Easiest group of the night: Man U's

Ajax went to D, because Juve cant be in red (Milan already was),so instead of the Italy champs, we got the Dutch champs with the German champs, England champs and Spanish champs....

damn

Who's the hostess?

Yeah, I noticed it too. Though last season even that didn't help them.

That's my thing

Good draw, no BATE or Pilsen this year, but we should finish this one comfortably.

Poor Dortmund, a hell of a group with them, Ajax, City and Real.

I almost guessed it

Absolutely, well, not DELIGHTED but pretty pleased with our group. Could have been way worse.

Group of death actually nearly happened - more or less did. City, Real, Ajax and Dortmund. Some group.

As for us, qualification is an outside possibility. We'll see.

Love Madrid's group, not often 4 actual Champions who deserve to be in the competition get drawn together.

Spalletti's Zenit shouldn't be underestimated though. With the way our team look now, them finishing first won't be a huge surprise. But, yeah, we dodged a big bullet with City going to Real's group.

Really good draw. No excuses if we don't pass it. I'll go as far as saying that first place is within our reach.

But damn, how lucky ManU are!

OK, money for reaching knockout stage is pretty much in the bag, so Galliani can go sign Kaka...

Or you could say we won't sign anyone because our group is easy and we can reach our objective of reaching the first KO stage anyway now.

Congrats to Iniesta. Quite a surprise.

I hate Barcelona and I hate Messi. But I have ALWAYS rated Xavi and Iniesta and I think Iniesta's getting credit he deserves at long last.

Would have rather it had been Ronaldo but I just don't think he'll ever be favoured by journos.

Zenit will be tough, but some of the other possibilities in Pot 2 were worse.

I'm happy with second place. Qualification is all I want. This club needs it.

Well, I guess The Euros had a big impact on the decision. Xavi should have won it few years ago as well.

They picked him before in 07-08 when he really deseved it. About last season, it could have been either one of the 3.

Congrats to Iniesta. Unlucky to Ronaldo, couldn't have really done much more to win it but we know how these things go.

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Schedule:

18 September: Milan - Anderlecht
3 October: Zenit - Milan
24 October: Malaga - Milan
6 November: Milan - Malaga
21 November: Anderlecht - Milan
4 December: Milan - Zenit

First and last games at home, good.

Very good indeed. Lucky draw.

Malaga scare me. Zenit and Anderlecht know they stand a chance against this Milan with or without Kaka. Also, not sure about the weather in Belgium when we face them.

Yes it is an easy draw on paper, and considering the quality of opposition in comparison to what we might have been paired with, then yes there is light at the end of that tunnel ... Just depends on when Allegri can get this team to tick with a new personality.

Highly unlikely, but fingers crossed something shady is going on at via Turati.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0gQg0QVx8

come back to us wont you

Gila's dive.

Gila>>>>Pazzini

So worth it !

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just saw that dortmund is at home to man city on the last match day. im feeling an upset already

Gila is and always will be better then Pazzini, even when it comes to diving.

i admit i havent seen pazzini play much but i've got a scar on my heart from watching gila play for us Fillipo! a SCAR! .. by far the most frustrating player i have ever watched.

Yeah, he was frustrating. But the source of this frustration was that we all knew and saw how good he could have been.

+1

At least the Gila before Fiorentina fell apart.

Falcao 1-0 Atletico completely dominating early on.

Make that 2.

Falcao is special.

Very. I'm surprised no one broke the bank snatching him away.

He'd cost too much. Atletico signed him for 40m. You'd have to imagine he'd cost Kaka' money now.

And he makes the third as well.

Amazing.

I bet the Terry haters are in tears, no Terry and Chelsea get destroyed down the middle.

When Luiz has a stinker, he has one of epic proportions.

So undisciplined

Falcao is really special...

Worst signing in history? He's barely a £2m player, forget £20m+.

Maybe not the worst, but still...ouch.

Multiple reports that Hulk has been sold to Zenit for about 50m. Not confirmed yet.

Wouldn't be surprised...

So Falcao to Chelsea, and Hulk to Zenit. Both 50m plus transfers. Sweet. Let's kill football, and quick!

Can anyone find from a reliable source how much Porto have made over the past 10 years?

http://portugoal.net/index.php/more-fc-por...-making-machine

The article is from 2009. If you also count Falcao (€45 million), Hulk (€50 million), Guarin and Alvaro Pereira (€23 million), amongst others, you reach an estimate of over €418 million in the last 8 years.

Falcao is, dare I say it, worth more than 50M. He is simply stupidly good, and if he keeps up the form of the past 2 or 3 seasons he could become the greatest striker of all time.

He has made world class teams looks absolutely ordinary and scores on all occasions. 30 in 37 for AM is a quite incredible return, as good as Messi or Ronaldo in a way inferior team. His record for Porto was just as good.

He is incredible. If he was a woman I'd marry him. Hell I'll marry him anyway.

Milan CL list for the group stages:

Abate, Abbiati, Acerbi, Ambrosini, Amelia, Antonini, Boateng, Bonera, Constant, De Jong, De Sciglio, Robinho, El Shaarawy, Emanuelson, Flamini, Bojan Krkic, Mesbah, Mexes, Montolivo, Nocerino, Pazzini, Pato, Gabriel, Yepes, Zapata.

B-list: Carmona, Ganz, Narduzzo.

Out Traoré and Niang.

Too bad Mesbah is there. I don't want to see him anywhere near playing for us again.

Official. They also might buy Witsel for 30m.