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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Arsenal Tone » Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:22 am

EliteKiller wrote:How many players will we lose to African Nations Championship in January / February? It was Auba, Elneny, Pepe ..... do we add Partey now?
Thought they'd moved it to the off season? Has that changed due to covid?
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby EliteKiller » Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:38 am

Tony Adams wrote:
EliteKiller wrote:How many players will we lose to African Nations Championship in January / February? It was Auba, Elneny, Pepe ..... do we add Partey now?
Thought they'd moved it to the off season? Has that changed due to covid?


That's what I was asking - not sure how all the African tournaments are working now.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby LMAO » Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:51 am

EliteKiller wrote:
Tony Adams wrote:
EliteKiller wrote:How many players will we lose to African Nations Championship in January / February? It was Auba, Elneny, Pepe ..... do we add Partey now?
Thought they'd moved it to the off season? Has that changed due to covid?


That's what I was asking - not sure how all the African tournaments are working now.


I wanna say yes. The 2021 AFCON was moved to January and February 2022 because of the pandemic, but it was originally slated for June and July 2021.

The 2023 edition is scheduled to be held in June and July. Same for 2025.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Royal Gooner » Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:47 pm

The Republic of Ireland boss in big trouble for showing an anti-English film to his players. I'm guessing it was something with the IRA in it.

He clearly forgot that most of the Irish team are English anyway.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:52 pm

Apparently there's a good chance England might host whole of the Euros instead of the all over Europe crap.

Final decision to be made in April but if so it'll be awesome. 1996 was awesome.

Hopefully we get the 2026/30 world cup as well
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Royal Gooner » Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:54 pm

Ach wrote:Apparently there's a good chance England might host whole of the Euros instead of the all over Europe crap.

Final decision to be made in April but if so it'll be awesome. 1996 was awesome.

Hopefully we get the 2026/30 world cup as well


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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:00 am

Low leaving Germany after the euros.

Klopp to take over?
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby LMAO » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:35 am



Now do Mighten and Balogun.

2026 can't come soon enough.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:26 pm

Zlatan back for Sweden. Probably go to the Euros as well.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:49 pm

Giggs charged with assault.

Robert page will be in charge of Wales this summer.

Giggs is a despicable person.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Sat May 15, 2021 7:23 pm

Ach wrote:Zlatan back for Sweden. Probably go to the Euros as well.

Maybe not
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Rockape » Thu May 27, 2021 9:26 am

todays Telegraph:

Rejected by Spain, soon to be out of contract at Real Madrid, Sergio Ramos, inked-up and hacked off, feels like the pirate captain without a ship or crew to call his own, shaking his cutlass at the gulls on the dock and drawing puzzled looks from the tourists.

It is hard to imagine that the hitherto most feared defender in the world, who would mis-sell his own granny PPI for three points away at Elche,

finds himself on the outside of a game which once lionised him and his often breathtaking cynicism. Of course, all great careers must end, but what is notable about the current big beasts of the world game is their reluctance to accept that the party is over. Got a big pre-Covid contract? Treasure it, because the game has changed.

Ramos is holding out for a two-year deal at Real when only one-year on reduced terms is on offer, and you do wonder if the 35-year-old is reading the room right.

The Real of Florentino Perez are broke, with more than €1 billion (£865 million) of indebtedness even before the failed European Super League putsch which has lost them more than just their stake. The looming Uefa investigation may recommend a large fine and the financial catastrophe of a two-year Champions League ban. By the end of it they may not be able to afford the services of Juande Ramos, let alone Sergio Ramos.

For their captain, who seems to think that it is still 2018, the renewal has come at the wrong time. The once great assets of the world game, and their attendant contracts, now look absurd on the balance sheets of their struggling clubs. How much Real must wish that the contracts of Marcelo and Gareth Bale did not have another year to run,

or that Eden Hazard did not have another three years. Even in the moment Hazard’s deal was agreed in 2019, it felt like it belonged to another era. A tuxedo fitting for the family dog as the bailiffs come up the driveway.

It is not just Real either – at debt-heavy Juventus the pressure of Cristiano Ronaldo’s last year in Serie A weighs heavy. They cannot afford him, especially if the same Uefa sanctions are to befall them as threaten their fellow conspirators, Real and Barcelona. In Catalonia, little to nothing has been heard from new president Joan Laporta since his acceptance speech in early March as he tries to piece together a broken financial model. What kind of pay cut will Lionel Messi have to take to stay? And to make it work what kind of multi-value will have to be wrung from Messi and the Messi brand in the years to come? Veteran playmaker? Commercial powerhouse? Club ambassador? Chief groundsman?

Clubs have often carried once-great players in the last years of major contracts, but never have those liabilities been such a burden as now. Manchester City have dispensed with Sergio Aguero without a second glance and it is no surprise he is yet in a position to announce a new club, given the current market for 32-year-olds. Even Raheem Sterling, with two years on his deal and still just 26, does not feel like he has the upper hand in that conversation. City may decide they can afford to wait another year.

Running a deal that low for a player of that age would be unthinkable two years ago, but the dynamic is changing and now the accent is less on protection of the asset at all costs and rather more on not being left exposed with a declining player on big terms. The question seems not to be simply the length of the contract, but in some cases its effect – signalling to the player the final summit of his financial success in the game. Does that security invite a sense of complacency?

United are taking their time with Paul Pogba, who now seems likely to end this season with just one year left on his current deal. The market for a player of his global commercial appeal and mixed on-pitch track record was always something of a mirage successfully talked up by his agent, but now not even Mino Raiola can conjure the illusion.

At Arsenal, too, it feels like the weather has changed on their big summer 2020 decisions. Knowing what they do, one year on would they give Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang another three-year contract at £250,000 a week? Would they even grant Willian access to the complimentary training ground canteen buffet?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal during the Premier League match between Crystal Palace and Arsenal
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has struggled since signing his new Arsenal contract CREDIT: Getty Images
None of the world’s biggest clubs can survive without taking a long-term view on their major assets and in some cases that costs money. There will always be mistakes, and some bigger than others. The seven-year deal that Chelsea awarded to Kepa Arrizabalaga is so long that they might even redevelop Stamford Bridge before he is legally obliged to clear his locker. David de Gea’s last deal at United, agreed with urgency in late 2019, made him one of the Premier League’s biggest earners, but form and finances mean the club would never have agreed to it on those terms one year later.

Real agreed a single year’s extension for Luka Modric which was signed this week after negotiations that seemed to take longer than the duration of the new deal itself. Liverpool are in a dance with Mohamed Salah over his next deal with two years remaining and no serious options for their leading goalscorer. Sadio Mane’s contract expires the same summer and, while the two-year threshold used to be the moment for decisions, now it feels prudent to wait and see how the next eight months unfold.

Of all the big names in play, Neymar got his big deal this month at 29 and the three years left for Harry Kane at Tottenham Hotspur currently represents good value for his club. Although you wonder whether chairman Daniel Levy would agree a compromise that involves a lucrative extension. They would not be the first club pricked into action by fears of a forced departure, only later to wonder why they acted so hastily.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Ach » Wed Jun 02, 2021 7:40 pm

Benzema missed a penalty v Wales

Giroud come home
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby Goonerred » Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:09 pm

Saka is playing well for England.
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Re: International Football Discussion

Postby dc16 » Wed Jun 02, 2021 8:13 pm

SAKAAAAAAAAAAA

Get in there.
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