European soccer is back in Charlotte

[Ja Rhule]

Liverpool and Dortmund will squire off on July 22nd at Bank of America stadium.  Going to be insane.

[The Huddler]

[*FreeFua*]

Alex Morgan or GTFO

[Nails]

Big whoop.  No one worth a tinker’s cuss will be playing a week after the WC Final.  The ineptitude of local government after and during the riots and HB2 to allow Nashville to have a game instead of CLT last year and use that as a springboard to MLS over CLT goes beyond words.

[Ja Rhule]

6 minutes ago, The Huddler said:

 

[The Huddler]

2 minutes ago, ARSEN said:

 

[TheSpecialJuan]

Mane', Firmino, Salah possibly the best attacking trio in European football 

[Seoul_Panther]

Top flight English football is a pale shadow of what it was. German football is much worthier of respect.

Regardless, you have to be pretty footie starved to give up your time to watch a preseason friendly nowadays.

[Ja Rhule]

10 minutes ago, Seoul_Panther said:

Top flight English football is a pale shadow of what it was. German football is much worthier of respect.

Regardless, you have to be pretty footie starved to give up your time to watch a preseason friendly nowadays.

EPL is the most competitive league because it’s the most rich league so even average EPL teams can buy above average players.  Dortmund top players from the times Dortmund was relevant now play in England.  Both Aubameyang and Mkitaryan play for Arsenal.

[Seoul_Panther]

2 minutes ago, ARSEN said:

EPL is the most competitive league because it’s the most rich league so even average EPL teams can buy above average players.  Dortmund top players from the times Dortmund was relevant now play in England.  Both Aubameyang and Mkitaryan play for Arsenal.

Yeah I assumed that was the criteria you were using to come to that conclusion. In your defense many people would agree. It’s just sad for me because I followed English football before the premier League. In those days the league was competitive because you couldn’t buy success. Clearly that’s changed and the national team is absolutely pathetic these days because of it. I’m glad that people still enjoy the product but it’s not for me anymore.

[Ja Rhule]

12 minutes ago, Seoul_Panther said:

Yeah I assumed that was the criteria you were using to come to that conclusion. In your defense many people would agree. It’s just sad for me because I followed English football before the premier League. In those days the league was competitive because you couldn’t buy success. Clearly that’s changed and the national team is absolutely pathetic these days because of it. I’m glad that people still enjoy the product but it’s not for me anymore.

Before Real Madrid and Barcelona bought all super stars.  Not the case anymore.  Now players pick EPL over LaLiga.

[Seoul_Panther]

I think we’re having two parallel conversations here.

But by the way you’re wrong. Messi and Ronaldo are clearly the 2 best players in the world and have been for sometime. La Liga.

 If you know anything about England you will know that South American players rarely excel there and frequently can’t deal with the weather.

But I’m glad you think so highly of it.

[Khyber53]

60 plus minutes of folks kicking a ball around and running at half speed for a final score of 1-0. <snooze> I'll pass.

 

[Ja Rhule]

1 minute ago, Khyber53 said:

60 plus minutes of folks kicking a ball around and running at half speed for a final score of 1-0. <snooze> I'll pass.

 

I think Liverpool will crash em