2017 - 2018 Football Thread - Page 5
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On August 03 2017 04:45 DucK- wrote: Can't wait to see Neymar flop. Imo he is nowhere the level of CR7/Messi, and will struggle without Messi/Iniesta pulling strings. Good player, but not worth that much. Neymar has got some insane peak moments, but I can't even imagine what he needs to pull off to justify that kind of transfer fee. Considering how little competition Ligue1 probably offers, there's huge pressure on him delivering something magical on every UCL match. | ||
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I also hope Nice will be able to hold on Seri at least. On August 03 2017 05:39 RvB wrote: Nice so lucky. Fuck fuck fuck. Godverdomme. Lucky your only goal at Nice was a blunder from the goalkeeper or that their main striker got injured in training this week? | ||
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I expect FIFA to issue punishment for this, no? | ||
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On August 02 2017 23:44 brinepumps wrote: I don't think their midfielders are that strong compared to xavi iniesta era, cmiiw. Yes they're talented no doubt, but everything always MSN this, MSN that. The build up play from deep weren't that impressive. Probably why they're keen on Verrati. Why did they sell Thiago I can never understand. Other options are Dembele and Hazard for Neymar replacement, a bit similar style of play. And..to a lesser extent probably Dybala and Griezmann? Exactly. The MSN was super flashy but it wasn't as strong as some of the previous iterations of the front 3. They never managed to replace Xavi sadly. Thiago was not that good in Barça and he's not a Xavi, he's more offensive. I have 0 regrets about selling him. Gundogan and Verratti are the 2 best options, but neither can be bought Barça won't play 3-5-2. It'd mean the sides will only have the 2 wing backs and they'll attack mostly from the center. They've tried something like that when Messi was 9.5 and Cesc was around, and it was really easy to defend against it. I don't like Coutinho's option too much because he's an attack leader while Messi is already doing that role. I would buy a pure winger or someone who can track back more than normal forwards (like Di Maria, which seems to be an option). Worst case, they play with Deulofeu :D Golden Ball talent but not much in the head.... Hopefully he'll finally mature and show us he can be a top player. | ||
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On August 03 2017 05:39 Bacillus wrote: Celtic managing to get that one goal against Rosenborg. It's kind of interesting how nordic countries are well on their way with the season while most of the Europe is still trying to get theirs going. I'm not sure how that would go if some of the nordic teams went all the way to finals on UCL or Europa League. back when rosenborg was good, we'd always play much worse in the february matches than the august-october ones. | ||
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+ Show Spoiler + In 2010, Adidas signed an eight-year, $200 million sponsorship deal with Major League Soccer. Now Adidas has extended its sponsorship for six years, and it’s now worth $700 million. It’s a stunning increase in value. (The $700 million price tag comes from industry sources.) It suggests Adidas believes strongly that MLS will continue to grow as a major American sports league. That’s a big bet, considering that MLS occupies a distant fifth place behind the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL. But Adidas US CEO Mark King, who has helped put the brand on a hot streak in America, is committed to the future of American pro soccer. MLS, says King, is “the most compelling pro league to be a part of.” That’s quite a vote of confidence. “If it was a typical league deal, where you only get to put your logo on the jersey, I think we’d still be interested because soccer is our core sport around the world, but it really becomes interesting when you look at all the programs that help build the sport,” says King. “My guess is within 10 years, from a youth participation standpoint, soccer will be the biggest sport. And if kids who play soccer continue to be fans of the sport, then yeah, if you’re talking 20 to 30 years from now, I think MLS can be as big as NFL.” MLS commissioner Don Garber is well aware of what this extension signifies. He tells Yahoo Finance the deal is “a strong statement regarding where MLS is today and how we are poised and energized for the future.” The most interesting part of this for Adidas is that in 2015, when Adidas’s 11-year jersey sponsorship of the NBA was expiring, the brand did not bid for the new contract; it let Nike pick up the deal for $1 billion. Adidas had spent $400 million on the NBA jersey sponsorship, and at the end of it all, had little to show: less than 5% market share in US basketball sneakers. “Having the NBA [sponsorship] doesn’t hurt you, but what we’ve seen is that having it also doesn’t guarantee it will help you,” King told Yahoo Finance. The suggestion was that perhaps having an official league-wide jersey sponsorship isn’t as valuable for a brand as it once was. Why, then, is it worth having the MLS, and paying nearly $1 billion for it? Because soccer has been core to Adidas’ DNA since its founding. “We say we dominate soccer from a global perspective,” King says. “When you think of soccer, you think of Adidas.” (Then again, Nike has made gains in global soccer market share in recent years.) King believes Adidas can help MLS get bigger, through programs like Generation Adidas, in which top draft picks get Adidas contracts and do not count toward a team’s salary cap. Jozy Altidore (of Toronto) and Dax McCarty (Chicago Fire) have gone through the program. Adidas will also seek to make certain MLS players into more marketable stars in America. The sport will need to produce bigger American stars if it wants to escape its image as a “retirement league” where foreign stars come to wind down their careers. Source | ||
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