I like how Liverpool spun it so that they had no choice but to sell him, if they had wanted to keep him they would have backed him like they had done multiple times before. There were rumours before the tournament had even started that he was heading to Barcelona, the bite made selling him a lot easier as far as their fans were concerned.
What a load of rubbish, Argentina had the best defensive unit out of any team at the World Cup, including Germany.
Argentina have lacked only in their attacking but I'm sure in your mind Messi had nothing to do with that... if it wasn't for their solid defense they'd have probably gone the way of Portugal.
Hold a re-vote so that Qatar can bung them so more money.. genius!
Their decline started before Neymar joined but I agree spending ridiculous amounts of money on marquee attacking players instead of fixing the less glamorous areas of their team is something they are guilty of.
As a neutral all I've seen of them is when they play in the Champions League so ignoring all of the mickey mouse Bundesliga teams I would say he has made them worse.
Last season under Heynckes they played brilliant, direct attacking football, thrashed Juventus 4-0 over two legs, thrashed Barcelona 7-0 over two legs and looked great doing it. This season they struggled against a severely out of form Man United side, got thrashed 5-0 over two legs by Real Madrid who had les...
As long as he keeps securing fourth place his job will be safe, anything else is a bonus as far as the money men are concerned.
Bayern Munich park the bus in the middle of the field and pass the ball sideways all match, I'd rather watch Chelsea sit back and counter attack than the shower of **** that Bayern Munich have been calling football under Guardiola.
They are going to be kicking themselves if City draw one of their remaining two games, you need brains to win a title not just attacking flare.
Agree with Altair, the EPL IS the best league in the world even if doesn't have the outright best teams.
You could argue that if EPL TV revenue was gobbled up by the big clubs like it is in Spain they would be able to buy better players and compete more with Europe's best, but that would damage the league as a whole.
EPL is the most popular league in the world from top to bottom, that's what makes it the best. English teams don't need the Cham...
If you can't beat a bus at football it's your problem, there is no law saying that teams must play open and expansive football.
He only slipped because he failed to control the ball and panicked, even if he hadn't slipped he would likely have had to bring Ba down and get sent off. It was his failure to control the ball which cost Liverpool the goal not the slip.
Tan should focus on the Championship next year instead of desperately trying to get another team docked points.
Oh and change their kit back to Blue, they're the Blue Birds ffs.
Barcelona struggled because they couldn't win a freekick every time they dived or get any opposition players off. Howard Webb let the game flow and Atletico played Barcelona off the park.
Exactly, I hate when they say it's a penalty because there was the slightest touch. It's reaching a point where a player only has to feel the hair on another players leg and he flops over.
UEFA are trying to turn football into zero contact by awarding free kicks and encouraging this sort of behaviour, at least the Premier League is cracking down on it.
It wasn't even a headbutt it's just what people do when they square up to one another, the push on Pardew by the player was about 100 times more physical and we've not heard anything about that.
Boring match, there was only about 30mins of football, the rest of the time was Barcelona players on the floor and the referee instantly awarding a freekick.
No doubt Barcelona deserved to go through though, City are in poor form at the moment and having a player sent off in each leg doesn't help.
You can tell that Bayern are now a Guardiola side, all of the diving and trying to get opposition players sent off was a trademark tactic of Barcelona under him.
If it was the Premier League Robben wouldn't be getting free kicks from idiot refs, he'd be getting yellow cards for blatant diving.
I would rather enjoy an exciting domestic league year after year than have England national team be successful, that's not because I'm unpatriotic because frankly having the best league in the world (by far) is much better for our country than winning Mickey Mouse cups.
The World Cup is just a footballing circus, the Premier League is serious football.
I'm hoping to see an English team finish a Champions League tie with 11 men one of these days. I guess it'll happen 2nd legs now that the damage is already done.
Need to drop Rooney and stop pretending he's a midfielder, or sell RvP and play him up top.