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A bet i won about 2 weeks ago. Looks uninteresting right? Just some crappy Irish games. But look at the last match! I laughed for hours, i couldn't even sleep thinking about it lmao.

Just in case anyone isn't 100% sure on times and dates.. times in UK. Except the 28th July is Saturday, not Thursday.

I know i've posted this but it belongs here.

Happy Birthday mate, your birthday signalises the start of pre season

Half a day to go!

Just so cloudy here it's annoying. The temperature is ok ish, it's bright enough but just so overcast all the time. Want to see some sunshine for christ sake.

1. Messi 2. Ronaldo 3. Van Persie 4. Hazard 5. Thiago Silva 6. Marchisio 7. Kagawa 8. Aguero 9. Falcao 10. Pirlo

That Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal game is in the thread i posted yesterday that nobody wanted to watch Back then, it seemed like teams from London routed for each other against the north and the same for teams up north, it was a North vs South battle. My dad tells me that him and lots of his mates were really going for Arsenal in that game at anfield. Man Utd and Liverpool had a healthy respect for each other in the 70's, 80's too but now it's all changed.

I like Fulham for being the shittest team in Fulham.

As a kid? I still love it lol. Also a time like 2pm would be far worse because of work. Although next week i have been confirmed to be doing 4:30am - 11:30am so that will be interesting when we play our other games.

I watched some of the youth team games and it's been perfect on the stream. The stream runs all the time and it's really secure. Hopefully it's secure later on, you can never really be 100% sure but from my experience, it's been pretty flawless.

It's ok normally but when i edit a post, it's white.

That blues news video was brilliant, enjoyed watching the Sea Hawks and us training together and they all seem to play FIFA too lol. Now i have a favourite American Football team on the basis of a short vid. I'll look out for them now. Wonder if there's a Seattle forum about... *Checks*

I can't believe the deal was £40m plus Eto'o when Zlatan went to Barca and Eto'o went the other way. There have been some fucked up transfers in the last decade but that's the most fucked up of all. Especially how good Eto'o was/is.

FFP wont work at all, now teams like us will just get more sponsors and get more money. Also, this interested me. http://www.financial...lve-ffp-worries New Premier League TV deal to resolve FFP worries 19 June 2012 It isn't often that sporting journalists are genuinely shocked, but the new Premier League TV rights auction surprised many. The rights to broadcast the Premier League matches from 2013 to 2016 within the UK were up-for-grabs and had been expected to be sold for a similar sum to last time. Owing to the aggressive bidding from BT and the desire by Sky to hold onto most of the matches, the bidding closed at £3.018bn (a huge increase of £1.2bn from the last auction). For an excellent in-depth piece on the new deal, read this piece from www.sportingintelligence.com . The increase is so large (around 70%), that the FFP test covering years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 should be significantly eased for all Premier League clubs. However, this assumes the clubs spend the proceeds wisely and that the new funds don't trigger a new period of wage-escalation. Alan Sugar (Spurs Chairman at the time of the first Sky deal in 1992) talked of the 'prune juice effect' in football - whatever funds come in at the top are allowed to run out at the bottom (mainly on player wages). Despite clubs sharing over £1.1bn last season in TV revenue, most clubs fail to break-even. The new deal is more than 10-times the size of the 1992 deal - during this time player salaries have increased from an average £117k a year to a current averageof over £2m a year (a 17-fold increase). Analysts at Citi estimate that BT will need at least 2.5m subscribers to break-even - whether they can achieve this high figure remains to be seen. Clubs need to be mindful of the possibility that the next auction may not be as competitive and that revenue may decrease after 2015/16. With the current potential for wage escalation and with club tying players into 4 and 5 year contracts, it is important that clubs don't over-rely on the new deal's level of income. One other area of risk will be at the middle to bottom end of the Premier League. There is no escaping the fact that three clubs will be dumped off the gravy-train each season. Losing a guaranteed income of over £60m a season would be a disaster for a club that had written player contracts assuming this level of income (even allowing for parachute payments). Regarding FFP, it is important to remember that the increased revenue commences in 2013/14 - i.e. after the first two-year FFP Monitoring Period. Clubs will need to ensure that the promise of the new revenue does not get in the way of their need to meet the first Monitoring Period target. However with up-to £120m available for the top Premier Clubs, perhaps the prospect of an additional £30m in Champions League revenue (or £6m for the Europa League) could potentially become less financially relevant. It's basically saying that teams will get paid so much more from the BT deal that they will easily bypass the FFP anyway as they will pay teams a lot more money.

It's good to see de Bruyne and Piazon play of course but just be nice to have everyone available, especially Mata and Oscar. I'd love to see that Mata - Hazard - Ramires or Oscar attacking threat on the pitch at the same time against a team like Seattle and PSG in a different way. I love Piazon tho, can't wait to see him in the full set up. It's amazing thinking of the team we could put out next season. I've never known anything like this, this is what you call transformation.

Kakuta will most likely go back to France. I'll be sad to see him go but the reality is he has no chance here. I hope he has a good successful career. I still think he's quality but i can't for life of me see how he'll get in. I hope he performs well in the US tour to at least give himself a chance, i'd be so happy if he prevailed for us.

Really annoying that him and Mata are at the Olympics. I'd love to see them in pre season.

Piazon, Oscar, Ramires. Braziliant

If we get Moses and Oscar, it's goodbye to Sturridge, Banayoun, Malouda, Kakuta and Make or break for a couple more i presume. This CAM buying is getting quite insane.

Noticed a few things posting in white, including the 'likes this' but i'm sure everything's being sorted.

There's nothing illegal in a rich cunt buying a team and spending as much as he wants (Forget FFP for now). People moan but every team has an owner and every owner bought them from somewhere. Now we just need to see how we can fare against PSG in America. Will be great to beat them tbh. Thiago Silva will be at the Olympics anyway. Zlatan vs JT again, good stuff. Good luck to PSG anyway, fuck it. Why is this posting in white? Had to edit it and turn it black!

I love Arsenal because they are shit. I love Tottenham for sacking Redknapp who guided Tottenham to 4th place. Sorry but this is the crappest thread i've ever seen here. No offence to the thread starter but this isn't the kind of thread we really want to answer properly. I / We hate all of our rivals and saying good stuff about them just ain't gonna happen.

£50m happened yes. We've already spent enough this summer imo and we should be buying a striker who's not valued so stupidly. Torres happened, doesn't mean we need to spend another £35m. I'll be excited if he came but i don't want to see Torres get ousted (don't start a Torres has been shit debate, WE KNOW! but i'm just saying). He seems to be getting back somewhere near his best. He'll get chances galore next season. A signing of Cavani's stature is the last thing he needs. We have Torres, Sturridge and Lukaku. Maybe a decent striker is needed who aint gonna cost the world.