Random Football Stuff

[Entropics]

Premier League players lost millions in investments

Danny Murphy, Brian Deane and Craig Short are part of a group of footballers who say they are victims of "financial abuse".

www.bbc.com

 

[viktor]

 

[Aussie_gunner123]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/footb...GSxd63Fr_-rXxURmUQ_aem_y5ZUp0AEIxxU4qbcYmjhQg This is pretty interesting by Craig Fosters & Tim Cahill's opinion about Australian footballers haha.

 

[Melquiades]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/footb...GSxd63Fr_-rXxURmUQ_aem_y5ZUp0AEIxxU4qbcYmjhQg This is pretty interesting by Craig Fosters & Tim Cahill's opinion about Australian footballers haha.

This is honestly the biggest thing :

But it isn’t just Australia’s fault, with the English football landscape evolving and moving the goalposts.

At the start of the 2000s, when the league was full of Aussies, around 38 per cent of foreign players in the Premier League came from members of the Commonwealth.

However, as the game became more global, so did the nationalities of players plying their trade in the EPL.

By 2010, those from Commonwealth nations were down to about 1 in 4 players, and now it is closer to 1 in 10.

During our ‘golden generation’, top talent from South American powerhouses Brazil and Argentina and leading European nations focused on La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga as that is where the money was.

But now the Premier League clubs are more cashed up than ever and can hand-pick the best international talent, which has only increased the competition for spots.

The EPL in the Viduka/Kewell era was still almost entirely British/Commonwealth players. Now it's filled with foreigners and a sprinkling of British players, and the vast majority of the level of player who were in the EPL in the early 2000s are in the Championship instead.

A team like Sunderland has given out 33 starts 3 games into the season - 28 to players from Europe/Africa/South America and 5 to guys from Northern Ireland. And they're the sort of team/profile that even 5 years ago would have been predominantly English.

 

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FA criticised for ‘obvious flaw’ in spot-fixing case of West Ham’s Lucas Paquetá

The commission’s 314-page report was damning about the lack of expert witness and said FA appeared to be ‘not certain what case it was presenting’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Riou]

Wish they could have played more together at Arsenal...




...if we got both together at their peak, on pure defensive ability alone I think it would have been the hardest CB pair for any striker to play against in the Prem era.

 

[Aussie_gunner123]

This is honestly the biggest thing :



The EPL in the Viduka/Kewell era was still almost entirely British/Commonwealth players. Now it's filled with foreigners and a sprinkling of British players, and the vast majority of the level of player who were in the EPL in the early 2000s are in the Championship instead.

A team like Sunderland has given out 33 starts 3 games into the season - 28 to players from Europe/Africa/South America and 5 to guys from Northern Ireland. And they're the sort of team/profile that even 5 years ago would have been predominantly English.

Good point, I never thought of it that way, I do still see & hear about Australian players in the Championship & the lower EFL comps.

 

[Tir Na Nog]

 

[Tir Na Nog]

 

[JMB]

@Riou game is so far gone it is unreal.

 

[Heskey]

We have fired our manager today and replaced him with Steve Cooper.

I was expecting the previous guys to get fired, the job seemed to be a too big step for him. He came as an analyst, became assistant and then replaced the prev. manager who got fired, so it was his first manager job.

For those who doesn't know Brøndby is a historic danish club with a huge pressure on the manager from the fans and media a like. So having a manager have his first manager job here was a bit of a gamble.

Surprised to see Cooper!
Anyone who watched much of his teams in the past? I don't recall his Leicester or Forest sides much in terms of style.

 

[Entropics]

 

[JMB]

Game is truly goneth @Riou

 

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English Championship considering promotion play-off expansion to six teams

The proposal, which has support from Championship clubs, would see teams from fifth to eighth play additional one-off preliminary games.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Fewtch]

Such a random set of players involved in this move lol. Hipster cult hero Julian Weigl, quoted with a 100m pricetag every transfer window but no one has watched him play Savic, golazo merchant Malcom and then Darwin Nunez

 

[Sapient Hawk]

I'd honestly be more furious with the bad grammar, vocabulary & sentence structure. Civilization is crumbling.

 

[Majora]

AM made it to Reddit. Quite a mild take compared to a lot I see



I'm not logged onto Reddit here, just saw it on the front page but on my actual account I have r/gunners muted, it's that insufferable. Crazy to be blocking out your own team's sub

 

[Riou]

AM made it to Reddit. Quite a mild take compared to a lot I see

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I'm not logged onto Reddit here, just saw it on the front page but on my actual account I have r/gunners muted, it's that insufferable. Crazy to be blocking out your own team's sub

Some of the takes from AM at that time are funny, but kinda understandable too... especially in the heat of the moment of a defeat.

We just lost to United in the FA cup semi and Chelski in the Champions League quarter, add that to how we lost the Prem in 2003 too... being worried that we might **** up a possible Unbeaten Title isn't that crazy!

Why aren't football fans allowed to be nervous anymore ffs...the sport is supposed to make you a bit emotionally crazy at times

 

[Majora]

Some of the takes from AM at that time are funny, but kinda understandable too... especially in the heat of the moment of a defeat.

We just lost to United in the FA cup semi and Chelski in the Champions League quarter, add that to how we lost the Prem in 2003 too... being worried that we might **** up a possible Unbeaten Title isn't that crazy!

Why aren't football fans allowed to be nervous anymore ffs...the sport is supposed to make you a bit emotionally crazy at times

r/gunners downvotes anything that isn't blindly optimistic at all times

 

[Entropics]

El Chelsea pagó 100 millones de euros por su fichaje, pero ahora ha cambiado el fútbol por el atletismo y quiere estar en los próximos Juegos Olímpicos

Su objetivo es estar en los próximos Juegos Olímpicos de los Ángeles

www.marca.com

Mykhailo Mudryk is thinking of switching from football to athletics. His goal is to represent Ukraine at the 2028 Olympic Games.