Football (Soccer) Thread

[Syt]

FC Schalke 04 have fired their head coach.

They have gone through a few in recent years.

[HVC]

Huub didn't even last a month

[Syt]

He only filled in between hires, I think. He was Schalke headcoach from 1996 till 2002 during one of the strongest phases of the team (culminating in almost becoming champions in 2001).

[Josquius]

I'm impressed. Better than Sunderland even.

[celedhring]

We now have further details on the Bartomeu saga. Apparently his associates delivered personal data of Barça's members to the troll farm to help them target their online campaigns. They also disguised the expenses to avoid oversight from the club's comptroller.

While all of this is criminal behavior it still doesn't reach the level of paying 150 million for Coutinho.

[Duque de Bragança]

Neymar injuries in Paris, so since 2017-18



Too much partying/boozing and staying up late to watch whatever Brazilian Reality TV crap does not help I guess.

[The Larch]

As his two more severe injuries deal with broken bones in his foot, I doubt that refraining from partying would make his bones stronger, though.  It's a bit exagerated, any professional footballer will accumulate a laundry list of injuries over time.

[Josephus]

I just saw him play a monk in Spanish Netflix show Casa del Papel (money heist).

[celedhring]

Braithwaite 

[Liep]

Braithwaite 

are you going to keep him now? Me and my dad are looking at either an Inter or Barca game when Europe opens up next spring.

[Admiral Yi]

Do EPL games ever get cancelled due to fog?

[celedhring]

Braithwaite 

are you going to keep him now? Me and my dad are looking at either an Inter or Barca game when Europe opens up next spring.

We're broke and he's a low-earning, effective player. It would make too much sense to keep him so I guess that we won't? That's the Barça way.

That said, even if he stays we'll probably buy another striker, and if Fati's back healthy, that will cut severely into his minutes. Eriksen is probably a safer bet.

[celedhring]

If you want to have more laughs at us, a local newspaper has taken the address of one of the shell companies that Bartomeu allegedly used to hide the payments to the troll farm, and tracked it down on google street:

[Duque de Bragança]

As his two more severe injuries deal with broken bones in his foot, I doubt that refraining from partying would make his bones stronger, though.  It's a bit exagerated, any professional footballer will accumulate a laundry list of injuries over time.

For what it's worth, Neymar already has way more injuries than Ronaldo. Plus it's not just partying as I said (staying up late for Real TV crap?!)
His face is showing some signs of too much alcohol, or some health issues though.
On his way to be another Coentrão? 


As for the pic I linked, suspensions for cards were not counted, and at least one season start in 2020 was not counted. Still recovering from an injury to ankle ligaments.

[The Larch]

As his two more severe injuries deal with broken bones in his foot, I doubt that refraining from partying would make his bones stronger, though.  It's a bit exagerated, any professional footballer will accumulate a laundry list of injuries over time.

For what it's worth, Neymar already has way more injuries than Ronaldo.

If you mean Brazilian Ronaldo, I don't think the comparison holds up. Ronaldo missed entire seasons because of recurring knee injuries when he was at Inter, while Neymar has never had an injury like that.