European Football Thread

[Colly]

Kinda my point. Seria...

[Lineker]

Valencia have sacked Pako Ayestaran, who has bested Gary Neville's record as their worst manager statistically.

[DavidMarrio]

Ffs Pako....

[Lineker]

Ronaldo's won the Ballon D'Or again.

[MDK]

Loads of Dutch football on Sky Sports Mix if anyone is interested. RJC vs Feyenoord at the moment. Feyernoord just missed a golden chance to make it 2-0.

[King Ellis]

 

Whoever is responsible for this should be on trial at The Hague.

[Just Joe]

1 hour ago, King Jaffellis Joffer said:

 

Whoever is responsible for this should be on trial at The Hague.

[Hobo]

Xabi Alonso is retiring at the end of the season.

 

[DavidMarrio]

39 minutes ago, Hobo said:

Xabi Alonso is retiring at the end of the season.

One of my favourite ever players. Such a wonderful passer of the ball and a fantastic anchor for Liverpool, Bayern and Madrid. 

I hope he can come back to Liverpool in some way. Even if he's just an ambassador, him and Luis Garcia can go on random trips together. 

 

[MDK]

16 minutes ago, Davidmarrio said:

One of my favourite ever players. Such a wonderful passer of the ball and a fantastic anchor for Liverpool, Bayern and Madrid. 

I hope he can come back to Liverpool in some way. Even if he's just an ambassador, him and Luis Garcia can go on random trips together. 

I think that is a typo

[Lineker]

Philipp Lahm will retire at the end of the season. 

[The Lusophone]

Brazil midfielder Hernanes has left Juve and joined up with Manuel Pellegrini's Hebei China Fortune, where he joins Lavezzi, Gervinho and Mbia as the four allowed foreign players (not counting the AFC nation foreign player which Hebei do not currently have).

Edit: You could probably challenge for the 6 in the Premier League with a team of Chinese Super League players now, although you'd need a goalkeeper:

                Ricardo Carvalho               Gil                   Ali Ghazal

                                         Ramires              Fredy Guarin

Renato Augusto                                Oscar                                             Hulk

                                 Carlos Tevez                    Alexandre Pato

Defence is a bit poor - replacing Ghazal with any of the South Korean internationals playing in China would also work - but the options as you go up the team are superb - Alex Witsel, Mikel, Hernanes, Mbia, Paulinho can replace any of the DM/CM pairing, Alex Teixeira, Obafemi Martins, Lavezzi, Cisse, Pelle etc for the attacking players.

[MDK]

I think there is a rule about goalkeepers having to be made in China. I know this from my learnings from FM.

[Cymbols]

Yup. 

[Colly]

I'm sure all Premier League defenders would be quaking in their boots at the thought of facing 53 year old Obafemi Martins.

[hugobomb]

As are Premier League strikers at the thought of 64 year old Ricardo Carvalho.

[The Lusophone]

Atletico are playing Celts on sky right now. Torres scoring a beautiful over the head goal and then slamming a penalty against the bar is kinda poetic.

[The Lusophone]

Sportsmanship is dead in Holland pic.twitter.com/Kw7mfOjxFV

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) February 12, 2017

 

Superb.

[Sam]

Hilarious yet awful. 

[Colly]

Should've been booked immediately.