Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Real Madrid fans at a packed out Bernabéu were heard chanting "we want Mbappé" as they waited for Eden Hazard to enter the field at his grand unveiling.

Imagine spending €100m on one of the worlds top talents and the first thing on your mind is demanding another player worth several hundred million.

 

Sarri to Juve pretty much done

 

Salah, Mane, Firmino, Lala, Wijnaldum, Ox, Harry Wilson, Henderson...

 

I can’t wait to spend the £200m we get for Wilson

 

So nothing new in the press today.....Fekir deal that never will be is the only focus....

There appears very little of anything, in or out at most clubs to be fair. Perhaps everyone is waiting for Real Madrid, PSG and Barca to conduct their player acquisitions and then wait to see who they offload. I’d take asensio and Draxler now please. Still would need a LB mind.

 

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, speaking at Oxford University, said one solution is to have the Champions League final taking place at only the biggest venues on a rotating list.

“My thinking now is we should play the finals in bigger stadiums — even if we go to the same four, five places.

“We had 62,000 tickets in Madrid and 980,000 requests. If we would play for example in Wembley we would have 30,000 more [tickets].

“Probably that as a top, top, top event should be played only at the top venues. But Europa League and everything else should be shared with the others who love football.”

Seven stadia around Europe currently have a maximum capacity of 80,000 or more.

• 1. Camp Nou, Barcelona – 99,354
• 2. Wembley Stadium, London – 90,000
• 3. Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund – 81,359
• 4. Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid – 81,044
• 5. Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow – 81,006
• 6. San Siro, Milan – 80,018
• 7. Stade de France, Paris – 80,000

A further seven hold 70,000 or more, including Baku’s Olympic Stadium—where the 18/19 Europa League final was held—and Kyiv’s Olimpiyskiy Stadium, the scene of the Reds’ 2018 Champions League final defeat.

While such a move from UEFA would certainly rule out Anfield of hosting the final any time in the near future, it would at least mean that each competing team should get an extra batch of tickets for their fans.

At the rate of last year’s final ticket split, having the final at Wembley would see each team receive around 23,000 apiece, a notable upgrade on the scarcity of tickets in Madrid.

Of course, there’s still the question of whether UEFA should reserve 44,000 tickets for their own distribution methods out of a 90,000 stadium, but that’s a different matter.

Fans of all clubs will take any positive step forward at this point to help ease the difficulty of watching their team in action, and this could be one such move—if UEFA actually make good on the proposal.

 

They're focusing on the capacity of the venues and not the ease of getting there. What just happened at Baku?

 

“We had 62,000 tickets in Madrid and 980,000 requests.

thats what pisses me off, pure and simple ****ing greed.

they have no ****ing justification for fans of both clubs to not get most, if not all tickets for final, why should they be allowed to profit out of it.

 

Im wondering talking about greed, with the tv packages now split between 3 and possible more in future, how many channels do they realistically expect people to pay for before they get pissed off.

ive got sky, but at a nominal rate and again i have bt but at reduced terms otherwise id **** them off. The chances of me sighning up for amazon or anybody are non existant.

 

it will at some point be done through clubs own channel, they should reap the rewards for having the fans, obviously impact the less competitive in the league though.

at the moment we have the tv companies being greedy, but because the smaller clubs are benefiting they don't have a problem with it and have the nerve to call the bigger clubs greedy when they are mostly the reason why the tv companies are interested.

 

£45pa

 

Liverpool offer £18million to sign Lyon star Nabil Fekir.

 

Says?

 

Transfer rumour.

 

AlissonBeckerN01

 

We’re in for Draxler apparently

 

Im must admit, i like the fact the the tv money is shared around, i like that most of the clubs can compete.

 

well at least you will get a like off tobes and pj

 

Again?