EPTBallon d'Or, unfortunately for them, was already voted for before CL final and I think Championship finals
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Harris1st
Germany7172 Posts
Ballon d'Or, unfortunately for them, was already voted for before CL final and I think Championship finals | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Hildegard
Germany348 Posts
Also, only two more years with Pep at ManCity. Will be very interesting to see how they manage the transition to a new coach. Pep Guardiola plans to end Manchester City stay in two years when deal expires. Manager will have spent nine years at City when deal finishes. Pep Guardiola is firmly minded to leave Manchester City in two years when his contract expires. The manager, fresh from leading City to the treble, has all but decided that he will depart in summer 2025 and end his tenure after nine years. Source | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18280 Posts
On June 13 2023 00:02 Hildegard wrote: From the stats alone Mbappé is the best player. His performance in the world cup final was sensational. Also, only two more years with Pep at ManCity. Will be very interesting to see how they manage the transition to a new coach. Source Both Mbappe and Messi did nothing of note in club football. Also, Messi was sensational in the world cup too. Sure, he was supported by team mates who seemed to want to win the cup as much as he did, while Mbappe was left to do it basically all alone, but still... one of them WON the world cup for their team. Funnily enough, the key players in club football were all irrelevant at the world cup. KDB was unable to rise above the pathetic level of the Belgian team. Gundogan was below average for a rather average Germany. Norway didn't qualify. Julian Alvarez was a good player for City AND for Argentina, but not the best and not the decider for either team. That said, I'd rank Man City's treble above anything that happened at the world cup this season. Carrying a team to the world cup requires you to be brilliant for a few weeks. Winning the treble requires that level of play for months. Haaland or KDB deserve that recognition imho. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18634 Posts
On June 13 2023 00:56 Acrofales wrote: Both Mbappe and Messi did nothing of note in club football. Also, Messi was sensational in the world cup too. Sure, he was supported by team mates who seemed to want to win the cup as much as he did, while Mbappe was left to do it basically all alone, but still... one of them WON the world cup for their team. Funnily enough, the key players in club football were all irrelevant at the world cup. KDB was unable to rise above the pathetic level of the Belgian team. Gundogan was below average for a rather average Germany. Norway didn't qualify. Julian Alvarez was a good player for City AND for Argentina, but not the best and not the decider for either team. That said, I'd rank Man City's treble above anything that happened at the world cup this season. Carrying a team to the world cup requires you to be brilliant for a few weeks. Winning the treble requires that level of play for months. Haaland or KDB deserve that recognition imho. Gundogan wasnt average for Germany. They played their best football with him. Hansi Flick just subbed him out early all the time. Hansi Flick decided to go for his treble winning Bayern side and they disappointed him. That is not Gundogan's fault he was subbed | ||
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Mafe
Germany5966 Posts
Maybe not subbing Klose who was constantly getting on the wrong side of a card-happy ref in the game against serbia in 2010 is comparable. The difference of course being that subbing Gündogan doomed the entire world cup campaign, while not subbing Klose in the end only lost that partiular game, but didnt eliminate us. Though that was far from clear in that moment, | ||
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DropBear
Australia4400 Posts
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Hildegard
Germany348 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18280 Posts
On June 13 2023 17:18 DropBear wrote: If you want to go by best overall team results for both club and country then the Ballon d'Or winner should be Nicolas Otamendi Hm, in that case consider Bounou or En-Nesyri | ||
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gTank
Austria2608 Posts
On June 13 2023 19:47 Hildegard wrote: Mbappé decided not to renew at PSG. What a transfer window with Messi, Mbappé, Belingham and possibly Neymar. Do you think Real still wants to go for Mbappé? Think so since Benzema is gone, they need someone anyway. | ||
KobraKay
Portugal4284 Posts
On June 13 2023 20:59 gTank wrote: Think so since Benzema is gone, they need someone anyway. yeah but not Mbappe.... They will need an elite striker but someone who would fit with their young developing core, not someone who thinks he is bigger than the club. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6272 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28790 Posts
That said I agree Ajax should've been a perfect fit, he is highly influenced by Rinus Michels and likes the total football approach, and developing youngsters is perhaps his most prominent ability. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26742 Posts
Timing can be everything with some of these moves though, coming from a smaller league an initial failure can have you anointed as someone who can’t make the step up, so maybe something about Ajax put him off? Wasn’t there quite a lot of politics and upheaval at board level the last few years? | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6272 Posts
On June 13 2023 22:05 Liquid`Drone wrote: Was just reading the bodø-glimt supporters forum and they're saying there wasn't even a meeting, just contact between Ajax and knutsens agent. From what I've heard he has said something really extreme has to be on the table for him to consider leaving them mid-season, and with the Norwegian season being out of sync from most of Europe (we have a winter break instead of summer break), it seems hard to avoid. More than anything I think he feels there's still more left for him to achieve in bodø, and that he is both extremely pleased with the team he has (player for player it is the best they've had) and that he basically has complete autonomy, something he most likely won't have in a big European club. I don't think money is his primary motivation, he has already turned down higher paying jobs. That said I agree Ajax should've been a perfect fit, he is highly influenced by Rinus Michels and likes the total football approach, and developing youngsters is perhaps his most prominent ability. Thanks. I don't believe that he doesn't want to leave in the middle of the season but maybe I'm too cynical about the football world. The autonomy I can understand. Ajax would not give him control over transfer policy. Some influence but that's it. On June 13 2023 22:22 WombaT wrote: It’s hard to see what more he can accomplish there, if he can push them on even further in Europe that’d be impressive indeed Timing can be everything with some of these moves though, coming from a smaller league an initial failure can have you anointed as someone who can’t make the step up, so maybe something about Ajax put him off? Wasn’t there quite a lot of politics and upheaval at board level the last few years? Last one and a half year yes. Marc Overmars was our sporting director and Van Der Sar our CEO. They made a very good couple and Ten Hag was a very good addition as coach. Ajax was really not good for more than a decade and they turned it around from the latter half of the 2010s. Around 18 months ago Overmars got fired because he sent dick picks to female colleagues at Ajax. We didn't get a proper replacement and the last transfer summer was a disaster including the new coach to replace Ten Hag. So this season was a mess where we ended third and got knocked in Europe very fast (which is a disaster season for Ajax). Van der Sar also got a lot of criticism and it's one of the reason he'll quit soon. Having said that I think it's pretty much the best moment to step into Ajax. We're at a low point but Ajax has by far the biggest budget, expectations are relatively low, and the squad is still good enough to win the league with a good coach. Seeing what he did at Bodø Glimt I'm pretty sure he'd do very well at Ajax with this squad plus some extra reinforcements. | ||
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DropBear
Australia4400 Posts
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mahrgell
Germany3943 Posts
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haitike
Spain2726 Posts
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Bacillus
Finland2044 Posts
On June 15 2023 03:17 haitike wrote: Real Madrid midfield looking promising in the future. Bellingham, Valverde, Camavinga y Tchouameni, etc That's a pretty crazy combination of youth and talent for one midfield. Do they all fit into one midfield or are they clearly overlapping with each other? | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
For all the talk about Messi “and friends,” coming to Miami, at this point only one player can be considered likely to follow Messi to South Flordia: His longtime Barcelona teammate Sergio Busquets. Sources involved in discussions say a deal for the midfielder is not yet done, however. Miami has been working on a potential Busquets deal for months as they hoped Messi would choose to sign with the club. Notably, the club left the No. 10 and No. 5 jerseys open this winter; Messi prefers the No. 10 shirt, Busquets the No. 5. The initial hope was that Busquets joining Inter might actually be an incentive for Messi to come to MLS. Now, Messi has committed before any deal is done with Busquets, and the midfielder has a number of big-money offers on the table that are impacting negotiations. Sources briefed on talks said they believe Miami hopes to sign Busquets to a contract of $1.65 million or less and thus won’t require using one of the club’s three designated player (DP) slots. But Miami has multiple avenues to open up DP slots if they need to use one on Busquets. The club has its one-time contract buyout, can transfer or trade another player out, or use salary cap mechanisms to move one DP off the designation. Source | ||
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