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Guess who is the new Morocco women's team manager...

Stonks

Didn't the stock go up, too? But then fell again

Even NFL doesn’t allow it lol

An Inter Miami fan who purchased season tickets for $6802 this season was quoted $30,600 for the same tickets next season. I fully understand the economics of why the price increased like it did; it's probably one of the most in demand tickets in the world right now because of Messi.

That said, it's everything wrong with modern football that fans who were there when the team was absolute garbage and supported from the beginning are immediately priced out in the pursuit of more money as soon as the team gets good. It's shit like this that ruins the atmosphere and culture in stadiums.

Never thought I'd say this, but even though I'm a neutral, I'm legit excited for the Spain-Scotland game. It has all the ingredients to be a banger. Scotland has been doing well this qualifiers already and has all the confidence, and McTominay just comes off scoring a brace at Manchester United. Plus, Norway is playing Cyprus at the same time, and Spain is six points behind Scotland, but only two points ahead of Norway. So if both Scotland and Norway win tonight, Spain will essentially be third in the group. Theoretically disqualified, and nine points behind Scotland.

My popcorn is ready.

There’s an official article where Messi admits that winning the ballon dor is of no more importance to him again so I don’t think fifa would consider him as a candidate this year…I guess It’s Haaland’s year 🎉

https://www.goal.com/en-gh/news/lionel-messi-ballon-d-or-no-longer-important-to-me/bltce0adbe04f831f71

Georgia 8 - 0 Thailand. Embarrassing.

The result of corruption and political struggle in Thai FA. Now our "golden generation" got to be a punching bag in the international stage.

Our best players can't get called up because the big club owners don't want them to play in "friendly" games, and the FA obey them like a little dog. We started a U-23 attacker who hasn't had a lick of senior game in TWO YEARS.

Kudos to Georgia and *uck the Thai FA.

How hard is it to just not bet as an athlete. You already have money

Serbia is not leaving the fourteenth district of our capital with points.

Ajvar is still better than erős pista though.

It always devolves into the same kind of discussion and arguments (not related to football). I'm happy the mods are doing it, if people want to discuss these things there are plenty of other places to do so.

Pumped to get another 2-1 win vs the Faroe Islands today.

Sheesh Armenia. Against 10 men that’s sad

Tbf I don't think anyone can know what Tonali did. Just unfortunate transfer if it's ended up being true

Article about Stourbridge FC on the Beeb today, hoping Jude Bellingham turns up at their match on Saturday. Probably not going to happen but would be mint if he does, particularly when he reports back to Real that they need to sign that Dinanga guy for £50mil

Toney at CF, Tonali and Paqueta at CM, Gambling FC is starting to look really good.

It was multiple seats, and they're in a nice spot, but either way sports are extremely expensive in the US.

Zaniolo upfront somewhere

Absolute bruh moment for Newcastle

Rodri, Gavi, and Merino are about to be shown levels by Meatball and McSauce. A midfield battle for the ages.

How about you send us another €70m and we'll send over Origi next season? Seems fair to me.

Tonali and Zaniolo

Aye I reckon they’ll both turn out to be great players for us tbf

Oh, I didn't see that update, thank you. Still, that makes it over double the price in one season.

Armando Broja here we come!

any thread about bellingham is so fucking embarrassing. imagine having a problem with people raving about a young midfielder scoring a shit ton of goals in a foreign league and a new team

people just love to hate on any reason, especially english players

My stream is showing the 'Fox Soccer plus' coverage of the Albania-Czechia game, and I've never heard more of a golf commentator ever. Commenting here because no match threaddo.

I fully did not notice that Zaniolo was on loan at Villa. When did that happen? Why did Gala offload him?

Because if rules made sense and VAR worked greatly, football talk shows and pundits would lose 80% of their talking points.

The "lol fuck around and find out" comments that permeate every thread about the Gaza bombings are so incredibly callous. It's a tragedy when innocent Israelis are killed and it's a tragedy when innocent Palestinians are killed.

None of this should be cheered for and yet there's a vocal contingent of reddit who are treating this tragedy like a sporting event.

Cruyff's Barcelona might be luckiest team in history, 3 of their 4 La Liga titles are due to massive bottlejobs of rivals on a final day, twice Madrid lost to Tenerife and once Deportivo missed late penalty which would've made them Spanish champions. I guess their luck finally run out when they got battered by Milan 4:0 in UCL final, after which "dream team" won nothing.

Toffolo at LB, Sturridge uptop with Toney

I mean how was he meant to know that Barnes would be injured and Tonali might be betting?

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I think that athletes should be able to bet on sports unless they are betting against their own team.

That's just match fixing though. Doesn't matter if it's Toney calling up Pickford or some crime syndicate.

Who do you fancy winning golden boy? Don't know half of the names there ffs, do João Neves or António Silva have a shot?

I was thinking about it, and this is the first crisis Ajax is in since Cruijff passed away. It’s a sad thought that he isn’t there anymore to step in.

The success we had in recent years was for a decent part the result of the last time Cruijff stepped in and restructured the club.

Yeah I can’t think of a situation where your shoulder being ahead of the defender gives you an advantage (if your feet are in line).

Money is never enough. Messi can earn €1M weekly and still need a contract boost lest he leaves. Imagine people like Tonali.

I also imagine it isn't just about making money, they already have so much disposable income I think they probably are looking for a "fun" way to spend it.

He didn’t win 1 La Liga title, he won 4 in a row and a Europa Cup 1.

Don't disagree, just it's weird that it is often talked about as one of greatest teams in history, when they weren't even best of their era(Sacchi and Capello's Milan).

Don't get me wrong Cruyff did brilliant things for Barcelona, even if he only won 1 La Liga title, but it rubs me the wrong way when people say it is one of greatest teams of all time, when it wasn't even best during its era - Milan under Sacchi and Capello was.

Maybe not but I’d be against boxers or MMA fighters betting on themselves as well. Betting on yourself is also different than betting on a match you’re not involved in, but I think it’s easier to just have a blanket ban on betting instead of all kinds of exceptions.

It’s also not like you’re depriving a player of something meaningful if you don’t allow them to bet. I don’t see the upside of allowing it, only downsides.

You know the easiest way to stop players from betting and fixing? Ban betting. Gambling fucking ruins lives.

The AFCON draw is going live, Akon is dancing coupe decalé. Good stuff

I understand the concern, but (unless I'm mistaken) boxers are allowed to bet on themselves and MMA fighters were until 2022 and I don't think either have have a greater uptick in match fixing than football.

I agree but there's a weird sizeable minority who really have it out for him.

This is a beautiful day for my anti-Zaniolo agenda. Following his ídolo Pogba right out of football