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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
La Liga have decided to throw a proper tantrum through their President............

What's all this about biscuits? They wouldn't be cheese biscuits by any chance? Mmmmmmm, Cheese and biscuits!
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Won't be long before the guy is adding an analogy about drinking beer
made at a micro-brewery in your own stadium (which could of course be
the cause of the pissing into the pool) to the biscuit and cheese ones.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
La Liga have decided to throw a proper tantrum through their President............

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41174403

What's all this about biscuits? They wouldn't be cheese biscuits by any chance? Mmmmmmm, Cheese and biscuits!

I'm less sure about peeing in the pool..........unless there's cheese involved?
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PSG are pissing in the pool? What a shame.
Maybe more people would care if Barca and Real hadn't tried to make it their own, private swimming establishment.
Doing it by paying off the local council with government cash, no less. Whiny tossers.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
PSG are pissing in the pool? What a shame.
Maybe more people would care if Barca and Real hadn't tried to make it their own, private swimming establishment.
Doing it by paying off the local council with government cash, no less. Whiny tossers.
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There's more of his sob story................

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...cial-doping-by-la-liga-president-javier-tebas

Not only have the tail which is wagging this particular dog carried out exactly the same strokes regarding state sponsorship and support very recently but until last year, Barcelona were trousering Qatari oil money like there was no tomorrow. "Hypocrisy, thy name is La Liga"
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
There's more of his sob story................

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...cial-doping-by-la-liga-president-javier-tebas

Not only have the tail which is wagging this particular dog carried out exactly the same strokes regarding state sponsorship and support very recently but until last year, Barcelona were trousering Qatari oil money like there was no tomorrow. "Hypocrisy, thy name is La Liga"
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
There's more of his sob story ...
Not only have the tail which is wagging this particular dog carried out exactly the same strokes regarding state sponsorship and support very recently but until last year, Barcelona were trousering Qatari oil money like there was no tomorrow. "Hypocrisy, thy name is La Liga"
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I would love Spurs to get stuck in among the CL darlings
as they have done in the PL. The thought of making the
likes of Barca perennial QFs at best would be akin to
having the Poool cast out of the PL top 4 for long periods.
 
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Citizen Kane said:
This one is almost good enough for our comedy corner...

Adrien Silva: Fifa rejects Leicester City's application for midfielder - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41118927

In case that link doesn't work, Leicester were 14 seconds late in registering Adrien Silva in their squad. However, they still legally own the player and are therefore obligated to pay his wages until the next possible chance to register him - January 1st.

<laugh><laugh><laugh>
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Timing is the secret of great comedy.
 
Joleon Lescott has claimed that he'd rather sign for Arsenal than Spurs:
“Me personally I would probably sign for Arsenal due to the fact that Spurs have a better defence and I probably wouldn’t play!”
"In terms of progression and looking forward you probably would say Spurs. "
“The way they’re building a new stadium, the players and the squad that they’ve got, the way they like to play. "
“The last three years they have been consistently in the Champions League spots.”
 
Joleon Lescott is 35 years old and without a club presently, but in the last 18 months, he's been seen playing fleetingly for AEK Athens and Sunderland.
But he'd be a shoe-in for this Arsenal defence.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
PSG are pissing in the pool? What a shame.
Maybe more people would care if Barca and Real hadn't tried to make it their own, private swimming establishment.
Doing it by paying off the local council with government cash, no less. Whiny tossers.
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God help Real Spam then if they ever get into Europe, that's pretty unlikely though so nothing to worry about.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
La Liga have decided to throw a proper tantrum through their President............

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41174403

What's all this about biscuits? They wouldn't be cheese biscuits by any chance? Mmmmmmm, Cheese and biscuits!

I'm less sure about peeing in the pool..........unless there's cheese involved?
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Spanish league ... the league of Barca and Real Madrid ... complaining of financial doping <laugh> <laugh> <laugh> <laugh>
 
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The words 'pot' and 'kettle' do seem to come to mind quite frequently when thinking about this, but at the end of the day only a team with Barca-level clout has a hope of doing anything about it. The way they and Real have conducted business in the modern era has been shameful, but what's going on at City and PSG is frightening plain and simple. They may end up cutting off their nose to spite their face, but in a way I'm half glad someone is finally refusing to swim in a pool that has been pissed in, even if that pool was built with government money and support of the national banks.
 
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City and PSG find many loopholes which enable them to exploit their owners' vast wealth in the transfer and wages market.
We should welcome any efforts to rein them in - even if it is by clubs who are being very hypocritical. City and PSG have the financial clout to suppress any meaningful competition in club football if their excesses aren't reined in; for all their wealth, Barcelona and Real Madrid don't.
 
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I'm not too hopeful of a move to replace the financial doping and ridiculous expenditure of PSG and Citeh with the rampant tapping-up and encouragement to go on strike of Real Madrid and Barcelona. If the former come in for your player, you walk away with a big bag of swag. If it's the latter, you end up with a player who won't train or play whilst the prospective purchasers make your life a misery and leave mayhem in their wake, if they don't get their way.

Barca hold UEFA in such contempt that one of their Directors, Robert Fernandez openly thanked Philippe Coutinho for his efforts in securing a move away from Liverpool by feigning injury and refusing to train or play. If they get UEFA to act, after that body failed to implement FFP against the oil clubs, then all that's changed is the piper calling the tune. Either UEFA come up with some new meaningful rules that they will implement to keep these clubs under control or they should lock all the big clubs in a room to reach agreement themselves. Having one telling tales to teacher on the other is just ****ing degrading for everyone and is killing the game.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
I'm not too hopeful of a move to replace the financial doping and ridiculous expenditure of PSG and Citeh with the rampant tapping-up and encouragement to go on strike of Real Madrid and Barcelona. If the former come in for your player, you walk away with a big bag of swag. If it's the latter, you end up with a player who won't train or play whilst the prospective purchasers make your life a misery and leave mayhem in their wake, if they don't get their way.

Barca hold UEFA in such contempt that one of their Directors, Robert Fernandez openly thanked Philippe Coutinho for his efforts in securing a move away from Liverpool by feigning injury and refusing to train or play. If they get UEFA to act, after that body failed to implement FFP against the oil clubs, then all that's changed is the piper calling the tune. Either UEFA come up with some new meaningful rules that they will implement to keep these clubs under control or they should lock all the big clubs in a room to reach agreement themselves. Having one telling tales to teacher on the other is just ****ing degrading for everyone and is killing the game.
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The fact City have gone to the stage of posting things on their website (and then shared on Twitter) linking them to other clubs' players, in particular Alderweireld, is the point where somebody should come down on them in the sort of way Gojira comes down on downtown Tokyo.

Say what you will about Los Ladrones, Barca, Man Utd or Chelsea, they don't make their attempts to unsettle players that blatant...yet.
 
Uefa has done nothing to punish the most blatant state funding of Barcelona and Real Madrid over the past two decades.
Uefa has done nothing about both these clubs blatantly tapping up players under contract to other clubs.
Uefa has done nothing to punish the most blatant state funding of a British team with west ham being allowed to pay a mere £2.5m per year for a brand new ground which cost the British Government approx 3/4 of a billion pounds to build.

Uefa are as corrupt as Fifa and nothing they do is in the interest of fair competition or fair play.

The Spanish FA are pissed off cos one of the best players in Spain was tapped up and their attempts to tap up players failed.

I hate the money in football but Barcelona are not the lesser evil...they are one of the biggest causes of the financial doping cancer that is killing genuine competition in Spain and Europe.

It ain't a surprise that Pep is City's manager and they have spent around £380m in 15 months and tried to spend anogher £65m on deadline day.
 
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