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He doesn't use the word schadenfreude but he may as well have titled the article Schadenfreude. No one likes PSG, do they?
He's good, but he's not €20M good. Also, his Wiki page says his contract was up in June and this item from Shakhtar's official site says he was signed for five years in August 2007. He must have signed an extension somewhere along the line, I guess, otherwise all this talk of fees would be moot.
I am too overwhelmed to express a coherent thought about it.
I hesitate to say I like a team that I don't get to watch regularly, but like most upper middle class white americans, I love Paris. So I'm sort of inclined to cheer for them. And then as a fan of the sport, I think it will be interesting to have a solid french representative in the Champions League again, with Lyon and Marseilles not being as strong as they once were.
From everything I understand, the difference from being in the Premiership and being in the Championship is well over 10million pounds per year. If Jarvis can contribute to that, he's a valuable asset.
I love Paris, but PSG seems like an awful club. Even Michael Cox descended from his tactical ivory tower to write a hatchet job on them last season. I think with PSG it may be a case of the less you know the more you can like them.
I feel obliged to point out that I know Jarvis isn't really worth that percentage of Reading anymore than Votto is of the Reds, I was just being facetious. It just struck me with the image of SAF sitting at Old Trafford going "Well, I could buy Van Persie for £24 million, or I could buy Reading. Hmm..."
Alright, and from such a respected source as the BBC too.
Why doesn't anybody want Kaka? Maybe some MLS club should go get him.
I think he's on Warren Buffet's wages. Supposedly Red Bulls talked to him but he wants to stay in Europe.
I think I have read exactly the same news item for the last two weeks, though.
That's because Zagreb is entitled to a portion of the fee, so Mamic just. will. not. shut. his. yap. about Modric and Real.
Nothing we don't already know, really, though the excitement in Vickery's voice when he talks about Leandro makes me desperate for Spurs to sign him.
PSG has always been an odious, ersatz club, with some really nasty supporters. If you have to support a Parisian club, Red Star, Paris FC and Racing are all better choices. I was a regular at Red Star when I lived in Paris, and only went to the Parc to root against PSG.
edit: And Head and Shoulders is known as...Head and Shoulders. Just FYI, people.
Bringing up the rear behind Goole, I presume.
I liked what they said they were going to do when they started: that it wasn't going to happen overnight, that they were trying to build incrementally. Last year winning the league wasn't a goal, the goal was qualifying for Champions League. I can get behind that. But since the mid-season transfer window, they haven't acted that way, so seeing them fail is kind of fun, like it was for Manchester City when they started going all sugar daddy in '08. But then I have a pre-disposition to root against entitlement teams in any sport.
PSG, and Man City before them, are the perfect example of how a team is better than a collection of talent. Also, NYRB.
My girlfriend works at a university. Yesterday she said they give incoming freshmen a pop culture quiz to give the faculty an idea of what they're dealing with. This year's freshmen were mostly born in 1994, and most of them have no idea what a Royale with Cheese is.
Huh. Why are they playing Wednesday this week and Tuesday next week when every other Europa League game is on Thursday? Is it impossible for one of the teams to move a conflicting fixture or something?
She would have gotten that from one of the new entries on the hideously stupid Beloit mindset list. It's gotten so much worse (and longer) in the last decade. Many of the entries are almost impossible to understand because of the obsession with the "has always" construction.
The Secret Footballer Revealed! Sort of.
Those are rugby teams, btw.
I think that Stuttgart and Dynamo are playing today for television congestion reasons. Matches involving German clubs often get displaced by a day or two (or are at a weird time) because there so many Germany clubs competing (e.g., Hannover plays tomorrow).
Caballero Willy G
5Martín Demichelis D
2Duarte Jesus Gamez D
3Robson Weligton D
15Nacho Eraso Monreal D
7Joaquín M
16Enzo Maresca M
8Jeremy Toulalan M
18Pereira Eliseu M
45Fabrice Olinga M
22Alarcon Francisco Roman Isco F
That's going to be confusing for me if Spurs sign him. In my industry, Isco means In-Situ Chemical Oxidation. I think I have a cap somewhere from one of my old subcontractors, Iscotec or something like that.
If Spurs sign him you have to send me that hat to wear at WHL.
Good news and bad news about the Nats. The good news is that BeIn Sports bought the rights to away WC qualifiers so no more of this closed circuit business. The bad news...BeIn Sports bought the rights to US away WC qualifiers so you won't be able to see them anyway.
The CL anthem is even worse with the words. It is also really bizarre to attend a performance of Zadok the Priest these days. There are going to be a lot of confused Brits at the next coronation.
Conte still has additional appeals; this will continue to play for a while.
It annoys me that people keep selling them content with no thought as to whether it can even reach an audience. I know the fans come last in these considerations, but jeez.
That is a normal lineup. Nice thing about soccer is you can usually judge this stuff by looking at jersey numbers. Teams don't give single digit numbers to backups and 15, 16 and 18 would indicate first choice substitutes. Generally speaking, just looking at that on paper is a pretty good indicator.
The same dynamic operates for most of the USMNT away games, and I don't think that it is a coincidence that they haven't gotten home matches.
Which is why English teams will be buying all their players soon.
Some club executives have been publicly unhappy, so maybe that will chance.
Incorrect, we have DirecTV!
Well la di da for you King Louis!
ESPN already has the rights for the home games.
I am as well. Racing's Show-Bizz was probably the only time a sports team really captured what being Parisian is about, with the resultant huge crowds, though Stade do a much better job than PSG. But I liked Stade when they wore blue and red, rather than hot pink and floral prints. It's gone over the top now.
Paris's ambivalence towards football is symptomatic of France's ambivalence towards football. It's a big deal there, but it's just not an obsession. There's nothing definitive about it. There have been all sorts of books in the last decade about how football explains various European countries. Sometimes the significance of players, teams, and coaches in the wider context of their country's society can be stretched very thin but they usually work. Anybody who has spent 10 minutes in England, Holland, Germany, Italy, and Spain can understand how football provides a special insight into the national character.
You can't do that in France. At all. Individual clubs may work for individual cities (most notably OM for Marseille) but France has been so indifferent to football at very crucial points in its history that you can't write some history of football in France with wider reflections on French society. 1998 is meaningful, Zidane is meaningful, the debacle of 2010 is meaningful. But if you wanted to write about a sport and how it defines France, it would be rugby. The institutions of the state, the culture, and the national character have been strongly linked with rugby since the Third Republic.
And you didn't even touch the whole role of rugby in the Resistance.
Says here that Poulsen is one of two players to have played in the highest leagues in Spain, France, England, Germany and Italy; apparently for some generous definition of play.
EDIT: The other player is megastar Florin Raducioiu.
No, the assistant ref did.
This is only somewhat related, but I'm curious. With the understanding that I'm asking you to generalize on the opinion of a whole continent -- do Europeans find our playing of the national anthem before all sporting events to be weird?
Edited to add: Also, re Beinsports, Grant Wahl tweeted earlier that they are close to announcing a partership/deal before the WCQ against Jamaica. He speculated it was Comcast.
Touche.
Not weird enough to not ape. In Sweden hockey games tend to have the anthem, while soccer games don't (except for the national team). I don't know if it's explained by demographics or what, but the hockey crowd certainly don't mind. Many soccer clubs have their own terrible anthems that they distress music lovers with, playing the Swedish national anthem (trite and profoundly disturbed as it is) would be an improvement musically at least.
EDIT: Personally, I would find it weird at a soccer game, but for some reason I don't much note it at a hockey game, maybe it's just a matter of conditioning.
"UEFA=Mafia" could be German.
Heh. Don't get me started on renamed products.
Actually translated movie titles can be hilarious.
Is Portsmouth the most dicked around with club ever or what? Sure they have a compelling storyline this year where a team of outcasts and unknowns fight against impossible odds. Pity it only ever ends happily in movies.
Holy crap!
This is the greatest and most lucrative day of my life.
Sunderland are paying 15 million for Steven Fletcher. 15 million! Holy crap! And West Ham are paying 11 million for Matt Jarvis. Those are good players but that's some pricey business. Arsenal got Santi Cazorla for around 12 million to put it in perspective. Spurs got Sigurdsson for 8 million. Are teams down the table being forced to pay a premium or something? Is it because of wages?
At noon EST Anzhi play the Jozy Altidore led AZ Alkmaar. Looking forward to that one. Let's see what Jozy can do against Kris Samba.
Also, just to tease my fellow Spurs fans, supposedly there's a 21 million pound bid in for Leandro with add-ons. If that's true, I'd think that was good enough to get it done but I don't have much faith in the source.
It's usually a function of the length of the contract remaining. I don't know how long Jarvis had left to run, but Fletcher had another two or three years left on his deal I believe.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I guess Levy doesn't <3 Van Der Vaart. Of course, he better sell him somewhere in England. My fantasy team can't keep losing midfielders to the continent.
It still seems to me that Van Der Vaart is a relatively poor fit for this roster and for AVB's tactics. He doesn't have the defensive skills to play deeper in midfield against most clubs, and AVB seems to want his forward players to press hard up the pitch. Again, that's not playing to Van Der Vaart's strengths. At his best position, he overlaps heavily with Gylfi. VDV could be valuable as a sub or rotation player, but he doesn't seem like a guy who sees himself taking that sort of playing time reduction. If he could be sold for good money and that money reinvested in younger player who fit the squad better, with Giovani taking up some of the work as a rotation player / sub at a similar position, that seems like a positive set of moves.
As possibly the world's only owner of a "Giovani" Tottenham kit -- the "Are you sure you want to make this purchase?" pop-up on the team's website was probably generic, but maybe not . . . -- I'd love to see him and VDV split time as the #10. I could also imagine Dos Santos flourishing on the right, but probably not under AVB, who seems to like the Sturridge/Ramires/Lennon winger model.
Its the British/English premium. The players are a known quantity and some teams are unwilling to take a risk on some striker from a lesser known team in say the French league.
You would think with all the success Newcastle had last season that teams would learn to scout the continent better. Granted a team like Sunderland may not be able to attract a French or German international, but there is plenty of talent out there that would want the exposure of Premier League football.
When we went down 1-0, I was bracing myself for a long day and a long season. And then we went up 2-1. And should have made it 3-1 right before the half. It was glorious. For about 40 minutes yesterday, Reading were at the top of the Premier league table!
A terrible goalkeeping blunder brought it back to 2-2, but that's only fair because the second Reading goal was really just a big mistake from Cech.
And then that preposterously offside goal from Torres brought it all tumbling down. And I was reminded that this may be a long, frustrating season. Still, a great performance from my boys. If they play like this over the course of the season, we will definitely be staying up.
So far so good for Reading, I think. I really have no idea who is going down and since the promoted teams look good and the teams that were promoted last year have been good, I wonder if a team we don't yet suspect could be relegated. If you put a gun to my head I'd say Norwich, Wigan and Reading but I have zero confidence in that prediction. Reading have some good players, I think Chris Hughton will get Norwich playing well and Wigan always wriggle off the hook.
What a bizarre overreaction to one bad game.
Robbie Rogers is heading to Stevenage on loan. Should we nickname him Wrong Way Robbie? Hopefully he can get a run of games and show what he can do as he barely made an appearance last year before getting injured. He should do well playing in Stevenage's direct style, no?
I love, love, love watching what happens when Mark Hughes gets handed a blank check.
Which is not much. I'm constantly shaking my head at teams signing guys because they made a couple of national team appearances. The American ones are particularly bad. Robbie Findley couldn't start in Utah but he gets a couple of starts in the World Cup when Edson Buddle should have and Nottingham Forest buys him. He can't score there either. Alejandro Bedoya gets on the Gold Cup roster and Rangers go "hey this guy must be good!" Now he's back in Sweden. Who's the next marginal USMNT player who will go abroad? Fiscal? Zusi?
Liverpool's team for today. Andy Carroll is injured. Not sure if that's injured or "injured", though. Downing is on the bench so Liverpool might have a chance...
Meanwhile, Newcastle are locked in a 1-1 game with Atromitos. Ryan Taylor with Newcastle's goal.
edit: Victor Moses headed to Chelsea.
I think Rogers is all right, but then I know I rate him more than most. English teams can only sign guys who are getting caps so it makes sense if they're going to take a punt, it's going to be on fringy national team guys due to work permit issues. I think it'll be a long time before Americans get permits using the exceptional talent route.
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