European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 13 Jun 2019 19:31

Ligue 1 will be renamed "Ligue 1 Uber Eats" for the 2020/21 & 2021/22 seasons following the conclusion of a naming rights deal.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 24 Jun 2019 16:01

Back to back promotions for Real Mallorca as they overturned a 1st leg 2-0 defeat with a 3-0 win last night against Deportivo in the 2nd leg of the Spanish Segunda Division play off final.


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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Hendo » 24 Jun 2019 19:54

It wasn't that long ago that Deportivo were in the Champs League and getting beyond the group stages.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by The Enfield Royal71 » 24 Jun 2019 21:40

Hendo It wasn't that long ago that Deportivo were in the Champs League and getting beyond the group stages.


Didn't they get to the final by beating ac milan who had dida, Cafu, Stam, maldini etc

Edit: just checked. Best them 4-0 to win 5-4 on agg.

Also pfucking :shock: at ac milans team. Genuinely forgot how good they were.
Kaka, gattuso, shevchenko, nesta, seedorf, dida, cafu, maldini, pirlo, inzhagi

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Sanguine » 25 Jun 2019 11:57

Hendo It wasn't that long ago that Deportivo were in the Champs League and getting beyond the group stages.


Mallorca weren't awful either - Samuel Eto'o spent a few years there, and I'm sure they picked up a cup or two.


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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Hendo » 25 Jun 2019 12:03

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Hendo It wasn't that long ago that Deportivo were in the Champs League and getting beyond the group stages.


Mallorca weren't awful either - Samuel Eto'o spent a few years there, and I'm sure they picked up a cup or two.


Indeed, wasn't he there before his move to Barca?

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by The Enfield Royal71 » 25 Jun 2019 12:29

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Hendo It wasn't that long ago that Deportivo were in the Champs League and getting beyond the group stages.


Mallorca weren't awful either - Samuel Eto'o spent a few years there, and I'm sure they picked up a cup or two.


Indeed, wasn't he there before his move to Barca?


He went from real to them and then inter (i think) then Barca

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 27 Jun 2019 10:19

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in Dec 2018 Winston Biscuit Palermo in Serie B purchased by a company in London for €10 with a further branding purchase agreement which guarantees the new owners have to put another €22.8M into the club to get them to a healthy financial position.


Palermo booted down to the 3rd division after financial miss management

They finished 3rd in Serie B so are in the play offs, and now there is debate around the format of the play offs. Palermo also say they are appealing and want to be in the play offs while that goes on


Palermo fail to get their registration papers submitted in time to play in the 3rd tier (due to arguing with the Italian FA about what div they would start in) and are booted down to the 4th division

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 27 Jun 2019 10:24

Just learned that Graeme Le Saux is a Director at Real Mallorca

Nice place to be celebrating promotion


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by Winston Biscuit » 27 Jun 2019 10:37

When Palermo were dropped to the bottom of the league, Venezia were informed that this meant they did not have to take part in the relegation play off as they were essentially bumped up a place in the table. Their season ended and the players went off on holiday. Venezia were then contacted by the Italian FA who said they had decided that they did have to take part in the play off, the players are recalled from holiday and made to play a 2 legged game against Salernitana of the 3rd tier. Salernitana win on penalties and Venezia are relegated.......only for the Italian FA to decide that Venezia can actually stay in Serie B due to other clubs having problems and not being able to take part in Serie B :lol:

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by Hendo » 27 Jun 2019 10:41

Winston Biscuit When Palermo were dropped to the bottom of the league, Venezia were informed that this meant they did not have to take part in the relegation play off as they were essentially bumped up a place in the table. Their season ended and the players went off on holiday. Venezia were then contacted by the Italian FA who said they had decided that they did have to take part in the play off, the players are recalled from holiday and made to play a 2 legged game against Salernitana of the 3rd tier. Salernitana win on penalties and Venezia are relegated.......only for the Italian FA to decide that Venezia can actually stay in Serie B due to other clubs having problems and not being able to take part in Serie B :lol:


Love this :lol:

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 27 Jun 2019 10:45

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Winston Biscuit When Palermo were dropped to the bottom of the league, Venezia were informed that this meant they did not have to take part in the relegation play off as they were essentially bumped up a place in the table. Their season ended and the players went off on holiday. Venezia were then contacted by the Italian FA who said they had decided that they did have to take part in the play off, the players are recalled from holiday and made to play a 2 legged game against Salernitana of the 3rd tier. Salernitana win on penalties and Venezia are relegated.......only for the Italian FA to decide that Venezia can actually stay in Serie B due to other clubs having problems and not being able to take part in Serie B :lol:


Love this :lol:


looking up the last matches in Serie B it looks like there was a month between Venezia's last league game (and them going off on their holidays) and the play offs

Imagine that, a month of partying and beering it up and then getting a call to say 'sorry lads we got it wrong, there is a match on this weekend and if you lose you are relegated'

f*cking lol

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 27 Jun 2019 10:47

there really could be an entire thread on the clownish antics that go on in Italian football


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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 28 Jun 2019 12:14

CAS rules that due to breaching FFP AC Milan are not to take part in UEFA competitions for the upcoming season

They finished 5th last season getting themselves a Europa League spot so it means that Roma go straight into the group stages and Torino enter the Europa League qualifying round

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 04 Jul 2019 08:25

Jim Ratcliffe, Richest Britain on the Times Rich List, on the verge of buying Nice apparently

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Hendo » 04 Jul 2019 09:24

Winston Biscuit Jim Ratcliffe, Richest Britain on the Times Rich List, on the verge of buying Nice apparently


Nice (pardon the pun) part of the world.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 11 Jul 2019 12:39

Enric Gallego was an amateur footballer until January when at the age of 32 he signed his first professional contract by joining Huesca. They got relegated but he showed enough for Getafe to sign him for €6M and give him a 3 year contract. Getafe finished 5th in La Liga last season

quite the dream scenario

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by The Enfield Royal71 » 11 Jul 2019 23:42

Not European but pretty cool headline from the bbc about Yokohoma of the J2 league

Yokohama FC sign Shunsuke Nakamura, 41, to join Kazuyoshi Miura, 52

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by stealthpapes » 12 Jul 2019 10:44

Winston Biscuit Enric Gallego was an amateur footballer until January when at the age of 32 he signed his first professional contract by joining Huesca. They got relegated but he showed enough for Getafe to sign him for €6M and give him a 3 year contract. Getafe finished 5th in La Liga last season

quite the dream scenario


had a look at this as its quite the story. He was banging in the goals off and on in the Spanish 3rd tier. 101 in 198 games for one club, 25 in 33 as he got promoted with Extramedura.

It might just be a quirk of how the Spanish leagues work - continental leagues are semi-pro much earlier than in UK.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Sanguine » 12 Jul 2019 13:46

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48958963

As good a place as any for it - Marseille started their pre-season last night at Accrington Stanley. And lost 2-1, despite fielding a strong side that include Dmitri Payet.


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