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

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



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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/

Yaya thought he should play more. Yaya still has technical ability but his legs are gone, anyone who watched him this season will tell you that. That's not Peps fault.
 

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Busquets was coming up, Pep coached him at Barca B, the Busquets, Iniesta, Xavi trio won more trophies.
He was coming up, Yaya was World class he had no business taking the midfield reigns over him. Furthermore Yaya could do everything that Busquet's could do and more and if anything they both could have played together but he deemed him to be surplus to requirements after his performances in the season he had. It just doesn't make no sense.
 

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Didn't Pep have him play CB instead?
In the copa final and the champions league final due to suspensions.
He scored the equalizer playing in defense in the final against Bilbao.

Barca fans and press alike at the time wanted to know why he was warming the bench and Pep was vague at best. As a coach he has his favorites so irrespective there was no changing his mind and Manchester City profited greatly for it.

He just seems like an all round piece of shyt and it's a shame as a spectator to see that trio of Toure, Xavi and Iniesta broken up only after a season in which they won everything.
 
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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.



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I actually want Messi to be the GOAT. But perhaps in an era where CR7 exists, Argentina not winning the World Cup creates additional beauty to the glory that we've witnessed for more than ten years. Ronaldo and Messi, etched across the sky as dueling futbol gods. Forever challenging our minds to view the other as better - seldom as an equal
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He was coming up, Yaya was World class he had no business taking the midfield reigns over him. Furthermore Yaya could do everything that Busquet's could do and more and if anything they both could have played together but he deemed him to be surplus to requirements after his performances in the season he had. It just doesn't make no sense.

You saw the results, so in retrospect it made sense. Pep took over at Barca and shipped out so many players, because of the style of football he wanted to play. Not only that but he got rid of alot of egos. It's far from a race thing.
 

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Real talk I was gonna post the same shyt. Remember when Dwight Yorke was gunning for a managerial job but said black managers weren't getting open doors like that? Yet these 3 guys and Giggs get gifted jobs with no experience smh

Giggs is black, though.
 
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