Football (Soccer) Thread

[Josquius]

I didn't realize the French league was that lucrative.

It is really PSG only, rich from Oil money owners.
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Monaco is doing good, but there is a Russian oligarch there as well.
To give you an idea of the real value of the league, Bordeaux managed to get eliminated from the Europa League (second grade C2 vs C1 for PSG and the like) play-offs by Videoton, a Hungarian Club.
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More than a rich owner isn't Monaco's advantage that they can afford to pay lower/higher wages due to lower tax in Monaco?

I went to the stadium of (now out of business) Evian who were apparently in Ligue 1 for a little while not too long ago.
It was....worse than you'd find with any League 2 team in the UK. Worse than any Conference team maybe even.

Our national team got the nickname Danish Dynamite when we had a great team in the 80's with Elkjær, Laudrup, Arnesen, etc. So naturally our female national team needs a name too now that they're playing terrific.

Suggestions so far: Powerladies, Powerpigerne, Powerkvinderne, Powergirls. Ughh.

So it's probably better if you lose tomorrow against the Lionesses. 

Holland beat England no?

[Duque de Bragança]

Monaco is doing good, but there is a Russian oligarch there as well.
To give you an idea of the real value of the league, Bordeaux managed to get eliminated from the Europa League (second grade C2 vs C1 for PSG and the like) play-offs by Videoton, a Hungarian Club.

More than a rich owner isn't Monaco's advantage that they can afford to pay lower/higher wages due to lower tax in Monaco?

Helps too, and it used to give them quite an edge back in the day, but that was not enough, until the the new Russian oligarch arrived. Monaco still sells its best players regularly so they are not on the same level in theory as PSG, except they were champion last year.

I went to the stadium of (now out of business) Evian who were apparently in Ligue 1 for a little while not too long ago.
It was....worse than you'd find with any League 2 team in the UK. Worse than any Conference team maybe even.

To be fair, Évian is famous for its water, not for its football club. Their stay in Ligue 1 was short-lived and probably the first time. More like a seeder club.
Then again, Bordeaux managed to reach a UEFA cup final once, was champion several times and still managed to get the boot by Videoton.

PS: Évian was victim of a battle between the owner and shareholders of the club.
For Yi, triggered by bad quoting. 

[Admiral Yi]

That's some world class quoting there lads.

[The Larch]

More than a rich owner isn't Monaco's advantage that they can afford to pay lower/higher wages due to lower tax in Monaco?

IIRC that was their advantage for many years, but recently it was changed so they'd pay payroll taxes in France rather than Monaco after protests from other French clubs that the previous arrangement gave them an unfair advantage.

[Liep]

Our national team got the nickname Danish Dynamite when we had a great team in the 80's with Elkjær, Laudrup, Arnesen, etc. So naturally our female national team needs a name too now that they're playing terrific.

Suggestions so far: Powerladies, Powerpigerne, Powerkvinderne, Powergirls. Ughh.

So it's probably better if you lose tomorrow against the Lionesses. 

They settled on.. wait for it.. "The Women's National Team" as the nickname.

[Maladict]

1-1 after 10 minutes, good game so far 

[celedhring]

To be fair, Evian is famous for its water, not for its football club. Their stay in Ligue 1 was short-lived and probably the first time. More like a seeder club.

I remember that. I thought that Evian were the opposite of naive, but at the end they certainly lacked the experience to be in Ligue 1.

[Maladict]

1-1 after 10 minutes, good game so far 

Ok it's not a very good game actually. It's all over the place but still interesting at 2-2.

[Maladict]

 

[Liep]

[Maladict]

About 50% of the population watched the final, incredible numbers for women's football.

[Tamas]

About 50% of the population watched the final, incredible numbers for women's football.

Nice. Thanks to their good form until crashing out, the English ladies also got quite the coverage over here.

[Zanza]

PSG wants to buy another player for 160 million. BVB rejected a fee of 90 million for Dembele as too low...
It was already ridiculous, but this is getting worse and worse.

[Liep]

Fuck it, let the rich assholes spent their money on baubles. It's not like he was going to spent that money on something worthwhile or lasting any way.

Whatever happened to the financial fair play rules though?

[Josquius]

PSG wants to buy another player for 160 million. BVB rejected a fee of 90 million for Dembele as too low...
It was already ridiculous, but this is getting worse and worse.

I thought they were already under huge FFP pressure with Neymar?