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01-10-2024 , 04:03 AM
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[Florian Plettenberg] Been told Dragusin has chosen to join Tottenham over Bayern. He will fly to London today.
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[Fabrizio Romano] Radu Dragusin to Tottenham, here we go! Agreement reached on package in excess of €30m after new bid overnight. Spence joins Genoa on loan. Dragusin wanted Spurs and confirmed their agreement on personal terms despite Bayern bid. SAGA OVER.
löl buyern in shambles. stick to signing spurs deadwood and players from currywurst league instead.
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01-10-2024 , 04:18 AM
remember that avalanche of **** i had to put up with about buyern shirts
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01-10-2024 , 04:20 AM
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
remember that avalanche of **** i had to put up with about buyern shirts



LÖL
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01-10-2024 , 05:13 AM
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remember that avalanche of **** i had to put up with about buyern shirts
LEVERAGE!
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01-10-2024 , 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by TheGramuel
Ichiro isn't Hispanic though
Bleh, missed that part.

Vlad has been mentioned and Jose Abreu wasn’t speaking English in interviews when he left the Sox. I’m far from hating on any of that tbh. I loved watching Abreu play and he’s easily in my pantheon of favorite White Sox players.
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01-10-2024 , 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by rickroll
yeah i get that, but if you were drafted at age 17 and you're now 37 still giving interviews through translators then you clearly are not speaking much english day to day but instead living in a hispanic bubble

watch dugout footage of an mlb team and you'll have the americans speaking english to each other and the latinos speaking spanish to each other without much interaction other than hr celebrations

and then of course the asian guy huddled by himself talking to his translator


meanwhile watch the locker room of ligue1 one team and the argentinian and senegalese and german are all speaking french with each other and likewise for italy and spain
I think part of this is that baseball is not a team sport, the same way that soccer and basketball are.

Baseball is largely an individual sport, played between the pitcher and the batter. There is no concept of "passing" like there is in other sports. Batters do not share a ball, if they all hit a homerun that's what benefits the whole team the most. Batters simply react and try to hit ball far. Fielders try to catch ball and throw to the applicable base. Most plays in baseball are completely obvious and forced, with little to no need for real-time communication.

As a result of this you have cliques of Dominican and Venezuelan players that never have to speak English to the American players.
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01-10-2024 , 04:42 PM
Gravenberch just ain't it.
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01-10-2024 , 05:32 PM
Books had Fulham evens 1 goal up at Anfield with 30mins to go. Figured I must have missed a couple of red cards for us.
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01-11-2024 , 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by ChopSueyyy
löl buyern in shambles. stick to signing spurs deadwood and players from currywurst league instead.
Came to post my löl Buyern burn, but I can't top this.
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01-11-2024 , 02:30 AM
Boniface injury really sucks. I really need bayern to not win the buli for the lulz.
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01-11-2024 , 08:50 AM
Boniface is an amazing name btw
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01-11-2024 , 09:13 AM
Dier to Bayern looks like it's going to happen today. People will give him stick but he's been a versatile and half decent player for us at times. Plus loads of good Dier memory bits:

The winning penalty against columbia

Just completely clattering sergio Ramos for no reason

Climbing into the stands to fight a fan

Running off halfway through a game to take a ****

Avoiding about 17 red cards at the battle of the bridge

Rounding Adrian to score the winner vs West Ham on his debut

Nearly murdering about 20 walls that he's absolutely blasted free kicks straight at
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01-11-2024 , 11:03 AM
Dier is going to Bayern to translate Kane's English to English, which can then be translated to German so people can understand him.
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01-11-2024 , 12:34 PM
In the amazon docuseries Dier came across as a decent bloke. kind of the Rob Holding of Spurs with a lot more gametime.

I'm happy for him that he gets to have a transfer like that and even win some silverware.

But if by a cruel joke I was a spurs fan I'd be delighted he is leaving. Especially that he is getting replaced by a proper brick shithouse.

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Originally Posted by Hoopie1
Dier is going to Bayern to translate Kane's English to English, which can then be translated to German so people can understand him.
Lol

Also I hate that Spurs are seemingly learning and doing transfers this time. While the names being brought up for us are kind of demoralizing
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01-11-2024 , 01:50 PM
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01-11-2024 , 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by MindFckr

Also I hate that Spurs are seemingly learning and doing transfers this time. While the names being brought up for us are kind of demoralizing
We've been massively active in the market for years. Just been bad at it.
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01-11-2024 , 05:07 PM
Even though the last two years weren’t much, I’m going to miss Dier.

The ultimate company man. 10 years with Spurs, though he may be most remembered for having to take a poo..
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01-11-2024 , 06:17 PM
some absolutely unbelievably unlucky jerkoff online casino i havent played on for 7 years emailed me about five free 10p spins

i played them and it returned Ł3.20, which i put on five numbers in the 'lightning xxx extreme live' casino game

that returned Ł20.80 which i cleverly reinvested, and that returned a further Ł19

the next spin failed so i took a short break to recharge my luck juice

i came back with enough for three spins at Ł12 each, and on the third spin i hit number 8 with 220 of the king's finest pence on it. number 8 had been boosted to 200x and then double extreme xxx boosted to 1000x. it just ****ing plopped in there and stuck

+Ł2200

tried three more spins and then left in disgust when none of them hit

great bonus, would accept bonus again

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01-11-2024 , 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
some absolutely unbelievably unlucky jerkoff online casino i havent played on for 7 years emailed me about five free 10p spins

i played them and it returned Ł3.20, which i put on five numbers in the 'lightning xxx extreme live' casino game

that returned Ł20.80 which i cleverly reinvested, and that returned a further Ł19

the next spin failed so i took a short break to recharge my luck juice

i came back with enough for three spins at Ł12 each, and on the third spin i hit number 8 with 220 of the king's finest pence on it. number 8 had been boosted to 200x and then double extreme xxx boosted to 1000x. it just ****ing plopped in there and stuck

+Ł2200

tried three more spins and then left in disgust when none of them hit

great bonus, would accept bonus again

The fine print no doubt has some BS about wagering the bonus amount 1000000x before you can withdraw?
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01-11-2024 , 06:34 PM
doesnt seem like it, the cash from the free spins went into the cash balance rather than the bonus balance

i'm more worried that they'll expect me to verify my ancestry back to the primordial ooze before agreeing to pay out

the withdrawal has been requested and is marked as pending
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01-11-2024 , 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by KDawg
Ichiro is who immediately comes to mind. Granted, I also think Ichiro’s personality was one where he likely just wanted to play baseball and didn’t want to deal with American journalists. He can speak fluent English from all accounts.
In typical Ichiro fashion, he could speak English very well but didn’t even want to take the slightest chance that he would be misinterpreted when giving public statements.

The discussion reminds me of a favorite Carlos Tevez anecdote that he proudly never learned English because of a “cultural problem,” as his uncle became an alcoholic after the Falklands war and he held a grudge.

I’m sure he wholeheartedly put in a lot of effort to learn Chinese though when he got that 500k/week contract at Shanghai though.
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01-11-2024 , 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Yes and it rarely happens with native English speakers who are accustomed to others having to learn their language.

Kane taking a grand total of two lessons a week isn't exactly immersing himself in it. By the time his contract ends he'll probably be able to understand signs and shop labels and ask directions but won't have much if any conversational German.

On second thoughts, about the same as his English, then.
I’m actually surprised (in a good way) that he’s putting in the level of effort to take two classes a week in German. I bet that’s a lot more than a lot of players do.

Someone can correct me but I’ve heard that the most difficult thing about German is the grammar. Obviously he’s not going to be running errands or grabbing a pint in town where most normal people pick up the bulk of daily use language stuff but I expect being immersed in the dressing room he’d end his time there fairly ok on a conversational level?
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01-11-2024 , 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
some absolutely unbelievably unlucky jerkoff online casino i havent played on for 7 years emailed me about five free 10p spins

i played them and it returned Ł3.20, which i put on five numbers in the 'lightning xxx extreme live' casino game

that returned Ł20.80 which i cleverly reinvested, and that returned a further Ł19

the next spin failed so i took a short break to recharge my luck juice

i came back with enough for three spins at Ł12 each, and on the third spin i hit number 8 with 220 of the king's finest pence on it. number 8 had been boosted to 200x and then double extreme xxx boosted to 1000x. it just ****ing plopped in there and stuck

+Ł2200

tried three more spins and then left in disgust when none of them hit

great bonus, would accept bonus again

Total destruction of the online casino market after F&BP LLC lost interest in the bookie destruction
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01-11-2024 , 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PoseidonCubed
In typical Ichiro fashion, he could speak English very well but didn’t even want to take the slightest chance that he would be misinterpreted when giving public statements.

The discussion reminds me of a favorite Carlos Tevez anecdote that he proudly never learned English because of a “cultural problem,” as his uncle became an alcoholic after the Falklands war and he held a grudge.

I’m sure he wholeheartedly put in a lot of effort to learn Chinese though when he got that 500k/week contract at Shanghai though.

Tevez is one of the few players that I probably would’ve smiled at seeing a leg break happen. **** that guy
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01-11-2024 , 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PoseidonCubed
I’m actually surprised (in a good way) that he’s putting in the level of effort to take two classes a week in German. I bet that’s a lot more than a lot of players do.

Someone can correct me but I’ve heard that the most difficult thing about German is the grammar. Obviously he’s not going to be running errands or grabbing a pint in town where most normal people pick up the bulk of daily use language stuff but I expect being immersed in the dressing room he’d end his time there fairly ok on a conversational level?
I imagine he won't be fluent anytime soon because every word has different who/whom type stuff going on

Last edited by Ambush; 01-11-2024 at 08:35 PM. Reason: go boids suck em dry
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