2016/17 Premier League & General Football Discussion

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If De Gea went in the Summer Donnarumma would be my first choice replacement, 100%!
 
Monaco might have won the title race with the win over Lyon. Level on points with PSG but with one game in hand.

88GTA
And on top of that, Donnarumma's agent is playing hard ball with the new Milan owners making a new deal seem far off.
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Gigi's contract ends in 14 months which is still leaves time for negotiation. To be fair to AC, it looks like they will be busy in the summer. Potential links to Kramer, Musacchio, Keita, and a renewal for Suso.
 
lxmmy
Gigi's contract ends in 14 months which is still leaves time for negotiation. To be fair to AC, it looks like they will be busy in the summer. Potential links to Kramer, Musacchio, Keita, and a renewal for Suso.
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Keita's agent claim his rumors are not true. Mussacchio, Kramer, a purchase of Fabregas and loanee Pasalic from Chelsea have been linked. Suso staying would be great. I still think Gigio gets sold this summer but I am an eternal pessimist so who knows.
 
Dennisch
It has taken them a year of bureaucratic bickering but there finally is an agreement. The Amsterdam Arena will be renamed as the Johan Cruijf Arena.
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Is it still going the be the ArenA?
 
Well, Jeff Stelling being uncharacteristically boisterous and using his position as a prominent broadcaster to publicly humiliate his own club, of which he himself is the president, has forced Hartlepool's hand:

25th April - Dave Jones (Hartlepool United, sacked) League Two

Sackings: 34
Resignations: 10

Total: 44

Also, I don't know which toilet paper rag this was but this cropped up on my Twitter today. From the EC quarter-finals.

"Class" really did tell.

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Edit: The Taxman has raided the offices of West Ham United and Newcastle United; Newcastle's managing director has been arrested with more to be announced. French authorities are also involved and have made two arrests.
 
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I hope they do.

Or was that sarcasm?
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Sarcastic? Moi?

I loathe Newcastle United. West Ham... largely merit antipathy from me, but the club has always felt a bit... seedy.
Jimlaad43
Joey Barton banned for 18 months for betting charges
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39720232

Why do people keep employing him?
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Brend
He's a laughing stock up here and he only played for under 6 months.

So the answer to your question - no idea. :lol:
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All good points, but he admits to being a gambling addict and goes on to make a couple of pretty solid points himself:
"The FA has to be seen to lead on this issue, but need to accept there is a huge clash between their rules and the culture that surrounds the modern game, where anyone who watches follows football on TV or in the stadia is bombarded by marketing, advertising and sponsorship by betting companies, and where much of the coverage now, on Sky for example, is intertwined with the broadcasters’ own gambling interests.

"That means this is not an easy environment in which to try to stop gambling, or even to encourage people within the sport that betting is wrong. It is like asking a recovering alcoholic to spend all his time in a pub or a brewery. If the FA is serious about tackling gambling I would urge it to reconsider its own dependence on the gambling industry. I say that knowing that every time I pull on my team’s shirt, I am advertising a betting company."
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Have to admit that Barton statement is pretty tragic. All those words spent on outing yourself as a betting addict.

And he's damned if he thinks anything's gonna happen about betting. Far too entrenched in football now for it to go.
 
So about betting being quite pervasive in football. Here is the English top 92 and the clubs shirt-sponsored by betting companies.

Premier League

Bournemouth - Mansion Group
Burnley - Dafabet
Crystal Palace - Mansion Group
Hull City - SportPesa
Stoke City - bet365 (Stadium - bet365 Stadium)
Sunderland - Dafabet
Swansea City - BetEast
Watford - 138.com
West Bromwich Albion - UK-K8.com
West Ham United - Betway

SkyBet Championship - Division Sponsored

Birmingham City - 888sport
Blackburn Rovers - Dafabet
Brentford - 888sport
Burton Albion - Tempobet
Leeds United - 32red
Nottingham Forest - 888sport
Preston North End - 888sport
Queens Park Rangers - Smarkets
Wigan Athletic - Intersport

SkyBet League One - Division Sponsored

Charlton Athletic - BETDAQ

SkyBet League Two - Division Sponsored

Leyton Orient - Energybet
Notts County - Ladbrokes

This is in addition to:

Dafabet Welsh Premier League - Division Sponsored
Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership - Division Sponsored
Ladbrokes Scottish Championship - Division Sponsored
Ladbrokes Scottish League One - Division Sponsored
Ladbrokes Scottish League Two - Division Sponsored

Half of the Premier League (no really, 10 teams out of 20) is sponsored by betting companies. Real Madrid and Bayern München (bwin) have both been sponsored by betting companies in recent years.

You can't even watch a game of football without Ray Winston and Chris Kamara giving you all the in-play money sinks.

It would take some balls for any FA to make a stand against this but they won't so just watch it get worse instead.

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Liquid
It would take some balls for any FA to make a stand against this but they won't so just watch it get worse instead.
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Twenty-odd years ago, Niki Lauda won the John Player British Grand Prix in his Marlboro McLaren-TAG. If the FIA can manage it, the FA can too - and there's not much to choose between them when it comes to corruption either :lol:
 
Famine
Twenty-odd years ago, Niki Lauda won the John Player British Grand Prix in his Marlboro McLaren-TAG. If the FIA can manage it, the FA can too - and there's not much to choose between them when it comes to corruption either :lol:
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Arguably that was due to judicial legislation rather than any internal, altruistic desire to clean up the sport's image. Ferrari were still sponsored by Marlboro in this decade.

I would imagine football could follow the same route; if the FAs don't do it themselves "for the good of the game", it'll be eventual governmental pressure which forces them to instead.
 
Two clubs raided by the Taxmen and a player gets a lengthy ban for betting, not a great day for Football is it?!
 
I saw a table of his bets on his website and i'd say his problem is not being a betting addict but more a crap gambler. There was a list of 20, he won 3, invested £4,000 won about £200
 

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