Activate Another Lever and Still Lose to a Madrid Remontada - The Small Teams Thread

Leverkusen is just 5 points ahead we have seen teams lose from this point
This time last year Arsenal was 8points ahead and lost by 5 in May

 

My daughter plays at highest level in the states and fortunately has a coach that wants them to take chances and express themselves but I can say I agree with him 1000%. Today's footballers are practically actors method acting a script. If I was good enough to play, I'm not sure I'd want to given the lack of opportunities to express yourself out there.

 

Shame about the injuries, so on some level he’s purposely being left out then? I lack intelligence about what he’s like as a person, but I think he’s a very very good player

 

Kubo signs new contract at Real Sociedad. They have done well to keep hold of him

 

He will get a pay raise, but buyout clause remains at 60 ME. Likely to stay one more seaon at Real Sociedad with this renewal though. RM holds 50% of future sale.

https://as.com/futbol/kubo-renueva-hasta-2029-n/

 

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La Liga is joke. We played last Saturday when we have a game today away at Germany (3 days and Flights), while Barca get to play at Friday when they play at home vs Napoli (4 days Gap)

 

If Atletico would have played us on Saturday and not Sunday, they would have received the same amount of time to prep for us which they have been given to prep for Sevilla, because they played on the Wednesday 31st Jan as well (Mallorca) prior to playing us, and Simeone would have complained even more.

This is not a good example of the fixture list being unfavourable to Atletico.

 

And we played on Thursday before Atletico. So if we played then on Saturday then we would have had only 2 days.

 

Dear Lord..

 

Regarding Fran Garcia, Hermoso etc, RM owned 50% of their sporting rights too. Italy had part ownership system and we copied that. We sell these players for cheap so it's not just 50% sell on clause.

As for Kubo, Sociedad president has been very defensive when asked about RM stuff. He said yesterday that RM has no role and Sociedad and Kubo decides his future. He said the same the day Kubo signed for Real Sociedad. But having a 60 ME clause itself means Sociedad doesn't have much say and it's all Kubo.

 

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We are facing them on Sunday 14:00 time

 

Copenhagen 1 - City 1

 

Kubo staying one more year makes sense.
He was coming off two poor loan spells, and he really needed to turn it around this year.

Moving on when he is finally finding his game would have been a short sighted move.

 

Well, last season Copenhagen managed a 0-0 draw at home against Man City in the group stage, but have been on winter break since 4. December, so more than 2 month, and are not in shape to be able to keep up the pace or do anything at this point in time against a fully fit English PL top side (which is the usual problem for Scandinavian teams in the later stages). Nice goal by Magnus Elkjær Mattsson though, in his debut for Copenhagen.

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