2013-14 Club Soccer/Football Discussion Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

haha

[Tender Branson]

Bayern vs. Raja Casablanca tonight at 20:30

I predict a 5-1 win for Bayern.

[Tender Branson]

Bayern vs. Casablanca can be watched here:

http://megatv.to/Live-Stream/deutschland/ios-ard.html

[Keystone Phil]

Napoli robbed of Scudetto chances by a ludicrous offsides call that negated a late goal. I guess there's still Coppa Italia and the fight for second place.

[Keystone Phil]

Milan Derby!

[Keystone Phil]

Rooting for Chelsea today. It will be great to see Arsenal down to fourth.

[Lief 🗽]

Wenger once again completely found out by Mou who was happy to win a point at our stadium. Hopefully we buy a striker who isn't horrible at scoring goals in January.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In one of the ugliest episodes of this kind for quite a while, Malky Mackay - who brought Cardiff to the top flight for the first time since the early 60s - has been sacked by Cardiff's atrocious foreign owner (Vincent Tan). British Football is in a sick state.

[Keystone Phil]

sacked by Cardiff's atrocious foreign owner (Vincent Tan).

Who knew Al liked a little dose of nationalism every so often!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The issue is with the use of our football clubs as investments* and/or as private playthings by despicable international plutocrats, rather than with owners who are not British as such.

_{*Delusional investments. Football clubs are even less likely to make money than Opera Houses.}

[Keystone Phil]

Yes but you emphasize that they're international plutocrats. As if there aren't Brits using teams as investments/private "playthings"...

[Lief 🗽]

Eh, Cardiff wouldn't even be in the Premier League without Tan's investments. And it's not like Mackay had been doing a particularly good job this season at least.

[Franknburger]

_{*Delusional investments. Football clubs are even less likely to make money than Opera Houses.}

I guess it's a matter of approach. If you sell off all players, and finally find somebody willing to pay for a place in the League (probably 2nd Division by then, but might still be worth a bit), you could be able to generate some money.

Alternatively, the Club is named Bayern Munich, which has made a profit each year since their professional football department was converted into a joint stock company in 2002 (14.2 million Euros profit / 3% return on turnover in 2012/13). Borussia Dortmund's profit in 2012/13 was even 53.3 million Euros - enough to pay back all the debt the club had run up during its 2005-2008 financial and sportive crisis. Borussia Monchengladbach - 15.2 Million Euros Profit in 2011/2012 (Reuss sale to Dortmund). Even Clubs not playing internationally can be profitable: Mainz 05 (+7.5 m€ 2011/12), Freiburg (+ 6.2 m€ 2012/13), Nuremberg (+0.75m€ 2012/2013), relegated Greuther Fürth (+1.5 m€ 2012/13), 2nd-Division FC St. Pauli (+2.5 m€ 2012/13).

Schalke, OTOH, made 9 million Euro loss in 2012, Werder lost 8 million in 2012/13, Stuttgart -9.7 m€ (2012), Hamburger SV -9,8 m€ (2012/13), Hoffenheim -4.2 m€ (2012/13).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes but you emphasize that they're international plutocrats.

A statement of fact, I'm afraid. Ours is an American and his idiotic meddling is probably going to get us relegated.

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One or two (that fat fyck Mike Ashley for instance), but mostly these people are foreigners.

[Keystone Phil]

Yes but you emphasize that they're international plutocrats.

A statement of fact, I'm afraid. Ours is an American and his idiotic meddling is probably going to get us relegated.

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One or two (that fat fyck Mike Ashley for instance), but mostly these people are foreigners.

Translation: "Hey, it isn't xenophobic when I do it! Duh!"

Anyway, can't wait for Chelsea vs. Liverpool in the morning.

[Keystone Phil]

Oh shut up, Arsenal.

[Lief 🗽]

TOP OF THE LEAGUE ownedownedonwed

[Tender Branson]

Lewandowski from Dortmund to Bayern.

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http://www.dw.de/robert-lewandowski-signs-with-bayern-munich-for-free/a-17341682

[Keystone Phil]

United about to be out of the FA Cup.

Juve vs. Roma later today!

[Lief 🗽]

I love David Moyes so much!

[Keystone Phil]

Giuseppe Rossi hobbles off with a possible knee sprain. Horrible. Just horrible.

[Keystone Phil]

And the title race is over in Italy. Juventus will get their third star. Winning 3-0 after Roma secured two red cards in about two minutes. The latter was Castan pulling a Suarez and punching the ball off the goal line.

So this has been a nauseating weekend for sports all around for me.

[Keystone Phil]

Rossi expected to be out for only six to seven weeks. Most I saw was three months but that was either revised or a rumor. Good news. He's coming back to the U.S. for further evaluations.

[Keystone Phil]

How does David Moyes still have a job?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's a shame that we're only any good at cup matches, but I'll take the hilarity. It's better than nowt.