Ganzohnesushi can you see it coming ? How do you feel about it ? !

[Athenayama 1,081]

You know what I am talking about.

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

To be honest, I don't waste any thoughts on a match that might come with a mathematical probabilty of only 6,25% in a couple of weeks. I'm strictly following the statement from wise Sepp Herberger who once stated "the next opponent is always the hardest". Internazionale Milano in QF is tough, moreover I don't think PSG will survive a possible SF vs. Real Madrid.

Mister Al-Khelaifi needs to spent another few hundred millions, but even then I hope PSG will never win CL as long as they simply waste money given by some Arabs, Qataris or someone else. Sadly enough ManCity has achieved this in 2023. From my point of view a black day for football. In the era of Uli Hoeness FC Bayern has never spent any D-Mark or Euro which they haven't generated by their own before.

[Athenayama 1,081]

24 minutes ago, Ganzohnesushi said:

 moreover I don't think PSG will survive a possible SF vs. Real Madrid. 

 

You clearly haven't watched any of PSG games lately. If they keep their current level there is no team that can stop them this year and I can't see a reason they shoudn't keep that level unless they have suddenly 4-5 injured players. That I don't see happening as Enrique manages his team perfectly so far.

Honestly I am saying all this with a view as neutral as possible, just as a football fan. Any neutral football fan can see it. In addition this team of Paris is far from being the most expensive in its history. 23.5 years old average, the youngest in Champions League without big star !

Anyway we'll find out all soon enough. Good luck to all the remaining teams !

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

4 minutes ago, Athenayama said:

You clearly haven't watched any of PSG games lately.

Wrong.

5 minutes ago, Athenayama said:

If they keep their current level there is no team that can stop them this year

No team? From my point of view Bayern, Barca and Real Madrid are better than PSG. Then again in two games you need luck, no injured key-players and a neutral ref doing a good job. PSG is on a good path to become a "normal" football club after getting rid of some of their overpaid divas. But still they would be nothing without the extra petro dollars from Qatar. In case PSG one day will only spend self-earned money I might even root for them in the one or the other international match. Because it is not the club I dislike but the current concept.7

Ganzohnesushi

[Athenayama 1,081]

19 minutes ago, Ganzohnesushi said:

Wrong.

 

I thought you did, of course. So it means that you just don't want to see.

We'll talk again around end of May.

[Kotoroiwa 69]

"Shouting into others' tables" as we say in Finland is my speciality.

[Athenayama 1,081]

@Kotoroiwa Very decent team. They could have been very dangerous for thr final if they didn't have so many injured in their attack. In addition they are facing the "luckiest" team in the world in the quarter finals. I'd be happy if they qualify for the semi finals.

Also ..... everyone is welcome in this conversation.

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

First four letters say everything about this club....

Ganzohnesushi

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

 

@Kotoroiwa

Turku? How about IF Kamraterna? I guess they have not participated in European matches for a long time.

Ganzohnesushi

[Kotoroiwa 69]

IF Kamraterna? ÅIFK?!?!? These guys? They play on the western group A of Miesten Kolmonen, the fifth tier of Finnish football. I would be a star among them. Even if they were the PSG of Finland, they'd be a laughing stock anywhere else. You must be mixing them with someone else.

There's a reason a Finnish club hasn't played in UCL since 1998. (HJK did win Benfica then, but then again Finland won once in Turkey, too. Strange things happen.) Finnish club football is like watching paint dry, though not as hectic. National team… well, the women suck less, but that's not much.

We lack something genetically.

[Athenayama 1,081]

@Kotoroiwa Well you compensate with the best "heavy metal" genes (and all other subgenre genes in that kind of music) ...

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

6 hours ago, Kotoroiwa said:

IF Kamraterna? ÅIFK?!?!? These guys? They play on the western group A of Miesten Kolmonen, the fifth tier of Finnish football. I would be a star among them. Even if they were the PSG of Finland, they'd be a laughing stock anywhere else. You must be mixing them with someone else.

I'm glad my brain still works.... I knew I had heard or read this club name and finally found out where. No mixing up

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna i Åbo (Finnish Åbo is Turku in German) has won the Finnish Cup in 1965, thus participated in the European Cup winners Cup 1966/67 (won by Bayern München vs. Glasgow Rangers). Turku lost in the first round vs. Servette Geneve from Switzerland (1:1, 1:2). Why did I remember? As a little boy someone made a nice gift to me. Annual Football Year Book of 1966/67. I've read this intensely and was fascinated by the funny name (at least funny for a little German boy) of Kamraterna... Even a few decades later I still remember

Ganzohnesushi

[Kintamayama 45,565]

10 hours ago, Ganzohnesushi said:

First four letters say everything about this club....

Ganzohnesushi

And I find it very funny that the first 5 letters  of the team name spell the first name of their long-time manager of yore.

[Jakusotsu 6,052]

4 minutes ago, Kintamayama said:

And I find it very funny that the first 5 letters  of the team name spell the first name of their long-time manager of yore.

There was a time when Wolfgang Wolf was the coach of Wolfsburg - can't possibly get any better than that.

[Ganzohnesushi 528]

4 minutes ago, Kintamayama said:

And I find it very funny that the first 5 letters  of the team name spell the first name of their long-time manager of yore.

Isn't it Arsene Wenger? And btw, Arsen in German means Arsenic....

Ganzohnesushi

[Kintamayama 45,565]

17 minutes ago, Ganzohnesushi said:

Isn't it Arsene Wenger? And btw, Arsen in German means Arsenic....

Ganzohnesushi

Still, first five..

[Kotoroiwa 69]

Good old Arsène! I still have dreams of The Invincibles of '03–'04. Viola's championship looks more likely nowadays than Arsenal's.

Turku is Turku in Finnish, Åbo in Swedish. There's no Å in Finnish. I've used the Å button in my keyboard now more than ever before.

I would never have guessed ÅIFK ever won anything. They've been buried into obscurity for decades by now. Inter Turku and TPS Turku are no powerhouses either, though TPS once won Inter (Milan) on their hometurf.

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna (Sports association Comrades) is a very common name for a Finland-Swedish club of any sport in Finland. They are no hapoels despite the name, more like maccabis. HIFK of Helsingfors (Helsinki) is predictably the most known, though due to their ice-hockey club; possibly the most detested in Finland.

Oh, the link. My late cousin used to know the scorer. They studied in the same institution.