Soccer

[hbionic]

Nice loss Everton! 

Chelsea: "It's ok Everton, we lost to them too."

[ice grillin you]

watched that hillsborough 30/30 yesterday....pretty good....burned drowned als are the only three worse ways I can think to die

[Diomedes]

Liverpool avoided the choke.  Yay...at least one team I support doesn't always farging suck when it matters.

[Rome]

[hbionic]

watched that hillsborough 30/30 yesterday....pretty good....burned drowned als are the only three worse ways I can think to die

Had no clue that was one. Will look for a replay of it.

[hbionic]

Liverpool avoided the choke.  Yay...at least one team I support doesn't always farging suck when it matters.

Go Liverpool. Those iceholes at Stamford Bridge deserve their getting their balls cut off but they don't have any. Liverpool has been so much fun to watch this season, the whole team has come together at the perfect time and has beat the teams they were supposed to...just like a true Champion.

Chelsea needs Ibrahimovich or some other bad ass that can break a Sunderland back 4. 

*Rome. I'm getting the impression Moyes is going to stick around at least through next season.

*I would love nothing more than for Everton to squeeze by Arsenal but they may have killed any chances by losing to Crystal Palace last week.

[Rome]

Ding dong the bitch is dead.   Good riddance to that effing loser.

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1793583/manchester-united-confirm-david-moyes-sacking?cc=5901

[hbionic]

I wonder what's going to happen to RVP and Chicharito this upcoming season.

On another note, Athletico Madrid is a good team. Diego Costa is a bull. I don't know how they didn't score against Chelsea. Chelsea clearing out balls like the Eagles defense tackles opponents.

Pressure will be on Chelsea on the 2nd leg not to allow a score. Or at least score 1 more goal than Atletico.

[Rome]

I think both are gone, actually.  They have to get the midfield and backfield squared away and that's going to take a massive payroll outlay.  I was reading they have $200,000,000 to spend in the offseason.  I think they should get a permanent manager immediately (although I'd be happy keeping Giggs as skipper) and find out in the last four matches who wants to stay and who needs to go.  The effort they gave against Everton was a disgrace and that must never happen again.

[hbionic]

Yeah, I did hear something about $180,000,000 for the off-season. Which brings me to question...isn't the team in debt? How do they have so much money to spend and at the same time have so much debt? Are they doing it the Dan Snyder way?

What was evident about the team (other than injuries throughout) was it's age and there was no identity. Usually, Manchester United can bully you into losing...that was gone this season. It was a chicken with its head cut off. I don't think it came as a surprise the season following Sir Alex's retirement. But no one expected it to be this bad.

This off-season sounds like it's going to be a busy one with all the rumors flying around already.

[Rome]

They have debt but they make so much in revenue they can literally pay it off whenever they choose.  Nike is going to pay them a billion dollars over ten years as their official outfitter and Chevy is paying them seventy nine million a year to have their logo on the jersey.  That's 179 million dollars a year just in two deals.  The amount of cash they take in is just insane.

[hbionic]

Wow. I didn't realize that. Nice set up. Now I see where the $180mil comes in. Specially in a league where teams have to fend for themselves in terms of marketing, etc. My understanding is that there's no revenue share. Is that right?

[Rome]

Yep.  Everyone fends for themselves in terms of marketing cash.  The Champions League, Europa League and all the assorted tournaments and exhibitions are split between the entrants, though, and that's why United's missing the CL this year really is bad news for the bottom line. 

They're still United and one horrible season (for them anyway) isn't going to be disastrous.  If they start stringing together years outside the top-3, then it could get ugly, but I don't see that happening. 

They're headed in the right direction already in terms of ridding themselves of Moyes.  He's just horrible and there's no other way to say it.  The players outright mutinied against him and although I feel sorry for the guy because he's just not suited for a CL-level side, it's not his fault he was over-matched from the start.    I mean, he replaced the greatest manager in the history of the sport.  It would be like replacing Lombardi or John Wooden. 

[hbionic]

Liverpool v. Chelsea.

Tough game. Brought Man City back into the title race mix. It is going to be a fun final two weeks. The bottom five are so close...going to be fun.

[Rome]

I chuckled when I read Dio's post about Liverpool not choking.  I almost posted 'not yet' but I didn't want to be that guy.