SEE YOU! A brand spanking new modern fitba thread 2023/2024

That second finish from Isaac at the weekend was sublime

 

@whiskey Do you ever watch the Canadian Premier League? I was watching a game yesterday.

 

What a goddamn joke.

So, Messi is playing NY Red Bulls in two weeks. I looked into tickets - cheapest ones were around $450 per ticket.

 

Haaland's scored 29 goals so far this year with about half the games played which seems mad impressive until you remember Messi scored 92 goals in 2012... wtf

 

Sounds like Neymar's away to Saudi

 

No. My city has a team but I don't know anything about them other than their name. Since you've watched a game your knowledge is light years ahead of mine.

 

Must confess i figured Canada would have teams in the MLS like in other sports

 

They do. He's talking about a purely Canadian league.

 

They do. They have two teams in the MLS. As Whisk said, there's a separate Canadian league. Really low level, like even lower than the USL Championship. Also only 8 teams in the Canadian prem.

 

It wasn't intentional . I was watching a Ligue 1 game on one channel, flipped the channel during halftime and there was a Canadian prem game on. I watched for like 20 mins. Some Northern Irish attacking midfielder named Ollie Besset scored. Apparently he's the best player in their league. Likely wouldn't even make a squad in MLS, let alone a big time league.

 

I'm sure PSG fans are heart broken...

 

I haven't checked but i suspect tickets to any game are cheaper than the ones you looked up for the Red Bulls game.

 

If my kid was a really really diehard fan who didn't miss a game I would have dropped the money. But he's a typical ADHD 7-year-old. Hasn't watched but one Inter Miami game, and would probably tell me he's bored before halftime. Would likely be staring at my phone on YouTube instead of watching Messi. I'll pass.

 

Ah, sorry

 

Yeah I would do exactly the same in your position. At that age most kids get more out of going to the circus or something like that and it doesn't cost a grand.

 

Id be glad never to catch sight of him again, personally

 

Could just buy a ticket and not tell him

 

Same. It's not just PSG fans, i think in general the feeling will be good riddance.

 

Oh yeah you're right. It is 3. I remembered Toronto and Vancouver. Forgot about the Montreal club.

 

In fairness, that's the Saudi dividend, it can take all these has-beens and heavy wage albatrosses and we never need to worry about seeing them ever again. Perhaps the Saudis can buy a time machine and start buying various deplorables for huge fees (e.g. El Hadji Djouf, Joey Barton etc.), that would be nice.

 

If the Saudis did have a time machine to sign historical players, I'm guessing prime Maradona would turn them down. His favorite past-time is punishable by death in Saudi.

 

Sounds like mine, if I brought him to the France-Argentina WC final, he would likely have preferred to stare at a mobile screen with a stream of an idiotic twentysomething providing inane commentary while playing Super Mario Odyssey. My son is 8, it might be too late for him.

 

Yup. Bunch of ultra annoying creators (like Mister Beast) is what he watches all day.

 

First Caicedo, now Lavia...

Roméo Lavia prefers Chelsea to Liverpool in further blow for Klopp

 

Who even owns Chelsea now? Theyve spent a billion quid in 14 momths, wtf

 

Some American conglomerate headquartered in the old money Snobville Town Greenwich, Connecticut. They're spending just like the Russian oligarch did.

Don't worry, they'll get a 10 thousand dollar fine in a couple of years to teach them a lesson.

 

That penalty decision against wolves, foooookin el. Even Rangers would blush