Amazing that a complete criminal would be hired to work at a top English club But we all know the English lads are 100% honest unlike the crooked italians so no need to look into it
i don't follow them in general so i went to peek at their first team names. it looks like they have all of 3 players amongst their first team who came up through their ranks: fabio miretti, nicolo fagioli, and carlo pinsoglio (and he was sold on that 50% thing they have for a while) along with daniele rugani came to them during youth football time. i have to agree with you, that doesn't feel like a setup that inspires loyalty during down times.
You know, I had always wondered why did they built such a smaller stadium in comparison to the supposed stature of the club. Now? Sounds like a good bit of forward thinking considering they may spend years in the lower leagues.
I had seen people saying "surely Juve don't get relegated for this" when the stories broke, and now those people are rolling those stories back/deleting those tweets because Juve are now in deep shit. Couldn't happen to a nicer club.
I don’t think this is a particularly new development, my impression is that from Baggio in the 1990s, to Nedved and Buffon in the 2000s and Locatelli and Vladhovic recently, that Juventus’ concept of team building is very much like Bayern Munich’s, buy their competition’s best players to weaken the competition and strengthen themselves.
Which, had they done a big picture perspective, they should've figured out that was never going to happen. 1. Bayern is the club in Germany in terms of revenue and revenue streams. They can do that with impunity, not so much with Juve. 2. The Bundesliga clubs are owned by the fans, not one single entity. Even if a club like Dortmund challenge Bayern year after year, they have nowhere near the revenue streams that Bayern have to challenge them consistently. 3. If anything, Serie A is a riff on England's first division pre-Premier League. Both Milan clubs (while at times struggling) still had their pedigrees from previous European campaigns, both Rome clubs have qualified for European competitions and challenged for the title. Even Napoli (esp. when they signed Maradona) regularly challenged for the Scudetto and Europe. Hell, even Parma (when they had the backing) regularly challenged for the title and Europe before Paramalat went into financial hell and took the club with them. In a strange way, they are the other side of the coin to Arsenal when their stadium was finished and, for a while, were the dominant side in Serie A. Once Chelsea and Man City were purchased by billionaires or state entites, Juve should've known that it only took one uber-rich individual to decide to purchase a Serie A club and achieve their own fiefdom in Italy.
They haven’t been Bayern Munich dominate, but with 11 titles in the last 20 years it has worked fairly well for them. But the chickens have come home to roost. Buying and paying the wages for top players is a very expensive proposition and appears to have prompted them to cook the books,
It's expensive if, and only if, you're not consistently in the last four of the UCL, to say nothing of winning it. In the last twenty years, Juve, to my recollection, have only made the final twice and never won it. Bayern, meanwhile, have made the final four times (and been in the semifinal six times), winning twice.
I just heard about Pele being moved to palliative care, i.e. hospice. The reports are confusing (colon cancer, respiratory infection, etc) but if it's true about him being in palliative, that typically means the end is getting nearer. This had to come, sooner or later, but it's very sad. I got to see him once when he was a Cosmo. Regardless of that, I've always considered him the GOAT, and frankly even after the amazing confluence of Messi-vs-Ronaldo, I still feel like Pele remains unseated on that pedestal. Even if your opinion differs, you have to admit that his work in the 60's and 70's made him an absolutely amazing force of nature in the game. And he'll be missed by millions or billions when he's gone.
I would love there to be access to old games so I can watch the old greats and see how much better they were than their peers maradonna, pele, cruyf etc
And George Best? Seems like they would be available somewhere. Does Youtube not have full matches from the 60's/70's/80's? I've not tried to hunt them down. But I too would love to watch those.
🚨As per @repubblica wiretaps have revealed how current Managing director of Spurs , Fabio Paratici negotiated a lower deal for Locatelli when Sassuolo asked Juventus for the same deal as Edu and Arsenal were offering(1/n) pic.twitter.com/F9OUnXoTXq— Doc (@karthikadhaigal) December 5, 2022
Just caught up on some actual Arse footy. Our gals hosted Everton in the league Saturday morning. Couldn't watch at the time b/c it wasn't broadcast AND there was a little WC match going on, to distract me. But from the highlights on Arsenal.com I'm happy to report a 1-0 victory, from an early Viv Miedema goal. Psyched to see that she looked really at it all day. And the way we dominated the action and that stats, it probably shoulda/could easily been 3-0 or 4-1. Oh well, 3pts was the main goal and we secured those. We've struggled with a rash of injuries, and suffered our first league defeat of the season last time out. So we no longer sit top, but we're right there! And it was great to see that captain Leah Williamson made a long awaited return as a 2T sub, and her 200th game for the club! Now we just need Rafaelle Souza (also on the bench Saturday) to join her and we'll be back to our best CB pairing. On a sadder note, superstar Beth Mead is out for the season (I'm assuming) after rupturing her ACL in our loss to Yanited 2 weeks back. Also missing was the most logical backup for her position Lina Hurtig, but I'm not sure what her injury is. So Jonas improvised Saturday with Katie McCabe as our righthand forward, even though she's left footed and has played mostly on the left. But she's really versatile and I have a lot of confidence in her. Last but not least we're also waiting on solid-as-a-rock veteran Kim Little to fully recover from her latest knee injury. So, unless we pick up more big injuries, it's all up from here! p.s. In case you wanna follow, their next match is home to Juve, Weds 3pm ET on Youtube/DAZN, then away at Villa Sunday 11:15 ET, on Paramount+
For all the fans out there I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this pic.twitter.com/eJ02YUAzr5— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) December 6, 2022
I can't stand that song and certainly hate it always being played at sporting events. But he's a talented songwriter and performer. My wife and her friends made a point of going to see him every time he toured back in the day.
In case you're interested Arsenal gals are playing at the Grove against Juventus. LIVE NOW on this kinda lo-res stream...
while I do like Neil Diamond, it is a line from a very dumb (but movie I love!) movie called Saving Silverman