2014 - 2015 Football Thread - Page 137

On August 26 2014 00:27 Stratos_speAr wrote:


Or come back to Dortmund and be awesome again!

I'm pretty sure we'd throw him a party if he came back. We loved him when he played for us!

On August 26 2014 00:35 Steveling wrote:
Manolas came to terms with Roma.
The talented 23 yo CB will be bought for 15m from Olympiakos.

That means that Benatia has already being sold, to whom is the question.

On August 25 2014 23:23 smr wrote:

ManUtd paid 50m for Mata to play no.10. No way he's gonna play anywhere else on the field.

On August 26 2014 00:41 warding wrote:

What's your opinion on Samaris btw?

Ey mate, samaris is the definition of the modern holding midfielder. He can do everything, he's not aggressive though, he's more like bousquets. He has insane talent though, last season he was playing for a feeder club in the greek league. We bought him as a prospect but in only one season he managed to become a starter, do well in the CL against big teams and do amazing in his first world cup.The goal he scored against ivory coast is pure class for example. I think you will love him.

On August 26 2014 00:27 Stratos_speAr wrote:


Or come back to Dortmund and be awesome again!

I'm pretty sure we'd throw him a party if he came back. We loved him when he played for us!

On August 26 2014 01:18 Salteador Neo wrote:
LMAO 8 games ban for Simeone, the corruption is big on this one.

Win against RM? Get rekt by the RM fans who hold the power son.

Their sponsor is a local scrap metal business that first appeared on the shirt when no one else wanted to. There are 4,000 season-ticket holders and 600 more on the waiting list. You could get the population of Eibar into the Camp Nou and still have room for 71,000 people. A 15-floor block of flats would tower over most stadiums, sure, but 14 of the 15 floors in the two blocks by the ground overlook Ipurúa. The stand in front of them goes back just five rows. Temporary seats increased the capacity – by less than 700 – and Ipurúa is smaller than the 6000 minimum required in the Segunda División, let alone the 15,000 for La Liga.

They have a year to remedy that, compliance has not always been enforced (Numancia only had a capacity of 9,000) and expansion would be pointless: who’s going to sit there? On Sunday, a handful of the seats in the temporary stand remained empty. But being small was a problem before and it could be again. As Eibar headed towards the Segunda División title, they found themselves in trouble. A “model club”, in the words of the league’s president, they had no debt. But according to the law that obliged all clubs except Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic and Osasuna to become SADs (PLCs) in 1992, their social capital, their value in shares, had to be at least 25% of the average expenses of all the Segunda División teams, minus the two biggest and the two smallest. They had to take their social capital to €2,146,525m, raising over €1.7m in share issues. If not, through no fault of their own, they wouldn’t just be denied promotion to the first division but would be relegated to the Second Division B. They’d go down two divisions even more quickly than they had come up.

A campaign began. Fans bought shares; shops became stakeholders. No one could buy more than €100,000’s worth: they did not want to fall prey to speculators. Xabi Alonso and Asier Illarramendi were among those supporting it. Amazingly, it worked. Luis Maria Cendoya, a 90-year-old who has been a member since 1945, bought the share that saw them go over the threshold. On the main wall of the ground, the names of shareholders are going up in gratitude. There are lots of Basque names, but look carefully: “Paul Reidy, Ireland.” 10,000 people bought shares in 50 countries. Before kick-off, a message went round the perimeter in a series of languages: thank you.

On August 26 2014 00:38 Pandemona wrote:
My guess would be Yanited.
Chelsea want Destro instead now to replace Torres is what i understand.

On August 26 2014 01:18 Salteador Neo wrote:
LMAO 8 games ban for Simeone, the corruption is big on this one.

Win against RM? Get rekt by the RM fans who hold the power son.