Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [Archived] Soccer • Page 285

Dier is great but man I thought playing him today was a massive mistake. There was no need for him in defensive midfield and whatever job he was given he didn't do. Should have had a more attack minded midfielder in there.

Alli also didn't show up but to be fair he's like 12.

 

Uhhh Crystal Palace just bought Batshuayi for 42m

 

They haven't signed him yet. Just agreed a fee. I doubt he'll sign for them.

 

Officially? I saw they had a bid accepted, but have they actually signed him?

 

I misread the title of the article.

 

This was Alexis Sanchez's ankle after last night...

 

This Icelandic commentator is so full of life.

Icelandic announcer at it again with another brilliant play call

 

I hope to get as excited for some things as he does one day

 

Well doesn't this fill me with joy. So basically he'll be tired and shit for 3 months then.

 

Hopefully he gets a rest and a pre season this year. Even if that means he misses the first few weeks. It was a disaster last season throwing him in from the start.

 

ha england actually lost.

 

Der Westen have quotes from Watzke seemingly saying (Google translate) we have massively improved our offer for Mkhitaryan and a decision will be made by the weeked.

Watzke: BVB entscheidet am Wochenende über Mkhitaryan

@orangehorizon is the google translate correct?

 

Scale us 10-1 1 being the best, right? Right???

 

Rashford 5, he was our best player

 

I know Harry Kane scored no goals this Euro but looking at the stats he didn't have a shot on target until the Iceland match. That seems ridiculous.

 

People seriously suggesting Tim Sherwood for the England job on the BBC news feed today. Give me strength...

 

This would be my favourite thing ever. Honestly though I'd love to see Tactics Tim back managing any PL club. PASSION M8!

 

Terrence Boyd has been training with the RB Leipzig under 13's team the last 3 weeks as he's getting back to fitness.

 

Can't get my head around why we weren't in for Mkhitaryan.

 

we're his "dream club" despite him being an arsenal fan

we buttered up his agent big and good

 

Sounds like the old FM trick of just throwing money at the agent to get them interested. It's how I got Gundogan to sign for me when I was managing Southampton,

 

That's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

 

Did he have an entire leg amputated? Legit feel like I haven't heard about him since 2013.

 

Yes thats correct. All people responsible for transfers at Dortmund will meet on the weekend and decide if they're going to sell him or not.

It looks like they will sell him for around 40m €. Dortmund never have made that much from a single transfer and given that he has only one year left on his contract it makes sense. He also only had one good season, the other two years were more or less underwhelming to say the least. So it's probably smart to sell him now. Will be interesting to see who they can get as a replacement. They initially wanted Bellarabi, but Leverkusen is not going to sell him. Tuchel seems to prefer Schürrle, but nobody else at Dortmund seem to rate him enough to pay the price Wolfsburg is going to demand.