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(Wow, did I really picked that much French teams, am I Malko, or did they just have sucha easy draw??) :wink: There are still 5 French teams in the UEFA Cup but you shouldn't worry too much. It looks like possible that some of them go to the quarters but it is also very likely that they simply fail...

The only satisfaction is that at least 3 big names will be out. The one who will be able to get through might have a good opportunity to do well afterwards. Well I don't see many small names in the next round - Rangers/Villareal maybe, but Barca(?), Madrid, Bayern, Inter, Juve, Liverpool are not sm...

Well, that could have been worse but that could have been much better for Lyon. A lot of fans are happy to get the opportunity to have the revenge they're waiting for, but the truth is that PSV recovered very well after having lost some key players last summer. It will be difficult for both teams. T...

I believe that for Argentina the 5 seats for the Libertadores are given to the top 5 teams based on the combined table of Apertura 2004 and Clausura 2005. So Boca, champion of the Apertura 2005, has all chances to be qualified for the next Libertadores, but they will miss this one as they were reall...

For me, it's a pretty open competition, maybe not all the teams can win the whole thing but most teams can beat any other on their day. Exactly what you want from a world cup. Absolutely agree. That's the reason why Brazil has not won it yet, although they certainly are the best team by far. After ...

Don't over estimate Ivory Coast. They have quite a few good players, but they are far from being a huge threat for teams like Argentina, Netherlands or Serbia. They lost twice to Cameroun in the group and just went through because Cameroun lost silly points in the other games. France played them in ...

Vespasian > my apologies. You are fully right. The contract between the LFP (French Football League) and C+ amounts to 600m a year (1.8bn over 3 years).

Paraguay reached the second round in 1998 and 2002 too ! I don't remember too much 2002 but I perfectly remember that in 98 France had to wait the 115th minute to beat them. By the way, they sent Spain back home in the first round. and I can name one of their players and you should him as well, Sant...

Poor Ivory Coast !

Ajaccio 20 millions? Jesus... i never thought they would have more then 8-10 million. as per the League, (document in French) http://www.footpro.fr/dncg/pdf/DNCG_2003-2004.pdf budget of Ajaccio for the season 2003-04 was 12m. Given teh strong increase in TV rights, it should be now around 15m I pre...

Mexico will draw Netherlands. Remember 98. England made a huge loobying to get seeded but unfortunately FIFA was unable to find the right alchimy to document it and had to leave Romania as a seeded team. And guess what ? by chance England was drawn in the group of Romania. And guess what ? Romania b...

France - approx. 600.000.000 EUR . it's a 3-year contract (with progressive rates). Anyway, it's more or less Euro 200m a year for the League, meaning that a part is given to lower divisions. In terms of budget, Lyon is the biggest one in France with about 100m Euros. Afterwards, I guess, Marseille...

This would certainly fuel the big clubs interest in domestic cups. However, I would find it very unfair for those who would lost the right to go to the Champions League. Haven't Everton, Udinese, Betis and so on deserved to go to the Champions League ? They played 38 games to have this right. Why sh...

As far as I am concerned, as a Lyon fan, I would like to avoid Chelsea. And if we could met Bayern later, that would be great too. It's too early. This is really my preference. If I can have have a second option, out of the 5 remaining teams, - I would like to avoid Ajax and PSV as we never succeed ...

Results MatchDay 6 We have two winners today: - the first one comes from Portugal and is new in the game (that might be the reason why he posted in the wrong topic :wink: ). Congratulations xfmar , that's an excellent start. - the second one is very well known. He's German and he simply wins for th...