Football/Soccer Discussion Thread

Tevez is a mercenary, always have been and always will be. He hops around high-budgeted (rich) or big clubs only to complain and demand an exit after one season or two at most. He is a good player, but I never liked him. The sooner he retires, the better.

On another note, anyone watching the friendly games? I'm going to watch LA Galaxy versus Real Madrid, which should be interesting. I want to see the big-money spending players in action.

And to answer jackblaze's question: of course. Messi and Ronaldo are a legacy amongst the younger generation. Trying to play like Messi or Ronaldo gives them a bit of motivation to improve and enhance their abilities.

Patriсk said:

Tevez is a mercenary, always have been and always will be. He hops around high-budgeted (rich) or big clubs only to complain and demand an exit after one season or two at most. He is a good player, but I never liked him. The sooner he retires, the better.

On another note, anyone watching the friendly games? I'm going to watch LA Galaxy versus Real Madrid, which should be interesting. I want to see the big-money spending players in action.

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Exactly, we (United) agreed to pay £25million for him to a greedy agent rather than a club when he was effectively unattached and he had only been our third choice in the previous season. I think that shows a great loyalty from the club to Tevez, he refuses because he wants more money and jumps ship to our local rivals. The fact that he even agreed to join that suspicious agency shows that he is a mecenary.

It is odd that you should bring up going to see friendly games because my friend has just asked about going to a Middlesbrough vs PSV game. £5 seems like a good price for that match-up. :D

Argentina were heavily underperforming in this cup. The fixture was pretty close, but after Uruguay's sent-off, I expected Argentina to exploit that. I'm happy they lost, though. Tevez missing that penalty made my day.

This will surely increase Brazil's chances of winning that cup, and maybe give a boost of confidence to the underdogs of this competition. I'm routing for Uruguay or Chile to lift the cup, though.

Real Madrid beat L.A Galaxy, 4-1. They played more like a team in this game.

I totally ignore Copa America(it just isn't worth watching) and I watched the woman world cup finals today and it was a better match than I have seen in Copa and must admit that both of the teams played well enough to win. Congrats to Japan

Well I've joked for a while saying Aguero would becoming to Manchester and it looks like it's finally happening albeit for the wrong team.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14173261.stm

Well, the Corinthians have withdrawn their offer for Tevez. That boy won't be happy there for another season, I do wonder what he will do.

Someone else will come in for him.

I suspect City will be willing to sell him for a more reasonable price when they realise that he'll only be sat in the reserves all season if they don't.

I agree.
He wasn't exactly thrilled to be playing for them half way through the season and the obvious cracks were showing in the relationship between him and the manager. He will obviously be signed by a team in a hot country! XD

Considering he said he wouldn't go back to Manchester even for a holiday, I'm guessing he won't be going back.

Chances are he'll just buy out his contract if there are no other options.

Your wish has been granted, wenty.

Good signing for city unfortunately.

Here's me hoping Lithuania will advance through their group.

Oh wow, neighbours Latvia are in our group aswell, farewell Latvia!

Spain and France are gonna have a good time. TBH, I want France to win; Went would be upset. Muahahaha

Nuke said:

Your wish has been granted, wenty.

Good signing for city unfortunately.

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A very good signing indeed if I say so myself.

Captain Fabio said:

Since it is too early for a World Cup thread, might as well just post the results of the draws in here. For the EU:

Group I: Spain, France, Belarus, Georgia, Finland
Group H: ENGLAND, Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, San Marino
Group G: Greece, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia, Lichtenstein
Group F: Portugal, Russia, Israel, NORTHERN IRELAND, Azerbaijan, Luxembourg
Group E: Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Albania, Cyprus, Iceland.
Group D: Netherlands, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Andorra.
Group C: Germamy, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Austria, Faroe Islands, Kazakhstan.
Group B: Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia, Malta.
Group A: Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, SCOTLAND, Macedonia, WALES

England have a pretty good group! :3​

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We'll say that and then suddenly the 'shock' defeats to Montenegro and Ukraine come in and we'll end up struggling to qualify.

At least we have Moldova & San Marino to put a few past.

England are already struggling to top a group with Montenegro in, even though we have been playing really well. Montenegro have been a surprise package in qualifying.
And this world cup draw isnt great for England unlike other groups there are 4 teams that can realistically top the group, Poland and Ukraine have good teams that have maybe not been at the top level recently but have qualified for past world cups.

Poland & Ukraine could come off the back of a successful euro 2012 tournament too since it will be on their own turf.

The Championship starts on Saturday. Going to the Boro v Portsmouth game.

Soon after of course everything will have kicked off. :D