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

[phillycavsfan]

Both things can be true:

1) Ozil is being unfairly attacked by racist Germans thanks to his Turkish heritage. Those photos with Erdogan weren't a major problem beforehand, and they make no difference now.

2) Ozil's been trash the last couple years and shouldn't be selected to play for Germany in any meaningful competition.

 

[TobiOT]

Liverpool it is time to take the prem This is the year I fully believe in Liverpool

We hear this every year

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Ozil making it look like a political statement that his game has been declining for years and he’s tappIng out. Dudes always been full of shyt

Both things can be true:

1) Ozil is being unfairly attacked by racist Germans thanks to his Turkish heritage. Those photos with Erdogan weren't a major problem beforehand, and they make no difference now.

2) Ozil's been trash the last couple years and shouldn't be selected to play for Germany in any meaningful competition.

 

[Sukairain]

Both things can be true:

1) Ozil is being unfairly attacked by racist Germans thanks to his Turkish heritage. Those photos with Erdogan weren't a major problem beforehand, and they make no difference now.

2) Ozil's been trash the last couple years and shouldn't be selected to play for Germany in any meaningful competition.

I think it's fair to say if he'd been in brilliant form lately, the Germans would have swept that Erdogan issue totally under the rug. :mjplsnazi:

 

[Roberto Firmino]

:mjplsnazi:

 

[phillycavsfan]

No one denies Ozil is a good passer still. The problem is that he doesn't offer much else, and in today's game you need more than that from a 10 or a winger.

 

[BlackBall]

"When we faced Arsenal, we always played through him because we knew that he is the weak link," Hoeness said.

 

[hashmander]

nm

 

[Trajan]

Ozil done with German team

Good on him

Someone has to call out the BS

 

[phcitywarrior]

I didn't realize how cold of a dribbler Martial really is

On his day there are only a handful of players that are better dribblers eg Hazard, Messi, Thiago etc

 

[thatrapsfan]

Germans are incredibly racist toward the Turks, but come on, you're out here taking pictures with motherfukking Erdogan and getting mad at the blowback.

What's happening here is a mixture of people being disgusted by people smiling in pictures with a piece of shyt like Erdogan with German racists piggy-backing on that legitimate criticism to do their racist shyt.

Gundogan apologized and literally had a full mea culpa, and still got booed to the point of tears by German supporters in World Cup warmup matches.


I dont buy it one bit that this is simply about German defence of Turkish democracy and human rights. We just a had World Cup in freakin Russia, which is worse on all comparable human rights and democracy indicators and football fans were able to rationalize it, yet a one-off photo by Ozil inspires a national meltdown?

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Man this is b.s. My man Ozil is being scapegoated. What about golden boy Mueller? Dude has been underwhelming for a minute.

The whole team besides Kroos was flabby. And Low is mostly to blame especially for not bringing Sane. But when you lose major vets like Schwinestiger, Klose, and Lahm...you can tell wasn't no leaders in that whole dressing room.

But Ozil for a flat top as he can be sometimes is totally being scapegoated...the team couldn't score for shyt, they were run off the pitch at every turn. But again, Ozil is sort of right by his statement. Very few have contributed as much to the German national side in the last decade than he has. You could say the aforementioned 3 players and perhaps Muller. Outside of that he's been a MAJOR part of their side tactically and has always been a major reason why they've had success.


Its the same thing Cantona said about the France team. When you win, you're German. When you lose your're a dirty Turk from Gelsenkirchen.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

No one denies Ozil is a good passer still. The problem is that he doesn't offer much else, and in today's game you need more than that from a 10 or a winger.

No one ever said that about Andrea Pirlo

But I forgot he's a flowy haired Italian so he can be "classy" and "brilliant". Meanwhile, Ozil's made a living basically doing the same shyt won a WC and gets called a buncha racist names because he took a picture. An ill advised picture....but a picture.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Mesut Özil affair: Politicians slam German FA over racism accusation | DW | 23.07.2018

Most German politicians are lining up behind Ozil. I bet the FA gets forced out by the end of the week.

 

[beejus]

So who is attending matches during the US touring season? I'll post whatever video and pics I take when I attend the Barça vs Roma match at JerryWorld(Cowboy Stadium).

Haven't been keeping up much since the WC ended, but I'm excited to possibly see all the new signings for Barça, including the dubbed air apparent to Andres Iniesta, Arthur Melo.

I'm a real fan, so it won't bother me that most of the first team will be on vacay.

I was hoping they'd make their way up to Seattle, but not this year. I'd think the majority of both those teams should be there at the game minus the 4 guys who played in the world cup for Barca.

Hope you get to see the young gawd Kluivert play.

Unless they have prime Eddie Popes and Bocanegras in defense, a three man backline is suicide. We haven't proven that we can produce talent saavy enough to defend with four in the back let alone three.

Either a 4-5-1 that can be shifted depending on need or 4-3-2-1. The 4-2-3-1 is ok too.

Right now, I personally don't see a need to play more than a single striker up top because our pool isn't as deep and talented as it should be. I don't have a preference right now, but Bobby Wood may be the #9 going forward. Altidore, I believe will still be on the squad.

As for the USMNT. These are pretty good short videos on some of the young next generation of players.

https://www.ussoccer.com/RISING
@LinusCaldwell