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I would be shocked if he didn't work it out with Barca. 

So will I, maybe it is just his agent playing who's gonna blink first.

FIFA agent Gallardo said on El Chiringuito TV that Messi won't be playing for Barca next season.

""I maintain that Messi will not be at Barca next season. There are several explanations for this. First, many betrayals from the front office I will explain later. Then the club cannot  pay him what he wants because its economic situation is in chaos. Should be a miracle but I do not believe it. I also maintain that the offer comes from PSG, who wants to sign him for €30 million euros net per year."

Messi is looking for a 5 years contract worth €250 millions.

He is upset because Neymar is making more than him and that the club rejected his request for a raise last November.

Barca will also have to pay the renovation of Camp Nou.

Messi wants to get paid twice as much as he's making (€12.5 millions). He wants €25 millions, rumor has PSG offering €30 millions.

So that's United saying bye bye ha ha.

I'd favour Barca, Madrid, Munich and sadly Chelsea to be in the semis.

Should all be tight games bar the Bayern ass kicking. -

Hail.

I strongly disagree my Scouser friend I expect PSG to kick the crap out of the Mou and Torres

I expect a boring defensive game from the Blues, and Ibracadabra to unlock the situation.

Champions League Draw :

Barcelona - Athletico Madrid

Real Madrid - Dortmund

PSG - Chelsea

ManU - Bayern Munich

Blatter and his corrupted minions.

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for tax fraud worth €27 millions. The same guy that was criticizing PSG about financial fairplay, LOL.

(No offense FF to you on a fellow Countryman, but that's being polite on him.).

Hail.

None taken my friend, you know my opinion about him, he was among the greatests as a player but a very lousy president of uefa.

 At least Giroud has a good taste don't you think ?

Pellegrini is a bitter little man.

Hail.

Lol, I like him and Mourinho getting at each others through medias.

The interpretation, as of a few years ago, allows for that—even if contact happens outside the box (edge of the box) but momentum would have carried the player into the area, then the ref has discretion to award the penalty. I don't know if that has been changed again. 

Unchanged, Pellegrini said the ref was the same one who screwed to the detriment of Barca last year (against Milan), and thinks he was making up for them this time.

It's going to come out a decade from now how Barca were doping and they were paying refs off. 

Ergogenics

Morgan Schneiderlin linked with Arsenal

Suspicious penalty awarded for Barcelona seemed Messi was brought down outside of the penalty box, Demichelis got a red.

Ibracadabra having fun in Leverkusen, PSG leading 0-3 in first half. Second half, Bayer playing without Spahic who got a red. Cabaye just scored, 0-4.

Van Persie wants to go back to Arsenal, Arsène met with his agent.

Dallas Buyers club, Matthew McConaughy is brilliant, worth an oscar.

Despite the seriousness of the subject here, the director found a way to include humor, with Rayon's extravagance and his clashes with outspoken Ron, which helps the movie from falling into melodrama.

I forgot True Blood

Pam is hot !

The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Revolution, Continuum, Games of Thrones, Spartacus, House of Cards

New ones: Helix, True Detective, Klondike

Falcao will follow hyperbaric chamber treatment to accelerate his torn ACL healing. He wants to be ready for the WC.

Cabaye signed by PSG it is believed to be a deal around €20 millions + €5 millions in bonuses.

ps............What ever happened to Financial Fair Play?

Dead at birth by sponsorship. See PSG with QTA (Qatar tourism company) paying €150 millions to €250 millions/year to PSG through 2016 with retroactive effect on the 2012 season to erase the €100 millions deficit.

Bayern Munich is supposed to open offices/stores in the US and Asia to generate extra income.

Platini was one of the greatest on the field, a joke running UEFA, see how he put up the financial fairplay and his rebuffing of instant replay (no more game fixing !).

Also, looks like Radamel Falcao tore his ACL in a nasty challenge. Out for the season and probably world cup.

Really?  So you've never heard of Mike Holmgren, Bill Parcells (If they want me to cook the meal, I should shop for the groceries) or Marty Schottenheimer?  All came in with the caveat that they are the "GM" even when there was a GM on staff.  They just changed the name to Director of Player Personnel.  Hell, Bill Parcells basically relieved Jerrah Jones of his GM duties for 4 years and became Parcells "subordinate" in title.

I don't know about Holmgren but I remember Parcells saying that he coached the pokes because Jerruh keeps on meddling and that he liked it because it proved him that Jerruh was concerned. Allen never put his nose anywhere under Shanahan's tenure.

About Schottenheimer, in 2001 the Director of player personnel was the weasel and everybody knew that we had no real GM and therefore Marty was the de facto GM/HC. Allen had a previous record as a true GM with the Bucs contrary to Marty and the weasel, that's why I said I never saw a GM subordinate to his HC like that.

Snyder kept on playing with terminology mostly to fit the weasel in: Director of Player Personnel, Executive VP of Player Personnel/Football Operations, VP of Football Operations (Mendes). Now with Allen we have the GM title officially back since Charly Casserly.

I think these questions of terminology has plagued this franchise and contributed to its dysfunctionality.

When I see this dysfunctional franchise structure ran by a fantasy owner playing with terminology, loving to have his yes man around and reversing the chain of command, I'm getting pessimistic.

I hope future will prove me wrong.

I guess we will see, then when it backfires we can pretend that we really did have a GM and it didn't work so why not have a few more years of Snyder Fantasy Football League in 2017.

That's what I fear the most in a matter of speaking, 20 years of fantasy football. I'm not sold on Allen/Gruden, but still hope to be proven wrong.

 

If he was a yes-man, we wouldn't have Gruden as HC. We might have given complete control to Cowher, or paid Jon Gruden $10M a year.

 

We paid Shanahan $7 millions/year and Allen had nothing to say or to do about it. That's the first time I saw a GM being subordinated to someone below him, by his owner.

What kind of message are you sending here ?

Having Gruden as a head coach is no guarantee of success, his NFL record is not impressive at all, only time will tell if he was the right choice or not. Cowher was never a candidate he said he doesn't want to coach again, and keeps on repeating it year in year out since 2007. Same thing with Gruden.

Snyder made Shanahan the HC with the most powers ever seen in the NFL, even more than Bellicheat. What did Bruce did about this, except signing his contract and agreeing with Snyder, nothing. Sometimes I was wondering is he still alive ?, what was he doing ?

I really want to sink in to that Qatar stadium.

Something about it that just looks luscious .....

Hail.

Be aware it has a retractable hymen

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I'm not enthusiastic about him, because he is Snyder's yes man and he was a GM subordinate to his HC. From now on we will see if his house is built with cardboards or with solid concrete & steel.

Real Madrid and Barcelona face European Union investigation