European Football Thread

[Szumi]

David Silva has retired after tearing his ACL earlier this week 😭

[gunnar hendershow]

Surely he gets a statue outside the Etihad now, right?

[Gazz]

He's already got one.

[gunnar hendershow]

57 minutes ago, Gazz said:

He's already got one.

The COVID years were a blur, totally memory holed that he and Kompany got statues.

[Lineker]

Following news of GiGi's retirement:

 

[Colly]

Can anyone else be plugged in in his place? Roque Santa Cruz?

[The Lusophone]

47 minutes ago, Colly said:

Can anyone else be plugged in in his place? Roque Santa Cruz?

Leroy Lita's still around.

[Adam]

I don't really get those "stats". They're not really related to each other? You could string long-playing footballers together like that back to the start of the sport, it doesn't mean anything.

The best thing with Buffon is that, aside from the one year at PSG, he only ever played in the top two divisions of Italy, and only for two clubs as well.

[METALMAN]

Assuming he retires at the end of this season, next year will be the first season since 1930/31 where Roy Hodgson doesn’t manage a first team game.

[King Ellis]

I'm pretty sure Buffon retiring is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

[Lineker]

 

[gunnar hendershow]

Lol he could've asked them 2 months ago.

[Gazz]

PSG front three going to go from Messi, Mbappe & Neymar to Matthews, Shilton & Buffon.

[Szumi]

Huge news here - Courtois has torn his ACL.

[gunnar hendershow]

https://en.atleticodemadrid.com/noticias/riyadh-air-atletico-de-madrid-s-new-main-sponsor

I do a fair bit of traveling and tend to recognize airlines, so I thought "hm that's odd I've never seen one of these planes before at any airport". It turns out that would be because, as of today, they've never staged a single flight.

[Malenko]

Everything's Saudi these days.

[The Lusophone]

5 hours ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

Huge news here - Courtois has torn his ACL.

It's fine, the fax machine will work this time...

[King Ellis]

Dani Olmo hat-trick, Bayern have paid 100m for the pleasure of being Spurs'd.

[Kaney]

Bayern won this trophy what, ten years in a row? Fuckin lol.

[Lineker]