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It will be a two horse race in the EPL...Liverpool and Manchester City. The rest will fight over 3rd and 4th place and are relatively poor teams. The transfer window was also quite poor for the EPL.
The CL could be interesting, but hoping for Juve to win based alone on Buffon finally getting the CL medal.
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The transfer fees are absolutely vomit inducing, I mean £80 million for the likes of Harry McGuire is insanity, if UEFA gets its way with the new champions league format, it’ll practically kill all the domestic leagues and create a European super league.
I mean look, it’s been said for years but this kind of spending is simply not sustainable, somethings gotta give and the wage pressures especially in the lower leagues where I saw a statistic it’s like, in the premier league because of more revenue, wages account for an average of 50 something percent, whereas in the championship it averages over a 100 percent and if UEFA gets its way that pressure will creep up for the EPL while those lucky enough to get in that exclusive club will be fine for now, it’s building a bubble that will burst in spectacular fashion.
Messi wins World Player of the Year. Would have preferred a Liverpool player since they won the CL, but since thier only candidate was a defender then I guess it is okay. At least it was not the fraud Ronaldo again.
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McGuire high price is because he is English. He is an average defender, but because he is English and homegrown, then his price is instantly doubled so that teams can meet UEFA CL requirements. You see it with a lot of English players.. on massive wages but are benchwarmers for the CL requirements.
Why do you call Ronaldo a fraud?
Well I don’t think they spent £80 million on Macguire strictly because of CL requirements, I genuinely think they thought he was an answer to their defensive issues...
I’ll bet he wished he’d stayed at Leicester though...
Because he has won the award when he did not deserve it at all. He basically won it because he was at Real Madrid, much like Modric won it last year.
My point was/is that the price tag goes up because of his nationality/homegrown status when the buyer is a team like Man City because they are buying players for success instead of having home grown players.
Looks like Liverpool has won the EPL before Christmas.
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Maybe, but thier domination in England can be deceptive on thier actual strength. The other English contenders just suck a lot at the moment.Yeh they just can't be stopped right now. Easily the best team in Europe for me currently.
Congrats to Liverpool in winning the EPL 2019-20. Will they go undefeated?
Really hope not. They are so far ahead now that they can start concentrating on the Champs Lg as well....
Are they even going to hold Euro 2020? Olympics might be delayed a year.The virus is going to cause havoc with the next few months of football. How are they even going to finish the domestic season in time for Euro 2020?
Are they even going to hold Euro 2020? Olympics might be delayed a year.
The next few days/weeks will decide it. I suspect the French, Italian and Spanish seasons are over unless the spread can be curtailed within the next month.
They have suspended all 3rd division and below sports for all of Spain and are presently negotiating for 1st and 2nd division football and other sports.
Roma who were to play in Spain next week have been denied entry. Napoli who play Barcelona will get the same treatment I suspect.
Tonight's CL might be the last of the season, as UEFA are holding meetings on delaying or cancelling altogether.
Several top division footballers have been infected in Germany and France. Here locally a 2nd division handball team has been hit.
So I think sports is going to be over for a few months unless they play behind closed doors, which many don't want.
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Football is back!
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I'm not saying the BBC is feeling the absence of live sport, but Pete might be pleased to know that I'm watching a re-run of the Euro 92 final between Netherlands and Denmark! Denmark are one nil up after 15 minutes...:mrgreen:
Have they started abusing the back pass yet?
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