This will be a fun thread for a Monday morning.

Great half, we should be up 4-0 or more.

In München wäre es trotz allem Talents wohl erstmal nur der Backup Spieler,

Das ist unsere größtes problem mit jungen Spielern (Sanches, Gravenberch, Tolisso, Nianzou, etc).

Es ist sehr schwierig, junge Spieler zu entwickeln wenn unsere Erwartungen so hoch sind. Tuchel zum Beispiel soll alles gewinnen. Wenn man regelmäßig Kratzig (oder Gravenberch letztes Jahr) spielt, ist das schwieriger. Und wir haben bereits viele hochbezahlte Spieler auf der Bank.

Mid Jan-Mid Feb is going to be a huge test for the Pills. They lose 5 players to the Africa & Asian tournaments plus they’ll be juggling the Pokal and Europa League KOs.

Here is a story that explains the situation with 8xBet where the ‘CEO’ is caught in lies about the validity of the company. Online images of employees were traced back to modelling agencies in London.

They accepted money from a Crypto site called 3Key and then it wasn’t until an external investigation showed that none of their executives actually existed anywhere online before they cancelled the sponsorship.

Here is a financial prepaid debit card sponsor that gave City over £500k per year for a few years despite only activating 145 cards in the history of their company.

Either City’s owners are thick as shit accepting money from everybody or they are cheating. And I don’t think they’re thick as shit.

Check the LinkedIn profiles of these odd sponsorship companies City gets its money from.

Is this any different than City taking ‘revenue’ from shell companies owned by their club’s owner? If nothing will be done to City for money laundering and stuff like that I doubt anything comes of this.

And despite all of this, the Premier League will keep opening its legs to any shitty human with a lot of money.

We’re just playing the Uno reverse card this season. Get all the bad injuries out of the way in the Hinrunde so that we strengthen our depth in January. Then we get healthy in March and win the Champions League.

I think we have generally started matches poorly under Tuchel, but the way we are able to make adjustments in the second half and have consistently made the right subs late in games is really good to see. This should help us later in the Champions League. Under Nagelsmann you could tell 10 minutes into a match if we were going to be competitive that night or not.

I still don’t think we can properly judge him without getting him a midfielder of his choosing though. If you watch his PSG side in 2020 or Chelsea in 2021 you saw spectacular buildup play from 2 sides that were completely press-resistant. There is a reason he beat Pep 3x in about 6 weeks in 2021 in the league, FA Cup and Champions League.

If we can find him that midfielder like he had in Marquinhos / Veratti / Kante / Jorginho then we will look like a brand new side come February.

3 red cards, a goal check, a substitution and only 3 extra minutes. That is 💩

This reads like a Ponzi scheme. Hey kid - you want to make €1m? Just send me €100k as an investment into Barca Studios ™ and then you have to go find 3 friends to give you a €100k investment.

Don’t do it, Frankie. With the state of that club at the moment do you really think they could fulfil a career-long contract? If the couldn’t do it with Messi they can’t do it with you.