2022 World Cup Discussion

mat said:
A preening twat who expects the world to revolve around him?

I think they'll be home with Engerland after a week
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Lots of firepower, durable and Bernardo, Ronaldo will just win free kicks and be off after an hour of each game.
 
blue cigar said:
Lots of firepower, durable and Bernardo, Ronaldo will just win free kicks and be off after an hour of each game.
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There's always a team that comes through the playoffs and has a good tournament. Portugal remind me of Pakistan in the cricket. Somehow, they always make the latter stages despite playing shite and being pretty much out at one point. They won Euro 2016 having drawn all three group games and then winning in ET or on pens in every knockout iirc! I can't see them winning it though.

The Dutch have a strong squad of hardworking players with a good balance of youth and experience and I think they'll be one of the better European teams alongside Spain and England (yep I said it). Argentina or Brazil should win it. On paper I'd say Brazil, but I think the Messi factor means Argentina will take the glory. Would love for England to beat them in the final though.
 
blue cigar said:
Portugal at 14/1 is the bet, got everything needed.
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I agree, their chances are underrated:

Diogo Costa

Cancelo (Dalot) Dias Pepe/Antonio Silva Mendes/Guerreiro

Bruno (Nunes) Vitinha/Ruben Neves Bernardo Silva

Felix Ronaldo (Andre Silva) Leao

Actually one may say that Ronaldo is a weak link there, at least this season he is genuinely miles off it and I really do not believe their coach has a balls to make it right, but for me on paper Portugal > Spain for instance.
 
IronsideKozuch said:
I agree, their chances are underrated:

Diogo Costa

Cancelo (Dalot) Dias Pepe/Antonio Silva Mendes/Guerreiro

Bruno (Nunes) Vitinha/Ruben Neves Bernardo Silva

Felix Ronaldo (Andre Silva) Leao

Actually one may say that Ronaldo is a weak link there, at least this season he is genuinely miles off it and I really do not believe their coach has a balls to make it right, but for me on paper Portugal > Spain for instance.
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Yeah, but Ronaldo for Portugal will be like Bale for Wales. Shite for his club but he'll turn up in the tournament (to score a penalty and take all the credit). Let's face it, even at the latter stages of the World Cup, international football is a level below the top leagues.
 
blue cigar said:
Portugal at 14/1 is the bet, got everything needed.
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Ronaldo will cost them their chance. Given Portugal have a very handy forward line without him, he should have had the grace to retire but we all know its all about him. Portugal manager won't even be allowed to sub him off unless they're coasting, they'll be playing with 10 men every game.
 
hcblue said:
So FIFA have announced that clubs of players going to the WC will receive $10K for every day they are at the tournament, starting today. And its paid for any players that have been registered to the club in the past two years.
So I think we have 16 current players plus Sterling and Jesus going to the WC. On some very rough maths we should earn upwards of $2.8M just for the group stages!!!!!
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Sounds good, but that's $70k a week. I'd venture to say that wouldn't cover the wages of a single one of our World Cup players.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Ronaldo will cost them their chance. Given Portugal have a very handy forward line without him, he should have had the grace to retire but we all know its all about him. Portugal manager won't even be allowed to sub him off unless they're coasting, they'll be playing with 10 men every game.
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That's the worry, they have firepower and don't really need him, we'll see how it pans out but he can't at every game or even 90 minutes
 
Manchester33 said:
It doesn't make sense for them to pay it based on players who're no longer at those clubs though. How strange.
I bet that's game-changing money for clubs in less affluent leagues like Scotland.
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I assume the two year window is to reflect the qualifiers and those players we’ve released for those
 
stonerblue said:
8 to 1 for the mug punters and flag wavers. Probably better price with foreign bookies.
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That may have been the case 20 years ago but the betting industry operates in a pretty small world these days. Betfair pretty much dictates the markets worldwide.
 
hertsblue said:
From Twitter:

A reminder that David Beckham, who initially said he was "disgusted" by Qatar winning the 2022 World Cup hosting rights, now has a $277 MILLION ambassador deal with Qatar.

It's truly odd how little his reputation has suffered from this craven hypocrisy
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Getting some heat on the ITV news now
 
ninjamonkey said:
Ronaldo will cost them their chance. Given Portugal have a very handy forward line without him, he should have had the grace to retire but we all know its all about him. Portugal manager won't even be allowed to sub him off unless they're coasting, they'll be playing with 10 men every game.
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If anyone can make up for that lazy statue it’s Bernardo
But no I don’t think they’ll win it
 
So who's expecting the usual England scenario of win 1, draw 1, lose 1 in the group stage, qualify for second round and dispose of whoever we play to reach the quarters, draw someone decent and go out.
 
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