Comments on: Cristiano Ronaldo Scored Perfect Hat-Trick, Lionel Messi Countered By Scoring Four

By: dikembemutomballs

dikembemutomballs — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:04:31 +0000

No love for the geriatric league? AKA Serie A? Seems to be you have 35+ or a talent like Balotelli or El Sharrawy the rest of the world is just waiting to pluck.

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:45:05 +0000

Thank you, trinitiphil. La liga is a perfect example of what happens when you put short term gain over long term sustainability.

By: TrinityPills

TrinityPills — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:37:44 +0000

Care to explain how those two teams became the best teams in the world?

Unfairly. Real is treated as a nonprofit company in Spain which creates a huge advantage for them on the field. Barca had to build their team without that advantage but were able to turn success into a mountain of goodwill with banks. As of April 2012, both teams were operating with well over half a billion in debt. This type of debt isn’t afforded to the smaller teams in Spain, in part, because Real and Barca earn a disproportionate amount of the larges source of revenue for the league (TV money) season in and season out.

Here is a decent article on how debt (or more importantly, credit) has helped the two squads stay ahead of everyone else:

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2012/04/truth-about-debt-at-barcelona-and-real.html

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:07:35 +0000

You could surround Batman and Green Lantern with eighteen crippled retards and that wouldn’t mean the Justice League was awesome.

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:59:22 +0000

La Liga is a weak league provided you take out the two best teams who happen to be the two best teams in the world.

Care to explain how those two teams became the best teams in the world?

By: HuskerDawg

HuskerDawg — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:44:16 +0000

La Liga is a weak league provided you take out the two best teams who happen to be the two best teams in the world.

By: heldover

heldover — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:55:20 +0000

SOCCER FIGHT!!!!!

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:49:27 +0000

Falcao will end up at Real. He will hold for that move and they will need the money and Real will pay whatever they have to.

And if he does end up at City, it means Aguero will be on the way to Real.

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:47:48 +0000

I wonder who snags him.

Seems like a very Chelsea move. City?

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:47:11 +0000

Bayern have to do what they do in a world that doesn’t allow for them to spend the money that the teams with no real financial rules to follow can make. Paying what they paid for Javi Martinez was necessary to beat City to his signature because he will be a key player for them for a decade. But they paid less for Ribery and Robben than Barca paid for Alexis Fucking Sanchez, that is shrewd business.

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:45:58 +0000

Who’s winning the titles for next 15 years? I get Real and Barca, you get rest of the league. Who’s taking the bet?

By: kazzythekid

kazzythekid — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:45:04 +0000

Falcao has 60% of their goals this season. Once he is gone this summer, they’re done.

I wonder who snags him. Read that Pep is going to be given mad cash to spend as he chooses, with Suarez and Falcao his top targets. No chance Suarez leaves Anfield though.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/428625/20130128/pep-guardiola-fc-bayern-liverpool-luis-suarez.htm

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:42:30 +0000

Bayern is always up there. But you have different teams making up top 4 pretty much each year. Congratulations to Atletico Madrid. I’m sure they’ll be able to sustain their success.

By: otis sistrunk

otis sistrunk — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:41:37 +0000

anyone here been to an EPL match abroad? me and my grandpa went to see plymouth argyle play in the 70s in plymouth, but they may not have been first division

By: MP

MP — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:41:12 +0000

Sturridge was one of about 9-10 of the 14 Liverpool players that were real poor in that game. Tough to single him out.

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:40:04 +0000

But yet, Atletico Madrid is 4 points ahead of Real. The competitiveness overall is may be slightly in favor of Bundesliga, but not by much.

Falcao has 60% of their goals this season. Once he is gone this summer, they’re done.

Real have been their own worst enemy this year, I would be shocked if they don’t finish ten points ahead of Atleti

By: Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce

Cowboy Mike's Old Original Red Hot Ricochet Barbeque Sauce — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:38:31 +0000

Moleman, are you still president of the Andy Carroll fan club?

Nope, would never fit in the system Rodgers plays. I think he will end up thriving at West Ham when he can stay healthy though, perfectly set up for him there.

By: kazzythekid

kazzythekid — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:37:59 +0000

You have Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain and everyone else is in completely different league.

But yet, Atletico Madrid is 4 points ahead of Real. The competitiveness overall is may be slightly in favor of Bundesliga, but not by much.
There are a bunch of crap German teams, just like there are crap Spanish teams. (SpVgg Greuther Furth has a -22 goal differential through 19 games!)

By: Der Kaiser

Der Kaiser — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:37:26 +0000

Moleman, are you still president of the Andy Carroll fan club?

By: sctrojans

sctrojans — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:37:01 +0000

Considering it was his fourth game, and he scored three in his first three, and has played incredible well with Suarez prior, I’m not quite concerned by what you think.

I have no opinion. What I said was fact. Hadn’t seen his first three games, but he was astoundingly bad yesterday. He stood out among an otherwise awful Liverpool performance