Got no gold watches then
Given this is the only football forum I use, I think not.
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Haalands just a poor mans Harald Brattbakk…
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Hehe. Harald Brattbakk was quite good in his day (totally different player type though 
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I remember well the 90s 
Rosenborg in Champions League and all that.
I used to have several friends who supported Rosenborg. Brattbakk, Jacobsen, Hoftun, Strand etc. were great players in those days (in a Norwegian specific setting, they were awesome).
Some of them, the best Rosenborg players from the 90s, could likely also have done well in England. Not all of them though.
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Yeah I remember highlights of that Rosenberg team in the CL. The Norwegian team in the late 90s was a decent side - I wonder if the current crop will be able to outdo them and make a WC quarter final?
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I don’t know, but we have certainly far better players today.
The side in the 90s (National team) was fearsome due to strategy (a simple but effective one), but not technicallly gifted compared to other teams. What is new is that today we have technically gifted players and we can “run” games and not just soak up pressure.
I think we have a chance to get all the way to the quarter finals, but I think getting out of the group is already quite good and then there is a substantial knock our phase with best of 32 and best of 16. We were drawn into a fairly difficult one with France and Senegal and didn’t really get one of the easiest groups like we had maybe hoped for.
Time will tell.
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Instead of spending £100m on another full-back, Manchester City are spending an equally obscene amount on lawyers whose job is to intimidate, threaten, and silence anyone who asks uncomfortable questions. The tactics are now abundantly clear.
Imagine being one of those lawyers. Going through years of study at top universities dreaming of serving justice, improving society, or defending the vulnerable …….only to end up acting like a high-priced goon for a footballing mob, deployed to scare off journalists and drag critics into silence through sheer financial muscle. It’s the legal equivalent of muscle-for-hire.
And we don’t even have to guess their mentality it’s already exposed it. When Jean-Luc Dehaene, then chair of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play investigatory chamber, died, one of City’s in-house lawyers emailed the line: “1 down, 6 to go.” If you want a window into the culture, there it is: basic decency abandoned the moment they felt challenged.
City’s legal team bragged that the club would “rather spend £30m on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue UEFA for the next 10 years” than accept sanctions. That wasn’t a joke it was a declaration of the tactics they were ready to use.
So when an investigative journalist now faces legal threats simply for doing their job, nobody should act surprised. This is what happens when a club decides overwhelming legal firepower is easier than answering legitimate questions. It’s not about justice it’s about muscle, intimidation, and making problems disappear.
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And it’s why allowing in ‘investment’ from despotic tin pot states is such a mistake.
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Over a year since the end of the hearing. It is genuinely a national scandal given the time, money and emotion people invest in the game.
But hey, looks like they’re getting Semenyo…
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Even if anything came now a lot of people say it would rumble on another 12 months as either party would appeal what ever way the judgement falls.
does the money spent on Lawyers come out of the City expenses?
or does the owner pay it himself out of his own pocket?
if its the club that pays it, then its quite ironic that they are cheating on their expenses and income and spend some of it on lawyers to fight against accusations that they are financially cheating! (hope this makes sense)
also, (without wanting to be racist or stereotypical), is it cultural thing that the rich owner thinks he is above the rules of the game, doesn’t answer to anyone and can spend his way out of trouble, or intimidate people who question anything he does?
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Its a money / “so called elite” thing. You see it with Trump, Musk, Andrew and so on. I honestly hate it.
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And it’s hard to fix without the threat/evidence of revolution. The WW2 new deal was forged on the lived experience that things could be much worse for the very wealthy. We need to regain that, they need a sense of fear/that they and their descendants stake relies upon a just and (at least somewhat) equal society.
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Antoine Semenyo is set to have a medical at Manchester City and his move is expected to be completed before Saturday.
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Anyone have any idea when the premier league actually charges these lot ?
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The 32nd of August 2045.
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We haven’t heard from him in a while.
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