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First time Neymar got smashed by Lewis Dunk or Tyrone Mings he would be launched into the 2nd deck he could flop around like a fish in the aisle, with a half a pie lodged in his arse

Chelsea fans want Jadon Sancho signed as England ace posts Tammy Abraham snap https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fans-want-jadon-sancho-20558546

no still banned

Juventus 'plan to offer Manchester United Emre Can and Mario Mandzukic' in exchange for Paul Pogba https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7553617/Juventus-plan-offer-Man-Utd-Emre-Mario-Mandzukic-exchange-Paul-Pogba.html Juventus are ready to offer Manchester United Emre Can and Mario Mandzukic in exchange for Paul Pogba, according to Tuttosport. Pogba was angling for move away in the summer but ended up staying at Old Trafford. Real Madrid were his desired suitors but the Spanish giants have seemingly given up hope of landing the midfielder after being priced out in the summer. Pogba's future at United remains up in the air following their poor start to the season and Tuttosport claim Juventus are now the front runners to sign him. United attempted to sign Mandzukic in the summer and Juventus are hoping his inclusion could persuade them to part with their prized asset. The Italian newspaper are reporting that Emre Can, who has been forced to play only a supporting role this season, will also be included in the swap deal. It is not yet clear if Juventus are planning to also offer an upfront payment to supplement the deal. Pogba is currently in the United Arab Emirates completing a warm weather recovery programme in a bid to accelerate his return from a foot injury. snip

I screamo, you screamo, we all screamo for SpudMo.

I just wanted ro clarify my stance on Bale. I was having a laugh with with Willian swap (which would never happen anyway) and my feelings on Bale are

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sell him on, he is worth a shit tonne more than a 32yo Willian will be

straight swap, Willian for Bale done and dusted

perfect re-hire for Real Madrid, roflmaoooooooooo

Mourinho in 2014 Jose Mourinho: If Chelsea don't bring young players through then we should close our academy Chelsea manager proudly parades academy graduate Ruben Loftus-Cheek in front of the cameras ahead of Champions League match against Sporting Lisbon https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11283101/Jose-Mourinho-If-Chelsea-dont-bring-young-players-through-then-we-should-close-our-academy.html Just 24 hours after a French ex-Arsenal player, a Belgian and an Argentine helped to unveil Manchester City’s new £200million Football Academy, Jose Mourinho sat an English teenager “made in Chelsea” next to him ahead of his side's Champions League clash against Sporting Lisbon. Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been at Chelsea since the age of eight and will play some part of the club’s final Group G game at Stamford Bridge, most probably from the substitutes’ bench. The fact 18-year-old Loftus-Cheek will be involved against Sporting is not entirely surprising, given Chelsea have already qualified for the knockout stages as group winners, but Mourinho’s decision to put the youngster straight in front of the television cameras was an unusual move. Mourinho does everything for a reason and it seemed that while City had shown they now have the best facilities in the land to bring through young players, the Chelsea manager was displaying that his club finally believe they have the home-grown talent and the right environment to give youth a chance. Chelsea have not seen one of their own become a regular first-team player since captain John Terry, despite opening their £30m academy in 2005 with running costs of up to £8m a year. City’s last home-grown product was Micah Richards, who may have smiled wryly to see Patrick Vieira, Vincent Kompany and Pablo Zabaleta open the club’s new talent factory from Italy, where he is currently on loan with Fiorentina. “If you don't bring kids through the academy, the best thing is to close the academy,” said Chelsea manager Mourinho. “If the kids are not good enough or the work not good enough and you don't bring kids up, then close the door and use the money to buy players. “You need to prove the academy works well and is worth it. It's only possible if the first-team manager stays for a long time, which in this club, in the last 10 years, was not possible. Now I'm trying to format Ruben and other Rubens in relation to my ideas, to his position. “Imagine next week if there's a different first-team manager with different ideas. Some product, almost an added product, becomes an empty product and you start everything again. In this moment, the relation between the first-team and the academy is changing based on this stability that, at this moment, we are having. “The first time Ruben trained with me was 18 months ago. In the last two or three weeks, he's been training with me every day. So, in 18 months, I think he remembers every word or feedback he's had in first-team development. This stability is important. The people in the academy feel they are working for something. “Which is why tomorrow, when a boy who arrived at Cobham aged eight plays, is not Ruben's day but ‘academy day’.” Loftus-Cheek captained Chelsea to FA Youth Cup glory last season and made his mark at international level just last month by scoring in England Under-19s’ 3-0 victory over Italy. He joins Lewis Baker, Isaiah Brown and Dominic Solanke in the group of young English players that Mourinho is taking a special interest in. Having confirmed Loftus-Cheek will make his first-team debut at some point against Sporting, Mourinho said: “One month ago, he played in Lisbon with the Champions League new generation, so you can imagine the difference between playing against Sporting academy, with 1,000 spectators, and then to play against Sporting in the real Champions League, at Stamford Bridge with 45,000 and all the lights on you. “To be here since he was eight and to have the chance to play for Chelsea, his first game, is every kid’s dream. “He was not one of the players that started the season with me. He didn't have a pre-season with me. But the way he's training with us, every time he comes, gives me the guarantee that – while not being an end product – he has the quality and the ambition. “I'm so happy to give the kids a chance and, especially, when I give the chance and feel that they have the tools to answer well and make a career at Chelsea. An English player, 18, completely made in Chelsea - if he does it and if he succeeds, it's good.” If his performance in front of the cameras and microphones was anything to go by, then Loftus-Cheek should not suffer from stage fright at Stamford Bridge. Asked whether he and the rest of Chelsea’s youngsters are mindful that the club have not produced one of their own since Terry, Loftus-Cheek replied: “We're very aware of that. It's not going to be easy to break in, especially with the squad in front of us, but you can't be negative in these situations. You have to think you can do it and be positive, otherwise you won't get anywhere near. “It would be amazing to make my debut. I've been here since I was a young kid, watching Chelsea on the TV and thinking maybe I would be playing at Stamford Bridge. If the opportunity comes, great. If it doesn't, I’ll keep working hard, doing my best every day, and, hopefully, the chance will come.”

still raging about that fucking MLS MAY game cunts for scheduling that then and on that shitty yank thugball pitch

please remove Zouma from that list, he is not anywhere near good enough and we lack a truly WC CB atm (a healthy Rudiger is sorta close, but not a top 10 player at the position) f we are going for winning the league and the CL in the next 2 to 3 years (we damn well better be!), we need a WC rock in the CB rotation Koulibaly is now too old (he turns 29 in June) to buy for the insane cash (around £100m) the poison dwarf will demand, so this leaves some of these are crazy hard pulls José Giménez Atlético Madrid (my first choice, very hard pull though) Raphaël Varane Real Madrid (so hard to pull) Marquinhos Paris Saint-Germain (my 5th choice, very versatile too, has been playing MF as well) Milan Skriniar Inter Milan (Shitty going to go all out, but probably fail) (my 4th choice) Niklas Süle Bayern Munich (basically impossible, but would be a BEAST) Alessio Romagnoli AC Milan (my 3rd choice, perhaps the easiest pull IF AC Milan continue their slide downward) Ibrahima Konaté RB Leipzig (my 2nd choice, a monster, deffo buy-able, it just will take a shedload of cash) drop down Rúben Dias Benfica (Manure and many other will move for him hard) drop down Dayot Upamecano RB Leipzig Jonathan Tah Bayer Leverkuen Evan N'Dicka Eintracht Frankfurt Nico Elvedi Borussia Mönchengladbach Benoît Badiashile Monaco Thilo Kehrer Paris Saint-Germain Nikola Milenkovic Fiorentina Dan-Axel Zagadou Borussia Dortmund Boubacar Kamara Olympique Marseille Samuel Umtiti FC Barcelona (iffy due to injury and loss of form ever since the WC 2028, that he may recover, but NOT sold on him at all as it stands)

Give him an extra month, so he can fully recover his time. 100% agree

My hatred of scousers goes far beyond footie, and for very personal reasons that I do not want to go into here, other than to say amongst other things, a fucking pack of them helped fuck me over (and via the most BULLSHIT series of reasons and lies) for a fair amount of money (over £100,000, so not insanely large, but still enough to sting, I am still involved in litigation to get some sort of recompense) on an venture I was a principal in. They helped tear apart a close-knit group of global people that I helped build over a period of years, and drove one of my oldest friends involved in it to suicide over financial ruin (she lost far more than I did and came from a place of far less means), and they also attacked her in real life, partially destroying her relationships, familial, personal, and professional, at so many levels. NOT having a laugh, not making shite up, I rage every time I dwell on it. It is all I will say on the matter. Suffice it to say I have meany reasons to detest that whole region and the unique type of shit it produces.

Fuck that whingy bish Klopp and fuck ANY and ALL scouse todger-lickers in the Brit media that whole city is a plague on the nation, it goes far beyond footie the whole scouse zeitgeist epitomises everything bad about us British a whole region of poxy cunt trash always on the take, always on the make, forever the victims, revelling in their own ignorance

SINGING IS TOO BLUE Frank Lampard slams Chelsea fans who aimed ‘pikeys’ chant at West Ham supporters https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10078711/frank-lampard-chelsea-west-ham-blasts-pikey-chants-fans/

I see NO reason why we cannot make smart buys and be at a CL-winning level again in 2 to 3 years, there is NO excuse we certainly have the money, as I have exhaustively shown for ages now The only fucked up thing long-term problem (and it is a big thing unfortunately) is the new stadium the goddamn Home Office needs to back off Roman and renew his bloody visa OR tell him he is perma-banned and hopefully then he sells the club to another billionaire (all I ask is no Saudi head-choppers) People think I joke when I say Bezos should buy us, but I am dead serious. Biggest club in the world's most important (still, but how long that lasts after Brexit, who knows) city. He cannot buy Real or Barca or Bayern, as they are not owned by one person/family. That leaves us, Manure, Victimpool, Juve, Shitty, AC Milan, and PSG in terms of the 10 biggest clubs in the world (followed by Atletico Madrid, Arse, Spuds, Inter Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli, Ajax (hindered by being in a tiny league), Roma, Lyon, and Everton.) We would be the best buy overall, the Arabs will not sell Shitty or PSG. The only other true options would be to convince Fenway Sports Group to sell the Bindippers or the Glazers to sell Manure, which I admit, he could do. Bezos buying Manure would be my fucking nightmare, same for the dippers.

liking these upcoming 14 fixtures 36 plus points are deffo there for the taking IMHO

fair points

I don't see them replacing Samir anytime soon. Still think he's the best GK in Serie A, but Meret has looked decent thus far. I do not rate him that high, he is just decent, no longer great nowadays, nothing more, and is poor at distribution/ball playing at his feet, and is ageing (turns 36 next year) I would buy any of these over him (the first two I had a serious options before we bought Kepa) Thomas Strakosha Alex Meret Gianluigi Donnarumma Wojciech Szczesny Alessio Cragno Pau López Emil Audero Bartlomiej Dragowski MAYBE Mattia Perin Ionut Radu

he will try and drag Kane and Eriksen with him

CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report n°48 - October 2019 Ten years of loans in the big-5 European leagues (2009-2019) https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/mr/mr48/en/ The 48th Monthly Report of the CIES Football Observatory analyses the evolution of the number and characteristics of footballers having played on loan for teams of the five major European championships during the last decade. It shows that clubs from these leagues take more and more players on loan: from 2.62 per club and season between 2009 and 2014, up to 3.09 between 2014 and 2019 (+18%). In 2018/2019, footballers on loan played a record number of minutes in the big-5: 11.5%. This evolution is notably explained by the tendency of wealthy teams (Manchester City, Chelsea, Juventus, etc.) to put under contract an increasing number of footballers with a sufficient sporting level to play in the major European leagues. This puts other clubs in a greater state of dependency when making up their squads, thus increasing their likelihood to take players on loan. The study also shows that loans constitute in most of the cases a step towards a definitive departure. Indeed, only 29.6% of footballers lent to big-5 league clubs between 2009/10 and 2018/19 return to their owner team at the end of the loan period. In 27% of the occurrences, they were loaned again, while in the remaining 43.4% of cases they were transferred on a permanent basis to another team. Regulation makes sense in avoiding the misuse of loan strategies orientated not towards a legitimate sporting logic to develop the potential of a young player on which the loaning team really counts, but rather towards an economic logic that aims to generate profits from the transfer market or a political logic aiming at exercising undue influence on rival clubs. In order to be effective, these measures should be implemented in parallel to the regulation of the questions of buy-back options (recompra) and the multi-ownership of clubs. 1. Introduction A long-standing tradition in professional football, the loan of players fulfils different functions. The recourse to this strategy notably allows lending clubs to obtain experience for their young talents, most often with teams that are less financially well off, whilst keeping full control over transfer rights. From this point of view, the loan follows a logic that is both sporting and economic. This Monthly Report analyses the evolution of the number and characteristics of footballers having played on loan for teams of the five major European championships (English Premier League, Spanish Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga and the French Ligue 1) over a ten season period between 2009/10 and 2018/19. 2. How many loans? During the decade studied, the number of players on loan within clubs taking part in the five major European leagues has grown considerably. An increase of 18% was recorded between the first and last five seasons analysed: from 2.62 to 3.09 per club on average. In 2018/2019, footballers on loan played a record number of minutes within the big-5: 11.5%. This evolution is notably explained by the tendency of wealthier teams to put under contract an increasing number of footballers with a sufficient sporting level to play in the major European leagues. This puts other clubs in a greater state of dependency when making up their squads, by increasing their likelihood to take players on loan. The use of player loans varies widely according to league. The Serie A teams are by far those having the most players on loan: on average of 4.87 per club and season during the decade studied. Teams from the Spanish Liga are also strongly inclined to resort to loans (3.85), while their counterparts from the remaining three major European leagues are far less so. Between 2009/10 and 2018/19, footballers on loan only played 6.3% of minutes in the Bundesliga, compared to 14.5% in the Liga. All the big-5 league teams having taken the biggest contingent of players on loan per season were Spanish or Italian. These are mainly clubs with limited financial resources. Most of the time, the heavy reliance on loans did not bring the expected results (10 relegations in 18 cases, best ranking for Genoa in 2014/15, 6th). In the three other leagues of the big-5, the record number of players on loan by club and season was 8 in the French League 1 (Arles in 2010/2011 and Bastia in 2014/15), 7 in the German Bundesliga (Eintracht Frankfurt in 2018/19) and only 6 in the English Premier League (Portsmouth in 2009/10, Hull City in 2016/17 and Fulham in 2018/19). The average age of players loaned to teams of the five major European championships has changed little over ten years with an average of 24.6 years. Considerable differences exist between leagues. At one extreme, German Bundesliga clubs mainly take young players on loan (23.1 years of age on average). At the other, teams from the English Premier League loan more experienced footballers (25.3 years of age). 3. Who loans? While clubs taking the most players on loan have limited resources, among those who loan frequently are several dominant teams: Chelsea, Inter, Rome, Naples, Manchester City, etc. However, at the top of the rankings is a relatively modest team: Udinese. This position is linked to the fact that the owners of the Italian club were for a long period also the owners of Granada, where they lent many footballers. snip much more at the link above

their needs are simple wingers and fullbacks, an AMF, and a better GK get 2 great wingers and a good LB (they need to play Valentino Lozaro at RWB) a decent AMF and a great ball playing GK and Conte can have that team tearing shit up next year

OGS is clueless, lolol and lol at Jonny Evan's wife calling Victimpool jammy (they are some jammy cunts, she ain't lyin')