@Polaroid since MJJ can only play weekends put us on Friday and I'll do my best to be here
Transfer Muppet Fantasy
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Well aye the midfield machines of the previous generation - Keane, Davids, Veron, Mendieta, Simeone, Zidane - were all on the wane by that stage, while the next generation's stars - Pirlo, Xavi, Essien, Lampard, Gerrard - weren't quite there yet. The main competition for Baraja therefore was Vieira and Ballack - although I'd rule out Ballack at that point as he was more attacking midfielder than central midfield dynamo during the early 2000s.
Thanks VJ.
Baraja had the classiest performance i've seen live at Windsor Park when he starred for Spain against us in 2002
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Good luck to you aswell mate. Crackin side you got also, should be a close one.
I could maybe try to get something wrote up for Wednesday. Out on site for a few weeks so difficult for me to be on here during the day but maybe Gio will be around.
I see Riquelme's still got it! This was his free kick last night, more of the same against you I hope
He looks happy in that screencap.
"Riquelme, are you happy?"
So Cutch now has an official celebrations GIF
There's a story behind that isn't there Anto, it's a spoof thing because he always looks so serious?
Baraja and Albelda were the early-2000s version of Xavi and Iniesta...really. If you don't know Spanish, translate the big quote. That's the extent to how they were on the pitch together. To say that Baraja is less imposing than one-season-wonder Gündogan is absurd
I agree with it but where is that from? Are you making headlines up? The first line looks like the branding for a legal firm
You caught meI agree with it but where is that from? Are you making headlines up? The first line looks like the branding for a legal firm
Sure man.. Sent my tactics already
I agree with it but where is that from? Are you making headlines up? The first line looks like the branding for a legal firm
What a partnership, on and off the park. Bit of photoshopping wouldn't go amiss now.
There's a story behind that isn't there Anto, it's a spoof thing because he always looks so serious?
Indeed. Someone said before Riquelme "never made it at a big team". He is a legend at Boca, won them two Libertadores and an Intercontinental Cup (against Madrid's Galacticos). I don't think you even begin to imagine what Riquelme is to Boca fans, maybe bigger than Diego himself. Now Boca fans will only drink Pepsi and River fans refuse to drink it. Pepsi did something similar in Uruguay with Peñarol and Nacional, it's 100% deliberate, if you can't beat Coke split up the market!!!
That's crazy! I love Messi but that doesn't mean I have to use everything he endorses, like this. BTW, there was a spoof of that campaign with Riquelme being happy that River could be relegated.
It was done before the games against Belgrano as it was fully expected they would survive ( ). It basically mentions how next year River fans will need a GPS to find the stadiums of the teams they will be playing and starts listing them. It's actually quite funny that they actually DID go down after that
It was done before the games against Belgrano as it was fully expected they would survive (
). It basically mentions how next year River fans will need a GPS to find the stadiums of the teams they will be playing and starts listing them. It's actually quite funny that they actually DID go down after that
It's quite common here with sponsors and such. Pepsi started sponsoring Nacional in the 80s and ever since then Nacional fans will only have Pepsi. My uncle actually started buying it when before he wasn't keen on my cousins having soft drinks. Nacional fans now have a visceral dislike for all thing Coke and refuse to drink it, even at kids birthday parties you have 40+ year-old parents asking whether it is Coke or Pepsi before having any soft drinks poured. And it goes both ways, Peñarol fans will refuse to have Pepsi.
Are all South Americans that easily influenced by retarded marketing campaigns? Sounds so stupid it can't be true.
Sounds so stupid it can't be true.Are all South Americans that easily influenced by retarded marketing campaigns?
It has nothing to do with marketing genius/influence.
It's how tribal football is. Your club is your way of life and your religion, truly, no lip service. So if Pepsi sponsors your club you drink Pepsi. People will tell you it isn't retarded but logical.
You have to be really REALLY careful about sponsoring a football team and which one. Volkswagen for instance used to sponsor BOTH Peñarol and Nacional but never one of them. The beauty of it from pepsi's perspective was their market share was negligible and they gained a fair chunk of the market overnight purely on the back of how strongly supported Nacional was. Similar with Boca, you get Boca fans, lose River fans, and a lot of "neutrals" find it really cool and funny. Accept a loss of River fans to grow elsewhere, it's common sense.
No one cares about South American leagues.
I know, but that Boca side was probably the most dominant South American side of the last couple of decades, or since Rai/Cafu's Sao Paulo.
Look at him schooling Madrid in Tokyo:
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I was joking BTW.
Though from voters on caf point of view, once a player has played in European league, his time at South american ones seem irrelevant. It is better off if he has not played in Europe at all.
Don't think that's the case. Can't remember anyone who never played in Europe and was rated highly by the voters based on just his time in SAM.
At least from last 20-30 years. We've had oldies in all time ones like Moreno, etc.
This is gonna be Riquelmes draft, i can just feel it folks. Totti's had his moment, theres a new king in town
He does have a point that performance in SAM is brushed aside. Look at Córdoba from that same Boca side, or Marcelo Delgado who was the dog's bollocks for them. I don't even know if Chelo played in Europe at all but he was immense for Boca and I couldn't care less what he did anywhere else, be it good or bad. Same holds for a fair few River boys from that generation raised alongside Francescoli, Ortega in particular. How a player of his quality can be left out of this I'll never know.
Actually, I do, but it's wrong.
This is gonna be Riquelmes draft, i can just feel it folks. Totti's had his moment, theres a new king in town
You could have done with picking up Christian Vieri. Riquelme made Palermo look World Class, imagine what would happen with the actual World Class version of Palermo...
Yep he'd have been great. Thought i had a chance of getting him but in the end hadn't the cash.
That Pepsi and Coke story .
.I used to watch the Argentine league every week back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was more often than not running the show and he had a couple of patches when I thought he was one of the best in the world.
Channel 5 by any chance? About 2 in the morning. I used to watch it almost exclusively to see Andres D'Alessandro. What a talent he was.
Aye. No better way than to end a night on the town kicking back with a bottle of beer to catch the highlights on Channel 5.
I would put it on after finally switchin off Champ Man. Aswell as D'Alessandro the other thing i watched it for was an extremely fit blonde presenter who I didn't catch the name of, it annoyed me for years then I seen here presenting ITV weather about a decade later, Becky Mantin
Well the Channel 5 Friday night soft-core porno was a good warm-up for it as well.I would put it on after finally switchin off Champ Man. Aswell as D'Alessandro the other thing i watched it for was an extremely fit blonde presenter who I didn't catch the name of, it annoyed me for years then I seen here presenting ITV weather about a decade later, Becky Mantin
Team sheet ahead of the big match.
I had Vieri and Riquelme in a draft once and Anto kept going on about how moody Riquelme is and you never know which one is going to show up and how I should have gone for Veron instead.
Team sheet ahead of the big match.
Don't you think that you are a little light-weighted here? You have too much attacking-minded players for my taste - Shearer, Ronaldo, Rooney, Nedved, Fabregas. You can say that Rooney and Nedved are hardworking players but still defending is not what you want them to do all day.
Then young and unproven CB as Varane with the likes of Nesta and Rio in the draft and your fullbacks are decent but not exactly world-beaters.
I'd swap Rooney or Shearer for a great CM and play 4-3-3 (not entirely sure if Shearer and Ronaldo are a good fit).
Then again, I'm new and inexperienced in the drafts, so maybe I've said something stupid - don't be offended and correct me if I'm wrong.
No offense taken, am glad for the feedback
Varane isnt really unproven though, he is young but is already among the best CB in the world. Made his name containing messi in the classico and hasnt looked back since. Is better than the likes of ramos/pepe and any defender we have right now.
Shearer is an upgrade on Benzema who seems to get along fine with ronaldo, so I think this combination can work and rooney will help out my weak-ish midfield more than any other AM. The team I am up against is playing a midfield of seedorf-rui costa-petit which I feel my midfield is equal to.
The plan is to hit the opposition as quickly as possible, quick transitions which I can see working here.
Two things because ill save most for the matchday thread -No offense taken, am glad for the feedback
Varane isnt really unproven though, he is young but is already among the best CB in the world. Made his name containing messi in the classico and hasnt looked back since. Is better than the likes of ramos/pepe and any defender we have right now.
Shearer is an upgrade on Benzema who seems to get along fine with ronaldo, so I think this combination can work and rooney will help out my weak-ish midfield more than any other AM. The team I am up against is playing a midfield of seedorf-rui costa-petit which I feel my midfield is equal to.
The plan is to hit the opposition as quickly as possible, quick transitions which I can see working here.
1. Do you really think your midfield is as good as mine? Petit is better than Emerson, Seedorf is different type of player than Cesc but reached greater hights and is more proven at CM(Cesc plays for Barca higher up the pitch) and if you think you can compare Rui Costa with Rooney who isn't even a real AM I think you are completely overrating your players.
2. Varane played magnificently against Messi last year I agree, but overall he's not proven because he played amazing for a few games than became mediocre(but still good for his age), and since his injury he haven't been a starter and Pepe and Ramos are being chosen over him constantly. Wouldn't call that proven
The plan at the moment. Any comments?