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[imasoleman18]

how funny would it be if terry signed for united, the "where's your racist centre half" chant wouldnt be used anymore

 

[eiddyfouw]

How can you forget about the Industrious One?!?!?

He and NDJ should be top of the list.

I would also be weary of Khedira because of injuries, although on paper he looks like the best deal.

The issue with Terry would be wages.

You mean the issue with Terry is he will never leave Chelsea for another English clublol

In football, you never know...money talks...

 

[blackmomo]

how funny would it be if terry signed for united, the "where's your racist centre half" chant wouldnt be used anymore

This I never got, most of my ManU friends from UK are quick to call Terry a dirtbag. Don't they know Giggs is prolly the worst human being ever yet they praise him

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Yeah, gotta agree that Giggs is grade A dirt bag but he doesn't have the look on his face like Terry has all the time like he's saying, "Do you know who the F*** I am!?!?!?!"

 

[captaincrown3]

Lets go for terry, Khedira and De Jong

Panic buy/loan for khedira in January. Daley could be out much more than the 4-6 weeks. Carrick could be fit for Arsenal.

Crazy we are averaging one injury every three days. 39 total since lvg took charge.

 

[blackmomo]

Yeah, gotta agree that Giggs is grade A dirt bag but he doesn't have the look on his face like Terry has all the time like he's saying, "Do you know who the F*** I am!?!?!?!"

LOL yea Terry has that face, I just found it hilarious when United fans were talking trash about Terry. How one man can not only sleep, but knock up and make his brothers wife get an abortion. How is he still alive? I prolly would've killed my bro over that. How can United let a guy with that image be captain?

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Ronaldo is for the children... Dude always has time for the stans, even the pitch invaders...





Manuel Neuer on his Ballon d’Or candidacy -

Even though I’ve signed an endorsement deal with Adidas, I’m not the ambassador of a brand or a model that poses in his underwear.

I prefer to limit my show to the pitch. I pick the green grass over the red carpet, I’m more comfortable there. After the games, they show the goals, the assists, the chances. The nice saves aren’t remembered, even though you often risk to injure yourselves while doing those.

I guess it's shot at Ronnie...

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[AZwildcats]

My dude Neuer telling it how it is

 

[Beans]

What about william carvalho?

believe he is still locked into that sporting deal..

LOL yea Terry has that face, I just found it hilarious when United fans were talking trash about Terry. How one man can not only sleep, but knock up and make his brothers wife get an abortion. How is he still alive? I prolly would've killed my bro over that. How can United let a guy with that image be captain?

he captained united after the scandal? i think not...

giggs>>>>>>


have you guys even seen imogen

 

[champcruthik]

Nice try.

 

[Coupé It]

I think their should be a "Best GK" award. Making them compete with Strikers/Forwards/Midfielders is disrespectful. It's a specialty position, so it should have a specialty award. Sort of like the Cy Young here in the States. - Moving On.


This Messi article is intriguing. It's a big catch 22 but hey.

As Manchester hosts the latest leg of the players' personal duel, is the Barcelona star running the risk of being trumped as the greatest of his generation?


DOES MESSI NEED A PREMIER LEAGUE MOVE TO VANQUISH RONALDO?

Some questions never go away. When Cristiano Ronaldo captains Portugal against Argentina in Tuesday’s glamor friendly at Old Trafford, many will inevitably find themselves wondering whether Manchester United’s only Ballon d’Or winner since George Best will ever again call the "Theatre of Dreams" his home.

But even greater enthusiasm will be sparked by the appearance of the diminutive figure that leads out the team in white and blue. It is rare these days to watch Ronaldo on a football pitch in England, but we can all remember a time in the recent past when it was not so. Lionel Messi, in contrast, has always been an exotic, otherworldly sight on these shores.

Ronaldo’s return to United would constitute a global news event because of everything we know about the man and the footballer. Messi transferring to a top Premier League club would represent the biggest story in the history of the sport — partly because of what we know, but mainly because of what we would stand to learn.

The 27-year-old is perhaps the world’s most famous and celebrated introvert. He speaks little or no English. His footballing style is a perfect fusion of Spanish possession play and Argentine individualism. He is unusually short for a prolific elite scorer, and he has never played the club game outside the unique culture of Barcelona.

It is foolish to suggest that any of these facts would lead a player of Messi's immense talent to struggle in the Premier League, but it is entirely fair — and indeed only human — to wonder what kind of impact he would have on English football.

Xavi has certainly thought about it. "I think he'd be even better in the Premier League because it is not so defensive," the 34-year-old told BBC Sport last week. "When defending against Barcelona, they [English clubs] play on a one vs. one basis, defending with passion, a lot of energy. But Leo would find more spaces than in La Liga."

Messi has often stated that he wants to retire at Barcelona. The desire is more than understandable. He could hang up his boots tomorrow and go down in most estimations as one of the top five footballers of all time. Or he could continue until his body tells him to stop, all the while remaining one of the highest-paid athletes in the world in a city where he is revered as a god.

No one could begrudge Messi’s choice. The risk, however, is that staying at Camp Nou could see him usurped as the greatest of his generation. For the past 18 months Ronaldo, not Messi, has been the best player in the world, and Real Madrid, not Barcelona, is now emerging as the best team.

Last season saw Ronaldo claim his second Ballon d’Or — ending Messi’s historic run of four consecutive triumphs — and fire Madrid to La Decima, winning his second Champions League to Messi’s three. He is closing the gap in terms of major career honors and 2015 appears primed to continue the trend.

While Barcelona attempts to mould Neymar, Luis Suarez and Messi into a worthy sum of its attacking parts, prepare for life without the aging midfield genius of Xavi and negotiate a transfer ban until January 2016 with an enduringly below-par defense, Madrid is top of La Liga, on a 13-game winning streak with its Portuguese talisman, even by his own ridiculous standards, in the form of his life.

In addition to momentum, Ronaldo also possesses one significant feather absent from Messi’s cap: He has dominated two very different major European leagues, winning the biggest trophies in both and, in doing so, proved himself the master of two distinct footballing cultures.

At 27 — more than two years Ronaldo’s junior — Messi still has ample time and energy to do the same should he feel the inclination. Moving to the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, while a viable option, might leave his legacy a little too tied up with the coaching talents of Pep Guardiola. Paris Saint-Germain lacks credible long-term rivals in Ligue 1, and Serie A is a competition of faded and underachieving giants.

Only the Premier League offers Messi both the profile and the challenge to equal some of Ronaldo’s most impressive feats. Manchester City has long been touted as the likeliest destination and the presence of Barcelona duo Txiki Begiristain and Ferran Soriano — combined with Sergio Aguero and the rest of the club’s Argentine contingent — would surely smooth any adjustment process.

Of course, the importance of all this to Messi is another matter. He has always played down his rivalry with Ronaldo in public and now seems most driven by the desire to lead Argentina to silverware, describing himself as inconsolable in the wake of last summer’s agonizing World Cup final defeat to Germany.

But endless comparison is the natural consequence whenever two all-time greats are fated to play out their primes in parallel. Like Federer and Nadal, Magic and Bird or Ali and Frazier, Messi and Ronaldo are transcendant sportsmen who have pushed each other to new levels of greatness. Their legacies will forever be linked.

If Messi does care about pushing beyond Ronaldo for good, a change of scene could be a smart move. Given the slightest encouragement, the Premier League elite will not hesitate to ask the question.




VIEW FROM SPAIN

By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Writer

Messi has always maintained his happiness at Barcelona and said there is only one club he would leave the club to play for: Newell's. The 27-year-old wants to turn out for the side he supported as a boy in his native Rosario before his playing days are over, but currently has no intention of playing for anyone else.

He always says he should be judged at the end of his career. But unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, who insists he wants to be remembered as the best player ever, Messi is happy to let his football do the talking. He seems to be more motivated by winning the game's greatest prizes than by being remembered as the best player in history.

He has achieved so much already and Ronaldo still has some catching up to do in terms of records, trophies and individual awards. The rivalry seems to bother Ronaldo more than it does Messi and the only way I could see him leaving Barcelona is if he were unhappy and unable to compete for trophies.

As things stand, he believes he is in the best place possible and it is difficult to see him leaving Barca just to be better than Ronaldo. That's not his style. Also, his burning desire now is achieving some success in terms of trophies with Argentina. It's the one thing missing from his CV and the World Cup final defeat hit him hard.

 

[champcruthik]

Courtois would win this year over Neuer.

 

[8pm at msg]

Courtois would win this year over Neuer.

Really? Courtois pretty much had his "coming of age" along with Atletico's wonder season but Neuer's world cup performance sealed his place as the top dog

 

[champcruthik]

Really? Courtois pretty much had his "coming of age" along with Atletico's wonder season but Neuer's world cup performance sealed his place as the top dog

Belgium was one of the stingiest international sides in the World Cup. Less giving than Donald Trump in Brasil.

Plus the CL appearance with Atleti.

 

[rck3sactown]

Anyone know anything about Boxi Yomba?

 

[champcruthik]

Anyone know anything about Boxi Yomba?

Know he was vocal on social media about battling homesickness this summer. Atleti beat Stoke for his services.

 

[rck3sactown]

Anyone know anything about Boxi Yomba?

Know he was vocal on social media about battling homesickness this summer. Atleti beat Stoke for his services.

Basically nothing good |I

I wish I could be a mentor to young footballers abroad

 

[imasoleman18]

This I never got, most of my ManU friends from UK are quick to call Terry a dirtbag. Don't they know Giggs is prolly the worst human being ever yet they praise him

all teams are like that, just like when fans chant you scouse bastards when rooney, the face of the team, is a scouse bastard

 

[Retroballer]

Some guy creates Soccer Kits for all 50 states and DC

 

[Kimchi Papi]

I like the Maryland kits, but not the Hawaii or Texas kits...

 

[yankeesking92]

I'll come out to say I was one who didn't vote for Ronaldo......
If it makes it any better, as a Barcelona fan I didn't vote for Messi either though......

 

[Thierry Henry]

I'm gonna leave this in here for those who always argue about attendance in football leagues

 

[champcruthik]

Ukraine in 19th. Flourish. Doing better than Nigeria. I'll take it.

 

[flyeed]

My man champcruthik has more metaphors than a mid-2000s mixtape rapper

 

[flyeed]

Oh and if Neuer wants to talk about what happens on the pitch, it seems like he's ignoring when Real Madrid humiliated Bayern in Munich going up 5-0 on aggregate with Ronnie scoring 2 goals on him.