Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3

[Roberto Firmino]

Like some kind of trans clown running around out there

You do what you want when you poppin

 

[BigMan]

Apparently Ox will miss the season because he damaged every major knee ligament (ACL, MCL, and LCL) and a tendon. That’s the type of injury that could severely impact the rest of his career.

those type of injuries are no joke
i tore my acl/mcl last year and am still recovering

 

[YakSpiller]

he damaged every major knee ligament (ACL, MCL, and LCL) and a tendon

 

[Yayo Toure]

They’re cult members

Most irrational fans on the internet... Can't imagine what they'd be like if they actually won a trophy.

 

[BlackBall]

Veneers

 

[BlackBall]

They’re cult members

They’re mostly entitled deluded idiots

 

[Roid Jones]

Apparently Ox will miss the season because he damaged every major knee ligament (ACL, MCL, and LCL) and a tendon. That’s the type of injury that could severely impact the rest of his career.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Apparently Ox will miss the season because he damaged every major knee ligament (ACL, MCL, and LCL) and a tendon. That’s the type of injury that could severely impact the rest of his career.

Wow...Join Liverpool in hopes of more playing time and Salah puts in a Balon d'Or level season, Mane keeps bossin'...then right when you think you can compete for a spot...you break everything humanly possible in a knee....there are literally no more parts of the knee to break...

Gutted for the kid honestly.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Barcelona's transfer strategy is baffling, they are good enough to win la liga because Messi can score like 30 goals but in Europe where they need a deep squad they have trash on the bench. There is speculation that Valverde might play a 4-3-3 with Coutinho on the wing which leaves Dembele out of the team, kid has had rotten luck since leaving Dortmund. Thiago is being offered back to them as well which might be the one sensible transfer they might do, the guy is injury prone he has probably missed an equivalent of a full season or two for Bayern. Pep wanted to make him the centerpiece of Bayern but it never really materialized until Ancelotti coached him.

La Masia hasn't put out any decent players since Sergi Roberto....that's their biggest issue. Their golden generation is basically done now that Iniesta is gone and they have no idea how to rebound. So they are following the Galacticos method, which doesn't IMO really work for Barcelona. They may be consistent La Liga winners, but I'm not sure if they'll compete with Real Maricons in UCL until they figure out how to develop their homegrown talent once more. Because young talents like Vasquez and Asensio are vital to long runs into cup competitions.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Leicester is gonna sign Danny Ward from Liverpool to be their potential number 1 keeper If Arsenal and Chelsea were smart they'd try to poach young Schmeichel from the Foxes. He's a top 5 keeper in the Prem easily.

EDIT: Damn I had no idea Kasper was 31. I'd still go after him though.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Starting the second half of the season with a huge game. The team looked uninspired during the Mexico tour, that better not carry over into today.

 

[TTT]

La Masia hasn't put out any decent players since Sergi Roberto....that's their biggest issue. Their golden generation is basically done now that Iniesta is gone and they have no idea how to rebound. So they are following the Galacticos method, which doesn't IMO really work for Barcelona. They may be consistent La Liga winners, but I'm not sure if they'll compete with Real Maricons in UCL until they figure out how to develop their homegrown talent once more. Because young talents like Vasquez and Asensio are vital to long runs into cup competitions.

Barcelona in the past has not been dependent on La Masia, they used to spend heavy on players. Rijkaard was dependent on players they got in the transfer market like Deco, Dinho, Eto Rafa Marquez. Even Bayern after the Kroos,Muller, Alaba,Badstuber class has not produced similar level players. Barcelona's problem post Pep was that they tried to shoehorn players who fit that 4-3-3 or some possession version of that game. They were built from midfield and they let that side of the squad deteriorate. Real in contrast did not just follow the same old Galactico strategy, they got reasonably priced players like DiMaria, Ozil, Xabi, Benzema without really smashing records. The 3 that they did were Ronaldo,Bale and Kaka. The squad was built and the coaches decided how to utilize them, Barca is more of a first XI type team, when they are on they are on but they don't have options coming off the bench and the only time they did was in the Alexis and Cesc days and that wasn't as good for them. They whiffed on the market, they could have bought Asencio and went a different direction and Kroos too if they really wanted to get back to the Xavi type possession game.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Official. Now a midfielder and we're SET.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Official. Now a midfielder and we're SET.

 

[Montez]

Apparently Ox will miss the season because he damaged every major knee ligament (ACL, MCL, and LCL) and a tendon. That’s the type of injury that could severely impact the rest of his career.

Mourinho tells Pogba to 'understand why he was so good' at World Cup

Pogba needs to leave this abusive relationship. Barca or Bayern gotta save him.