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smokarz
11 Aug 2008, 02:51 PM
Yes thats how it works. I should tell that you that no one is predicting them to earn a CL spot.
Not even a CL qualifying spot? A possible 3rd place finish?
I don't know much about the French league, so could someone tell me the 3/4 top teams in the league? I can't believe Moncao having zero chance at a 3rd/4th place.
SportBoy333
11 Aug 2008, 07:44 PM
Here are some predictions by some so called 'experts.' No one has Monaco in the top 3.
http://www.football365.fr/la-une/article_255870_Lyon-champion-Grenoble-largue.shtml
Lyon, Marseille, and Bordeaux are the top teams. They seem to be seperating themselves from the rest of the pack. Monaco are traditionally one of the top teams but they are going through a real bad period right now and finished midtable last year so that coupled with the fact that they didnt spend a lot of money this summer is why people arent very high on them. Maybe they can over achieve and earn a UEFA Cup spot. Who knows.
smokarz
13 Aug 2008, 12:35 PM
Well, Freddy Adu and team USA exitted the Olympics today.
Is Monaco playing this weekend? Looking forwards to see Adu in action under the new jersey.
raggot
13 Aug 2008, 06:35 PM
I will be near Monaco for the August 23 fixture against Caen. Can anyone suggest the best method of acquiring tickets? I can't seem to navigate AS Monaco's site to an online system, and I have not tried calling yet because I am on the west coast of the US and have not had an opportunity due to the time difference. I have not found any independant online broker with tickets, either, and the League 1 site provides no assistance that I can find.
Thanks!
raggot
14 Aug 2008, 10:06 PM
Never mind my last post -- translate.google.com does wonders!
NicolasN.
18 Aug 2008, 06:25 PM
Adu : "déjà en jambes !"
Freddy Adu est arrivé lundi en tout début d'après-midi à Monaco en provenance de Washington. Le milieu de terrain américain, qui a participé aux Jeux Olympiques avec les Etats-Unis, a visité le stade Luis II en compagnie du président de l'ASM Jérôme de Bontin. « Je suis très heureux d'être ici a déclaré Freddy Adu sur le site du club monégasque. C'est une opportunité que j'attendais depuis longtemps et la voilà enfin ! L'AS Monaco FC est un grand club, avec une grande histoire et je suis fier d'en porter les couleurs. Je suis vraiment impatient de débuter, je me sens déjà en jambes ! » Freddy Adu participera à sa première séance d'entraînement mardi matin en compagnie de ses nouveaux partenaires, puis donnera une conférence de presse en début d'après-midi, toujours à la Turbie.
France Football
http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/breves2008/20080818_232831_adu-deja-en-jambes_Dev.html
SuperSebGrimaldi
18 Aug 2008, 07:06 PM
I wonder, did he say that in French or did he have a translator? In any case, I think everyone is looking forward to seeing him play, including myself.
Fonsos
22 Aug 2008, 04:38 PM
I will be near Monaco for the August 23 fixture against Caen. Can anyone suggest the best method of acquiring tickets? I can't seem to navigate AS Monaco's site to an online system, and I have not tried calling yet because I am on the west coast of the US and have not had an opportunity due to the time difference. I have not found any independant online broker with tickets, either, and the League 1 site provides no assistance that I can find.
Thanks!
Buy day of game before heading to the stadium.
You shouldn't have trouble getting tickets to a Monaco home match unless it's against one of the larger clubs and then that would be becuase they'd probably have more fans on hand than the locals.
A+,
Fonsos
NicolasN.
30 Aug 2008, 01:43 PM
Monaco will sign the South Korean forward, Park Chu-young :
http://www.as-monaco.net/news.php?newsid=2889
Nene joins Espanyol Barcelona on loan :
http://www.asm-fc.com/filactu.aspx?id=6184
pepinointer
30 Aug 2008, 01:47 PM
recoba????
SportBoy333
30 Aug 2008, 09:00 PM
I read that Blackburn want Recoba also.
SportBoy333
01 Sep 2008, 05:21 AM
Patrick Muller 31 yr old ex Lyon Swiss central defender should sign on a free and looks like a loan for Tiago from Juventus. No Recoba obviously but there is a Pauleta rumor.
tottiroma
01 Sep 2008, 07:40 AM
hello all I don't foollow French football much as I don't like the French ha but we have signed a young player named menez from you and I hear he is better than nasri or ben arfa. I was at the Napoli game and his debut was disappointing compared to others like baptista. I know its one game but he missed a golden opportunity big chance. I don't think he is a good winger where we played him. Just need some input
AfrcnHrbMan
03 Sep 2008, 11:27 AM
hello all I don't foollow French football much as I don't like the French ha but we have signed a young player named menez from you and I hear he is better than nasri or ben arfa. I was at the Napoli game and his debut was disappointing compared to others like baptista. I know its one game but he missed a golden opportunity big chance. I don't think he is a good winger where we played him. Just need some input
You've got to be a real ass, to come to a french forum and start a post about how you don't follow the league because you don't like our people. Then ask for information about one of our countrymen. His not better than Nasri or Ben Arfa as far as I'm concerned and that's all I'm gonna say on the topic.
SportBoy333
03 Sep 2008, 12:07 PM
If Bordeaux somehow find a way to finish ahead of Roma in their CL group then I think I'll be in ecstasy.
guignol
22 Sep 2008, 07:07 AM
i just have to comment on last night's marseille-monaco.
as someone whose first lieblingsclub in france was ASM, who remembers when they and OM made the sun and the rain in D1, who saw that red & white in two european finals, it was a shock. the club that was the 1st national bank of champagne football playing 30/30/30 ball: 30% possession in their own 33 metres and 30 fouls...
but before we go throwing rocks at ricardostiltskin who spins gold into straw, remember that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and he doesn't have much to work with. modesto captain, meriem, perez... sure they're part of the furniture now, but they seem old (older than they really are) and average, and you're not going to be fighting for the title with that as the backbone of your team. leko was lucky to make it to halftime before seeing red, and one gets the opinion that it's often that way.
up front there was park and nimani. the first had 3 great opportunities; if your team plays loke ASM last night you can't expect more than that, you HAVE to put one away, but he didn't play any of them better than i could. nimani? i've seen him do great for france éspoirs but last night he was a ghost, uncapable of participating in life or communicating with the living.
even when monaco chose to get a counterattack going they were too feckless to get anywhere. no player was ever in a position to raise his head, and it wasn't only the OM press: between the imprecision of the passing and the sloppiness of the control, any ASM player was in trouble the moment he got the ball. it would be dishonest to add 30% passing success to the formula above, but it was probably only around 40%. pitiful.
the only monegasques worthy of positive notice were nkoulou, and of course ruffier. he outshone mandanda, but having your keeper shine in a match is not really the objective.
the worst is that ricardo congratulated his team on their match, and modesto even spoke of the match as "a reference". between the art and the manière, i don't see much to be proud of, and the fact that they're only a point away from a european spot doesn't make me feel any better.
guignol
22 Sep 2008, 08:28 AM
i forgot to mention pino. he made one very interesting acceleration down the right flank... but with no one to play to had to hold onto the ball until taiwo came and took it away from him like one would take a slipper away from a naughty puppy.
SuperSebGrimaldi
22 Sep 2008, 10:22 AM
The team will not always play this way. I hope. :o
Sorry guignol, but with my biased point of view, I have to admit, I was happy. Big boos in Vélodrome=happiness for me, anyway. Yes, as a neutral, it would be horrible to watch, and even I was annoyed occasionally, though the sad reality is that l'OM simply are not that good. Not with that lineup, anyway.
The L1 title remains a title that's only your team's to lose, I think, the likes of Marseille, Bordeaux and PSG (and to a lesser extent, I thought that we (l'ASM), Rennes, Saint-Etienne) could certainly be interesting, though my money's on Benzema and Co.
guignol
22 Sep 2008, 10:40 AM
it made me happy too, after all OM is a bigger threat. not to mention that i've always favored ASM. but this ricardo style monaco just gripes me. as long as his team blocks it up in the back it doesn't even bother him how useless they were at anything else.
SuperSebGrimaldi
22 Sep 2008, 12:12 PM
Well, he was a defender, very much like Raymond, except of course, he was much better than Domenech as a player, but who would I rather have as a manager? I'd actually take Dom "if I don't win against Romania I'm a" eunuch.
Henry
(?)
Clichy - Evra - Abidal - Mexès - Squillaci - Bodmer - Gallas - Sagna - L. Diarra
That is the lineup Ricardo would have if he were managing our national team. :D