European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[Winston Biscuit]

Spanish newspaper El Mundo has leaked messages from the ref who took payments from Barca where he messaged the club in 2020 saying 'I can help you with VAR' and after they lost the league he messaged them to say 'you would have done better with me'



and still they'll do nothing about it

seems they do want to do something about it!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64918604

Barcelona have been charged with corruption over payments the club made to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.

[Winston Biscuit]

The charge is for "continued sporting corruption" and alleges 'favourable decisions', with 5 individuals named including, surprise surprise, Rosell and Bartomeu. clowns

[Orion1871]

In the latest episode of Keeping up with the Katalans:

Barcelona pauses €1.5bn Camp Nou stadium renovation financing.

[Winston Biscuit]

Napoli the only team in the top 6 to win over the weekend. Potentially 4 games away from winning the league

Kvaratshkhelia with another lovely goal. at the time he shoots he is the only Napoli player in the box and there are 8 Atalanta players
https://twitter.com/MarwanAdawii/status/1634642322947203072

someone is going to get themselves a hell of a player (for a lot of money)

[Winston Biscuit]

Barcelona Vs Real Madrid next weekend. kind of feel anything other than a win for RM and the league title is pretty much done.

I have a 6 team season long acca that is going to be messed up by Barca!

[Winston Biscuit]

Message leaked from the son of Negreira (the ref who took payments from Barca) to Barca telling them who the ref will be for the Copa Del Rey final 3 months before the final happened

[Winston Biscuit]

Portuguese League looks likely to lose a CL place after their teams poor recent performances, along with Dutch teams doing well

French league in a little danger of losing a CL spot too

Much of this^ is due to the introduction of the Europa Conference League and the points that leagues are gaining from their teams doing well in that

[Winston Biscuit]

Today is the Rome derby, the derby d'Italia (Inter Vs Juve), Spanish El Classico and top 2 in Eridividie (Ajax Vs Feyenoord) play each other

[Winston Biscuit]

Leverkusen 2-1 Bayern

Means Dortmund are now top with 9 games left to play

Next fixture for Bayern is against Dortmund!

[Winston Biscuit]

PSG 0-2 Rennes

Loud boos ring around the stadium when Messi is announced in the line up
https://twitter.com/AndiOnrubia/status/1637474716934963205?t=Do0hcr64jcAEiX8sBSjgQg&s=19

https://twitter.com/AndiOnrubia/status/1637483398057820160?t=2NpOjp8QnteFmwJkamLAdw&s=19

[NathStPaul]

Can someone in the Premier League sign Osmihen this summer? Real deal.

[Winston Biscuit]

Can someone in the Premier League sign Osmihen this summer? Real deal.

I wonder if Qatar buy Man Utd and Osimhen is then their big signing

[NathStPaul]

Can someone in the Premier League sign Osmihen this summer? Real deal.

I wonder if Qatar buy Man Utd and Osimhen is then their big signing

Think they'd be more likely to go for Kane, he's more of a "United style" signing. Not sure he suits Ten Haag's set up either, he loves a big hold up guy up front.

[Winston Biscuit]

Decision on Juventus appeal against their points deduction postponed until late April.

Gives the Italian FA the headache decision to make on whether Napoli are Champions once 2nd place can no longer catch them or when 2nd can no longer catch them plus when Juventus with 15 points handed back can no longer catch them

[Winston Biscuit]

Besiktas manager:
'We gave Dele Alli permission for a small break, he hasn't come back yet. Its raining, thats probably why. We are trying to find out where he is'

[Loafer]

Fun factoid

In Austria if you finish 6th you can't get European football but you can if you finish 7th and 8th

1st champions league
2nd and 3rd Europa
4th, 5th, 7th and 8th playoff for conference league

[NathStPaul]

[Winston Biscuit]

Spanish FA trying to get tough with people questioning their referees in the wake of the Barcelona scandal.

Sergio Canales of Betis, who received the first red card of his career last October (2 yellow cards within 13 seconds of each other for asking why so much injury time, then when the ref told him to shut up he asked why he should shut up) handed today a retrospective 4 match suspension as immediately after that game he suggested to an interviewer that the sending off felt premeditated

[Winston Biscuit]

In an attempt to look serious, the Spanish FA have today ordered Sevilla to close 2 parts of their stadium, totalling 600 seats, for 1 game as a punishment for their fans chanting at Sergio Ramos 'Sergio Ramos, you son of a bitch'

The chanting incident happened 6 years and 2 months ago

[Stranded]

Fun factoid

In Austria if you finish 6th you can't get European football but you can if you finish 7th and 8th

1st champions league
2nd and 3rd Europa
4th, 5th, 7th and 8th playoff for conference league

Yep, because the league is split in 2 mini leagues - one for the Championship and one for relegation. The top 2 in the Relegation round are given the chance to qualify so that teams without any realistic likelihood of relegation actually have something to play for else it would just be 10 exhibition games.

Fairly crazy but almost makes sense.