Official Match Thread ... Real Madrid V Juventus 745 Bt Sports Freeview

Originally Posted by Part 36 Offer

ffs

He does as well. Thinks of him when rinsing Cathy etc

Wouldn't you..?

Originally Posted by dunk

Wouldn't you..?

Rinse Cathy? Definitely

Fairly gutted that it's that @#%&! of a club that have gone on to retain it. An extremely efficient team, but hardly a memorable one. Still, to beat Bayern, Atletico and Juventus on the way is quite an achievement, irrespective of the shocking refereeing in the quarter final second leg against Bayern. Ronaldo's goalscoring numbers in the latter stages have been ridiculous.

No doubt they'll go out and be even more ruthless in the transfer window now. I expect them to add De Gea and Mbappe to their squad, whilst offloading Rodriguez and Morata for about £50m each. I despise them as a club, but they get shit done, and absolutely demand the European Cup in a way that I can only wish United did.

Zidane already on as many Champions League wins as Fergie is about as damning an indictment as you can get on our failings in Europe over the years. We're currently light years behind, too, despite what some might say.

Originally Posted by Billy Redface

Rinse Cathy? Definitely

And think of Ronaldo while you were doing it?

Originally Posted by dunk

And think of Ronaldo while you were doing it?

Yes. Ofcourse. Him too.

Originally Posted by Neo

Fairly gutted that it's that c*** of a club that have gone on to retain it. An extremely efficient team, but hardly a memorable one. Still, to beat Bayern, Atletico and Juventus on the way is quite an achievement, irrespective of the shocking refereeing in the quarter final second leg against Bayern. Ronaldo's goalscoring numbers in the latter stages have been ridiculous.

No doubt they'll go out and be even more ruthless in the transfer window now. I expect them to add De Gea and Mbappe to their squad, whilst offloading Rodriguez and Morata for about £50m each. I despise them as a club, but they get shit done, and absolutely demand the European Cup in a way that I can only wish United did.

Zidane already on as many Champions League wins as Fergie is about as damning an indictment as you can get on our failings in Europe over the years. We're currently light years behind, too, despite what some might say.

Compare that to our transfer strategy in summer 99 & 08

https://twitter.com/jameshorncastle/status/871121772283932675

Originally Posted by Ranier Wolfcastle

Depends on your definition of modern but it's hardly a new thing. Look what happened to LVG's Ajax side over 20 years ago.

Constant escalation though. At least LVG got a couple of years out of that group before they were cropped.

No doubt the Real fans are ecstatic and so would we be in their shoes. However with the outside perspective it is hardly an achievement to stir the neutral, they should be winning it with the players they have.

Suppose it is the long term effect of the original Galactico team, may not have won as much as they hoped at that time but it confirmed Madrid as the place for superstars to go. European football would be so much more interesting with the talent spread and the Likes of AC Milan, Inter, Roma, Ajax, Porto, Benfica, Dortmund providing more that just the plucky underdog role. PL teams as well of course.

Rafa must be crying into his cheesecake. The fat £#%&!ing bastard

What a downer.

Their fans don't deserve this but neither would most of ours I suppose.

Originally Posted by Stannage

Juventus wearing 3 gold stars?

I think Italian teams give themselves 1 gold star for every 10 league championships and a silver one for every 5.

As much as I'd have enjoyed a Juve win, it's nice to see Zidane remain a cut above even when he goes into management. He must shot golf nuggets that lad. Some career

Originally Posted by dunk

https://twitter.com/jameshorncastle/...21772283932675

whataguy

Originally Posted by browser

As much as I'd have enjoyed a Juve win, it's nice to see Zidane remain a cut above even when he goes into management. He must shot golf nuggets that lad. Some career

Wouldn't mind a go on Mme Zizou either

Only 9 European cups behind them

Originally Posted by Sandman

Only 9 European cups behind them

Pisses me off that the one time we got ourselves in a position to truly dominate and maybe rack a few up, finally, we get hamstrung by the finances of the club, raided by Madrid and come up against a Barca side being one of the best of all time.

Even in '99 we didn't press home our position, slumped on re-inforcing the side/squad and bottomed out

Originally Posted by dunk

Pisses me off that the one time we got ourselves in a position to truly dominate and maybe rack a few up, finally, we get hamstrung by the finances of the club, raided by Madrid and come up against a Barca side being one of the best of all time.

Even in '99 we didn't press home our position, slumped on re-inforcing the side/squad and bottomed out

Thats the really maddening thing, in another era we would very likely have picked up a few more and caught Liverpool. And that's even before getting to the blood bags