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STRYKIE

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Ooh a bit of buzz on the internet that if 2022 World Cup is not gonna go to Qatar, then USA might be the next choice.
If Qatar get stripped (and quite frankly, I hope they do, that shit seemed shady to me the second it was announced) of the 2022 WC I'd rather it go to the Aussies honestly who also bidded for it, it'd be interesting to see it in an Oceanian environment, even if the time zones are awkward for us lol
 
Mate, it took Ronaldo a season to hit his form when he joined the Premier League. Its the best, most intense and physical league on the planet.

Been in the Champions League for close to 18 years straight now, won the FA Cup last season. Who do you support?
CR joined EPL from Lisbon when he was a teenager Ozil joined Arsenal when he was a sensation at Bernabeu. Granted, it certainly takes time for players to settle in. But he's not at the top of his game, plus even Ramsey performed well for a couple of games when Ozil's true quality wasn't there, hence, fa cup this season and has been shooting for the last CL spot last few seasons. We're talking about a team that spawned Henry n co. Arsenal really should not be satisfied with "in order to tell Piers Morgan to shut up about it for a while."

I support Madrid, but I watch EPL regularly. I was sad to see Ozil go bc there is no number 10 of his caliber these days basing on the stats when he was with Madrid. Honestly, it's shocking how he performed this past season. And please don't start the which league's the best league argument. And since when does creative midfielder has strong physical attributes, since when does Arsenal play like a typical EPL team?
 
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Flagg

Champion
CR joined EPL from Lisbon when he was a teenager Ozil joined Arsenal when he was a sensation at Bernabeu. Granted, it certainly takes time for players to settle in. But he's not at the top of his game, plus even Ramsey performed well for a couple of games when Ozil's true quality wasn't there, hence, fa cup this season and has been shooting for the last CL spot last few seasons. I support Madrid, but I watch EPL regularly. I was sad to see Ozil go bc there is no number 10 of his caliber these days basing on the stats when he was with Madrid. Honestly, it's shocking how he performed this past season. And please don't start the which league's the best league argument. And since when does creative midfielder has strong physical attributes, since when does Arsenal play like a typical EPL team?
Premier league teams aren't about "getting stuck in", Arsenal like to play with flair and quality. Wenger turned rvp, Henry and others into super stars. It sound s like you think Ozil is washed up, you're not just bitter he left are you? It was sad to see Cesc go but I could care less about him now. We have a better midfield since he left.
 
Premier league teams aren't about "getting stuck in", Arsenal like to play with flair and quality. Wenger turned rvp, Henry and others into super stars. It sound s like you think Ozil is washed up, you're not just bitter he left are you? It was sad to see Cesc go but I could care less about him now. We have a better midfield since he left.
Oh really? How's Giourd doing? Is he a superstar now? Brendan rodgers turned a biter into a goal machine that is Suarez. Argue with that.
Exactly, so why would you brought up physicality into the discussion then? It has nothing to do with Arsenal's play style. I don't think one bit that Ozil is washed up, and bitter? Why? It's not like he's been way better at Arsenal than Madrid days. Fact is, he's been good and he's been poor. And you were like he's instrumental to Arsenal's success, I mean c'mon, Arsenal would be having a slightly bigger success if Ozil is really the Ozil that cost 50 mil.

Now you're being bitter cuz Cesc just got signed by Chelsea when he clearly said he'd only play for Arsenal if he comes back and act you don't care, ha.:REO
 
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Flagg

Champion
Oh really? How's Giourd doing? Is he a superstar now? Brendan rodgers turned a biter into a goal machine that is Suarez. Argue with that.
Exactly, so why would you brought up physicality into the discussion then? It has nothing to do with Arsenal's play style. I don't think one bit that Ozil is washed up, and bitter? Why? It's not like he's been way better at Arsenal than Madrid days. Fact is, he's been good and he's been poor. And you were like he's instrumental to Arsenal's success, I mean c'mon, Arsenal would be having a slightly bigger success if Ozil is really the Ozil that cost 50 mil.
The premier league is more physical than la liga, accept that. I never said Arsenal were a physical team. And Giroud is garbage but he still scored enough goals where it counted. Arsenal make great players, Real Madrid just buy them ;)
 
The premier league is more physical than la liga, accept that. I never said Arsenal were a physical team. And Giroud is garbage but he still scored enough goals where it counted. Arsenal make great players, Real Madrid just buy them ;)
And I never once said that La liga is more physical than EPL, Ok, shouldn't you be a rugby fan if you enjoy physicality? You said EPL is the best, most intense, physical league, how is that relevant to Ozil's sub par performance?
That last comment regarding RM is just Eurosport comment section bad. Fine, I mean if you want Arsenal to continue this FA cup success n many more years of CL experience..
 
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Arsenal make great players
Sold:
Cesc - Instrumental to Arsenal's style of play, went home only to find there's hardly any position for him. Now signed by Chelsea which is even more incredible. Arsenal totally has a buy back priority
Song- Solid holding midfielder, no starting position or wrong starting position at BAR.
Nasri- better at MCI, but two national coaches had beef with him. Nowhere to be found in World cup 2014 France squad
RVP - Cool, clinical in front of goals these days for ManU.

Youngsters:
Walcott - dubbed as the next Henry, didn't carry the team as expected.
Ramsey - biggest fail number 1, the only -10 potential player on fm 2012 turned out to be an injury prone flop.
Wilshere (Youth team) - high potential, sure but injury prone again
Oxlade-Chamberlain - Sterling's regular regular at Liverpool, that's all I got to say.

Your great ones are gone, the rest of them needs who knows how long to be what Wenger has envisioned them to be.
Wenger didn't make these players great, he saw something in them and bought them, it's all about his own judgement. It's a gamble from the start, luckily enough, he gets it right sometimes.

Porto has made a great deal of money by making tons of great players, Falcao, Hulk, James Rodriguez, etc. They jump start two coaches career. They have been supplying top flight teams forever, it's like a shopping cart. They've been top of the league since whenever, they've been in CL since whenever. Does it matter? No I don't think so...
 
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M2Dave

Zoning Master
I highly doubt that is actually true
Well, here is some data. The numbers are in millions.

ESPN - 4.4
Univision - 5.1
Spain - 8.4
France - 8.7
Italy - 9.1
United Kingdom - 12.6
Germany - 15.87

The actual television ratings figure in Brazil and elsewhere is likely much higher as, in most territories, the game also aired on pay-TV, which traditionally does not publish audience figures. Many fans also caught the match at bars, restaurants and, in several countries, free outdoor viewing areas, none of which were included in the initial ratings tally.
Click here for source.
 

LavaG

Representing Gamers Republic GH
Man they can do it, they just have to give it their all. We will need a full scale effort, especially vs germany bcuz they OP tho haha.



You forget about Ghana who has already beaten you twice in previous World cups:p
 
Weon, ganamos, conchetumadre!!! It was hard, really hard. I'll try to speak some words about the game tomorrow, but I won't promise anything because I am in the proccess of drinking my senses off.
CHEERS!!!
 

DarthArma

Warrior
So surprising to see spain lose that bad. All Chile has to do is tie with Spain, and not get beat as hard as Spain did against the Netherlands to advance from their group. (also Spain has to not beat Australia by more than 2 or more goals)

Spain can actually get bodied and not even advance from their group after just winning a world cup AND beings ranked the number one team in the world.
 
So surprising to see spain lose that bad. All Chile has to do is tie with Spain, and not get beat as hard as Spain did against the Netherlands to advance from their group. (also Spain has to not beat Australia by more than 2 or more goals)

Spain can actually get bodied and not even advance from their group after just winning a world cup AND

Do you like this, @DarthArma ?
 

Flagg

Champion
Oh really? How's Giourd doing? Is he a superstar now? Brendan rodgers turned a biter into a goal machine that is Suarez. Argue with that.
Exactly, so why would you brought up physicality into the discussion then? It has nothing to do with Arsenal's play style. I don't think one bit that Ozil is washed up, and bitter? Why? It's not like he's been way better at Arsenal than Madrid days. Fact is, he's been good and he's been poor. And you were like he's instrumental to Arsenal's success, I mean c'mon, Arsenal would be having a slightly bigger success if Ozil is really the Ozil that cost 50 mil.

Now you're being bitter cuz Cesc just got signed by Chelsea when he clearly said he'd only play for Arsenal if he comes back and act you don't care, ha.:REO
We have Ozil, Carzorla and Ramsey...we don't need another attacking midfielder, we need a quality striker and another defender. Cesc chose to leave arsenal to go sit on a bench at Barca. We've moved on since then.
 

Flagg

Champion
Sold:
Cesc - Instrumental to Arsenal's style of play, went home only to find there's hardly any position for him. Now signed by Chelsea which is even more incredible. Arsenal totally has a buy back priority
Song- Solid holding midfielder, no starting position or wrong starting position at BAR.
Nasri- better at MCI, but two national coaches had beef with him. Nowhere to be found in World cup 2014 France squad
RVP - Cool, clinical in front of goals these days for ManU.

Youngsters:
Walcott - dubbed as the next Henry, didn't carry the team as expected.
Ramsey - biggest fail number 1, the only -10 potential player on fm 2012 turned out to be an injury prone flop.
Wilshere (Youth team) - high potential, sure but injury prone again
Oxlade-Chamberlain - Sterling's regular regular at Liverpool, that's all I got to say.

Your great ones are gone, the rest of them needs who knows how long to be what Wenger has envisioned them to be.
Wenger didn't make these players great, he saw something in them and bought them, it's all about his own judgement. It's a gamble from the start, luckily enough, he gets it right sometimes.

Porto has made a great deal of money by making tons of great players, Falcao, Hulk, James Rodriguez, etc. They jump start two coaches career. They have been supplying top flight teams forever, it's like a shopping cart. They've been top of the league since whenever, they've been in CL since whenever. Does it matter? No I don't think so...
Funny how RVP is only finding his form at the world cup and refused to play under Moyes at Man U. Nasri....yeah another mercenary you think is so good that GIROUD got a call up ahead of him. You're out of your mind if you don't think Walcott, Ramsey or Chamberlain are future stars, not just for Arsenal but for England. And players leave and go to different clubs all the time. Hulk is overrated as was seen in the opening game against Croatia. And what Barca does with their players once bought is not my concern.

Ever wondered that the reason that players leave Barca and Real is once the bubble has popped at the prospect of being at two giants, that all they are are just guys sitting on benches. Why do you think there is renewed interest for Benzema at Arsenal again.

I'd be more excited about him coming to us than Cesc returning.
 
Funny how RVP is only finding his form at the world cup and refused to play under Moyes at Man U. Nasri....yeah another mercenary you think is so good that GIROUD got a call up ahead of him. You're out of your mind if you don't think Walcott, Ramsey or Chamberlain are future stars, not just for Arsenal but for England. And players leave and go to different clubs all the time. Hulk is overrated as was seen in the opening game against Croatia. And what Barca does with their players once bought is not my concern.

Ever wondered that the reason that players leave Barca and Real is once the bubble has popped at the prospect of being at two giants, that all they are are just guys sitting on benches. Why do you think there is renewed interest for Benzema at Arsenal again.

I'd be more excited about him coming to us than Cesc returning.
You said Arsenal make great players, so I listed "great" players who's either gone to oppositions or under performing. I didn't say I don't think Walcott, Ramsey or Chamberlain are future stars, I said they are not who Wenger thought they were at the moment. Ramsey is Welsh, he has nothing to do with three lions. So Hulk is overrated bc an opening game against Croatia? He was fine at Porto until very unfortunate circumstances in Russia, flops happen maybe he's exactly like Ramsey, Wishere.

There's no bubble, my friend. If they don't have the consistency at a required level, they are going to get the bench. It's how Spanish big two works, it's how German big one works. Hell, ManU, City, Chelsea, all the same.

Di Maria wasn't replaced when Bale came in, instead Ancelotti guaranteed him a starting position along side Alonso, Modric and he's been killing it at that central position. That's the point though when it comes to a highly competitive in-squad environment. Modric was the same, he was booed by his own fans last season and look where he is now?! Speaking of Benzema, this is a number 9 who has had his work rate under intense scrutiny, but he's not with Napoli, is he?!
 

STRYKIE

Are ya' ready for MK11 kids?!
Believe it or not, i cant stand the game. I want Australia to lose and lose bad. The sooner Australia is out of the tournament, the sooner we as a nation can focus on better games such as rugby league. ;)
Ha, fair assessment.