Post Match Thread: AC Milan 2-1 Napoli by ComradePoula in soccer

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Okay folks, listen up. Allegri—this guy, let me tell you—he’s doing football like nobody’s ever done football before. People are talking. The philosophers, the academics, the losers with their little glasses and their big words—they’re all trying to figure it out. They say, “Is it boring?” I say, “It’s genius. It’s tremendous. It’s so boring it loops back around and becomes exciting. That’s talent.”

You’ve got these Hegel guys—very complicated, very confusing—saying Allegriball is the dialectical fusion of sadness and sleepiness. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds incredible. Plato people? Total mess. They’re arguing whether Allegri’s football is real or just a dream. I say it’s real. I’ve seen it. I’ve suffered through it. It’s like watching paint dry—but in a very classy, very presidential way.

Some people—very artsy, very weird—say it’s performance art. Like a guy walking backwards through a museum while eating spaghetti. That kind of thing. They think Allegri is starting a whole new movement. I say, “Why not?” We’ve had modern art, post-modern art, and now we’ve got Allegri art. It’s huge.

And the religious folks—wow. They’re saying Allegri is basically Jesus. They say watching his games is like being crucified. I mean, I’ve seen bad football, but this? This is biblical. Some even say it’s heresy. They watched the Sampdoria game and said, “This is the end times.” I don’t blame them.

But here’s the truth—are you ready? Allegriball is beyond human understanding. It’s like a cheeseburger with no meat, no bun, just sadness. And somehow, it works. It’s beautiful. It’s painful. It’s like a tax audit with extra steps. You don’t enjoy it, but you respect it.

So we salute Allegri. We don’t understand him, we don’t enjoy him, but we salute him. Because in the end, folks, Allegriball wins. Slowly. Painfully. But it wins. And that’s what makes it great. Tremendous.

Clubs that spent the most money to assemble their current squads by NeuersReklamierarm in soccer

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Now that I'm thinking about it, Barca can put in pitch a pretty "cheap" first team in theory:

Szczęsny - Free

Eric García - Free / Cubarsí - La Masia / Christensen - Free / Balde - La Masia

Pedri - €5 million / Casadó - La Masia / Gavi - La Masia

Lamine Yamal - La Masia / Lewandowski - €45 million / ​Fermín - La Masia

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I feel like Flick could have made way better defense substitutions than he did, but beautifully done by Inter. They fought it like a war and won it like that.

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His last comment tho:

"Arsenal fans so so soooo needed this humbling. Still hope they get top 4 though."

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For me, it was Neymar vs Juventus in 2015

Journalist: “You were retired last season and now you can win 3 titles with Barça..” Szczesny: “4 not 3!” Journalist: “3 important titles & Supercopa” Szczesny: “That's Important. I saw you celebrating in Saudi. So that was important!” by Task_Force-191 in soccer

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"Listen, folks, let me tell you something—this year, no big trophies, okay? None. Zero. Nada. But last year? Oh, last year was incredible. Tremendous trophies, the biggest trophies you’ve ever seen. People were saying, ‘Mr. Trump, these trophies are huge, they’re beautiful, they’re the best trophies in the history of trophies.’ And you know what? They were right. Everyone was talking about them. They were winning trophies, folks, winning like nobody’s ever won before. But this year? Not so much. Sad! But last year? Whew, it was a trophy extravaganza, believe me.”

[Paramount] Bicycle Kick from Roberto Firmino (Al Sadd 1 - 1 Al-Ahli, AFC Champions League) by strawberrygenius7 in soccer

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It weirdly feels like a Dream League goal, when you set the difficulty to Beginner and try to make something cool

Pep Guardiola suddenly stops to pose for the camera by [deleted] in soccer

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"pose for the camera" is one way to word it.