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FightingIllini said:
Nothing you say is non-factual and you're identifying all the right hinge points.

But your ideology, and that's what it is, that all of these processes can just be made frictionless and succeed by sheer vulgar force of money is not a description of the world as it actually exists.

Ideas are easy. Actually doing things is hard.
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Mate, the reality of this World is that virtually EVERYTHING revolves around money, most especially in Football.

It would be nice to think otherwise, but you just need to look at the corruption in the game to realise that what Memphis is saying is correct. The biggest and richest league in the World is the most corrupt, because the corruption ensures that the money keeps flowing in.

The sad reality is that Football has already sold its soul, so selling the rest off won't be a problem.
 
Pathfinder said:
If Man City get both Paqueta (aprx. £85m) and Doku (aprx. £35m) I would presume they need to balance their books for FFP reasons by selling some of their players.
Spurs could do worse than go for Kasey McAteer and Cole Palmer. Not likely to happen as I doubt Man City would sell either of them (even though there are rumours that Man City are willing to sell Cole Palmer to West Ham).
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Palmer going on loan to Brighton apparently
 
Pathfinder said:
If Man City get both Paqueta (aprx. £85m) and Doku (aprx. £35m) I would presume they need to balance their books for FFP reasons by selling some of their players.
Spurs could do worse than go for Kasey McAteer and Cole Palmer. Not likely to happen as I doubt Man City would sell either of them (even though there are rumours that Man City are willing to sell Cole Palmer to West Ham).
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Palmers going to be first choice rotation this season, too late there.

Not sure they have ffp issues
 
Pathfinder said:
If Man City get both Paqueta (aprx. £85m) and Doku (aprx. £35m) I would presume they need to balance their books for FFP reasons by selling some of their players.
Spurs could do worse than go for Kasey McAteer and Cole Palmer. Not likely to happen as I doubt Man City would sell either of them (even though there are rumours that Man City are willing to sell Cole Palmer to West Ham).
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Pep says Cole stays or is sold. No loan.
 
The whole Palmer thing is odd. He has got the talent to be one of the best wingers in the whole league, would be such a strange sell if City got rid of him. I’d love him at Spurs, he would could grow into a monster with us.
 
MemphisWill said:
We're speaking specifically about the Olympic football tournament. Shot put is irrelevant.

The Olympic football tournament is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the World Cup. It's 4 groups of 4 playing round robin matches, with the top 2 from each advancing to a single elimination knockout round. The only difference is the players are 2nd tier, and, therefore, only saddos like Totti Totti watch.
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Oh, I wasn't. I was comparing the WC to the Olympics in general. The problem with football in the Olympics is that it's too few teams, games too irregular, and nobody actually cares. As total events they are more similar in their way to pull in people who don't care about these events for 3 1/2 years at a time but they are suddenly super engaged when it happens.
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
Weird as I see a player with searing acceleration, balance, quick feet, and amazing strength for a 19-year-old.
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Listen, I don't want to hold myself out as Mr. Youtube Football Guru. I'm some joker on a message board like the rest of you.

But I watch those things looking for plays that make me go "wow", and I was disappointed there.

But then I go "wow" a million times at highlight videos of Adama Traore or Tanguy Ndombele. Highlight videos aren't everything.

To be a senior European league MVP at 19 is impressive. Obviously whatever he's doing he's doing with great consistency and volume that professional defenders and coaches aren't finding a way to stop.
 
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