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We Hate Scouse, put the badges of all 19 EPL teams and ask Jaime to pick one of them! Whoever he chooses we are facing on openning day...

Alright! :lol2:

Shut up dude, it was 28mi euros for Santos and DIS and 10mi euros for Neymar and his agentes! It is the same with Oscar not being sold for 25mi pounds and Hazard not making 175k/week....

Ooh, I see, but I wasnt jealous. I actually was pointing out how stupid people act with Neymar.

Jealous of what? That many people in here have a low football IQ?

I know, but Choulo said Moses was better than Neymar once and he got a bunch of likes for posting that! It is fine though, it only shows the lack of expertise people have around here, they all like to opinate in topics they know fuck all about...

Yeah, Moses > Neymar!

I wonder who payed around 100 dollars to see Tahiti vs Nigeria tomorrow in Belo Horizonte!

The pitch in Recife seems much better than in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro!

There is no fun, just give Spain the trophy already...

Did you notice him now?

I refuse to comment on that...

The problem wih Spain is that they have way too many AMs but no top Striker!

LMAO, it doesnt help to start with Reina and Valdes, but it is indeed a superb bench!

I get what you are saying, but nobody is screaming at FIFA and saying its their fault, people are screaming at our government for wanting to host the World Cup to steal our money and building stupid venues that last 40 days rather than improving public services...

I agree in theory, but not in the expense of the population of the host nations...For instance, the South African World Cup was surprisingly well organised (nice stadiums, good crowd, epic games, etc). However, their government acumulated a gigantic debt to pay for all of this and there was no money left to invest in other areas (education, security, hospitals, roads, jobs, etc). Now, 3 years past the event, Cape Town and Durban are seriously considering imploding their 60k+ incredibly expensive stadiums so they can cut public losses (because these venues demand way too much money to maintain). Now I ask you, if you were a South African, would you say it was worth it? I dont know, maybe. But I, as a Brazilian, have my personal answer!

Brazil better play good against Italy, I get nervous thinking about Luiz defending Balotelli and Paulinho dealing with Pirlo! =\

Please tell me you dont buy into that excuse...

Sorry, lost my cool for a minute, but I get furious when people come with those naive arguments...The problem is that the World Cup only went to Brazil so FIFA and The Brazilian Government could steal as much as they could. The idea is to overprice the constructions so they can get a portion of the budget to their own bank accounts. Confederations Cup only comes to help them get even more money and have the 2013 deadline as an excuse for the high prices. It has nothing to do with promoting a tournament with the winners of each continent and there is nothing to do Brazil knowing it from the beginning. I will ask you something, why is FIFA choosing host countries with no infra-structure nor stadiums? Why they choose South Africa, Brazil and Russia instead of Spain or England? Because they cant steal if everything is already built and ready to go. The idea behind the Confederations Cup is only to facilitate all that absurd corruption there is in international football tournaments. So it fucks with the players, clubs and people from the host nation. How can you still defend it? However, its not okay to spend billions of dollars on stadiums and stupid demands FIFA makes when you dont have qualified public services (schools, hospitals, jails, etc). The protests are more than right, one shouldnt allow to see their child with no proper school or hospital to go to, but allow the government to spent billions with stupid football stuff. Yes, it is fun and all of that, but priorities are priorities and just because Brazilians are fighting for our rights, we are gettifng spanked by the police so Americans and Europeans dont read anything on NYT or Reutuers! In resume, the very basic concept of Confederations Cup might even be good, but in pratic, it is as dirty and unhuman as it gets...

Alright mate, you know fuck all of what you are talking about so better shut up before posting shit!

No, it is just a stupid event that rushes everything, and because of that, stadiums and infra-structure improvements are done with low quality in order to get ready by 2013. Without this competition, the level of focus, quality and detail given to 2014 would be bigger, (something that would be very welcomed). The Confederations Cup is a pain in the arse, only a bad distraction for 2014! Above that, nobody gives a flying fuck about it, so fans think its an obligation to win it. For a top nation, the downside of losing it (pressure and critics) doesnt compensate the positive side of winning it (a small recognition). One even greater downside of the competition is to take another summer vacation away from the players (with Continentals, Confederations and World Cups; they only have 1/4 full summers). For instance, Chelsea has 6 players getting tired for no reason (maybe even up to 8 with Cavani and De Rossi). It also comes in the worse possible time as there are protests going on against corruption. Without the Confederations Cup, the protests would have been peaceful; but because authorities dont want us making noise and going into the international media, they are abusing of their power and using of violence to contain the protesters. Yesterday in Brasilia, 2k individuals were chanting against the overpriced constructions of stadiums and tickets instead of investing in health, education and security and due to the tournament the police started to shoot rubber bullets (that hurst more than one can imagine) so they dont get close to the stadium or a tourist area. Dont tell me this tournament is helping anything in any way. The Confederations Cup is totally unnecessary and there is no arguing with it...

Why? The Confederations Cup is being played on Brazil and the hours should be suited to GMT -3:00 and not to Europeans hours...

Edinson is the best striker in the world. Getting him might be crucial, but I would understand if we dont sign him as the pricetag is way too high!

So what does Coutinho make Hulk look like?

Exactly! This is why I am against this deal. If we had a great RW instead of one of Oscar, Mata or KDB, signing Schurrle would have been a hell of a transfer. However, adding Schurrle doesnt solve our chronical RW problem. He brings depth and quality, but he is a luxury a squad with the problems Chelsea's still has, shouldnt be focusing on... Schurrle is not the player who is talented enough to break into the attacking trio of Hazard-Mata-Oscar, so he is basically a 18mi pound bench player who won't be able to balance the right side of our attack. That will mean another season with Oscar playing on the right and all the inbalance it brings with it. He will also not add the width and natural wing plays many want. Which, again, wouldn't be a problem if we had a true RW (but that isnt the case). For instance, Hazard-Mata-Oscar or Schurrle-Mata-Hazard is worse than Hazard-Mata-RW. A bench of Oscar, KDB and Moses is more than good enough for any team in the fucking planet. The squad would be more equally distributed and there are good RWs on the market for a bit more than 18mi (which isnt all that cheap) that we could have gone for. Schurrle is a decent player, but doesnt carry th bags of potential people think. It was better for us to have bought a true RW! He gets my instant support because he is now a Chelsea player, but I will only be convinced if he prooves to be above all my concerns listed in this post!