[dudley]

Rangers - Red Star won't be at all bad either

[Richie P]

Not a good start to the season for Dynamo Kiev, they lose for the first time in over a year in the league, 3-1 at home to Dnipro and have only 3 points from 4 games

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[dudley]

Originally posted by Victor_Renner:
Just been thinking about Egor Titov, was always touted as a rising star when he was younger, moves abroad to big clubs were always speculated. After the injuries and then getting banned for a year didnt do him any favours. Shame, must be coming up to thirty by now.

31 on Footy Manager

[Richie P]

News updates and Eastern Europe matches for the rest of the week:

Champions League Qualifiers:
Big guns raise the stakes
Strachan wary of mission to Moscow
Red Star rekindle Rangers memories
Boyd could miss Rangers' Zeta trip

Greece:
Matter of the heart for AEK coach

Romania:
Plesan plumps for Steaua

Turkey:
Besiktas upbeat despite defeat
Fenerbahce bank on Yasin promise

This weeks second leg games in the Champions League, Tuesday:

Din. Zagreb (Cro) - Domzale (Slo)
Levski Sofia (Bul) - Tampere (Fin)
Beitar Jerusalem (Isr) - FC Copenhagen (Den)
Zeta (Mne) - Rangers (Sco)

Wednesday:

BATE Borisov (Blr) - Hafnarfjordur (Isl)
FC Sheriff (Mda) - Besiktas (Tur)
Steaua (Rom) - Zaglebie (Pol)
Elfsborg (Swe) - Debrecen (***)
FK Sarajevo (Bos) - Genk (Bel)
Levadia Tallinn (Est) - Red Star Belgrade (Srb)
Rosenborg (Nor) - FC Astana (Kaz)
Salzburg (Aut) - Ventspils (Lat)
Shakhtar Dnk. (Ukr) - Pyunik (Arm)
Slavia Prague (Cze) - Zilina (Svk)

[ginnybob]

May as well see if anyone in here knows:

Debrecen - any decent strikers?

Brian Laws was meant to be over in Hungary scouting a Champions League game.

[Richie P]

Hungarian football is at an all time low, and Debrecen will likely be out of Europe in the next few days, so I doubt anyone has anything to worry about

Gone are the days of Zalaegerzeg destroying Man United

[PMLF]

Sopron signed two Hungarian youngsters that were "playing" in Brazil. "Playing" is between inverted commas there because they haevn't really played any game here...

I hope they learned something by playing here.

[jvovk22]

Originally posted by Richie P:
Not a good start to the season for Dynamo Kiev, they lose for the first time in over a year in the league, 3-1 at home to Dnipro and have only 3 points from 4 games

That's what we get for appointing a physical training coach. He's just not a manager

[Maple]

Originally posted by ginnybob:
May as well see if anyone in here knows:

Debrecen - any decent strikers?

Brian Laws was meant to be over in Hungary scouting a Champions League game.

Considering Debrecen's top scorer the last seasons is suspended for both games against Elfsborg, I doubt it.

[JoeWesthead]

Seems as good a thread to ask as any: what has happened to Ferencvaros this season? Last I heard they'd been relegated and threatened with ceasing to exist due to financial problems