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irishgoldberg

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Hopefully the people ordering the drive bys will have confirmed the person doing the driving isnt on a driving ban for traffic offences or on a provisional license without a qualifid driver beside them!

And that the car has a valid NCT!

richieffff

So, anyone selling a right mid? Anzhi here

swoody

irishgoldberg wrote: »

And that the car has a valid NCT!

eh i dunno

Good 3-1 win. 8 points from 12. Decent start for the villa

GT_TDI_150

Unless my mind is playinhg tricks on me ... a rare win over Arsenal for me ... winning goal by a Spurs player


FC Porto beat Arsenal 1 - 0 in their Division 1 fixture.
Bentaleb scored the winner for FC Porto and was later voted Man of the Match for his performance.

Colemania

Yay another loss.... 1 point from 4 games now.

GLaDOS

SL Benfica slumped to a 2 - 1 defeat against SSC Napoli in their Division 1 fixture.

Džeko scored the only goal for SL Benfica and was later voted Man of the Match for his performance.

1 point from the opening 4

Aims for the season: avoid setting a record low points total

irishgoldberg

ScienceNerd wrote: »

1 point from the opening 4

Aims for the season: avoid setting a record low points total

Well you have 1 point more than me!!!

Comic Book Guy

A come from behind win against Udinese.

Feared the worst going down to a very early Shaqiri goal but illaramendi and dragovic goals get us our second win in Division 2.

Now to try and open our goal scoring account away from home......

Oh great it's only last seasons play-off runners up Anzhi next

Division 2, the division that keeps on giving!!

richieffff

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Oh great it's only last seasons play-off runners up Anzhi next

Division 2, the division that keeps on giving!!

Huntelaar is injured 😥

Ordinary man

Panathinaikos beat Celtic 4 - 0 in their Division 3 fixture.
Meier had an impressive game and was voted Man of the Match.
Douglas, Koo and Lemoine were amongst the goalscorers.

4/4 so far and yet we're 6th from bottom in attendance, tough crowd to please. Newcastle up next to inject some reality into us

tupac_healy

1-0 win vs Leverkusen, even without Messi...



Thank god I have him available for the next game then!

swoody

tupac_healy wrote: »

1-0 win vs Leverkusen, even without Messi...



Thank god I have him available for the next game then!

was there an agreement to not play players? cause mac played griezmann and he scored......

tupac_healy

swoody wrote:

was there an agreement to not play players? cause mac played griezmann and he scored......

There was and there wasn't...


There was a call for me not to play Messi but nothing mentioned about Griezmann or Laporte (strange that.......) I said no bother if my players don't play, Messi won't.


So, that's the end of that, I said I wouldn't and I didn't. In fairness to Mac he never agreed, it was a somewhat overly enthusiastic third party whom insisted on it. I made good, but my conditions were not met....

Unlucky man

swoody

tupac_healy wrote: »

There was and there wasn't...


There was a call for me not to play Messi but nothing mentioned about Griezmann or Laporte (strange that.......) I said no bother if my players don't play, Messi won't.


So, that's the end of that, I said I wouldn't and I didn't. In fairness to Mac he never agreed, it was a somewhat overly enthusiastic third party whom insisted on it. I made good, but my conditions were not met....

Unlucky man

tbh i couldn't care less, t'is only a game at the end of the day and i ain't gunna lose sleep over a random selection game.......but i was robbed i tell ya, ROBBED!

GT_TDI_150

WOW ...


Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

tupac_healy

GT_TDI_150 wrote:

Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

Was just going to post! Wow!!! Nobody is safe from the drop! Crazy stuff

Comic Book Guy

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

WOW ...


Chinese side Jiangsu Suning have signed Alex Teixeira from Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk for €50m euros, according to L'Equipe.

So much for his aim of getting into the Brazil squad. $$$£££€€€

Mourinho

With China having gone through and still kinda in its own Celtic Tiger mode, it will be interesting to see what will happen should it burst like over here in the West, be tough to be paying those big wages then!

GT_TDI_150

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

tupac_healy

GT_TDI_150 wrote:

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

They won't consider it a strong league on SM for a very very long time....

If your player ends up there it's pretty much a drop zone!

Hercule Poirot

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Will it be considered a strong league if they keep hoovering up talent from around the world?

My guess is unless the Chinese national team start qualifying for World Cups, winning AFC titles then no - regardless of who is playing there

richieffff

Yilmaz off to China now too, madness.

tupac_healy

It does seem as though nobody is safe... anyone know do they operate a window or what? At least if they do we can rest when it closes!

Edit.... Kakuta gone now as well apparently!

redzerdrog

Window closes the 28th of Feb I think

richieffff

A recent enough summary of the Chinese transfers from reddit

https://i.imgur.com/WCBzNLp.jpg

GLaDOS

Didn't realise Guarin had moved, balls. Had been very close to selling him in the close season before the other manger changed their mind.

tupac_healy

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Didn't realise Guarin had moved, balls. Had been very close to selling him in the close season before the other manger changed their mind.

He's gone ages I think? Wasn't he one of the first big names, with Gervinho

GLaDOS

27th jan according to that image. I haven't been paying a massive amount of attention to transfers this window.

tupac_healy

ScienceNerd wrote: »

27th jan according to that image. I haven't been paying a massive amount of attention to transfers this window.

Thought it was earlier than that. Either way, this whole new Chinese aspect will have a real impact on the game, pretty much no such thing as a safe player anymore between China and the MLS...

Will make things more interesting going forward