2014-15 Club Soccer (UCL, EL, Libertadores, CCL & Domestic Leagues)

[GatorTD]

It sounds like MLB

 

[Yankee151]

Yeah it's going to blow up in their faces pretty bad.

 

[Yankee151]

Barcelona looking into a deal for Higuain. Would be an interesting one, at the least.

http://www.marca.com/2014/06/15/futbol/equipos/barcelona/1402863188.html

 

[sois]

Xavi to Qatar?

 

[Yankee151]

Ill believe it when I see it

 

[Yankee151]

Las Palmas rush the field, Cordoba scores in the 93rd minute to win promotion to La Liga. Get Beardowned.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Cordoba can thank Barcelona B for their promotion. They finished 7th but only got in the playoff because Barcelona B finished 3rd but cannot play in the promotion playoff.

They have last in La Liga written all over them.

 

[Karl Hungus]

What each club earned from Champions League/ Europa League play last year- http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles...aorg/Finance/02/11/95/44/2119544_DOWNLOAD.pdf

 

[Yankee151]

Claudio Bravo confirmed to Barca. So that's now ter Stegen, Bravo, Rafinha, Rakitic, and Deulofeu coming in so far. Guessing a CB is in the works too.

 

[goblue96]

What each club earned from Champions League/ Europa League play last year- http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles...aorg/Finance/02/11/95/44/2119544_DOWNLOAD.pdf

All of Ajax's money will be poured back into the youth academy.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Claudio Bravo confirmed to Barca. So that's now ter Stegen, Bravo, Rafinha, Rakitic, and Deulofeu coming in so far. Guessing a CB is in the works too.

Lol.

Please kill me, it's going to be Mascherano and Pique as the starting pair again.

Congrats Madrid on your La Liga title.

 

[Chase]

Ezequiel Garay to Zenit, lawlz.

 

[Yankee151]

Their team is so good on paper, which makes them ctashing every year even funnier

 

[Yankee151]

@TrojanMan @Travis7401 Zulte Waregem bringing in Jordan Benteke and Kylian Hazard, Former Ravens LB for Belgium to all be brothers with each other by 2022
http://www.essevee.be/teams

 

[osick87]

Hey I know Bryan Verboom!

 

[GatorTD]

ESS-E-VEE! ESS-E-VEE! ESS-E-VEE!

 

[NML]

Qualifying rounds of UCL and UEL are underway

Currently, no Americans in the champs league (unless you count Arsenal), but Sasha might be moving to Oly in Greece Plus I'd bet Jones signs with a UCL team, or a mid-table team in Germany/Ingerland

For Europa, we gots:
Rosenborg - Mix
Molde - Gatt (injured), Spencer (loan), Horvath

And that's it. Still some moves to be made, I'm sure, but setting up for a very quiet CL/EL for Americans.

 

[goblue96]

Bart Scott for Ajax to end up in Pot 3 and getting drawn into a group with Real Madrid and PSG.

 

[sois]

FIFA made me like UCD, they're the Trinity Bible of soccer it looks like. They are not in the champions league.

 

[Yankee151]

Bart Scott for Ajax to end up in Pot 3 and getting drawn into a group with Real Madrid and PSG.

As is tradition. Probably Celtic thrown in for good measure

 

[Karl Hungus]

Alfredo Di Stéfano in critical condition after heart attack in Madrid

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Alfredo Di Stéfano in critical condition after heart attack in Madrid

He just passed away. He's the best player never to have played at a World Cup. Definitely up there with Pele and Maradona.

 

[Yankee151]

Sad about di Stefano. Always liked this story about him and the Munich Air Disaster: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...united-after-munich-air-disaster-8492422.html

Also, something I never saw coming but could be huge in the future:



Bernat is an absolute stud, and now he gets to work with Pep and Alaba? Bernat overlapping with Green down the wing and Alaba centrally like 4 years from now? FAP FAP FAP

Inter has a new logo, I guess? Kinda dumb.

 

[kella]

DONE DEAL

 

[Karl Hungus]

Bayan Mahmud, the Ghanaian stowaway who signed for Argentine giants Boca Juniors

This is a pretty awesome story.

 

[Karl Hungus]

Keeper scores a goal in extra time to send his team to the next qualifying round of the CL. Looking forward to the highlight making it onto youtube (1st leg is on there).

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2122551.html

 

[BIG EVIL]

Keeper scores a goal in extra time to send his team to the next qualifying round of the CL. Looking forward to the highlight making it onto youtube (1st leg is on there).

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2122551.html

Here it is:

 

[Yankee151]

Conte leaves Juventus. Almost surely going to Italy now.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Conte leaves Juventus. Almost surely going to Italy now.

He's in Italy now.

Unless Torino is now part of France.

 

[Yankee151]

Translation error, meant the Italy jerb

 

[Yankee151]

That or the Vidal deal is done since he said he would resign should he get sold. Either way this was out of left field.

 

[kella]

I wouldn't listen to any of that kind of talk from Italy. Remember when that Napoli owner said he wouldn't sell Hamsik or Cavani for less than 100m euro? lol

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Max Allegri is Juventus' new manager.

Worth mentioning that he let go of Pirlo while at Milan.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Tello to Porto on a two-year loan.

Another La Masia product bites the dust.

Also Keylor Navas to Madrid. Good bye Diego Lopez.

Also Toni Kroos looks headed to Madrid, possibly freeing Khedira to Arsenal.

Madrid going heavy on tourney buys.

 

[Rob's FSU]

Welcome back, Pirlo! - Berlusconi

 

[Yankee151]

Juve fans are real mad at getting Allegri. Wonder if it's Roma's title to lose now.

 

[sois]

I remember that game when Tello got three goals, that was cool

 

[Yankee151]

Kroos to Madrid confirmed, Hames to follow shortly after. $107mm, is what I'm hearing for Hames. Best 1-year profit ever for Monaco?

 

[Orangebird]

Is Real gonna sell Isco or is he be forever relegated to the bench?

Also Morata to Jove according to Di Marzio. I'd assume this means Real will buy a striker unless they're fine with only having two natural strikers.

 

[Yankee151]

If Isco was at City

 

[Chase]

Hai-Mez jerseys already on sale in a Madrid team store. Let's call him Isco Jr.

 

[kella]

I'm trying to get a Hertha jersey to troll Travis, and I plan on picking them as my Bundesliga team and attempting to follow them even though they kinda suck. None of the China sites seem to have any. Plz to help

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Subside would usually have Hertha shirts.

If you don't need the current shirt, ebay or classicfootballshirts.com are decent places. The latter is where I got my 99-00 Hertha home shirt

 

[kella]

I kind of like the one from the past few years with the DB on it.

 

[sois]

Bye Bojan

 

[Chase]

$20 million squigglies for 30 year old Jeremy Mathieu is very odd

 

[Karl Hungus]

Even odder is a 4 year contract with an additional option year. Barca have lost the plot.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Bye Bojan

He's been gone for two years.

Rather would have spent the Mathieu money on Balanta (River Plate). Much younger and a higher ceiling. Need to get Marquinhos and Cuadrado now. If Pique could be trusted to be an anchor for Barcelona's defense, I doubt Barcelona gets Mathieu.

My guess at Barcelona's line up:

GK: ter Stegen
LB: Jordi Alba
CB: Pique
CB: Mathieu/Bartra/Marquinhos
RB: Dani Alves/Cuadrado
DM: Busquets/Mascherano
CM: Iniesta
CM: Xavi/Rakitic/Busquets
AM: Messi
ST: Neymar
ST: Suarez/Pedro

 

[Yankee151]

Where is my dude Deulofeu thougg

 

[Snorky's Shame]

On the bench with Bravo, Adriano and Sergi Roberto