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[Howard Moon]

The CL needs to be more exclusive.

Precisely!

How bout top 2 each of epl, liga, bundes, ligue, serie a.

Too elitist?

 

[eth-dog]

Precisely!

How bout top 2 each of epl, liga, bundes, ligue, serie a.

Too elitist?

10 teams? Far too few.

Top 3 from those leagues get auto qualification, 4th place from those leagues play off for the last spot would work

 

[Harlequin]

Newcastle down to 10 men

 

[Howard Moon]

Mitrovic such a fiery slav! Don't like to stereotype but he's a card magnet

 

[Cristiano Ronaldo]

Walcott is crap. Giroud needs to come on second half

 

[Harlequin]

Thought Newcastle were doing pretty well 1 man down

 

[Howard Moon]

Ht, 74% possession, 2 shots on target...

 

[Cristiano Ronaldo]

Arsenal should be 1-0 up if it wasn't for Theo's scuff. Other than that, yeah Newcastle have hardly been troubled.
Cech is likely to maintain a clean sheet for my fantasy

 

[GUMBLETRON]

10 teams? Far too few.

Top 3 from those leagues get auto qualification, 4th place from those leagues play off for the last spot would work

You still need to have other leagues represented, if only to keep it fresh. The problem is the group stage coming too early, or in my opinion existing at all. Axe the Europa farce and just have a straight, single-leg knockout competition, with all current European qualifiers entering progressively. Instantly every game is meaningful, and even filthy rich clubs can't treat Bulgarian minnows with contempt, lest their youth team get shown up and cost them £20m. Less is more doesn't seem to be getting much traction with the suits in charge though.

 

[Cristiano Ronaldo]

It's easy to say Chelsea are in trouble but considering they've already faced good top half teams so far, the results aren't a total shock. Their defence is a weakness, they need to drop Ivan and start woth Baba. Stones is looking unlikely too

 

[Howard Moon]

im secretly hoping Melbourne City draw Heidleberg in the FFA cup so i can wander down, dodge the shoplifters at northland and watch the boys in a suburban grassy terrace.

Novillo, Koren, Mooy and the new Uragyan Fornaroli look a potent front end. Hope they can get it together.

 

[Howard Moon]

Just signed Sorenson as well.

 

[Stopher]

After this transfer, City has apparently spent more than €1.000.000.000 since Mansour arrived at the club.

2008 Robinho (Bra) Real Madrid (Spa) 43.000.000 €
2009 Nigel de Jong (Ned) Hamburg (Dui) 18.000.000 €
Wayne Bridge (Eng) Chelsea (Eng) 13.000.000 €
Shay Given (Ier) Newcastle (Eng) 9.000.000 €
Craig Bellamy (Wal) West Ham (Eng) 15.500.000 €
Gareth Barry (Eng) Aston Villa (Eng) 13.900.000 €
Roque Santa Cruz (Par) Blackburn (Eng) 21.200.000 €
Carlos Tevez (Arg) Manchester United (Eng) 29.000.000 €
Emmanuel Adebayor (Tog) Arsenal (Eng) 29.000.000 €
Kolo Touré (Ivo) Arsenal (Eng) 18.700.000 €
Joleon Lescott (Eng) Everton (Eng) 27.500.000 €
Sylvinho (Bra) Barcelona (Spa) gratis
2010 Adam Johnson (Eng) Middlesbrough (Eng) 8.000.000 €
Patrick Vieira (Fra) Inter (Ita) gratis
Yaya Touré (Ivo) Barcelona (Spa) 30.000.000 €
Mario Balotelli (Ita) Inter (Ita) 29.500.000 €
David Silva (Spa) Valencia (Spa) 28.750.000 €
Aleksandr Kolarov (Ser) Lazio (Ita) 22.700.000 €
James Milner (Eng) Aston Villa (Eng) 22.000.000 €
Jerome Boateng (Dui) Hamburg (Dui) 12.500.000 €
2011 Edin Dzeko (Bos) Wolfsburg (Dui) 37.000.000 €
Stefan Savic (Mon) Partizan Belgrado (Ser) 12.000.000 €
Gael Clichy (Fra) Arsenal (Eng) 7.750.000 €
Costel Pantilimon (Roe) Timisoara (Roe) 3.300.000 €
Samir Nasri (Fra) Arsenal (Eng) 27.500.000 €
Sergio Agüero (Arg) Atletico Madrid (Spa) 45.000.000 €
Owen Hargreaves (Eng) Manchester United (Eng) gratis
2012 Jack Rodwell (Eng) Everton (Eng) 15.000.000 €
Scott Sinclair (Eng) Swansea (Eng) 7.800.000 €
Matija Nastasic (Ser) Fiorentina (Ita) 15.200.000 €
Maicon (Bra) Inter (Ita) 3.750.000 €
Javi Garcia (Spa) Benfica (Por) 20.200.000 €
2013 Jesus Navas (Spa) Sevilla (Spa) 20.000.000 €
Fernandinho (Bra) Sjachtjor Donjetsk (Oek) 40.000.000 €
Alvaro Negredo (Spa) Sevilla (Spa) 25.000.000 €
Stevan Jovetic (Mon) Fiorentina (Ita) 26.000.000 €
Martin Demichelis (Arg) Atletico Madrid (Spa) 5.000.000 €
Zackarius Faour (Zwe) Malmø (Zwe) 465.000 €
2014 Bacary Sagna (Fra) Arsenal (Eng) gratis
Fernando (Bra) Porto (Por) 15.000.000 €
Eliaquim Mangala (Fra) Porto (Por) 40.000.000 €
Willy Caballero (Arg) Malaga (Spa) 8.000.000 €
Bruno Zuculini (Arg) Racing Club (Arg) 2.500.000 €
2015 Wilfried Bony (Ivo) Swansea (Eng) 32.300.000 €
Enes Ünal (Tur) Bursaspor (Tur) 3.000.000 €
Raheem Sterling (Eng) Liverpool (Eng) 68.000.000 €
Fabian Delph (Eng) Aston Villa (Eng) 11.500.000 €
Patrick Roberts (Eng) Fulham (Eng) 7.000.000 €
Nicolas Otamendi (Arg) Valencia (Spa) 44.600.000 €
Kevin De Bruyne Wolfsburg (Dui) 75.000.000€


And they are still shite in the Champions League!

 

[Howard Moon]

The bony one sticks in my claw, typical career ruiner

 

[Howard Moon]

LETS GO DEADLINE DAY

 

[eth-dog]

Just signed Sorenson as well.

Good choice for at least a year. Will help the development of Velaphi a lot.

 

[Howard Moon]

im secretly hoping Melbourne City draw Heidleberg in the FFA cup so i can wander down, dodge the shoplifters at northland and watch the boys in a suburban grassy terrace.

Novillo, Koren, Mooy and the new Uragyan Fornaroli look a potent front end. Hope they can get it together.

my dream materialised. w00p

 

[Stopher]

I have to admit, the FFA Cup is nailing it so far. The idea is great, especially having games played at the lower-ranked home ground, which is great for local clubs. Also the timing is really good too. The big clubs are still in pre-season for the early rounds (but with no other games on can still put out strong teams), whilst the smaller clubs are already up and running, which levels it out somewhat.

 

[Howard Moon]

It's great, was discussing with Mates the other day it could never work in afl because of the style of our game, the difference between suburban and elite to great, and scores too high. But in football, it's possible to park all behind the ball, resist all game and break on one counter to steal a win. Pretty unforgiving soccer, can dominate a game and only score a goal.... Go down to one silly moment at the other end

 

[Burzum]

 

[Stopher]

He'll still go to Madrid but Man United will get some good $$ for him going now. Real were trying to be a bit too clever with the late transfer I think.

 

[Howard Moon]

 

[eth-dog]

Martial

 

[Howard Moon]

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/arti...s-sign-greek-international-kostas-katsouranis

It's on.

 

[Stopher]

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/arti...s-sign-greek-international-kostas-katsouranis

It's on.

That's brilliant.