Corvinus85 Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Leeds may wish to slip back in the Championship where it's safe after getting demolished by City. Anyway, what else has UEFA been messing up lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Sad that Aguero's career ended the way it did. If he'd known I'm sure he would rather have retired a city player. Insane goal record, and no better end to a season is possible (Michael Thomas may disagree). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soylent Brown Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Strangely enough, I found the Aguero one much more enjoyable than the Michael Thomas one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 2 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: Sad that Aguero's career ended the way it did. If he'd known I'm sure he would rather have retired a city player. Insane goal record, and no better end to a season is possible (Michael Thomas may disagree). Yeah, Arsenal winning the title at Anfield, in the way we did, easily outstrips feckin' Aguuuuueeeerrroooo. We won 2-0 at Anfield, against the 1980s Liverpool. Kids, to put that in perspective, in the eighties, Liverpool simply did not lose 2-0 at home. It never happened. Nobody gave us a chance before the game. If City had gone to Old Trafford and won against all the odds, then yeah, we could have a conversation. It would still be a short conversation, because Aguero's goal came against a very poor QPR who narrowly avoided relegation that season. City were lucky not to lose that game. I mean, the two aren't even comparable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Nah, them doing it to united made it better. If you had done it at or against spurs that would have been different. Also the look on the United fans and players faces as the result came through having heard city had scored twice in extra time. Plus after Hillsborough most neutrals wanted Liverpool to win, while everyone wanted City to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 2 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: Nah, them doing it to united made it better. If you had done it at or against spurs that would have been different. Also the look on the United fans and players faces as the result came through having heard city had scored twice in extra time. Plus after Hillsborough most neutrals wanted Liverpool to win, while everyone wanted City to win. Meh. The culmination of the Invincible season saw us winning the league at Shite Hart Lane. With a draw. But Mickey Thomas at Anfield still beats it. Easily. I can remember that night like it was yesterday. You remember how good Liverpool were back then, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 31 minutes ago, Spockydog said: You remember how good Liverpool were back then, right? Can't have been that good, Arsenal beat them. Just looking at the squad, thats a team that were more than the sum of their parts. Adams apart, they were a pretty limited bunch individually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 2 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: Plus after Hillsborough most neutrals wanted Liverpool to win, while everyone wanted City to win. 3 hours ago, Spockydog said: Yeah, Arsenal winning the title at Anfield, in the way we did, easily outstrips feckin' Aguuuuueeeerrroooo. We won 2-0 at Anfield, against the 1980s Liverpool. Kids, to put that in perspective, in the eighties, Liverpool simply did not lose 2-0 at home. It never happened. Nobody gave us a chance before the game. Liverpool were pretty dominant in the 1980s but not in the 88-89 season. They were barely in the title race until they started a winning streak in March that allowed them to catch up. Arsenal, Coventry, Norwich and Millwall had led the league longer than Liverpool that season. It was a huge event for Arsenal, of course, but Liverpool had started to disintegrate from within by then. That’s probably the biggest parallel between the league-winning goals by Thomas and Aguero: both Liverpool and United had entered a terminal decline as their era ended. They could eke out one more title running on fumes, but they were basically spent forces needing to be rebuilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 Martyn Ziegler reporting in The Times that FIFA are set to impose a 10% cap on fixed fees paid to agents on transfers as well as standard commissions starting from next season. Unsurprisingly it's also being reported that so called super agents Mino Raiola and Jonathan Barnett intend to oppose the proposed caps but FIFA says they aren't worried by threats of legal action as German courts have already found in their favour in preliminary hearings. Quote Previous draft regulations had planned to impose a cap only on commissions paid alongside transfers and not fixed fees paid by a buying or selling club. After interventions by the Premier League, the European Club Association (ECA) and Fifpro, the international players’ union, the new plan is for the 10% cap to affect all transfer-related payments to agents and a cap of 3% of a player’s salary for services to that player. National associations will be able to bring in even stricter rules and caps if they wish. Fifa said “excessive and abusive” practices by agents included one international transfer from a French to a German club this year in which the agent received 118% of the transfer fee. Fifa’s report identified several such practices, including agents taking advantage of younger players to negotiate lower pay for the player and pocketing the difference from what the club would have been prepared to pay. Agents working for “star players” often ask clubs to pay a so-called “access fee” to begin negotiating with a player or will ask for large service fees, threatening that their client will not sign the proposed contract if no such payments are made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 NOO! How can you seperate Mino from his money. that's cruel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 We looked like a football team tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Please don't raise the specter of Michael Thomas. <Shudder.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soylent Brown Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hey, he at least did well in the '92 FA Cup final to make up for the whole league thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 10 hours ago, Wilbur said: Please don't raise the specter of Michael Thomas. <Shudder.> Thought Liverpool had James Bond among his fans. So why so scared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 If more clubs need games postponed, the PL schedule may collapse soon. There are so many games in the next three weeks, so very difficult to replace. The winter break — limited as it is — may effectively get brought forward to now. Which would be a disaster for Liverpool and any other clubs who expect to lose players to AFCON during the winter break period. Although AFCON may be at risk soon too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 So half the games from this weekend's round of fixtures have been called off due to covid outbreaks now and Liverpool are playing tonight but have apparently lost Van Dijk, Fabinho and Curtis Jones due to positive covid tests. It's not looking great for the Christmas schedule at this rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 Hmm, I’m glad Liverpool have equalised but I’m not sure they should have played on there with a player down right in the middle of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soylent Brown Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 The player was faking it. In the replay you can see him start to get up before changing his mind and quickly lying down again. There should be cards for that kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soylent Brown Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 It seems like Jonjo is playing for both sides again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken one Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 WH took a beating but I am glad that Flappyhandski did fine ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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