Gorgeous. Do you ever see our maps? They cover the area around and behind the Atalanta hot zone.

Seriously though Claude, it's narratives like this that mean something in football. No one gives a fuck about Juventus or Barcelona or Manchester City. Look at these guys instead: outplaying everyone despite not having any money and being forced to sell their best players all the time. Mancini went to Roma last year. Kulusevski will be gone to Juve after this one without ever playing a game for them. Their ground only holds 21 000 seats, and even if the corona pandemic had been over tomorrow they wouldn't have been able to fill it because they're busy renovating the north side on account of the stadium literally starting to fall apart a year or two back. They come from a city that has just suffered the worst covid-19 outbreak in the world. And they've just been drawn in Champions League against the worst cheats in European football; a club backed with oil money that has forced its way to the top by literally buying out the competition and has driven its own fans away by making sure only upper class Parisians can afford to go see their games.

If there's any cosmic justice they will burn PSG to the ground, and then they will salt the earth on Parc des Princes to make sure nothing can ever grow there again before they retreat back to Bergamo.

After a sturdy first half, Lazio coming apart. Two goals for Cristiano. Penalty and a speedy counter-attack where Dybala was really fast with the ball at feet. Italy and Spain should just form a joint league so that at least Juve, Barca and Real can have a corrupt olympics amongst themselves.

That was Ronaldo's 13th or 14th penalty for the season. Penaldo.

It must be so nice to play for a bent team like Juventus in your retirement years. You don't even have to work for half your goal tally.

I'd sell half the team to have him here

Klaus wrote:

That was Ronaldo's 13th or 14th penalty for the season. Penaldo.

It must be so nice to play for a bent team like Juventus in your retirement years. You don't even have to work for half your goal tally.

LOL. Man puts in work. Did you see his flat out sprint for his first goal. He must've been out at 30km/h. I want to see that from our guys.  Should've scored a header on a great Dybala corner. 

Dybala himself is such a handful. Those defenders had no answer to him yesterday. I keep thinking I'd love to have him here, but I can't see where he'd slot into an Arteta line-up. 

jones wrote:

I'd sell half the team to have him here

As an Eintracht fan, do you think the Andre Silva / Rebic swap will be made permanent this summer ?

Also in general, are Eintract fans happy with Andre Silva ?
He seems to have turned a corner since the winter break and is linking very well with Bas Dost and Kamada from what little I saw.

Not sure if it'll be made permanent this summer already since it's a two year loan anyway and both clubs are skint due to corona. Difficult transfer to do too, since we have to wire 50% of Rebics fee to Fiorentina because we got him for a measly 2m couple years back

But it will definitely be made permanent are really happy with their players, obviously I'd love to have Rebic back but since that won't be possible Silva is definitely helping with the loss, since the break he's been the leagues top scorer.

An 87 year old Ibrahimovic bagging a brace against Sassuolo and winning the game for Milan. It's kinda amazing what a transformative effect he has had on that entire club, and that's before you even factor in his age.

He's nearly 39 zlatan.

In amazing shape.

Fucking morons. Pioli is a hack, only reason Milan are doing well is he had his hand forced and started playing Rebic as literally his last resort.

One of the worst run big clubs in the world. Hire Seedorf who got them closest to the CL spots since Allegri, sack him and get Pippo instead to introduce relegation form. Hire Gattuso who was actually building a team after Montella and Mihajlovic ruined everything and replace him with fucking Giampaolo. Replace him with the equally inept donkey Pioli, have Rangnick on the horizon and turn him down for three months of form. Infuriating

jones wrote:

Fucking morons. Pioli is a hack, only reason Milan are doing well is he had his hand forced and started playing Rebic as literally his last resort.

One of the worst run big clubs in the world. Hire Seedorf who got them closest to the CL spots since Allegri, sack him and get Pippo instead to introduce relegation form. Hire Gattuso who was actually building a team after Montella and Mihajlovic ruined everything and replace him with fucking Giampaolo. Replace him with the equally inept donkey Pioli, have Rangnick on the horizon and turn him down for three months of form. Infuriating

A lot of Milan mouthpieces and old guard also take the blame for this. They were skeptical and negative from day one since the rumors about Rangnick emerged.

The arguments were also some BS about how only Italians can successfully manage Milan and you need to familiar with how serie a works and all that.

Tear your ACL, come back within not even six months and then do this

Absurd

Just gorgeous. We need that.
I really hope that Italy have all of Zaniolo, Pellegrini, Barella and Tonali healthy next summer.

I would do disgusting things to have Zaniolo at our club.

He's been linked to Inter, Juve, Real, Pool this summer. Even the clown up the road are calling.

Calhanoglu's freekick against Atalanta in the ongoing game (1-1 presently) :

Shades of Juninho.

I don't like him either. He's had an oustanding run of games since the restart though.

Lukaku was lovely against Genoa last night. Just a great combination of speed and strength in the box. For the first goal just tossed Zapata aside for the free header. And then for his second ran full speed in the 90th minute and sold Romeroo a dummy that he won't soon forget, freeing him to slide it past the goalie. Glad to see him back to his best away from Ole Toilet. And Sanchez is also proving to be the world's best (and costliest) 12th man

Good stuff.

Can we get one of those Italian teams to take Ozil too? Bet he’ll be revitalized by the “tactical superiority” of the league.

Kulusevski another smart buy from juve

He's incredible. I fear he'll waste the next few years playing sparsely in their rigid system though. Should have gone back to Atalanta instead next season, but I get that neither him nor the club could turn down what Juve offered.

Claudius wrote:

Lukaku was lovely against Genoa last night. Just a great combination of speed and strength in the box. For the first goal just tossed Zapata aside for the free header. And then for his second ran full speed in the 90th minute and sold Romeroo a dummy that he won't soon forget, freeing him to slide it past the goalie. Glad to see him back to his best away from Ole Toilet. And Sanchez is also proving to be the world's best (and costliest) 12th man

It's pretty clear Alexis didn't lose his quality and he has recovered from his massive burnout. Been incredible since his long rest after covid.

Zlatan scores against Sampdoria in the 4th minute. Rebic assist. The effect these two have had on Milan...

Such a simple turn by Rebic....lovely technique

Big blow for Atalanta as Ilicic has reportedly withdrawn from the CL tie with PSG and is rumored to miss out even the beginning of next season.

No concrete news are out for the reason as of yet but there are talks of some serious personal problems.

Hopefully, they have enough on reserve in attack. They just want to even things up with PSG likely missing Mmmmmbop

Zlatan post match interview starts about halfway in. At 4:30 he compares himself to Benjamin button 

Scored another two goals today for good measure. People talk about Bruno Fernandez but look at the way Ibra has transformed Milan, who were even worse than we were by the time he arrived there in January.

Comfortably one of the top 5 players of the past decade. He’s a superhero. Larger than life personality and ability

Bryant wrote:

Klaus wrote:

Scored another two goals today for good measure. People talk about Bruno Fernandez but look at the way Ibra has transformed Milan, who were even worse than we were by the time he arrived there in January.

You mean one goal Klaus? haha that's what google says. He's become the oldest player in Serie A history to score 10+ goals in a season! Pioli should be thankful for Ibra for making him millions of euros

Oh, he missed the penalty then? I only got the notification about him being awarded one.

But yeah, proper player. I actually thought Luca Toni was older that year he won his final Serie A golden boot but it turns out he was "only" 37.

Bryant wrote:

Klaus wrote:

Scored another two goals today for good measure. People talk about Bruno Fernandez but look at the way Ibra has transformed Milan, who were even worse than we were by the time he arrived there in January.

You mean one goal Klaus? haha that's what google says. He's become the oldest player in Serie A history to score 10+ goals in a season! Pioli should be thankful for Ibra for making him millions of euros  

Speaking of old players, Ashley Young somehow did this: 

I think we should look at Rodrigo De Paul this summer, would be an astute signing and fills in that 8/10 role. 

Wasn't this the guy jones wishlisted few years ago? Looks interesting in the video

Yeah, fair play you actually remembered that that was like six years ago. I thought he looked very talented in his first outings for Valencia but couldn't break through, those were Valencia's banter years mind. When he went back to Argentina I thought he was done but he sort of reinvented himself in Udine, used to be a tricky winger now he's bulked up and is a much more complete player but still with that silky ballhandling.

Definitely wouldn't mind but the #8/#10 from Serie A to get is still Zaniolo. I can't recall anyone suffering a full rupture to their ACL, coming back within six months and looking exactly like they have before until now. That goal vs SPAL the other week was the same kind of ridiculous 60 yard dribble like the one he did vs Juventus where he tore his ACL, and yesterday he does this vs Juve again

Really don't get how a scrawny 6'3 20 year old is able to get grown men to bounce off him like that so often, run faster than everyone else and keep his balance in the process

Zaniolo and Tonali is where it’s at. For our immediate needs linking midfield and attack, and getting more running on the ball, Zaniolo would be just perfect. Even if we just tossed him in front of Xhaka and Ceballos. And took out a centre back.