The 2010/2011 Season Thread Pt. 1 | The team of 8 World Champions... plus Messi!

Look around the world of clubs in debt: who can afford to dismiss the easy money that comes from a shirt sponsor?

IMO the Unicef deal was ambiguous deal with it's upsides and downsides. Near East world is a growing power in football and like Unicef, QF is a charity organization - of course much less well known, but still. There is an upside in allowing one charity organization to give us 150m when they smack their logo on our shirt in comparison of us giving money to another charity organization because they allow us to smack their logo on our shirt.

Having said that, I too kinda miss the days with no logo shirt. But when I look at my Ronaldo-season Kappa shirt and the new shirts, I think the new ones look great as well.

 

I have a kappa one, I don't like them. Too much Kappa, all the Nike ones with out a sponsor are the cool ones. In 06 we should have stood up against the Unicef, not now.

Regardless doesn't most Unicef money go to pay executives, and then to help children?

 

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spai...-city-ready-to-raid-barcelona-for-100-million

That's interesting. If it's true, I don't think we could say no.
I doubt iniesta would want to leave though. Would definitely be a bitter-sweet deal.

 

100% bs though...

 

i can see city making such an offer, and i can see barca being willing at that price. but i can't possibly imagine why iniesta would consider moving there for all the money in the world.

 

why should Iniesta move?
he has the best team in the world in Barcelona.
And with city he won't win anything!

 

hey guys what time is UEFA draw going to start at?
PST or ET for me.

 

it is 12 Central Europe time so that is 3am PST. I know as it is 4am here in Arizona and during the winter, we are 1 hour ahead of you if you are in California.

http://www.uefa.com I am watching the CL and the EL draws there.

 

wow...3am!? how unfair...oh well..I'll see the draw when I get up in the morning then...

 

I will be watching it live at http://www.uefa.com I guess working night shift does have good points occasionally.

 

oh yeah is all I have to say. I don't know if I should put it down as some might want to wait till they wake up to watch it but I will say no one will be disappointed with who Barcelona got.

 

"In the last 12 months, a player has completed 100 or more passes just 24 times in the whole of Europe. On 12 of those occasions that player was Xavi."

 

That's almost sig worthy.

 

im seriously curious who did 100+ passes the other 12 times?

 

I seem to remember a Guardian article talking about stats of the week and Anderson got 100 passes or something like that. I may be wrong but it was either him or Denilson.

 

I like this one.

The other two are plain reality - the truth.