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2024.05.16 11:56 ALDO113A Help a struggling Christian (me) deal with this deconstruction of Paul and Bible-era perception of same-sex intercourse (basically saying "That kinda sex emasculates, and that's terrible") by AcademicBiblical if you can?
1. Siker seems to be offering a scholarly version of Matthew Vines' argument
It being "Paul can't be condemning what we think of as committed loving homosexual relationships, because he was thinking of bad things like prostitution or uncontrolled-lust homosexuality."
So, the idea is to claim that Paul's letters can't be enlisted to authorize contemporary homophobia since he wouldn't have known about the kinds of relationships gay Christians want to have now.
I appreciate the contemporary ethics of Siker's approach since homophobia is dehumanizing and harmful, but the idea that this approach inherently reflects "liberal leanings" (Siker's claim) ignores how plenty of liberals reject homophobia without trying to enlist and sanitize the Bible as support.
2. I disagree with the Innocent Paul claim as Vines postulated
It is true that Greek, Roman, and Jewish sources do not often feature something resembling "a committed loving queer sexual relationship," but this is where confusion often sets in; there must be a distinction between
According to dominant ideals, powerful men were supposed to actively penetrate those below themselves on the social and gender hierarchy; a man who delighted in being penetrated by another man was by relative definition effeminate, and thus not to be celebrated. Women loving and sexually engaging with other women meant they weren't being used by (the right) men, and thus Greek and Roman writers tended to disparage, ridicule, and reframe female homoeroticism.Maybe take apart some/all points or even tell me how to cope.
But our texts aren't direct sociological data, they reflect and think with dominant sexual ideologies, which by definition erased/reframed divergent sexual and gender expressions. This is why the likes of Amy Richlin,[1] Bernadette Brooten,[2] Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson,[3] and Jimmy Hoke**[4]** have argued that even though our sources erase, reframe, and distort people who liked any non-normative sex and relationships in Mediterranean antiquity, they still existed.
Bottom line: Writers like Paul could certainly have been aware of queer sexualities and relationships that were not enslaved prostitution or pederasty. Folks like Vines and Siker unintentionally reinscribe the association between homoeroticism and pedophilia/sexual violence.
For what it's worth, everyone should read Richlin's article from 30 years ago. Doesn't matter whether you agree with all of her arguments, it's brilliant scholarship.
3. Corpus point of view
There's a related debate about whether our texts even have a category for something like sexual orientation or simply imagine sex via other grids like active vs. passive/penetrator vs. penetrated (e.g., see Craig Williams' excellent sketch of these paradigms in Roman literature**[5]**).
The most common scholarly opinion in terms of Greco-Roman antiquity gender-sex studies is that our sources don't reflect ideas like sexual orientation, so orientational categories aren't historically helpful for reading our texts.
Other scholars like Richlin and Brooten have critiqued these positions, though they still forcefully argue that our sources thought with overtly hierarchical patriarchal ideologies about sex, like penetrator and penetrated. This final point is something on which Richlin is often misrepresented, which is bizarre since she wrote one of the classic books for understanding such dominant sexual ideologies.[6]
4. Paul Romana
Romans 1:18-32's basic point is that Paul discussed the total moral failure of Gentiles by sketching their (feminizing) descent into being dominated by their passions, one of the resultant illustrations of the Gentiles being their domination by their passions through transgressing the gendered order, exemplified by Gentile men losing sexual control of "their women" (i.e., these men are failed men from this angle) and each other in 1:26-27 - an inversion of the normative sexual order.
Paul treated male-male anal penetration as a straight illustration of Gentile corruption and domination by their passions. It's part of his grander point that Gentiles became (effeminately) enslaved by their passions (see Stanley Stowers' classic articulation of this decline-of-civilization reading of Rom 1:18-32**[7]**).
The key issue here is that there's no literary reason to think he only had in mind enslaved prostitution or pederasty, ANY male-male anal penetration upended the normative gender order. If anything, he might have indicated elsewhere that free men penetrating (raping) their slaves (gender irrelevant) was okay since that use of slaves was acceptable within many moral schemes; Paul never objected to it, and some passages potentially align with treating enslaved humans as legitimate non-marriage sexual outlets (e.g., as argued by Jennifer Glancy**[8]** regarding 1 Thess 4:4's εἰδέναι ἕκαστον ὑμῶν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος κτᾶσθαι("that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honor")).
5. Linguistic flexibility
There's no reason to limit οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται of 1 Cor 6:9 to prostitution; "malakos" means "soft"/"effeminate." In Greek texts, it often does refer to men who are penetrated sexually - obviously effeminizing - but a man who was unrestrained or excessive in his penetrating of women is likewise an example of "effeminate" in Greek sources.
ἀρσενοκοίτης's meaning remains debated, but the etymological game of making it "man-bedders" is problematic; rather than get bogged down in this lexical discussion, the larger point regarding Siker is, again, that the issue of whether "committed same-sex relationships" are in view is irrelevant.
Paul listed effeminate Gentiles as those who will not inherit the kingdom of God; a male prostitute is by definition effeminate for these discourses, but so would a man in a "committed same-sex relationship" who is anally penetrated.
6. Futility
I don't get why "liberal-leaning" scholars think they can salvage a moral Bible by handwaving Paul's (what we can redescribe as) homophobia, even if all of Siker's claims were true, Paul's logic is entirely premised on reprehensibly misogynist gender ideologies that animate his other arguments, so even trying to save the dude from Those Two Bad Verses leaves you with the steaming animal manure that is said premise.
Hope this helps!
Sources
[1] "Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law against Love between Men," JHS 3 [1993]: 523-73
[2] Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996]
[3] "Lusty Ladies in the Roman Literary Imaginary," in Ancient Sex: New Essays, ed R. Blondell and K. Ormand [Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015], 231-51
[4] Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God? [Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021], 27-37
[5] Roman Homosexuality, 2d Ed [New York: Oxford University Press, 2010] [6] The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, Rev. Ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
[7] A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994]
[8] Slavery in Early Christianity [New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]
2024.05.16 11:56 ALDO113A Help a struggling Christian (me) deal with this deconstruction of Paul and Bible-era perception of same-sex intercourse (basically saying "That kinda sex emasculates, and that's terrible") by AcademicBiblical if you can?
1. Siker seems to be offering a scholarly version of Matthew Vines' argument
It being "Paul can't be condemning what we think of as committed loving homosexual relationships, because he was thinking of bad things like prostitution or uncontrolled-lust homosexuality."
So, the idea is to claim that Paul's letters can't be enlisted to authorize contemporary homophobia since he wouldn't have known about the kinds of relationships gay Christians want to have now.
I appreciate the contemporary ethics of Siker's approach since homophobia is dehumanizing and harmful, but the idea that this approach inherently reflects "liberal leanings" (Siker's claim) ignores how plenty of liberals reject homophobia without trying to enlist and sanitize the Bible as support.
2. I disagree with the Innocent Paul claim as Vines postulated
It is true that Greek, Roman, and Jewish sources do not often feature something resembling "a committed loving queer sexual relationship," but this is where confusion often sets in; there must be a distinction between
According to dominant ideals, powerful men were supposed to actively penetrate those below themselves on the social and gender hierarchy; a man who delighted in being penetrated by another man was by relative definition effeminate, and thus not to be celebrated. Women loving and sexually engaging with other women meant they weren't being used by (the right) men, and thus Greek and Roman writers tended to disparage, ridicule, and reframe female homoeroticism.Maybe take apart some/all points or even tell me how to cope.
But our texts aren't direct sociological data, they reflect and think with dominant sexual ideologies, which by definition erased/reframed divergent sexual and gender expressions. This is why the likes of Amy Richlin,[1] Bernadette Brooten,[2] Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson,[3] and Jimmy Hoke**[4]** have argued that even though our sources erase, reframe, and distort people who liked any non-normative sex and relationships in Mediterranean antiquity, they still existed.
Bottom line: Writers like Paul could certainly have been aware of queer sexualities and relationships that were not enslaved prostitution or pederasty. Folks like Vines and Siker unintentionally reinscribe the association between homoeroticism and pedophilia/sexual violence.
For what it's worth, everyone should read Richlin's article from 30 years ago. Doesn't matter whether you agree with all of her arguments, it's brilliant scholarship.
3. Corpus point of view
There's a related debate about whether our texts even have a category for something like sexual orientation or simply imagine sex via other grids like active vs. passive/penetrator vs. penetrated (e.g., see Craig Williams' excellent sketch of these paradigms in Roman literature**[5]**).
The most common scholarly opinion in terms of Greco-Roman antiquity gender-sex studies is that our sources don't reflect ideas like sexual orientation, so orientational categories aren't historically helpful for reading our texts.
Other scholars like Richlin and Brooten have critiqued these positions, though they still forcefully argue that our sources thought with overtly hierarchical patriarchal ideologies about sex, like penetrator and penetrated. This final point is something on which Richlin is often misrepresented, which is bizarre since she wrote one of the classic books for understanding such dominant sexual ideologies.[6]
4. Paul Romana
Romans 1:18-32's basic point is that Paul discussed the total moral failure of Gentiles by sketching their (feminizing) descent into being dominated by their passions, one of the resultant illustrations of the Gentiles being their domination by their passions through transgressing the gendered order, exemplified by Gentile men losing sexual control of "their women" (i.e., these men are failed men from this angle) and each other in 1:26-27 - an inversion of the normative sexual order.
Paul treated male-male anal penetration as a straight illustration of Gentile corruption and domination by their passions. It's part of his grander point that Gentiles became (effeminately) enslaved by their passions (see Stanley Stowers' classic articulation of this decline-of-civilization reading of Rom 1:18-32**[7]**).
The key issue here is that there's no literary reason to think he only had in mind enslaved prostitution or pederasty, ANY male-male anal penetration upended the normative gender order. If anything, he might have indicated elsewhere that free men penetrating (raping) their slaves (gender irrelevant) was okay since that use of slaves was acceptable within many moral schemes; Paul never objected to it, and some passages potentially align with treating enslaved humans as legitimate non-marriage sexual outlets (e.g., as argued by Jennifer Glancy**[8]** regarding 1 Thess 4:4's εἰδέναι ἕκαστον ὑμῶν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος κτᾶσθαι("that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honor")).
5. Linguistic flexibility
There's no reason to limit οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται of 1 Cor 6:9 to prostitution; "malakos" means "soft"/"effeminate." In Greek texts, it often does refer to men who are penetrated sexually - obviously effeminizing - but a man who was unrestrained or excessive in his penetrating of women is likewise an example of "effeminate" in Greek sources.
ἀρσενοκοίτης's meaning remains debated, but the etymological game of making it "man-bedders" is problematic; rather than get bogged down in this lexical discussion, the larger point regarding Siker is, again, that the issue of whether "committed same-sex relationships" are in view is irrelevant.
Paul listed effeminate Gentiles as those who will not inherit the kingdom of God; a male prostitute is by definition effeminate for these discourses, but so would a man in a "committed same-sex relationship" who is anally penetrated.
6. Futility
I don't get why "liberal-leaning" scholars think they can salvage a moral Bible by handwaving Paul's (what we can redescribe as) homophobia, even if all of Siker's claims were true, Paul's logic is entirely premised on reprehensibly misogynist gender ideologies that animate his other arguments, so even trying to save the dude from Those Two Bad Verses leaves you with the steaming animal manure that is said premise.
Hope this helps!
Sources
[1] "Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law against Love between Men," JHS 3 [1993]: 523-73
[2] Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996]
[3] "Lusty Ladies in the Roman Literary Imaginary," in Ancient Sex: New Essays, ed R. Blondell and K. Ormand [Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015], 231-51
[4] Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God? [Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021], 27-37
[5] Roman Homosexuality, 2d Ed [New York: Oxford University Press, 2010] [6] The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, Rev. Ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
[7] A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994]
[8] Slavery in Early Christianity [New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]
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2024.05.16 11:55 ALDO113A Help a struggling Christian (me) deal with this deconstruction of Paul and Bible-era perception of same-sex intercourse (basically saying "That kinda sex emasculates, and that's terrible") by AcademicBiblical if you can?
1. Siker seems to be offering a scholarly version of Matthew Vines' argument
It being "Paul can't be condemning what we think of as committed loving homosexual relationships, because he was thinking of bad things like prostitution or uncontrolled-lust homosexuality."
So, the idea is to claim that Paul's letters can't be enlisted to authorize contemporary homophobia since he wouldn't have known about the kinds of relationships gay Christians want to have now.
I appreciate the contemporary ethics of Siker's approach since homophobia is dehumanizing and harmful, but the idea that this approach inherently reflects "liberal leanings" (Siker's claim) ignores how plenty of liberals reject homophobia without trying to enlist and sanitize the Bible as support.
2. I disagree with the Innocent Paul claim as Vines postulated
It is true that Greek, Roman, and Jewish sources do not often feature something resembling "a committed loving queer sexual relationship," but this is where confusion often sets in; there must be a distinction between
According to dominant ideals, powerful men were supposed to actively penetrate those below themselves on the social and gender hierarchy; a man who delighted in being penetrated by another man was by relative definition effeminate, and thus not to be celebrated. Women loving and sexually engaging with other women meant they weren't being used by (the right) men, and thus Greek and Roman writers tended to disparage, ridicule, and reframe female homoeroticism.Maybe take apart some/all points or even tell me how to cope.
But our texts aren't direct sociological data, they reflect and think with dominant sexual ideologies, which by definition erased/reframed divergent sexual and gender expressions. This is why the likes of Amy Richlin,[1] Bernadette Brooten,[2] Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson,[3] and Jimmy Hoke**[4]** have argued that even though our sources erase, reframe, and distort people who liked any non-normative sex and relationships in Mediterranean antiquity, they still existed.
Bottom line: Writers like Paul could certainly have been aware of queer sexualities and relationships that were not enslaved prostitution or pederasty. Folks like Vines and Siker unintentionally reinscribe the association between homoeroticism and pedophilia/sexual violence.
For what it's worth, everyone should read Richlin's article from 30 years ago. Doesn't matter whether you agree with all of her arguments, it's brilliant scholarship.
3. Corpus point of view
There's a related debate about whether our texts even have a category for something like sexual orientation or simply imagine sex via other grids like active vs. passive/penetrator vs. penetrated (e.g., see Craig Williams' excellent sketch of these paradigms in Roman literature**[5]**).
The most common scholarly opinion in terms of Greco-Roman antiquity gender-sex studies is that our sources don't reflect ideas like sexual orientation, so orientational categories aren't historically helpful for reading our texts.
Other scholars like Richlin and Brooten have critiqued these positions, though they still forcefully argue that our sources thought with overtly hierarchical patriarchal ideologies about sex, like penetrator and penetrated. This final point is something on which Richlin is often misrepresented, which is bizarre since she wrote one of the classic books for understanding such dominant sexual ideologies.[6]
4. Paul Romana
Romans 1:18-32's basic point is that Paul discussed the total moral failure of Gentiles by sketching their (feminizing) descent into being dominated by their passions, one of the resultant illustrations of the Gentiles being their domination by their passions through transgressing the gendered order, exemplified by Gentile men losing sexual control of "their women" (i.e., these men are failed men from this angle) and each other in 1:26-27 - an inversion of the normative sexual order.
Paul treated male-male anal penetration as a straight illustration of Gentile corruption and domination by their passions. It's part of his grander point that Gentiles became (effeminately) enslaved by their passions (see Stanley Stowers' classic articulation of this decline-of-civilization reading of Rom 1:18-32**[7]**).
The key issue here is that there's no literary reason to think he only had in mind enslaved prostitution or pederasty, ANY male-male anal penetration upended the normative gender order. If anything, he might have indicated elsewhere that free men penetrating (raping) their slaves (gender irrelevant) was okay since that use of slaves was acceptable within many moral schemes; Paul never objected to it, and some passages potentially align with treating enslaved humans as legitimate non-marriage sexual outlets (e.g., as argued by Jennifer Glancy**[8]** regarding 1 Thess 4:4's εἰδέναι ἕκαστον ὑμῶν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος κτᾶσθαι("that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honor")).
5. Linguistic flexibility
There's no reason to limit οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται of 1 Cor 6:9 to prostitution; "malakos" means "soft"/"effeminate." In Greek texts, it often does refer to men who are penetrated sexually - obviously effeminizing - but a man who was unrestrained or excessive in his penetrating of women is likewise an example of "effeminate" in Greek sources.
ἀρσενοκοίτης's meaning remains debated, but the etymological game of making it "man-bedders" is problematic; rather than get bogged down in this lexical discussion, the larger point regarding Siker is, again, that the issue of whether "committed same-sex relationships" are in view is irrelevant.
Paul listed effeminate Gentiles as those who will not inherit the kingdom of God; a male prostitute is by definition effeminate for these discourses, but so would a man in a "committed same-sex relationship" who is anally penetrated.
6. Futility
I don't get why "liberal-leaning" scholars think they can salvage a moral Bible by handwaving Paul's (what we can redescribe as) homophobia, even if all of Siker's claims were true, Paul's logic is entirely premised on reprehensibly misogynist gender ideologies that animate his other arguments, so even trying to save the dude from Those Two Bad Verses leaves you with the steaming animal manure that is said premise.
Hope this helps!
Sources
[1] "Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law against Love between Men," JHS 3 [1993]: 523-73
[2] Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996]
[3] "Lusty Ladies in the Roman Literary Imaginary," in Ancient Sex: New Essays, ed R. Blondell and K. Ormand [Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015], 231-51
[4] Feminism, Queerness, Affect, and Romans: Under God? [Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021], 27-37
[5] Roman Homosexuality, 2d Ed [New York: Oxford University Press, 2010] [6] The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, Rev. Ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
[7] A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994]
[8] Slavery in Early Christianity [New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]
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2024.05.16 11:54 z3pp89 Winning the Ekstraklasa after 7 seasons pt.3
Season 6: submitted by z3pp89 to footballmanagergames [link] [comments] After losing the league on head to head recruitment plan was to add better attacking players. My scouts had some good suggestions and DoF had a few interesting suggestions as well. Also new addition to recruitment was bringing Polish players from other European Leagues. I had a decent transfer budget of €3,000,000 and for the first time wage budget was not that good. That left me in a situation where I had to sell some players that were just average in last couple of seasons, but had high wages. Transfers out: Lawrence Ennali, (left winger) - €1,400,000 to Korona Kielce Iwo Kaczmarski, (defensive midfielder) - €800,000 to Gaziantep FK Lamine Correa, (striker) - free to Prostejov Kacper Chelmecki, (striker) - €1,000,000 to Piast Gliwice - winter With 3 high earnes leaving in summer, there was much more flexibility with wage budget so I got into the transfer market. Players in: Dawid Bugaj, (right back) - free transfer from US Lecce Filip Rozga, (left winger) - €2,500,000 from Legia David Kurminowski, (striker) - €1,000,000 from Kocaelispor Sebastian Jorgensen, (right winger) - €2,000,000 from Malmo FF Catalin Cirjan, (attacking midfielder) - loan from AEK Athens Junior, (defensive midfielder) - free from NK Kustosija Zagreb Talles Wander, (striker) - free transfer from Sao Paolo FC - winter Season started early with Europa League qualifiers. We destroyed KR from Iceland 11-1 on aggregate. In between those two game, we played Legia in Polish Super Cup. I was expecting a difficult game, but it was nothing like that. We beat them 4-0 and TSP got their second major trophy. Penalty, two goals from corners and well executed counter attack and that was it. Legia did made a lot of chances in last 15 minutes but we kept the clean sheet. Super cup In Europe qualifying rounds we beat FC U Craiova (Romania), TSV Hartberg (Austria) and, FC Zurich (Switzerland) to book our spot in league phase of Europa League. We had a tough schedule in Europe League, but despite that we managed to get through Knock Out play off round with the record of 3 wins, 3 draws and two losses. https://preview.redd.it/wlxalr8njq0d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5445ebcb41bc1ae9301943255e4db1875bbbbbf7 In the Knock Out round we faced SK Rapid from Austria and beat them. First game at home TSP won 3-0, going into the away game with lot of optimism. Away game proved to be tricky, we scored first in first half but by the end of the half Rapid was 2-1 up. Second half started good, as we scored for to tie the game 2-2, but then Rapid got into another gear. They were creating a lot of chances and scored two goals in 80's minutes. Last few minutes of the game were very nervy. We advanced with that result and were to face Tottenham Hotspurs in Round of 16. First leg was at home. We drew the game 2-2, which wasn't encouraging. Game in London was one of the toughest games in this save so far. They scored in first 10 minutes of the game and just kept attacking. Our goalie was having the game of his life. That's how the first half ended, going into second half they immediately scored for 2-0. We managed to get the one goal, but the final result was 2-1 for Tottenham. We were eliminated from Europa League. Polish Cup, with good additions in transfer window plan was to go for domestic treble. Cup was taken really seriously even in the early stages of it, while playing teams from lower leagues. In quarter finals we faced Wisla Plock. Even though they were in division below us they played amazing. We had to comeback twice to draw the game 2-2, only to win on penalties. In semifinals we faced Lechia, dominated the game and somehow only beat them 2-1. It was time for Final of Polish cup for two straight seasons. We played against KGHM Zaglebie. They were the favourites to win the game, but we played another amazing game and destroyed them 4-1. That was the second Polish Cup in a row, and one step closer to domestic treble. Polish Cup finals Ekstraklas campaign was quite successful, but no trophy again. Even though we had a strong squad that could potentially player in three different competitions simultaneously, somehow we still lacked quality to win the league. First part of the season was really successful, we only lost two games, which of course one of them was to Legia. Second part of season was more trickier, slump in March where we lost two games. Drawing 4 a wining 3 in our last seven games did not help. Legia was champions of Ekstraklasa once again. Signing from couple seasons ago Juan Carlos Arana broke the club record of most goals scored in one season, with 31 goals. New signing Sebastian Jorgense broke the club record of assist in one season with 15 assist. Despite whole squad scoring plenty of goals, Legia was still untouchable. Season 6 League Best XI for this season: https://preview.redd.it/16ywduwjoq0d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=10aceae9a9705347ef1b8a90b88c502737d262c4 Season 7: This was it, now or never. I had a clear idea what needed to be done, who to sell and who to bring. With an good transfer budget of €5,500,000 and sales of few players, good wage budget, my DoF and I went shopping. Players out: Dawid Kurminowski, (striker) - €1,000,000 to Ruch Chorzow Marcel Krayewski, (right back) - €600,000 to Slask Wroclaw Ziga Lipuscek, (central back) - €1,000,000 to Al-Shabab FC Ben Lederman, (defensive midfielder) - €3,000,000 to Al-Markhiya SC Talles Wander, (striker) - €5,000,000 to Bristol City - winter Players in: Ilaix Moriba, (attacking midfielder) - free transfer from RB Leipzig Ronaldo Deacounu, (attacking midfielder) - free transfer from Korona Kielce Efe Sarikaya, (central back) - €2,200,000 from Cracovia Nicola Profeta, (defensive midfielder) - €900,000 from Deportivo Cali Petar Serdarski, (right back) - €2,500,000 from Lokomotiv Plovdiv Kacper Tobiasz, (goalkeeper) - €1,100,000 from HSV Karol Sakwa, (striker ***wonderkid***) - €2,000,000 from Lechia Gdansk Mamadou Doumbia, (striker) - €3,000,000 from Cracovia - winter Vadik Murria, (central defender) - free transfer from Prostejov - winter I went into this season with one goal, win Ekstraklasa. First part of the season went really well, two losses and couple of draws rest were wins. I was extremely optimistic that this is the season. There was a problem, even though we were winning, our strikers were struggling to score. A lot of mediocre performances from strikers, despite me thinking this is the best 3 strikers throughout the save. Talles Wander was particularly disappointing. Plan was to sell him and buy whoever was top scorer of Ekstraklasa at the time. Out goes Talles Wander in comes Mamadou Doumbia. With already 14 goals scored in first half of the season, I thought he was the answer. But he also struggled, missing some easy one-on-ones. On the other hand, new goalkeeper and new central back pairing Hoyo-Kowalski and Efe Sarikaya were on fire. Troughout the season we were battling Legia, but surprisingly Widzew Lodz came out of nowhere and at one point they were 1st with five points clear. Second part of the season, started with mixed results. First three games we had one loss and two wins, after that there was no stopping us. In last 12 games lost one and won 11. Most impressive thing was that Kacper Tobiasz kept 10 clean sheets in those 12 games. In fact he was so good that he broke previous cleen sheet record (held by Lukasz Fabianski with 19 cleans sheets) with his 22. We have finally won the Ekstraklasa. Champions! My favorite part of this was the fact last game of the season was against Legia, so they had to give as a a proper champions walk out (and we beat them 4-3). Here is a photo of this: Champions! Super Cup was played in beginning of the season and we faced Legia. Really tough game, 0-0 in full time and no goals in extra time. Not a lot of chances for either team, and low XG's. Penalties were deciding who would win. They missed two, we missed one and scored the rest and trophy was ours. Super cup Polish Cup, dream of domestic treble was looking more possible than ever. We went easy through first few rounds until we met Lech Poznan in semi finals. We were the better team, scored multiple clear cut chances, but as mentioned earlier our strikers weren't scoring. In the end TSP got FM'd and we lost on penalties. European football was back, we beat AaB (Denmark), Dnipro-1 (Ukraine) and SK Rapid (Austria) to book our place in Europa League - league stage. There we had some good performances. Four wins, two draws and 2 losses and we ended in 15th position to advance to Knock Out Play off round. There we met FC Utrecht (Holland). They were one of the teams the we won against in leagues stage. In first leg, away, our strikes couldn't score, on the other hand Utrecht scored almost every good chance they had. Game ended 3-0 and it was time to prepare for the home game. TSP dominated the game, 17 shots to their 2, but we only scored one. In the end they advanced to the next round. Europa league Best XI for this season: XI Bonus - Season 8: After winning the Ekstraklasa, my plan was to resign and find another long term project. Playing in champions league, and in back of my head fact that we could do domestic treble was really appealing. So, I decided to stay for one more season. Immediately I knew that team needed players who previously have played in Champions league. In my opinion team was good, but not Champions League good. So I dove in deep in scouting reports and asked DoF for suggestions. Transfers out: Nicola Profeta, (defensive midfielder) - €2,000,000 to Abha Club Kristoffer Velde, (left winger) - €2,000,000 to Vitesse Petar Serdarski, (right back) - €4,000,000 to ESTAC Troyes Camilo Mena, (right wing) - €3,000,000 to Standard de Liege Fernando Fonseca, (right back) - free transfer to Karvina Vadik Murria, (central back) - €200,000 to Slask Wroclaw Ronaldo Deaconu, (attacking midfielder) - free transfer to Aris Salonika Transfers in: Aljoscha Kemlein, (defensive midfielder) - free transfer from FC Augsburg Myron Van Brederode, (left wing) - free transfer from Panathinaikos Sadiou Sow, (central defender) - free transfer from Antwerp FC Frederik Nyheim, (right back) - €2,500,000 from Molde FK Miguel Maga, (right back) - free transfer from AGF Karol Borys, (attacking midfielder) - €2,500,000 from Legia All the players that were brought in played in Champions League at some point, I was still not happy with the quality of the squad. Even though I had clear target and money to buy new right winger, just to check with my buddy Artur Platek (DoF) to see if he has any suggestions for right winger and attacking midfielder. Here comes the fun part! He suggest the 33-year old Ousmane Dembele as a right wing and 34-year old Marco Asensio as targets. Both of them were out of contract, so I check the with their agents and surprisingly they were interested in joining TSP. Problem were wages, even though I had money in transfer budget it was not enough cover their wages. Hard decision needed to be made, sell someone for a lot of money and adjust budgets to bring these two. This made sense, both experienced, played and won Champions League, so I got to work. Only player who could generate a lot of money was 21-year old, former wonderkid, Damian Urbanik. After transfer listing him, best offer came from VfB Stuttgart. After negotiations final offer was €17 million upfront, €7 million after 20 games, and cheeky 20% sell on clause was included. With this money I definitely had enough to offer both Dembele and Asensio contracts. Also team needed another left back. Transfers out: (part two) Damian Urbanik, (left back) - €17,000,000 to VfB Stuttgart Transfers in: (part two) Ousmane Dembele, (right winger) - free transfer from PSG Marco Asensio, (attacking midfielder) - free transfer from FC Girondins de Bordeaux Kamil Pestka, (left back) - €3,000,000 frm FC Luzern Everything was set for the new season. First up were qualifications for Champions League, Paide LM (Estonia) were brushed away with 13-1 aggregate. Next team was Dinamo Batumi (Georgia), 13-0 on aggregate. Final obstacle before the league phase of Champions League were IF Elfsborg (Sweden). Home TSP won 2-0, and with 2-2 draw away we were official playing Champions League football. We did surprisingly well in the league phase. Four wins, three draws and 5-3 defeat at home versus PSG put us 11th place. Next up was Knock Out Play off round versus Olympique de Marseille. Tough draw, but I was optimistic. League phase Optimism didn't last long. First game was away, I played 5-4-1 formation. They easily scored 3 goals in first half in what was dreadful performance by whole TSP team. After adjusting the formation, making couple of subs, pressing more we started of second half really good. Scored two goals, but then Marseille started attacking, in last five minutes they scored their 4th goal and final score was 4-2. Second leg, we played really well, had better XG and made lot of chances. Unfortunatly best we could do is draw 1-1. That was the end of TSP campaign in Champions League. I was satisfied how it went, got lot of money for participating and wins during the league phase. I still dreamed of winning the domestic treble. After first game of domestic season (Polish Super Cup) that stayed just a dream. We played Cup winner Lech. Totally dominated the game, made great chances, had better XG. Full time it was 2-2, game went to extra time and then to penalties. Two of our players missed their penalties and Lech won the thropy. Super Cup Polish Cup was another heart break. We went all the way to finals where we played versus Widzew. After finishing 2nd last season, they had an horrible league campaign, they were in relegation zone most of it. Saved them selfs in last two games of the season. Cup final was a boring game, TSP played horrible and we couldn't do anything right. Widzew scored a goal from a free kick in 78th minute and that was the final score. Polish Cup finals After realizing that domestic treble is going to stay just a dream, I was totally focused on winning the Ekstraklasa. In first part of the season, we had one defeat, two draws and rest of the games were wins. Strikers were scoring goals again, and so did the wingers. Second part of season was a bit more complicated. Due to playing in 3 different competitions team had to be rotated, and sometimes players that would step in didn't perform well. With that being said, 4 defeats 3 draws and rest wins were enough for TSP win the Ekstraklasa second year in row. Radomiak, Piast and Legia came close few times to almost taking over the first place, but somehow we would score important goals and win the games. One thing that we had this season compared to previous years was consistency. Defenders and strikers were finally all producing some good performances. Wingers were lethal from wide areas. In the end, nine players had double figure goals and Sebastian Jorgensen broke his own record for assists by providing 18 to his teammates. Only player who stayed with the club during this whole save is Marcel Misztal. He went from playing in Polish second tier to playing Champions League football. League table Champions! Best XI season 8: Best XI Full squad - season 8 This is the end of this amazing save. Probably had most fun in last couple of years playing manager. With (self imposed) transfer and recruitment restrictions, it was quite challenging sometimes but thoroughly enjoyable. This post probably won't be seen by many people but I had to share this save with someone. Trophies won during this save:
One last thing that would maybe be interesting to share is Overall Best XI: Overall XI THE END! |
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2024.05.16 11:52 Ishika2337 10 Most Awaited South Indian Movies Releasing In May 2024
The South Indian Industry is vast that it produces more than a dozen films, each with new story to tell- how much creativity does the South Industry have- Bollywood should take lessons from them! So, moving forward, as officially hot and humid Summers have started- the film industry will be pouring in some cool and breezy content- thank God for their highly enjoyable movies! On such note, let’s find out the most awaited South Indian movies releasing in May. submitted by Ishika2337 to u/Ishika2337 [link] [comments] 1. Aranmanai 4 Tamil 03 May https://preview.redd.it/5s57lzordr0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=413b1904809587a8a1b1b3cc2e0b29dfd2a736b2 It’s a horror comedy film and fourth part of this successful horror-comic franchise that has been entertaining audiences ever since its first part released. The movie is about a lawyer who is on a mission to find the person responsible for his sister’s death. However, while he tried to uncover it he meets Baak on his way which might seem like any other sinister being. But this demon named Baak would do away with him as well. 2. The Proof Tamil 03 May https://preview.redd.it/4l0w24qxdr0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=c01e9a253658162d58534a74c2bec30108bce92e An action crime thriller and an interesting court-room drama -this movie will give you chills at every point! The film talks about a young girl getting brutally murdered. After peeling off the layers of her case- authorities found out that there was a big drug trafficking scandal behind all this. And, the murder was just an attempt to cover up a huge conspiracy carried out by powerful people wanting to hide truth from public gaze: A fearless woman however has vowed not only to reveal every nasty fact but also bring justice to those affected. 3. Aa Okkati Adakku Telugu 03 May https://preview.redd.it/3kjroxe1er0d1.png?width=739&format=png&auto=webp&s=19b43993b5e926a2da6cfd9b3896935e037dc56a A complete family entertainer –it’s just another comedy film which revolves around one single new tenant moving into new residential apartment society. However, it is not an ordinary entrance for this particular individual thereby shaking friends’circle up of families and neighbors making them frequently adjust. A movie about societal expectations, norms, good relations with those living next door and so much more! Sounds like a must-watch- right? Also Read: Cobweb 4. Nadikar Malayalam 03 May https://preview.redd.it/gyp9y6maer0d1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f4fb4e07c1e302c3d410d44a4f293d2fa6f016d David, a black comedy film on the life journey of a superstar. The movie shows his chaotic life filled with highs and lows, extreme popularity that sometimes had rough patches as well. The film will take you to a joy ride along with a film star whose outer surface appears bright and glamorous but has many darker sides from the inside. All this ego and success because of his wrong choices; all this struggling days hard times – you can see it all and live through them. 5. Switch Case N Kannada 03 May https://preview.redd.it/330i4wader0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=67d3bb1596e756c3dceb172c0f02510a3031df89 It is an interesting drama film about the IT professional’s experience in life – straight out of the experiences of an IT engineer- Chethan Shetty. Chethan is a former IT professional who directed the movie himself besides writing its screenplay, story as well as dialogues/ So this movie will be quite close to reality itself! Featuring ensemble star cast including Shwetha Vijaykumar, Prithvi Raj, Vijay Siddaraj, Karthik Vaibhav etc. 6. Prasanna Vadanam Telugu 09 May https://preview.redd.it/o7q1ym5fer0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a85ccc7ac9e6e4f8ef9c9065d25b7f8289b81b0 His condition is called prosopagnosia, a rare perceptual disorder which does not allow him to recognize people’s faces as distinct from others. He unknowingly stumbles into the dark abyss of crime and violence in an underworld. Thus, an uncommon plot, peculiar illness, even more unforeseeable job and all this, should be watched by any self-respecting film fan! 7. Kalki 2898 AD Telugu 09 May https://preview.redd.it/f66vczeqer0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=c25babfdccfdb668f0b5a6af06bc172d9d8cfbbc A futuristic dystopian sci-fi action thriller that depicts how evil lands on earth with its mission to destroy the peaceful life of humanity. So that before humanity gets extinct- Kalki has taken birth on earth & his task is to rescue the world from evil’s hands thus returning peace to it again. This is a high budget flick featuring an ensemble star cast including Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan etc. 8. Guruvayoor Ambalanadayil Malayalam 16 May https://preview.redd.it/bqay5mlser0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c1b1e47a0f4fcc10b28ba0802bf0c0c479a7a2b A desi family plus a big fat Indian wedding equals complete confusion and comedy throughout! However, things get messy when the family settles for marriage for him- he gets married to a pretty girl whom they have chosen for him. Nonetheless after marriage; lots of drama and also funny situations arise when the bride and groom meet each other face-to-face at home later on Well for your information it’s that man who marries a woman who hates him so much! 9. Mandakini / Malayalam / 24 May https://preview.redd.it/94i7yra6fr0d1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=faf8d9447d50b954e78b9b930ef39725035b0247 This is a comedy-drama movie as well as a family entertainer you can go watch with your entire clan. The plot revolves around newly married couple- Ambili & Aromal. But something happens during their first night that not only takes away attention from this couple but also distracts everyone else in the house as well And whatever it will be – you will definitely fall upon the floor laughing! 10. Kaadaadi Kannada 24 May https://preview.redd.it/liegirudfr0d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=eeffcd91058fe00aae9b24291a5d03320b1dd790 A dramatic sports drama film about a young budding sportswoman who aims to win a gold medal at one of the prestigious sporting events and has to go through several trials in pursuit of her dream. Just pick your favorite genres out of the list of South Indian Movies releasing in May above and go watch it. Enjoy! |
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2024.05.16 11:43 circussilks Type me: maybe summer but not sure
For long I was taking colors from spring side, yellowish foundation, peachy lip color and blush but yellow gold never really clicked. submitted by circussilks to coloranalysis [link] [comments] My roots are ashier but sun bleaches the lengths to a yellow shade. Silver works if it is very light shade, same light shaded gold. But then again I feel that my freckles are so warm that it feels funny to put cool shaded makeup products on. My undertone is cool most likely but overtone is yellow / something peachy. Dress picture is with no makeup, closeup eye has black mascara. So thoughts or insight if I fit on the summer / spring category thank you 💜 |
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