I believe it’s quite obvious that Girona can’t operate at the same kind of level that Man City does, even if they belong to the same state fund. Market just opened up, I wouldn’t be surprised if they placed some interesting transfers aimed at generating income for the team while consolidating the identity of the squad. Plus, Savio leaving for Man City is quite a telling sign of this behaviour, imho.

not really; 30 minutes of decent football (which is kind of expected considering the quality Southgate had available) and nothing more.

I wouldn’t say he’s been a disappointment. His role as a striker has always been more akin to what he’s shown in this tournament than what some might expect of him, and especially with this team you could predict that his playing time would mostly be spent on refining offensive possession rather than scoring.

We didn’t have Hitler in our history though. You can’t compare roman salute with wolf gesture

Turks committed genocide towards Armenians (and are still perpetrating one against Kurds).

Europeans are uncomfortable with the fact that we just exist.

It’s not about existence, it’s about extremism and authocracy making its way into Europe. I don’t think any European looks at Hungary with respect, either.

Italy also symbolizes wolfs.

Wolves are not correlated, at least in Italy, to paramilitary fascist organisation responsible for war crimes. And, of course, there’s always a degree of interpretation: a wolf is a wolf, a wolf salute is a reminder of the violent recent history of Turkey and its accommodation into the reality of “the normal”.

I believe Turkey is a wonderful country, but there’s definitely better ways to show patriotism than to resort to extremist political affiliation for doing it. Like, I don’t know, a Turkish flag?

the fact that “80% of Turkish people use it for pure Turkish symbol”, when it is clearly associated with a paramilitary fascist group, should really make you think about why Turkey isn’t looked upon nicely by the EU in general. And I’m frankly surprised that even as a “non right wing Turkish”, you still think it’s fine to use the symbols that are now widely associated with that political group. I can’t think of a world where I, an Italian, would use the Roman salute because it’s a “patriotic” salute and because “everyone does it here” (even if a large majority of Italians don’t, thank god).

could be a whole lot of reasons: he’s still the symbol of this Portugal team, after all. He must have a say in the locker rooms (and why shouldn’t he, considering); Martinez must think of him as the glue that keeps the squad together (same reason why he must have brought Pepe along, probably). And yeah, probably sponsors too.

Doesn’t Scotland also go through the group stage if they win with a 4-goal margin against Hungary and Switzerland loses against Germany with a 2-goal margin? I want ALL possibilities!

iirc it’s a “fault” of the PS3 architecture which makes it practically impossible to emulate. We’ll have to see if the second part of the remastered MSG collection will eventually port it.

I didn’t even notice it was my cake day! Thanks! And yeah, I believe they finally got rid of almost everyone of the World Cup generation + they have an absolutely insane midfield (but what kind of midfield with Rodri isn’t insane, right?)

I believe Spain is the clear favorite for this season, their team is unbelievable.

different coach & players. But yeah, you never know with Croatia.

D looks like this tournament’s group of death, but other than that I don’t see very difficult rounds.

Good deal for Inter (who get to have the kind of striker Inzaghi wanted for very little money compared to similar options like Taremi and Morata); however I wonder what the fuck is up with Bologna. Is Thiago Motta going to force Zirkzee into the starting eleven? Or are they buying someone last minute?

most likely Sommer and Trubin from Shakthar

It would be a great replacement, but it seems like Inter Milan won’t lower Onana’s price for less than 60 millions.