Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Black Nate Grey]

Hope for Chel$ki fans?



Nah he prob won't go to Chelsea.

 

[dutchie]

They got rid of him before the PSG game. They're just letting him finish the season.

I know but he should go before cause the players clearly dont care anymore.

 

[NSSVO]

Hope for Chel$ki fans?



Nah he prob won't go to Chelsea.

His agent is going to make him the fan of whoever pays the most

 

[TTT]

Unfortunately they will be ripped apart by Europes elite and the BPL overpaying for them.

Its ironic that they went the PSG /City billionaire owner route but they wound up falling back on their ability to spot and coach up talent. Dortmund also suffered the same fate of losing a bunch of their key players and they havent been the same. Those Klopp 2012/13 sides were fun to watch especially that 4-1 against Real.

 

[dem bath salts]

I guess Juve got the CL on lock. Even though I want Monaco to win now.

You saw how they just handled Messi and Neymar like nothing? They're gonna do the same to Marcelo and Carvajal(Madrid's de-facto wingers). On top of that they have a better attacking players than Atleti, who they play like.

You're crazy. Real's midfield>>>>barca. Modric and Kroos gonna control the game.
Nikkas swear everybody gonna wax the gawds. They had no chance vs bayern, now juve the favs

 

[LeMAO]

Get Lucho tf out. Msn aint save his poor tactics this year.

yeah, that treble hide his incompetence. this is good for Barca maybe the board will find decent players to fill the void specially in the midfield and sell most to CHina

Monaco vs Madrid will be on fire
Atletico vs Juventus defense vs defense

 

[LeMAO]

That Barca decline brehs

i heard this 3 year ago January i think but agreed they're really different Barca than before with Pep and Lucho's stupid signings

 

[Black Nate Grey]

i heard this 3 year ago January i think but agreed they're really different Barca than before with Pep and Lucho's stupid signings

Yeah, your board have made dumb decisions in the transfer market.

Especially Thiago.

 

[LeMAO]

Yeah, your board have made dumb decisions in the transfer market.

Especially Thiago.

they bought Douglas over Asensio they have a chance on Kroos too. actually Barca board is a disaster in signings and selling players
theys should stay in Academy players maybe they will find a gem there than buying names.
Verrati and Bernardo Silva will be a good signing if ever

 

[TTT]

As long as Barcelona still have the front 3 for at least 2 seasons they can bounce back. They are not as bad as they were in 2008 before Pep and 2003 before Rijkaard when they were not even in the title picture. The bigger teams have evolved faster than them, i saw a stat showing that only 2 or 3 Juve players who played in the 2015 final started the match in the first leg. Barcelona still had remnants of the Pep era in 2015, they need to bring back the midfield and stop being so dependent on Messi for goals. Ronaldo had only scored 2 goals prior to the Bayern game and still Real was chugging along, Bein Sport showed how his goals as a percentage of Real's total declined sharply but again they are still challenging. They also need to look at their defence, Pique has these Jekyll and Hyde seasons where he seems interested one season and lazy the next.

 

[Premeditated]

You're crazy. Real's midfield>>>>barca. Modric and Kroos gonna control the game.
Nikkas swear everybody gonna wax the gawds. They had no chance vs bayern, now juve the favs

where was that Madrid midfield 2 years ago when Juve handled them? And Modric has declined since.

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Marcelo is a beast

 

[dem bath salts]

where was that Madrid midfield 2 years ago when Juve handled them? And Modric has declined since.

I'll be upping this

 

[LeMAO]

sometimes you will envy Real Madrid's board they have the money and and great signings unlike Barca.
you can just look at their bench it's better than Barca's starting midfield.
it's odd that a team like Barca that has always had great midfielders rely so much on MSN speciall Messi for the past 3 seasons instead
idiot Barca board thinks that having Messi is enough, he's playing both striker and playmaker.
while look at Cristiano just waiting in the box, when you have Marcelo and Carvajal as our FBs and Modric and Kroos as midfielders

this pix is the Barcelona currently

luv what Neymar did there

 

[Thierry Henry]

Vardy looks like he is comfortable being a big fish in a small pond. Mahrez is really their big asset he could move if clubs think his loss of form was down to the whole team underperforming than him overperforming. In some ways they are in the best situation all things considered. Everton and Newcastle suffered when they got to play in Europe and failed to juggle the demanding schedule and fell off seriously because they underperformed in both competitions. Leicester got to the quarters probably made some money depending on whether revenue sharing works to their advantage with English clubs flopping.

Mahrez needs to turn up his performance then, cause Vardy looks like he's in last season's form. That whole team flipped a switch once Rainieri got fired.

fukk this Dortmund game.

Juventus not playing games with the D.

Monaco getting raided this summer?