General Football Discussion

[SE6Ajacied]

Pretty dull TV as well.

..and to continue on a theme, Aron Winter and Bryan Roy playing 'Foot-Golf', golf with a football! I'm being picky as the Ajax TV show is generally very good but it must have been very quiet in Ajax-land last week.....

[Philippe]

I wonder how it will go for AZ this evening. I bet it will be a draw.

BTW good old Louis seems to have things under control now.

[Kowalczyk]

The club president of Real Madrid stated today that his club has a debt of 327 million euros.

What can you say?

K.

[Orange14]

The club president of Real Madrid stated today that his club has a debt of 327 million euros.

What can you say?

K.

They will just extort some more money from the banks! Under Platini's proposal, Madrid would not be eligible for CL football.

[Kowalczyk]

They will just extort some more money from the banks! Under Platini's proposal, Madrid would not be eligible for CL football.

Platini's plan sounds nice, but UEFA and the major clubs will find a way around it, I think...

This Platini plan is supposes to start in 2012. There is absolutely no way Real Madrid will have cleared their debts by then. But they're not gonna kicked out. I just can't see it happening.

K.

[SE6Ajacied]

Oh dear, it all ended in tears!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 270272.stm

Sol Campbell leaves Notts County after only one game......

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

The U-20 championship starts today in Egypt, i sure hope we have a bunch of scouts watching, maybe we can get some diamonds in the rough or even some proven young players to add to our squad.


PS: Venezuela qualified

[Manneken Pis]

Oh dear, it all ended in tears!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 270272.stm

Sol Campbell leaves Notts County after only one game......

No tears from me ....

Pure PR exercise, and it's not like it's the first time he's "let someone down".

[SE6Ajacied]

Oh dear, it all ended in tears!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 270272.stm

Sol Campbell leaves Notts County after only one game......

No tears from me ....

Pure PR exercise, and it's not like it's the first time he's "let someone down".

Do you think it was staged? I'm normally a massive cynic but he can't sign for anyone else til January so they would have to pay him a lot (edit-oh yes, so they did)

[Manneken Pis]

Very nice piece about the Danish side of the 1980's .....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... mark-1980s

[martinkohout]

Very nice piece about the Danish side of the 1980's .....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog ... mark-1980s

The piece on our old pal Morten Olsen in the October issue of World Soccer also mentions "the scintillating 'Danish Dynamite' side of the 1980s," but only by way of comparing it to the "anonymous players and utilitarian style" of Olsen's current Denmark squad.

The article is actually quite complimentary: "The unknown warriors have done just fine, though - and maybe having a laid-back leader wearing jeans suits their mood perfectly as they quietly go about subduing the flashy, catwalk talents of Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic."

[SE6Ajacied]

Foppe de Haan is the new coach of Ajax Cape Town but unless there are two guys with the same name I think this story might have the wrong name for Ajax CT's youth academy head...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 309538.stm

[Jinne]

It's not the wrong name. There are odd enough two Maarten Stekelenburgs in our organisation.

[SE6Ajacied]

It's not the wrong name. There are odd enough two Maarten Stekelenburgs in our organisation.

OK, if I'd been less lazy I could have checked that. Main point of my posting it anyway is that I was interested in the story. Obviously I know about the history regarding Dutch people in South Africa but I still find it quite fascinating that "our" team have so many links to the Netherlands, despite being run pretty much at arms-length etc.

[SE6Ajacied]

I do hope Liverpool don't lose out on the CL or anything else by one point at the end of the season

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 308907.stm

[Kowalczyk]

http://www.youtube.com/user/SigaarSnor# ... -F6KigOeKQ

K.

[Van basten]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

[Orange14]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

Most telling figures:
Alcorcon player budget: €1.1 million
Madrid player budget: €420 million
Significance of Alcorcon victory, "Priceless!!" Now they just have to hold on in the rematch.

[martinkohout]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

Most telling figures:
Alcorcon player budget: €1.1 million
Madrid player budget: €420 million
Significance of Alcorcon victory, "Priceless!!" Now they just have to hold on in the rematch.

"There's no explanations. We were focused and the training sessions were very good, but Alcorcón played very well," Pellegrini told Marca after the game. "We hope our fans can forgive us after this defeat."

I don't actually have anything against poor Pellegrini, except the fact that he agreed to work for the Dark Side, but I have to admit I LOVED seeing this result in the paper this morning.

[Kowalczyk]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

That's quite funny indeed...

K.

[Blind3]

The budget gap between the two clubs, the money tree at Real and the modest Alcoron, makes this result all the more striking. Well done Alcoron !!

[Philippe]

Poor Louis. I feel sorry for him.
Maybe we will play his side later this season, in the Europa League ?

[martinkohout]

Due to the vagaries of stateside distribution, I just picked up the November issue of FourFourTwo, with cover story on the "100 Best Players in the World." Inherently stupid idea, of course, but still kinda fun.

No huge surprises in the top ten (in order: 1. Messi, 2. C. Ronaldo, 3./4. Xavi/Iniesta, 5. Villa, 6. Torres, 7. Gerrard, 8. Kaká, 9. Eto'o, 10. Rooney).

Others of interest: 13. Ibrahimovic, 40. Robben, 48. Sneijder, 65. van Persie, 75. Huntelaar, 85. van der Sar, 92. van Nistelrooy.

No Suárez; in fact, no current Eredivisie players at all.

[SE6Ajacied]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

OH dear! Real managed to beat Alcoron in the second leg , but only 1-0 Raffie got the goal but despite Kaka, Raul and Van Nistelrooy playing they still lost 4-1 on agregate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 329227.stm

[Van basten]

Copa Del Rey

Alcorcon(3 league) 4 - 0 Real Madrid


Faken great .

OH dear! Real managed to beat Alcoron in the second leg , but only 1-0 Raffie got the goal but despite Kaka, Raul and Van Nistelrooy playing they still lost 4-1 on agregate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 329227.stm

I thought they're gonna crash them at home 6-0 or something like that, but no! Nicely done Alcoron