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Roma v Lazio extended highlights https://soccercatch.com/matches/18220157/roma-vs-lazio#media

SENSE Simon Jordan urges FA and the government to ‘grow up’ and allow Chelsea fans to buy tickets for their FA Cup semi-final with Crystal Palace https://talksport.com/football/fa-cup/1068780/

Serge Gnabry – Bayern Munich Milan Skriniar – Internazionale Robert Lewandowski – Bayern Munich Bukayo Saka – Arsenal

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Man United putting ‘pressure’ to sign PL star Antonio Rüdiger on a free – Red Devils ‘have not had final say’ http://sportwitness.co.uk/man-united-putting-pressure-sign-pl-star-free-red-devils-not-final-say/ As most of you will know, Antonio Rüdiger’s contract at Chelsea runs out in the summer. It’s been one of the most talked about free agent stories of the season, since the Germany international is among the best in his position in the Premier League, and Manchester United know this. Chelsea’s current situation means the club cannot offer him a new contract, even if he was reportedly interested in extending at Stamford Bridge, but that could all change if the Blues are sold away from Roman Abramovich. That could still take a while, though, allowing clubs to approach Rüdiger in the meantime with their own offers to try and lure him away from London. PSG? Real? Tottenham? Juventus? Announced as promised to the Old Lady, #Rüdiger has not made its final decision. At the end of the contract with #Chelsea , the German international is notably the subject of a forcing from Manchester United. #Mercato Like Parisians and Madrid, the Red Devils have not said their last word. For its part, Bayern Munich has backtracked on the XXL demands of the player. Manchester United are one of those, being pushed by the German and French media as a challenger to the likes of Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain for the centre-back. French journalist Ignazio Genuardi brought an update over the weekend, explaining that Rüdiger ‘has not taken a definitive decision on his future’, and is ‘notably the subject of pressure from Manchester United’, keen to bring him to Old Trafford for next season. Whether the Chelsea defender would want to move to another Premier League side remains to be seen, but ‘the Red Devils have not had their final say’ in the matter.

Chelsea bidders shortlist to be narrowed down to three, new offers made https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/Chelsea-bidders-shortlist-be-narrowed-down-three-new-offers-made-2022-03-21 MANCHESTER, England, March 21 (Reuters) - Raine Group, a U.S. bank overseeing the sale of Premier League club Chelsea, plans to narrow down the shortlist of bidders to three on Monday or Tuesday, sources close to the deal told Reuters. Chelsea were initially put up for sale by owner Roman Abramovich following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and before sanctions were imposed on the oligarch by the British government, effectively giving it control of the club. Raine set a deadline of 2100 GMT last Friday for bids to be made, with several being made public, while sources close to the deal said many more had been submitted privately. Some are only just being made public now, with London-based global investment firm Centricus confirming on Monday that they had offered to buy Chelsea, a bid driven by co-founder Nizar Al-Bassam and CEO Garth Ritchie, who are both said to be Blues season ticket holders. Reports in the British media have named several other bidders, including Saudi Media, headed by businessman Mohamed Alkhereiji. To move things forward, Reuters has been told that Raine, in consultation with the club, will narrow down the shortlist, with the process slowed by revised bids still coming in. Over the next few weeks, a preferred buyer or buyers will be submitted to the government who must issue a special licence for any sale and who require evidence that Abramovich will not make any financial gain. From there it will be up to the prospective buyer to pass the Premier League's Owners' and Directors' Test before completing their takeover. The test outlines factors that would prohibit an individual from becoming an owner or director of a club. These include criminal convictions for a wide range of offences, a ban by a sporting or professional body and breaches of certain key football regulations, such as match-fixing. The three bids made public on Friday were from groups led by British property developer Nick Candy, Chicago Cubs owners the Ricketts family and the pairing of former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. Candy's bid, while not assured of being on the shortlist, announced on Monday that they had held initial discussions with tech platform PrimaryBid, with a view to potentially considering a community enfranchisement model for Chelsea, should their bid be successful, focused on improving fan involvement and engagement.

they are deffo in the running, they easily beat the deadline

If the cunt RW yank Woody Johnson buys us, he will destroy the club, just like he has destroyed the NY Jets I will just lose my fucking mind if he ends up the winner of the auction he is also a Trump nut-cupper supreme Woody Johnson: ‘Brits should take inspiration from Trump. He has a winning formula’ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/woody-johnson-interview-brits-should-take-inspiration-from-trump-he-has-a-winning-formula-9sk0qzc8k 🤢

they need (even with AC coming in, another great B, and deffo need fullback and DMF help, plus they need a WC CF (Auba is a placeholder) and they so need Ansu Fati to finally recover (which is a pure coin toss) they have so many dregs to dump, and ancient platers to replace but their core is strong AF Håland would make them crazy strong if they address the other reeds as well here are the expendable and old old ageing ones Clément Lenglet bizarre collapse of his career, he needs to move on Óscar Mingueza garbage Gerard Piqué (turns 36 midseason next campaign, but us ageing far better than Sergio Ramos) Samuel Umtiti garbage Jordi Alba (trash, lolol, I hate that cunt, as I always point out, by far my least favourite player of their left) Moussa Wagué 23yo RB, I have not seen anything special Dani Alves (turns 39yo in 6 weeks) Sergio Busquets (DMF is huge issue, he is soon 34 and they literally have no other DMF's on the squad) Sergi Roberto (just turned 30, if they are ever going to cash in even a little, now is the time) Martin Braithwaite garbage Luuk de Jong garbage

I SO hope not, but he will be back almost for sure https://www.managingmadrid.com/2022/3/19/22986323/ancelotti-benzema-injury-press-conference-clasico Moving on to discuss Karim Benzema’s absence, as a result of injury, Ancelotti suggested that this might actually be a good time for the French striker to suffer a physical issue, given that it now means he won’t go away with France and will have two weeks to recover. On the injury, the coach said: “Neither Karim nor Mendy can play tomorrow. We’ve never taken any risks with Benzema. We didn’t take any risks when he played in Paris either. They won’t go away with France next week, as they’ll stay here to work with us. I think with Benzema, he has had his injuries this season at the right moments and I think it’s the same here. We now have two weeks for him to recover because of the international break, which means he’ll come back strong for the business end of the season.”

as predicted Real are utter dogshit without Benz of this Real shows up v us, we are for sure into the semi finals, they looked as bad as I have seen them in years and years and it was an El Classico and at HOME they looked like a team 10, 15 points off the pace, not 10 points up over 2nd (now 9) that back 4 is horrific, Militão is just shambolic (it is insane that some were saying we want him bad, HELL NO), and Alaba's lack of height did him hard, plus their fullbacks are utter dross their MF looked ancient and tired AF, Modric looked like hell, looked like age is finally doing him hard hard hard (although he can turn that around in any given single game) Vinicius had a very poor game, and it is crazy he did not get a yellow for one of the most blatant dives I have seen all season, it was at prime Salah (maybe worse) level their other wingers played like shit it REALLY should have been nil 6 or nil 7, Auba missed two sitters and also Dembele (who is turning into an assist king again) was clearly mugged like crazy in the box and no pen given nil 4 final extended highlights: https://soccercatch.com/matches/18165999/real-madrid-vs-fc-barcelona#media

2021-22 English FA Cup, Quarterfinals Nottingham Forest Liverpool http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/fa-cup-nottingham-forest-vs-liverpool-s2/ https://www.totalsportek.com/football/fa-cup/nottingham-forest-vs-liverpool-match/

Spuds v West Ham (already started) http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/premier-league-tottenham-hotspur-vs-west-ham-united-s1/ https://www.totalsportek.com/football/epl19/tottenham-vs-west-ham-20-march-2022/

the massive assfuck is, as it stands, no fans at all (closed doors) for Real in the CL at the Bridge, and, if we beat them, no fans at all (closed doors) for Citeh in the CL at the Bridge, whilst both (or at least Real) away games will have fully packed massively ultra hostile crowds so fucked up THAT is truly against sporting integrity fuck UEFA

Insane that Broja is on the bench, Ibrahima Diallo on the bench, Nathan Redmond on the bench and Jan Bednarek not even in the squad

2021-22 English FA Cup, Quarterfinals Southampton Manchester City http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/fa-cup-southampton-vs-manchester-city-s2/ https://www.totalsportek.com/football/fa-cup/southampton-vs-manchester-city/ https://en.vipleague.tv/southampton-vs-manchester-city-2-live-streaming

Lampard is on a collision course with another sacking

so is Tomori lol sigh

2021-22 English FA Cup, Quarterfinals Crystal Palace Everton http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2022/fa-cup-crystal-palace-vs-everton-s2/ https://en.vipleague.tv/crystal-palace-vs-everton-1-live-streaming https://www.totalsportek.com/football/fa-cup/crystal-palace-vs-everton-20-march-2022/

agree

lol, oki as if Lukaku is

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please go and ban all accounts made on March 3rd, 2022 we are getting hammered with a crazy amount of spam and so many were made on that date also, we maybe should close the forum for new registrations for a bit the spam is driving me cray 😖

Benfica are currently third in their domestic league and haven't won a European title since 1962. Their former manager Bela Guttman apparently put a curse on the club in the 1960s, insisting they wouldn't win another European title for 100 years. Since then, they've lost eight European finals.

Osimhen is back and banging them in again like crazy