Joar
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Total fluke that one
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14 minutes ago, Stuart said:
Let’s not start bragging just yet, BD.
At £1.25m I’d have been delighted. At £1.75m (all up), still a great bit of business. £3m is big coin for us these days and his best football has been played in a lower division.
But let’s just hold of the “a lot on here” smugness until he has played the game just before his number of appearances qualifies us to pay one of those add-ons and hope he doesn’t get a sudden injury.
I suppose if the add-ons are related to promotion it's not too bad, but I still find £1,75m up front a bit steep as an initial fee...
edit: typo
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Just now, Tom said:
Best World Cup I can remember - but I couldn’t tell you who I would give player of the tournament to
Eden Hazard
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In the end it is a referee mistake, and not a VAR mistake. BUT the video panel could have pressurised him into it, it that's the case it's absolutely disgusting from the panel, and ALSO definetly a VAR mistake.
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13 minutes ago, J*B said:
Well done, although googling is cheating!
Would welcome more conundrums though
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Just now, Biz said:
Character, experience and professionalism are three of the characteristics we’ve especially lacked since we watched Emerton, Nelsen, Salgado, Ooojer, et al walk away without ceremony - to be so disappointed in keeping an aging but obvious good influence...
Questionsble. Or maybe it’s more along the lines of you’ve no real grasp of what it takes to have a successful squad!
To think Emerton & Ooijer cost around £2 mill each and Nelsen & Salgado were free, makes me think the football world has gone completely topsy turvy these days
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Just now, J*B said:
Well done, although googling is cheating!
Off course it's cheating, I'm too young to know the 80s teams!
Was thinking Napoli, and then realised I didn't know any players other than Maradona playing for them pre 1994
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Just now, Mike E said:
We both got it eventually ?
I both love and hate conundrums like that!
Tbh Inter was quite far down the list of suspects in my eyes. Eventually I got to thinking that it had to be an Italian team. Two reasons for that: The money was in Italy in the 80s and 90s. Italy was represented in 3 of the finals since 1982, and Italians don't in general trend to play abroad (at least to a lesser degree than the other finalists). Also your Juve idea added to that thinking
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2 hours ago, Mike E said:
But those 86 and 90 aren't Inter players, they're Bayern. I tried juventus and got stuck at either the 90 final. Amazing how many top teams are so well represented!
As far as I can figure, Rumenigge joined Inter in 1984 from Bayern, and left in 1987, Lothar Mättheus joined Inter in 1988 and left in 1992, and Klinsmann was at Inter from 1989 to 1992.
Edit: Karl-Heinz Rumenigge that is. Looks like Bayern had another Rumenigge as well
Edit 2: both Rumenigge and Mättheus played for Bayern when in the previous final though (Rumenigge 1982, Mättheus 1986)
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9 hours ago, Mike E said:
A lot of 'Germany' finals, so probably Bayern Munich is one. Real Madrid the other?
1982 had Rummenigge, Breitner, Dremmler for Bayern, probably others. Real had Stielike (West Germany).
1986, Bayern had Rummenigge (West Germany). Real had Valdano (Argie).
1990, Bayern had Augenthaler (West Germany), Real had Ruggeri (Argie)
1994, Bayern had Jorginho (Brazil), Real had OH BOLLOCKS I SPENT AGES LOOKING, AT LEAST I GOT BAYERN RIGHT!
1998, Real had Ronaldo and Carlos (Brazil), Bayern had Lizarazu (France).
2002, Real had Ronaldo (Brazil), Bayern had Kahn (Germany)
2006, Bayern had Ribery (France). Real had Zidane (France).
2010, Real had Ramos etc (Spain), Bayern had Robben (Holland).
2014, Real had DiMaria (Argie), Bayern had Neuer and others (Germany).
Must surely be Juventus then?
Internazionale (/Inter Milan):
82: Some Italians
86: Rimenigge (W Germany)
90: Matthäus + Klinsmann (W Germany)
94: Berti (Italy)
98: Ronaldo (Brazil)
02: Ronaldo (Brazil)
06: Materazzi (It)
10: Sneijder (Netherlands)
14: Palacio, Campagnaro, Álvares (Argentina)
Edit: Took some brain and google work, I'll tell you that. I even thought Napoli for a while because of Maradona.
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On 07/06/2018 at 12:59, DE. said:
FFP is doing a good job then.
Surprised QPR had positive flow. Have always thought of them as cronic overspenders...
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1 hour ago, speeeeeeedie said:
My guess is that Germany will play as they usually do; back 4, 2 ball keeping central midfielders, 3 "free" midfielders, and a big lad up front.
I don't think that Sane was left out because of his ability. Much like Nainngolan with Belgium, he's annoyed the manager.
Yeah, you're prob right. Sane has had a fantastic season, so wouuld normally have thought him an obvious candidate. Then again, Werner and Draxler has performed regularly for the national team, Draxler over a longer period. Reus is a fantastic player, I've attributed Dortmunds poor season a couple of years ago to his injury more than anything else, and you usually see an upturn i form for Dortmund when he's playing regularly. And Brandt has, just like Sane, had a fantastic season. Löw is basically spoiled for choice almost across the pitch
Edit: Fixed some of the worst typos.
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6 hours ago, benhben said:
Again shows the massive gulf in quality and depth of the top squads compared to Englands. Would start every game for us.
However, looking at the Germany squad it looks a strange decision. Their midfield is full of similar players who all play central and play keep ball, with not much pace in the wide or forward areas. Strange they have left Sane out as their few wide pacey player.
Not sure Brandt, Reus, Draxler and Werner are few pacey players though. I'm sure the idea is to use all of them as wide players (depending on what kind of formation Löw sets up in). I would say it looks more like they're lacking a forward to hold up the ball. They've got Gomez, but no one else. Then again, they might be planning to play without any out and out striker.
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It was fun while it lasted, this transfer speculation talk...
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27 minutes ago, ChrisPriceBaldSpot said:
According to that page Erhun Oztumer is out of contract at the end of the season.
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Well done RoverScot, now can you name the Scottish international who has also played in Hong Kong, and our Premier League?
Bloody hell, this was finally nagging too much on my brain, so I had to do some searches. Do you mean John Spencer? He played a season in HK as far as I could tell.
Sorry for cheating, was hoping someone would know it, but as I said, it just took too long
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Since we're having a bit of a quiz.
Name a Champions League winner who has played in Hong Kong. (Probably an easy one really).
Dwight Yorke?
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There's either 16 or 17 teams who are already in the group stages of next season's Champions League. How many can people name?
So would have to be from leagues where teams skip the qualification then I guess?
3 from England: Man U, Man C, Chelsea
Germany (3?): Bayern München, Dortmund, Leverkusen
Spain (3?): Barca, Real, Atletico M
France: PSG
Portugal (2): Porto, Benfica
Italy: Juve, Napoli (not sure if they still have 3 direct, or if it's 2 atm. If 3 then I think AC Milan beat Fiorentina to that spot)
Don't know which other countries get teams directly through qualifying stages. Russia I guess, but don't know how that league is looking. Maybe Ukraine (If so, Shakhtar should be there). Turkey? The Netherlands I guess as well, but think that is still a bit open league wise (unless Ajax has managed to run away with it the last weeks)
So that's 14-16 teams.
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