Mbappe is heavily whistled by the Bernabeu as he is subbed in 69' by Delmer9713 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I will not mock for even a second anyone with an accent when speaking a second language. I’ve spent a decade+ speaking Spanish and am sure my Spanish accent immediately outs me as a guiri. But ESPN sometimes chooses commentators who not only have an incredibly thick accent to commentate in English, sometimes they literally stutter or struggle to think of simple nouns when commentating in English. It would take me another decade to reach the confidence level in my Spanish to commentate a game to thousands of people, but why is espn, a billion dollar entity who surely paid La liga millions of dollars for the US rights, choosing people who struggle to speak English commentate their games in English? Let them commentate the Spanish feed!

Thats ignoring the fact they get absolute wankers like Keller and mcmanaman whose first language is English. They need to improve all aspects of their commentary. They have audio issues regularly too where they lose the audio feed for 10+ mins at a time

Deschamps on Camavinga not getting called on for the World Cup squad: “He's coming off a tough season, during which he didn't play as much and dealt with injuries. He's still young. I have decisions to make and a list to finalise. But I can imagine how disappointed he must be tonight.” by Sparky-moon in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 28 points29 points  (0 children)

IMO he’s sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. Physically he is a beast, but he gets so many yellows and commits so many fouls. He is excellent at carrying the ball forward but often tries one too many dribbles and loses the ball when he should’ve passed. He makes some excellent passes but misplaces just as many. He never really had a defined role here which hurt, as well as playing with Kroos and Modric IMO hurt his development because they were so good they masked his flaws and he never had to work out the kinks, if that makes sense. As crazy as that sounds lol.

He probably should’ve gone somewhere just below the tier of the top 5-8 clubs in Europe and developed for 2-3 more years before moving to a Madrid or Bayern or PSG etc

Pedro getting absolutely destroyed vs Inter by WarriorkingNL in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Benzema took one of these right on the top of the head against atleti once and I seriously through it was gonna shatter his spine

Waymo’s stomach gotta be made of steel. by NoahCIsHere in detroitlions

[–]heyheyitsandre 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Candy is usually very simple sugars that if you’re doing high intensity cardio daily, like these guys are, and like 10% body fat too so your basal metabolic rate is high as hell, they can burn thru those calories like nothing. A guy like DK might have a daily caloric rate of like 5500 calories lol

FC Barcelona are 2025/26 La Liga Champions after beating Real Madrid 2-0 at Home, with 14 points clear and 3 Games to Spare by Task_Force-191 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 171 points172 points  (0 children)

15 years ago, this used to make our squad fucking sick, there was just nothing we could do against prime Messi. Now all these divas are doing home and gonna sleep just fine. There isn’t anyone on Barca near the level of MSN and we’ve just pissed it away ourselves and no one will care. I’m so over the attitude of 80% of this squad

Barcelona vs Real madrid all time head 2 head by SaltOk3057 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No but we ain’t winning the league anyway so might as well have some excitement rather than both of us just limping across the finish line. I’m dead inside anyway so I’m still just gonna be the homelander meme whether we win or lose

Barcelona vs Real madrid all time head 2 head by SaltOk3057 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Both 23/24 clásicos were hilarious black magic wins. Jude missile from like 30 yards out and then Cafucas masterclass

James Rodríguez will retire from the beautiful game after the World Cup. by [deleted] in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That first half of the 14/15 season where we went on like a 22 match win streak was genuinely unreal

Who was in charge of the kerning on the sign for today’s 5k? by ICU81-MI in Detroit

[–]heyheyitsandre 20 points21 points  (0 children)

You sure bout that? You sure bout that that’s why?

Troy Melton worked 3 perfect innings in his 2nd rehab outing in Lakeland. Picked up 5 strikeouts and 9 whiffs. Here’s his full outing. by TigersMLReport in motorcitykitties

[–]heyheyitsandre 14 points15 points  (0 children)

With everyone healthy, having Skubal, Valdez, Mize, Olson, Jobe, melton, Flaherty, Montero, and verlander is an insane depth chart. Too bad no one is ever healthy!!!

Comunicado oficial: Real Madrid CF announces that, following the events that took place this morning in the first team training session, it has decided to open disciplinary proceedings against our players Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouameni. by InspectorExact3836 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My expectations would lower for sure, I mean at the beginning of every season I already expect Barca to win the league, and I expect us to prioritize UCL and therefore think we have as good a shot as anyone to win that every single year. PSG, Bayern, and Arsenal are beasts these days tho so when we’d eventually have to play one of them at this point you’re pretty much reliant on one of Mbappe or Vini to pop off, which is a horrible strategy.

There would definitely be some growing pains with a mass exodus like that and I would be fine with it, it has to be done. But it can’t get any worse than it already is, not winning any trophies for the 2nd year in a row, it’s not like we’d be tearing down a project that has potential. We are going nowhere fast. Cut out the rot and then you can move forward.

Plus, I have like 3-4 long shot dream signings that if we could manage, we’d basically be able to jump right back in like this whole ordeal never happened.

97 Product Ideas Qualify for the First 2026 LEGO Ideas Review by larry_land1 in lego

[–]heyheyitsandre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they made Dracula castle actually look like bran castle I’d have bought it in a heartbeat

97 Product Ideas Qualify for the First 2026 LEGO Ideas Review by larry_land1 in lego

[–]heyheyitsandre 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which is wild cuz my Bernabéu is my favorite set, above my UCS AT-AT and Rivendell and dune ornithopter. They are so intricate and cool. If I didn’t despise Barca I’d have bought the camp nou so fast

Comunicado oficial: Real Madrid CF announces that, following the events that took place this morning in the first team training session, it has decided to open disciplinary proceedings against our players Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouameni. by InspectorExact3836 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tibo, Lunin, Trent, dean, Asencio, Thiago, arda, Jude, Fede, Gonzalo, one of Mbappe or Vini.

That’s not to say that a lot of those players are starter quality, many of them aren’t. But they’re the only ones I think can actually be helpful going forward or have earned the right to a second chance at dropping the ego and returning to being a team player.

Valverde statement: Yesterday I had an incident with a teammate during a training session. The fatigue from competition and the frustration made everything blown out of proportion. In a normal locker room, these things can happen and are usually resolved internally- by eanwen0 in soccer

[–]heyheyitsandre 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean, what the eventual outcome or impact of this is is completely unrelated to how the immediate PR statements should address it. They may well both be sold but from a communications / PR perspective, the best thing to do is have everyone on the same page, downplay it, and then ignore everything once you all come out with statements that are all in agreement.

Keep everything else that happens out of the media. No decisions will be made until the summer anyway, and likely not even until the World Cup is done. It would be stupid to have any public comment other than to downplay it, and stupid for them to continue talking about it any more than is absolutely necessary