Obinna Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 11 minutes ago, Obinna said: Love seeing City and Arsenal in the same group. Have been the top 2 in England for a while now, so we get to see how they fare against a different set of teams. Also love Leverkusen getting a shot against these big boys, they should be pushing for the top 3 here. Leipzig best of the rest? Curious to see how Monaco fare as well. Edit: We'll also get to see just how good Inter are, going up against City, Arsenal and Leverkusen. They should be fighting for top 2, good for a direct spot in the knockouts. I was confused for a second, I should add that Leverkusen won't play City, City won't play Arsenal, and Arsenal won't play Inter, even though Inter will play all 3. This new format will take a while to sink into my noggin. It's not about finishing top 3 or 2 or whatever, there aee no groupings, just a schedule unique to every team, but in theory each team's schedule is weighted based on their own strength, if that makes sense. All that matters is that you finish top 8. Failing that, you must finish from 9th to 24th to get a second chance at the round of 16. Anyone below 25 is out. Think of it as a giant table. ahmedou, Unnamed Trialist and johnyb 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmr Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 The fact that humans are generally programmed to dislike change aside, I actually don't mind this format. It's confusing, yes and at first glance seems needlessly convoluted, but it does make for a lot more variety in the group stages and will actually probably be a better fan experience. ahmedou, Obinna, Stryker911 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacbru Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 It is a lot of games to remove just 8 teams. There will certainly be lots of uncertainty on the last match day for some, but almost no jeopardy for most. It will be interesting to see how it goes. The Real Marc and ahmedou 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestHamCanadianinOxford Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 35 minutes ago, frmr said: The fact that humans are generally programmed to dislike change aside, I actually don't mind this format. It's confusing, yes and at first glance seems needlessly convoluted, but it does make for a lot more variety in the group stages and will actually probably be a better fan experience. Close to my thoughts exactly on the variety. Nice doing home and away and building some rivalry but lots of interesting matchups in this. ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Removing the home and away as well as every team having a completely unique match up schedule makes this feel like a poor way to truly determine the best teams, but as others have mentioned, there are a lot of really interesting matchups here, and at least for our guys like David and especially Johnston, it avoids them getting into a particularly difficult group and just getting completely washed. Each of our players playing champions league should have no trouble pulling off a few wins and looking great against some of these teams. Particularly interested in seeing Jonathan David’s goal total after these 8. For a guy whose main criticism is that he doesn’t do it against the top teams, here’s 8 teams of varying quality he’ll have a shot against. Good measure of where he’s at as he enters his peak. MauditYvon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 1 hour ago, kacbru said: It is a lot of games to remove just 8 teams. There will certainly be lots of uncertainty on the last match day for some, but almost no jeopardy for most. It will be interesting to see how it goes. I suppose. I see it as 8 games to remove the top 8 teams from the field, but it's also to remove the next best 16.... Thus it's really 8 games for 24 of 36 teams, so there is quite a lot at stake, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Also, looking at the 36 team table posted on wiki, with all the big boys at the top, it looks very much like a Proto Super League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Another comment then I am done: I kind of wish we did this in CONCACAF. Find the top 36 teams and let them go at it over +8 games. CanadaFan123 and InglewoodJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Didn’t see this reported. Looks like he’s ahead of schedule: Canuckia, RJB, aredding77 and 22 others 24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 43 minutes ago, InglewoodJack said: Didn’t see this reported. Looks like he’s ahead of schedule: That's huge! We might get him back for NL in that case. We could end up facing Jamaica again, or an upstart Ticos side, so he'll be needed if available. ahmedou and cronaldo7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 THE TAJON'S COMEBACK Shway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cronaldo7 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 17 hours ago, InglewoodJack said: Didn’t see this reported. Looks like he’s ahead of schedule: Such fantastic news. It feels so recent that this happened that ~1 months time seems unimaginable. ahmedou, NVsoccer and PegCityCam 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadenge Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Inter has the same squad as last season. No tranfers for any of the starters or main subs, including Dumfries. It's going to be tough for Tajon to get mins when he gets back from injury and missing out of preseason. Shway, canuckgbp and ahmedou 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOcanadafan Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 2 hours ago, Kadenge said: Inter has the same squad as last season. No tranfers for any of the starters or main subs, including Dumfries. It's going to be tough for Tajon to get mins when he gets back from injury and missing out of preseason. I'm encouraged that Inter didn't go and pick up someone else in Tajon's position. A Different Perspective, ahmedou, Free kick and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestHamCanadianinOxford Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Inter's Champions League fixtures narduch and ahmedou 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 Despite the injury, Buchanan has been included in Inter's Champions League squad list. https://www.inter.it/en/news/uefa-champions-league-24-25-inter-squad-list https://football-italia.net/inter-champions-league-squad-buchanan-signing/ GasPed, Chad_Impact, ahmedou and 16 others 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 (edited) 42 minutes ago, masster said: Despite the injury, Buchanan has been included in Inter's Champions League squad list. https://www.inter.it/en/news/uefa-champions-league-24-25-inter-squad-list https://football-italia.net/inter-champions-league-squad-buchanan-signing/ This is mark of respect and this is mark of trust from Inter towards Tajon. Inter likes Tajon. And Tajon likes Inter. Edited September 3 by ahmedou Borjans Sweatpants 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 ''BREAKING: Tajon Buchanan's return from injury is expected much sooner than initially thought. At first, the wingback was set to be out until Christmas. Now, Inter expects the Canadian international to join group training in early October.'' 💪🔜⌛ Canuckia, Fullback, Kadenge and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 35 minutes ago, ahmedou said: ''BREAKING: Tajon Buchanan's return from injury is expected much sooner than initially thought. At first, the wingback was set to be out until Christmas. Now, Inter expects the Canadian international to join group training in early October.'' 💪🔜⌛ Can you post a link or a source for this sort of information? ahmedou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyslexic nam Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 23 minutes ago, masster said: Can you post a link or a source for this sort of information? Kadenge, GasPed, Chad_Impact and 6 others 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Look who’s back in training: Kadenge, GasPed, Corazon and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Inter Milan Caption: "Look who it is 🇨🇦👋" Borjans Sweatpants 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmedou Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 "Tajon Buchanan is continuing his rehabilitation. The Canadian was on the pitch today, during #Inter's day off. Buchanan is expected to return to the group in early October and could return to the match squad on October 20 for Roma" dyslexic nam and PegCityCam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unnamed Trialist Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 On 9/4/2024 at 8:41 PM, ahmedou said: ''BREAKING: Tajon Buchanan's return from injury is expected much sooner than initially thought. At first, the wingback was set to be out until Christmas. Now, Inter expects the Canadian international to join group training in early October.'' 💪🔜⌛ Just occurred to me that BREAKING is an unfortunate way to tell that piece of news. dyslexic nam, shorty, kclee and 2 others 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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