European Football Thread

[TCO]

Good to see him back in football and intrigued to see what he can do over there. Sociedad have some real talent in their squad.

[Baddar]

Best of luck to him.

[Lineker]

Inter Milan have sacked Walter Mazzarri and appointed Roberto Mancini as his replacement.

[Lineker]

There are reports coming from Spain that Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira has already agreed to join Bayern Munich. Spanish radio station Cadena Ser claims Khedira has already informed manager Pep Guardiola that he's willing to join Bayern on a free next summer.

[hugobomb]

Hell of a bargain if true. Bayern's midfield next year is going to be frightening

Edited November 20, 2014 by Hugobomb

[brenchill]

Lewandowski and Khedira for £0 in consecutive seasons. Ridiculous. And probably Reus fairly soon for £21m.

[EddieG]

Messi scored a hattrick (in a game not yet finished) against Sevilla, his second goal was the record breaking 252th goal for him in La Liga.

[Gazz]

253 in 250 games is not a bad strike rate.

[Colly]

BCHDIOAWWNIS?

[Thrilla]

Y.

[TCO]

I doubt his record would be quite as a good in the Premier League. Partly because of the greater parity and partly because he wouldn't consistently have had such a great supporting cast.

I don't anyone will come close in the Premier League, to having the ridiculous goal ratios that Ronaldo and Messi have in La Liga.

[Ant]

I dunno..Costa is having a good go

[Lineker]

Milan derby today.

[TCO]

Ronaldo has 197 goals in 176 league games for Real Madrid. That is absolutely ludicrous. Diego Costa has had a good start but I don't think any player could possibly match that playing in the Premier League.

[Gazz]

Messi and Ronaldo both put up goalscoring ratios that make you think they've found some exploit in the match engine of reality.

[Baddar]

Plus, they both tend to take and score every single penalty, which obviously helps things. How many of Messi's 250+ were pens? - I'd guess about 50.

Can't see Ronaldo ever coming close to Messi in terms of goals in La Liga. How does their overall goal record compare?

[Colly]

What difference does that make, they'd take them in the Premier League too. I find the lack of strikers taking pens weird to be honest.

[Baddar]

Oh no, I'm not saying they wouldn't - it'd just be good to know how many they've scored.

[Gazz]

Plus, they both tend to take and score every single penalty, which obviously helps things. How many of Messi's 250+ were pens? - I'd guess about 50.

Can't see Ronaldo ever coming close to Messi in terms of goals in La Liga. How does their overall goal record compare?

Messi has scored 43 penalties for Barca.

Overall (club and country) Ronaldo has 452 goals in 705 games (0.68 strike rate) and Messi has 413 in 538 (0.83).

[Ant]

I had an argument with an overactive and hypocritical Geordie at work the other day who said and I quote "Ronaldo is not the best player in the World as all Real Madrid do is pass to him and that's it" and "He can't stand the tippy tappy style of football" yet thinks Messi is better than Ronaldo as the team is not build round him

Of course my argument that Ronaldo has proved himself in two of the most toughest leagues (speaking in physical and technical terms) and the fact Ronaldo has more to his game fell on deaf ears.