Kurt Zouma

[Milan 17,859]

3 goals already this season. We have been craving for another goalscoring CB, after watching the very best of JT or Cahill, and finally we can see one. And after watching frustrating corners and Christensen's inability to score. Marcos Alonso's goals (the so called biggest strength of the Spaniard) can be well replaced now.

[Puliiszola 519]

Clearly not good enough. Need to sell him and replace him with the great Rudiger 😂😂

[communicate 2,703]

6 games, 3 goals, 0 penalties 

Our most prolific player 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,159]

He headed that ball harder than I could kick it lol and I play futsal too!

[NikkiCFC 8,041]

In the squad over Upamecano, Laporte, Kounde...

 

[Vesper 28,993]

4 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

In the squad over Upamecano, Laporte, Kounde...

 

Insane that Laporte is STILL uncapped, lolol

[Vesper 28,993]

with Varane collapsing and VVD out for the season, you could make a case Laporte is the best healthy CB in the world atm

although if you ignore age, Ramos probably for me (although that will not last forever and he is still a mega cunt)

only other competition would be (and this is arguable as fuck)

José Giménez (when healthy for a long run)  
Matthijs de Ligt  (I would not personally list him as such)  
Marquinhos  (my number one CB target)  
Kalidou Koulibaly (has rebounded from last season)

maybe (doubtful) Romagnoli
 

 

[NikkiCFC 8,041]

27 minutes ago, Vesper said:

with Varane collapsing and VVD out for the season, you could make a case Laporte is the best healthy CB in the world atm

although if you ignore age, Ramos probably for me (although that will not last forever and he is still a mega cunt)

only other competition would be (and this is arguable as fuck)

José Giménez (when healthy for a long run)  
Matthijs de Ligt  (I would not personally list him as such)  
Marquinhos  (my number one CB target)  
Kalidou Koulibaly (has rebounded from last season)

maybe (doubtful) Romagnoli
 

 

Would you take Ramos for free next summer? 

And why is Laporte not capped? 

[Rapkun 668]

40 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Insane that Laporte is STILL uncapped, lolol

I think Deschamps doesn't appreciate it when players threaten to switch national teams in order to get called-up, as was the case with Laporte and Theo Hernandez. Both of them will likely never be called in the french squad until Deschamps is gone.

[Vesper 28,993]

10 minutes ago, Rapkun said:

I think Deschamps doesn't appreciate it when players threaten to switch national teams in order to get called-up, as was the case with Laporte and Theo Hernandez. Both of them will likely never be called in the french squad until Deschamps is gone.

he is a fool then

both are superb

[Vesper 28,993]

although Theo had a rough night tonight v Lille

 

[Magic Lamps 11,668]

6 hours ago, Rapkun said:

I think Deschamps doesn't appreciate it when players threaten to switch national teams in order to get called-up, as was the case with Laporte and Theo Hernandez. Both of them will likely never be called in the french squad until Deschamps is gone.

Acm and shitty are really lucky to have them. Uncapped wc players are a rare treasure. likely to have a better career and stay injury free longer. I wish more of our players would reject call ups. It sounds harsh asking them to retire from representing their country but in fact you are just helping the corrupted fifa so there is no fair representation anyway. 

[Vesper 28,993]

6 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Would you take Ramos for free next summer? 

And why is Laporte not capped? 

hell yes

and I do not know

pure pettiness by Deschamps it sounds like

[Jase 43,479]

15 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

In the squad over Upamecano, Laporte, Kounde...

 

1. Still don't understand how these international matches are being played during this pandemic.

2. Still don't understand how the national teams thought it would be a great idea to organize an unnecessary friendly, on top of the other two matches, in this congested season, in the middle of a fucking pandemic.

[Tomo 21,733]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

1. Still don't understand how these international matches are being played during this pandemic.

2. Still don't understand how the national teams thought it would be a great idea to organize an unnecessary friendly, on top of the other two matches, in this congested season, in the middle of a fucking pandemic.

And what If this pandemic goes on for years? Do we keep international football off the menu until then? A move that would rob players of a huge number of caps, some of which will end up getting denied the chance to play for their country during the entirety of their peak years.

International football may be boring to most of us fans but to players it's the total opposite, take that away from them and you will suddenly find a high number of demotivated footballers (for example, Thiago S had practically admitted playing in the next world cup is the main thing keeping him motivated and fit in what should be his twilight years).

[Jase 43,479]

35 minutes ago, Tomo said:

And what If this pandemic goes on for years? Do we keep international football off the menu until then? A move that would rob players of a huge number of caps, some of which will end up getting denied the chance to play for their country during the entirety of their peak years.

International football may be boring to most of us fans but to players it's the total opposite, take that away from them and you will suddenly find a high number of demotivated footballers (for example, Thiago S had practically admitted playing in the next world cup is the main thing keeping him motivated and fit in what should be his twilight years).

How about not playing during this second wave, third wave or whatever of the pandemic that has forced countries to go into lockdown again? How about letting players finish the season with their club and let them go play all those international games with their country in the lead-up to the Euros next year (similar to what happened after the restart last season at club level with the domestic and European competitions), instead of risking everyone's health with all the unnecessary travelling, going from one team's bubble to another etc?

If we want to play international football right now, fine, then play only the competitive matches. Why have another stupid friendly on top of the competitive games? International managers, especially, often complain about players being worn out by the time they get to a summer tournament and all and here they are, organizing a friendly, a needless match that risks the players to the virus, to injury etc in this already congested season. How is this even logical?

Like it or not, the pandemic has forced people to change the way they do things, has forced people to adapt to the circumstances, has maybe forced people to do things in a way that they probably don't normally do. People shouldn't act like everything is still normal and try to force things to look normal right now. Nothing is normal at the moment. 

[Tomo 21,733]

9 minutes ago, Jason said:

How about not playing during this second wave, third wave or whatever of the pandemic that has forced countries to go into lockdown again? How about letting players finish the season with their club and let them go play all those international games with their country in the lead-up to the Euros next year (similar to what happened after the restart last season at club level with the domestic and European competitions), instead of risking everyone's health with all the unnecessary travelling, going from one team's bubble to another etc?

If we want to play international football right now, fine, then play only the competitive matches. Why have another stupid friendly on top of the competitive games? International managers, especially, often complain about players being worn out by the time they get to a summer tournament and all and here they are, organizing a friendly, a needless match that risks the players to the virus, to injury etc in this already congested season. How is this even logical?

Like it or not, the pandemic has forced people to change the way they do things, has forced people to adapt to the circumstances, has maybe forced people to do things in a way that they probably don't normally do. People shouldn't act like everything is still normal and try to force things to look normal right now. Nothing is normal at the moment. 

Football has adapted, they're playing without a crowd (or in some country's reduced numbers), putting tight safety measures in to protect players which has worked excellently (football wouldn't have got the green light to resume let alone carry on during lockdown 2.0 had they not) and players have to follow strict rules when away for a match (for example no one would have raised an eyebrow at Greenwood and Foden getting a bit horny in normal times). Also every player will be tested before they switch from club to International bubbles.

Furthermore is players playing for international's (most of whom in country's significantly better off than England right now) any more "outrageous" than letting Everton or Liverpool (in the country's hot spot) host for example Southampton (where there's no real problems with the virus at this point).

Footballers are safer than they've ever been right now.

[Jase 43,479]

14 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Football has adapted, they're playing without a crowd (or in some country's reduced numbers), putting tight safety measures in to protect players which has worked excellently (football wouldn't have got the green light to resume let alone carry on during lockdown 2.0 had they not) and players have to follow strict rules when away for a match (for example no one would have raised an eyebrow at Greenwood and Foden getting a bit horny in normal times). Also every player will be tested before they switch from club to International bubbles.

Furthermore is players playing for international's (most of whom in country's significantly better off than England right now) any more "outrageous" than letting Everton or Liverpool (in the country's hot spot) host for example Southampton (where there's no real problems with the virus at this point).

We've gone through this before. Going from one team's bubble to another is always gonna be risky because we don't know how the other team's procedure and protocols over the virus. As we have seen across the top leagues or leagues within a country, the procedure and protocols aren't the same. Some appear to be done less rigorously than others. What happens if one country plays another smaller country and that smaller country don't have a proper testing in place and their players happen to have the virus, end up affecting the other team's players? Then what?

14 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Footballers are safer than they've ever been right now.

That's not true and you know it. We have seen many cases among clubs in Serie A, Ligue 1 recently. We have also seen an outbreak at Shakhtar Donetsk, Dynamo Kiev, Ajax for example that forced them to play weakened teams in the Champions League. There are also other examples.