Yeah, Ajax fucked that tie up. No telling what happened there, but by every reasonable metric, we should be able to truck these fucks out with extreme prejudice. No need to exert ourselves too much, just get a handy 3-0 or 4-0 at their place, and see out a professional 2-0 at Anfield. Then it’s on to probably Bayern, who will be pissing in their clouts at the prospect of facing us again in the CL.
Put simply - anyone who isn’t us is fucking shit and we should be able to move them aside.
A reasonable and well considered comment delivered with style and panache.
The late @Lowton_Red (RIP) often praised me for my eloquence.
(No he’s not actually dead you fucking melts)
(Unless of course he went in the night, and has yet to be discovered…)
I’m sure I’ve you kill him off twice now.
Don’t you judge me.
Interesting stuff from Herr Lahm:
Some may roll their eyes at those comments given his life long association with Bayern, but that doesnt diminish what he says. Maybe if anything it makes it more compelling to hear him speak these criticisms.
Does anyone have any good insight into what allowed Bayern to be so much more powerful than everyone else? Is it mostly a supercharged version of what happened with Utd, that they just happened to be in better shape than their traditional rivals at the beginning of the CL era and used that reliable influx of new money to create distance between them and the likes of Hamburg and Gladbach?
I’m fairly sure this should go message should be moved to another thread, but I will be on a trip to Dubai in early May. I’m hoping we’re still in the champions league.
Is there a local LFC supporters group or great sports bars where I can watch champions league and/or premierleague matches while I’m there?
McGettigans
Almost just prefer the new Super League proposals…
Why? There isn’t much comparison? The Super league had 5 extra teams who would compete with the same 12-15 every season.
I’m not happy with the changes (the way the format is being set out is my major annoyance).
But they don’t really compare at all, unless I’m blatantly missing something?
Didn’t the new proposals completely drop the idea that there would be permanent teams?
Key advantage of a super league (perhaps only in theory) is that members could decide to properly police spending and revenue metrics to ultimately bring the hydrocarbon cunts back to pack. I think that is very central to FSGs motivation as they know that our current success is not sustainable over the longer term with citeh, PSG and sandcastle (for starters) doped to the gills.
I just don’t think it would have happened though. Perez was in charge once, Henry was only one of the 8 formal members and he owned it not the club. I could have very easily envisaged us swimming around in the middle of that spending the extra cash while not being able to challenge those who spent on top of what their ill gotten gains had got them, it was to prop up certain clubs who just spend and others who had fallen off a cliff in recent times.
Our only benefit was we controlled our TV rights, I’m totally open to someone coming along but it can’t be likes of Perez and it has to be competitive in nature. Personally I think a massive overhaul of TV rights is due. The PL don’t need Sky or BT or Amazon really and next time out they should cut themselves from it or the very least change it completely so teams can sell their own matches.
Always said it should be like La Liga TV or MLB or NFL.
I think that was literally Henry’s motivation, along with a salary cap. Think he’s confident that the organisation we’ve built will be competitive in most other cases.
I’m not so sure. One of their stated issues with the CL is that UEFA operate as both a competition organizer and regulator and their claim is that is wrong in a monopolistic situation. It’s an argument that I can make sense of, but not in connection to their solution of then doing the same themselves outside of UEFA.
That model of owning your own rights to sell individually will only see further divisions between the rich sides and the rest. It will just compound the issue we’ve seen with the concentration of CL money among a core group of clubs as those will be the most marketable and thus get the biggest contracts.
It is also notably NOT how the US markets work. For all of America’s capitalist trappings, the sports league are fairly egalitarian. All have primary TV contracts sold through the league with relatively equal distribution of revenue then shared among the teams. What you have in MLB and the NBA is that due to the ridiculous number of games, the main national TV contracts only cover a % of the games. Those teams are then free to sell their rights for the remaining games. That would be an interesting model for us to look at, but would require the ban on televising the 3pm Saturday games to be lifted. You could see a model where Sky’s package covers 10 home games a season and then we were free to broadcast the remaining 9 through some FSG run venture.
The downside is it can result in such a division of broadcast rights that it actually becomes a worse, or at least more expensive, experience for the fan.
Yeah it’s there natural pairing
2-0 behind, 20 minutes to go.
