Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [Archived] Soccer • Page 571

Midfield as in centre midfield. Not wings included.

 

So there's a rumor we're gonna replace Neymar with... Ozil. Wouldn't Alexis make a smudge more sense positionally?

 

Jesus fucking christ...

 

lmao

 

Hahahaha oh man, if this happens... Might even top the Paulinho to Barca rumours

 

I would be really annoyed if we signed Aurier.

 

Apparently we are in talks with tinder over our sleeve sponsorship

 

I honestly think he's too loyal to Real to do that. He would be fantastic for you though, I think. You'd have to take a more balanced formation but I think it would work.

 

Don't think we'd switch to a 4-4-2 or a 4-2-3-1... though the second is the dream haha

 

Chelsea's homegrown numbers are really low, and Drinkwater had good chemistry with Kante. Depending on how much he'd cost, and given those circumstances, he wouldn't be the worst 4th choice at CM.

 

Someone post the latest Barca/PSG news so I can laugh at it here too

 

Last I saw he's reporting for training in Barcelona tomorrow.

 

Something about PSG honouring the fact he's under contract with Barca or something?

What's the news!? Don't leave us hanging.

 

Solid banter this.

Searching "Neymar" on Twitter brings up that he was in Dubai for a sneak medical. Also says he'll train with Barcelona tomorrow and then announce he's leaving, which seems like a stupid thing to do.

Also saying we'll buy Dortmund's Dembele, Mbappe and Griezmann to replace him (lololol, but also please Antoine)

 

This news.

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Also

Liverpool newspaper sparks outrage after comparing German football club to the Nazis

lmao Liverpool

 

Interesting. There were rumors the Barca board were going to force the FFP issue into court over it.

 

That confused me why could a club report another for FFP. That should be all UEFA, not down to clubs.

Also LMAO at them asking City of all clubs. Should have asked Arsenal and Liverpool too to get the tapping up instances thrown back at them.

 

It's probably because of Pep, yeah?

That article was behind a pay wall. What clubs did they ask?

 

City are an oil club just like PSG though, surely some common sense comes into play.

Oh really? Might be geofenced I could read it. Juve, Bayern, City and Real Madrid!

 

I thought that, too. And PSG "stole" Dani Alves from City this summer so fresh wounds?

Also, Arsenal aren't in the UCL right now so maybe that's why. Wanted to get contenders involved?

AC Milan would be a good serie A club for this, too, if they were close to relevant.

 

AC who have spent a fortune this summer? lol I just think the only leg Barca have to stand on is tapping up which considering their previous transfers is hypocritical. FFP will be dealt with by UEFA and PSG have till the end of the window to balance their books

 

PSG bought Thiago Silva and Ibrahimovic in the same summer from AC and they've kinda been shitty since (for a lot of other reasons, but those are two quality players), was my thinking mostly. If you're leading teams against PSG for sniping players with large paychecks, they fit the bill.

Yeah. I think the Barca board just needs to swallow the pill and be better going forward. Dani Alves and Neymar both should still be with the club, but the board bungled the first in epic fashion and is just looking cucked on the second.

The more that comes out about Neymar Sr., though, the more I keep expecting something to happen in that regard from higher up. He's making an absurd amount of money out of all of this. I can see Barca taking him to court over the "loyalty" fee (why would they ever agree to this?!) they're paying him because Neymar is still a player today which is seemingly the only stipulation, but probably won't be come tomorrow.

 

Jesus, I'm tired of this saga, worse than any "will they won't they" storyline on a tv show

 

Barca complaining about tapping up and inappropriate conduct?