It’s also misleading. Malaga was banned for a couple of years from European competition in 2012 because it wasn’t paying its debts. Even if money would be dumped in to keep the team competitive, it’s tough to keep ambitious players when they can’t play in Europe. It sounds more like Haisley is saying Al Thani was…

Needs more pancreatic juice.

As an additional note, the prominent soccer player to come out is Thomas Hitzlsperger:

I agree with the sentiment, but his positioning is just the opposite. He plays RB for the US and left wing for Gladbach.

There are always stories about his height, as attested to here:

So Rand Paul has the political ideology of Professor Wagstaff without the wit and charm?

Arnold is closer to 5’9”. My sister and I met him in 1991. My sister is a little over 5’9” and they were roughly the same height. She may have been a little taller.

Agents get quite a lot of criticism for their influence in transfers. Agents’ influence in the hiring of coaches/managers is far more interesting. Like you said, owners are clueless and agents can sway a clueless owner. There is much less input from a technical director or other intermediary as there would be with a…

+1 shakin’ bush

There are many dialects in Austria that differ from the standard German language. Vienna has its own. While the announces is speaking in standard German, his inflection is Viennese.

I appreciate you posting the video, but are you saying the Bundesliga is not a top-tier European league?

Rafik Zekhnini is a name to keep track of:

Castro is an excellent player, but not on the backline. It didn’t make much sense having him there. Playing Stenzel would’ve been interesting.

Just to clarify, Hamburg are not a small club. They are a massive club. They are also terrible and are mired in disarray. The massive size of Hamburg dramatically adds to the pressure you mention with relegation. For example, Paderborn had much less pressure regarding relegation last season than Hamburg. A young…

I tend to think Hamburg’s mismangagment has a big role in this. It’s difficult to say how good Green is and how good he may become, but Hamburg was a terrible club for him to be loaned to. Hamburg can be insidious and ruinous to even an established player. In Green’s case, Hamburg had the worst attack in the league…

Why worry about a stylistic question when this gem is right at the end?

I don’t care how old she is, I’m going to be around a lot longer than Vanessa Arauz, too.

The Fandango remake looks really good.

Such a life-like voodoo doll.

This is an excellent, if lengthy, review of Million Dollar Baby.