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

🇪🇸✈️ 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐁𝐎 𝐑𝐀́𝐌𝐎𝐍 (𝟐𝟏) has 𝐖𝐎𝐍 𝟔/𝟕 𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐒 tonight against AS Roma

WHAT A SEASON 💎 pic.twitter.com/ZP9PONhvm5

— Rising Stars XI (@RisingStarXI) March 15, 2026

 

🇧🇪💪 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐓 (𝟏𝟕) has 𝐖𝐎𝐍 𝟏𝟏/𝟏𝟔 𝐃𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐒 today against KV Mechelen

- 9/14 Ground Duels Won
- 2/2 Aerial Duels Won

𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 💎 pic.twitter.com/iEC2zPn0mx

— Rising Stars XI (@RisingStarXI) March 15, 2026

 

Or just use…VAR correctly and unbiased

 

So opponents should be free to interrupt play in the penalty box with fouls since that's not the important part but the average number of penalties a team gets?

 

Definitely understand the frustration. We suffer a couple of these and when we ask for penalties we are responded with stats of how many penalties we ha e received or personal character breakdowns for why it shouldn't be given.

 

Meh, that was utterly predictable, whether it was warranted or not.

 

LOL, I'm not calling Laporta "bad." I'm just taking a more complete view of both the good and not-so-good of the man's work as President.


Laporta's been above average in picking managers. He picked Pep over Mourinho, and he picked Flick over Xavi.

On the other hand, the transfer business hasn't been entirely on point, and at times, it seems to be based on vibes. (Buying Olmo when Fermin and Gavi and Pedri and others were available at the 10; chasing Diaz and Williams; spending big on Rashford's wages, when he's just a backup.)

The Camp Nou renovation hasn't been ideally handled, and selling off pieces of the club hasn't landed well with all corners of the socios.

His campaign lies/promises haven't been forgotten, and Barca are still not at the 1:1, because of stupid decisions having been taken.

He's "cleared the deck" of any cogent differing voices, by getting rid of Alemany, and hiring virtual illiterate and innumerate Deco as "the face" of the sporting department. Meanwhile Laporta and his unelected, unappointed buddy Echevarria are the ones making the decisions.



The overarching view is that Laporta's Barca has found 1st team success, and hence, he was always going to win the election.

 

Nope. I'm just not falling all over myself to hold a ticker tape parade for the man.

As mentioned, he's done some good, and some not-so-good. To the good, he's won, in part because he picked the right manager again, and in part because madrid has a talented, but mismatched roster, with an inferior manager to Don Carlo.

I see how Perez went for vibes and now has a 3 LW attack, a big downgrade in MF from your KCM group, and an aging/injured backline. And no one can claim that either of Alonso or Arbeloa could be superior to Ancelotti at this point in time.


Not attacking you guys, but seeing how Perez looks to me like he's lost the plot a bit makes me concerned that Barca have only Laporta and Echevarria minding the till.

In other words, yeah its "going ok" right now, but its not like Laporta has done everything perfectly well, and that's all that I've pointed out.

 

And on this, I agree. The position of President of either madrid or Barça is a political one that leads to even greater influence, power, and wealth across Spanish society to the winner of the job.

And at the end of the day, it's a popularity contest that decides who wins the gig.

 

I doubt the club would demand a random number, if it happened the club’s requirements would be enough penalties to ensure a golden boot for Mbappe at end of season (i.e. if he needs 3 goals on the last match day, then 3 pk’s it is).


Some even make it out to be a loyalty test for fans and demand support for the club now prioritizing individual goal scoring records and awards for its highest paid player - like if you don’t support Mbappe FC you don’t even like the sport level of delusion.

 

Chelsea get a £10m fine and a suspended transfer ban after being found guilty of making 36 off the books payments to unregistered agents and 3rd parties, in order to secure player transfers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn48e171zlvo

 

The “agents acting for both sides and taking a cut from both” thing is a complete conflict of interest and in my view is one of the dirtiest things in sports (along with transfer fees).

Let the player pay their agent, ban agents from acting for both the player and club because its just not possible to do that without a conflict of interest.

 

At this point the system is so polluted it's direct money laundering and sharing of "profits". I know you understand what I mean but for those who don't it's a way to use a "legal" means to transfer club cash to the club President, board, whomevers hands.

 

Bodo with the same lead we have just about surviving a complete onslaught by Sporting

 

HT

Sporting 1-0 Bodo