Today's football.

[toffeejack]

I wish more quality EPL players would venture O/S to play even for a season or 2 - think it generally improves them.

Rooney should have gone a few seasons ago - look at Bale - he was considered a very good player - with now playing for RM and really stepping up in that team he could well end his career considered to be one of the greats.

Rooneys career could very well now fade away and I think there will be a fair bit of "what could have been" about it.

teams have got to want them though. you don't see too many offers for british players in all honesty.

 

[rascal]

Garbage from Bayern and it's cost them a place in the final. Don't see them keeping Madrid out in the return leg.

 

[davek]

Madrid v Chelsea final. I wouldn't bet against that.

 

[BluenosePaul]

Supposedly the 4 best teams in Europe. Lol

 

[toffee matt]

Supposedly the 4 best teams in Europe. Lol

Who are better?

 

[ford_uk]

Is the rock that is michael mancienne still plying his trade abroad ?

 

[davek]

Garbage from Bayern and it's cost them a place in the final. Don't see them keeping Madrid out in the return leg.

I think you have to credit the Madrid rearguard though. They were snuffing out every bit of play Bayern tried in the final third.

As said in commentary, Guardiola dropped a bollock by not playing Martinez centrally and switching Lahm back to RB.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I don't know who I want to win the Champions League. They're all bellend teams tbh.

 

[Merseyzig]

Hobson's choice isn't it? However, as long as it isn't Chelsea I'd be satisfied. Even when they were rubbish (I'm well old enough) I had a deep, visceral dislike of the club.

 

[BluenosePaul]

Who are better?

Probably no one, but 1 goal in the 2 semi-finals - barely any goalmouth action in either tie. Too much emphasis on defence.

 

[davek]

I don't know who I want to win the Champions League. They're all bellend teams tbh.

Chelsea. It'd wind the Kopites up no end.

 

[Del]

Pep can do one with his bore hard tactics

Will last about 2 seasons there if he keeps serving up that sh1te

 

[Baines' left foot]

Chelsea. It'd wind the Kopites up no end.

I was leaning towards them mainly because they're English but that's an extra incentive. Chelsea it is.

 

[Ozdec]

teams have got to want them though. you don't see too many offers for british players in all honesty.

We pay very high wages I imagine so even the journeymen players are on good money which wouldn't be matched by the midtable clubs in the rest of Europe.

EPL clubs also grab young players from all over into their own academies and youth squads - don't see too many going to the academies of the major mainland European clubs.

Broader debate but the amount of money in the EPL both helps and hinders development of British based players in many ways.

 

[Ozdec]

I don't know who I want to win the Champions League. They're all bellend teams tbh.

Athletico Madrid is the best of a bad bunch - never won it so don't have that entitlement attitude which a few of the others will have