General Football Nonsense

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

The press are arseholes. Sheep mentality in the main. When they sense some weakness or vulnerability in a public persons position they are like a pack of hyenas. They will do everything they can to run the individual down. Just to sell papers.
England havent won anything in donkeys years yet they blame the succession of managers for these failures. Never the type of players that the English system breeds. The last manager who had the potential to win anything with England was Hoddle. Even though a Spud, he had then enough about him to do at least as well as Robson did. They hounded him out for a stupid belief in Karma, which most if not all of us subscribe to in some fashion. Now they have a nonentity as manager, preceded just before that by a buffoon. How long before Gary Neville is England manager?

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The press feeds the people. It'll do anything it takes to get attention from the people and get their money. That's the game. A long way from being an independent voice with the aim of speaking truth to power. When the people in the main decided they couldn't give a shit about the big issues, or were powerless to influence those issues, so fell back on entertainment the press seized on that as an easy win. So blame the people. They get the press they deserve.

Many of the same people are having a go at Trump. But when was that last time a US president stood on the podium and called out the media as fake? That was a big moment. It stung because it's truth. And the truth goes further than the media and lands right on the heads of the irresponsible and complacent people. That it has taken a man like Donald Trump to do this is an even greater indictment. When we all decide to get responsible and serious the press will follow along, because that's what they do. Same with the sports media. When they next descend on a man they have already set up to fail and rip him to shreds for the entertainment of the masses we'll all have a choice, let them away with it or show them it's unacceptable by withholding the thing they crave - money.

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Deli Alli :haha:

97mill :haha: :haha:

Must be because of all the trophies he's delivered.

Some of the more hilarious estimates in bold, plucked from a genuinely hilarious list. I guess this is what insanity looks like when you quantify it. 217 mill for Neymar - a fifth of a billion. 120mill for Kane - LOL. Historians will look back at this period in our history with utter condemnation. Time for this game to collapse so we can turn it into a game again.

THE TOP 100 MOST VALUABLE FOOTBALLERS IN THE WORLD
1. Neymar (Barcelona and Brazil) - £217m
2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona and Argentina) - £150m
3. Paul Pogba (Manchester United and France) - £136.5m
4. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid and France) - £132.2m
5. Luis Suarez (Barcelona and Uruguay) - £127.7m
6. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £122.4m
7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Portugal) - £111.2m
8. Paulo Dybala (Juventus and Argentina) - £100m
9. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £97m
10. Eden Hazard (Chelsea and Belguim) - £89m
11. Gonzalo Higuain (Juventus and Argentina) - £86m
12. Anthony Martial (Manchester United and France) - £81.3m
13. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City and England) - £75.2m
14. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid and Wales) - £73.8m
15. Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Atletico Madrid and Belguim) - £73m
16. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City and Argentina) - £70m
17. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City and Algeria) - £68.7m
18. Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan and Argentina) - £68.3m
19. Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City and Belguim) - £67.5m
20. Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal and Chile) - £67.1m
21. N'Golo Kante (Chelsea and France) - £65.5m
22. Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid and Spain) - £64.1m
23. Toni Kroos (Real Madrid and Germany) - £62.8m
24. Ousmane Dembele (Borussia Dortmund and France) - £62.4m
25. Romelu Lukaku (Everton and Belgium) - £62.3m
26. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur and Denmark) - £62.2m
27. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich and Poland) - £61.9m
28. Hector Bellerin (Arsenal and Spain) - £61.8m
29. Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur and England) - £61.1m
30. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund and Gabon) - £60.5m
31. Koke (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £59m
32. Diego Costa (Chelsea and Spain) - £58.3m
33. Leroy Sane (Manchester City and Germany) - £57.4m
34. Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid and Spain) - £57.2m
35. Mohammed Salah (Roma and Egypt) - £57m
36. Raphael Varane (Real Madrid and France) - £56.3m
37. Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £55.9m
38. Nicolas Otamendi (Manchester City and Argentina) - £55.5m
39. Sadio Mane (Liverpool and Senegal) - £53.5m
40. Shkrodan Mustafi (Arsenal and Germany) - £53.2m
41. James Rodriguez (Real Madrid and Colombia) - £53.1m
42. Virgil Van Dijk (Southampton and Holland) - £52.9m
43. Jan Oblak (Atletico Madrid and Slovenia) - £52.5m
44. Andre Gomes (Barcelona and Portugal) - £52.2m
45. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.6m
46. Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea and Belgium) - £48.5m
47. Willian (Chelsea and Brazil) - £48.4m
48. Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool and Brazil) - £48.3m
49. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool and Holland) - £47.2m
50. Miralem Pjanic (Juventus and Bosnia-Herzegovina) - £46.2m
51. Bernardo Silva (Monaco and Portugal) - £46.1m
52. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City and England) - £45.9m
53. Marco Asensio (Real Madrid and Spain) - £45.4m
54. Radja Nainggolan (Roma and Belgium) - £44.5m
55. David Alaba (Bayern Munich and Austria) - £44.4m
56. Lucas Moura (PSG and Brazil) - £44.3m
57. John Stones (Manchester City and England) - £43m
58. David de Gea (Manchester United and Spain) - £42.9m
59. Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid and Croatia) - £42.8m
60. Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea and Belgium) - £42.3m
61. Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona and France) - £41.9m
62. Mesut Ozil (Arsenal and Germany) - £41.8m
63. Granit Xhaka (Arsenal and Switzerland) - £40.5m
64. Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £40.3m
65. Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon and France) - £40.1m
66. Andrea Belotti (Torino and Italy) - £39.7m
67. Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £39.6m
68. Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona and Croatia) - £39.5m
69. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea) - £39.4m
70. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona and Spain) - £39.2m
71. Antonio Rudiger (Roma and Germany) - £39.1m
72. Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund and Germany) - £38.2m
73. Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich and Germany) - £38m
74. Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus and Italy) - £37.8m
75. Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen and Germany) - £37.7m
76. Daniele Rugani (Juventus and Italy) - £37.5m
77. Piotr Zielinski (Napoli and Poland) - £37.4m
78. Nathan Redmond (Southampton and England) - £37.3m
79. Isco (Real Madrid and Spain) - £37.2m
80. Konstantinos Manolas (Roma and Greece) - £36.8m
81. Angel Correa (Atletico Madrid and Argentina) - £36.5m
82. Dimitri Payet (West Ham United and France) - £36m
83. Fabinho (Monaco and Brazil) - £35.9m
84. Alessio Romagnoli (AC Milan and Italy) - £35.8m
85. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur and Belgium) - £35.7m
86. Alex Sandro (Juventus and Brazil) - £35.6m
87. Denis Suarez (Barcelona and Spain) - £35.5m
88. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea and Spain) - £35.4m
89. Marco Verratti (PSG and Italy) - £35.3m
90. Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City and England) - £35.2m
91. Pedro (Chelsea and Spain) - £35m
92. Douglas Costa (Bayern Munich and Brazil) - £34.6m
93. Emre Can (Liverpool and Germany) - £34m
94. Felipe Anderson (Lazio and Brazil) - £33.5m
95. Marquinhos (PSG and Brazil) - £33m
96. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid and France) - £32.9m
97. Kevin Gameiro (PSG and France) - £32.8m
98. Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli and Senegal) - £32.6m
99. Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich and Portugal) - £32.2m
100. Michail Antonio (West Ham United and England) - £31.8m

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Time for this game to collapse so we can turn it into a game again.

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Yep, it really does need that. It's become a disgusting money pit.

Dier? Fucking Dier! :haha:

61m!! :haha:

And Ozil is 41m

Yeah, that's right. What is wrong with the world.

Fuck football needing to reboot. Everything needs to start all over again. It's fucking retarded.

Giant meteor :pray:

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Originally Posted by GP

Yep, it really does need that. It's become a disgusting money pit.

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Even the Chinese are no longer daft enough to pay those ridiculous prices. Pie in the sky BS

Latest Sunday Supplement Wazza Worship session. The team are really on form today. Brilliant stuff. Only criticism I'd have is that they had all that non-Roonet related stuff in the program, for whatever reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3tsef7cKzo

I know who i'd sign if i wanted to win the league, Dier over Ozil any day of the week!

Just to be clear...

http://i1035.photobucket.com/albums/...psj2q6byju.png

Sports headlines: A look inside Pogba's new house.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...m-mansion.html

I guess it's another one of those pieces designed to bring the players closer to the plebsfans.