Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[carolinablue232]

Bollocks, PSG and Man City for RBL.

Red Bull B team got a much easier group than Red Bull A team. Tough break for my guy Marsch again.

 

[Nymzee]

Red Bull B team got a much easier group than Red Bull A team. Tough break for my guy Marsch again.

Should still secure 3rd and going to be some belting games but yes, rather horrid group.

 

[Pat Butcher]

Not sure people will care too much about that when it's a chance to see Messi, Neymar, De Bruyne, possibly Mbappe and Ronaldo all on one pitch.

Agree just shows though how politics has come into football, to oil states playing eachother as the 2 biggest current clubs

 

[Nymzee]

Agree just shows though how politics has come into football, to oil states playing eachother as the 2 biggest current clubs

Aye not like it used to be back in the day with CL finals of Oligarch backed London clubs or Spain-owned Real Madrid.

 

[Blue83]

Why can the media name and shame him yet Iceland cannot be named ?

Benjamin Mendy: Manchester City footballer charged with rape

Defender Benjamin Mendy is charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[zukai12_]

Why can the media name and shame him yet Iceland cannot be named ?

Benjamin Mendy: Manchester City footballer charged with rape

Defender Benjamin Mendy is charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

www.bbc.co.uk

Hes been charged whereas number 10 hasnt i believe

 

[Blue83]

Hes been charged whereas number 10 hasnt i believe

So I guess if/when Voldemort gets charged then the media will be able to name him and we'll be able to discuss it but not the trial ?

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Shamrock Rover’s hopes of progressing have turned to butter

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Aye not like it used to be back in the day with CL finals of Oligarch backed London clubs or Spain-owned Real Madrid.

Problem is that the two oil states are far more wealthy and much better able to flout the rules.

 

[Nymzee]

Problem is that the two oil states are far more wealthy and much better able to flout the rules.

Is that skint Real Madrid bidding €170m for Mbappe from said oil state?

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Is that skint Real Madrid bidding €170m for Mbappe from said oil state?

The fact they’re being reported as skint and are in a heap of debt - compared to clubs who have an almost limitless pot of money to tap into and can skirt the rules because of their state backed ownership - are a bit different.

 

[AdamEFC]

The fact they’re being reported as skint and are in a heap of debt - compared to clubs who have an almost limitless pot of money to tap into and can skirt the rules because of their state backed ownership - are a bit different.

Real Madrid have had a lot of backing from the Spanish state over the years.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Real Madrid have had a lot of backing from the Spanish state over the years.

They definitely have but this new phenomenon of oil states owning clubs is a new problem.

For the record I have zero sympathy for Real or Barca and think they should be reined in, but that doesn’t change the fact PSG and City are a new and dangerous problem for football.

 

[Nymzee]

The fact they’re being reported as skint and are in a heap of debt - compared to clubs who have an almost limitless pot of money to tap into and can skirt the rules because of their state backed ownership - are a bit different.

Well I mean being skint but bailed out by their own country to be able to possible sign someone for nearly 200 million quid sort of points to problems outside of just oil clubs.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Well I mean being skint but bailed out by their own country to be able to possible sign someone for nearly 200 million quid sort of points to problems outside of just oil clubs.

Has the Spanish state bailed them out? Does it even own them? You probably know more than me.