The Football News Thread 2022/23

[Wilf Wolf]

Imagine paying for the next Neymar, Mbappe or Haarland.

That's what they're doing.

It's worked for them in the past with Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo (€120m the pair) now first team regulars and regulars for Brasil.

They have also spent big in two French lad who were teenagers in Camavinga (€28m) and Aurelien Tchouameni (€80m) who are defensive midfielders. All 4 of those were young and all 4 worth their money.

By all accounts Bellingham was outstanding at15 and undoubtedly before that. Nobody would be laughing now if a club had picked him up for £50m back then. It’s not massively different to what we’ve tried to do but shopping at the very top of the market.

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63888850

wet spams subsidised use of the london stadium seems wrong in so many ways.

 

[Kenny]

BREAKING: Manuel Neuer's leg, thanks to a skiing accident.

Out for the season.

Was amazed to discover that German teams don't have clauses in their players contracts to prevent them from doing things that are a high risk of injury.

 

[1986]

BREAKING: Manuel Neuer's leg, thanks to a skiing accident.

Out for the season.

Was amazed to discover that German teams don't have clauses in their players contracts to prevent them from doing things that are a high risk of injury.

Didn't have a good World Cup . Seems past his best .

 

[Kenny]

Could say heading down hill fast...way to fast

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...his-stockport-salary-to-local-community-trust

fair play Phil!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Gianluca Vialli's cancer has returned and he's had to stop working with Italy. Horrible stuff, such a nice guy too.

 

[SSB]

Aston Villa looking at expanding & redeveloping Villa Park by 7,400 seats

Villa Park set for significant redevelopment with plans to add more than 7,000 new seats

Plans to rejuvenate a significant area of Villa Park are set to be approved. The major works will involve completely demolishing the North Stand in order to add another 7,400 seats, tipping the total capacity over 50,000.

www.expressandstar.com

 

[The Bear]

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ni-monza-sex-workers-in-dressing-room-serie-a

 

[Tony Towner]

Infantino has arbitrarily announced a 32 team club World Cup. Hopefully the clubs and UEFA tell him where to go, but as we know if there's money in it they won't.

Also banging on how great a Winter World Cup has been, so you can guarantee Saudi Arabia will be getting the one in 2030

 

[Kenny]

Was meant to be doing that last year in China but with 24 teams. Covid fooked that up

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Infantino makes himself seem even more of a cunt every time he opens his mouth.

 

[Alan]

Of all the things unique to this World Cup, the “winter” dates have actually been okay.

 

[sycophantia]

Of all the things unique to this World Cup, the “winter” dates have actually been okay.

Well apart from buggering up the league programme just to shoehorn a world Cup into a country it shouldn't have been anywhere near.

 

[Alan]

Well apart from buggering up the league programme just to shoehorn a world Cup into a country it shouldn't have been anywhere near.

Buggering up some leagues tbf. Others get screwed by the summer schedule.

Someone is always losing out on that.

 

[Kenny]

The shoehorning part though has hopefully come with a benefit for us.

Good of FIFA to realise we would need this help when they took huge bribes to get this World Cup on

 

[Kenny]

Someone is always losing out on that.

Half arsed leagues in North America that employ Phil Neville don't count...

 

[Alan]

Half arsed leagues in North America that employ Phil Neville don't count...

I blame Beckham tbh

 

[Tony Towner]

Complaining about a World Cup in the Summer is like moving next to a football ground and complaing about the noise