European Football Thread

[stokeriño]

What about the first three seasons? What isn't lovable about finding increasingly hilarious ways to crash out of the UEFA Cup?

Good times...

[Jimmy]

I don't think he did badly to get Monaco to finish 2nd behind another huge spending time.

[brenchill]

Perhaps he needs the player stats editor as well.

[TCO]

Yeah I think 2nd is rather good, given they have almost an entirely new team, just got promoted and share a league with PSG.

[METALMAN]

What about the first three seasons? What isn't lovable about finding increasingly hilarious ways to crash out of the UEFA Cup?

Good times...

Well, I hated him then. But that was purely because he wasn't Gianluca Vialli, nothing that was actually his fault. :/

[Cymbols]

What the fuck happened to Anzhi Makhachkala? One minute they have the likes of Eto'o playing for them and now they've been relegated with only 3 wins all season. Mad.

[Jimmy]

Their owner backed out not too long back.

[Colly]

Take heed Man City fans.

[TCO]

Pumping that much money into Anzhi was a stupid decision from the off. Given their location and league they were never going to reach the highs Chelsea, Man City and PSG have. They always had a ceiling and they hit it.

[King Ellis]

Curious to know how they're going to be paying off their own UEFA fine for running afoul of the financial fair play rules...

[EddieG]

It must be the Bugatti the owner bought for Roberto Carlos.

[Gazz]

They're going to flog Chris Samba back to QPR, hoping that QPR don't realise Anzhi already sold him.

[brenchill]

I had no idea what a Bugatti was until I Google'd it. I thought it was an expensive cake or something.

[Lineker]

Claude Makelele has been appointed head as coach of Ligue 1 side Bastia.

[Lineker]

Italy is to ban clubs from co-owning players, saying the practice is out of line with the rest of Europe.

[The Lusophone]

Finally.

[Thrilla]

Yeah, that was an incredibly bizarre rule.

[TCO]

Yeah didn't that amount to 3rd party ownership, except that the 3rd party happened to be a football club? I've hated that rule ever since it meant that Italian clubs could swoop in and take a player for half the price in FM.

[Lineker]

Antonio Di Natale has decided to delay his retirement plans for another season with Udinese.

[brenchill]

That is great news.

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