old holdover bums like Rashford and them also having to put up or shut up

August 2023 is where we should start to see how high ETH can take us.

im on our big ITK discord and what i am hearing is very encouraging.

edit: hopefully the next thing they gut is the fitness/physio department. whatever you call it. our players conditioning is shambolic. they are physically weak. explosion is nonexistent. and they get hurt entirely too much. Ralf been talking about it so that should be one of our big priorities

and am a bit more optimistic because i read some of what you just said but the biggest thing was that he wasn't coming UNLESS he had control.

as far as next season - i've already said i'm okay w/ mid-table as long as we've shed all the old bums and locker room trouble makers and are are signing/promoting the right young players. gonna take a few seasons to get right. rumors are he's looking for 8-10 new signings like you said, and has somewhere in the area of 200M to spend. i'm not expecting miracles in season one. results are nice, but effort and playing together (plus fitness) will be way more important to me.

it's funny, i could really count on about one hand the number of players we SHOULD keep. the rest? some should DEFINITELY be cast into the ocean and the remaining ones from that list i could take or leave - but i guess you have to field a whole team, lol.

as you said - our fitness is a effin' joke. that has to be one of the first things to change.

My god son gives me hope that the future is in good hands. Such a special player


Where those bozos who were hating on the god Southgate for not playing “farmer_league_stat_padder” aka beige-Werner instead of starboy? 💫

>My god son gives me hope that the future is in good hands.
>Such a special player
>
>
>Where those bozos who were hating on the god Southgate for not
>playing “farmer_league_stat_padder” aka beige-Werner
>instead of starboy? 💫

After all the racist shit he went through, great to see him convert at the bridge.

🤞🏾 Arsenal make Europe this year. Even 5th/Europa league will help to tie him down to a new contract

I can’t even believe it’s an unsettled matter. Ronaldo the only one coming out of this season with his name intact

>I can’t even believe it’s an unsettled matter. Ronaldo
>the only one coming out of this season with his name intact

Relegating Cedric back to the bench will be huge for the last 5 games. Tomi is such an upgrade there.

Just hope Saka’s injury isn’t serious

He is going to Real Madrid....he is going to our cousin.

But Christensen? Fock him. He is headed to Barcelona.


Decent win today.

Man, what would happen if the CL semis were Chelsea, Real, Juve and Bayern? Who would you root for with all the front-running teams? Or is your German team Leipzig because they're the nouveau-riche like Chelski?

I’m fragile, you know.

Absolutely incredible what Eddie Howe has been able to do on Tyneside. From a purely football perspective, the turnaround has been incredible. I dreaded watching matches for years. I am now excited on match days for the first time in ages.

Howe has figured out how to ignite players that months before were not very good. Joelinton, Krafth, Shelvey, Willock, Fraser, Murphy, etc. were not very good. They are all key members of the squad now and Joelinton is world class in his new role.

The new signings are great too. Ashley spent 14 years not spending any money or investing in the club. The money spent over the Winter break barely put a dent in the funds available to the team under FFP. Most of them, except for Bruno, are not huge names but they fit the club perfectly. I can't wait for Trippier to get back and for Wilson to get involved as well.

For the first time in over a decade, I have real hope for the future.

but i peeped the EPL table yesterday for the first time in a minute and was like "oh damn, 9th?!?!"

didn't realize they were doing THAT well. good for them.

>Absolutely incredible what Eddie Howe has been able to do on
>Tyneside. From a purely football perspective, the turnaround
>has been incredible. I dreaded watching matches for years. I
>am now excited on match days for the first time in ages.
>
>Howe has figured out how to ignite players that months before
>were not very good. Joelinton, Krafth, Shelvey, Willock,
>Fraser, Murphy, etc. were not very good. They are all key
>members of the squad now and Joelinton is world class in his
>new role.
>
>The new signings are great too. Ashley spent 14 years not
>spending any money or investing in the club. The money spent
>over the Winter break barely put a dent in the funds available
>to the team under FFP. Most of them, except for Bruno, are not
>huge names but they fit the club perfectly. I can't wait for
>Trippier to get back and for Wilson to get involved as well.
>
>For the first time in over a decade, I have real hope for the
>future.
>
>

Prolly won’t take points off either City or ‘pool, but it’s not as unlikely as it seemed 2 months ago

I’m worried about arsenals trip to tyneside…

Everton might survive when they beat burnley last week

following along online and it clearly had everything.

Madrid will win big time in the second leg. Man City’s attacking front
is vicious, but that backline is highly suspect.

Jack Grealish dropped and riding pine like he did for England,
biggest flop of the year.

Villarreal please crush Liverpool!

N/m

Dude does not want to play in the Championship.

Chelsea takes care of their own.

Fock Arsenal, Fock Spurs, and Fock all their supporters.

You will not pass us. We just simply helped out a friend from getting
relegated.

which is understandable.

>
>You will not pass us.

Agreed, Chelsea will keep 3rd. Both Spurs and Arsenal will drop points next few weeks

Problem is he's ass juice.

Hold that L and stop making dumb excuses.

What has MU done since freaking 2013?

We are playing for another trophy after winning almost everything
last season. We have no financing, no ownership....and we are still top 3.

You can’t win, Rock! Chelsea will knock you into tomorrow!

Epic fail. I will never say anything bad about MLS again. The
NWSL is more watchable and exciting than Serie A.

If Milan isn’t playing Inter, it’s straight watching paint dry.

Receive ball- defender comes in and fouls- receive ball- defender comes in
and fouls- side way pass- side way pass- ....that’s the whole god damn game.

This from the minute-by-minute for today's Man U- Brentford match:

20m ago
14.15
“For a club with a relatively unknown continental coach and a team of many journeymen, today’s plucky underdogs must be delighted with their mid-table finish,” emails Justin Kavanagh. “They’ve even taken the odd scalp against top five opponents, and kept their suburban London fanbase clicking through the turnstiles. Congrats on another successful season under the Glazers for Manchester United.”

The argument is that it's United, and therefore anything less than excellence is unacceptable, but damn, they're still top half.

Still funny though.

our payroll is fucking stoopid (because it was stupidly managed - another story) and when you spend that money then yeah, not finishing near the top of the table is an abject failure.

not for nothing, if it wasn't for CR7, we MIGHT be fighting relegation - we'd be pretty damn close that's FOR SURE.

Just most of the season I'd look at the table and say, how are they 5th (or wherever), when they're that horrible?

so i think that's the only reason we were able to hover from 5th to 7th all season.

no teams stepped up. i mean, Chelsea's pretty wack, Arsenal and Tottenham more wack than Chelsea.

we're next wackest. lol.

there was some teams right behind us (ahem, West Ham) who i thought might push up to that 4th spot but it never materialized.

whole league besides those top two just kinda butt this year.

Somebody needs to go warm up the hairdryer.

I turned this on in the 75th, thought, ah, well, City doing what they do....almost turned it right back off. And now....

the Mike Myers of futbol, gotta love it

Kinda takes away from the magic.

I told you guys what would happen.

I think the Seleção could keep it interesting for a while. At least until RM subs in Rodrygo and Camavinga.

Seriously though... the fuck is going on. I've only been watching futbol for about 15 years now, but this has to be singular. Has to be.

Also, lol @ the old money titans pulling a hat trick against the new money squads (Chelsea still counts, at least until the end of the season).

Final should be outstanding.

Got a chance to bag the most CL's ever, while already having already wrapped up La Liga - meaning he's won every. single. major. league.

Sheesh, what a legend.

LET'S FUCKING GO.

I KNOW I'M PROBABLY THE ONLY PERSON WHO CARES AND THAT'S FINE.

good game. well deserved win. way to represent for the league.

of course like the last time (2000) when an MLS team wins the continental title the Club World Cup is up in the air and might not happen. LOL!!!

obviously because of last night there's a lot of talk about it, and it SEEMS like it is happening.

that said, though we'll probably get thrashed, i can't wait to see us play a real game against the big dogs. just gonna be cool (assuming it happens *knock on wood*)

going from 7 teams to 24. not sure who the teams will be yet since FIFA has given no other information. curious to see how they handle it. would be a shame if it got canceled.