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 Welcome to our yearly party, our favourite hangout, the very best place where everyone knows your name: The Liga Thread! (Now without broken bbcode) For the uninitiated:  This thread is the hot new place to talk about : -Spanish Nationalism as taught by Ernest Hemingway -Barcelona’s new coach Tiki Tata -The Spanish Diaspora -Relegation chat because more than 2 teams are involved -How long until Madrid's Manager is sacked -The feud slash infatuation slash romantic comedy between Barcelona’s doped up midgets -Why Osasuna is the best team in the world Now the interesting stuff, this is how things finished last season:  No surprises at the top except for the overachieving Sociedad who sneaked into the CL playoffs. Elsewhere, the race to the bottom was spearheaded by Zaragoza who were followed by the newly promoted Depor & Mallorca, the latter still in a financial quagmire is unlikely to see things improve in the immediate future. ------- Transfer season so far:  ------- The Teams:  Athletic Club(Athletic Bilbao, Los Leones) Basque and proud of it. May or may not be separatists, often seen playing uncompromising attacking football and consequently conceding all the goals.  Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D.(Atlético Madrid, Los Colchoneros, Los Rojiblancos) Don’t want to ride the Real bandwagon? Well this is the club for you!  Futbol Club Barcelona(Barcelona, Barça, L'equip blaugrana) Used to have a soul until they sold it to Qatar. Used to have a plan b til they sold it to Italy. Then some midget started running the club.  Real Betis Balompié S.A.D.(Betis, Béticos del Universo, Verdiblancos) If Sevilla is the Giralda then these guys are a step ladder.  Real Club Celta de Vigo, S.A.D..(Célticos, Celestes) They are from somewhere near portugal, speak funny and drink terrible cider.  Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona(RCD Espanyol, Espanyol, Periquitos, Blanquiblaus) Love the Ramblas? Hate being good at football? Sign on with these guys. The team for anyone who hates Barcelona and Madrid equally but still pines for a free catalunya.  Getafe Club de Fútbol(Getafe, Azulones, El Geta) They have a Burger King Shirt. Also a club made porno  Granada Club de Fútbol(Granada, El Graná) If you go to Granada, go to the Alhambra instead.  Levante Unión Deportiva, S.A.D.(Llevant Unió Esportiva, Levante UD, Levante, Granotes) Second best in town to Valencia. Sometimes provide hilarious upsets.  Málaga Club de Fútbol(Málaga CF, Málaga, Los Boquerones) Owned by a supposed oil sheikh. Sign name players then don’t pay them or for them.  Club Atlético Osasuna(Osasuna, Rojillos, Gorritxoak) The best team in the world.  Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D.(Rayo, Vallecas) Want to claim to like famous EPL players before they were cool like the hipster dirtbag you are? Well this is who you need to be a fan of.  Real Madrid Club de Fútbol(Madrid, Blancos, Merengues) The team for the uncompromissed oval office.  Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D.(La Real, Txuri-urdin, Erreala) Literally the summer house of royalty and facists.  Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D.(Sevilla, Sevillistas, Rojiblancos) The Giralda of Sevilla football. Not very good but their football is pretty moorish.  Valencia Club de Fútbol(Valencia, Los Che, Els taronja) Bankrupt like all other clubs in Spain. Keep selling anyone with talent.  Real Valladolid Club de Fútbol, S.A.D.(Pucela) I wouldn't try pronouncing it unless you know spanish. ------- And the three new kids on the block:  Unión Deportiva Almería, S.A.D.(Rojiblancos, La Unión, Almeriensistas, Indálicos) I've just never been there   Elche Club de Fútbol, S.A.D.(Los Franjiverdes, Los Ilicitanos) If you switch the first two letters of their name it becomes milk in spanish.  Villarreal Club de Fútbol S.A.D.(El Submarino Amarillo) They are nicknamed the yellow submarines because they wear yellow and they will sink without a trace. Used to have american superstar forward Giuseppe Rossi back when he had knees. ------- Media Outlets: Spanish http://www.sport.es http://www.elmundodeportivo.com http://www.as.com http://www.marca.com http://www.superdeporte.es http://www.lfp.es  New for this year, AS.com and Marca.com have launched an actual English editions. They're decent, and will definately help you keep up with the rumors even more!English http://www.as.com/en http://www.marca.com/en http://www.guardian.co.uk/football http://soccernet.espn.go.com/section?id=europe&cc=5901 http://www.lfp.es (click the English flag for poorly translated news items) Useful English Twitter feeds: @sidlowe, @laliganews, please post any others you come across, be they team or league specific. ------- Please join us for the clasicos that will ultimately decide the winner and for the never ending whinning from the Barça supporters! Voluspa fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Drogadon posted:Still a Levante plastic, more so now that Navas will finally be the number 1. did they get rid of the other guy?
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Aug 3, 2013 08:50
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NattyBo posted:Great OP, thanks Voluspa. I still feel there are less games on, beIN broadcasted three different leagues last season, so you'd get two of each per weekend tops, usually the popular fare. No more minnow games.
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Aug 5, 2013 08:33
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El Hefe posted:It happens in literally every sport on earth, some people choose to pretend it doesn't exist but if you like top level sports then you have to accept your favorite athlete is doping. Yes, having an opposing opinion is and can only be a troll since it affects you personally. This is not an attack on your (lol) catalan identity, it's stating a fact. Fact: EPO is dangerous to your health. Fact: Barcelona and other clubs in Spain have been linked with person or persons known for their usage/management of EPO. Fact: Barcelona is nationally not alone in performing 'performance enhancing' measures and likely Spain is not the only country with clubs guilty of sponsoring it or having players who do it.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:49
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Scott Bakula posted:This is the worst thing ever posted in a La Liga thread You people forget when Hefe said "Good Riddance" in response to Pep leaving and explained it as being lost in translation. 
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Nov 18, 2013 13:50
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Jan 18, 2014 01:42
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Pedro De Heredia posted:The judge has decided to move forward with the complaint presented by a socio regarding Neymar's dodgy contract situation. It's certainly easier to run dodgy, fraudulent financial deals when you have government officials and bankers backing you. Agreed.
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Jan 22, 2014 15:13
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elmundo.es posted:Rosell se plantea dejar el club y pide que el juez ceda a Barcelona la investigación lmao.
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Jan 23, 2014 07:58
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 What is Ramos wearing?
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Jan 31, 2014 01:27
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Hegav posted:lol what the gently caress? red?? fix is in
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Feb 5, 2014 22:46
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Hegav posted:still not sure why?? no replays so far lol talking to the ref, but a straight red for that is beyond harsh. Specially after they let off Masch with a yellow.
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Feb 5, 2014 22:50
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All right, time to change channel now. Game was over when the ref swallowed the red against Masch.
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Feb 5, 2014 23:19
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El Hefe posted:Nobody ever does anything about it in Spain, and the only time you even hear about it is in foreign media, Marca, AS, Sport, etc never report it. Ironically, whenever either of the two cunts come up north, the 'foreign' press is full of tales of angry racist mountain dwellers from euskadi shouting awful, awful, terrible things at their little princesses. Guess we really are a world apart.
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Feb 6, 2014 18:27
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Lladre posted:Need fresh blood. An infusion of new talent.
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Feb 9, 2014 21:41
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screw you cunts, relegation race is a lot more fun.
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Feb 23, 2014 21:36
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NattyBo posted:3-0 gently caress you and the bloodpacked horse you rode in on >:|
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Feb 23, 2014 21:43
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NattyBo posted::-/ I obviously don't want Osasuna to get relegated but wow this weekend has sucked for the title race IMO. You are a terrible person, and you should feel bad. Road to the title passes through El Sadar. Cementerio de elefantes.
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Feb 23, 2014 22:52
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Lladre posted:It's funny how I'm sorry, what was this about spanish politics?
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Feb 25, 2014 06:08
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El Hefe posted:He's in the final of the copa del rey, beat man city comfortably in the cl and hes only 3 points off the lead of la liga... 3rd in a 2 horse race, brilliant. Be useful and go protest poo poo in the capital. Suqit posted:Here are some things I think we should all consider: 3/4 aint bad.
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Feb 25, 2014 22:59
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blue footed boobie posted:Haha what the hell? I think Barca expected him to do more than pop up in a couple of games every season for their €117m Nah, catalans are known for their patience, perspective and low expectations. I mean, it helps having a majority of fair weather foreign fans who lose interest when there are no shiny objects to be won.
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Feb 26, 2014 01:53
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 And if that wasn't sufficiently revolting: 
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Feb 26, 2014 03:48
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Suqit posted:No but I think it would be pretty cool if instead of everyone tripping over themselves to prove that they hate Barcelona I'm sorry, did you miss the part where that is the entire sports dialogue in the country? polarization of football as a whole. I'd understand if non-spanish supporters who've never been to the country, have a hard time grasping the cultural duopoly plaguing the current football conversation. Ho Chi Meeeeee posted:Are you going to support Barcelona when the morons at the Catalan independence movement get their wish and Barcelona has to play Espanyol every week because no one wants to join the Catalan league? It would not be any more or less interesting than the actual liga where the only thing we talk about is the Madrid vs Barcelona games as the only relevant and interesting happenings.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:04
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Suqit posted:cares nothing about Spanish soccer Irrelevant, much of the real (if any) consequences of
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Feb 26, 2014 23:17
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Blue Screen Error posted:It still baffles me why all the other teams put up with this, there's no league without them. You can understand why Atletico and Valencia might want to keep their position of getting the most crumbs from the big two's table, but the rest of them should just strike or field children against Barca/Real. There are real political and institutional obstacles, namely that the FA essentially looks after the interests of these two teams. This is not to say the rest have silently taken whatever crumbs fall of the table. There's been protests, comments and threats made. Sevilla famously got their games moved one season which was in no way punishment, no sir. El Hefe posted:Barca and Madrid bribed all the other club's presidents into accepting the tv deal, it's the only thing that makes sense to me. The other clubs can't be that dumb. Look at you being foreign and dumb.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:28
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El Hefe posted:The worse thing is that the clubs had the option of fighting the tv deal recently but nothing came of it, they just shrugged their shoulders and let Barca and Madrid keep loving them, it's the weirdest thing. Apparently people need their jobs. Not that a wealthy prick from venezuela would know what working for a living entails. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 26, 2014 23:32
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Hegav posted:Yeah I thought it was something along the line that the league and FA takes the sacrifices in the expectation that the two teams will do good in Europe. That sounds too noble, maybe there was such a time that was true. In practice is much like any regulatory body, it has since been populated with people whose allegiances lie really with the teams themselves and not the league as a whole.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:36
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Drogadon posted:boring barca bashing It's only half of the poo poo nationals have to put up with, there's just as much Madrid bashing and is wholly uninteresting as well. But as long as we are on the subject, I'm divided on Navas and Andrés Fdez, as best young keepers on the league.
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Feb 26, 2014 23:41
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El Hefe posted:I bet vaginal culture is more ripped, gets more pussy and is funner to hang around with than Neymar. not even a contest, paulistas are huge cunts.
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Feb 27, 2014 00:08
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tbp posted:Neither would most Spaniards to be fair lol I know where it its you were going with this, but no.
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Feb 27, 2014 00:47
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Hegav posted:this took a very strange direction something something wankers
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Feb 27, 2014 00:51
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Pedro De Heredia posted:He's a parody of himself now. history is anything to go by, he'll gently caress off to abroad as a shadow of his former self were he'll test positive to banned substances.
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Mar 8, 2014 19:56
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Drogadon posted:Nice, we're gonna have this silly discussion again and get this thread closed before I can post videos of Navas denying Cristiano and Bale tomorrow Just avoid poo poo posting and and we can debate institutionalized bias and a how terrible the league has been historically.
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Mar 9, 2014 02:29
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Lladre posted:As bad as the league is at least it isn't Portugal. so, the same but with less money overall?
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Mar 9, 2014 02:52
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El Hefe posted:Can't believe Levante chose a briefcase full of money over beating the fascists from Madrid, but I guess that's how it is in La Liga BBVA. 
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Mar 9, 2014 20:58
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ephex posted:I can't believe Barca chose Neymar over 117 briefcases full of money. That's a highly inefficient way to carry money, just one million per briefcase.
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Mar 9, 2014 21:00
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Mean Bean Machine posted:Can anyone post a live table for the results we've had so far this weekend? vaginal culture posted:I would like to see this as well. 
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Mar 9, 2014 23:09
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euroboy posted:words They'll never sink, even while the anchor of design-by-committee weighs them down.
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Mar 10, 2014 09:50
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Gigi Galli posted:That's some kit that Osasuna are wearing today. And yet not as offensive as barcelona's old yellowrange gradient.
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Mar 16, 2014 17:53
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trem_two posted:He speaks Spanish, you know... I know Swansea had a fair bit of spanish players but how in god's green earth did he learn spanish?
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Mar 18, 2014 04:10
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Baldo Di Gregorio posted:less about football and more about personalities and nonsense  This thread looks a lot like spanish journalistic integrity. They are both terrible. In actual football, Osasuna trying really hard not to lose after going ahead 1-2 away at Almeria.
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Apr 4, 2014 21:47
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