Great player but a defender can never earn £400k. If he earns that how much is a 30 goal a season striker going to want from us? It’s a spiral effect and we need to learn our lesson from Sanchez.
2020 Champions League Final - Bayern Munich vs PSG (free on BT/YoutubeUK) - LIVE - Bayern 1-0 PSG as predicted by voters (79.4%)
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Imagine carrying that around with you. What a moron.Was seen doing Karaoke in the dressing room
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Swap benches and see what would happen.
I just won £205 with £5 stake.
Build own odds = Muller and Silva to be carded in 90 mins, Neymar at least one shot on target 40/1
Kimmich is going to be captain of both FCB and the DFB team soon. I follow this for some time, and this guy has "natural leader" tatooed on his forehead like no one before.
They invest more in the academy, this is true. But evidently in the Coman case and others of less note like him they are offered a big pay-day by PSG and get to play the most dud bottom matches, or safe subs in League 1 and basically asked to sell out or stall their developmental years together with hopes of joining a successful NT under fiercest competition. They know that they won't be the standard bearers for their club, the demand for the talented youth is huge around EU and specially with resurgence of Serie A even more so, and the inflated prices trickle down. It's not an agent thing I think as much as its a directional choice from the club owners.
And now the has the medals, and the big win on his CV too and will be accepted by the masses.
First half was a great game by both teams I think. 2nd half it was a great fight where Bayern scored a beautiful goal and were lucky at the same time, since it was definitely a penalty for PSG ( Shocking that there was no use of VAR ).
Again, in finals teams rarely show their best performance ( Müller agreed in the interview and said it wasn't their best game obviously ). Finals is often about mentality , luck and fight. Bayern was a bit lucky and that tiny bit better today.
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Is there anything the French don't riot about
Tomorrow it will be because the weather isn't warm enough.
Is there anything the French don't riot about
Tomorrow it will be because the weather isn't warm enough.
Kimpembe, Rabiot have always played a lot. Areola showed that you could become first choice after a successful loan. Moussa Diaby found a lot more playtime in Paris than on loan in a relegation Serie A club. Coman was already making appearances at 17 and didn't find more success at Juve. Kouassi has consistently been prefered to Paredes and Herrera this season at only 17 without even signing a pro contract, see him being played a lot less next season in Munich.
Claiming youngsters don't get chances in Paris is really nonsense. We may even be the best "top club" in this respect.
So why do most of them leave?
Congratulations to Bayern on their 6th European Cup. Great achievment. Just a matter of time before one of us catches Milan. Well deserved.
Regarding the penalty incidents or rather the lack of VAR in the second half (first half could've had a pen too when Coman was fouled inside the box), I think it's pretty clear both the Mbappé as well as the Lewandowski scenes should've been penalties as well. Here's the studio analysis with a ref dissecting both situations (10 min 14 secs):
Have to agree with all of this. Why complicit things? Nowt wrong with 4-4-2 if every knows what they are doing and works hard at it.
Thought PSG looked decent in the first half and the more likely to score, but Bayern came out in the second half and showed their class. Overall, I thought that the game was alright but it's typically how these big games go. Close, 1 goal in it, a few half chances. Overall, Bayern have been great over this tournament so deserve to win the whole thing. Well done to them.
They'll win it next year, as well. I can't really see why not. They'll walk their league again because they will continue to strengthen, meaning that they'll be suitably rested to defend the cup next year. They have a lot of things in their favour. Can't fault their recruitment either, because they consistently get in great players who do the business. Can't argue with how they're run.
Some because they (or their agents/families) are offered millions by predatory clubs like Red Bull & co. Some because they're not happy being a squad option (Diaby, Nkunku)... Some because they're stupid (Rabiot) and/or have greedy agents.
Since I love Zlatan and T Silva from their Milan days I watched tons of PSG first years they left for Paris, no offense to our french fans but I was shocked that so many matches are crushing victories in Ligue 1 and domestic cups, with very low quality arenas and opposition ( from what im used to with EPL and lesser extent Serie A, even during their decline days ) that PSG can easily play 3-6 reserves and still snag a good many win with a margin, in that sense sure, they rotate and let youth play but quality of that game time is mostly lower tier. Question remain, is that enough for budding top talents? Will it showcase them for NT selections? Some might gamble no.
L1 games are often easy because PSG may be the best team in Europe at crushing mid/low teams. We do the same in CL.
I don't know what you're on about NTs, almost all the academy talent are French from the Paris area, and if you can't start regularly for Paris, moving is unlikely to improve your chances to get in the France NT (you may just not be good enough).
Hard to impress from the bench or vs minnows.
Plenty of internationals on the PSG bench. And from top nations.
That Paredes-Marquinhos-Herrera midfield though...
There u go, no room left for the kids other than scraps. I'm out this is a UCL thread.
Yeah get your sealioning out of here.
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He didn't know better, happens.
But what is it with the German clubs' twitter admins always looking for needless banter.
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It's an opinion, and one shared by many. Drop your personal cheapshots. Not cool. Sorry your team lost. Im not invested in it in any way.
Bayern was parking the bus in PSG’s half after they went 1-0 up.
Incredible energy.
Incredible energy.
How comes Choupo Moting was brought on ahead of Icardi btw?
Icardi hasn't been good since lockdown while Choupo was key against Atalanta.
How did he do before lockdown? I had only seen that you paid quite a bit for his transfer. But Hernandez sat on the bench for Bayern all evening as well, so I guess being a big money signing doesn't always equate to instant playing time.
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He was not very involved in the build up, but kept opposing CBs busy, giving more freedom to the other forwads, plus poaching at a decent rate.
He cost €50m in the end, which isn't unreasonable for a proficient goalscorer.
What’s in your opinion Kouassi left PSG for Munich? One of the reasons above or where the French players at Bayern also a reason?
Hernandez was never healthy for a couple of weeks in a row. Alaba - Hernandez - Süle - Pavard was the planned back 4. Then a lot of stuff happened (multiple injuries and some Canadian kid playing lights out).
Why did they just not bother with the VAR tonight?
Kouassi (and probably his entourage) looked set on leaving very early and Bayern wasn't involved then. I have no idea why he chose Bayern in particular.
Which betting site do you use to get that?
It did really, really good in the first half. Paredes have two passes in a mtter of two minutes that could have been goals and the same for Ander. On paper, it isn't the sexy lineup, but they did a lot of good things that should have led to goals.That Paredes-Marquinhos-Herrera midfield though...
Congrats Bayern. Treble again, what an achievement.
Thiago is absolute boss. Don’t care about his age would love him at United.
I guess Flick would differ completely. That's a very inaccurate description of Bayern's style. They still have van Gaal's and Guardiola's ideas deeply ingrained in their philosophy. So lot's of "inverted cutting inside nonsense", "need to play 300 back passes to the defence and goalie to keep possession".
Bayern hat 61,6% possession and 433 passes to PSG's 240. They played a 4-4-2 against the ball and a 4-2-3-1 in possession as most German coaches do, especially those that press intensely. Their best player was also the prototype tiki taka player in Thiago. You could also argue that Bayern's success this season came by abandoning a system that essentially covered all your suggestions by sacking Kovac and promoting Flick - a coach who by the way was key to Germany adapting Spain's style of football. Neuer is also the prototype of the modern keeper that leaves his box a lot and prevents clearing the ball whenever possible.
Very weird interpretation, IMO. This game definitely had nothing in common with the EPL style pre-2015.