All things football 2018 - 19

[Insidious Von]

The difference between Juve and PSG, Juve is getting full blooded by tougher competition. Frosinone held them scoreless for 80 minutes, Sportiello sholud be playing for a much bigger club. Playing with CR7, FB33 is finally living up to his potential. That make Juve a tough proposition in the CL for any club going against them. FB33 is 9 years younger than CR7, the Mighty Sid will not be mangling his name any more.

I went to watch Zlatanissimo last week and was shocked by the condition of the turf. It was pitted with large fleck of brown all around, the Argos are ripping up the turf to the detriment of TFC. Gio complained about the state of the turf and was deemed a trouble maker by the local press?????. He's right, the condition of the turf is causing the injury count to climb. The Argos draw 30% less fans and make it harder for TFC to compete. It's a lose/lose arrangement that benefits no one, Larry Tanenbaum is losing his shirt. BMO will need to be expanded to get ready for the World Cup. The Argos may need to leave again, you can't play high level football on a pitch that resembles a crumble pie crust.

 

[Insidious Von]

Roma 3 Lazio 1

Lorenzo Pellegrini, new Emperor of Rome.

He came in at the start of the second half, scored the first goal, took the foul that Kolarov converted and crossed in Fazio's header. He's been unsettled with the club, obviously EDF has faith in him otherwise they wouldn't have sold Strootman. The construction of Roma Stadium is deadlocked again, a classic case of the Region of Lazio biting the hand that feeds it. James Palotta is running out of patience and may sell the club.

 

[Insidious Von]

Here's a shocker!

Giuseppe Marotta will step down as CEO of Juventus effective as of Oct 25. Is it really a shocker? Juve went through bad management while the young Agnellis established themselves. Marotta has been at the helm for the last eight years overseeing the successful turn around of the club. It appears that Andrea Agnelli forced him out to keep Transfer Director Fabio Paratici at the club. Paratici is being aggressively wooed by Juve's CL rivals Manchester United to become the English club's Transfer Director ASAP. Although not confirmed, the rumour is that Zinedine Zidane will join Juve's Board and become assistant Transfer Director.

 

[Zaibetter]

UEFA Champion league CSKA- Real Madrid 1-0

Good game, Bale was missing, Marcelo was missing and Ramos wasn't there. At the beginning Real wasn't there much ..Cska goal was within minutes. Afterwards Real started to wake up. They dominated the second period, but Cska's defense was good. Moscow's goalie got a red card for asking the Ref to check the time as they were overtime.The Ref was furious LOL

 

[Insidious Von]

Manchester United could only manage a scoreless time against Valencia, they now have to win at least one of the home/away games against Juventus to stay in contention. Paolo Dybala scored a hat trick against the Ragazzi of Zurich.

Roma bounced back with a decisive win against Pilsen. 5 - 0. Pellegrini is growing into the registra role.

 

[Insidious Von]

I good week for Italian clubs in the CL, they went 4-0. Insigne has grown into the talisman of Napoli - I wish he could play like that for The Azzurri!

Here's an interesting clip, she's a Barca fan - Don may even know her.

 

[bver_hunter]

Watched the Spurs v Barcelona Game. It was a very interesting match and though Barcelona won 4-2, it was thanks to the Tottenham keeper Lloris who really made a huge gaffe for Barcelona to take the lead.
They seemed to then take control of the game when they went up 2-0. But Tottenham fought back in the second half and at 3-2 Barcelona looked really nervous. But of course Man of the Match Messi killed the game by clinically scoring the fourth goal. This year both the Champions League and The Europa Cup games are now Online Subscription. I can see all the other Leagues moving in that direction in subsequent years.

 

[bver_hunter]

In other news Douglas Costa branded 'disgusting' for spitting at fellow footballer Federico Di Francesco... moments after headbutting and elbowing him. (he spit in his face)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ts-Federico-Di-Francesco-headbutting-him.html

He will probably be banned for 5 games and fined.

 

[Insidious Von]

It's now official: https://www.football-italia.net/128966/could-sponsors-sue-ronaldo

However it all seems allegations at the moment. Some are suggesting that CR7 had sodomized the woman by force. Shock value aside that makes the allegations clear cut. A woman is not built like a man, if she's not receptive to anal sex then she'll damage easily. Without a medical report there is no case. It's a necessity, the price she would have paid in loss of dignity would have been more than made up in compensation. Much more than the $170,000.00 she did receive. I'm wait and see on this one.

In brighter news Camila Gonzalez is becoming very popular in her side project as TLN's Serie A Halftime Host. Didn't know she was Miss Universe.

 

[Insidious Von]

It's going to get intense.

CR7 believes there is a witch hunt orchestrated by Real Madrid. He was harshly sent off against Valencia, he refused to attend UEFA and FIFA's Player of the Year ceremony and now the rape allegation. He's run into the protective arms of the Agnelli family, they have a sizable bully pulpit to get him exonerated. And the latest, he's boycotting The Nation's League.

https://www.football-italia.net/129127/ronaldo-boycotting-nations-league

 

[Zaibetter]

UEFA Nations cup..The Dutch creamed Germany 3-0 it was embarrassing for Germany. Neuer is still great but so much you can do by yourself.

 

[Insidious Von]

Italy 1 vs Poland 0

Three minutes in and Jorginho hits the bar. Mancini is taking a big risk playing Bernardeschi as a False 9, with Juve Dybala plays that role. Hope it works?

Correction: Lorenzo Insigne is the False 9, a better option.

A more frustrating game could not be played, The Azzurri hit wood twice and had a gal disallowed. Defender Biraghi heads home the ball in the 91st minute.

 

[Zaibetter]

England was beating 3-0 at the first period today !! The Spaniards came back with 2. Sterling was good, with the support of Kane.

Sterling scores twice as England beats Spain away, puts World Cup finalist Croatia in jeopardy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ster...-cup-finalist-croatia-jeopardy-210758914.html

 

[Insidious Von]

England and Italy have reversed positions.

For a hedge fund Elliot Management is not behaving like The Teachers. Ac Milan have signed Paqueta, potentially the next Kaka, for $41 million, he will report to the club in January. EM fired Mirabelli upon taking control and replaced him with past stars Leonardo and Paolo Maldini. The bigger surprise is they managed to outbid Real Madrid, Florentino Perez must be distracted.

Yes he is. Real Madrid have filed a lawsuit against a Portuguese daily that claims that CR7 was forced into an NDA by the club and that Katheryn Mayorga was paid a kickback to break the deal. So much for the cordial relationship between Real and Juve. It's a deceleration of war, the Real Socio vs The Agnelli family. Who will prevail...who's cuisine reigns supreme.

https://en.as.com/en/2018/10/11/football/1539277412_553318.html

 

[Insidious Von]

Manchester United 0 Juve 1
Roma 3 Central Red Army 0

Poor The Special One, so disrespected. He made a splendid gesture to Juve fans at Old Trafford and they started singing "Uomo di merda" at him.

I've never seen such a poor United club, Juve had 70% possession but they eased up. United could have drawn level but Pogba hit the post. It didn't look good for The Special One that Pogba and Chiellini high fived each other.

Typical Roma, they squeezed a turd against Real then come storming back. Enzo Pellegrini is starting to look more like Pirlo, his passing is impeccable.

 

[danmand]

On Saturdays, I have started to watch the Italian Group A games instead of the Premier League: I find they have better quality of play.

 

[Insidious Von]

On Saturdays, I have started to watch the Italian Group A games instead of the Premier League: I find they have better quality of play.

Napoli came within 7 minutes of beating PSG in Paris, that's extraordinary since Napoli has only 1/5 the payroll of the Paris club.

 

[Zaibetter]

Napoli came within 7 minutes of beating PSG in Paris, that's extraordinary since Napoli has only 1/5 the payroll of the Paris club.

Great game, even the second one was good. Napoli is da bomb !

 

[Zaibetter]

Great goal of Ronaldo today against MU. But they ended up losing. Juve missed so many.....

 

[Insidious Von]

When Juve get complacent bad things happen. They dominated the match, United won on 10 minutes of offense. The worm has turned, De Gea will be a zebra in the summer.

I've decided I can do without Dazn, I don't like being nickle and dimed, Al Jazeera can fangula. I'm not paying extra for the CL, hopefully I can come to an accommodation with Rogers.