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Brilliant

Genuinely looks a great player, could be a massive signing. When Bodo Glimt were on their good CL run last year he was scoring every game, I think he scored in wins against City Atletico Inter and Sporting. That's some pedigree given 9 times out of 10 you haven't heard of who Celtic are in the market for

Fingers crossed there's no last minute hitches. Woukd still need a few more after him

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq82dg0y3qo

[thought St.Peters and Clan Na Gael was the big Lurgan rivalry]

Clann Eireann Clan na Gael
Armagh Down. Special mention to Armagh/Tyrone from the 00s and Dublin Mayo also
Argentina v everybody
Boca/River Plate
State of Origin
Lakers/Celtics
Ward/Gati

I always thought St.Peters and Clan Na Gael was the big Lurgan rivalry. I know Clann Eireann and Clan Na Gael have met a few times in the past couple years in championship but not a big rivalry at this stage for me. This may come in time as both done great work at underage in recent times.

Really enjoyed the Tyrone/Armagh rivalry in naughties proper hatred towards one another.

Dromintee/Cross in Armagh around that time was good rivalry in around that time Dromintee had great side but unfortunately ran into a machine, in any other era would got a couple of championships and would gave Ulster a good rattle.

Clonoe/Coalisland in Tyrone always feisty.

potentially but CE is my own club so going from my own persepective there

That's awful. Had he been ill

Clann Eireann Clan na Gael
Armagh Down. Special mention to Armagh/Tyrone from the 00s and Dublin Mayo also
Argentina v everybody
Boca/River Plate
State of Origin
Lakers/Celtics
Ward/Gati

U know nothing about the 3G pitch, i do and the bckground. U just go by whats in the papers.

And how do you know that

They don't have the players though. They don't have the players in centre midfield in particular to be winning these kind of tournaments.

The pampered arseholes is possibly an issue too yes...

Central midfield is their strength. The lack of goalkeeper and fullback is the actual problem.

45%,36%,53%,34% was the possession stats for England in their last 4 games,  should be better at retaining possession and controlling games when central midfield is their strength? I don't think they were overly great out of possession either especially when they went into a defensive mode.

Spain won the World cup mainly because they had a midfield to control games.  In the knock out stages they had average of 62% possession per game.  Such control resulted in just one goal conceded and only conceded 10 shots on target all tournament and didn't give a sniff of a chance to the likes of  Messi, Mbappe.

Hard to see who will stop Spain from winning Euro 2028.

The best team doesn't always win the euros so don't go betting the house on Spain or France. Previous winners like Denmark and greece and even Portugal and Holland have all won the Euros but not a world cup.

The top teams value the world cup over the euros.

unless youre CR7

David Bowie was right about social media... he predicted what would happen 30 years ago just as the internet was invented....genius

Internet was invented longer than 30 years ago

Modern day Internet/World Wide Web began in 1991. Arpanet before that.

early 80s for modern internet and 90s for WWW.

And yes, Bowie was def right

David Bowie was right about social media... he predicted what would happen 30 years ago just as the internet was invented....genius

Internet was invented longer than 30 years ago

[England have the players]

Some thought Tuchel and Ancelotti might be the ones to buck the trend but obviously not

The mystery is that there's still some that think it in Brazil and England.

Probably more so Brazil just dont have the players currently to even have a proper tilt at it.

England have the players, just can never seem to get it done when it really matters.

I hear this alot but is it true? I thought them a shocking outfit to make it to the SF. Riding their luck against DR Congo, Norway and Mexico? Maybe I dont know enough about soccer but those players look not great! Bellingham and exception and maybe 1 or 2 others

Had Brazil scored their peno against Norway I think Engerland would have been out in the QFs

Bellingham in fits and starts in fairness stood up with big goals a few times, Kane is quality. Rice is good player but looked knackered, Anderson good player as well but not one opposition be losing sleep over.

Outside of that they're average enough all round.

Rice looked fresh as fcuk in the 3rd place playoff the only game with no pressure maybe thats an issue for him. Is he that good?

Decent player but again not one the top dogs be losing sleep over playing against.

I think the quality in football in general has gone to feck. Outside PSG and Bayern, the other big clubs are at a low ebb.

Spains big 2, United, Chelsea, City, Liverpool, the Italian clubs all shadows of their peak teams. Arsenal a tough team to beat but would rather watch 2 snails racing in the garden.

Even in the premier league what proper top top players are there that you'd go out of your way to see? Haaland, Rodri, Bruno? Struggling after that tbh. 

The PL is  dull as dishwater.  Pep's city team were awful to watch , and Arteta has taken  boredom on  another notch. Arsenal seemed to  spend  the  whole season going 1-0 up then  holding the lead, pulling 11 behind the ball.

The likes of Rice/Anderson/Rogers etc 100m players , is absolute madness. Nothing special about  any of them.

The  player  I enjoyed  watching recently in the PL was Salah.  He was poor last season though. Who's left  now?  I'm struggling to name one

Bruno can be a little p***k but he's super to watch when on form he's always trying to make something happen rather than playing it safe. Haaland is a joy to watch in full flow but can be anonymous as well. Can't say I watch huge amounts outside United but anything I do see is poor.

From a United perspective Cunha and Mainoo have some exciting qualities but are levels below the good old days watching Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Ronaldo, Nani or obviously further back Kanchelskis, Cantona etc. Look at Arsenal now and none could lace the boots of Henry/Bergkamp etc etc.

I think football in general lacks top top quality players. Maybe we were split with the Messi era backed up by C Ronaldo. Before that you had zidane and R9. Kaka and Ronaldinho etc

Somewhere along the line you need to speculate to accumulate, thats if you have any aspirations of winning a game in the CL knockouts, if you don't aspire to that then you'd behave exactly as they are, their total lack of ambition was plain for all to see ahead of the Bayern game 18 months ago, there's nothing interesting really happening, a very boring enterprise at the minute

Yes and no.

I completely agree the ambition is domestic dominance and Europe is nice and funded accordingly.

But pumping money the club doesn't have into chasing Europe isn't wise either.

Needs to be something in the middle.

reality is the club have money but would rather pay corporation tax on profits, £33.6million in 10 years ( £11.5m last year in 2025)
70million in the bank
the stadium is decrepid
team is awful
and fans at at the end of their tether and all the communication a fan gets is crap about new kit etc

I don't disagree, the stadium needs huge work.

My point is spending huge money chasing Europe is mental talk.

Depends what you're chasing. We know we won't win the champions league but we should be targeting qualifying for it

Cant have Niblock at all. Not as a commentator or a podcast host

Yeah can see why people don't like him, I think he's a decent lad and enjoy his stuff but definitely wouldn't be for everyone.

I'd say he's a perfectly decent fella but he just seems to have a default setting of "Relentless" whether it's good or bad stuff.

i agree with this, my above opinion was purely on him as a commentator and podcast host

Cant have Niblock at all. Not as a commentator or a podcast host

No, that was an average wc not helped by the yankie pricing and trump interfering.  I think ths is the way football is going though.  All about the money

it had been all about money for quite some time now