SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2020/21

When I was a kid I could kick a ball off a wall for hours. Off a wall, off a curb/kerb.....used my driveway as a goal.

 

This is awesome, well in Kolasinac

Arsenal stars 'chase off' armed carjackers

 

I was great at the Beckham-esque crossing and set-piece delivery when I was young, could get some real curve on the ball and it was always accurate. I was atrocious at the outside of the boot curve though. 1 in 10 I'd hit sweet as a nut, the other 9 would end up with me smashing the ball off to the side for a throw-in and a load of people looking back at me with bemused expressions.

 

I was pretty decent with the ball all round in terms of controll passing etc. On the playground or in 5 a sides genuinely useful, usually picked first or second. Put me in a full 11 a side game though and i had the positioning and spatial awareness of a ketamine fiend...just useless, caught out all the time. Zero football IQ, bluntly.

 

Ha! Agreed! It's crazy how different it is when you switch up to 11-a-side, you have absolutely zero time on the ball and it's so easy to end up just running around like a headless chicken out of position.

 

Aye its a bit like going from pool to snooker, you think its gonna be the same but....all that space.

 

Anybody been watching the England-Ireland test match? Mental shit.

 

Chases off armed carjackers for free. Can't even chase off Sadio Mane for £60k a week.

 

I heard the Oirish had a bat shoved up their backstop.

I put £5 on Ireland two days ago, it got as good as £6.50, they went from 22-1 to 3-1 to 22-1 back to around 3-1 and then 66-1.

From no worse than 2-1 to 66-1 in the space of a few minutes.

 

That´s really surprising as you´re clued-up when it comes to football.
I had the same fear when I first started playing 11-a-side...and in a foreign language...and at my age(!) but I think instinct takes over the more the game progresses.
The first 15 mins were spent ´Run! Get the ball! Kick the ball! Kick it!!´ (puff-pant-gasp), then you just become aware of a) your positioning on the pitch b) when to pass and not dither and, c) when to show off, pinging the 40m passes.


The hardest thing to cope with is lack of speed and or explosiveness - that´s when you play smart using whatever IQ you have.

 

I struggled with this even in sports I knew ... I don't think in three dimensions very well and I think that's a huge part of positional sense

In baseball where you are fixed in position, it's less of a problem but in games where group movement is constantly changing, it can be a real problem

 

Gareth Bale: Real Madrid & Wales forward set for China move

What a bum

 

Double salary!

 

China... very ambitious... play in a shit league for the money

He's only 30, way too young for celebrity cash out

 

Agreed.
League full of greedy 2nd-rate Brazilians.

Who else?
Fellaini, Dembélè, Paulinho, Oscar(!)...

 

Klopp: "Nobody, it's who Liverpool are signing".

1 point away from the Title last year, Liverpool simply don't have the money to drive on that last step.

Too bad.

 

Modern fitba.

 

Cool

 

Yeah, Liverpool almost had the perfect season last season and I just can't see them repeating that this time or keeping in touch with Citeh. They'll be off the title by 10 points or more imo.

 

Liverpool F.C.
2018/19
Turnover: £455m
• Income (commercial): £154m
• Income (gate/matchday): £81m
• Income (TV broadcasting): £220m
Prize money: £95m
Wages: £260m
Profit (pre-tax): £125m


Hummm, 6th biggest club in Europe and no new signings, hummmm.

Modern football, indeed.

 

I can see us finish strong but start badly. No signings and no proper rest for our key players. Klopps on tele talking about "Fantasia" but it's got fuck all to do with Vaughn Williams I can assure you. Everton can bid £55m for a fucking mule like Zaha, a United rejected, a poor mans Paul Pogba, but Liverpool can win the CL and have NO SPENDING MONEY?

Why are we still waiting for £90m from Barcelona?

FSG have questions to answer.

Liverpool have had some utterly bad seasons after finishing 2nd.

 

Staying: Bale at Real

 

Napoli 3 0 Liverpool. 50 minutes gone.

AOC is out there. Milner is out there. Robertson is out there. They are all fucking out there bar the front 3.

Smells a lot like 2009/2010 all over again. Big effort one season, fuck all investment immediately after.

Klopp on TV talking about how keeping our stars has used up all out budget.

That's fine. But why is the budget so small? We just picked up £25m in prize money, minimum, last season.

10,000 extra seats at Anfield.

 

And the rest:

 

See why can't you stick to figures instead of laughing at people being crushed inside a fucking cage like some sick ISIS prick? We all love a wind up but that was a bit much. It's not like these were fucking George Soros or Clintons.......workaday people being fitted up by the Sun and the Houses of Parliament and the Cops....not funny.

 

Just relax.

 

Yeah. Here's what they are actually getting:-