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Hüftpriester said:
I guess that's still a possibility but they already have a good young striker in Osimhen. Maybe they'll change their formation to accommodate Ronaldo but last year they played with a lone striker.
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When the Chelsea interest came out I saw a brief bit buried in the articles about interest from Napoli. So that is where I assumed he was going. The PSG bit seemed like negotiation tactics as well. I could see him going back to Serie A and just bagging goals while not having to do much defensively and playing Champions League for one year before maybe going back to Sporting
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
When the Chelsea interest came out I saw a brief bit buried in the articles about interest from Napoli. So that is where I assumed he was going. The PSG bit seemed like negotiation tactics as well. I could see him going back to Serie A and just bagging goals while not having to do much defensively and playing Champions League for one year before maybe going back to Sporting
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I could see him going back to Serie A but the move would reek of desperation. If he really wants a chance to win the champions league again, Napoli is not the place. The teams that rejected him (Bayern, Chelsea, PSG) all have realistic shots of making a CL run, but Napoli does not. Maybe he only cares about adding to his CL goals record, in which case the move would make a little more sense but also show how he's the most self-centered player in the history of the sport.

Imo, his last chance for meaningful silverware is with the Portugal NT. This is probably the most complete squad he's ever had with them.
 
Hüftpriester said:
I could see him going back to Serie A but the move would reek of desperation. If he really wants a chance to win the champions league again, Napoli is not the place. The teams that rejected him (Bayern, Chelsea, PSG) all have realistic shots of making a CL run, but Napoli does not. Maybe he only cares about adding to his CL goals record, in which case the move would make a little more sense but also show how he's the most self-centered player in the history of the sport.

Imo, his last chance for meaningful silverware is with the Portugal NT. This is probably the most complete squad he's ever had with them.
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It might not be about winning the Champions League or trying to add to his record. He might just want to play at a high level to prepare for the World Cup. Like you said, Portugal has one of their best squads ever atm and he might want to do everything possible to be the best he can prior to the World Cup. Rebuilding a squad with United, playing Europa League in Lithuania during the week, and struggling against Brighton on the weekend wouldn't feel right for him.

@Hüftpriester apparently Ronaldo turned down massive salary to play in Saudi Arabia. While it doesn't rule out either of our theories of personal glory or world cup prep, he isn't leaving for money
 
KokoroKoroki said:
I'm not sure what Man City are playing at with these transfers, selling their two best goalscorers behind Aguero seems like a terrible decision, are they really relying on Haaland to score as many as he did last season and having Foden and Mahrez be the backups? If Haaland gets injured it's probably not going to be as easy even if they are an oil money club.
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City just signed Alvarez who is probably going to be gently brought into the squad much like how Foden gradually got more and more games until he was a credible starter. Haaland and Alvarez should on paper be enough considering they've gone for so long without a traditional striker in their system and still scored goals for fun so I'm assuming if a freak incident happens and both players are injured, Pep will just stack the midfield and use a makeshift target man until either player is back.

I'm curious how Pep organises City this year because we might actually see a few games of standard 4-4-2 to see how they mesh together.
 
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is my guess. We saw a Silva-Rodri double pivot in a few games last year and it worked pretty well, with Silva as a box-to-box and Rodri as a DM.
 
YES! FUCK YES!

My São Paulo managed to advance in the domestic Cup against our rivals Palmeiras after a tense penalty shootout on their home turf.
The first fifteen minutes were a nightmare - They managed to score the two goals they needed to advance and seemed to steamroll on us like they did in the State Championship finals earlier this year. Thankfully São Paulo got their shit together and after they missed a penalty, we scored one that turned the tides back to our favor somehow. (In the first game, they won 1-0)

Copa do Brasil is literally the only title São Paulo has never won. I sure hope they can win it in my lifetime, preferrably this year! Now me and my brother are getting wasted to calm our nerves down. This is the kind of shit that makes me love footy.
 
Anchors-Away said:

Officially confirmed now. I'll miss seeing him play.

Elsewhere, Brentford is picking up multiple Ukrainian youth players for the B team. I guess if something is gonna profit of the ongoing war, it's Football teams.
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Don't worry, they'll ask for donations on commentary that some Ukranian bureaucrat will find in their bank account and put stop the war hashtags on their adboards to show they really care. And kneel for American criminals, of course, to show that they stand in solidarity with uWukranians.

Taking their youth talent for the free publicity is a fair trade in their mind.
 
England Women have looked very good so far in the Women's Euros. Real tests come next though - expect it will be Spain in the QF, and if they keep progressing most likely Netherlands then Germany.

I'm hopeful they can do it, though my fear is if they do pull it off it'll go to their heads and their public image will start to become as insufferable as the US Women are.
 
I'm really struggling to work out how Barcelona are neck-deep in debt and owe players money, and are just about willing to sell limbs to raise funds; yet keep signing expensive players on high wages.

Called UEFAlona for a reason. If this were an English club they'd be banned from the transfer market for 2 seasons and heavily fined.
 
OJ Simpson said:
I'm really struggling to work out how Barcelona are neck-deep in debt and owe players money, and are just about willing to sell limbs to raise funds; yet keep signing expensive players on high wages.

Called UEFAlona for a reason. If this were an English club they'd be banned from the transfer market for 2 seasons and heavily fined.
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They can't register players until they meet the wage bill. So they are just signing people to train with the team without technically playing until they somehow raise more money and get rid of players. Its a giant balancing act between a club trying to stay afloat financially and also competing for Champions League.

If you stop looking at it like a club trying to rebuild or keep itself competitive and look more at it like a club that knows it isn't going to be around in 4 years, then all these moves make sense
 
I’m just glad that dirty Barca money will funnel its way to juve via the de ligt transfer. Serie A teams take what they can get nowadays
 
Barcelona will absolutely be around in a few years time, I just think we're getting closer and closer towards Barcelona being privately owned and the era of fan voted presidents being over.

As it stands, the current president needs De Jong to leave because he's a previous presidents signing, so if he does well then that doesn't look good on the current president. Barcelona will do these fucking retarded shuffle deals in order to get the same calibre footballer but with the current presidents name on it.

I just like how Barcelona's finances are slowly getting worse and worse and the quality of their team is declining. But I know if it gets TOO bad then Barcelona will have to issue the ultimatum to their fans that they need to be bought out or shut down, and some Arab billionaire is absolutely going to bail them out.
 
Hear me out:
  • Barcelona, American owned
  • "Més que un club" is replaced with a NFT sponsorship
  • Steve Bisciotti decides as joint owner to host a yearly Baltimore Ravens game at the KFC Yum Yum (Formerly Camp Nou) stadium
  • Thierry Henry is the manager, but he does not have control over the transfer policy
 
Having been playing a lot of FM lately I would LOVE seeing Barca crumble to nothing.
how the fuck are they spending 300 million pounds every window wtf
 
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