Topic: Spanish Football

[67CherryRed]

Good opening 45 minutes. Anytime I see Fekir I always wonder what might have been. He seems tailor made for our current RCM role.

We've done reasonably well without him to be fair

[disgraced cake]

Valencia lucky not to go a man down there, very similar to that Camavinga one last week where he'd been booked and escaped a yellow.

Still 1-1, less than ten to go. Fekir misses a great chance to win it.

[67CherryRed]

Who doesn't love a penalty shootout at quarter to midnight.

[disgraced cake]

Massive for Betis, only their 4th ever major trophy. 5-4 on penalties.

[67CherryRed]

Joaquín gets to lift the Copa Del Rey before retiring at the end of the season. He's nearly 41, he's 2 weeks older than me and I've won nothing. Sobering.

[Dim Glas]

Wonderful stuff, for Joaquin especially 

[oojason]

Barcelona 0 - [1] Rayo Vallecano; Álvaro García goal on 7' - https://streamff.com/v/b2ff8a & https://streamin.me/v/121bd8dc


Well in Rayo. 1-0 full-time (all 114 minutes of it). Barcelona have now lost 3 in a row at home.

9 minute highlights: https://ourmatch.me/24-04-2022-barcelona-vs-rayo-vallecano

[BarryCrocker]

RM win the title making Ancelotti the first manager to win all of the top 5 leagues in Europe.

[disgraced cake]

RM win the title making Ancelotti the first manager to win all of the top 5 leagues in Europe.

He probably made the right decision to leave Everton.

On the 5 league things, it's clearly impressive but he's always been at clubs where he's expected to win. Milan, Chelsea, Paris, Munich, Madrid. He only won Serie A once with AC Milan too despite being there 7/8 years, won the Champions League twice of course. Always thought it'd be interesting if he went back to manage in Italy, probably should after Florentino probably boots him next year. Or maybe back to Goodison???

Madrid have practically the same record as us in the league and have pissed it whilst we'll probably finish 2nd 

[Buggy Eyes Alfredo]

       

[PeterTheRed ...]

       

Carlo is looking 20 years younger since he has left Everton ...

[oojason]

'[El Partidazo de COPE] LaLiga fined 250000€ for using their app to spy on bars. They used the microphone and GPS to know where the people watched the games and if the bars pirated the games or not.':-

https://twitter.com/partidazocope/status/1522181426405330947


More here - www.cope.es/deportes/futbol/laliga-santander/noticias/laliga-debera-pagar-250000-euros-multa-por-usar-aplicacion-movil-para-espiar-los-bares-20220505_2065321

[oojason]

'Banner displayed by Atletico fans ahead of the Madrid derby: "Between the press and the refs, they've had a 120-year long walk of honour"' (8pm kick off):-



^ from https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ul7lgd/banner_displayed_by_atletico_fans_ahead_of_the



Atlético Madrid XI: Oblak; Vrsaljko, Savic, Giménez, Reinildo; Llorente, Kondogbia, Koke, Carrasco; Correa, Cunha.

Real Madrid XI: Lunin; Lucas, Militao, Vallejo, Nacho; Casemiro, Kroos, Camavinga; Asensio, Rodrygo; Jovic.


Streams: http://1stream.top/soccer/MjI2NzY3NTM4 & http://weakstreams.com/soccer-streams/la-liga/atletico-madrid-vs-real-madrid/65406

And: www.redditsoccerstreams.tv : www.ovostreams.com/soccer-streams : https://daddylive.eu : http://weakstreams.com/soccer-streams : https://mamahd.best/watch-football-live : www.totalsportek.com/football50 : https://redi1.soccerstreams.net : http://kt.freestreams-live1.com : https://redditsoccerstreams.app : www.goatd.me : https://nizarstream.com : https://footybite.to : www.4stream.gg/b/football.html : www.vipboxtv.sk : www.pawastreams.live : www.hockeyweb.live/schedule : www.motornews.live/click-here-for-daily-fixtures

[67CherryRed]

Lets hope Simeone sends his team out to kick Real all over the place. A 3 week injury layoff for Benzema and Vini Jr wouldn't be the worst news.

[oojason]

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Real Madrid won La Liga some three weeks back - and tonight is their final league match of the season - at home to Betis.

The XI playing tonight will likely be very close to the XI that will play us next week in the CL Final...


R. Madrid XI: Courtois; Carvajal, Militão, Nacho, F. Mendy; Casemiro, Kroos, Modrić; Rodrygo, Vinícius Jr., Benzema.
Subs: Lunin, Vallejo, Hazard, Asensio, Marcelo, Valverde, Jovic, Lucas V, Ceballos, Isco, Mariano, Camavinga.

Betis XI: Rui Silva; Sabaly, Pezzella, Bartra, Álex Moreno; Guido Rodríguez, Guardado; Canales, Fekir, Juanmi; Willian José.
Subs: tba


8pm kick off. The match is live on 'La Liga TV' in the UK.


Match finished 0 - 0.

10 minute highlights: https://ourmatch.me/20-05-2022-real-madrid-vs-real-betis

[disgraced cake]

Really surprised that you can still play your final league games at different times these days.

[Peabee]

Really surprised that you can still play your final league games at different times these days.

Real Madrid originally had their game scheduled for Sunday. La Liga regularly rearrange games to help their teams in European competition.

[disgraced cake]

Real Madrid originally had their game scheduled for Sunday. La Liga regularly rearrange games to help their teams in European competition.

Can understand that, seems most of the games are on Sunday with midtable Vallecano playing already relegated Levante tonight

[rafathegaffa83]

tariq panja@tariqpanja
La Liga has filed a fresh complaint with UEFA alleging PSG and Man City are continually breaching financial fair play regulations. Like howling at the moon at this stage. UEFA has failed to tackle these allegations for best part of a decade.

La Liga says it has also hired lawyers in Switzerland and Paris to take legal action against PSG in French courts and through European Union bodies. (ECJ already busy with Super League v UEFA.)

La Liga also taking direct aim at PSG boss Nasser al-Khelaifi for his well publicised conflicts of interests. He's also boss of Qatar-owned BeIN Sport (one of Uefa's top customers) and was parachuted in to lead the European Club Association following Super League debacle.

Both Man City and PSG managed to overcome previous financial fair play difficulties in different ways at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. La Liga says those outcomes were the result of some "strange decisions of the CAS."

[Geezer08]

tariq panja@tariqpanja
La Liga has filed a fresh complaint with UEFA alleging PSG and Man City are continually breaching financial fair play regulations. Like howling at the moon at this stage. UEFA has failed to tackle these allegations for best part of a decade.

La Liga says it has also hired lawyers in Switzerland and Paris to take legal action against PSG in French courts and through European Union bodies. (ECJ already busy with Super League v UEFA.)

La Liga also taking direct aim at PSG boss Nasser al-Khelaifi for his well publicised conflicts of interests. He's also boss of Qatar-owned BeIN Sport (one of Uefa's top customers) and was parachuted in to lead the European Club Association following Super League debacle.

Both Man City and PSG managed to overcome previous financial fair play difficulties in different ways at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. La Liga says those outcomes were the result of some "strange decisions of the CAS."

Atleast they are doing something! What is the status of the premier league investigations into City?

[thaddeus]

Atleast they are doing something! What is the status of the premier league investigations into City?

The lead investigator shouted "It's all fine, nothing to worry about" from aboard his newly acquired yacht.

[Dave McCoy]

Atleast they are doing something! What is the status of the premier league investigations into City?

The UK high court case was July of last year where they said the arbitration proceeding was glacially slow and against the public interest. So basically a year with nothing new and I believe this started in 2018 or 2019. I'd be amazed if anything actually happens at this point.

[Dave McCoy]

Barca members approve their renegotiated CVC tv rights deal and selling half of their Licensing and Merchandising. They're basically selling everything not bolted to the ground to try to close a £500m budget gap, they believe this will raise that amount. I believe the CVC deal gives them €275m right away. They really are going full Everton aren't they? Crazy.

[Dave McCoy]

Something seems off here, no?

Dermot Corrigan
@dermotmcorrigan
Startling that just 646 socios took part in vote just now to give Barca board right to sell 49% of club's retail arm. Of the 4,478 'compromisario' socios chosen to represent its than 150,000 members.

Just 586 voted to cede a share of the TV rights into the future

[PeterTheRed ...]

Barca members approve their renegotiated CVC tv rights deal and selling half of their Licensing and Merchandising. They're basically selling everything not bolted to the ground to try to close a £500m budget gap, they believe this will raise that amount. I believe the CVC deal gives them €275m right away. They really are going full Everton aren't they? Crazy.

They are certainly taking a huge risk. These moves can actually bankrupt them if they don't catch up with Real Madrid, which is highly unlikely at this point ...

[elsewhere]

Tenerife-Girona tonight clashing for promotion, 1 st leg was 0-0. Hopefully Tenerife does it as I am annoyed by Girona's affiliation with Man City.

Very low scoring match like 0-0,1-0 or 0-1 imo.

[frag]

Tenerife-Girona tonight clashing for promotion, 1 st leg was 0-0. Hopefully Tenerife does it as I am annoyed by Girona's affiliation with Man City.

Very low scoring match like 0-0,1-0 or 0-1 imo.

Every year I think it’s mad how the promotions playoffs finish so late in spain. Is there a reason for it?

[elsewhere]

Every year I think it’s mad how the promotions playoffs finish so late in spain. Is there a reason for it?

You are right actually, they should take care of that. 1st leg was 1 week after the play off semis and 2nd leg is 1 week after the 1st leg.
This should have been done and dusted in early June.

Tenerife scores to make this 1-1, now penalties are out of question as away goals rule applies.

[elsewhere]

fucking hell, Girona makes it 2-1.

[disgraced cake]

Girona there now. 3-1 at the end.

[elsewhere]

Girona made the 6th spot by 1 goal advantage over Oviedo (they both had 68 points, 57 scored 41 conceded for Girona, 57 scored 42 conceded for Oviedo) yet they pulled a miracle and made it to La Liga.

I suppose they deserved this if we remember how many times they were heartbroken last few years, they were in La Liga 2 promotion finals 5 times and have lost all untiltonight.

[JohnSullie]

I hate their basketball team

[elsewhere]

Samuel Eto'o: Former Cameroon and Barcelona forward pleads guilty to £3.2m tax fraud

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61874163

[67CherryRed]

Girona made the 6th spot by 1 goal advantage over Oviedo (they both had 68 points, 57 scored 41 conceded for Girona, 57 scored 42 conceded for Oviedo) yet they pulled a miracle and made it to La Liga.

I suppose they deserved this if we remember how many times they were heartbroken last few years, they were in La Liga 2 promotion finals 5 times and have lost all untiltonight.

Girona sold their soul years ago when they became part of Abu Dhabi's efforts to destroy football worldwide. They deserve nothing, and I bet the La Liga bosses didn't want them anywhere near their league.

[disgraced cake]

Ernesto Valverde back to Bilbao for a third spell. His first job since being given the sack at Barca.

Always thought it was harsh Barca sacked him during the middle of the season. They'd won La Liga comfortably in his two full seasons, then they sacked him midway through the third. If I'm not mistaken they were top when he got the boot and probably would have won it if they'd kept him.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Ernesto Valverde back to Bilbao for a third spell. His first job since being given the sack at Barca.

Always thought it was harsh Barca sacked him during the middle of the season. They'd won La Liga comfortably in his two full seasons, then they sacked him midway through the third. If I'm not mistaken they were top when he got the boot and probably would have won it if they'd kept him.

He didn't have them playing "tHe BaRcA wAy!!1111" if memory serves, and there was dressing room discontent with his training (again if memory serves), by a gang of babies.

[decosabute]

Barca finding the €100m for Raphinha and Lewandowski by mortgaging the club up to its eyes? Cannot understand where the money is coming from.

[Dave McCoy]

Just straight up payday loans:

[surfer. Fuck you generator.]

Just straight up payday loans:

Looking at the 'total deal'
The APR on that is around what... 5 %. That's near house mortgage territory,  a decent rate all things considered.  The APR on payday loans go up to a few hundred percent,  even more in poorly regulated countries.

The cost of money there is fine,  it's what you do with it that Barca have been poor at.

[Dave McCoy]

Looking at the 'total deal'
The APR on that is around what... 5 %. That's near house mortgage territory,  a decent rate all things considered.  The APR on payday loans go up to a few hundred percent,  even more in poorly regulated countries.

The cost of money there is fine,  it's what you do with it that Barca have been poor at.

Maybe for you the individual it's decent terms but clearly not for a football club making hundreds of millions of pounds. These are easily worse terms than Tottenham have on their stadium debt for instance which is currently only costing them €23m per year for a similar amount of debt.  Should also be noted that the proposed deal is what Barca want but they rarely get that so far and also if TV income increases the deal will be even worse.