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Aubameyang saying he doesn't want to stay at Dortmund past the summer. :lupe:

Breh's in his GOAT form for sure.

Imagine this breh in that United team :whoo:

Wenger should make a move but we know damn well he's gonna pull the same bullshyt :mjgrin:
 

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Brede Hangeland names Emmanuel Adebayor in his extraordinary 'Lazy XI', claiming the striker would wolf down cakes in the gym


Wilfried Zaha (Palace)

Amazing physique, athletic, huge potential. Some Mondays, he’d come over to me and say: ‘I’m starting my programme now!’

He’d do five push-ups, sigh, then leave. He would have been incredible if he was serious.


Bobby Zamora (retired)

Strong but hated the gym. Whenever it was time for dead lifts, he’d start feeling his hamstring. Every single time we went to the gym.

Dimitar Berbatov (unattached)

If only he ran. Never seen a man get so many massages in my life. Whenever we were in the gym, Berbatov was getting a massage. I knew the guy who gave him the massages. Usually at the end of the season, the players would give all the physios a gift. But he’d massage Berbatov for hundreds of hours during the season and he would get nothing.

Emanuel Adebayor (unattached)

I was marking Adebayor in midfield. Suddenly he said: ’Ah, I’m hungry.’ I replied: ‘What?’ He said: ‘I can’t wait for the game to finish. I’m so hungry. Do you know a good restaurant in London?’ At Palace, when we had strength workouts, he would sit in the gym with a cup of coffee and a muffin. He was being paid by City, Tottenham and Palace at the same time, and he was sitting in the gym drinking coffee.
These guys are disappointing, I used to see Zaha in the nightclub in V.I.P a lot when he got signed by Man UTD. Dude had mad potential, if he had the same work ethic as Ronaldo, he would have been special.

Adebayor disappointed, he could have been next African superstar, he could have been looked up to by millions of african kids. You can clearly see football was just a hustle for Adebayor, he was just playing for the money.
 

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My man Rafa can't catch a break :hhh:

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That must have been what Bernie Mac meant when he would talk about beating his nephew's head until the white meat showed. Dude has a vagina on his head :scust:
 

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Rangers sacked the bread man and never even had the good grace to say to his face. :hhh:

Rangers: Mark Warburton replaced as manager ahead of Scottish Cup tie




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Mark Warburton took Rangers training on Friday
Rangers have replaced Mark Warburton as manager with under-20 coach Graeme Murty ahead of Sunday's Scottish Cup tie with Greenock Morton.

The Scottish Premiership club say they have accepted the resignations of Warburton, assistant David Weir and head of recruitment, Frank McParland.

But Warburton, who took charge in 2015, told BBC Scotland he has not stood down and was unaware of the statement.

And the 54-year-old Englishman is consulting his legal team.

The BBC has learned that Warburton had contact with Nottingham Forest around 10 days ago and was high on the English Championship club's list of possible managers before they decided to retain their interim team of Gary Brazil and Jack Lester until the end of the season.

Warburton had taken Rangers' training on Friday as normal ahead of Sunday's fifth-round tie.

He had earlier in the morning defended McParland's record of signings after media criticism of the Glasgow club's recruitment.

Rangers lie third in the Scottish top flight, but they are a distant 27 points behind city rivals and reigning champions Celtic.

"At a meeting with the management team's representative earlier this week, the club were advised that Mr Warburton, Mr Weir and Mr McParland wished to resign their positions and leave the club on condition that Rangers agreed to waive its rights to substantial compensation," said Rangers' statement.

Who is Graeme Murty?
Although born in England, Graeme Murty qualified to play for Scotland and won four caps between 2004 and 2007
He played for York, Reading, Charlton Athletic and Southampton in a career lasting 17 years and 437 games
He won the Football League Championship with Reading in 2005/06. He has coached at Southampton and Norwich City, both at youth level
Joined Rangers in August 2016 as head development squad coach
"Rangers' agreement to waive compensation would assist the management team to join another club.

"This compensation amount was agreed when Rangers significantly improved Mr Warburton and Mr Weir's financial arrangements before the start of this season.

"The board urgently convened to consider the offer made on behalf of the management team and its ramifications and agreed to accept it and release the trio from the burden of compensation, despite the potential financial cost to the club."

Rangers claim that Warburton's representative attempted to alter the the terms.

"A further board meeting was held this afternoon to discuss this and it was decided not to agree to this additional request but to hold with the original agreement," he said.

"Mr Warburton, Mr Weir, and Mr McParland have therefore been notified in writing that their notices of termination have been accepted."

Rangers went on to suggest that the management team have not reached the targets set.

"The board is very appreciative of the good work previously done by the management team but believes it had no alternative," their statement added.

"Our club must come first and absolute commitment is essential.


Warburton led Rangers to the Championship title and promotion last season
"It is important that Rangers has a football management team that wants to be at the club and that the board believes can take the club forward to meet our stated ambition to return to being the number one club in Scotland.

"We are clearly short of where we expected to be at this time."

Warburton's reign at Ibrox suffered a blow in November, when high-profile summer signing Joey Barton was sacked after a training ground disagreement with team-mate Andy Halliday and the manager following a 5-1 defeat by Celtic.

It called into question his signing policy, but Warburton gave another ringing endorsement to McParland, who was with him at Brentford, ahead of Sunday's game.

"I've said time and again - his track record is outstanding," he said.

"There would be no shortage of takers for someone of his quality.

"We are lucky to have him. He is one of the very best at what he does."

Analysis
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer Tom English

Mark Warburton attempted to explain away his team's - or former team's - dreary draw against Ross County by saying a series of random events conspired against his players.

It was, he said, football's strange ways that denied them on the day, as if some cosmic force was to blame for the failings rather than his own players and his own management.

Warburton's comments were bizarre but nowhere near as surreal as the nonsense that took hold of Rangers on Friday evening as the club said that Warburton was leaving and Warburton said that he wasn't.

Rangers have known dysfunction in recent years, but those times are not as distant as some chose to believe.

They're just dysfunctional in a different way now. Rudderless, leaking like a sieve and now embarrassed in a way that surely took their supporters back to the dog days of Charles Green and chums.

This is a shambles.

Rangers: Mark Warburton replaced as manager ahead of Scottish Cup tie


The Huns are a fukking disgrace to football.
 
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