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Juventus want to price Draxler for €15m. A 21 year old with 3 seasons of CL performance. After selling Vidal to us for almost €40m. Barawo banza

I'm glad Schalke are not selling. Can they approach an unproven Sterling with such a ret@rded amount?

airmark:
I don't need to reply you again based on the above.

Oo npe

airmark:
They were primed in epl. Imagine loanees like chicharito, adebayor were instant hits at real Madrid. Let alone suarez, Ronaldo, bale that have been well sharpened in epl, easily they bombed the spineless defenders in laliga.

Prime ko Optimus ni. Chicharito and Adebayor were such hits Madrid did not retain their services

Bale has been one of Madrid's worst players last season and Ronaldo only has 1 La Liga title to his name in 6 years of Spanish football

airmark:
List the top 10 central defenders in la liga and let me pull out 10 from epl , lets compare. Time to watch Chelsea abeg.

Pull out the top 10 from England and let's see their records. Everything about your league is overrated

Pique, Mascherano, Godin, Ramos, Varane, Pepe, Otamendi without racking my brain too much

airmark:
That's what I am talking about. A40 , raumdeuter , dopejemi

Because of a meaningless friendly una dey holla oi yee like this?

airmark:
Diego costa scored 27 goals in la liga. But came to epl and made him feel the heat and slowed his roll, only to manage 20. Aguero has been playing in epl for how many years now bro? He has adapted well to the toughness of the defenders despite going off and on due to injuries in the past. You cant be chewing gum and scoring goals smiling week-in week-out like it obtains in la liga, in epl.
Suarez, nistelrooy, Ronaldo, suarez, bale all made mince-meat of poor defenders that abounds in the Spanish league immediately they left epl. Meanwhile I aint disputing the fact laliga has deadly offensive players, but good defenders are very scarce compared to epl. If not just of recent Barcelona used to cover their defensive flaws by their near-perfect offensive play. That speaks volume of how less-serious laliga teams take defensive play. Accept the fact.

Suarez, RVP, Adebayor hell even Yakubu came from Isreal to destroy your league

airmark:
Just let us know if la liga has more good defenders than epl. don't beat about the bush bro if you are against my opinion.

Who are the good defenders in the EPL? Kompany, Koscielny, Cahill, Smalling or Lovren? Lool

raumdeuter:
Remember what Juup said about Vidal

He was a born footballer, He is a player who can ball on a concrete field

Let's go there.

Doubt he will be ready for Wolfsburg maybe the Audi Cup

AirborneLacer:
It's almost ironical watching Pep snap up a beast like Arturo Vidal when the world still have aplenty ball playing central midfielders.

Great signing no doubt, but would that see a change of approach at Bayern?

Cc: A40

Arturo is a beast. He might not be a 70 or 80 passes a game guy but he will make sure our pressing game is on fleek. We need some dichotomy and the addition of Vidal brings that

Thiago-Vidal-Martinez midfield will fuq shit up this season

raumdeuter:
[img]http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLAXNWvWoAAiP_r.jpg:large[/img]

This guy must believe he is a Rockstar. Haha typical Cholo behavior

raumdeuter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLAWAddUkAAzdwX.jpg

I need that Painting.

Even if na keke NAPEP Vidal should be in Munchen and unveiled by now lol

nateevs:
No he is not whining. He is passing a message. A message to the media who do selective reporting. When we did it, we were buying the title. They are doing it now, "they are investing". Some even say "they are trying to close the gap to Chelsea" . .

WTF did they think we were doing in '04?

Still doesn't remove the fact that in 12-13 years of management he has outspent his closest rivals by a significant sum, some of them in top level management 5-10 years before him. Even if we use today's inflated market as a factor it still raises eyebrows cos Mourinho be doing the most.

Nihilist:
Jose has always been the underdog trying to break into a closed shop.

That's all his statement implies. Nothing more, Nothing less.

Which makes these statements about buying titles sound awfully rich coming from him. Is he feeling the heat already? Trying to conjure a ready made alibi in case of failure?

Nihilist:
Salty?

At all o.

Nobody doubted that Jose has spent, but numbers without context are just numbers.

It's 2004, You arrived at a club who last won a league title in 1954. You want to compete for the title with a club that has been winning almost every year non-stop since 1992, under a manager that had broken the British transfer records at least thrice in under a decade.

What does A40 do?

It's 2010, You arrived at a club that last won a league title 4 years ago, in a league dominated by the best team and players in the world, managed by one of the best coaches in football at the time.

Your club had not even defeated your nearest rivals in a league game for over 4 years, and these same rivals have won the league 5 times in the last 7 years.

What does A40 do?

More reason why he should be the last person whining about his rivals activities in the transfer market. What he did at the time is tantamount to buying titles and the numbers show he is the Master at it

Nihilist:
Queue more Opata yarns about how Jose can only spend Bla Bla

Alaye why so salty nau. Numbers don't lie. At least everyone now knows what we all suspected, that Jose is the Ayatollah of spending moolah when it comes to the transfer market. So when he talks about teams trying to buy titles, all of Europe converge to deliver a colossal yinmu

00francis:
So who agrees with the pecking order for the 2015/2016 season... Not me!

1. Cleveland Cavaliers
2. OKC
3.Golden State
4. Clippers
5. Spurs
6. Rockets
7. Bulls
8. Hawks
9. Miami
10. Memphis

I just listed the top ten according to the article. Y'all go through and give your opinions.

http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2529441-nba-pecking-order-for-2015-16-becoming-clear-after-another-busy-offseason

The author is clearly a Lebron fanboy. The Cavs should be No3 at best because they would most likely lose to any of Golden State or San Antonio if they met em in another NBA Finals. Heck I'd throw the Clippers or Rockets in the mix

1. Golden State (They are the defending champions, young and hungry. Would be silly betting against them)
2. San Antonio Spurs (Would be ruing the last regular season game they lost to the Pelicans which dropped them from 2nd to 6th. No way the Clippers win Game 7 at San Antonio)
3. Cleveland Cavs (Their conference is mediocre, but they still have Lebron and were a bit unfortunate with injuries. Hard to look past them for another NBA Final appearance)
4. LA Clippers ( Not losing DeAndre adding Josh Smith, Paul Pierce and Stephenson this has boom or bust written all over it. If Doc doesn't get the recipe right it could be a spectacular fail if he does potentially history in the making)
5. OKC (Two first year coaches at the last Finals so much for experience. With a healthy Durant and Ibaka Donovan must like his chances. If he can work out Enes Kanter on defence then OKC will definitely be a problem)
6. Houston Rockets (Ty Lawson might have booze issues but still an elite distributor of the rock and would help James Harden a lot. Still lack depth IMO and will ultimately fall short)
7. Memphis Grizzlies
8. Chicago Bulls
9. Atlanta Hawks
10. New OrleansPelicans
11. Washington Wizards
12. Dallas Mavericks
13. Milwaukee Bucks

Seems like Julian Draxler is Juve bound. A very good move for him. He has seriously stagnated at Schalke. Largely due to poor coaching and injuries. If he matures properly we can always buy him later on

Di Santo joins Schalke 04. A steal IMO and definite upgrade from Huntelaar. Let them use that Draxler money to get a decent defender and DM as well

The WC draws were yesterday. Die Nationalmannschaft drawn with Czech Rep, Azerbaijan, Norway, Northern Ireland and San Marino

We have Holland, Sweden and France in one group and Spain and Italy in another. Should be really interesting

Super Vettel. Fantastic drive from the 4 time Champ

Equals Ayrton Senna's record of 41 wins.

And even better both Hamilton and Rosberg finished 6th and 8th

Good job Agent Ricciardo. Na you cause kata kata for LH and Rosberg camp

Hamilton driving extremely clumsy today. Cracking under pressure it seems

Now out of the top 10

Goddamnit! You klutz Hulkenberg

A safety car. Plays into LH's hands not

Raikkonen struggling too

Looks like a straight on fight btw The two Germans Vettel and Rosberg for the win

Superb drive from Vettel. What a start!

Raikonnen in tow as well. Hope he does a good job of blocking those Mercs like Centers block for QB's

kliq:
Shaq Vs Pippen Instagram battle


"Poor Scottie Pippen. For one of the greatest players ever to dribble a basketball, the man takes a whole lot of flak. The culprit behind today's dose of disrespect? None other than The Big Aristotle.

On Sunday, Shaq took to Instagram to make a random (and bold) claim that the best players ever to don a Lakers uniform would embarrass a potent Bulls squad by 50 points:"


Shaq osted picture of the greatest players of each position for both teams,scot responded and Shaq called him sidekick

Scot replied with a pix showing Shaq as the real sidekick by playing with Kobe,Nash,Wade,Lebron...TKO

Shaq is a delusional loudmouth but I would probably fancy the Lakers definitely not by 50 but they are better on paper at least. This is more reason why I think M.J is the G.O.A.T. He had no PG and no Center of note, his 2nd best players were Rodman and Pippen excellent defenders but significantly limited offensively

This year so uncompetitive niggas don't even post here anymore lol

Usual grid. Why they bother with qualifiers sef?

Hamilton
Rosberg
Vettel

R.I.P Jules Bianchi. Very very sad stuff! Remember Schumacher and also hoping he pulls through. Just another reminder of how these guys put their lives on the line every race

raumdeuter:
Whether value for money dey or e no dey, Quality dey market or e no dey. League games and CL still has to be played and you must just find a way to compete. e.g If Mourinho no win, Roman no go hear story say na because value no dey. Same with other top clubs

Based on the First 11 penciled down at this point it looks bleak for anyone not named Barcelona to win the CL

Ibime, coogar A40 abi wetin you think say go happen in the next 6 weeks

Players I feel are a little shaky and might move Pogba Di Maria, Mata, Oscar, Gotze, Isco, Bale, Pedro, Griezman and Hazard and even if all these players go to just one club e no sure say dem fit beat Barca

bottom line of my long tory

HOW CAN WE STOP BARCA FROM ANOTHER TREBLE.

Barca are beatable and can be stopped. No it has nothing to do with last night's match. Last year was Barca's year but the beauty of football is no two seasons are alike. Its not a coincidence that no team has defended the CL and Barca's case will not be different

It is very unlikely Barca go through a full season with the injury luck they had last season. Their bench is still insanely thin but they had no reason to ever call on it at any crucial point. Not an excuse just stating facts

We even stood a chance last year if not that Pep spent more time massaging Messi's scrotum than prepping the team to actually handle him.

They are still favorites but if one of their attacking three goes down then its trouble in paradise. Turan is good but cannot match any member of MSN either with goals or assists

Roland17:
It is quite despicable that you have the effrontery to crown yourself judge over who should be considered intelligent on an anonymous forum because they hold a different perspective, if cognitive intelligence is to be ascertained by your use of vocabulary, sentence construction, writing skills and the ability to argue objectively and maturely then you my friend would rank in the lower cadre in my books, again it's a subjective opinion based on what I have read from you, again I might be wrong but those are consequences of crowning yourself judge over the subject "intelligence"

Finally, your last paragraph definitely confirms your conformist ideas, you can not expect every fan to react to team news alike, not everyone can ignore happenings within the team all in the name of loyalty considering emotions are invested and until they pitch tents from Arsenal FC like A40 whom you mentioned, they are still fans of our dear club and should be respected not maligned irrespective of their opinion.

Pataki the pendejo and Roland shey you people are not mad sha? When last una see me for una God-forsaken thread

Do not use me as a reference blatant or indirectly to una asinine discussion for this asinine thread. Especially the asinwin and oloriburuku in chief Pataki. I can see the madness wey been dey worry Meek Mill don dey worry you too

So because you beat a two-bit hack team from France you are displaying warapa symptoms. Don't let me send you back to the boonies from whence you came. Ozwor

FastShipping:
Costa is a player with no end product. He is a player who doesn't raise his head up when he's on the run. All he did against Inter was all initial gragra. There are lots of 17-19 year old players in Barca academy better than Costa. Costa reminds of Adam Johnson who moved from Man City to Sunderland.

He's had two assists already. And has been our best player easily. And this is coming from a critic of his signing

My main issue with him is the fact that he is terribly goal shy and for him to be a sure starter he has to be a goal threat other than that I think he's been very good

I think you should be worried about our awful finishing and Guardiola's insistence on wasting Alaba at CB

Lordave:
Is he a fan?

Snoop is only loyal to the Steelers and Lakers

Lahm had a scare but thankfully he's ok. He has looked really sharp in our last two pre-season games.

Depending on Ribery's situation we might not need anyone else but I wouldn't mind a backup for Lewandowski who can play on the left just to be sure. I really think we are taking Lewandowski's fitness for granted

I'd go with

--------Neuer------

Lahm--Boa-TANK---Benatia--Alaba

-------Alonso------

----Vidal----Thiago---

Mueller---Lewandowski----Costa

Or

--------Neuer------

Lahm--Boa-TANK---Benatia--Alaba

-------Javi------

----Thiago----Goetze---

Robben/Costa---Lewandowski----Mueller

Or if we want two strikers

--------Neuer------

--Boa-TANK---Benatia--Javi

Lahm-------Hojbjerg------Alaba/Bernat

----Vidal-------Goetze--

--Mueller---Lewandowski----

I feel we still need one more attacking player. We just can't rely on Robbery anymore fitness wise. Not seen enough of Kurt to place a read on him. He's quick but that's about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFI2HWYzYE

Some more Douglas Costa from yesterday's game

I must say he has really proven me wrong so far. I hope its not pre-season initial agidi sha but he has shown flashes that Ribery's continued absence could perhaps be a non-issue. He really took niggas to church yesterday as the video above shows. Even non Bayern fans kept hollering about how much of a quality signing he looks to be.

However he still has one critical flaw IMO. He seems pretty goal shy and is a little too fixated on passing when he gets into the final third. On a day the likes of Mueller, Lewandowski or Robben are not sharp in front of goal he might need to pick up the slack. So far I've seen little in that regard. Hopefully he works on it

Pre-seasons are for experimentation anyway but there were times I just didn't know who was playing where. Alaba is wasted at CB I hope Pep realizes this at some point. If he is adamant on playing 3 CBs (which Barca showed was a terrible idea) then at least wait till Javi is fit (I'd rather Javi play in midfield anyway)

Super Goetze from the bench to do the magic. My boy putting the work in, I'm confident he will deliver if he is trusted

Nice outing by Fabian Benko, we seem to have young players knocking on the door each year. Only 17 but showed decent potential. Definitely hope to see more of him this pre-season.

Something tells me Vidal could be our last major signing this window

chrisley024:
Lahm: Muller to Utd possible.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/9919798/philipp-lahm-no-guarantees-over-thomas-muller-and-man-united?utm_medium=twitter

Another plucking is close

Haha this guy you are funny oo. Schweinsteiger was not plucked we let him go. You better pray you are able to get value for money from him, there is only so much riotous spending you can do before shyte hits the fan

€250m and we can start discussions

SailorXY:
the attached pictures replies you

what's there to tell about di Maria? are you seeking for straws again??

Falcao was loan deal with an option to sign up. it didn't work that way & we let go, da fvck is "bully" init

Morgan is on £120k weekly, stop 'hearding' as an excuse to inflate, a simple Google search will help

Shebi na you been dey argue with me say you pay us £4m for Schweinsteiger?

You no know say na just him personal sign on fee be that

Lordave:
You're right!
How about getting a winger as Ribery back up? A winger who plays from the left flank.

We beat Valencia today, (from the highlight I saw) seems Lahm played from the midfield,I think Pep has no plans of returning to his natural right back position. Our midfield is overcrowded.

It seems to me Guardiola is fixated on playing as many midfielders as possible but let's see what happens when Robbery and Vidal arrive. He will have to move Lahm back to right back at some point.

Lahm played really well today

4-1 win vs Valencia. Never knew Chinko folks support Bayern too. Impressive turnout at the Bird's Nest

Nice display from the boys today. Apart from Ulreich's gaffe I was blown away by our game

This Douglas Costa might not be a bad signing afterall. Was beating defenders with consummate ease and it looks like he and Thiago are already building up real Chemistry

Mueller looking very sharp as usual. Scored twice.

Lewandowski absolutely took a dump on Mustafi. Lol Mustafi makes Rafinha look like Cafu. How did that wasteman get into the Nationalmannschaft? I'm not saying Joachim Loew is taking bribes but goodness that guy can be ridiculously mediocre at times

We face Inter and Guangzhou next.

Lordave:
I'm also happy to hear this news.

But someone of Verrati age would have been better.

Let's get Draxler for Ribery.

I think the leadership looked at our three young prospects and decided signing someone too close to their age might hamper their growth. Vidal is a good intermediate option. If he gives us three good years then at least one probably two of our in house guys are ready to step up which also means we don't have to spend unnecessarily

I think we could use a guy like Vidal especially in elite Europe

Imagine a midfield of Thiago,Vidal,Javi or Javi,Vidal and Goetze