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

[Fenian]

Another statement from the champions.


And tierney's goal.



Boy is world class man, best defender we've had since van dijk, absolute joy to watch.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Absolute flop. If Madrid were smart they do a swap deal with mbappe or dembele.

Did you watch any games at all?
He's been 4 years and Madrid won 3 CL
He pretty much single handily won them their only trophy 4 years back. And when he played he's been pretty damn good outside of last season.


Stop hyping up Isco so hard, he's playing great but he was inconsistent the first couple years. There's a reason why he just started getting a lot of playing time

 

[Lakerman0834]

-Spanish teams have won the last 8 out of 9 UEFA Super Cups
-In the past 5 years, Spanish teams have won 4 Champions Leagues and 3 europa leagues, with 2 all spanish UCL finals.
-7 out of the last 8 Europa league finalists
-6 out of the last 8 CL finalists
-Most champions leagues
-Most Europa leagues
-4 out of the top 6 ranked teams
Literally Juventus is the only non-spanish team to make a CL final.

When that dominance ends it will be a sigh of relief for sure, Jesus Christ.

Madrid and barca got deep pockets dont think they wont be always reloading. Some of these english and italian teams need to step it up.

 

[MikeyC]

 

[Lakerman0834]

Mbappe to PSG instead of RM. Good move dont think hes ready for the spotlight of RM. Mbappe and neymar tho

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Mbappe to PSG instead of RM. Good move dont think hes ready for the spotlight of RM. Mbappe and neymar tho

 

[Premeditated]

Did you watch any games at all?
He's been 4 years and Madrid won 3 CL
He pretty much single handily won them their only trophy 4 years back. And when he played he's been pretty damn good outside of last season.


Stop hyping up Isco so hard, he's playing great but he was inconsistent the first couple years. There's a reason why he just started getting a lot of playing time

the only finals he single handedly won for them was the copa del ray against Barca where he abused Batra, but outside his first 2 seasons. But lets be honest, switch him with any decent winger like Sane or Di Maria, they still win the same amount of trophies. He's not a flop but he definitely didn't live up to their expectations.

 

[Premeditated]

Madrid and barca got deep pockets dont think they wont be always reloading. Some of these english and italian teams need to step it up.

it's not just that they have deep pockets but all the supreme talents would rather play there. And most of the best players are either from France and other latin speaking European and South American countries, so they grew up watching and cheering for the two spanish giants

 

[HookersandIceCream]

the only finals he single handedly won for them was the copa del ray against Barca where he abused Batra, but outside his first 2 seasons. But lets be honest, switch him with any decent winger like Sane or Di Maria, they still win the same amount of trophies. He's not a flop but he definitely didn't live up to their expectations.

You can say that about any single player in Madrid. CR7 didn't play a minute and they didn't look like they needed him at all.


Madrid is great because hey have a defense that's strong/quick and can go forward better than most wingers.

Their midfield of Kroos, Modric and Cas are probably the best in the world. That's why upfront they don't need their attackers to score that much. Benzema hardly looks like he's does anything but not a lot of quality strikers are willing to put in work without beings the main target man.

The only player that would be irreplaceable would be modric imo

People forget Bale put up very good numbers
We are just spoiled by MSN and Ronaldo

13/14 season - 44 App 22 Goals 19 Assists
14/15 season - 48 App 17 Goals 12 Assists
15/16 season - 31 App 19 Goals 15 Assists

Those are very good numbers. Last year he barley played but he's far from a flop and he would automatically make any team better with him there.

 

[Premeditated]

You can say that about any single player in Madrid. CR7 didn't play a minute and they didn't look like they needed him at all.


Madrid is great because hey have a defense that's strong/quick and can go forward better than most wingers.

Their midfield of Kroos, Modric and Cas are probably the best in the world. That's why upfront they don't need their attackers to score that much. Benzema hardly looks like he's does anything but not a lot of quality strikers are willing to put in work without beings the main target man.

The only player that would be irreplaceable would be modric imo

and Casemiro
and Marcelo

 

[phillycavsfan]

Barca offered 100 million Euros for Coutinho and LFC rejected that ASAP. Bartomeu knows he's fukking up what Laporte and Rosell left behind.

 

[beejus]

 

[dappadonna]

Rafa Marquez still playing ?

 

[beejus]

Rafa Marquez still playing ?

Apparently. He's still Mexico's captain too.

 

[The Eliminator]

Milan lost to Betis 1-2