Arena "The Beautiful Game" - The Official JCC Football (Soccer) Thread.

manager shifts in the championship - scott parker left fulham, now at bournemouth. fulham has hired marco silva - last seen getting hull relegated, sacked by watford for talking to other teams, and sacked within 6 months by neverton. it may be a while until we see the cottagers in the prem again.

also, unsurprisingly, ramos signing with PSG.

 

espn has varane close to a deal with united. never thought i'd see the day! the absence of woodward seems to be working wonders, epic and rich.

 

i like rafa a lot. i wish he'd stayed at chelsea, think he could have won the league with that group jose did, and might not have self-destructed spectacularly the year after

hated how our fans treated him, did a great job and netted a european trophy

 

chelsea loaning gilmour out for the season to norwich.

i do think rice and haaland will be all of this summer's business for chelsea. on haaland, i think marina will take advantage of the financial circumstances of the spanish and italian clubs and offer well (120-130M) above haaland's 2022 release clause amount (75M) while those clubs cannot, thus forcing dormund to pass on a sizeable financial windfall to keep the player for one year or sell. dortmund can also take that haaland + sancho money and buy players for cheaper this offseason than they'll be able to next year, with many clubs in dire need of the cash.

strike while the iron is hot. very unlikely we'll be coming off of a UCL trophy next year, or that tuchel's stock will be any higher.

 

jorginho's value will be high after the euros, and a few of the top italian clubs were already pursuing him last year. in truth, he was inconsistent and often poor under both lampard and tuchel, and we're better off with a younger option. if we could get 30-35 mil for him and use that and the tomori money (24M) from milan to offset the rice fee, it's good business.

 

united certainly needs him more, but if they're dropping big money on sancho and verane, i'm skeptical they'll make another big move. leicester typically charge top dollar, so i'm not sure ndidi will be any cheaper than rice, even without the english tax.

 

goretzka would cost more than sancho, and every club on earth wants camavinga. would be a bidding war.

 

Palace have hired Patrick Viera as manager, replacing Woy, who wetired. Sky's the limit, I know how brilliant he was in MLS, and he's surely grown from his time in Ligue 1.

Barcelona allowing Umiti and Pijanic to leave on free transfers, to balance their books. Both would be big additions to any club willing to pay their wages.

 

has anyone caught the "all or nothing" football documentaries on amazon? i watched the spurs/jose one for the lols (it delivered), and now am watching the one on leeds. had no idea they were such a big club, and what an enigma bielsa is.

great series though, highly reccommend.

 

Dirty club, awful fans. Check out The Damned United

 

big game tonight - copa final between brazil and argentina, neymar vs messi. 3rd place game between colombia and peru last night was spectacular - hoping for a similar wide-open, fast-paced final.