The All Purpose Other Teams Thread, Pt. II (R)

Yeah. Their era seems to be done (for good...). Let's wait for their emphatic Libertadores comeback in....40 years from now.

 

Only one side each from Argentina and Brazil in the quarterfinals, very surprising. Maybe Penarol returns to their days of glory this year, following Uruguay's campaign at the WC last year.

 

For brazilian clubs, that was surprising, otoh for argentinian clubs it's clearly a trend. Even though Velez is doing well, i still think the current state of argie football isnt good at all at the moment.

 

Watched a little bit of the Real Madrid-Getafe game, and Pipita looks a bit out of it. He has 2 months to get back in game form. Hope right after the season, he flies back home and gets back in shape. And as for the game itself, it was beyond a snoozzer.

 

I think it's a mix of things for both sides, I do think that brazilians in general will have the edge to qualify seeing that at this time they're playing the state championships and the argentine sides are on the last half of the season, thus it goes like this brazilians qualify but at the first inconvenience they are out, also notice that the teams that basically walked off their group are from states where things aren't as competitive as Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo where as Fluminense and Santos had the most troubles to qualify, add to that that both Grêmio and Inter both were at probably the two crappiest groups, note that the only one left is from São Paulo state.

 

Congrats to Messi,Mascherano,G.Milito and to Barcelona by winning another La Liga title. 3X for Lio and Gaby, Mascherano's 1st.

 

messi has won la liga 5 times 2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010–11
he had less than 10 caps in 2004 but he scored his first goal that season... and in 2005 season he scored 8 + 4 assist.

 

Yeah that's correct, I meant, 3 straight, thanks for the correction.

 

Looks like Almeria and Piatti got hammered today 8-1 by Real Madrid. Benzema scored 2, Adebayor had 3 and Crissy had 2(LOL at the goal celebration to put him over the mark, sure he does not care about scoring goals in meaningless games ). I hope this means Pipita can finally leave that club and go find a better home. Italy will be a good place for Pipita, Inter maybe? I doubt Madrid let him go but I am still hoping, Garay and Gago are on their way out, which is great. Di Maria can stay there, he fits perfectly with that club. As for Almeria and Piatti, Almeria are relegated which was a forgone conclusion, and I believe Piatti is going to Atletico? (Not a 100% sure, but I think it was Piatti or probably was Buonanotte).

I am looking forward to watch the United and Barca final next week. Also the Coppa Italia final, Pastore can win Palermo a title for the first time in 30 years. If he wins them something, then I am sure he is gone.

 

Buonanotte is headed to Malaga. Piatti probably to Atletico, but still not a done deal. Would be a nice move.

 

I think the deal was if Malaga get relegated Buonanotte would go to Atletico but they secured another season for topflight football in Spain. So Malaga it is, best of luck to him.

 

Malaga got some Arab owners. Apparently they will be on a mini spending spree cum this summer.

 

What are the chances of Bouonanotte making the NT now that he will be playing in La Liga next season?

 

Not too much. The fella's form has considerably dropped since the 09 accident. Plus there is too much competition for that position. Highly unlikely.

 

Benfica are chasing Ansaldi. Fee around £0M . Perhaps this will at last get him into the national fold.

 

Pato has been ruled out of the Copa. Ganso is a question mark, if he can fit in time he will get a call-up. So maybe now Brazil will call up Hulk? The Brazilians have the same problem we do, Mano Menezes might not be that fond of Hulk, as Batista has not bothered with Tevez.

 

Pato's exclusion is hardly a big blow to the Brazilians. Fred would have probably won the starting spot as the tourno would proceed.

 

Yeah Fred is a favorite of Mano Menes but he also likes Pato. The update on Pato from being ruled out, is doubtful now. It was not as bad as they first thought but still unknown if he makes it or not.

 

Yeah, latest news have it that he may make the final squad

 

Holy hell, anyone watching Pastore in the Coppa Italia final?

It's 1 0 to inter but Palermo is dominating the game.

 

Well, 2-0 Inter, typical Italian football.

Pastore has been aswsome.

 

Palermo got screwed over pretty badly. If they just had a forward that could consistently score instead of Hernandez, then they would probably have won.

 

How'd the other argentines do? I read Zanetti was starter(as usual), Muñoz scored and got sent off afterwards and that Milito came in from the bench and scored a goal in the last minute, but did they do any good?

 

Watching Netherlands-Brazil, Afellay for the dutch is causing havoc against the Brazilians. Neymar is acting like a little b**** as usual. He does not even get touched, he goes down, the ref gives the defender a yellow.