2018/2019 European Football Thread

http://www.goal.com/en/news/mourinh...eals-managers-half/1mcfwpmtu7a561v4xnshw18tbo

 

If they are on, they are on.

That would be like 10+ points for each every other GW in fantasy soccer.

 

Chelsea v Liverpool this was not.

 

https://www.google.co.il/amp/s/www....s-raped-Ronaldo-contacted-alleged-victim.html

"Lawyer representing woman who claims she was raped by Ronaldo reveals she has been contacted by another alleged victim".

Well good luck with that Ronaldo,if i learned something from the news lately it's time to prepare your high school yearbook.

 

If that is true, it is puzzling as Ronaldo could have a lot of women willingly.

Or they just wanted him for the Insta Photo.

 

I get what they're doing and it can work against a team like LFC that likes to press high...but there was a ton of dangerous passes in the defensive 1/3 that they were lucky to get away with. One bad touch and you've drawn Salah closer to your goal with no chance of being offside since your backs are near the touchline. I'm not in favor of having to force a bunch of threaded balls out of the back just because you want to spread their forwards out. Plus. the amount of teams that like to press like LFC is pretty small.

 

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What's going on in Belgium @Gdaliya?

Agents, referees and high-ranked officials arrested, also raids at the top clubs...

 

I'm not in the loop yet but its look crazy.
I'll read more about it and answer more later.

Right now it's look like 2 different investigations.

1. about financial fraud and money laundering(several big names agents are being questioned and even some managers are suspects).
Seems logical, there are some shady things going on behind the stage of belgian football.

2.Game fixing, some big name referees got arrested or being questioned.

I don't know what to except now or what would happen in the end but it's sure gonna change the landscape of Belgian football.

 

Its looks bigger than i thought it would.
According to a report from Belgian newspaper:
220 investigator in 7 different countries
Cyprus, France, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia and Belgium.
I'm sure will know more tommrow, but the already The Serbian police already seized 800,000 so its obvious they got something here.

In the game fixing side UEFA just announced that Sébastien Delferière(one of the arrested referees) would not be taking part in the Nations league game of Georgia vs Andorra,

 

Damn. Since footballers are way overpaid nowadays, I thought we left this game fixing behind us, at least in the western European leagues.

 

I don't know a lot yet but most of the game fixing suspicions seems to revolve around referees and not the players themselves.
Some rumors speak about Eupen vs Mouscron and KV Mechelen vs Waasland-Beveren (11 March 2018).
Those two games were important in terms of relegation last season.

Craziest news yet, Ivan leko Brugge manager would spend the night in jail over suspicion of fraud and maybe money laundering(not sure about that).