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Super Kami Guru
Profile Joined May 2011
France54 Posts
August 26 2016 09:37 GMT
#241
On August 26 2016 14:07 Greg_J wrote:
Wenger has blown the dust off and got his walet out.


Is this real life ? what happened ? who ?
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Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
August 26 2016 10:06 GMT
#242


Ian Rush drops Madrid paper with the left hand and picks it up with the right hand. Not calling anything because this is obviously no proof, just having a little fun

So why can't they use a rotating drum exactly? They use it for the lottery everywhere. This way of doing things, plus Blatter openly saying they used to put those balls on the fridge to create the groupgs they wanted for the Euros is shady and just creates controversy.
Revolutionist fan
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-26 10:13:44
August 26 2016 10:12 GMT
#243
On August 26 2016 18:37 Super Kami Guru wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 26 2016 14:07 Greg_J wrote:
Wenger has blown the dust off and got his walet out.


Is this real life ? what happened ? who ?

Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi both players I'm not that familiar are apparently in London either in talks or having medicals. Nothing is final.

edi: also I'm back from deepest darkest Henan and so glad the football seasons under way.
Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-26 10:15:34
August 26 2016 10:14 GMT
#244
Lucas Pérez goals/assist numbers for last year looks really good on paper, specially for a Deportivo player.
Revolutionist fan
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
August 26 2016 11:05 GMT
#245
SKY Sport's make him sound a bit like Vardy to me likes to run into and attack space. That's not really how Arsenal play at all. But as long as he's got the killer instinct. That's what's lacking at Arsenal.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 26 2016 11:20 GMT
#246
Yeah thats what i liked about him myself. He scored a good amount of goals in a pretty average team so thats impressive. Doesn't even have to be a starter just needs to be around scoring goals from the bench / rotation. He also scored more in the league than Giroud too so i think it very good price and signing.

Mustafi is a must for them, Per is way to old and Holding isn't ready yet. Would sure them up abit, even if Mustafi isn't really world class, he is still a lot better than Holding and Mertersacker (due to age etcetc)
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sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
August 26 2016 11:27 GMT
#247
Competition changes are official

-The UEFA Europa League winners will automatically qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage (currently they can potentially take part in a play-off round).
-The top four clubs from the four top-ranked national associations will now qualify automatically for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
-The full details of the access list for both competitions will be finalised by the end of the year.
-A new system for the club coefficients: clubs will be judged on their own records (deletion of the country share for individual club coefficient unless that coefficient is lower than 20% of the association's coefficient).
-Historical success in the competition will also be acknowledged in coefficient calculation (points for previous European titles with a weighted system for UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League titles)
-Financial distribution to clubs will be increased significantly for both competitions.
-A new four-pillar financial distribution system (starting fee, performance in the competition, individual club coefficient and market pool) will see sporting performances better rewarded, while market pool share will decrease.

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2398899.html

So while it is not going to be Spain, Germany, England and Italy for "historic merit" straight up it will likely still end up that way. Unless they change the bonus point structure it will be almost impossible for anyone else to crack the top four.
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
Ysellian
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands9029 Posts
August 26 2016 11:38 GMT
#248
Feyenoord - Man Utd, in a half full stadium because our fans can't behave like normal people. Fucking shame.
haitike
Profile Joined June 2009
Spain2744 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-26 11:43:57
August 26 2016 11:43 GMT
#249
-A new four-pillar financial distribution system (starting fee, performance in the competition, individual club coefficient and market pool) will see sporting performances better rewarded, while market pool share will decrease.


So big clubs will get a lot more money than small clubs, just what we needed in CL o.o
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 26 2016 12:18 GMT
#250
I like new changes for champions league haha, means no more panicking from England and getting punished for having a stupidly competitive league. Whether the English teams are good or not, no one can deny that anyone can beat anyone in the premier league and playing 2 days a week, no winter breaks and the rest of it, does impact us. Financially it makes sense too to have those top 4 leagues with the most teams in the ro32. Plus it should make the play offs better for other teams. Steuea Bucharesti played Man City this year!
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RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6322 Posts
August 26 2016 12:45 GMT
#251
How does it make play offs better when there are less spots to play for? These changes do not even attempt to break the dominance of the biggest league. Not that I expected it would but still...
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18761 Posts
August 26 2016 13:03 GMT
#252
totally forgot that football started with the Olympics going on this month
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 26 2016 13:18 GMT
#253
On August 26 2016 21:45 RvB wrote:
How does it make play offs better when there are less spots to play for? These changes do not even attempt to break the dominance of the biggest league. Not that I expected it would but still...

Whilst that is true, the games they will be playing will be less high calibre teams. So you have more chance if you are a Leiga Warsaw etcetc teams that are worthy but fact Man City or 4th place team from Germany or something etc. I mean Gladbach and City the 4th place qualifiers from England and Germany and both these two teams won with aggregate scorelines of 6+ !
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Kaolla
Profile Joined January 2003
China2999 Posts
August 26 2016 14:14 GMT
#254
On August 26 2016 22:18 Pandemona wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 26 2016 21:45 RvB wrote:
How does it make play offs better when there are less spots to play for? These changes do not even attempt to break the dominance of the biggest league. Not that I expected it would but still...

Whilst that is true, the games they will be playing will be less high calibre teams. So you have more chance if you are a Leiga Warsaw etcetc teams that are worthy but fact Man City or 4th place team from Germany or something etc. I mean Gladbach and City the 4th place qualifiers from England and Germany and both these two teams won with aggregate scorelines of 6+ !


Cause they drew relatively weak teams (that apparently didn't play too well either), but it's just part of the whole deal. If they had drawn a club like Porto they might not even have made it. The goal of the Champions League once was to have the champions of European nations play each other, now it's just some bullshit rich club league, where most champions don't even qualify and clubs that are not champion and already have a shit ton of money are qualified (and thus get even more) without even having to play a single match.

Maybe they should just make it a 4 team league with Real, Barca, Bayern and a qualifier for the fourth team. Not like other clubs have much chance of winning it anyway. And clubs like Arsenal should never be allowed to qualify again, after all they lost 5-1 to Barca last year over 2 matches, a 4!!!!!!! goal difference, ridiculous a club like that can make it past the group stage.

Anyway, I don't think this is a positive development for football as a whole at all. Some fans of the clubs that are included might think it's good, but I personally think the interest for the champions league and football in general will decline in most European countries as a result. In other parts of the world (read: Asia) they might think it's great (and it will generate more income as a result), but i think the UEFA should have European football's interest at heart instead of just hard cash. It's pretty clear that's currently not the case.
its me
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 26 2016 14:49 GMT
#255
You can't have it both ways, you either have champions LEAGUE or the European Cup where the winners of each league play vs eachother in a knock out tournament. I have nothing wrong with that but that means the likes of Barca or Real Madrid will miss out on that competition every season! And the German's might get bored of only seeing Bayern in the European Cup

The Champions League system is fine, maybe they could just do the top 2 from each league i don't know but the system they have is fine at the moment but the way you get into the tournament with the qualifiers is badly done.
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Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
August 26 2016 14:54 GMT
#256
Italy does really well out of this. Last year Lazio lost their play off to Leverkusen and as a result Italy only had 2 teams in The Champions League proper. This rule change means Italy is guaranteed to have 4.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
August 26 2016 14:56 GMT
#257
Yeah and this year Roma self destructed on the pitch to lose to Porto at home after tieing the away league 1-1! To also leave Italy with 2 teams in it this year
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
August 26 2016 15:08 GMT
#258
So much happened whilst I was travelling.
I'm enjoying the Joe Hart saga. I'm sure somewhere will take him in. But he doesn't look to far from signing on right now.

I am imagining him at the job centre in full goal keeper get up trying to explain his skills and what kind of club he would like to work for.
Kaolla
Profile Joined January 2003
China2999 Posts
August 26 2016 15:19 GMT
#259
On August 26 2016 23:49 Pandemona wrote:
You can't have it both ways, you either have champions LEAGUE or the European Cup where the winners of each league play vs eachother in a knock out tournament. I have nothing wrong with that but that means the likes of Barca or Real Madrid will miss out on that competition every season! And the German's might get bored of only seeing Bayern in the European Cup

The Champions League system is fine, maybe they could just do the top 2 from each league i don't know but the system they have is fine at the moment but the way you get into the tournament with the qualifiers is badly done.


Why can't there be a league of teams that won their national league? That wouldn't be too hard I think. And why would both Barca and Real have to play in this league, I think that a year or 2 without one of them would make it even more fun to watch when they finally do qualify again. The current system where we pretty much see the same teams always getting far is pretty boring as well imo.

And yes, it would be boring for Germany to always see Bayern, but its still much better than the current situation where some countries don't even get to see their champion at all. And let's not forget that it will take a miracle for teams that are not from the big 3-4 leagues to ever still win the champions league. Instead of trying to fix that, UEFA seems to be going in the opposite direction and that's a shame imo.
its me
ZeroChrome
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1001 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-26 16:53:07
August 26 2016 16:52 GMT
#260
Apparently UEFA actually got the best deal possible for the smaller nations. The big clubs wanted even more shit to go their way but UEFA managed to reel them in for just the locked in top 4 spots.

Unfortunately it just means that every time the clubs want to negotiate they'll get even more, until the super league arrives so we can finally jerk each other off to messi vs ronaldo 38 times a season and forget about national leagues and non-mega clubs. Sigh.
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