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GTHC!
Random question, how do the teams determine who they will play in the pre-season?
Follow the $$$$ is my guess.
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Random question, how do the teams determine who they will play in the pre-season?
Random question, how do the teams determine who they will play in the pre-season?
Follow the $$$$ is my guess.
My boys Olympiacos FC have been doing great this transfer season. I love the new guys they are brining and some experience.
So far this week alone we signed Kasami, Abidal, Masuaku, Dossevi, Paulido & Elabdellaoui.
Yea Eric Freaken Abidal.
It started last summer. Look it up. It will piss you off
The best news of the year, Luis Suarez leaves the premier league!!!! He's off to Barcelona!!!! Good bloody riddance!
Which league did you want to follow? Once you've decided that you can find out about a team that maybe plays the kind of way you like...I need to pick a club to support. I know the big names, but don't really have a preference.
Dangit. You're right. For some reason I thought he was Dutch.
I'm not to bright right.
I need to pick a club to support. I know the big names, but don't really have a preference.
Late reply, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Tim Krul, the backup Dutch goalie for Newcastle who came on for the penalty shootout in the Quarterfinals - there were rumors that Spurs would target him when Lloris left.
I've pretty much got 1 in each of the 4 top leagues: Newcastle, Barcelona, Inter, & Wolfsburg. The Premier League is probably the easiest to pick a team to follow, especially with the NBC Sports coverage that started last year. You've gotta consider what you want outta your team, though - consistent winner but will make you feel dirty at the billions of $ it takes to do it, or one of the many teams that has little chance of winning anything, but if they ever do break through, it'll feel 1000x more amazing. Easiest comparisons are to baseball:
Manchester United - Yankees (consistent winner, but almost always buy their way to the top)
Manchester City - Red Sox (long suffering club that finally gave in and started emulating their hated rivals by throwing $ around..to much recent success)
Liverpool - Dodgers (storied history, but hasn't done **** in the last few decades)
Everton - Giants (this is a poor-ish comparision, but: crosstown rival to L'pool who is fairly successful with homegrown talent)
Arsenal - St. Louis Cardinals (storied history that occasionally breaks through to win something, but mostly an afterthought)
Chelsea - Anaheim Angels (had lasting success after owner with too much money took over...but free agent purchases rarely work out)
Tottenham - Mets (spend lotsa money, get lotsa press, but never have anything to show for it at the end of the year)
Newcastle - Cubs (trust me, just ****ing stay away for your own sanity - most maddening decision I've ever made)
Sunderland - White Sox (hated, crosstown rival that gets a ton less press than Newcastle even though they both really suck the same)
Swansea City - idk...Blue Jays? (foreign club that has potential for success but often screws it up)
Southhampton - Brewers (rare success just leads to bigger clubs plundering all their talent)
Aston Villa - Pirates (once proud club that has endured long stretch of futility...but might only take 1-2 special players to boost them up)
There's others, but that's more than enough from me. If you want to ride a winner, jump on the Manchester City bandwagon - can't go wrong with having a sheik as an owner. If you want something interesting, consider Swansea City - they have almost equal chance of competing for Champions League as they do to get relegated.
Where's Smallville to start up the Fantasty Premier League again?
Yep. That sounds about right. We have an incredible history (Like the Sox), but have always under performed compared to our neighbors and hated rivals (United). Now, with investment, we have an opportunity to show United that we aren't just the "Noisy Neighbors" (Story behind that: SAF, ahead of the Manchester Derby, was asked which Derby was better. He said the Liverpool-United Derby. He said that one is more fierce and means more. We're just United's noisy neighbors.)Late reply, but I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Tim Krul, the backup Dutch goalie for Newcastle who came on for the penalty shootout in the Quarterfinals - there were rumors that Spurs would target him when Lloris left.
I've pretty much got 1 in each of the 4 top leagues: Newcastle, Barcelona, Inter, & Wolfsburg. The Premier League is probably the easiest to pick a team to follow, especially with the NBC Sports coverage that started last year. You've gotta consider what you want outta your team, though - consistent winner but will make you feel dirty at the billions of $ it takes to do it, or one of the many teams that has little chance of winning anything, but if they ever do break through, it'll feel 1000x more amazing. Easiest comparisons are to baseball:
Manchester United - Yankees (consistent winner, but almost always buy their way to the top)
Manchester City - Red Sox (long suffering club that finally gave in and started emulating their hated rivals by throwing $ around..to much recent success)
Liverpool - Dodgers (storied history, but hasn't done **** in the last few decades)
Everton - Giants (this is a poor-ish comparision, but: crosstown rival to L'pool who is fairly successful with homegrown talent)
Arsenal - St. Louis Cardinals (storied history that occasionally breaks through to win something, but mostly an afterthought)
Chelsea - Anaheim Angels (had lasting success after owner with too much money took over...but free agent purchases rarely work out)
Tottenham - Mets (spend lotsa money, get lotsa press, but never have anything to show for it at the end of the year)
Newcastle - Cubs (trust me, just ****ing stay away for your own sanity - most maddening decision I've ever made)
Sunderland - White Sox (hated, crosstown rival that gets a ton less press than Newcastle even though they both really suck the same)
Swansea City - idk...Blue Jays? (foreign club that has potential for success but often screws it up)
Southhampton - Brewers (rare success just leads to bigger clubs plundering all their talent)
Aston Villa - Pirates (once proud club that has endured long stretch of futility...but might only take 1-2 special players to boost them up)
There's others, but that's more than enough from me. If you want to ride a winner, jump on the Manchester City bandwagon - can't go wrong with having a sheik as an owner. If you want something interesting, consider Swansea City - they have almost equal chance of competing for Champions League as they do to get relegated.
Where's Smallville to start up the Fantasty Premier League again?
My EPL team Stoke City was in the running for him but I guess things fell through.More awesome transfers for Olympiacos. Bojan Krkić.
And on Thursday they are coming to Toronto to play against AC Milan. I'm so pumped for this.