Soccer/Football Thread Part 3

[BritainStix]

Lukaku now has:

45 goals in 61 games

for club and country since his last game for United...

He plays in the Italian league. The standard there is woeful. It's a sad demise from the absolute powerhouse it was in the 90s

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

HCette bought this for Venmo Thatcher and it got delivered the other day. She just showed it to me. Sadly couldn’t fit his full first name or last name on it so had to go with initials.

 

[Starat327]

HCette bought this for Venmo Thatcher and it got delivered the other day. She just showed it to me. Sadly couldn’t fit his full first name or last name on it so had to go with initials.

View attachment 372218
View attachment 372219

Sounds like you need a bigger baby.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Sounds like you need a bigger baby.

Having a bigger baby wouldn’t even help. They only allowed 5 characters no matter what on the kids kits.

 

[Starat327]

Having a bigger baby wouldn’t even help. They only allowed 5 characters no matter what on the kids kits.

Sounds like you need a shorter name.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Sounds like you need a shorter name.

That awkward moment when Venmo is five letters.

 

[Starat327]

That awkward moment when Venmo is five letters.

Thtch

 

[Jack Straw]

When is a power grab, that isn’t really a power grab, really a power grab?

Project Big Picture: leading clubs' plan to reshape game sparks anger

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[BigToe]

We might not see Ronaldo vs Messi. sadface.gif

 

[Starat327]

@Hollywood Couturier what are your boys doing over there?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Might be the most impressive set of results since 1982 for Scotland... the November Serbia match looms large.

Euro qualification and promotion to the A league Nations League tier within their grasp. How will they Scotland this up?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Hollywood Couturier what are your boys doing over there?

Hell if I know.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Might have to move into Providence Park full time, @PDX Flyer.

 

[PDX Flyer]

Might have to move into Providence Park full time, @PDX Flyer.

Ha will interesting if Canada is opened up for next season

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Aaronson joins Salzburg for record-breaking fee

 

[BigToe]

Aaronson joins Salzburg for record-breaking fee

9 mill is the highest fee ever? Thats terrible.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

9 mill is the highest fee ever? Thats terrible.

Is it though? Known quantities like Pulisic are scooped up before they would require big fees.

Guys like Alphonso Davies, who had to break out in the MLS first, are diamonds in the rough.

MLS quality, especially with younger players, lags far behind European in developmental systems. It's getting better, but you're not going to see young stars picked up from the MLS for large transfer fees regularly.

 

[BigToe]

Is it though? Known quantities like Pulisic are scooped up before they would require big fees.

Guys like Alphonso Davies, who had to break out in the MLS first, are diamonds in the rough.

MLS quality, especially with younger players, lags far behind European in developmental systems. It's getting better, but you're not going to see young stars picked up from the MLS for large transfer fees regularly.

If thats the highest fee, the MLS is way farther behind than I thought. Weren't Pulisic and Davies picked up for free?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

If thats the highest fee, the MLS is way farther behind than I thought. Weren't Pulisic and Davies picked up for free?

Pulisic was signed when he was 15 and not club affiliated, so he was free.

Davies is the highest MLS transfer fee ever ($22M), but he was signed from a Canadian market, so didn't factor into the Aaronson story.

 

[PDX Flyer]

If thats the highest fee, the MLS is way farther behind than I thought. Weren't Pulisic and Davies picked up for free?

The point is the top talent doesn’t go through the MLS development system. They are already in Europe. Renya is a Dortmund. Barca has an American kid etc...pulisic was gone early. There are a bunch more

This is actually a good sign. The mls is developing local talent that wasn’t on early radar. Philly has a good edge because they are in traditional area for good players

 

[trostol]

now will the Union use that money well?

 

[Curufinwe]

What a game.

what a joke of an offside decision.

 

[Starat327]

What a brutally called game.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

The interaction between VAR and offsides might make it the worst written rule in sports.