FrenchVillaLova

He looks like a footballer, walks like a a footballer, has a man-bun and tattoos like a footballer,  but he isn't a footballer...

Could somebody please make a Youtube compilation of his incompetence?

2 hours ago, PaulC said:

Was he good tonight? I haven't been that impressed by him tbf They have a good young side though! I like Dolberg and Younes

Was Ajax's best player in both games IMO. In the first leg he was amazing.

But you're right, Dolberg and Younes stood out. Especially Dolberg who has shades of Zlatan about his game - the casualness and the talent.

Bertrand Traoré, of Ajax (on loan from Chelsea) is very very good

8 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

I know it sounds a little tin-foil hat wearing, but it's almost as if it there was collusion in order to push the electorate's consciousness that way.

All you would need is a press controlled by the wealthy few who share the same interests as some international conglomerates with the financial clout to lobby (see: buy off) politicians. Throw that in with basic human greed and people down the chain generally being self-interested and hey-ho, divide and conquer becomes quite easy.

I should have been a money and power hungry maniacal evil do-er.

25 minutes ago, Awol said:

France temporarily withdrew from the NATO command structure but remained and remains an independent pillar of the western alliance as part of the P3 at the UN and a bilateral military alliance with the UK.

At no point since WW2 has France had a leader who openly courted Moscow in preference to the order that has kept Western Europe free and at peace.

Le Pen is poison. 

I'm not saying she's not. She'd be very dangerous, but for me it would be for different reasons (dumping the euro, social unrest...). 

That said, if you have a closer look at Macron - his mentors, the financial interests behind him, his populist attitude - it makes you wonder what he will lead France to.

4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

#alternativefacts

It joined in 1966, so you're a way out there. 

France is one of the founding members of NATO, in 1948. De Gaulle withdrew in 1966. It fully-rejoined the integrated command in 2009. 

46 minutes ago, Awol said:

(heresy/) The EU isn't that important to the U.K. either way in the grand scheme of things (/heresy) but NATO is. 

As Brexit negotiations progress those disposed to harm the UK will realize the implications of being seriously unfriendly and much of the rhetoric will be quietly shelved. 

Le Pen is a menace to European security in a way not seen since 1945. Macron is of no consequence in comparison.

Edit: To clarify I mean Le Pen is a threat to the internal cohesion of the western alliance, not an existential threat like the Soviet Union. 

 

Well France only joined NATO in 2009 under Sarkozy, so it's hardly a historical member...

16 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

my knowledge of French politics is rather  , well actually very , limited , but doesn't the president chose the PM and then need approval from the Parliament 

Yes, the President is elected then we have parliamentary (legislative) elections two weeks later. The President is sworn in, forms cabinet and names a PM.

24 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I seem to recall Chirac had such a  problem  as parliament didn't approve his choice   ?

Not exactly, Chirac dissolved parliament for anticipated legislative elections in a gamble to boost support for his conservative economic program. He lost the elections and then had to choose a left-wing PM.

35 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

so can Macron  (or Le Pen , don't they have 2 seats ?)  actually deliver seeing as they aren't represented in Parliament ?

Macron's "En Marche"(EM)  is still a young political party that doesn't have enough viable candidates for the legislative elections and will have to "transfer" some members from the two traditional parties.

On the other hand, Marine Le Pen's FN have had really strong scores in the past few elections (25-30%), but the two round election system has them facing a coalition which has largely kept them out of parliament. 

This whole Macron story is social engineering at its finest

17 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

When were we linked with Isco?!

When he was at Malaga. It was very much a Sneijder-type link though...

The Villa player that never was, Isco. Plays like Wilshere but is actually good.

Probably not everybody's cup of tea on here, but it's new music from 2017 and I really like it. 

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