The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

There is a lot more to it then simply being an "attacking midfielder". Ozil has went from Werder Bremen, to Real Madrid to Arsenal. In between he plays for the German national team. Three different countries and four different teams all with their own styles and approaches. Xavi has been at the core of the Barcelona and Spanish midfield surrounded by familiar players and a similar system for years for about a decade. Criticize Ozil all you want, it's not as if none of it is unwarranted. Comparisons with Xavi on the other hand are nonsensical.

 

You think Xavi of 4 years ago would have struggled at Arsenal for a full season and counting?

System and player familiarity is important but raw talent still should shine through.

Cesc Fabregas had been with Chelsea for a few months and has had no issues immediately making tangible impacts on the game with his playmaking skills(defensively is a work in progress)


Furthermore the context in which I even compared the two players was merely saying that Ozil pre transfer production was not akin to someone like Xavi or Iniesta or another attacking midfielder like this that could be seen as a 50 million pound player to me.


I never compared them stylistically.

 

Yes, and you should put the word struggling in quotes.

 

German bias! :Bad:

On a serious note I think this article really sums it up regarding Ozil.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...t-ozil-arsenal-transfer-window-premier-league

 

Xavi lacks the pace to play on the left side ... He'd do worse than Ozil just as Ozil would do poorly in Xavi's spot... Your last sentence merely underscores the problem... Iniesta and Xavi are completely different players ... Your looking up "playmaker" and pulling names out of your ass

 

He wouldn't play on the left side..thats nonsensical.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...eet-Uefas-Financial-Fair-Play-guidelines.html

 

Yup.

 

Doggy Dogg aint been beat three times.

MTF

 

I don't hate Chelshit because they are rich. I hate them because they have some of the most staunchly racist, arrogant and violent fans in football. Chelsea are cunts. Silentshite is a perfect fit for them.

MTF

 

Phil Taylor or Michael van Gerwen?

 

I'm a huge Phil Taylor fan.

MTF

 

Wasn't the other guy going on about some QPR or whatever fans brutally assaulting a guy for having another team's flag on his person?

That's interesting.

Also, I'm not English. I don't care about Chelsea's English fans or their behavior.

 

Did you even read the article? This article is old and outdated. It was published for the 2012 season.

Chelsea made a lot of money last year.

 

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation....p-earnings-set-to-increase-30-percent-to-340m

 

Aye, but as I said I don't condone it, but I'd expect it to happen pretty much anywhere you tried that shit. It's asking for trouble.

 

A Chelsea fan site is hardly the most unbiased of sources

 

A Chelski fan figured he's take a shortcut and just cut through the Liverpool fans on his way.

He gets serenaded with a song and a beer bath.

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That was rather nice of the Liverpool supporters to provide some free beer to a rival fan.:l3:

 

If he would have walked through Everton Valley in that shirt, he would have been soaking wet. And not with beer.

 

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Silent Neet,

Dinnae worry aboot supporting Chelsea, laddie - it jus' means Ye're true, blue and rather koo'. Perhaps Ye'd like tae join the THREEDOM? If Ye dae, it'd make two o' us.

Vhisky,

Bit surprised Ye dinnae like Chelsea, whit wi' it's strong Canadian links, like...


"The song "Blue is the Colour" was released as a single in the build-up to the 1972 League Cup Final, with all members of Chelsea's first team squad singing; it reached number five in the UK Singles Chart. The song has since been adopted as an anthem by a number of other sports teams around the world, including the Vancouver Whitecaps (as "White is the Colour") and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (as "Green is the Colour"). In the build-up to the 1997 FA Cup Final, the song "Blue Day", performed by Suggs and members of the Chelsea squad, reached number 22 in the UK charts. Bryan Adams, a fan of Chelsea, dedicated the song "We're Gonna Win" from the album 18 Til I Die to the club."

Noo, in the spirit o' building Stamford Bridges, Ah havetae select a new front line fer 'The SEE YOU Jimmies'... why don' Ye and Silent Neet pick a striker each and we'll SEE WHO wins?

In the meantime - whit aboot this ootrage?:

'Scotland are dirty

Lukas puts das boot into Strachan’s side

GERMANY star Lukas Podolski has branded Gordon Strachan’s Scotland a DIRTY team.

Arsenal ace Podolski made the disrespectful claim ahead of Sunday’s Euro 2016 qualifier.

The frontman insists he knows exactly how Strachan’s side will play in the Westfalenstadion.

He said: “I think they will play a dirty game."

“Teams like Scotland or Ireland, especially at home, they are strong.

“But our focus is on winning the game on Sunday and this is important for us.”

Germany lost 4-2 to World Cup finalists Argentina — the team they defeated to lift the trophy just two months ago — on Wednesday night with Podolski used as a first-half substitute.

The defeat saw Germany booed by their own fans.'

:will:

 

From today's Sun...

PREMIER League club Chelsea are riding high at the top of the table, and their fans are also No1 - at playing away.

The London club's supporters are the most likely to cheat on their partners, reveals a poll by extramarital dating site AshleyMadison.com.

A survey of 4,500 members revealed that fans of the Blues go for a bit on the side on average 4.04 times a year, making them the most adulterous.

Fans of Liverpool - who are fifth in the league - come a close second, playing around 3.81 times every 12 months.

Man United supporters live up to their Red Devils nickname, coming third with 3.66 cheats per year - despite languishing at 14th place in the Premier League table.

Newly-promoted QPR are more successful on the pitch than off - with their fans bottom of the infidelity table with just 0.51 cheats a year. The club is 12th in the table.

But Chelsea fans are runners-up in the Champions League of cheaters behind those of France's Paris Saint-Germain, who notch up 4.28 affairs a year.

Supporters of Barcelona have 4.01 dalliances, and Germany's Hamburger SV fans cheat an average of 3.82 times.

Christoph Kraemer, of AshleyMadison.com, said: "You can sleep more soundly if your husband or wife supports QPR.”

FULL CHEATING TABLE

1. Chelsea 4.04

2. Liverpool 3.81

3. Manchester United 3.66

4. Southampton 3.52

5. Newcastle United 3.45

6. Arsenal 3.24

7. Manchester City 2.89

8. Tottenham Hotspur 2.73

9. Everton 2.56

10. Swansea City 2.36

11. Aston Villa 2.27

12. AFC Sunderland 2.12

13. Hull City 2.03

14. Leicester City 1.97

15. West Ham United 1.79

16. West Bromwich Albion 1.74

17. Crystal Palace 1.62

18. FC Burnley 1.55

19. Stoke City 1.37

20. Queens Park Rangers 0.51'

 

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The Roughriders are prairie rivals to Winnipeg's Blue Bombers in the Canadian football league. (Football like the NFL but with some different rules)

In order to stir the pot a bit, the marketing director of the Riders recently purchased some billboard space in Winnipeg and put up these:




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:laugh11: who on God's Earth comes up with these statistics ::

 

Not surprised Chelski are top of that table.

 

Arsenal still is above Tottenham LMAO. Looks like Stoke City keeps it in the family so no cheating I guess.

 

Really good match between Brazil and Colombia so far. Somebody forgot to tell them it's a friendly it appears. May as well be the World Cup final compared to the dour match between Spain and France yesterday.

Neymar has been both a high and low point. Made some very nice plays and taken some tough fouls. Problem is whether or not he gets hit hard or takes a slight flick, his reaction is that off a car accident victim. I have to wonder if he watches tapes of Arjen Robben and Cristiano Ronaldo for inspiration.

4 yellows for Colombia and 2 for Brazil at the half.

 

And Neymar draws the second yellow. :shit #2:

Colombia down to 10.