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

[Kunty McPhuck]

Nope

You think I just started being a Milan fan?

Breh, you said you supported Barca and stopped, doesn't matter if you supported Milan before or not. The arrogance of Barca/Cruyff prior to 94 CL final is a reason why as a Milan fan you don't like Barca.

 

[Blessings]

Nigerian like myself on Cybereagles forum suspected this

Yaya Toure Accuses Pep Guardiola of Racism, Says He Doesn't Like African Players



Yaya Toure Accuses Pep Guardiola of Racism, Says He Doesn't Like African Players

 

[BigMan]

Breh, you said you supported Barca and stopped, doesn't matter if you supported Milan before or not. The arrogance of Barca/Cruyff prior to 94 CL final is a reason why as a Milan fan you don't like Barca.

I was a year old in 94

I loved Henry eto Xavi inisesta Puyol and toure and of course Messi

 

[beejus]

I know this will make some people mad at the goat reference, but I can't help but laugh that Messi actually did a photoshoot with a bunch of goats.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I was a year old in 94

I loved Henry eto Xavi inisesta Puyol and toure and of course Messi

28 years following Milan > your life literally.

 

[Yayo Toure]

Nigerian like myself on Cybereagles forum suspected this

Yaya Toure Accuses Pep Guardiola of Racism, Says He Doesn't Like African Players



Yaya Toure Accuses Pep Guardiola of Racism, Says He Doesn't Like African Players

Keita, Abidal, Eto got alot of time when Pep was at Barca. At City Sane, Sterling, Fernandinho, Delph, Walker started the majority of the games. Pep isnt racist. There are certain players who Pep hasnt gotten along with.... Yaya, Zlatan, Eto, Ribery. Say what you want but I highly doubt its a race thing.

 

[Lee_Land]

Knew it was only a matter of time before he went in on Pep. Just surprised it him this time and not his agent

 

[(ALi)]

His agent back when he was in Barca told the press Pep belongs in a crazy institution. Logically it never sat right with me that he prefered Keita or Busquets over Toure and given he played a significant role in the treble win in Pep's first season.

That midfield trio of Toure, Xavi and Iniesta was the best I've ever seen. Why he broke that defies logic.

Selling him at his peak just tells me it wasn't a sporting decision.
Something is of about him.

 

[Yayo Toure]

His agent back when he was in Barca told the press Pep belongs in a crazy institution. Logically it never sat right with me that he prefered Keita or Busquets over Toure and given he played a significant role in the treble win in Pep's first season.

That midfield trio of Toure, Xavi and Iniesta was the best I've ever seen. Why he broke that defies logic.

Selling him at his peak just tells me it wasn't a sporting decision.
Something is of about him.

Busquets was coming up, Pep coached him at Barca B, the Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi trio won more trophies.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

If Yaya felt some type of way about Pep from the Barca days, why didn't he leave before Pep took over at City. It was announced 3/4 months prior Pep was coming, more than enough time for Yaya's agent to get a club or 2 lined up.

 

[Lee_Land]

If Yaya felt some type of way about Pep from the Barca days, why didn't he leave before Pep took over at City. It was announced 3/4 months prior Pep was coming, more than enough time for Yaya's agent to get a club or 2 lined up.

He signed a 1 year extension while Pep was at City

 

[African_brehda]

midfield trio of Toure, Xavi and Iniesta was the best I've ever seen. Why he broke that defies logic.

Didn't Pep have him play CB instead?

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

He signed a 1 year extension while Pep was at City

yeah that too.

 

[Montez]

Cementing Liverpool as the worst club in England. Most greedy club in the world. Wish they shipped more jobs to Manchester.

'It's a disagreement based entirely on governance,' Henry said. 'Everyone in the league knows what the large clubs bring to the value of foreign rights, but the large clubs do not have the votes to change something that should have changed as media rights changed over the past 25 years.'

'Because of this arrangement (the distribution of overseas revenue) and due to parachute payments to relegated clubs, the top three clubs each year in the Premier League receive less overall TV monies than the bottom three clubs when you include parachute payments,' Henry said.

'It's hard to imagine this continuing much longer. In America, where we have closed leagues, you can argue for these types of arrangements, but it's much more difficult to ask independent clubs to subsidise their competitors beyond a certain point when you have relegation and especially with the way media is rapidly changing and being consumed today.'

Liverpool owner John Henry demands the Big Six get their fair share of overseas TV money | Daily Mail Online

Yaya beef is about how Pep treated him this season, why does the extension matter? He thought he deserved more respect in his final year.

Seydou Keita said he doesn't speak to Pep but he has respect for him, maybe there is something there/

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Didn't Pep have him play CB instead?

Due to injuries and suspensions.