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DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Don't worry, they will beat Arsenal on the final day so this game wouldn't have mattered
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It would be rather apt for them to win huh? Ending the Season on 42 points and finishing above a stagnating Southampton. What a "revival" from Fat Frank. He should call upon his uncle, Harry Redknapp and ask him how to off-load all the deadwood in the team.

Leeds in a must win situation, considering the awful goal difference. That said, I expect both of them to lose.
 
Salubrious said:
Ok, Everton fans damn near rioting because they clinched 16th place out of 20 was pretty fun.

We need relegation in American sports somehow. XFL/USFL champions promoted to the NFL or something.
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In pro football, I’d have the college football National champion promoted to the NFL. This year, The University of Georgia would have been promoted and the Jacksonville Jaguars would have been relegated to the SEC. Plus, with all the NIL money pouring in, I’d think Georgia might be able to field a halfway decent team. They would be able to hang onto their seniors for an extra year and draft from the other college football teams that didn’t win the National championship.
 
blahblahblah678 said:
In pro football, I’d have the college football National champion promoted to the NFL. This year, The University of Georgia would have been promoted and the Jacksonville Jaguars would have been relegated to the SEC. Plus, with all the NIL money pouring in, I’d think Georgia might be able to field a halfway decent team. They would be able to hang onto their seniors for an extra year and draft from the other college football teams that didn’t win the National championship.
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As funny as that sounds, the best college team would have 23 year olds at the oldest against grown ass men. It would be a slaughter.


Plus no American owner is ever going to agree to that. You pay a lot of money to be a part of the club, you aren't going to just let some dude join without paying a shit ton of money to get there
 
Borussia Dortmund (BVB) announced that they will part ways with their coach Marco Rose.

1. Bundesliga ended on last Saturday and we already have five coaches that left their club or got fired.

Follow me into another episode about the shitshow that is Germany's 1. Bundesliga and how everything ended with Frankfurt winning this year's Europa League. Spoiler because wall of text.

Season 2020/21
In this season Marco Rose was head coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach (BMG).
With Rose as coach BMG did quite well. They finished the first half of season as 7th.
They finished the Champions League group stage as 2nd behind Real Madrid (Group B, 1st Real Madird, 2nd BMG, 3rd Schachtar Donezk, 4th Inter Mailand).
In February Rose announced that he will leave BMG after this season and will become the new coach at BVB. BVB paid allegedly between 5.000.000€ - 7.500.000€ for their new coach.
After Rose announced his departure from BMG the club completely crumbled:
CL, Round of 16: BMG lost both games to Man City (4:0 in total)
DFB Pokal (our national cup), Round of 8: BMG lost to BVB 0:1
Bundesliga: BMG started to go on a we-cant-win-anymore-streak and thus they finished the season as 8th, missing any chance to qualify for any European competition.

Borussia Dortmund won the national cup in 2020/21. Their coach then was Edin Terzic. He started as assistant coach and took over after BVB kicked out Lucien Favre. Basically Terzic was an absolute fan favourite after winning the DFB cup and had a got standing within the players. But nevertheless he got replaced with Macro Rose.

Rose's departure to BVB triggered another chain of events.

BMG, in need of a new coach, decided to buy Adi Hütter, then coach of Eintracht Frankfurt (EF). BMG bought him out of his contract with Frankfurt and paid 7.500.000€.
With Hütter EF finished the season as 5th and thus they qualified for the Europa Leaguse 2021/22. EF missed place 4 (VFL Wolfsburg) just with 1 point and 12 goals difference.
EF not only lost their coach to BMG but also their sporting director Fredi Bobic (who went to Hertha BSC, as mentioned in a previous post) and their best striker, Andre Silva (28 goals, 2nd best scorer in the 20/21 season) to RB Leipzig.

So now EF was in need for a new coach and whom did they get? Oliver Glasner from VFL Wolfsburg (VW).
With Glasner Wolfsburg finished the 19/20 season as 7th which means they qualified for UEFA Europa League and the 20/21 season they finished as 4th thus qualifying for Champions League. The 20/21 season was Wolfsburg 3rd best run in their whole Bundesliga history.
What did VW do? They kicked out Glasner in favour of Mark van Bommel (yes, this van Bommel) as new coach.

tl;dr so far
Coach Rose: Borussia Mönchengladbach -> Borussia Dortmund (for 5.000.000 - 7.500.000€)
Coach Hütter: Eintracht Frankfurt -> Borussia Mönchengladbach (for 7.500.000€)
Coach Glasner: VFL Wolfsburg -> Eintracht Frankfurt (for free)

Season 2021/22

Borussia Dortmund
- Bundesliga: 2nd
- DFB Pokal: knock out in the Round of 16 against St. Pauli, a 2nd division club
- Champions League: placed 3rd in groud stage which lead against qualifier games for Europa League against Glasgow Rangers. The Rangers slaughtered Dortmund as you may remember
-> Coach Rose kicked out

Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Bundesliga: 10th which means they miss again any chance to qualify for European competition next season
- DFB Pokal: like Dortmund knock out in the Round of 16 against Hannover 96; again, like Dortmund, they lost to a 2nd division club and it's even worse because 1. in the round before Gladbach kicked out FC Bayern Munich with a record victory of 5:0 and 2.) Hannover was battling relegation to our 3rd division while St. Pauli was fighting for relegation to 1. Bundesliga. So Gladbach even lost to a worse 2nd division club than Dortmund
- no participation in any European competition
-> Coach Hütter kicked out

VFL Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg started the season with 4 victories and placed 1st. But they then started a losing streak and lost 7 games in Bundesliga and in their Champions League group. After this losing streak they kicked out van Bommel.
Overall they were fighting against being relegated to 2. Bundesliga most of the season. In the end they finished 12th.
But it get's worse. In Champions League they placed 4th in group stage, behind OSC Lille, FC Salzburg and FC Sevilla. They even missed the chance for the qualifier round of Europa League.
And it still keep's going worse. Because although they won their match in DFB Pokal they got disqualified in the very first round. How did they managed this? They substituted one player to much.

Basically Wolfsburg fucked up this season completely and in every competition and guess what? The guy who took over for van Bommel got already fired too.

And how did Eintrach Frankfurt do?
Well, in DFB Pokal we got our asses handeld by a 3rd division club and also a sworn enemy as we lost to SV Waldhof Mannheim. In the first round. But that's ok. It's embarrassing but it's ok. Now we can focus on the important things, was what we all said to ourselves. Important things like Bundesliga. Ok, we didn't do that good in Bundesliga as we only finished as 11th. But let's be honest here; after we had qualified for the Europa League final no one was giving any shit anymore about Bundesliga - and obviously and luckily it was the right mind set because we won the Europa League and are now qualified for next year's Champions League.

And we still have our coach.

Whom we got for free.

Thank you, Marco Rose, and godspeed.
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
So as the final day comes up, some interesting transfer rumors.


Roma look likely to sign Dybala
Real Madrid think Mbappe is going to resign with PSG

Mbappe saga might be hilarious this summer
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Never thought of Dybala as a Mourinho type player but he’d probably make a good partnership with Abraham. But imo he’s heading to Inter to spite the juve front office.

In other serie a news, Pogba seems close to a return to Juve. Not quite sure how to feel about that.
 
Shining Wit said:
Apparently he had a deal organised with City but backed out because he didnt want to anger the Utd fans, who already hate him

Should have done the Adebayor and thrive on their tears imo
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I heard that too and was surprised City wanted him. Where would he even fit in? Can't imagine Pep breaking up that Silva-Rodri-De Bruyne midfield that worked so well this season.
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Real Madrid think Mbappe is going to resign with PSG
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It looks like this is confirmed now. Mbappe will stay at PSG on a short term extension. I wonder if Madrid will even bother with him in a few years when his contract is up.
 
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Hüftpriester said:
It looks like this is confirmed now. Mbappe will stay at PSG on a short term extension. I wonder if Madrid will even bother with him in a few years when his contract is up.
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Saw that too. Looks like Madrid were played for Mbappe to get a massive contract. Idk how they will take that in the future. If he is good enough, idk if they would care. But they lost out on Haaland and Mbappe before the transfer window even opened
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Saw that too. Looks like Madrid were played for Mbappe to get a massive contract. Idk how they will take that in the future. If he is good enough, idk if they would care. But they lost out on Haaland and Mbappe before the transfer window even opened
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Apparently PSG promised Mbappe they would sell Neymar and sign Dembele and that is what convinced him to stay. Youngest sporting director ever. Who's gonna buy Neymar now? Newcastle?
 
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I can think of another English team that likes to sign big names on massive wages, with no consideration of how they will fit into the team or the manager's plans...
 
Sunderland can breathe a sigh of relief as they won't have to clash with Portsmouth for another season, with the Northern side going up via the play-off finals. Wycombe was utterly woeful and displayed a clear divide in quality and drive. May the Black Cats actually last a season in the Championship alongside Wigan. Fuck Rotherham tho. They can go right back down.
 
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Apparently PSG promised Mbappe they would sell Neymar and sign Dembele and that is what convinced him to stay. Youngest sporting director ever. Who's gonna buy Neymar now? Newcastle?
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I don't buy that. I think he just got a shit ton of money. I think with Messi leaving after next season, they promised to stop buying just random players and start to put a competent team around him. And if an offer comes in for Neymar, they will pull the trigger within reason
 
Tbh a lot of the Mbappe 'contract bonuses' feel like cope and bullshit to justify why he stayed other than a shitload of cash. Personally I like that he's staying there because I hated how back in the 90s any great player who was getting a little TOO good ended up moving to Serie A or La Liga, so it's nice to see PSG keep a few world class players to stop Real Madrid, Barcelona or Premier League teams scooping up every major trophy until the end of time.
 
The meltdown emanating from Spain at the moment is fucking hilarious. They are salty. Not sure I've ever seen this sort of tantrum thrown over a player staying at their club hahaha.
 
OJ Simpson said:
The meltdown emanating from Spain at the moment is fucking hilarious. They are salty. Not sure I've ever seen this sort of tantrum thrown over a player staying at their club hahaha.
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LaLiga actually put in an official complaint against PSG to UEFA and the French and EU authorities. :story:
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I don't speak much Spanish at all so I ran this through a machine translator which might have some errors.
In view of Kylian Mbappé's possible announcement to remain at Paris Saint-Germain, LaLiga wishes to state that this type of agreement threatens the economic sustainability of European football, endangering hundreds of thousands of jobs in the medium term and the sporting integrity, not only of European competitions, but also of our domestic leagues.

It is scandalous that a club like PSG, which last season lost more than 220 million euros, after accumulating losses of 700 million euros in recent seasons (even declaring income from sponsorships of a very dubious amount), with a squad cost of around 650 million euros for this season 21/22, can face an agreement of these characteristics while those clubs that could assume the arrival of the player without seeing their wage bill compromised, are left without being able to sign him.

For all of the above reasons, LaLiga will file a complaint against PSG before UEFA, the French administrative and fiscal authorities and before the competent bodies of the European Union, in order to continue defending the economic ecosystem of European football and its sustainability.

On previous occasions, LaLiga has already filed complaints against PSG for non-compliance with UEFA's financial fair play, following which UEFA severely sanctioned PSG, although CAS overturned them in a bizarre ruling.

LaLiga and many European football institutions were hopeful that with the entry of PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, in European football management bodies such as the UEFA exco or the ECA presidency, he would refrain from these practices knowing the serious damage they cause, but it has not been so but quite the opposite. With PSG's unacceptable wage bill, with huge financial losses in previous seasons, it assumes an impossible investment in this situation, which undoubtedly implies a breach of the current rules of economic control not only of UEFA, but also of French football itself.

These behaviours show even more that the state clubs do not respect and do not want to respect the rules of an economic sector as important as football, which is key to the sustainability of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

This type of behaviour led by Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, as a member of the exco of UEFA, president of the ECA, is a danger to European football on the same level as the Super League.
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What level of seethe is this? This is fucking golden.
 
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LaLiga and Real are definitely seething, but PSG is complete cancer. Its a literal fantasy football lineup/collection of football cards (which has somehow still failed to win the champions league) and it only functions because of limitless oil money. Its the most bullshit club in the entire sport.
 
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