2016-2017 Soccer Thread: The Post Leicester City Apocalypse

[Seha]

I am not a big fan of Fake Ronaldo, but god I hope he makes Juve cry again in the final.

[Talint]

Why's that? Who's your team in Serie A?

[Seha]

I'm an Inter fan(not a great time for us).

But I despise Juve not just for the rivalry in our championship, but because they won for years by buying referees(huge scandal that sent them to Serie B in 2006), and because the Agnelli family who owns the club represents so much of the wrong in this world.

[Zetanio]

Bleh. We played like garbage.

[Talint]

Walker on the bench. Dembele on at 45.

Poch needs better game management. He needs something when Spurs face teams that can break a high line or out press, both things West Ham did today.

[Zetanio]

Yeah, everyone looks lackluster at best until like ~80 minutes and then it was too late.

[Talint]

Blackburn Rovers are the first premier league champion to get relegated to League One.

And Newcastle won the Championship. More like BOOOOOOCASTLE.

Also, Liverpool's draw means Spurs will be in the Champions League next season.

[FallingHigher]

Why couldn't it have been Forest /sigh


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[Talint]

I read all about Blackburn Rovers yesterday.

Sometimes you get Roman Abramovich, sometimes you get The Venkys.

[Talint]

Juve in the final. :X

[Talint]

Champions League Final: Real Madrid vs Juventus

Europa League Final: Man U vs Ajax

[Darlantan]

If you guys didnt watch it, I'd say the Benzema play at RM only but extremely important goal is worth looking it up.

[Zetanio]

Holy Hell

The Chinese are idiots.

[Seha]

The amount of money in sports is in general way off the charts. I understand player's careers are relatively short compared to other jobs, but we're reaching levels of absurdity.

Pogba wasn't worth half those 100ml€ he was paid. Just as another example.

[Talint]

China's football bubble will burst soon, because they have no idea what to do or how to control it. It's all money out.

Also gg Chelsea.

[Talint]

Undefeated at home at the last season at White Hart Lane. I'll take it.

Also this happened after the last match and at the end of the ceremony. While it is silly to read into it as anything more than happenstance, as well as the meaning of refracted light other than a feat of science, you then have to appreciate the odds of it happening at the precise moment it did.

[Seha]

I take it you're a Spurs fan? Since my team might grab Pochettino for next season I need to ask: would you recommend him?

[Talint]

Depends on what Inter is looking for.

I was skeptical of Poch until this season, since Spurs have suffered a very long line of false messiahs and crap seasons (after Martin Jol: Juande Ramos, Harry Redknapp, AVB, Tim Sherwood). All had delusions of being the next Bill Nicholson, which Spurs have wanted for such a long time. After last's years throwing in the towel and dropping to third, with really highly questionable game management, Poch seemed to be the next one in that line.

Yet, everyone wrote off Spurs in the season of the Mega Manager (Conte, Klopp, Mourinho, Pep, Wenger), understandably so, and he still managed to give us a late title challenge and place us second, outlasting everyone else but Chelsea/Conte. That's two title runs in a row, which Spurs fans haven't even remotely been dreaming of (we just wanted Champions League). We're currently on 80 points, highest in the premier league era with two games to go.

Poch's European record is abysmal, and as a Tottenham fan, that's legitimately frustrating. Tottenham crave for the glory glory nights which made the club famous. Crashing out of both Champions League and Europa League this season was dreadful, particularly in a season where Europa is there for the taking. His game management, in general, is very puzzling at times (Son at wingback during the FA Cup semifinal is... come on Poch why).

But I juxtapose that with: He's learning. Spurs are the biggest club he's ever managed in his short career, and he's never had to balance league games with European football. He is absolutely magic in getting the most out of young players, which for a club like Tottenham is highly ideal. Poch is making Spurs fans dream and hope, which is why he's become quite the favorite.

I don't see him going anywhere, let alone Inter, at this point. Not at least until the new stadium is built and he's got a few more seasons under his belt. The next step is to win something, and until he does, his options on where he can go are limited.

[Seha]

Yeah I can see it's very unlikely he'll come here. Same as Conte which they're trying to beg throwing absurd salary prospects at him...

Sigh, it's gonna be another shitty year next one for us <_<

[Zetanio]

That felt p good.

Harry on pace for Golden Boot.

He's averaging a goal every 94 minutes. Next best? Lukaku at 134 minutes. If Harry hadn't been out for 3 months he'd have been on pace for a record.