'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

PSG ne sera pas sur cette chose - It's the Champions League 2017-2018 thread

Barcelona have confirmed they have reached an agreement in principle to sign Ousmane Dembélé from Borussia Dortmund, with the France forward now expected to become the second most expensive player in history in a deal that could be worth €150m (£138.4m).

The outrageous price tag aside, I do think he is a very good signing for Barca.

makes more sense than Coutinho for sure

presumably this means the deal for coutinho is off now right?

they were supposed to be after both of them

Dembele will take Neymar's place in the front three. Coutinho would play in midfield

Uh paulinho

Wow. I've never even heard of Dembélé!

0 US mane

Dortmund signed him for €15m from Rennes one year ago. Only has a handful of caps for France too xpost

A fella would get to thinking it's not too late to be a million pound footballer yet tbh

He scored 10 goals in 49 games, plus 12 assists (of which 10 were to Aubameyang). I can see him link up with Suarez and Messi in the same way.

xp otm

Dembele still looks pretty raw but you only need to watch him for a bit to see why he's so highly rated. fast, but not just in terms of being able to beat defenders in a foot race. even when he's only moving at 70% it's like he's in fast forward compared to everyone around him. ridiculously two-footed and turns like a ballerina. amazing to think where France might be if him, Pogba and Mbappe develop to match the hype

Yeah, France in theory are out of this world. Guess we'll find out when they play sad Holland next week lol.

Euro 2020 is gonna be the one

That's the one being played all over Europe isn't it?

WC Russia 2018
EC All over the place 2020
Qatar 2022

^^ dire run.

I've come around on the multiple locations idea now

if only cos one of them is Dublin lol

Yeah maybe it's not that bad. But it's just so cynical: how can we get even more money out of this?! Wait, I know, get 13 countries involved instead of just 1 lol.

oliver burke looks like a cartoon
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Mendy time. pic.twitter.com/WQhXqenLME

— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 26, 2017

is that a Cure pun

No.

holy shit

(Charlie Daniels just absolutely cunted it into the top corner)

Yowza

well it was a nice dream

Jesus as you like

oh ffs

bollocks

fans on the pitch like they're on dis ting too -_-

and Sterling red carded

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2017/8/26/29a928a1-0ba3-4659-8bfc-28e6afe88a66.jpg

We've got hell on today, the first real quality Prem side, really. Murder! That Billing ball should have been a Mounie tap in.

Huddersfield look alright and in control, but vulnerable at the back twice now.

in some parallel universe the other Mounie is on a hattrick today!

the pressure is escalating on Southampton, I like it!

Despite missing two huge chances Mounie looks the part, he's good in possession as well.

Mooy must be one of the best passers in the league.

he is fucking awesome, and stats will back up he is in the top 3 of passers in this league, at least!

Wow. This is the shocking tackle from Britos! #watfordfc pic.twitter.com/HVp70mrv55

— HCT Views (@HCTviews) August 26, 2017

How long dya reckon before the commentators stop being surprised that Huddersfield can play football? It's pretty annoying

the worst is when they come out with that old chestnut about them being not able to "maintain the intensity in the 2nd half and will tire" bollox. when they clearly haven't looked at our late goals stats from last season. And know nothing about Wagner's intense fitness regime.

Pundits: they don't get any smarter

Don't tell me ye missed mayo for this

If I want to watch some insane old Irish guy repeatedly shouting "C'mon Toime!" at some fucked up mutation of football, there were school fields where that kind of shit used to go on in the 80's over here. But that's in the past now!

Tomorrow three weeks 3pm sharp I expect every one of us to do their duty

Is it on in the pub I ask myself?

Well that Lukaku pen was fucking shit

Dunno, I enjoyed it

:)

Indecisiveness about playing Martial or Rashford really paying off