Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [ARCHIVED] Soccer • Page 1139

My goodness, FATI. Bangers only thus far

 

Did Dest really play up top? Forgot to check the game out and just saw the lineup before the game started.

 

Sure did. Operated more as a 4-4-2 than a 4-3-3, but Sergi Roberto was in the RB role with Dest in front of him.

 

We look well up for this.

1-0 to us already, now lets go at them!

Edit: we did not

 

This whole situation is fucking mad lol

 

Suddenly it makes sense why the Premier League tried to block the deal on a technicality for so long

 

Was at the Palace game last night and we were awful for 90% of the game. I still went mad for the Lacazette equaliser though.

Mid-table here we come!

 

Looks like Ansu Fati is also agreeing to a new contract until 2026 with a billion dollar release clause. Curious if we're gonna see $500m-$1b on each of Gavi, Nico, and Araujo in the next few weeks. And if De Jong and Dest will get bumped as "veterans" of this group, despite being so young, too. Kinda nice to see Laporte nailing down young talent for awhile. Kinda hoping they bring Trincao back next summer and incorporate him a bit more. It's looking like Dembele is stalling to leave on a free now as opposed to signing a new contract. Which, with all his injuries, it's hard to remember the quality underneath it all. But his injury track record is horrific.

 

Was meant to be going but couldn’t. Felt good about my decision until the absolute limbs At Lacazette’s goal lol.

 

I totally forgot Trincao went to Wolves.

 

Tell ya what, Celtic play some kamikaze stuff under Big Ange Postecoglou. Night and day between this and what Neil Lennon was serving up last year.

Great fun to watch like.

 

They've just scored a beauty of a counter attacking goal. 3 touches from one end of the pitch to the other, glorious sweeping pass, fantastic first touch and finish from the striker.

That Kyogo lad is going to be the next Celtic player to get himself an EPL move too, been class every time I've watched him.

 

I thought the same thing until I saw that he's already 26. You'd think if he was to get a move to the Prem it would have to be soon so he can get a standard 4 year deal.

 

Kyogo has been absolutely fantastic for us. He just oozes class. Even his behavior off the pitch is commended.

 

Foden's assist for the Cancelo goal was a peach.

 

Cole Palmer getting a goal is fantastic, love seeing academy products get their first ever Champions League goal. He scores that type of goal all the time in the PL2, loves a well placed curl to the corner.

 

*huge sigh*

 

Random but was any of this done in response to the super league drama or at least going on concurrently behind the scenes?

 

This is going well.

 

That keita goal phew.


Had to edit this because the announced shouted mane even though he didn’t score. Was he being racist?

 

Not really. Asia and Africa are *really* pushing for this in order to host more (and combined they're the largest voting bloc). FIFA just wants to make money and run their players into the ground.

 

Griezmann!