Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [Archived] Soccer • Page 171

Apparently PSG since the Juve move is off.

 

Expect to see the Bellerin to rumours surge, then.

 

Yeah, it's interesting, Benitez is no doubt a top coach, but it'll be interesting to see how he'll cope with being the unanimous favourite in a division. All of his successes as a manager (Liverpool, Valencia and Chelsea to a lesser degree) have been as underdogs, so it'll be good to see how he deals with being the big fish this time.

I expect Townsend and Mitrovic to be big successes in the Championship, but obviously lots of doubts about the rest of their squad.

 

Arsenal already rejected a bid for Bellerin the other day apparently.

 

The Gundogan to City Twitter announcement was so bad lol

 

Fully expect a Bellerin move to happen next summer. Give a year to Aleix and Sergi and "see what happens." Which reminds me, we still have Douglas but he can't even make the match day squad.

 

I haven't seen much of this rumor recently, but if Pogba moves to Barca who gets pushed out of the starting 11? The only talk I've seen about any of the starters leaving are on the back line.

 

Rakitic prob

 

That's what I was thinking, but Rakitic wouldn't be happy about losing his spot, right? He's played so well.

 

Pogba and Rakitic are very different players, Pogba has nowhere near the work rate or the positional discipline of Rakitic. A midfield of Busquets - Pogba - Iniesta basically relies fully on Busquets doing the defensive work, and considering the front three have little to no defensive responsibility, Barca could easily be overwhelmed.

 

Could seeing Pogba joining Conte at Chelsea

 

I can't believe Dani Alves is leaving Barca :(

 

The fact Will Grigg being good has become a meme annoys me no end, since always been fucking shite for me on FM...

 

If Pogba comes in, it is signaling the end of Iniesta, not the end of Rakitic. I think there's still a season or two before Iniesta becomes what Xavi was last year. He's still good enough to keep Arda Turan on the bench almost permanently.

 

Bae bought us Open Cup tickets I'm so excited even if it's going to be the B team. Watching in such a smaller venue will be so fun probably. I just hope Vieira plays with some sort of urgency. Also fuck the Cosmos.

 

Not this season without Champions League at least. I do think he'd be extremely suited to the PL more than the Spanish League though.

 

I need to sub this thread hard.

Really trying to hit up a Copa game this summer.. would be the teets, teets.

 

For what it's worth, Pogba was a beast when I bought him for Man Utd on FM.

e - was a pretty decent team too.

 

Forgot they weren't in the CL, as happy as that makes me.

 

Phil Jones. Superb.

Edit: Just realized that was morale. Assumed it was form. LOL. Never played the game.

 

Thought Arda was leaving this summer anyway

 

I haven't heard that, but also wouldn't be surprised.

 

I also seen a tweet that I think said they have more players on Euro squads then Ligue 1 does.

 

Probably all the Irish and norn Irish players

 

Completely forgot England were on tonight, nice surprise for the evening!