European Football Thread

[Kaney]

4 hours ago, Sam said:

Could Arsene call it a day this season if he wins the league? Arsenal would be the perfect club for Pep to take over.

When Wenger leaves Pep is absolutely the manager id want to replace him. If Wenger wins the title this season I'd be absolutely happy for him to leave as he doesn't owe us anything more. 

I don't expect either of those three things to happen at all ever 

[Gazz]

Real Madrid 10-2 Rayo Vallecano

Honestly thought it was a typo at first...

[King Ellis]

To think, the Beeb's live update page for the Prem games today was at one point like "Real Madrid are in a bit of trouble here..."

[Gazz]

I mean, they were 2-1 down after 15 minutes...

[lanky316]

Then the referee sent off two Rayo players inside half hour. Clearly they're a good side but the scoreline is a little flattering.

[Lineker]

A Borussia Dortmund fan has been arrested after breaking into the Westfalen Stadium and playing a match by himself while naked.

The 25-year-old fan says he fulfilled a lifelong ambition by playing at the ground and said it was only the floodlight heat at 8.30pm that prompted him to undress after his body temperature rose dramatically.

His movement triggered sensors, which in turn, alerted local police.

They said: "The winter break of the Bundesliga is used to prepare for the second half of the season. It seems a supporter of Borussia Dortmund used the pitch of the Signal-Iduna Park for his own private match."

The supporter has been banned from attending matches in future.

[Baddar]

[The Lusophone]

Rafa Benitez is complaining of a 'campaign' against him at Real Madrid.

[stokeriño]

In fairness, if you fall out of the good graces of La Marca and the rest of the Real-biased press then they're never exactly reluctant to get the knives out.

[The Lusophone]

Sure, but its not like he's done a good job thus far.

[Lineker]

The Slovenian league leaders NK Olimpija Ljubljana are trying to tempt Harry Redknapp to become their next head coach – a move made slightly less shocking by the fact Milan Mandaric is owner.

[TCO]

Meanwhile Niko Kranjcar and 'Arry's accountant are excitedly checking their phones.

[stokeriño]

51 minutes ago, TCO said:

'Arry's accountant are excitedly checking their phones.

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[MDK]

On 30/12/2015 at 15:30, stokeriño said:

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[Lineker]

...can we post that?  

[MDK]

They show worse on Attenborough docs during the day

[Baddar]

Watched the Valencia-Real game last night. Finished 2-2 but it's by far the best they've played under Neville so far. Hopefully they'll be able to make a push for the CL spots when they have a fully fit squad to choose from, especially at the back as Gaya and MustafI were still missing. The goal Benzema scored was entirely unavoidable though. Some great link up between him, Ronaldo and Bale. 

[Colly]

Rafa to Chelsea? Pep to Real? Boyz II Men?

[Moses Julep]

So apparently Benitez is gone and Zidane has taken over Real. I'm interested to see if one of the best players of his generation makes a good coach or if he's gone by the end of the year.

[DavidMarrio]

He'll get sacked after about a year no matter how well he does because that's what Real Madrid do.