AEL are CL dropouts, though they did beat AVB's Zenit 1-0 at home in the first leg. Finished 1-3 on aggregate.
Vorm isn't in the squad for the qualifier.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/clubs/club=1652/
Coupled with his absence v Schalke, I begin to get a little nervous as to why. Surely it can't be to do with the FIFA investigation?
I hope Walker and Dawson's inclusion mean they are considered likely to be fit for one of the games.
no Dembele either.
Look at the "forwards" column![]()
Vorm isn't in the squad for the qualifier.
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2015/clubs/club=1652/
Coupled with his absence v Schalke, I begin to get a little nervous as to why. Surely it can't be to do with the FIFA investigation?
I hope Walker and Dawson's inclusion mean they are considered likely to be fit for one of the games.
I don't know if Vorm's absence in the EL squad is linked to the investigation, but the deal most certainly stinks. It is obvious to anyone that Michel Vorm, a member of Holland's world cup squad and a highly rated PL goalkeeper with two years left on his contract, can't possibly have been given a free transfer or been valued to £0. It seems like a creative deal has been constructed so that Swansea won't have to give 30% of the transfer fee to Utrecht.
There was a similar case in Norway a while back and it all became a huge mess that seemed to go on forever where parties from both the buying and selling club were charged with fraud. I can't for the life of me recall what the outcome was, though.
I don't know if Vorm's absence in the EL squad is linked to the investigation, but the deal most certainly stinks. It is obvious to anyone that Michel Vorm, a member of Holland's world cup squad and a highly rated PL goalkeeper with two years left on his contract, can't possibly have been given a free transfer or been valued to £0. It seems like a creative deal has been constructed so that Swansea won't have to give 30% of the transfer fee to Utrecht.
There was a similar case in Norway a while back and it all became a huge mess that seemed to go on forever where parties from both the buying and selling club were charged with fraud. I can't for the life of me recall what the outcome was, though.
Pot 1 coef. Pot 2 coef.
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Sevilla (TH) Esp 71.042 Lille OSC @4 Fra 45.300
Olympique Lyon *3 Fra 97.300 FC København @4 Den 45.260
Internazionale *4 Ita 95.387 Steaua Bucuresti @4 Rom 39.451
Tottenham Hotspur *4 Eng 75.949 Standard Liège @4 Bel 38.260
PSV Eindhoven *3 Ned 64.862 PAOK Thessaloniki *4 Gre 37.720
Napoli @4 Ita 61.387 Celtic @4 Sco 36.813
Dinamo Kiev Ukr 56.193 Besiktas @4 Tur 32.840
Villarreal *4 Esp 53.542 VfL Wolfsburg Ger 32.328
FC Twente Enschede *4 Ned 50.862 Club Brugge *3 Bel 32.260
Fiorentina Ita 49.387 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk @3 Ukr 32.193
FC Salzburg @4 Aut 46.185 Trabzonspor *4 Tur 31.340
Metalist Kharkiv *4 Ukr 45.693 Panathinaikos @3 Gre 30.220
Pot 3 coef. Pot 4 coef.
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Sparta Praha @3 Cze 28.870 Hull City *3 Eng 16.949
Bor. Mönchengladbach *4 Ger 25.328 Estoril Praia Por 15.459
Everton Eng 24.949 Legia Warsaw @3 Pol 15.275
Real Sociedad *3 Esp 24.542 Partizan Belgrade @3 Srb 14.825
Young Boys *3 Sui 24.145 Torino *3 Ita 13.387
Dinamo Zagreb @3 Cro 23.925 Feyenoord @3 Ned 13.362
Lokomotiv Moscow *4 Rus 20.899 En Avant Guingamp Fra 12.800
Rapid Wien *4 Aut 19.185 AS Saint-Étienne *4 Fra 12.800
FC Zürich *4 Sui 18.645 Rio Ave *3 Por 12.459
Nacional Funchal *4 Por 17.959 Dinamo Moscow *3 Rus 12.399
Maccabi Tel-Aviv @3 Isr 17.875 Slovan Bratislava @4 Svk 8.700
Sheriff Tiraspol @3 Mol 17.075 AaB Aalborg @4 Den 5.260
i want Celtic. so we can embarrass them, ****ing ridiculous that they're in this