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After being relegated (ending up last in the league) to Ligue 2, Bordeaux was relegated administratively to 3rd division a couple weeks ago. They appealed, but the appeal got rejected. The club already announced earlier that they would just go bankrupt because their model cannot survive in 3rd...

No offense, but what a moronic take. First, you're talking about players who... aren't even from the same generation. Second, you say that this "whole generation" (which one, exactly ?) is stupid "except for a few exceptions", before... mentioning a GRAND TOTAL of 4 players. They're not even...

I have. And he's very good. That being said, yes "100M" is too much. But tbf: - Everybody knew Real had cash on their hands and needed a big signing. So any player would have seen his price tag bump in those circonstances (see: Dembele, Coutinho, Paredes...) - It's not "100M" it's 80+20. I...

This is why you shouldn't make any form of definitive opinion after seeing a player for like 100mn. Especially on glorified friendlies after a very long season. He's not Xavi, but his passing game is good. He actually provided a lot of very clean long balls in his previous NT games (not even...

I mean, if the position was offered to me, I'd take it in a heartbeat :lol: Not sure I'd help much though, I'm watching much less football than I used to (partly due to what's happening to Bordeaux right now, which is pretty disgusting for the fans). But I do follow former Bordeaux players...

Don't know if you meant that it would be unfair for them to get Tchouameni, or if you meant that it would be useless since they already have a similar player, but he's not really the same player as Camavinga. Being a french Bordeaux fan, I know Tchouameni very well. Many people think he's the...

Fuck you too, stupid twat. I swear, the number of dumb homophobic dimwits here is just insane. I'm out forever.

Fuck off you dumb bigoted cunt.

He hasn't been great this season (maybe because of that weird post covid UCL schedule that affected a lot of very good players too). Also, Lyon's midfield is pretty packed. Garcia is in love with Mendes, Paqueta has been absolutely superb, so it basically leaves one spot at best, with Guimaraes...

To be fair, a lot of that money they got is kinda made up. For example, the number I read all the time about Osimhen is 80M. In fact, the actual number is more likely around 60, and on top of that Lille had to buy several youth team players from Naples for dumb amounts in exchange (all in all...

Almost as if Messi did the right thing by "giving" him the pen to boost his confidence. A pity cause a hat trick against Getafe was absolutely necessary to win the Ballon d'or as everyone knows.

"No they don't, it's much better to have Getafe and Everton there! They won't have a chance to win it either, but at least we can pronounce their names!"

I love how people get bragging rights for supporting a "historic" club, but have absolutely no regard for the history of this sport as a whole. Another way of saying "history's great but just for my team. Other former great clubs can go fuck themselves".

The old C1-C2-C3 was by far the best. But it got ruined by big teams butthurt that they weren't able to compete in the best competition "simply" because they didn't win their domestic league (and teams wanting more money from broadcasters/broadcasters wanting more games to cash on). Most C1...

I do understand where malvolio's sentiment is coming from, to be fair. All those different format changes over the past 20-30 years fucked a lot of countries, to promote the ones with bigger markets. And the latest format adopted, with guaranteed spots for teams with the highest UEFA points is...

Had they done it without giving any money, it wouldn't have been "cynical", it would have been just pure evil. What they did is give a bit of money to Unicef (again, less than 0.5% of their budget) to pave the way for a shirt sponsor deal that gave them 30M euros a year (that number has since...

I specifically said that almost every club is the same, hence the impossibility for basically every team in the world to claim moral high ground. Go back to my original post about it. Obviously I took Barca as an example, considering this is a Barca fan forum, where some people (not all of them...

I actually give (much) more than "0.2%" to charity every year. And believe me, it hurts my finances much more than that money hurts Barca's pocket. But thanks for the suggestion. Enjoy living in your world where Barca is really "mes que un club" then I guess.

I'm not a specialist, but from what I've quickly gathered, Chelsea gave almost 8M pounds to charity in 2018/2019. I really don't think those 1.5M are as crazy as you think, especially since giving to charity also gets you tax cuts in most countries (gotta admit I'm not a spanish tax law expert...

Don't get me wrong, it's something. But 1.5M a year was less than 0.5% of the club's budget in 2010 (it's like 0.15% nowadays). It's been repaid immensely by the shirt sponsors that the club added since 2011. A lot of pro (and amateur) teams do many things and give a lot of money for charity...