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All purpose football thread 2021-2022 season II

Good luck to Roma tonight and Jose Mourinho in the first ever European Conference League Final tonight, and hopefully Tammy will finish off an excellent season with a winning goal too.
 
Weekender said:
Having a team that is over 60% "asthmatic"... interesting.
[raises both eyebrows].
Wouldn't be surprised if most Clubs are up to something... it's a question of who has the best "program".

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This rumour is gathering steam. Personally, I read some stuff about the host that put me off taking it seriously. Naturally, if it's true then it should be investigated.
 
Alex N said:
Arguing with Coleen Blue Belle is like arguing with a pigeon. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong but it’s still going to shit in your hair.
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Never heard of arguing with a pigeon before, is picking an argument with a pigeon a Liverpudlian thing?
 
Decent Roma game, though they rode their luck at times. Jose is back, sort of.

And Nadine saves Chelsea. Fans must be delighted.
 
The president of Ligue 1 says attacks by La Liga over Kylian Mbappe's new Paris St-Germain deal are "unacceptable".

France striker Mbappe, 23, signed a lucrative three-year extension on Saturday, having been strongly linked with a free transfer to Real Madrid.
La Liga called PSG's reported contract offer "scandalous", but Ligue 1 president Vincent Labrune has responded angrily. He said: "Over the past 10 years, La Liga has spent 32% more on players than Ligue 1."

PSG are owned by Qatar Sports Investments, a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the state-run sovereign-wealth fund in Qatar.

With Mbappe's contract running out in June, they were desperate to keep him and prepared to offer a £21m net annual salary.

La Liga announced plans to file a complaint to Uefa as well as French and EU authorities after president Javier Tebas described the deal as an "insult to football".

But in a letter to Tebas, Labrune vented the French football governing body's "disapproval and incomprehension" at the outbursts.

"Your attacks on Ligue 1 and one of our clubs Paris St-Germain, and one of our players Kylian Mbappe, are based around your own interpretation of financial unsustainability and competitive imbalance, which you repeatedly attribute to Ligue 1 and one of our clubs," he wrote.

"The fact that you publicly and repeatedly take this position against Ligue 1 on this topic and denigrate our league and our clubs is both unacceptable and manifestly false.

"Two of your clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, have broken a multitude of records in the past decade.

"In terms of transfer fees, these two clubs have broken the world record six times. In terms of player salaries, Real Madrid currently has two of the highest-paid players in world football sat on their bench.

"In terms of debt, Barcelona is reported to have a debt level of €1.5bn, and this is despite the European Court of Justice finding that Real Madrid and Barcelona benefitted from illegal state aid."
 
The reported deal for Mbappe is utterly bonkers, but the saltiness of Madrid over the deal and the about turn of Mbappe is music to my ears. Madrid must be smarting, first Haaland, and now Mbappe turning them down, for a great club with a terrible attitude to other clubs when purchasing their best players, it's a joy to see them getting upset.
 
Blue Belle said:
The reported deal for Mbappe is utterly bonkers, but the saltiness of Madrid over the deal and the about turn of Mbappe is music to my ears. Madrid must be smarting, first Haaland, and now Mbappe turning them down, for a great club with a terrible attitude to other clubs when purchasing their best players, it's a joy to see them getting upset.
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Real Madrid have consistently spent the most in world football, smashing transfer records and wages records. They have also been convicted of receiving illegal state support. That they now try to claim any moral high-ground, supported by Tabas, is utterly preposterous and smacks of the arrogance and entitlement of 'old' football money.
 
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Real Madrid and the cartel of old money clubs do have a laughable sense of superiority and their own innocence that belies reality.
 
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