Man Utd accept $80m from Real Madrid for Ronaldo - no recession in Madrid !!

StevieJ

roddydogs wrote: »

No it aint--Forest lost the first leg of a tie and won the second, its the goal aggregate with away goals counting double in a tie...... did not anyone tell you?........how is it easier with double the amount of teams in it?

The top four are in it every year for a start

StevieJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

about 90% of them will tell you la liga next season...;)

But 10% of 500 million is still quite a lot

mr.broderick

roddydogs wrote: »

No it aint--Forest lost the first leg of a tie and won the second, its the goal aggregate with away goals counting double in a tie...... did not anyone tell you?........how is it easier with double the amount of teams in it?

Actually i was alive when we had the old format and i know it was home and away, what i meant was if you lost the tie you were gone.

mr.broderick

roddydogs wrote: »

No it aint--Forest lost the first leg of a tie and won the second, its the goal aggregate with away goals counting double in a tie...... did not anyone tell you?........how is it easier with double the amount of teams in it?

You can finish 4th in your own domestic league and still qualify for the champins league, what is your point here?

Generali

mr.broderick wrote: »

You can finish 4th in your own domestic league and still qualify for the champins league, what is your point here?

Presumably 'Champions' is short for 'Champions, runners up, placed and also fourth (depending where you come from of course - we can't have some !!!!!! knocking out Manyoo or Ray Al in the first round )'

kennyboy66_2

StevieJ wrote: »

The top four are in it every year for a start

Add to the fact that the groups are seeded, so almost every group has one patsy who has no chance. Man U topped their group by winning 2 matches out of six this year.

It's 4 x easier to qualify for the Champions League than it was the European Cup.
It should be easy to get through the group stages.

Once in the last 16 it is pretty tough - much tougher than the equivalent old style European Cup stage.

inspector_monkfish

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Add to the fact that the groups are seeded, so almost every group has one patsy who has no chance. Man U topped their group by winning 2 matches out of six this year.

It's 4 x easier to qualify for the Champions League than it was the European Cup.
It should be easy to get through the group stages.

Once in the last 16 it is pretty tough - much tougher than the equivalent old style European Cup stage.

yeah, but its good to watch though

Really2

nearlynew wrote: »

I think you will find that Barcelona have won the european cup the same number of times as united.

They have "underachieved" as well as man u

It ain't having a go mat but I think they are all in the last few years when they have been dominating their league. that is my point that is all.

why do man united fans want to pretend they are the most successful English club in European competition.

You united fans are so easy to wind up.:D

But to make your the most successful in the UK in European competition, Your havin a laugh:D

johnBarker

I think it is shameful the amount of money that has been payed out for Ronaldo, but it is football. It wont stop until FIFA stand in the way of the big clubs doing what there doing, I would say that Ronaldo is up there with some of the best football players I have seen in my life time. Zidane was better and is the only player I can think of who was. I think he went for something like £46million, there no way Ronaldo is worth double, I know because of the exchange rates it hasn't worked out like that in Spain but still you could buy a team that could stay in the premiership fighting for Europe.

kennyboy66_2

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

yeah, but its good to watch though

Knockout stage is great.

Group stages are generally tedious