2015 - 2016 European Football Season

@Brutal_Elitegs: Misery continues

"I have nothing to say"

What's happened to Hazard? Dude looks like a shell of the player he was last year. I can't even find pleasure in Chelsea's misery, because we play some turgid shit ourselves - even you've managed to score more goals than us. Only above Sunderland in shots per game. LVG is sucking the life out of football.

The midget got fat over the summer now he sucks. Then there's this: One player said recently, "I'd rather lose than win for him" with regards to Mourinho.

Reckon Jose will get sacked if the next week of games is poor. I don't want him to leave.

Today is EL CLASICOOOO!!!! Far too important to not mention here, of course!

Let's be completely honest: Barça has reached the match with a clear advantage over Madrid, who has shown its weaknesses in the absence of Keylor Navas. They don't attack enough, they don't defend well enough (despite defending a lot, mind) and there has been a general feeling of distrust towards Rafa Benitez (with Cristiano saying "we won't win anything with this trainer" to club president Florentino Perez).

Barça, on the other hand, has not been as strong as one could hope, however in the absence of Messi they've found Neymar and Luis Suarez to be capable of filling the hole he leaves behind. The team is a bit more solid than Madrid in defense, and they seem a lot more united than Madrid.

All this has translated into the current 3 point lead Barça has over Madrid, after the latter lost two weeks ago to Sevilla in a match where they offered absolutely no football worth noting after the first 45 minutes.

Nonetheless, Madrid arrive with their full squad, and a supposed change of mindset, with Benitez looking for a more offensive football, while Barça arrive with Messi still not at 100%, and the hopes that what's been good enough the past two months will again be good enough today, only with a far more formidable rival in front...

What a massacre.

Claudio Bravo is my homie.

lol just lol at the fascistas. Completely rekt by Barca at home.

mes que un club

If there is justice and God in this world the fat Spanish waiter will stay on as manager for many years to come.

Oh come on now, you can hardly call the RM players fascists... none of them were even born in Madrid lol. As for the fans, aye!

I'm still amazed at Ancelotti's firing and the hiring of Benitez. Florentino Perez sure does look like an ass right now.

Somehow word is spreading that Guardiola will take over the lead at MacC come summer. I hope it turns out to be false. He's better than that.

Yeah, he is. I hope it's false. Then again there's only so many top European clubs he could train right now...

OKAy so...

uuuh....LOL....... lololololololololololo

Let me explain:

Guy called Cheryshev had accumulated yellow cards and shouldn't have played today in the Copa del Rey.

But he did.

So now Real Madrid is facing a possible expulsion from the Copa del Rey.

soooooo yeah loooooool

Stoke is putting on a clinic vs Man City. Pretty impressive with ball movement/passing. Man City is just getting schooled by the passing and runs stoke are making. EPL has been amazing this season with quality of play.

Is Mourinho doing this on purpose?

lol drew PSG again. What a joke

LOL at Arsenal though. MSN going to run rampant on Wenger's boys.

@Aljosa23: Less than a point a game lol

Leave me alone man

Given Barça's attitude lately... I just hope they come back from christmas with the motivation to do great things again and manage to beat Arsenal. Matchups like Juve-Bayern and Chelsea-PSG make me sad, coz at least two of those teams won't be in the quarterfinals :'(

Anyways @Aljosa23 question about Chelsea, given their decent(ish?) form in the UCL compared to the abysmal performances in the EPL, do you think something's going on amongst the players? Perhaps they're doing this on purpose? I simply can't believe that they'd be incapable of winning anything in the last 5 domestic games.

Also Leicester in 1st makes me lol, I remember when I was a kid I had a friend who was a hardcore Leicester fan when they were in second (or third...?) division. I wonder how happy he is right now.

This goes back to the even last season when 2015 rolled around. Costa has been as shit as Fernando Torres' worst spell at Chelsea, Fabregas has the toughness of a pre-pubscent boy who has also been shit since the new year, and the last time Hazard scored Caitlyn Jenner was known as Bruce Jenner. Other players have been bad too like Matic, Oscar, and especially Ivanovic. Your boy Pedro is useless too lol. Whatever the reasons for this dramatic drop in return, I don't know. It's possible they're all lazy entitled divas like the rest of the Premier League "big clubs", unable to cope with adversity and when results don't go their way and being too used to winning that a couple losses of form their confidence completely shrivels.

Mourinho isn't faultless either. He has called out players for bad performances yet continues to play the same group of knuckleheads it's a wonder we even managed to hold on to the title last season. If he was actually playing our talented youngsters I wouldn't be so upset at him. But nope, still sticking with the same core that have shown time and time again this season they do not have what it takes nor do they care to defend the title or even compete for a top 4 spot. I don't even want to think what kind of nightmare scenario it would be if we got relegated.

@Aljosa23: Which is why I'm wondering if maybe the players are boycotting Mourinho or something... I simply can't understand that these great players would have such a bad streak.

Aaaaaaand Jose just got sacked. Goodbye sweet prince

Good news for them. The **** happened to Chelsea? I saw the game against Leicester City and they looked like ass.

And I thought Real Madrid's problems were bad.

I'm not surprised. But who's Chelsea gonna hire to take his place...? There isn't an excess of good free coaches roaming around right now. Anyways, loljose.

@ianhh6: Apparently the top targets are Pep, Simeone, and Conte.

Pep would be quite the change of direction. I must confess I've always disliked Chelsea more than any other club :P Even Real Madrid, and it's directly because of Mourinho. I've hated the guy since like 2004, and he left a rather big footprint at Stamford Bridge. I wonder what Chelsea will be like now that they've kicked him out.

Please leave Atletico alone though :3

Dream about it.

@elkoldo: I knew you'd have something to say with respect to that :P

Roman gets what Roman wants (usually). It's a bad idea anyway since our players are prima donnas who will just conspire to get the manager sacked once again. Simeone is an even bigger hard ass than Mourinho.

He might be a hard-ass but he doesn't publicly criticize and humilliate his players. He doesn't ever complain about the referees, he doesn't insult other coaches and he respects everyone in the profession. Mourinho's problem isn't that he's a hard-ass, it's that he's a dick to the people around him. Simeone might have a defensive football and rigorous methods, but he respects his players and they reward him for it. Besides like half of Chelsea have already been under his orders lol, they'd love to have Simeone. But like elkoldo said, keep dreaming :P

Fair points, you've made your case.

Reckon it has a high chance of happening anyway. Chelsea can double, maybe even triple Simeone's wages.

'Tis the season to be jolly, unless you're a manager. Mourinho's been sacked, Van Gaal has miraculously not been sacked, Guardiola is out of Bayern and it seems to be of his own accord, but I'm not sure to what degree it is, and Rafa Benitez is hanging on by a thread while all of Spain tries to figure out who will take his place this January.

Once again, football is more interesting in the offices than on the field, and that's a shame.

Aaaaaaand Benitez is out. Zidane to take his place. Given their poor performances I would've rathered he stay XD

@Brutal_Elitegs: hahahahaha

No matter how shit we are we can always count on some easy points against Arsenal.

I can't remember the last time we beat you either. Just checked, it was 2012 and you were playing with 9 men lol

Really hoping Spurs or Leicester win the title; Arsenal fans are fucking insufferable and Spurs winning it when this is the best chance Arsenal have had in a long time would be amazing.

Meanwhile,

https://cdn.streamable.com/video/mp4-mobile/bof5.mp4

https://cdn.streamable.com/video/mp4-mobile/6tab.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTX8sXpfp1M

@Brutal_Elitegs: hahahaha poor United. How does LVG still have a job?

#JoseIn

Atletico must pull off a magical defensive showdown, and stay sharp, very sharp, very very very sharp on the few chances of counter attack they'll get; if they want to stand any chance in the title race.

Otherwise we might as well crown Barca as the champions tomorrow evening.

@Brutal_Elitegs: ROFLMAO @ the gif :DDDDD

Maybe next time.

@Brutal_Elitegs: lol Depay. lol at 90% possession second half. You lads bottled it hard. De Gea the GOD.

Fucking useless. I remember Nani giving up possession against your lot in the Capital One Cup a few years back, and you went up the other end and got a penalty and then went on to win the game 5-4. I remember thinking he was a brainless footballer at the time. Well, he was a fucking genius compared to Memphis. Memphis is such a fucking nothing player - he's almost as bad as Hazard.

Oh well, Mou in the summer with Pogba, Griezmann and Stones.

@Brutal_Elitegs: I was pretty disappointed Big Guus went so negatively once again. Hazard needs to start, Matic needs to ride the bench, and Oscar needs to be shot into the moon.

Guys stop daydreaming about getting anything from Atletico already.
You won't gain shit.

As a Juventus fan, I really hope allegri does not join Chelsea.

@Brutal_Elitegs: hahahahahahah

Juve did a magical job reclaiming the summit at Serie A. The way they started the season and continued until mid-autumn really implied that they had lost the mentality, but how they fought their way back like hell from nearly the bottom...you gotta admire them and take it as a life lesson. It's easy to get despaired at such times, like the other one-time-UCL runners-up Dortmund did last season. But Fifteen consecutive wins is a world wide-record; at least I don't recall a longer run.

It's a shame to see one the two wonderful teams Bayren or Juve exit the UCL at a stage as early as the first knock-out round.

@Aljosa23:

lol I give up

Calling it now, Barça to win the treble again. I have a fork and knife ready just in case I have to eat my words.

Giving Arsenal a nice drubbing on Tuesday would be a nice way to start the last phase of the season.