The on topic thread

[jod23]

West Brom apparently in the early stages of a takeover. Chinese consortium.

Interesting. Are they multi gazillionaires?

WBA to break into top 4?

 

[Cruyff14]

New FIFA Ranking top 10:

1 Argentina
2 Germany
3 Belgium
4 Colombia
5 Netherlands
6 Brazil
7 Portugal
8 Romania
9 England
10 Wales

lol.

 

[glenferry23]

Romania? Wow.

 

[Jatz]

Chile would have to be close wouldn't they?

 

[Bojan KantKick]

New FIFA Ranking top 10:

1 Argentina
2 Germany
3 Belgium
4 Colombia
5 Netherlands
6 Brazil
7 Portugal
8 Romania
9 England
10 Wales

lol.

The bolded are fine. The rest are a shambles.

 

[Zidane98]

FIFA rankings have always been a joke.

ELO world ratings FTW. You should all the a look at it. Far more accurate.

 

[Cruyff14]

The bolded are fine. The rest are a shambles.

Every side there is ranked incorrectly.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

meh, at least the bolded deserve to be in the top 10. Each to their own i guess.

 

[Magma]

holy hell thats bad

its germany and then daylight

 

[Cruyff14]

meh, at least the bolded deserve to be in the top 10. Each to their own i guess.

I don't see why Belgium deserve to be there. As with Brazil.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

I don't see why Belgium deserve to be there. As with Brazil.

Brazil came 4th in the recent world cup. Belgium shouldn't be that high but are close to the top 10. all pretty subjective stuff. Having Belgium in the top 10 is far more reasonable than England, Romania, Wales, Columbia imo.

 

[Cruyff14]

Brazil came 4th in the recent world cup. Belgium shouldn't be that high but are close to the top 10. all pretty subjective stuff. Having Belgium in the top 10 is far more reasonable than England, Romania, Wales, Columbia imo.

Well when you take into account Colombia's WC and recent COPA showing, is top 10 unfair?

But yes, subjective.

 

[Thistle]

Romania and Wales in the top 10

 

[Magma]

just discovered this gem http://twitter.com/MUFC_Facebook

Man Utd Facebook ‏@MUFC_Facebook Jun 16

transfer rumors are so confusing. just pls tell fergie sign otadendi hummels gundogan nd sneiderlen. thx.

Man Utd Facebook ‏@MUFC_Facebook Jun 10

De gea leaving is like when I lost a tooth and put it under the pillow but the tooth fairy didnt come except its worse than losing a tooth

 

[Flameboy]

just discovered this gem http://twitter.com/MUFC_Facebook

Man Utd Facebook ‏@MUFC_Facebook Jun 16

transfer rumors are so confusing. just pls tell fergie sign otadendi hummels gundogan nd sneiderlen. thx.

Man Utd Facebook ‏@MUFC_Facebook Jun 10

De gea leaving is like when I lost a tooth and put it under the pillow but the tooth fairy didnt come except its worse than losing a tooth

Country Race's Man Utd supporting brother must surely run that page

 

[moomba]

Interesting. Are they multi gazillionaires?

WBA to break into top 4?

Doing a bit of googling this morning, Wang Jianlin and the Dalian Wanda Group seems to be mentioned most.

He's worth about £13bn (richer than Abramovich) and the group already owns 20% of Atletico Madrid.

Whether the takeover will happen, and how they would run the club remains to be seen I guess.

Very interesting though.

 

[Latro]

Country Race's Man Utd supporting brother must surely run that page

Parody account run by moomba

 

[moomba]

Parody account run by moomba

I've got no time for that as well as my Piers Morgan official twitter account.

 

[Sozabarus]

Romania and Wales haven't lost an international game in the last 12 months. The rankings are far from perfect but it's not like they've just pulled these teams from a hat.

 

[Zidane98]

http://www.eloratings.net/world.html

So much more realistic. Belgium 11th. Chile 6th.

 

[jod23]

Doing a bit of googling this morning, Wang Jianlin and the Dalian Wanda Group seems to be mentioned most.

He's worth about £13bn (richer than Abramovich) and the group already owns 20% of Atletico Madrid.

Whether the takeover will happen, and how they would run the club remains to be seen I guess.

Very interesting though.

Interesting. I wonder why they would be interested in West Brom of all teams?? If they are looking a buy an EPL club, surely they could find better opportunities.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

Doing a bit of googling this morning, Wang Jianlin and the Dalian Wanda Group seems to be mentioned most.

He's worth about £13bn (richer than Abramovich) and the group already owns 20% of Atletico Madrid.

Whether the takeover will happen, and how they would run the club remains to be seen I guess.

Very interesting though.

heck sake. Why can't they buy us instead? Our colours are fairly similar.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Interesting. I wonder why they would be interested in West Brom of all teams?? If they are looking a buy an EPL club, surely they could find better opportunities.

Cheap with a decent stadium. They could go the mike ashley route or the Sheikh route without the initial expense of buying a club of Liverpool's size.

 

[Magma]

Interesting. I wonder why they would be interested in West Brom of all teams?? If they are looking a buy an EPL club, surely they could find better opportunities.

consistent premier league club
good fans
good squad with room to build
plus the potential to dominate the west midlands area

factor in your could get them for a much more reasonable price than others (newcastle) and don't come saddled with the debts of others (villa) it would be a good little buy with all the money coming into the league.

 

[Fryer Tuck]

Romania and Wales haven't lost an international game in the last 12 months. The rankings are far from perfect but it's not like they've just pulled these teams from a hat.

Actually more amusingly, since the rankings are an average based on the weighting of the matches you play, theoretically speaking you can lose ranking points despite winning all your games. Sometimes the best way to improve your ranking is not to play at all.