OFFICIAL FOOTY THREAD ⚽️: 2024/25 European club season underway

[Beans]

Your take on Howe and Pep contradicts your stance with Mbappe dodging those questions. What are Howe and Pep supposed to say? Of course Pep is gonna advocate for something Catalonian, it hits closer to home.

It's the same with people coming at LeBron and NBA players that say they support BLM but gets criticized for not speaking out about China and their human right abuse.

You can formulate your own opinions on these subjects, but don't move the goal posts when it's someone you like vs someone you don't like.

End of the day, you gotta feed your family and get paid and do what you gotta do even if you dont agree with your employers stances on political issues. I dont fault anyone for not standing for what they believe in at their place of employment. If you really feel that deeply you wouldn't choose to work for them and sometimes it's even more complicated than that.

I’m not at all letting mbappe off.. what I’m saying is what do we expect these ppl to say.. they obviously could care less. I mean your willing to support a club Who violates human rights and they pay you absolutely nothing. I can only imagine the pressure they are under

 

[Beans]

13 tho

Liverpool out here contributing to the make a wish foundation

 

[Beans]

Y’all not ready for this conversation but it’s a damn shame Ole hasn’t been offered another job and both lampard and Stevie g running around here both employed

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Lmaoo

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

people want him in midfield too, no defense and no sauce.


Klopp, Virgil, Trent, Salah all gonna have to start working on beating the allegations sooner rather than later.

what does salah have to do wit dis???

 

[Coupé It]

 

[rolaholic]

 

[LA Diggler]

That result in Naples

 

[rolaholic]

They def returned the favor...

 

[cs02132]

Curious to see who finishes 3rd in these groups
Don’t need anyone making Europa more difficult than it needs to be

Need to win the group too, I guess now if you win you skip the round of 32 and go to ro16

 

[HNL HI]

Onana actually played pretty well considering the ops, time to put Handanovic on the ship to Valinor.

 

[flyeed]

They def returned the favor...

So Barca were ready to sack Xavi?

 

[tomdiginson]

So Barca were ready to sack Xavi?

Xavi joined in November of last year. They were interviewing all parties before then.

 

[tomdiginson]

 

[rolaholic]

So Barca were ready to sack Xavi?

 

[rolaholic]

 

[rolaholic]

Is it burnout from keeping that same pace/energy for years now or something else?

 

[mastamind89]

 

[rolaholic]

I'm sure he thought they were a nightmare to have above him

 

[rolaholic]

 

[Coupé It]

rolaholic copy and paste the Athletic Tuchel and Chelsea story (if you have a subscription)

 

[jape]

i wanted tuchel badly tbh but xavi ended up being the manager barca really needed
he's got great rapport with players and the main reason any of the players came to barca at such a turbulent time and still took less money.
only person to speak negatively about xavi has been puig lol.

tuchel rules with an iron fist. i thought barca needed that (maybe they do) but xavi's style seems to be really paying off.

 

[rolaholic]

More background on the sacking

 

[rolaholic]

i wanted tuchel badly tbh but xavi ended up being the manager barca really needed
he's got great rapport with players and the main reason any of the players came to barca at such a turbulent time and still took less money.
only person to speak negatively about xavi has been puig lol.

tuchel rules with an iron fist. i thought barca needed that (maybe they do) but xavi's style seems to be really paying off.

Yea seems you guys still ended up with a good hire regardless and the backing Xavi's gotten shows hell probably be around for the long run but definitely would've been interesting seeing what Tuchel could've done to turn things around.

Was also interested in him when the United rumors started after RR got appointed and their was all the uncertainty over Chelsea's ownership. He chose to stay loyal to them which I can't fault. Just a shame for him the new ownership didn't show him the same courtesy. I'm still glad it ended up in Ten Hag getting the job but I feel Tuchel would've been able to do well at OT.

He wouldn't have had to keep looking over his shoulder constantly either. Still think he'll end up at top club sooner than later again but he's probably better off taking a sabbatical in the short term since there aren't any big openings coming up.

 

[Verde Shuttles]

Just say what you mean