General Football Nonsense

[Niall_Quinn]

Neymar's move to Real Madrid could be more concrete than many first thought, after his dad has reportedly had dinner with President Florentino Perez to discuss a potential €250million (£220million) deal.

The Paris Saint-Germain superstar is less than six months into his £600,000-a-week deal – following the world-record £198million move from Barcelona in the summer – but is already said to be unsettled in the French capital.

Neymar is a new and hugely unwelcome phenomenon in football. The mobile advertising and merchandising asset. A horribly mediocre talent hyped beyond belief and with a reputation built entirely on the back of genuine talent positioned around him to (mostly) hide his almost comical inadequacies. Like Sterling at the gypos. Or Alli at the spuds. Pure hype and steadfast refusal to ignore the evidence of eyeballs. Neymar is the king though. The world champion of exploiting football. The poster trannie for everything that is wrong with the game.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Celtic getting beat 4-0

Only 69 domestic games unbeaten. Shit.

[Niall_Quinn]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42381736

Fawning nonsense from the BBC. This is getting ridiculous now. Half a season and they are supposedly among the greats. Even though their football is nothing special by any measure of the great teams of the past. It's a cut above the rest of this dismal league, but does it get you out of your seat furiously applauding? Not a chance. They are highly efficient, but could never be accused of being entertaining - as with all Pep's teams if we settle on the truth rather than the hype. It was excruciating sitting through the boring tippety tap of his Barca teams. Not much has changed at the gypos, still boring in the main even though it is impressive enough in its efficiency, work rate, consistency. A machine rather than a work of art.

But the elephant in the room is the money. Of course Pep has built a good team. Who wouldn't, given the insane amount of cash that has been thrown at it? What is it now, a billion quid or something? 50 million quid players on the bench. International talent 3 layers deep for every position? If they weren't running away with the league it would be a massive indictment, an epic failure. They're doing what should be expected of a money no object team determined to buy as many prizes as possible in Pep's latest 3 year showpiece. He, as a manger, obviously has good organisational and motivational skills. But he's never been tested under adverse conditions, so we have no idea how he'd perform if faced with a challenge that hadn't already been smoothed out by a chequebook. He deserves credit for what he's done, that's fair enough. Give a manager like Wenger that chequebook and he'd fuck the whole thing up. So credit where due, but this ridiculous fawning and hype?

All people need to do is ask a simple question to get an obvious answer. Who would you rather watch, a flowing Arsenal or Utd team at the peak of their powers or ANY Guardiola team, take you pick? Anyone choosing the latter is a follower of fashion, not football.

[Cripps]

A man has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist attack on the Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling, police have announced.[guardian]

NQ

[GP]

Griezmann

[LDG]

Griezmann

It's hard to believe retard levels in this day in age.

[GP]

It's hard to believe retard levels in this day in age.

You've obviously been away from GW for too long.

[Niall_Quinn]

A man has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist attack on the Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling, police have announced.[guardian]

NQ

Get out. I wouldn't be able to stand straight from laughing at this massive fraud.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's hard to believe retard levels in this day in age.

Who was hurt by it? Nobody at all. That should always be the standard. If it causes no harm then it's fine. If people are offended, honestly, who cares?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Swansea sack Clement