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Discussion in 'Liverpool' started by Bozz, Jun 17, 2011.

  1. SIR_KENNY_KLOPP_KING

    SIR_KENNY_KLOPP_KING Well-Known Member

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    15 weeks until the window opens <party>
     
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    I'm sure all the other teams are excited.
     
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  3. Zanjinho

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    Strict living arrangements that, mate
     
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    It's like an excerpt from Noah's journal.
     
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  5. Milk..

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    That's what happened to the dinosaurs, they managed to open the windows in their cabins.
     
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  7. johnsonsbaby

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    Conflicting reports that Zubimendi saying he regretted turning down Liverpool was from a parody account. His agent is reportedly currently in Liverpool. RS president saying he didn't ask for a new contract and wasn't offered one, he just wanted to stay.
     
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  8. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    He can regret what he likes.

    He wasn't up to the league in physical terms according to Gerrard in his novellas so if you are not willing to work at it and jump for loans etc then you won't makenup the difference.

    A lot of players end up withbregrets but a nice bank balance I guess
     
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  9. Milk..

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    More rumors about Trent wanting to buy a French club. Nantes the one being suggested now.

    Honestly, France has to be a good investment. They can't stay a nothing league forever. Too big a footballing country, and too big an economy to not eventually join the level of at least Italy, Netherlands or Germany.

    I don't want to lose TAA, but it would almost be amusing if he bought a club in France and then signed himself! <laugh> Heard of player/managers before... player/owner would be interesting.
     
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  10. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    It's called rugby.

    Football is not the main sport everywhere in France.

    Italy has all the corrupt money in the game and they are mad for it.

    Germany is more reserved and ethical bar letting Bayern dominate and bully other clubs about. That league is average.

    Holland is a worse league than France. It's too small a country but is still sustaining 1 club a city.

    France has marseille and psg. Others rise and fall and it's inconsistent as there isn't thr money in the local tv to drive the madness.

    If anything psg are ruining that league as nobody is bothered to compete and so they can't compete in Europe either.
     
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  11. InBiscanWeTrust

    InBiscanWeTrust Rome, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Madrid
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    They’ve already dismissed it
     
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  12. Milk..

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    I'm sure polls wern't done by same people and so the way they collected data was diffferent...

    53% of people in France say they are interested in football compared to 33% Rugby.
    in England this is about 33% to 17%

    I'm sure these numbers arn't accurate, and I doubt people in France are almost twice as interested in sports as people in England (the gap between nations probably more dependent on how the data was collected)... but from looking purely at a ratios of Football to Rugby- looks like Football in both countries is slightly less than twice as popular as Rugby. France has similar population to UK.

    Obviously England has the advantage of having common language as rest of UK, Canada, US, India, and second language to most of the world- so that probably makes it attractive to overseas money. Likewise, Spain's league has the common language to most of South America. Italy and Germany have none of that, which is probably why they're usually smaller leagues than England and Spain.

    France is interesting- set to overtake English as the most spoken language in the world by end of the century thanks to growth in population in Africa. Those African countries offer little market today, but as their economies and populations both grow- French league could find more revenue sources.

    I think buying a French club is a sensible risk (if you have the funds). I agree, PSG is probably ruining France and holding them back from becoming more popular as a TV export league.
     
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  13. Solid Air 2

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    i can assure you football absolutely dwarfs Rugby in the UK
     
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  14. Milk..

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    I would have thought so... although I would have thought the same about France too.
     
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    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    It's only regional.

    Wigan is a rugby town. The football team ever doing anything is a miracle.

    Same for Huddersfield.

    Same for hull.

    With two forms of rugby in the league country there's lots of clubs out there but only certain cities where it competes.
     
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  16. Solid Air 2

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    just no
    football dwarfs rugby period just because Wigan RFL pull in better crowds than Wgan FC is irrelevant most people in this country couldn't name a pro Rugby team to save their lives
     
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  17. moreinjuredthanowen

    moreinjuredthanowen Mr Brightside

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    Yes it does but I'm just saying that certain towns/cities in England could support much bigger football clubs than they do and those towns are rugby towns.

    Hull is half the size of Liverpool and have a perennial struggler of a football club. By contrast Liverpool hosts two Premier league clubs and of course has tranmere just across the way as well.

    Wigan as an area is fairly large too but thr rugby league is where it's at.

    So yeah 100% football dominates generally but there are these areas where one one or two big rugby clubs draw away the fanbase possible.

    Back to France, they have the top 14 rugby championship and most clubs are not in paris so all round France but especially in the south these are big clubs.

    Obviously the huge cities are full of football fans
     
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  19. Thus Spake Zarathustra

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    But he doesn't want to leave Real Sociedad <whistle>
     
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