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In similar vein, I could do without minute silences or any other similar displays. "Happy Birthday"s, Award presentations, all that included.
 
Depay looks average in every clip of him I have watched. I hope next season will confirm youtube is not a good way to judge a player.
 
fecking idiot players pointing to the sky and thanking their "God" for helping them score, while kids starve to death every single day.
I can see religion is ever-growingly the subject of vast intolerance whereas we try to fight for tolerance, and sanction lack of, concerning every single other delicate topic.

Apart from that, what the heck has thanking God for the talent he gave you to do with kids starving to death? If you believe you thank God for the good things you experience maybe exactly because you can see yourself as a more fortunate one? You should also bear in mind that a good number of those who thank God on the pitch give some top money to charities afterwards.
 
I can see religion is ever-growingly the subject of vast intolerance whereas we try to fight for tolerance, and sanction lack of, concerning every single other delicate topic.

Apart from that, what the heck has thanking God for the talent he gave you to do with kids starving to death? If you believe you thank God for the good things you experience maybe exactly because you can see yourself as a more fortunate one? You should also bear in mind that a good number of those who thank God on the pitch give some top money to charities afterwards.
:lol: Those that don't thank their so called "god" also give money to charities. Don't be an idiot, otherwise you're just proving my point.
It was pretty obvious that some religious twats would complain about a post in the unpopular opinion thread. Tolerance my ass.

Oh and sorry, I forgot to answer your question:

If your god really exists and blessing you with football talent is more important to him than protecting kids from starving to death, then feck him.
 
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:lol: Those that don't thank their so called "god" also give money to charities. Don't be an idiot, otherwise you're just proving my point.
It was pretty obvious that some religious twats would complain about a post in the unpopular opinion thread. Tolerance my ass.

Oh and sorry, I forgot to answer your question:

If your god really exists and he thinks blessing you with football talent is more important to him than protecting kids from starving to death, then feck him.
You really are a sad person, Chris.
 
The midfield is not good enough to compete for premier league(and will be worse without Di Maria),after the investment and even buying some more player I see Chelsea much better team,Van Gaal is doing a solid team but I wouldn't expect great games for the viewer.I miss more talent to create something different,the only one is Mata and he is too weak sometimes.Darmien is decent,only that.Schweinsteiger is a very good player but maybe he has more prestige than football in the legs.

He's 30!
 
I think LVG is going to bring in a mediocre keeper to replace DDG. I think it'll prove to be his Fergie/midfielders blind spot.

I also think we'll do well to he within 6 points of the league winners next season.
 
The midfield is not good enough to compete for premier league(and will be worse without Di Maria),after the investment and even buying some more player I see Chelsea much better team,Van Gaal is doing a solid team but I wouldn't expect great games for the viewer.I miss more talent to create something different,the only one is Mata and he is too weak sometimes.Darmien is decent,only that.Schweinsteiger is a very good player but maybe he has more prestige than football in the legs.
We've finished with 89 points 2 seasons in a row with a midfield of Carrick, illness stricken Fletcher, Cleverley, Anderson and a 40 year old Giggs and Scholes (89 would've won the league last year). Granted under Ferguson, but since then we've added Blind, Herrera, Schweinsteiger, Schneichderlin, Mata, Di Maria to Carrick... It's good enough to compete for the league.
 
We've finished with 89 points 2 seasons in a row with a midfield of Carrick, illness stricken Fletcher, Cleverley, Anderson and a 40 year old Giggs and Scholes (89 would've won the league last year). Granted under Ferguson, but since then we've added Blind, Herrera, Schweinsteiger, Schneichderlin, Mata, Di Maria to Carrick... It's good enough to compete for the league.
I think that I didn't express correctly.I should have said challenge instead compete.I imagine Chelsea or City with 9/10 points advantage in march.I miss more quality
 
fecking idiot players pointing to the sky and thanking their "God" for helping them score, while kids starve to death every single day.

So your basically just saying feck everyone that believes in God. This is so shockingly bad that I thought it was a WUM and I'm not even religious.
 
Feel free to enlighten me where I'm wrong...name one decent thing a religious person can do that a non-believer cannot.
Well, you would probably call me a religious person (even though I attend maybe 7 masses a year max) and I don't run around calling non-believers idiots and twats in a desperate try to engage in a conversation of some sorts.

And as for a decent human being (believer vs non-believer) there's no difference. As Pope Francis says 'an atheist who lives a moral life has as much chance of going to heaven as a believer does'. Considering you're a non-believer you don't believe in after life then it translates to 'is as good a person' from a religious point of view. Which inditaces it's not religion or church who look down at the non-believers but the other way round in your case. Which leads me to reverse the question that you should have answered. In what way being a religious person makes you a worse human being or not caring for others?

Also, God doesn't need any prayers and thanks, it's the believers who sometimes feel the need to do that. Hence, if that's their choice and it makes you angry then yes, it makes you a sad guy.
 
31 in two weeks.Excellent player but a team that is rebuilding should look for another kind of player before that sign.It looks like a caprice of the manager

It’s not as if we’re solely going for older players, though. We’ve signed Schneiderlin, who’s 25 and will hopefully be an important players for a good few years. Midfield additions last season like Herrera and Blind are also 25, while we’ve signed Depay who’s only 21.

Schweinsteiger may be getting a bit older, but I think he’s still got a fair bit of quality in him, and I think it makes sense for us to buy him and hopefully get some more good football out of him considering the price for which we purchased him. I don’t mind us signing some older, more experienced players as long as we’re balanced it with younger ones as well, and we seem to have been doing that.
 
So your basically just saying feck everyone that believes in God. This is so shockingly bad that I thought it was a WUM and I'm not even religious.
No, I'm saying feck everyone that thinks some deity is worth worshipping that would take his time to bless football players with talent while he can't even take care of basic needs on this planet, like food and shelter. And you seriously think I'm the one with the shocking opinion...?

As a bonus, maybe don't read the unpopular opinion thread if you don't want to be confrontated with an unpopular opinion.
 
No, I'm saying feck everyone that thinks some deity is worth worshipping that would take his time to bless football players with talent while he can't even take care of basic needs on this planet, like food and shelter. And you seriously think I'm the one with the shocking opinion...?

That is saying basically saying feck everyone that believes in or worships a God. Should a God exist, the bolded part has undeniably taken place because we can see it around us...
 
So your basically just saying feck everyone that believes in God. This is so shockingly bad that I thought it was a WUM and I'm not even religious.
Every other field of controversy (race, sexual orientation, culture, even stereotypes) and that's a ban. The most shocking thing is, that he doesn't even target one religion but religion per se which covers a few billions of people. I respect his guts in a way even though he does try to soften up a bit with each post.
 
That is saying basically saying feck everyone that believes in or worships a God. Should a God exist, the bolded part has undeniably taken place because we can see it around us...
Look, I'm not going to waste my time with you, read my post again and if you can't see I'm talking about "fecking idiot players" I cannot help you:

fecking idiot players pointing to the sky and thanking their "God" for helping them score, while kids starve to death every single day.

I have religious friends, gay friends, black friends, female friends, ugly friends, funny friends, dull friends and other great combinations. They can believe in whatever they want as much as I can. I'm not telling them to feck themselves because they don't run around all the time insisting on spreading "the message" to everyone.

And for the bolded part in your post: that is why I wouldn't even worship a god if his, her or its existence could be proven. If he was omnipotent and could do anything he likes and this is what he comes up with...feck him.
 
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If he was omnipotent and could do anything he likes and this is what he comes up with...feck him.

This is dynamite, man. You should write a book. I can't imagine that anyone has ever come up with such a compelling - and eloquent - argument before. This could - if cultivated properly - be the beginning of the end of organized religion.
 
This is dynamite, man. You should write a book. I can't imagine that anyone has ever come up with such a compelling - and eloquent - argument before. This could - if cultivated properly - be the beginning of the end of organized religion.
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Watch how many right footed players who play on the left side of midfield or defense (and vice versa) score own goals or give stupid free kicks away because they use the wrong foot to clear the ball or tackle a player.
honestly can't remember those notable situations
 
Every other field of controversy (race, sexual orientation, culture, even stereotypes) and that's a ban. The most shocking thing is, that he doesn't even target one religion but religion per se which covers a few billions of people. I respect his guts in a way even though he does try to soften up a bit with each post.
Soften up a bit? You just didn't read my initial post properly and turned it into my non-holy war against religion. My point stands.

Although I do like the way you don't speak to me directly anymore but refer to me in 3rd person. Am I now excluded from something special?
 
what other kind of player you mean?
Gotze,Koke,Verratti,Isco,Gundogan,Rakitic.Players that can cost 50/60m€ but will stay 5 or 6 seasons.After that,of course Schweinsteiger would be great.If the objective is to be closer of Bayern,Barsa and Madrid why to buy what Bayern/Pep doesn't need instead what they are willing to buy(Vidal for example).Anyway maybe he will do a couple of fantastic seasons and will prove me wrong
 
Look, I'm not going to waste my time with you, read my post again and if you can't see I'm talking about "fecking idiot players" I cannot help you:



I have religious friends, gay friends, black friends, female friends, ugly friends, funny friends, dull friends and other great combinations. They can believe in whatever they want as much as I can. I'm not telling them to feck themselves because they don't run around all the time insisting on spreading "the message" to everyone.

And for the bolded part in your post: that is why I wouldn't even worship a god if his, her or its existence could be proven. If he was omnipotent and could do anything he likes and this is what he comes up with...feck him.

What is the difference between "fecking idiot players" and any other friend that believes in God. At the end of the day, everyone is praying to and believing in what you are talking about, a God that lets bad happen in the world! The players aren't "spreading the message" to everyone, you are talking about them as if they are Jehovah's Witnesses for feck sake. Pointing to the sky is just a small gesture to thanking God. You'd as well go to your friends and tell them not to pray to their Gods because of how "bad" he is.

What I've got from your post is that football players and everyone else are doing the same thing, believing in God. But because they are pointing to the sky after scoring a goal and thanking god, they are the fecking idiots and not everyone else who also believes in the same concept: a concept that is, as you have pointed out, morally wrong.
 
I think LVG is going to bring in a mediocre keeper to replace DDG. I think it'll prove to be his Fergie/midfielders blind spot.

I also think we'll do well to he within 6 points of the league winners next season.

Agree.
 
:lol: Those that don't thank their so called "god" also give money to charities. Don't be an idiot, otherwise you're just proving my point.
It was pretty obvious that some religious twats would complain about a post in the unpopular opinion thread. Tolerance my ass.

Oh and sorry, I forgot to answer your question:

If your god really exists and blessing you with football talent is more important to him than protecting kids from starving to death, then feck him.

I'm not religious in the slightest but you're still typing shite. The parallel between saying thank you to 'God' and children starving to death is plain daft. It's similar to those nackers that have a go at people complaining about somewhat trivial things with random retorts of: "well at least you're not a starving child in Ethiopia!"
 
Gotze,Koke,Verratti,Isco,Gundogan,Rakitic.Players that can cost 50/60m€ but will stay 5 or 6 seasons.After that,of course Schweinsteiger would be great.If the objective is to be closer of Bayern,Barsa and Madrid why to buy what Bayern/Pep doesn't need instead what they are willing to buy(Vidal for example).Anyway maybe he will do a couple of fantastic seasons and will prove me wrong
well maybe he's not needed at Pep's style but he is still useful for others, I don't see any problem with that. Surely we want to return to that level, doesn't mean we have to rate someones according to bloody Pep's eyes or whoever else other than LvG and our own staff. out of those candidates you say, Koke I think will be perfect in Mourinho plans, not us, Verratti no chance, PSG is strong enough, Guendogan, nah probably he did not fancy us, don't think Rakitic is moved, at least as long as Enrique is there. Goetze, Isco, probably LvG think he has enough options in those roles.
 
It’s not as if we’re solely going for older players, though. We’ve signed Schneiderlin, who’s 25 and will hopefully be an important players for a good few years. Midfield additions last season like Herrera and Blind are also 25, while we’ve signed Depay who’s only 21.

Schweinsteiger may be getting a bit older, but I think he’s still got a fair bit of quality in him, and I think it makes sense for us to buy him and hopefully get some more good football out of him considering the price for which we purchased him. I don’t mind us signing some older, more experienced players as long as we’re balanced it with younger ones as well, and we seem to have been doing that.

Yep agree and Bastian has quality that makes him one of the top midfielders in the world plus with his experience it makes it a no brainer for me. We might even get 4 years out him as one of the top midfielders in the world for a relatively small fee.
 
I think LVG is going to bring in a mediocre keeper to replace DDG. I think it'll prove to be his Fergie/midfielders blind spot.

I also think we'll do well to he within 6 points of the league winners next season.
Oblak has been touted and we've supposedly had a offer turned down for him, might be worth remembering.
 
Yep agree and Bastian has quality that makes him one of the top midfielders in the world plus with his experience it makes it a no brainer for me. We might even get 4 years out him as one of the top midfielders in the world for a relatively small fee.
I think that even with no other midfield signings, it was a risk worth taking. With Schneiderlin there to reduce the risk to almost nothing it was, as you say, a no brainer.
 
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