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Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
August 03 2014 17:15 GMT
#1241
On August 04 2014 02:04 RDaneelOlivaw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2014 01:56 graan wrote:
On August 04 2014 01:50 Pandemona wrote:
Today i learnt German referee's are so poor. I hope it's just because their in pre season too for their domestic league sake XD


who'm your talking about? we are whinning about our refs all the time, but when its wc/ec time our representative is hyped a lot ^^

I'm going to take a wild guess that he's talking about the guy reffing the Chelsea match, some guy named Harm Osmers. Poor is too good a term for him

Never heard of him before and he has only 8 2nd division games under his belt
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 03 2014 17:17 GMT
#1242
On August 04 2014 02:15 Maenander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2014 02:04 RDaneelOlivaw wrote:
On August 04 2014 01:56 graan wrote:
On August 04 2014 01:50 Pandemona wrote:
Today i learnt German referee's are so poor. I hope it's just because their in pre season too for their domestic league sake XD


who'm your talking about? we are whinning about our refs all the time, but when its wc/ec time our representative is hyped a lot ^^

I'm going to take a wild guess that he's talking about the guy reffing the Chelsea match, some guy named Harm Osmers. Poor is too good a term for him

Never heard of him before and he has only 8 2nd division games under his belt


Da f.... we got a 2nd division German ref? How bm xD
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BeaTeR
Profile Joined March 2003
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-03 17:32:15
August 03 2014 17:31 GMT
#1243
Speaking of Atkinson. He fucked up my accumulator by not giving a clear penalty on Akpom. He gave free kick instead
kyllinghest
Profile Joined December 2011
Norway1607 Posts
August 03 2014 17:52 GMT
#1244
On August 03 2014 22:28 Liquid`Drone wrote:
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On August 03 2014 10:48 kyllinghest wrote:
On August 03 2014 07:17 Liquid`Drone wrote:
amazing how much a team can seemingly improve in a couple months lol. united looking like legit title contenders, not so much because of their results as them suddenly stringing together nice attack after nice attack.

and yeah they have a couple expensive signings so far but mostly it just seems to showcase how superior LVG is to moyes. ;p

Keep it in your pants mate, its preseason!


Vidal + one CB and their squad looks quite a bit better than the one that won 2012/2013 imo. Add to it that they have NO EC competition (which imo was a great boost for Liverpool's PL success last year), that they're probably the hungriest they've been for a couple decades, and that LVG seems absolutely brilliant and the perfect coach for their team right now..

I guess I still have chelsea as favorites but if I were to make a prediction right now, I'd have chelsea 1 manchester clubs at 2-3 arsenal 4 liverpool 5. don't see tottenham or everton really challenging those teams this season.

I pretty much agree, though I fancy City as favorites. Bit of a tossup between Liverpool, Arsenal and United for me. Depends how the new signings work out, I think United need more than one new CB. I also think their new formation can be exploited alot by teams that transition fast. Arsenal will be Arsenal, they always seem to find a way to loose their foooting. Liverpool would have been favorites for me if they had kept Suarez (and if he wasn´t banned as usual), now they are a wildcard. Anything can happen, I think Sterling is gonna be in contention for player of the year come may, he´ll be the closest to a replacement for Suarez me thinks.
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Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
August 03 2014 18:01 GMT
#1245
Wow Chelsea lost 0:3 against Bremen a team who will have to fight for place ~ 10 or so.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 03 2014 18:03 GMT
#1246
Good job its pre season then huh
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Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 03 2014 18:04 GMT
#1247
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TriZen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
England219 Posts
August 03 2014 18:07 GMT
#1248
Chelsea's pre-season strategy was a weird one, the teams aren't the most impressive to say the least.. But they gave Costa a bit of confidence I guess. I'd say it was a bad decision if it wasn't Mourinho.. he probably knows what he's doing. But when you compare it to a pre-season such as that of Liverpool playing teams such as: United, City, Dortmund, AC Milan.. it just feels like you're getting a more tense work out.

But one match means nothing at all
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 03 2014 18:11 GMT
#1249
Transfer News

According to El Confidencial, Paris St Germain could announce the signing of Angel di Maria from Real Madrid tomorrow. PSG will reportedly pay €75million (£59.9m) to sign Di Maria on a four-year contract.

Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas joins Real Madrid


PSG sticking two fingers up to UEFA and its FFP i see....
€75million Di Maria + €60 something Million for Luiz? How is that even possible?
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Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
August 03 2014 18:39 GMT
#1250
On August 04 2014 03:11 Pandemona wrote:
Good job its pre season then huh

Yea sure also Bremen had almost no one on national teams. But still for a club with 0 money and a questionable roster a really nice result pre season or not.

On August 04 2014 03:11 Pandemona wrote:
Transfer News

According to El Confidencial, Paris St Germain could announce the signing of Angel di Maria from Real Madrid tomorrow. PSG will reportedly pay €75million (£59.9m) to sign Di Maria on a four-year contract.

Costa Rica keeper Keylor Navas joins Real Madrid


PSG sticking two fingers up to UEFA and its FFP i see....
€75million Di Maria + €60 something Million for Luiz? How is that even possible?


This just have to stop. I think 100 Million for Ronaldo or 90 for Neymar are kinda ok in a weird and perverted way because they are really special on and off the field but i would have no problem to list 20 offensive midfield players that are as good or are in the same prize region as Di Maria is. Dont get me wrong he is really good and i would love to see him with Bayern Munich but more for something around 35M€.

I remember how everyone freaked out at the 100 for Ronald a couple of years ago but with todays prizes it was almost "under prized".
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18746 Posts
August 03 2014 18:43 GMT
#1251
yeah I doubt di maria will generate sick tshirt sales
Craze
Profile Joined July 2010
United States561 Posts
August 03 2014 18:45 GMT
#1252
It's fine with me if some ridiculously rich oil prince's want to sink billions into their toys.
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28894 Posts
August 03 2014 18:47 GMT
#1253
just sucks when you're thinking about how they got those billions from exploiting millions. So basically you're fine with exploiting millions for some toy.
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Craze
Profile Joined July 2010
United States561 Posts
August 03 2014 18:48 GMT
#1254
If you get that deep into it yes its wrong. But the money is there anyway. What are they realistically going to do with it? At least its sinking back into the economy rather than sitting in a vault/account somewhere.
kyllinghest
Profile Joined December 2011
Norway1607 Posts
August 03 2014 19:00 GMT
#1255
Ah, how I have missed tinkering with my fantasy team. Now finally time for some rosterbating, feels so good, surely this is my year!
"NO" -Has
SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
August 03 2014 19:00 GMT
#1256
I used to think FM was simply broken when teams refused like 150m pounds for someone not that amazing, but it seems they may just be really good at predicting the future if this price inflation keeps going.
malcram
Profile Joined November 2010
2752 Posts
August 03 2014 19:04 GMT
#1257
On August 04 2014 04:00 SKC wrote:
I used to think FM was simply broken when teams refused like 150m pounds for someone not that amazing, but it seems they may just be really good at predicting the future if this price inflation keeps going.



haha, i've always been curious as to what sort of data the makers of FM use for their game.
smr
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4808 Posts
August 03 2014 19:29 GMT
#1258
On August 04 2014 03:07 TriZen wrote:
Chelsea's pre-season strategy was a weird one, the teams aren't the most impressive to say the least.. But they gave Costa a bit of confidence I guess. I'd say it was a bad decision if it wasn't Mourinho.. he probably knows what he's doing. But when you compare it to a pre-season such as that of Liverpool playing teams such as: United, City, Dortmund, AC Milan.. it just feels like you're getting a more tense work out.

But one match means nothing at all


As a Dortmund fan I'm not sure about the best preseason opponents. Seeing that a lot of teams go to America and play some kind of small champions league I get extremely scared that we test against 3rd and lower league teams. Hardest opponent yet was Chievo Verona. We'll have Liverpool and afterwards a "meaningless" cup game against Bayern but that's it. Our season starts with a tough match against Bayer Leverkusen.

But on the other hand we have a few German internationals still missing and everybody looks extremely exhausted during the games due to the high intensity of training.

But can you doubt the likes of Mourinho and Klopp based on pre-season fixtures?
Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-03 20:42:06
August 03 2014 20:38 GMT
#1259
On August 04 2014 04:29 smr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2014 03:07 TriZen wrote:
Chelsea's pre-season strategy was a weird one, the teams aren't the most impressive to say the least.. But they gave Costa a bit of confidence I guess. I'd say it was a bad decision if it wasn't Mourinho.. he probably knows what he's doing. But when you compare it to a pre-season such as that of Liverpool playing teams such as: United, City, Dortmund, AC Milan.. it just feels like you're getting a more tense work out.

But one match means nothing at all


As a Dortmund fan I'm not sure about the best preseason opponents. Seeing that a lot of teams go to America and play some kind of small champions league I get extremely scared that we test against 3rd and lower league teams. Hardest opponent yet was Chievo Verona. We'll have Liverpool and afterwards a "meaningless" cup game against Bayern but that's it. Our season starts with a tough match against Bayer Leverkusen.

But on the other hand we have a few German internationals still missing and everybody looks extremely exhausted during the games due to the high intensity of training.

But can you doubt the likes of Mourinho and Klopp based on pre-season fixtures?


For teams like Dortmund, Bayern or Chelsea these games are pretty meaningless i think. Its possible that it helps some players to get into a rhytm better but not in a big way. Everyone knows the other players, the coach the system and stuff.

Were it really is helpful is if the coach is new. For example i think the pre season games of ManU are pretty important but not because of the games itself but because you can simulate the stuff around. How does Van Gaal prepare pre game, how does he coach on field and how does he likes to manage halftime are things you cant really simulate.

For lower lvl teams there might be a psychological factor like i can see the players of Werder Bremen beeing hyped up the next days because they beated Chelsea 3-0 but for the big teams i dont think they matter at all.

There is a reason most pre season games for the big ones are to make $, for fans, for PR or some sort of local deal with the host of the training camp.
Mensol
Profile Joined September 2012
14536 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-03 21:39:07
August 03 2014 21:27 GMT
#1260
Manchester City should be favorites to win PL.

Pellegrini did some good transfers in this transfer window. Fernando and Mangala were what they needed, And Sagna added more depth to roster. It's really going to be hard to break Kompany and Mangala.

Rodgers have spent Suarez's money really well but i think Liverpool will back where they belong, mid table. He bought bunch of unexperienced players i dont really expect them to finish top 4.

Chelsea's title chance is mostly depends on Costa, but still they have the best all around roster after MCity so they should be top 4 without problem.

Manchester United will be the in title race if they sign Vidal, LVG rocks.

Arsenal not going to win shit as long as they have Giroud as striker.
If you don't know what the fuck you are doing, how are your enemies supposed to know what the fuck you are doing. - imaqtpie on NA teams at Worlds.
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