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The 2014-2015 Football Thread

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I was one of many yesterday that glanced into the internet, laughed their asses off of HSV signing Labbadia just to get brutally struck by the Klopp hammer. :D

@Cox: yep, two seasons imo. Last one was in general stagnation, on an extremely high level though - so no problem there, but - and this is a big one: he already showed huge problems with deep playing opponents. A problem he couldn't find an answer for until now. Very greatful for what he achieved! That's an extremely satisfying era, nothing less, but so many problems now they gotta reboot the team - a thing Klopp couldn't have done with all these players he almost reached the very top with. Looks like Gündogan will leave for sure as well, Hummels may as well.

Really looking forward to Tuchel! Some other names were talked about, Weinzierl would've been a good one too, but unavailable. What is Laudrup doing in Qatar btw?! He should make his a$$ relevant again - did good work at Swansea!

edit: Seems like Favre was their prime target - but declined. Good for Gladbach. Favre will have a great career - can see him at Bayern in some time. Amazing guy and almost unbelievable that Dieter Hoeness imported him into Germany, Hertha that is. :D
 
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@takao: agree on having to have guts for HSV. :)

@twietee: didn't hear about the Favre rumor.

@ all

In Germany McDonald's is currently doing a "burger battle". After the first round people have chosen the best 16, each for one state.

NOW THIS IS FUNNY

In Bremen they chose "HSV Hamburger - hat nix drauf" (its a pun. Literally it means "has nothing on it" and can be translated as "doesn't have what it takes")

Then I scrolled down and was very surprised that there is 5 Football related Burgers. I didn't know Germans are THAT crazy about football. Also interesting that there is a Schalke-Burger (which is located in the mid-upper west) which was entered by two eastern states. And the "anti-Bayern"-Burger comes from Bayern! Hamburg entered "unabsteigbar" (un-descendible).

http://meinburger.mcdonalds.de/highscore?cid=email_ecrm_2959_offermodulebig060
 

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Bayern Munich's team doc Müller-Wohlfahrt and his entire team resign after apparently being held responsible for last night's loss against Porto. Though he had resigned previously, when Klinsmann was still a coach and returned after Klinsmann's dismissal, a return seems fairly unlikely, since he's 73 already.
 
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Bayern Munich's team doc Müller-Wohlfahrt and his entire team resign after apparently being held responsible for last night's loss against Porto. Though he had resigned previously, when Klinsmann was still a coach and returned after Klinsmann's dismissal, a return seems fairly unlikely, since he's 73 already.
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Ya, it's great having back the old FC Hollywood! :D Guardiola and him causing ruckus all over the place - think he was medic for about 4 decades. Lately his son, also a doc, had to be present during training.
 
Looks like half of United's squad is ruled out for the Chelsea match. No Carrick, Blind, Rojo, or Jones. Hard to see them stealing a point from the Bridge with such a depleted squad.
 
Classic Mourinho big-game tactics today. LvG post-loss interviews are always amusing.

Meanwhile Arsenal...by the skin of their teeth. Commiserations to Federici.
 
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I have a question to ask for all you English Premier League fans: do you think we could see the end of the ban on Saturday 1500 hours (3 pm) live televised matches in England within the next 3-4 years?

Yes, I know it's tradition and a way to protect the live gate ticket sales, but now that the Premier League has a gigantic worldwide television audience, the Premier League could be on the verge of worldwide television rights contracts that could be gigantic, to say the least. And these new contracts could mean each Premier League team could make enough revenue from TV rights to more than compensate for lower live gate ticket sales once Saturday 1500 hours games become widely available on TV in the UK.

Here in the USA, there used to be a policy that local broadcasts of National Football League games were blacked out if they couldn't sell out all the seats at the stadium within three days of kickoff time. But now, with TV rights revenue for each team being so huge, that more than compensates for keeping the blackout rule; indeed, for the upcoming 2015 season, the NFL will do a test of ending the blackout rule and see if that will affect team revenues. If the test shows no loss in team revenue, the blackout rule will be dropped permanently.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the new TV contracts for the Premier League for worldwide broadcast rights are signed over the next 4-5 years.
 
SactoGuy18 said:
I have a question to ask for all you English Premier League fans: do you think we could see the end of the ban on Saturday 1500 hours (3 pm) live televised matches in England within the next 3-4 years?

Yes, I know it's tradition and a way to protect the live gate ticket sales, but now that the Premier League has a gigantic worldwide television audience, the Premier League could be on the verge of worldwide television rights contracts that could be gigantic, to say the least. And these new contracts could mean each Premier League team could make enough revenue from TV rights to more than compensate for lower live gate ticket sales once Saturday 1500 hours games become widely available on TV in the UK.

Here in the USA, there used to be a policy that local broadcasts of National Football League games were blacked out if they couldn't sell out all the seats at the stadium within three days of kickoff time. But now, with TV rights revenue for each team being so huge, that more than compensates for keeping the blackout rule; indeed, for the upcoming 2015 season, the NFL will do a test of ending the blackout rule and see if that will affect team revenues. If the test shows no loss in team revenue, the blackout rule will be dropped permanently.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the new TV contracts for the Premier League for worldwide broadcast rights are signed over the next 4-5 years.
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if it works the epl and nfl have tried to copy everything that works from each other

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Classic Mourinho big-game tactics today. LvG post-loss interviews are always amusing.

Meanwhile Arsenal...by the skin of their teeth. Commiserations to Federici.
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what did panface say?
 
A very spirited performance at Wembley from Reading today, matched Arsenal in most departments and unlucky not to take it to penalties. Federici had an excellent game bar the error, just unfortunate it led to the match winning goal.

Plenty of positives for sure. As far as the rest of the season goes, just have to wait and rebuild over the Summer and hopefully challenge for promotion next season.
 
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Unsurprising result. At least it was probably United's best performance in the post-Fergie era thus far.
 
'Pool can have no complaints. They were overrun until the last 10 or so minutes when they resorted to route 1. Balo's goal should've stood though.

When you play Gerrard in CM you're just asking for trouble.

'Pool should consider moving for Benteke. He's better than anything they have up front right now.
 
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Porto should be ashamed of themselves. But well done to Bayern.

Also another season another PSG failure in Europe.
 
Champions --- are you serious? porto lost? what a big upset, i wanted porto to win. i hate barca but suarez is getting his form back and left luiz look like a nobody, luiz is the most overrated player on the planet, ive always said that...

La liga --- modric, bale and benzema are injured now, its not looking good for real madrid, James and CR7 will have to step to the plate against Atleti

EPL --- morinho should give more mins to Cuadrado to play and replace willian
dont know why he is doing that big mistake.
 
i don't get why Porto focused on parking the bus instead of attacking the Bayern players early and constant like in Porto.

on the other side Bayern came out of the gate on fire. Müller, Thiago and Bernat all really showed up. They even made Pep rip his pants out of excitement.
 
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i don't get why Porto focused on parking the bus instead of attacking the Bayern players early and constant like in Porto.

on the other side Bayern came out of the gate on fire. Müller, Thiago and Bernat all really showed up. They even made Pep rip his pants out of excitement.
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I also don’t know.
But the match was as a neutral, a joy to watch, this is how total football is played.:D
 
Another complete waste of a season at Elland Road. No doubt the summer will consist of us selling our fantastic young prospects who have such huge potential, sacking the manager who nurtured them through the academy and had us playing well until his assistant was suspended, and signing nobody good. Can't wait.
 
I wish they'd show more MLS games here in the U.S. Always have to follow games on my phone cause they broadcast bull crap. I stream some EPL games on my Mac.
 
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