Football 2023 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 16,004]

On 7/24/2023 at 6:04 PM, hckošice said:

Apparently the club of Al-Hilal offered PSG 300 Million EUR to buy Mbappe ... for the next and only 1 season, before him moving the season after to Real Madrid.

 

Man, that must be fun feel, to shit and piss money daily whenever you wish just like that

 

Imagine how insanely shitty the reputation of your country is, when you offer someone 700 million EUR to play for a year (yes, they would pay PSG 300 million and Mbappé 700 million) in your shitty competition which nobody watches, and still this person refuses...not just 'refuses', but refuses to even talk to you about it  

 

22 euro per second, for a full year. Go to sleep, sleep a regular night and you're rougly 600k euro richer. But still the prospect of playing in such an awful country like Saudi Arabia makes you refuse it  

 

Of course he knows he wouldn't be required to play just football, just like Cristiano Ronaldo nowadays is headlining the propaganda machine, but unlike Cristiano Ronaldo, surprisingly Mbappé didn't sell his soul  

Edited July 26, 2023 by heywoodu

[Roamingrover86 862]

Today world cup qualifying draw  Round 1 & 2 for AFC was carried out, with matches starting from this OCT FIFA window.

Round 1 is a knockout format while Round 2 is a Round-robin based, with top 2 from each group qualifying for Round 3 . 
 

[MHSN 3,777]

not a bad group for Iran, we sometimes struggle in the first round (almost got eliminated last time) I think all of AFC big teams have no problem in the first round

 

and I hope the current coach (who is a mafia boss) is sacked before this, it's just hard for me to cheer for any team he coaches. 

[Vektor 3,326]

I see that  finally found a way to host the UEFA Euros. By doing a joint bid with a top nation.

 

EURO 2032 in  & 

 

Doubt that anyone will contest that. All the other top European nations had or are getting other big events, EURO 2016 + SOG 2024 for France, EURO 2024 for Germany, EURO 2028 for England, World Cup 2030 for Spain. 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Vektor

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Nice to see the Romans and Byzantines joining forces once again 

[thepharoah 2,413]

Italy and Turkey is very weird joint bid for me , even weirder than Rumors that linked Israel with UAE and Bahrain joint bid for 2030 WC , but it'd be fun that West meets East 

[hckošice 15,520]

 

and it finally happened. Last night.

 

After looong and embarassing 8 years, Košice (the second biggest city of the country) finally returned to the top tier championship, and what a return it was.

 

Yesterday in the 1st round we hosted as the newly promoted team the reigning champion,  the arch-rival Slovan Bratislava.

 

 

More than 5 000 spectators and great atmosphere. despite the final result 0-0 it was a great evening Now hopefully we will be able to avoid relegation, after when we returned from 8 years hiatus lol

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2023 by hckošice

[Monzanator 4,768]

Since we talk comebacks, my club Ruch Chorzów returned to the top flights after six years absence and we got our first win (2-0) on Matchday 2 vs fellow promoted team ŁKS Łódź on Friday.

 

 

 

 

 

[hckošice 15,520]

Back to earth for FC Košice in league After unexpected 0-0 draw against Slovan Bratislava in the opening round, came the first trip away and first debacle ...

 

Clear and easy defeat in Dunajská Streda against local DAC 5-2

 

 

everything fine, obviously, completely deserved win for the host, horrendous defence from our boys, but, yeah that is what you will have to face in the top tier, so better work more to not redrop immediatelly to 2. league next season..

 

Anyway, small mention to local fans, (you know, DAC Dunajská Streda, that pro-Hungarian/anti-Slovak fans) again could not refrain themselves once more from idiotic attempts of provocation ... cross out the name of the city Košice and write instead the Hungarian name used under HUN/AUT-HUN empire Kassa .. idiots

 

[Monzanator 4,768]

Meanwhile in Carabao Cup - Bradford vs Accrington Stanley PSO...