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  1. Yes, that's the main problem with the Spanish league, Barcelona and Real Madrid are the biggest teams and with a big difference. After them there are a big bunch of smaller teams (Valencia, Sevilla, Villareal, Mallorca, Atletico de Madrid......) that are always hanging around but rarely end up succeeding Anyway, the problem is more or less the same in the English, French, Italian, etc leagues, there are always 2-6 big teams that win everything.


    PS. Josh, call me Sergio please!
  2. Originally posted by LikeASong:Yes, that's the main problem with the Spanish league, Barcelona and Real Madrid are the biggest teams and with a big difference. After them there are a big bunch of smaller teams (Valencia, Sevilla, Villareal, Mallorca, Atletico de Madrid......) that are always hanging around but rarely end up succeeding Anyway, the problem is more or less the same in the English, French, Italian, etc leagues, there are always 2-6 big teams that win everything.


    PS. Josh, call me Sergio please!


    And in Holland they all suck lol


  3. When I was younger (so much younger than today, as Mr. Lennon would say... LOL), I remember that AJAX was great, they was all over Europe (UEFA and Champions League)and so. What happened to them?
  4. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    When I was younger (so much younger than today, as Mr. Lennon would say... LOL), I remember that AJAX was great, they was all over Europe (UEFA and Champions League)and so. What happened to them?


    Sold their top players (Van der Vaart (Real), Sneijder (Inter), Heitinga (Everton), De Jong (Man.City), Maxwell (Barca), Zlatan (Barca), Chivu (Inter), Huntelaar (AC Milan) for example all played for Ajax) and instead they bought old players like Gabri, Oleguer and Rommedahl. They should focus on good scouting and their own youth. That was Ajax strenght, they're foolish now.

    PSV was the most succesfull club in the last decade with reaching the semifinals in the CL. And Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup back in 2002. But there isn't that much money to be spend overall.
  5. Originally posted by MWSAH:[..]

    Sold their top players (Van der Vaart (Real), Sneijder (Inter), Heitinga (Everton), De Jong (Man.City), Maxwell (Barca), Zlatan (Barca), Chivu (Inter), Huntelaar (AC Milan) for example all played for Ajax) and instead they bought old players like Gabri, Oleguer and Rommedahl. They should focus on good scouting and their own youth. That was Ajax strenght, they're foolish now.

    PSV was the most succesfull club in the last decade with reaching the semifinals in the CL. And Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup back in 2002. But there isn't that much money to be spend overall.


    Could argue that Ajax's downfall started earlier than that. They were a true force in European football but back end of the 90's they lost a lot of talented players (Kluivert, Davids, Overmars, both De Boers, Van Der Sar, Rijkaard, Seedorf and probably more that I can't recall now. Since then it's been very hit and miss with no real sustainable team.

    Yes, Ajax have probably one of the best youth setups in the world but when clubs come knocking with big money, a team in Ajax's position has little chance of persuading a big player to stay. The players that emerge through the talent pool into the Ajax first team have much better prospects elsewhere. If Ajax were as good as they were in the 80's/early 90's then they'd stand a much better chance of holding on to players.

    It's a shame to see once giants in the game fall and it's even more of a shame to see new 'giants' emerge through the investment of incomprehensible sums of money.
  6. Originally posted by iTim:[..]

    Could argue that Ajax's downfall started earlier than that. They were a true force in European football but back end of the 90's they lost a lot of talented players (Kluivert, Davids, Overmars, both De Boers, Van Der Sar, Rijkaard, Seedorf and probably more that I can't recall now. Since then it's been very hit and miss with no real sustainable team.

    Yes, Ajax have probably one of the best youth setups in the world but when clubs come knocking with big money, a team in Ajax's position has little chance of persuading a big player to stay. The players that emerge through the talent pool into the Ajax first team have much better prospects elsewhere. If Ajax were as good as they were in the 80's/early 90's then they'd stand a much better chance of holding on to players.

    It's a shame to see once giants in the game fall and it's even more of a shame to see new 'giants' emerge through the investment of incomprehensible sums of money.


    All true, couldn't have said it better.
  7. Villa to Barcelona, rumours of Torres going too...Imagine Messi, Villa and Torres at front
    Won't happen though I think.
  8. Torres? No way. He was born and raised as a fanatic of Atletico de Madrid. And the Atletico people hate both Real Madrid and Barça...... it won't happen at all. I hope.
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:Torres? No way. He was born and raised as a fanatic of Atletico de Madrid. And the Atletico people hate both Real Madrid and Barça...... it won't happen at all. I hope.


    Never thought about that. Read Barca was preparing a 75€ bid..bit too much if you ask me. Won't see it happen too. They say Zlatan isn't for sale with Henry possibly going to the USA. With Messi, Bojan, Villa and Zlatan they have enough.
  10. Waaaay more than enough.

    In fact, I'm sure that they only need a goalkeeper, Pujol, Iniesta and Messi to win a match against any other tea.
  11. Inter 2-0 Bayern
  12. Booorin'
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