Garnacho > CR7

Absolutely zero hyperbole, zero bias.

And without “net play time” it’s gonna be even MORE inconsistent. Some players will lose like 2 minutes of actual game play, while other may lose 8/9…

Without changing the rules to net play time (e.g. two 30 min halves) this is gonna be a MESS.

The idea is fine, but when one team has a sin bin and they start wasting time and in the end the player is out for like 2 minutes of actual game play… while in other case a player is out for 10+ (or whatever it ends up being) people are gonna be mad.

It seems the footballer wasn’t that nice…

^(Someone had to say it before they lock the thread…)

The new mandatory rule, which will require clubs to report data on age, sex, gender, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation within their organisations, is set to come into force for the start of the 2024-25 season

What?

Why should you be disclosing your gender and sexual orientation to a club so they can report it?

Is this ridiculous or am I missing something?

I want to believe it will be voluntary for the people involved and could choose prefer not to say or something, but still, sounds not right.

I have no doubt that more games and more minutes aren’t helping. But this article is extremely lacking on actual significant data.

Is a 15% one time event, significant in 4 seasons? Was it a trend going up or something? Why only use 4 years and not a longer trend?

I can’t access the data, since the article doesn’t mention it and the linked site only has current data.

The only thing they mention is this:

This season there has been an increase of about 96% for hamstring injuries compared to the last campaign, with 53 incidents - 26 more than during 2022-23.

Overall, it accounts to a 55% increase compared to the previous four-season average. The previous high was 40 hamstring injuries during the 2020-21 season.

Which is more evidence that 1 data point isn’t really useful. We know that 2020-21 had 40, then 2022-2023 had 26, then 2023-2024 has 53… How can you claim anything with data like that?

Lol, surely those ‘competitive’ goals against San Marino, Gibraltar, etc are worth more than friendlies against Brazil, France, etc.

Zidane’s idol Francescoli. Leo’s idol Aimar. Always River.

Leo may not say it, but the way he speaks about that era of River, he clearly reaaaally liked River as a kid.

Then make it less chaotic.

We recently had the Rugby World Cup, and it wasn’t chaotic. It can be done.

Stop making excuses.

Reminder that no player outside of Europe could win before 1995.

Brazil and Argentina would 100% have more wins if that was allowed.

That’s not to get into the two Di Stefano won, plus the one from Omar Sivori. Both born and raised in Argentina. Weird they are counted for Spain and Italy when literally today in the ceremony they talked about how Luis Suarez’ was Spain’s only winner.

Griezmann should be top 3, easily. But hey, whatever. He’s always been underrated.

Coincidentally, the Goal Line Tech costs around 200k per stadium. Which would be 4 million. Yet they gave Tebas 50% of the cost as a pay increase…

It’s a bit ridiculous.

Don’t worry, it’s not gonna be a long until Chiqui Mafia presents the new “el producto”: a 65 team tournament combining 1st and 2nd division to form the Argentine Supreme League.

They still wouldn’t be as bad as the first group. In fact, before he started playing for the NT, Poland was 22nd in 2007, 24th in 2006, 22nd in 2005, and so on… The hovered around 20-30 the decade before him. Their average ranking since 1992 is 35.

So not really. They would be a bit worse on average, and likely wouldn’t have reached their best rankings which were with him. But their “typical team” historically has been significantly better than the most of the teams I mentioned above.

Yeah but if you look closer Poland is ranked 30 in the FIFA Rankings (I know, but as an approximation it works) and these are the goals and the current ranking of the other teams (I know, they weren’t the same before, but just as a guide):

6 vs San Marino (207)

5 vs Romania (47)

4 vs Armenia (91)

4 vs Andorra (153)

3 vs Montenegro (68)

3 vs Denmark (18)

2 vs Kazakhstan (100)

1 vs Albania (62)

1 vs Sweden (23)

1 vs Hungary (32)

He scored 18 against teams significantly worse than Poland (San Marino, Armenia, Andorra, Kazakhstan) and then other 9 vs teams that are worse even if it’s closer (Romania, Montenegro, Albania).

You play whoever you get to play. Not shitting on him. But Poland being unimpressive is on the context of the Top UEFA teams, but the most goals came vs teams that are much weaker.

And again, not shitting on Lewa, all top players score more on worse teams, so did Cristiano, Leo, Suarez, etc.

He touches the ref, the ref says something which is fair to assume was something like don’t touch me, and the dude does it again not one, but twice more…

Players can be braindead.

I think all refs should give yellows to any player that touches them. Players should respect them more.