On May 14 2013 16:44 Pandemona wrote: Reports are that Dortmund officials where at Villa Park on Saturday watching Aston Villa's Benteke play vs Chelsea...possible replacement for Lewandowski?
I think the main transfer news for Dortmund is that they signed Kevin de Bruyne to replace Götze Nice move if it's true.
On top of that german media says that Klopp called de Boer about Eriksen. There's nothing sure yet but Ajax doesn't think that Eriksen stays for another season. In addition Hamburgs Heung Min Son is regularly associated with Dortmund.
On May 14 2013 16:44 Pandemona wrote: Reports are that Dortmund officials where at Villa Park on Saturday watching Aston Villa's Benteke play vs Chelsea...possible replacement for Lewandowski?
I think the main transfer news for Dortmund is that they signed Kevin de Bruyne to replace Götze Nice move if it's true.
On top of that german media says that Klopp called de Boer about Eriksen. There's nothing sure yet but Ajax doesn't think that Eriksen stays for another season. In addition Hamburgs Heung Min Son is regularly associated with Dortmund.
De Boer confirmed that in an interview after Groningen - Ajax last Sunday.
Well im 100% convinced that Eriksen leaves Ajax, when he does he should go to a club in Champs League and are playing good football. Would be a sick signing for Dortmund too
On May 14 2013 17:51 Pandemona wrote: Well im 100% convinced that Eriksen leaves Ajax, when he does he should go to a club in Champs League and are playing good football. Would be a sick signing for Dortmund too
So no, do not go to fucking Liverpool Eriksen
And Ajax pretty much have his replacement ready as well with Adam Maher.
On May 14 2013 16:44 Pandemona wrote: Reports are that Dortmund officials where at Villa Park on Saturday watching Aston Villa's Benteke play vs Chelsea...possible replacement for Lewandowski?
I think the main transfer news for Dortmund is that they signed Kevin de Bruyne to replace Götze Nice move if it's true.
I hope not., de Bryne is terrible. He couldn't even dominate in Bremen. I rather have Isco and Eriksen. And as replacement 2014 for Lewy I want Lukaku and Dzeko.
I really don't rate Lewandowski as highly as everyone else does. In fact I think Benteke is better. And he's Belgian which would mean a friend for Hazard + Lukaku (and Courtois and De Bruyne if they stay). Lewandowski has the stink of fitting into a system but not being an incredible individual performer. He was kind of non existant in the Euros.
Oh I'm watching now this bateson dude playing fifa on twich, he plays so beautifully damn. Is he like the flash of fifa? xD
Lol back in my day of FIFA when tournaments just began to get going, there was a FLASH like god of FIFA..His name was ChrissyB, i remember my first online FIFA tournament in 2008, i entered and thought i'll try my luck at this. Group stage draw i had ChrissyB in my group...dayummm He beat me over 2 legs 8-1 >.< Was not very fun, but he was the best for about 3-4 years, winning EVERYTHING. PC Xbox and PS3 and dominating the scene all over the world, he made a fortune. But now FIFA is wide open, ChrissyB didn't even qualify for the tournament in LasVegas earlier this year nor did he qualify for the FIWC. He did tweet after the EA event in Vegas that he was going to try harder and get back to his best but who knows
Reports are that Dortmund officials where at Villa Park on Saturday watching Aston Villa's Benteke play vs Chelsea...possible replacement for Lewandowski?
Sorry, but where is ChrissyB Flashlike? He has one FIWC under his belt and that was in FIFA 06. He never came close to winning the WCG grand finals.
The FIFA-Twins (styla and hero) were, together, dominating the scence back then (like 04-08 or smth). They won WCG 3 times each (I don't know if some of that was like 2on2 or team) and dominated the FIFA (PC) scene in Germany. Noticable today are a bunch of guys who competed in the FIWC last week, but those were with real names so idk the nicknames of them. Deto (One of the best, or the best German player atm) won the last 2 WCG and was Top8 FIWC this year, 3rd last year iirc. Afaik none of the German top guys stream & it is very hard to get fresh VOD's of "real" pros. Besides that, professional FIFA is not the most fun to watch, because everyone plays very careful to not lose posession, mostly no risks involved until someone scores.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut back to real football: Does Wigan need to go through some of the qualification rounds of EL or are they qualified directly for groupplay with their win in the FA-Cup?
don't think anyone didn't see that coming, though I would have expected him to see out the last game.
That's bullshit. Say what you want about Mancini, but he won them their first trophies in decades. He's a hero at that club and deserves better than this.
Jeez, doesn't that sound like another Italian manager who was sacked earlier in the season?
I think it's more similar to Ancelotti when he was sacked at Chelsea. He won the league one year, then finished second the next, and was sacked.
Anyway, now that I think about it, I still think Mancini should have been able to finish the season, but I can understand why they got rid of him. It's not that they finished second, it's that they finished second while playing like shit. Then losing the FA Cup to Wigan and not even winning a game in the UCL this season, and all the dumb shit he has said (like the whole mess that led to Balotelli's transfer, and him bitching about not getting the players he wanted).
I think the bigger problem is that they have no history and the team is full of mercenaries. Chelsea at least had a decent pedigree and old guys like Lampard, Terry, and Cech who actually give a shit about the club. But I think the biggest problem, as someone said, is that he was a terrible man manager. Seems like he was never on the same page as the players. Like when he complained that he didn't get the players he wanted in the summer, what does that say about the ones he DID get? : /
And not believing the Neymar thing unless I see an official source. He doesn't even fit anywhere in the club; Bayern is too stacked at every position for him to play consistently.
On May 14 2013 20:38 Steveling wrote: I joined a tournament in ultimate team mode and someone destroyed me 17-0, lol.
What is this I don't even o.O
I once beat a guy 11-0 and it was pretty much non stop scoring, so how your opponent got 17 just baffles me!!! Like, if you just leave the controller alone it'll be hard for them to get 17 goals. Which reminds me, the biggest tip I can give you on defence is: let the computer do most of the defending, your job is to control players to intercept passes, cut off moves and bring reinforcements back. Barely ever attempt to control any of your back 4 defenders. The Ai is pretty good and doesn't get faked out like humans do. The only time you should control a back 4 defender is when they are clearly going for a shot outside the box and you can block it!
Oh I'm watching now this bateson dude playing fifa on twich, he plays so beautifully damn. Is he like the flash of fifa? xD
Lol back in my day of FIFA when tournaments just began to get going, there was a FLASH like god of FIFA..His name was ChrissyB, i remember my first online FIFA tournament in 2008, i entered and thought i'll try my luck at this. Group stage draw i had ChrissyB in my group...dayummm He beat me over 2 legs 8-1 >.< Was not very fun, but he was the best for about 3-4 years, winning EVERYTHING. PC Xbox and PS3 and dominating the scene all over the world, he made a fortune. But now FIFA is wide open, ChrissyB didn't even qualify for the tournament in LasVegas earlier this year nor did he qualify for the FIWC. He did tweet after the EA event in Vegas that he was going to try harder and get back to his best but who knows
Reports are that Dortmund officials where at Villa Park on Saturday watching Aston Villa's Benteke play vs Chelsea...possible replacement for Lewandowski?
Sorry, but where is ChrissyB Flashlike? He has one FIWC under his belt and that was in FIFA 06. He never came close to winning the WCG grand finals.
The FIFA-Twins (styla and hero) were, together, dominating the scence back then (like 04-08 or smth). They won WCG 3 times each (I don't know if some of that was like 2on2 or team) and dominated the FIFA (PC) scene in Germany. Noticable today are a bunch of guys who competed in the FIWC last week, but those were with real names so idk the nicknames of them. Deto (One of the best, or the best German player atm) won the last 2 WCG and was Top8 FIWC this year, 3rd last year iirc. Afaik none of the German top guys stream & it is very hard to get fresh VOD's of "real" pros. Besides that, professional FIFA is not the most fun to watch, because everyone plays very careful to not lose posession, mostly no risks involved until someone scores.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut back to real football: Does Wigan need to go through some of the qualification rounds of EL or are they qualified directly for groupplay with their win in the FA-Cup?
Hmmm...the streamers on Twitch all seem to be silly FUT people so it is very boring i do watch a few, and my mate streams his online season mode atm for PC and i watch him. ChrissyB dominated everything in the UK for about 5 years is the reason i say him, i know he hasn't won many WCG but i know he didn't go to everyone as the money wasn't that big for him. The FIWC has only just started hasn't it? Been going since FIFA 11 at most? Same with the EA lan in Vegas that has only gone on twice. UK normally have high representatives in these tourneys but as of late have not been progressing well in the later ends of the tourney. For example that Vegas thing was 256 man tourney? And the UK had the most finalists but only had one the Ro16
But yeah i guess it isn't that big of an E-Sport and right now its fkn shite to watch...Real vs Real...Ronaldo spam ;_; But i did like this years FIWC as it had Alan Macinally co commentating with RedEye...HOW FUCKING COOL XD
Wigan will be in seeded directly into the group stage as they won the cup
On May 14 2013 20:38 Steveling wrote: I joined a tournament in ultimate team mode and someone destroyed me 17-0, lol.
What is this I don't even o.O
I once beat a guy 11-0 and it was pretty much non stop scoring, so how your opponent got 17 just baffles me!!! Like, if you just leave the controller alone it'll be hard for them to get 17 goals. Which reminds me, the biggest tip I can give you on defence is: let the computer do most of the defending, your job is to control players to intercept passes, cut off moves and bring reinforcements back. Barely ever attempt to control any of your back 4 defenders. The Ai is pretty good and doesn't get faked out like humans do. The only time you should control a back 4 defender is when they are clearly going for a shot outside the box and you can block it!
Idd the best tip is to let AI pick up positions and just move players into passing lines. I can't do it, i always talk a great game and play opposite haha xD But the best thing to do is AI close the ball down whilst u move around to intercept the pass or if you can get over and challenge and win the ball do so, but only if your 90% sure you can win it, or thats 2 people out of the game and GG shots coming in xD
Can you guys open a FIFA thread or sth? This really doesn't belong here. I'm always looking forward to real football news and this FIFA talk disappoints me
Platt was an important part of the club’s attempts to create a bridge to Mancini and draw him into the fold – an enterprise over which there has been no small amount of agonising in the past few years. But it was a profoundly difficult task. The club’s executives felt they were getting somewhere with their planning, a year or so back when, during Garry Cook’s tenure as chief executive, they managed to get all of the executives key to their work in the transfer market together in one room. This little “player acquisition board meeting” felt like a breakthrough, except that Mancini refused to participate. He put his head down, stared at his feet and sulked for near an hour and a half. Platt tried to smooth things over, by all accounts, but that was the essence of Mancini.
My favorite Mancini Moment of the season was when he took off Dzeko, then 10 minutes later realized he needed a big man and subbed in Lescott at center forward. I think it was during the 3-1 loss to spurs. He was good for entertainment but I don't know why any billion dollar club would want him in charge.
He's apparently pretty terrible to work with too, which would explain why he had a falling out every week with a different city player. Tevez, Balotelli, Nasri, Hart, Lescott, (where the hell did that one come from) Kompany, Zabaleta
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has refused to rule out a summer move for Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney
Trio travel for Chelsea final. Chelsea captain John Terry, Eden Hazard and John Mikel Obi are part of a 25-man party to take on Benfica.
Interim Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez may be interested in managing Napoli
Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller believes that his side must win their Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund if they are not to earn the tag of 'losers'.
EPT
Nice move if it's true.
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