Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

[Ukbrotha]

Anthony fukking Martial

 

[Hater]

The audacity of Arsenal to ask for Martial in the deal

 

[gho3st]

The audacity of Arsenal to ask for Martial in the deal

Wenger has no leverage. Sanchez has half a year left on his contract. Now he thinks he can get Martial on the cheap

 

[Givethanks]

fukkery, is this the future of the USMNT





I can't talk shyt tho.... I'm Canadian

 

[BlackBall]

Lukaku out there scoring meaningless goals again!

 

[Montez]

Have some of y’all seen Alexis play?

The gloss goes very quickly. Especially for teams who struggle to create

 

[phillycavsfan]

Alexis been trash this season, but that could just be that he's disengaged like Ox was before he moved to Liverpool.

Looking like the Man City win reignited Emre Can contract talks. We need him in our midfield. Him and Keita pressing next season would be devastating.

 

[Thierry Henry]

fukkery, is this the future of the USMNT





I can't talk shyt tho.... I'm Canadian

this can't be real life

 

[phcitywarrior]

To keep it 100, I don't really care for Sanchez at Man U. I like that Jose is giving Martial, Rashford and Lingard a shot. We need young players that can grow in the team.

 

[BlackBall]

fukkery, is this the future of the USMNT





I can't talk shyt tho.... I'm Canadian

That an Onion video ?

 

[THEREALBRAND]

fukkery, is this the future of the USMNT





I can't talk shyt tho.... I'm Canadian

The sad thing is it took me like two minutes before I realized it was a parody.

Some people are actually obtuse enough to come up with an idea like that

 

[Ukbrotha]

To keep it 100, I don't really care for Sanchez at Man U. I like that Jose is giving Martial, Rashford and Lingard a shot. We need young players that can grow in the team.

Whilst I agree, the team is still missing someone of Sanchez's quality and experience in attack. Our attack is very immature at times especially without Zlatan for most of it. Sanchez would greatly improve this team as to be honest he's exactly what we need even if its just for 2/3 years max.

 

[African_brehda]

Lukaku out there scoring meaningless goals again!

Apparently without his goals, Everton will still have finished in the same position last season

 

[The axe murderer]

Gigg's dad on his welsh appointment

"He is my son and it brings me close to tears to say that my family don't respect him and look up to him. As the eldest he should have been watching his brother's back - not stabbing him in it. He cheated in the worst possible way and is not man enough to apologise for it."
'I am ashamed of him. I can't even bring myself to use his name' - Ryan Giggs' dad on Wales appointment - Independent.ie

Bang your brother's wife for 8 years brehs

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Han Kwang-song is the North Korean striker who is a target for Juventus after impressing in Italy - but he is under orders from Kim Jong-un... and are his wages funding an enemy state?

As one of Italy's most promising young footballers, Cagliari striker Han Kwang-song should have the world at his feet and a bright future ahead of him.

Having burst on to the scene last season in Serie A, Han has thrived during a loan spell at Perugia in the second tier this campaign attracting Juventus' interest in the process. Always first in the queue for the finest prospects, the Old Lady are reportedly close to sealing a summer transfer for the teenager.

Han is already a full international at just 19 years old with two caps for his country.

The only problem for Han is - that country is North Korea.

Leader Kim Jong-un wants North Korea to become a genuine force in world football and Han is central to the dictator's plans, the youngster they have pinned a nation's hopes on to fire them to glory.

Born in the capital Pyongyang, Han was a sensation from an early age and was sent to a football academy in Barcelona at just 13. He returned to his homeland with FC Chobyong before impressing at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup in Chile.

Italian senator Antonio Razzi, close friends with Kim Jong-un, invited Han to participate at the prestigious ISM Academy in Italy.

A successful trial at Cagliari followed and last season Han broke into the first-team and became the first North Korean to score in Serie A in just his second appearance.

But there is a political cloud hanging over Han which threatens to derail his career before it's even started.

After scoring a hat-trick on the opening weekend of the Serie B season for Perugia, completing the treble with a deft side-footed volley, Han netted in his next appearance against Pescara.

The early-season form saw him invited on to the popular sports show La Domenica Sportiva, with the Italian public keen to know more about the latest teen sensation.

But just hours before Han was due to drive up to the television studio in Milan he received a call from one of Kim Jong-un's henchmen demanding that he cancel his appearance.

'A call from a not very clear ministry figure arrived and it blocked everything,' Perugia president Massimiliano Santopadre told La Stampa. 'Negotiating was impossible because Pyongyang want to talk only and exclusively with Han.

'The situation with their government has become even more rigid and their footballers have been prohibited from appearing on TV, otherwise they would have repatriated him. Han is scared.'

Serious questions have also been raised over whether Cagliari should be paying Han's wages given that the vast majority of his pay-packet is reportedly being sent back home.

North Korea laws dictate that the wages of any citizen working outside the national borders belong to their government. Therefore by paying Han's wages, Cagliari are indirectly funding an enemy state.

Just last year, Italy became the fifth country to expel the North Korean ambassador over the dictatorship's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Cagliari insist Han's wages are being paid directly to him but claim they cannot account for what the player does with them afterwards. Should Juventus sign Han and double or treble his wages, the issue will become even more pressing.

Fiorentina were forced to withdraw their contract offer to highly-rated North Korean starlet Choe Song-hyok last year after accusations that they were funding the authoritarian government's nuclear weapons programme by paying his salary.

After Fiorentina had Choe's contract terminated with the help of the Italian government, the striker signed for Perugia where he now shares a dressing room with his compatriot Han.

For Cagliari and Juventus, Choe's saga represents a reminder of the political minefield involved when signing a North Korean footballer.

at North Korea using footballers to take over the world like Zoolander.

Seriously though, it sucks that the kid can’t enjoy the fruits of his labor like a normal human being. All that hard work and he gets nothing to show for it, just so a guy that was handed the world on a silver platter can fund his pipe dreams.