The Football Thread 2018-19 - This is the end.

[PuppetBoy]

Big Sam to Fulham then?

[Pancake]

Ugh I hope not, how does that cretin keep getting PL work?

Surprised by how shite Fulham are.

[Benzin]

Ugh I hope not, how does that cretin keep getting PL work?

Surprised by how shite Fulham are.

Spending lots of money on new players and playing attacking football (their defence wasn't great last season either) is never particularly a good formula on staying up...

[Moggy]

Ugh I hope not, how does that cretin keep getting PL work?

By taking over at smaller clubs and keeping them in the Premier League.

[Pancake]

Ugh I hope not, how does that cretin keep getting PL work?

By taking over at smaller clubs and keeping them in the Premier League.

Enough of your pragmatism, he's a cretin and I don't want to hear from him again

[Moggy]

Ugh I hope not, how does that cretin keep getting PL work?

By taking over at smaller clubs and keeping them in the Premier League.

Enough of your pragmatism, he's a cretin and I don't want to hear from him again

He is also the only England manager with a 100% record.

[Tomous]

Also Wenger close to joining Milan. Not surprising with Gazildas there.

Plus Milan are currently sitting in 4th. It's an ideal fit.

[Benzin]

So Liverpool are 2-0 down and Monaco 3-0...

[Saint of Killers]

Listening to the Red Star / Liverpool match on the radio earlier and the atmosphere was something else.

Also Wenger close to joining Milan. Not surprising with Gazildas there.

Plus Milan are currently sitting in 4th. It's an ideal fit.

irl lol

[Photek]

Oh Liverpool.

[Dowbocop]

More like Red-faced Failed Grade...

[Saint of Killers]

Get out with that

[Blue Eyes]

Dreadful result for Liverpool there. It’s gonna be a bit dicey for the rest of this group.

[Saint of Killers]

Manchester City hit by more allegations over Uefa’s financial fair play rules

• Allegations concern City players’ image rights
• Pep Guardiola: ‘We want to follow the rules’


Manchester City are facing fresh allegations that they circumvented Uefa’s financial fair play (FFP) rules – with claims the club saved millions by secretly setting up a shell company to pay players for their image rights. The operation, allegedly called Project Longbow by club insiders, allowed them to save €30m (£26.1m) in marketing income, according to Der Spiegel.

The German magazine has promised to focus on City throughout the week and Tuesday’s reports suggest that City understood from an early stage that the FFP rules being introduced by the then Uefa president Michel Platini would affect their chances of becoming one of the biggest clubs in Europe. According to a leaked memo from the club’s CEO, Ferran Soriano, the club decided that they needed to fight financial fair play but “do it in a way that is not visible, or we will be pointed out as the global enemies of football”.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -fair-play

[Saint of Killers]

First 2 parts of the feature are up in English here and here.

[Blue Eyes]

Love that. “We want to follow the rules”. Presumably you just couldn’t for some reason? I really want Man City to be properly hated like Man Utd were.

[Denster]

Our fraudster neighbours.

[Photek]

Love that. “We want to follow the rules”. Presumably you just couldn’t for some reason? I really want Man City to be properly hated like Man Utd were.

I’m getting there tbh, not least cos of Irene.

[PES Fan]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... s-manager/

Giggs can’t even be bothered watching his own players.

Oh and Thierry Henry has had a disastrous start so far. Not entirely his fault as Jardim found it difficult to the end, so it was never a job for a rookie to come into mid season.

[Irene Demova]

Very disappointing tonight to see Liverpool keeping the ball after Red Star kicked it out so an injured player can receive treatment whilst Klopp got red in the face and screamed. Unfortunate that their newfound wealth can't buy class