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On March 10 2015 22:30 Steveling wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2015 22:23 Pandemona wrote:On March 10 2015 21:35 Steveling wrote:On March 10 2015 21:17 Liquid`Drone wrote:
yeah ok barca won the 12/13 season so convincingly that I guess I can't claim that they were the best when he left, so I retract that sentence. ;p
but the clasicos went from being dominated in his first season to losing only one of the last 10? I just don't see how he was a fiasco or how his stay at real was humiliating or whatever. Every manager is gonna experience humiliating losses at some point, regardless of how great they are, football is a volatile sport with enormous variance. he got second-first-second in the league while competing against the greatest barcelona team we've seen (a team I have stated in the past was so dominant and great that I thought watching them play was boring). Three champions league semi finals in three years, that is success with bad luck, nothing poor about it.
First of all, you are clearly not in touch with any rm fans. I know plenty from my barca forum and they aren't happy one bit about the way mou managed to not get trashed during the 2nd half of his stay in madrid. Well according to Guillem Ballague guy there was a fairly big chunk of Real fans that "loved him" which you can also see when he runs over to them last game of the seasons and receives and standing ovation from them. So due to how big Real Madrid fan base is i don't think your ever going to please 100% of those fans. He was liked and disliked there. Karanka articleNow that article is probably bias due to him working with Mourinho before he got a job. However much of the "hate" of Mourinho stems from the Media in Spain literally hating him, with that he hardly went to any press conference and sent Karanka instead. As he walked away from the Bernabéu pitch for the last time, the outgoing Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho waved a pointed goodbye to the gang of ultras gathered behind one goal, who had been singing his name throughout the game. Source Guillem Ballague is clueless and hardly a la liga expert as you call him in england. Ask haitike.
Well he started off as analyst (along side Martinez) and for British viewers hes kinda the face of liga news. Heck when I was a kid he was still there and we used to get sky coverage sold to the regional cable networks. Were talking 15-17 years
He has his agenda's but hes been around a while and he does tend to know his shit even if his analysis may not be the best. They use him more like a page6 guy.
So I wouldnt discredit him as being clueless but la liga expert would be pushing it because he pulls shit like this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2830714/Cristiano-Ronaldo-denies-calling-Lionel-Messi-motherf-r-nickname-Real-Madrid-star-says-respects-Barcelona-opposite.html
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
We laugh at him too don't worry he always gives these breaking news stories when everyone already knows its happening. But he does have "some" contacts still though in Spain, he was very good on the Bale transfer deal, but then he was pretty sure last summer Xavi was off etc and he didn't go anywhere.
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If you guys really wanna know more about Mou at RM read "Prepárense para perder" (Get ready to lose). I'm only some chapters into it because it's not that interesting for me (and I didn't buy it) but is a clear example of the saying that reality can be way more shocking than fiction.
Maybe someone can find a translated version of the book for those who can't read spanish 
Oh lol most people here probably don't know about the "Plataforma Castor" either. Now that's worthy of a James Bond movie plot, where Spain is the third world trópico banana island and Florentino Pérez is the villain and the dictator's best friend.
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Inb4 mou is actually cthulhu.
Um, cthoulhou? xP
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Finished 1-1, falc didn't score. Raf did.
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Oh right so that's why United got Falcao in.
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In what way are they U21? Shouldn't it be called reserves or something like that?
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On March 12 2015 01:18 anomalopidae wrote:
In what way are they U21? Shouldn't it be called reserves or something like that?
I think there's a limit on of 2 or 3 over aged players or something.
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Not sure about rules in other countries but in Germany some (all?) 2nd squads of the Bundesliga teams are U23-teams which are allowed to field 3 players older than that.
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here I dont know if there are U21 clubs. There are B teams, Barcelona B, Madrid Castilla, Bilbao Athletic, Villareal B, etc. They usually play in third division (2B) and there are no age limit, but most players are young.
The national team yes, it has U21.
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Do ManUTD uses overaged players often?
I remember Ashley Young, Rafael and Valdes were playing against chelsea youngsters a month ago...
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On March 12 2015 04:34 Steveling wrote:![[image loading]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_0xxtjUcAAhp8s.png)
And that is why Barcelona fans booed him in the stadium in lot of matches. Because the three seasons he dissapeared in the big moment of the season, despite his great begin.
One of the most irregular players I have seen (Ozil is another too).
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Norway28908 Posts
wow such consistent inconsistency
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On March 12 2015 03:45 BeaTeR wrote:
Do ManUTD uses overaged players often?
I remember Ashley Young, Rafael and Valdes were playing against chelsea youngsters a month ago...
It's not that abnormal. It's a decent and common way for players to regain some match fitness after an injury.
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On March 12 2015 02:51 haitike wrote:
here I dont know if there are U21 clubs. There are B teams, Barcelona B, Madrid Castilla, Bilbao Athletic, Villareal B, etc. They usually play in third division (2B) and there are no age limit, but most players are young.
The national team yes, it has U21.
They get promoted and relegated same as all the other teams, just with a rule that they can't be in the same league as the main team, if that happened they automatically bump down a division. Barcelona B has been in the second division for a while (though they are in the relegation places this season) and I think a lot of the others are in the third.
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On March 12 2015 12:20 ZapRoffo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2015 02:51 haitike wrote:
here I dont know if there are U21 clubs. There are B teams, Barcelona B, Madrid Castilla, Bilbao Athletic, Villareal B, etc. They usually play in third division (2B) and there are no age limit, but most players are young.
The national team yes, it has U21. They get promoted and relegated same as all the other teams, just with a rule that they can't be in the same league as the main team, if that happened they automatically bump down a division. Barcelona B has been in the second division for a while (though they are in the relegation places this season) and I think a lot of the others are in the third.
yup.
here in Germany, no second teams are allowed in the first two leagues. (Dortmund II, Schalke II, Bayern II and so on). they are also restricted to, I think, 3 players over 23.
but only quite few of them actually make it to the third league (lowest "professional" league in german football), most of those second teams play in the fourth league. nonetheless, there have been tons of great german youngsters in recent years. that our big clubs' U23 teams dont play in higher leagues maybe has to do with the lower budget of most german clubs, since this means that gifted young players get more chances to play in their club's first team at an early age... or get bought up by premier league clubs. XD
(afaik, with the new TV deal, the last place team in england will get more than twice the tv revenue than bayern as german champions.)
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did he perhaps sign a contract with arsenal recently? :D
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