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Official Football Thread 2007/2008 (Soccer)
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psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
Yeah. I know that the papers are making up 90% of the ronaldo stories, but I'm still letting it get to me even though I know most of it is bullshit.MrPing1000 said:
It's official, Dos Santos to Spurs 
Im really mad at Nou Camp atm, they forced his way out of Barça just because they liked Bojan better. I guess Guardiola had the last word about it, but still is kind of sad, he just turned 19 and has a lot of potential. At the top of it we didn't even get much for him, just 6m plus 5m more if he plays regularly and 20% of a future transfer.
Sevilla's president Del Nido said yesterday that Alves will likely sign for Barça in the next few days.
Pique, Seydou Keita, Caceres and Alves so far. Now we need someone who can play as left-wing and a striker if Eto'o leaves.
Im really mad at Nou Camp atm, they forced his way out of Barça just because they liked Bojan better. I guess Guardiola had the last word about it, but still is kind of sad, he just turned 19 and has a lot of potential. At the top of it we didn't even get much for him, just 6m plus 5m more if he plays regularly and 20% of a future transfer.
Sevilla's president Del Nido said yesterday that Alves will likely sign for Barça in the next few days.
Pique, Seydou Keita, Caceres and Alves so far. Now we need someone who can play as left-wing and a striker if Eto'o leaves.
Eeikod said:It's official, Dos Santos to Spurs
Im really mad at Nou Camp atm, they forced his way out of Barça just because they liked Bojan better. I guess Guardiola had the last word about it, but still is kind of sad, he just turned 19 and has a lot of potential. At the top of it we didn't even get much for him, just 6m plus 5m more if he plays regularly and 20% of a future transfer.
Sevilla's president Del Nido said yesterday that Alves will likely sign for Barça in the next few days.
Pique, Seydou Keita, Caceres and Alves so far. Now we need someone who can play as left-wing and a striker if Eto'o leaves.
Geo needed to stay in Barca, I wonder whats going to happen to him in Spurs. I dont think the manager wanted him either.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
Don't press gang me.
As I told had in a PM, I'm having money issues so I wasn't gonna take part, but I feel guilty as it was my idea, so I'll join but I can only put £2 (minimum betfair stake) on it.
As I told had in a PM, I'm having money issues so I wasn't gonna take part, but I feel guilty as it was my idea, so I'll join but I can only put £2 (minimum betfair stake) on it.
Eeikod said:It's official, Dos Santos to Spurs
Im really mad at Nou Camp atm, they forced his way out of Barça just because they liked Bojan better. I guess Guardiola had the last word about it, but still is kind of sad, he just turned 19 and has a lot of potential. At the top of it we didn't even get much for him, just 6m€ plus 5m more if he plays regularly and 20% of a future transfer.
Sevilla's president Del Nido said yesterday that Alves will likely sign for Barça in the next few days.
Pique, Seydou Keita, Caceres and Alves so far. Now we need someone who can play as left-wing and a striker if Eto'o leaves.
I can't believe Barca let Dos Santos leave so easily. I guess they didn't have as much faith in him after all.
Eeikod said:It's official, Dos Santos to Spurs
Im really mad at Nou Camp atm, they forced his way out of Barça just because they liked Bojan better. I guess Guardiola had the last word about it, but still is kind of sad, he just turned 19 and has a lot of potential. At the top of it we didn't even get much for him, just 6m plus 5m more if he plays regularly and 20% of a future transfer.
It's only June and we already have a winner for most stupid maneuver of the transfer window. Considering he has had no stability in terms of appearances due partly to injury and partly because Barca had Messi, Etoo, Ronnie and Henry on their books as well as Bojan also coming through he's done well for a debut season.
He got 4 goals and 4 assists, but he also played a key role in instigating the moves for quite a few goals including 2 of the goals against Lyon at home. His style of very direct runs he makes off the ball and some of the more direct passes that he's willing to make(such as the one that set up the second goal against Recre) was exactly the kind of thing Barca needed when you look at some of the laborious passing play they come up with.
But it also seems short sighted on his side, there's a reasonably good chance he won't see any champions league football at spurs, so even if he does well, unless he moves on maybe to one of the top 4, or perhaps to Italy or maybe Real, he could very well end up making a lot less money long term than he would have if he stayed on and succeeded at Barca(and again no champions league football in the meantime).
Ok I'll sign up.
The Friendly Monster
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I'm less excited about the team I draw than the other user I draw as my team buddy.
C'mon QVT.
C'mon QVT.
heidern said:
The winner would be Madrid getting Ronaldo, since the rumor is they are offering 9.5 million a yr for 5 yrs, and thats after taxes + the 80-90 mill they would need to pay Utd.
And Dos Santos needed to get out of Barca, he was never going to make it there, he is just not good enough.
Cornballer
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He dissed John Mayer over on gaming side.ElyrionX said:
Full preview of how the CONCACAF Champions League draw is set up. The draw takes place next Wednesday.
Outdoor Miner
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Just curious, is this the same mod that banned me a week or so ago?
Yazan said:
Which post of his pissed off the mod?
EDIT: BTW, I got banned for a pretty shitty reason myself. I was banned for discussing ZOE3 in the Konami conference thread apparently because the thread was to discuss Konami's conference and since ZOE3 was not a part of the conference, the topic is taboo. I think around 10 people including myself were banned. :lol
This post
"john mayer blows he should stfu"
In this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=307663
"john mayer blows he should stfu"
In this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=307663
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
He's getting banned for the euro!ElyrionX said:
I'm gonna miss him. I dont agree with his hate for italy and ronaldo, but he does come up with some funny stuff about them.
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
Apparantly ronaldo has agreed a 150,000 pound a week contract with real.
Just goes to show how much bullshit there is in the press. Yesterday he was going to be offered 300K. Now they're reporting half of that. Tomorrow we'll hear that his wages will be the ticket money of the bernebeau.
Just goes to show how much bullshit there is in the press. Yesterday he was going to be offered 300K. Now they're reporting half of that. Tomorrow we'll hear that his wages will be the ticket money of the bernebeau.
Outdoor Miner
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If anything, bad mouthing John Mayer should grant one immunity towards any kind of ban.
Tim the Wiz
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I'm down for joining the Euro Pool. Hopefully, I'll pull Netherlands. Have a good feeling about them.
just did a test-draw and got Holland. Which makes extremely unlikely that I'm getting a good team in the actual draw. Have to say that Mama's system works extremely well though, good stuff.
WHO WANTS THE FINAL PLACE IN THE EURO POOL?
edit: missed your post tim, you're the final one.
All participants:
WHO WANTS THE FINAL PLACE IN THE EURO POOL?
edit: missed your post tim, you're the final one.
All participants:
Cornballer
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One of the better known posters over on BigSoccer, voros, put together a simulation of Euro2008 results based on his ranking system. He's put these together in the past. Voros is better known for doing work with baseball stastics and there's a lot about him in Moneyball, but he's a huge soccer fan, as well.
I'm very surprised with the Italy and France numbers. Doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. The rest of it is more or less in line with what I'd expect, though Switzerland and Austria do seem to get more of a bump for home field advantage than they should. This thread has a long discussion of his simulation for the 2006 World Cup. Does anyone have similar odds/numbers from European sources?Voros said:
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