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AFCON 2021


an tha
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1 hour ago, an tha said:

Loads of talk/stories online that this is moving to Jan/Feb in 2021 due to expanded Club World Cup and or weather in host nation in June/July.

 

If true then it is an absolute hammer blow for us.

 

Would be an absolute shitshow for us. Losing both Mo & Mane in a period when we usually struggle. Not too fussed about Keita, he'd ptobably be injured anyways.

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1 minute ago, Aventus said:

 

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That's probably the long and short of it.

 

It's a ridiculous situation when every other season you are losing your best players at a crucial time of the year so they can go and play second-rate football in deathtrap stadiums while dodging armed militias and jetting around on dangerous airlines so penny-pinching tin-pot FAs can graft a bit of extra cash for their Swiss bank accounts.

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The greatest regret of Mané's career will be if he doesn't win AFCON. He's been so close twice. He'll die to win that. Salah, I don't really think gives a shit anymore, but he'd have to pretend to care because that Egyptian fanbase are nuts. I don't think either are retiring any time soon and this will be problematic to us.

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If this carries on being a thing every 2 years and in Jan/Feb I can see the club swerving buying Africans going forward if they are gonna lose them for about 20% of the games every other season as well as the additional problems associated with them going out for it

 

It is a competitive disadvantage that you just don't want to be at.

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