Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

I think Hummels would be an OK backup for free.

 

Telly show has started here. Now I am buzzing for it!!

 

Germany 2-0 Scotland

 

Girona announce the signing of 25 year old centre back/midfielder Ladislav Krejci from Sparta Prague. ✍️🇨🇿

Girona will pay €12 million plus add ons and he will sign a 5 year contract until 2029.💰 https://t.co/DPxXdrBX5v

— LaLigaExtra (@LaLigaExtra) June 14, 2024

 

He was so overweight before the champions league final aswell. What happened to him?

 

I'm sure someone will say mental illness but he just doesn't care. It's the same with Hazard. They have an addiction to eating and don't really care for football or the position in life they've gotten to.

 

Just really odd! He played v Mainz a week or two before the Madrid game and he looked in fairly decent shape.

He must have gone right off the rails.

 

Most tournament winners don't beat their opponents by 4 or more goals in the group stage. I don't know about Copa America. In the Euros or the World Cup Finals, West Germany had two convincing wins in 1990: 4-0 Yugoslavia or 5-1 UAE. But one of them was UAE, and they slowed down after the first two matches. In fact, they only did enough to go through each matches.

France beat Belgium 5-0 in Euro 1984. For the rest of the tournament, they looked "normal". Spain beat Ireland 4-0 in 2012. They also looked "normal" until the Final against Italy.

 

Luka Dončić 🤝 Sergio Ramos

Just a couple of Real Madrid legends saying what's up ⚪

(via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/fekkX1iXN2

— B/R Football (@brfootball) June 15, 2024

 

Nothing. Just being unprofessional. It is a thing during all of his career and was always present - in Hoffenheim, in Munich and Dortmund. That is why Bayern did not give him a pay rise - he transferred to a "less demanding" employer. That the young players when they start their career often love too eat all kind of "trash" is pretty normal - but usually at top clubs they really try to optimize their shape and nutrition more and more with their age. Süle does not.

 

I genuinely think England is cursed. Since the 90s they have had enough talent to win but couldn't. Then they hired two foreign coaches who were pretty high in regard at the time and one of them being the highest paid manager in the world at that point but nothing. Then not qualifying for 2008 and also being knocked out inexplicably by Iceland and Italy in a tournament where everyone else was really bad.

And most perplexing for me, mega stars who can't replicate their club form for the NTs besides Owen, Rooney, Beckham. It's remarkable when you see talents like Gerrard, Lampard and even Phil Foden struggle in the shirt.

 

The problem with that Golden Generation for England was that they had no one up top once that defense and midfield matured. Owen was crocked and Rooney was also injured but still too green.

That 2006 squad was stacked. The other argument is that all of Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham were all too similar.

 

Everton reportedly agree with Roma owner for takeover of club

• Friedkin Group said to be in talks with Farhad Moshiri
• Chairman Dan Friedkin has estimated worth of £4.81bn

The group’s chairman, American Dan Friedkin, has an estimated net worth of £4.81bn and has owned Roma since 2020, when he paid £552m for the Serie A club. Friedkin is said to have been in talks with Everton’s current owner, Farhad Moshiri, with a view to buying his 94% stake and is expected to be given a period of exclusivity.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ment-with-owner-of-roma-over-takeover-of-club

 

Maybe, or..... maybe just not as good as constantly proclaimed, maybe, once not surrounded by talent at club level they are like fish out of water when having to play together, maybe they were all good followers but not good leaders, mentally at least, not good enough to pull it all together playing for the national team,

I've watched quite a few England games, it's not like these guys are dominating teams and barely failing to make it, they truly often look mediocre, lost and out of ideas when playing together for England especially against the better teams, at one point just passing the ball to one another seemed beyond them, although recently they've gotten a bit better in that regard, at least we know Jude is a proper leader on the pitch, and Kane is a good finisher, may make a difference this time around

 

I don't see anyone trying to do their best for that Jersey. Just mediocre games. Jude will be a star in future for them. Foden is great but Pep systemizes players and sometimes they don't shine elsewhere.

 

Rio Ferdinand, Terry, Campbell, Cole, Gerrard, Scholes, Lampard, Beckham, Rooney … you think these are a calibre of player that aren’t capable of winning? Come on man.

That’s a totally elite group of players, but if you can’t gel it together into a coherent team then it will always be an almost impossible task, and that was the problem.