SirBalon
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Actually you're right! Just went back to the original article and re-read it and indeed it was referring to the record revenue for the club, not profit. Maths was never my strong point but here my error isn't mathematical, but letters which is supposedly my punto forte
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14 Years Today Messi Made His Debut For Barça It was Saturday the 20th of October 2004 in a city of Barcelona derby RCD Espanyol v FC Barcelona in Montjuic. Frank Rijkaard decided in the 82nd minute that this would be the apt moment for not only the football club, but for the world to start a observe a story that would re-write history books in the sport and offer footballdom an otherwordly gift that will forever be remembered. Deco went off and so started the story of Lionel Messi.
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And Samuel Umtiti out for 4 months... Barcelona are being majorly stretched at the back now.
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Hundreds of billions of $€¥£ OIL & ARMS SALES $€¥£ Say that the WEST pooh their pants and will start mumbling a-la Boris Johnson.
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Journalist: ”Manchester or Barcelona?” After various attempts by the insistent journalist... Matthijs de Ligt: ”Barcelona! Barcelona!” @Panna King
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So Thomas Vermaelen got injured (what a surprise) playing for Belgium and it seems that Barça have made up their minds to go full on for the signing of Ajax young starlet at the back Matthijs de Ligt before trying for De Jong. But the primary priority is to extend the contract of Lionel Messi.
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He is all wrong in football aspects and he’s even more wrong in attitude and as a character. Never before has a player acted in this manner at the club.
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What exactly has changed at Arsenal Football Club? This unbiassed piece by The Telegraph is very interesting! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/10/09/exactly-has-changed-arsenal-unai-emery/amp/
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Suddenly Arsenal PLC is starting to feel like Arsenal FC again... I can smell it!
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@Panna King... I have no idea what's going to happen from here on in but what's for sure is that this older Arsenal fan that has seen quite a bit is suddenly breathing once again where his club is concerned. There's still a. Lot to do but the club is starting to seem more genuine and more in tune with how it once felt. This is why all the positive comments from past Arsenal players.
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Right now we have to pay our club bar tab for what’s due and THEN we can see if we can juice some club membership benefits while telling them we no longer want to belong to the club.
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General La Liga Discussion
SirBalon replied to Carnivore Chris's topic in Spanish Football Forum - La Liga
I kind of agree but you're going down the Costa Rica argument route again which you know I disagree with mate. -
General La Liga Discussion
SirBalon replied to Carnivore Chris's topic in Spanish Football Forum - La Liga
It's probably (and not even then) the only position Atleti need to look at to add depth. Atlético Madrid have money these days so it's not beyond them to bolster that squad even more for the forthcoming January transfer window. -
General La Liga Discussion
SirBalon replied to Carnivore Chris's topic in Spanish Football Forum - La Liga
Today we have the Deportivo Alavés v Real Madrid which sees two coaches from the Barcelona side of the 90s (Cruyff's final Barça squad turned into Sir Bobby Robson's) go head-to-head today in the shape of Abelardo Fernández (Alavés) and Julen Lopetegui (Real Madrid). But that side that was later inherited by Sir Bobby Robson now has various high end coaches plying their trade around football in Europe... Luis Enrique (Spain national team) Julen Lopetegui (Real Madrid CF) Abelardo Fernández (Deportivo Alavés) Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) Jose Mourinho (Manchester United) Albert Celades (Assistant coach Real Madrid CF) Juan Antonio Pizzi (Saudi Arabia national team) -
But it's not about a plan b and more about how Sarri sets his team's out. He wants a reference point up front with the mobile forward coming in from wide positions. Giroud is definitely not the answer as he's an overrated statue.
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Dybala out of those three is the one needed but I get your point on depicting the type I'd forward you feel is necessary and I agree. Although Sarri does like to play with a target type player and then a very mobile technical forward which is why he had Insigne/Mertens and then Higuaín and subsequently Milik.
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In fairness I only placed a selected quote from all that Sarri said on Morata which was quite a bit more. He did add that Morata is a very important player for the club and that he played a very good game yesterday which is more important from his (Sarri) perspective than just scoring goals although he conceded that for a striker to feel he's providing for his team he needs to be putting the ball in the back of the net. It's all about characters and personalities... Some people are more emotional than others and handle that emotion in different ways. But he does need to toughen up which is why Luis Enrique is totally ignoring him for the Spain national team.
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Maurizio Sarri comment on Álvaro Morata after yesterday's game; "If Morata wants to or feels like crying after he scores a goal, I hope he does a lot of crying this season"
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His speech at the party conference and to be honest the whole comedy sketch that's been on offer since it started. Can't wait for Boris tomorrow. What's the large guy's name... Can't be bothered to search for it now but he had a great go at it too. How can anything be negotiated when the focus should be on nothingness turned into a slapstick farce. Oh and his comment (this is the edit) which I quoted old Mel was due to his comparison of Europe to Lenin's Soviet Union.
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Philip Hammond and some others would have us believe we are prisoners... We should be feeling like the modern day English version of William Wallace/s! "Aye, leave and we may become poor. Stay and you'll maintain the status quo -- at least a while. And lying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our European enemies that they may try to take our soveigrenty, but they'll never take our freedom" I could've given it a little more thought and probably made it a lot better... But it is Monday morning.
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That is pure and unadulterated biased opinion from the MARCA opinion columns. For those that read or translate that, remember that the Spanish press in all sectors in all regions without exception have this sort of thing encrusted in its make-up. It is Infact a good example of Spanish society and culture pertaining to tunnel vision. Just the vocabulary used with adjectives to boot is repulsive.
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He lost two leagues out of three in his tenure due to rotation. There's the MARCA way to look at it and then there's the real way. Right now domestically Valverde has already outdone Zidane in one season.
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The question is what does this choosing our own path actually mean? What's this other path that's a lot more magnificent than the path we were already on. Having had more time to learn the reality of things during the post referendum period has taught me how much crap we were fed. All that soveigrenty rubbish which was all lies as we've always had sovereignty and the regulations we abided by are actually regulations that we'll keep even after post Brexit if it ever actually occurs due to the fact it's all in our best interests from safety to quality control.
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The FC Barcelona treasurer Josep Vives during his morning's annual socio meeting presented the finances for last year which have seen FC Barcelona be the first club in history to almost make €1b profits for a financial year. Without winning the Champions League Barça have managed to create one of the biggest profit margins in the history of sport by making a whopping €960m profit.
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Toothache is one of the worst things ever... I was on holiday one summer and all of a sudden I was attacked with this affliction and that's that I attend the dentist religiously on my constant visits. I didn't want to interrupt my holiday so I ignored it and it got to a stage where I was like you and I can take pain, but not that. Went to a private dentist and he gave me morphine for the pain but I wanted the molar out! He said that with the infection he couldn't do that so I pulled it out myself with a pair of pliers... I'm not even joking but that's how bad it was and how much I wished for it all to end. The morphine just made me feel stupid which is why I made the decision to pull it out myself. On my return to the dentist he said I was a fool and that I could've died with the infection set in and pulling it out. I told him that getting rid of the pain INSTANTLY was a risk worth taking at the time. That's how bad that pain was.
