The Rumour Commode L - Take the L

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She was the goat. I don’t really find Italian women attractive but Satta was the best by far.

You don't what?

@nonsonoqui do I have permission to profoundly abuse this individual?

 

[Soldier_of_god]

You don't what?

@nonsonoqui do I have permission to profoundly abuse this individual?

Maldini >> all Italian women

Even @Tantalis will agree.

 

[Soldier_of_god]

Never watched the guy, but 120m for someone from a team that finished 5 points from the relegation zone.
EPL teams playing with "Monopoly money" at this point.
What happened to my game...

Money laundering

That’s all it is.

 

[SecondStar]

putting his jersey number on street wear is pure cringe

Everything about him is cringe, even the way he’s wearing his glasses. We let a guy who wears dresses represent us, it’s our fault.

 

[pippofan]

Agreed with everything.
We need the league to be competitive

7 sisters. That’s what we are about.

Market the league. No matter what anyone says, I have seen more than enough, serie a is the most physical league. Highest contact when it comes to upper body duels. Serie a has to market their brand in such a way.

We need our competitors to be very strong however they must always be a tier below us. City dominated the league for what? 6 seasons straight? People still tuned in.

Rivalries are important and yes buying top players. Popular players. Popular and world class especially. You need to have both.

Nobody tunes in to watch psg in their domestic league. They need rivalries in their league competition. The top teams must be able to poach the elite stars.
EPL is succeeded cause of the combination of everything mentioned above. They have storied rivalries. Most top teams have stars. The league is very competitive. They play attractive football and they perform well in Europe.

Serie A is not good at promoting itself, they should create videos of clashes, bruises, bone crashing hits, make players look like gladiators with epic music and loud painful screams in the background.

But hide the flopping, diving, and simulations.

 

[rossonero1]

 

[rossonero1]

 

[DonSilvio]

That's one shitty influencer and standards for that are not very high to begin with

 

[Soldier_of_god]

Serie A is not good at promoting itself, they should create videos of clashes, bruises, bone crashing hits, make players look like gladiators with epic music and loud painful screams in the background.

But hide the flopping, diving, and simulations.

Been saying that for years. I should be the marketing director for serie a board.

Btw serie a in terms of height is the biggest on average. And weight too. For players.

Problem is all the corrupt fucks at the top want to eat majority of the pie. As long as the bunch of cronies are happy they don’t care about the league much. Very myopic way to look at things imo. Corruption is rife. Not that it isn’t in epl but in England they are more willing to look at opportunities that benefit the league as a whole. Right now winning the epl is genuinely profitable enough for top clubs to he point where won’t ever really need to rely on ucl money.

 

[Dena]

 

[forward]

It was Massimo Calvelli who first proposed Rangnick and who strongly advocated for Glasner.

He was also consistently against Ramón Planes and Mauricio Pochettino.

Ibrahimovic is today excluded from the decisions.

@lucacohen

 

[asoundwave]

It was Massimo Calvelli who first proposed Rangnick and who strongly advocated for Glasner.

He was also consistently against Ramón Planes and Mauricio Pochettino.

Ibrahimovic is today excluded from the decisions.

@lucacohen

Calvelli to Demonhimovic casting him away from Milan

 

[Shiby]

Our season collapse just got beat by Spurs tonight.

 

[Nevermore]

It was Massimo Calvelli who first proposed Rangnick and who strongly advocated for Glasner.

He was also consistently against Ramón Planes and Mauricio Pochettino.

Ibrahimovic is today excluded from the decisions.

@lucacohen

Thank god. Planes and Pochettino would finish this club

 

[Kmoney]

It was Massimo Calvelli who first proposed Rangnick and who strongly advocated for Glasner.

He was also consistently against Ramón Planes and Mauricio Pochettino.

Ibrahimovic is today excluded from the decisions.

@lucacohen

Calvelli the savior

 

[Swagotelli]

Didn’t say positively influential…

 

[Shiby]

Calvelli the true mvp

 

[Alo88]

#Winner

 

[Deep Fried Pizza & Chips]

Susan got banned after snitching.

Next time there are any disagreements in here, there's a peaceful solution...



The arguing parties have to spend the day of a Milan match, and the full match, together like this.

 

[Alo88]

There's a difference between what an individual club needs and what a league needs.

For Milan or any individual club? Yes, winning is all that matters, but when it comes to raising the profile of a league, if one team wins over and over again, it stunts the growth of that league, and subsequently it stunts the growth of Bayern. PSG is state-backed, none of its revenues are organic, Ligue 1 could collapse and they'd be fine.

The Bundesliga should be a much bigger league than it is. It has great stadiums, amazing fans, top-tier production, lots of attack but there is little jeopardy. Everyone expects Bayern to win.

There's more to it than just competition though, I think you need stars to bring attention to your games, and the transfer fees is part-and-parcel to attracting eyeballs to your league.

But you also need rivalries. The NBA was on the downswing until Magic and Bird came into the NBA--the subtext (to put it lightly) of those rivalries mixed with the teams they played for led to a massive spike in interest in the NBA which Jordan came in and exploded even further.

Rivalries, though, is what fuels any sport. Women's basketball was supercharged with similar dynamics to the NBA with Magic and Bird, with Clark and Reese. Reese isn't at the same level as Clark, otherwise, they would have a massive hit, but they needed that.

I agree with you completely, the way to raise the profile of Milan is in the CL, that's why PSG is growing, more than having stars, or big transfer fees, or any of that. If Marseille, Lyon, and Lille started spending money like that, and winning in Europe? Ligue 1 would grow. Any league would.

Milan needs to win to expand the brand, but absent that, it needs to be in the CL at the very least, which Redbird have failed twice-in-a-row.

Great points, and the Bayern rabbit hole is worth going down. Their stranglehold on the Bundesliga isn't simply a product of being richer or better run than everyone else, though both things are true. The structure of German football actively enabled it. The 50+1 rule sounds like a levelling mechanism but in practice it froze the existing hierarchy. Bayern had already built their dominance in the 70s and 80s, then cemented it through blue chip commercial partnerships with Adidas, Audi and Allianz that no competitor could match. And then, systematically, for decades, they bought the best players directly from their main rivals. It simultaneously strengthens Bayern and kneecaps everyone chasing them. The architecture of the Bundesliga created conditions where their early advantage could compound indefinitely with nobody structurally capable of disrupting it.

And yet, even if I used to argue otherwise in the past, I believe now, like @Soldier_of_god said, that competiveness often gets overstated as the most important driver of a league's global growth. The EPL isn't the biggest league in the world because it's competitive. It became the richest first, and the best players in the world followed the money. The competitiveness was a consequence, not a cause.

Spain is actually the best counterargument to the idea that one or two clubs dominating stunts a league's growth. La Liga grew globally not despite Real and Barca's dominance but because of it, because that dominance came packaged with their heated rivalry (Ronaldo vs. Messi), CL titles and the biggest stars in the world that everyone wanted to watch. The league's competitiveness wasn't the main driver. Rivalry, stars, spectacle and European relevance were.

Which brings it back to your Milan point, and I agree completely. Nobody around the world cares whether Bayern win the Bundesliga by 5 points or 15. They care whether German clubs are competing for CL titles and can attract the biggest stars by offering them big money. For Milan the equation is the same. Domestic position matters up to a point because we need that to qualify for CL, but CL presence and the money we generate from it to attract the biggest stars are the only variables that move the needle globally. Which makes RedBird's back to back failures to qualify not just a sporting embarrassment but a direct hit to everything they claimed to be building.

 

[Nevermore]

Jaime #Vardy: "How is Italian football compared to English? It's much slower, more defensive. Training is constant: run, run, run. Then you go into a match and, literally, you have nothing left to give. It's not nice when you're 38, 39 years old, right? But not just for me. That's how it works here. And the sporting director has a say in everything, it's crazy." Via @Gazzetta_it

 

[Dena]

 

[Dena]

“Morata shock: ‘I arrived at AC Milan under the influence of medication, without really knowing what I was doing.’”

 

[Kmoney]

This is going to be the most exciting mercato and preseasons of our lifetimes if we get Ralf and Oli. Please god give this to us, it’s the least we deserve.

I don’t even need big money spending and star names, I want a cull for the ages where every anarchic, incompetent, backward thinking coach, manager, gardener, cafeteria waiter, and masseuse is ruthlessly axed in favor of modern, ruthless, sharp thinking, quick witted Germans who will lay the foundations for a glorious future

 

[Soldier_of_god]

Jaime #Vardy: "How is Italian football compared to English? It's much slower, more defensive. Training is constant: run, run, run. Then you go into a match and, literally, you have nothing left to give. It's not nice when you're 38, 39 years old, right? But not just for me. That's how it works here. And the sporting director has a say in everything, it's crazy." Via @Gazzetta_it

I Believe this. Italian teams tend to overtrain. That’s why you see so many injuries in training.

Remember the Evra video on Rubentus. He said he was on a holiday in man utd compared to rube. Far too much overtraining. This was under Allegri. That could explain our injuries as well. Allegri’s trainings have always been brutal. Conte is the same.

 

[SuperPippo]

“Morata shock: ‘I arrived at AC Milan under the influence of medication, without really knowing what I was doing.’”

So did Furlani.

 

[The Cat]

So did Furlani.

Scaroni too. And ibra

 

[Pb02]

“Morata shock: ‘I arrived at AC Milan under the influence of medication, without really knowing what I was doing.’”

Worst thing is everybody was aware of this, the guy was talking publicly about it in TV, and still our turds thought it was better to cheap out and sign Morata for 18 millions rather than spending 70 on Sesko, 50 on Zirkzee, 30 on Guirassi... That year were so many good strikers available and we had to go for the worst one.

 

[forward]

Worst thing is everybody was aware of this, the guy was talking publicly about it in TV, and still our turds thought it was better to cheap out and sign Morata for 18 millions rather than spending 70 on Sesko, 50 on Zirkzee, 30 on Guirassi... That year were so many good strikers available and we had to go for the worst one.

Yet he still outscored Gimenez

 

[Deep Fried Pizza & Chips]

ruthless, sharp thinking, quick witted Germans who will lay the foundations for a glorious future.

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