news and gossip (tid bits really)

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Chatter from the sidelines

• John Stones considers moving house after receiving threats as Everton reject transfer request from Chelsea target This is getting nasty...


• Chelsea set to look elsewhere as Everton reject British record £37m offer for John Stones Unhappy faces all around, I'm sure. But Stones will get to play and if he keeps up his form and his game, he'll be able to leave next year with starting XI status


• Tottenham annoyed with West Brom over Saido Berahino as they close in on Bayer Leverkusen attacker Son Heung-Min #theytriedit, so Spurs are moving on


• Southampton's talent are struggling to break through - is Ronald Koeman losing faith in the prolific St Mary's academy? A big part of Southampton's early success was the faith in their academy, from new recruits to first team action (and then selling them off for big money). Koeman's brining in foreign talent as first port of call undermines their brand, or summat


• Real Madrid set for final David de Gea bid as Manchester United goalkeeper remains confident of transfer before deadline It will end soon, I'm sure.


• Medical the reason Juventus blocked West Ham transfer at the last minute This is a shock, people expected it to go through


• Manchester United trolls Bruge Steward With Steven Gerrard Chants I... what?

Champions League News

Manchester City drawn with Juventus, Sevilla and Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Champions League group stages Welp. Man Citeh better tighten their defence. Batten down the hatches, son

UEFA Champions League draw: Manchester United face PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow and Wolfsburg as Manchester City take on Juventus and Arsenal meet Bayern Munich an overview of what is what

Champions League Groups


The groups for CL

Pictures

Messi got men's UEFA's 2014/15 player of the year award

The players nominated for men's UEFA's 2014/15 of the year award were, from left to right, Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Messi won with 97% of the vote

The lass in the white dress, I.... cannot spell her name. It's Cecila - and there are some hats on the Ss of her name. I really wish I'd done linguistics. Anyway, she won UEFA's female footballer of the year, just retired from the German National team, iirc?

This award was... awkward. The female emcee wasn't comfortable with speaking Spanish (I hear you, sister), so she read the questions in Spanish, and translated to the audience an approximate saying (because she speaks Italian fluently). She asked Suarez a question in Spanish, and was saved when the male emcee was all, "Oh, Suárez spent two years at Liverpool!" Ahhh, when one's team is an after thought *forever a bitter betty* Suárez was all, "I'll try" and he did. Well done to him

The right to bear bare arms! I see your guns, Cecilia! *makes note to add more reps to my arm exercises* She's radiant, or is that the bling?

Real Madrid's shirt for Champions League this season. They have a special kit for Champion's League. *sighs* Must be nice

Huh. I like this colour way. If it's discounted at end of season, I might buy it, even if it's Real Madrid. Bright blue on inky blue is my weakness, y'all

OP: done! Cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback (as well as overlooked news that you want to share) you know the drill! I can't find much pictures for the Europa matches, can people share what the results were in the comments? All I know is that the Saints got knocked out. Damn the English and their lack of bottle for our coefficient! What about our hearts of oak, lads?

Comments

[mrscrapbag.livejournal.com]

Dortmund won 7-2 against Odds. a hat trick from Reus, brace from Shinji and a goal each from Miki and Ilkay. I'm really liking our attack this season. Now we just need to polish our defense.

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Bayern-Arsenal again?? I feel like we've seen it a 1000 times before.

Célia Šašić won the women's trophy. I think she retired to have a baby?

Poor Pellegrini, City always have a difficult group.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

So Dortmund smashed Odd 7-2!!! And Chicken got a hat trick, lalala! Poor Saints though, I was really rooting for them go through. Unlike some teams *cough Spurs and West Ham cough*, they seemed to actually care about playing in the Europa.

CONFIRMED: Heung-Min Son signs from Leverkusen subject to work permit & international clearance. #HereComesTheSon (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HereComesTheSon?src=hash) pic.twitter.com/aXGhzHwYcE (http://t.co/aXGhzHwYcE)

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 28, 2015 (https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/637187983255408640)

He's a good player but not worth £22m and he's giving up Champions League football.

Willkommen zurück in Leverkusen! #Bayer04 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bayer04?src=hash) hat Kevin #Kampl (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kampl?src=hash) bis 2020 vom @BVB (https://twitter.com/BVB) verpflichtet. pic.twitter.com/kfItMYYYBG (http://t.co/kfItMYYYBG)

— Bayer 04 Leverkusen (@bayer04fussball) August 28, 2015 (https://twitter.com/bayer04fussball/status/637188016688234496)

Good luck to Kampl, it's a shame he didn't work out for us :(

The Europa League draw starts in a little over half an hour, should I make a post?

[chuk-is-dazzled.livejournal.com]

i should be getting ready for work lol its gonna take me forever to get used to waking up early as hell

i actually like rm 3rd kit,

this sounds like...lol idk what, but Men in Blazers (their show is hilarious, but they cover only premier league) is having basically a footballcon http://blazercon.splashthat.com/

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

mrscrapbag and ananasonastick, Mata and Dave are back in the Spain squad!



U-21 squad:



Also:

Today we say happy birthday to @CesarAzpi (https://twitter.com/CesarAzpi)! #CFC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CFC?src=hash) pic.twitter.com/gA0Kiz4wK8 (http://t.co/gA0Kiz4wK8)

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) August 28, 2015 (https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC/status/637211361483825152)

I want to do a birthday spam but I'm exhausted :(

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

I was always terribly bad at probability question at maths. So I wonder if the rules: teams from the same association can't be drawn together and the kick-off times etc, doesn't that narrow the possibilities enormously?

[ndobler.livejournal.com]

Spurs got Monaco and Anderlecht in Europa... one more round of clubs to go, but it looks like we have our group of death here.
Ajax, Celtic and Fenerbahce should be fun as well.

[lonelyclubband.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed the Saints didn't make it tbh :((. That coefficient...

Anyway I keep seeing rumors about De Gea leaving on/before deadline day. I saw a site (I think it was goal.com) speculate that another keeper would be brought in immediately, and I'm willing to bet 5 euro that if this happens it will be Cillessen. Not passing any judgment on whether or not he is good enough for Man United, but it will be a terrible loss for Ajax :(. If it wasn't for him, Ajax would have been kicked out of the Europa League yesterday.

/Ok, I'm done being a negative (and speculating) Nancy.

In other news, Blind senior just made Robben captain of the Dutch NT! I always thought of him as the de facto leader anyway

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Das komplette Aufgebot für die beiden Länderspiele #GERPOL (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GERPOL?src=hash) & #SCOGER (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOGER?src=hash). #DieMannschaft (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DieMannschaft?src=hash) @EuroQualifiers (https://twitter.com/EuroQualifiers) pic.twitter.com/xG9SPaW12p (http://t.co/xG9SPaW12p)

— Die Mannschaft (@DFB_Team) 28 augustus 2015 (https://twitter.com/DFB_Team/status/637221845062672385)

[ndobler.livejournal.com]

Is ja quasi alles um die Ecke.

— Mats Hummels (@matshummels) 28 agosto 2015 (https://twitter.com/matshummels/status/637230094268899329)

just lol

[meliadoul.livejournal.com]

Gerrard's slip will never be forgotten.

[marsyke.livejournal.com]

Jonny Evans is going to West Brom?

[lady-teazle.livejournal.com]

The pics of Messi and Ronaldo are priceless. The headless torso makes it even better.