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I'd rather us sign Sturridge.

Harsh Figueroa and McCarthy are good. McCarthy is good sure, but not yet there. And Figueroa is ok. Would still be deadlast without NZogbia and Rodallega.

That last smily didn't fit in. Sorry.

He shall be signed by NUFC

Falcao. Crazy.

If he heard that he'd kill himself. White-ass name.

Falcao close to a 4th there. Porto should be careful, would suck to concede a second at home.

Helton WTF was he doing there?

what is his obsession with having his name printed on everything? Because he has the coolest name in the world, coolio.

Rodallega and N'Zogbia are the two only players in that team who do anything. If it weren't for them they'd be dead last.

wonder how much it would take. hulk looks to have improved massively, when i saw him a few years back he was quite unimpressive. Really exploded into life this season. Been one of the better players in that league for couple of years, but him and Falcao are just dominating everything this season. And he's only 24 too.

Villarreal coach really lost the plot when he took out Borja and Nilmar. Hulk has been immense and Falcao even better.

One of the worst attempt ever of playing the other team offside. Terrible defending.

Falcao! Hahahaha, fuck me!

He's shit.

This really.

This partnership is great. We should sign them both. I'd pay £50 million for both. Fuck me theyre good.

N'Gog?

It all started in the last 16 against Spain. Was immense from there on. Zidane's "tournament" was definitely Euro 2000. That's when he was at the peak of his powers. Agreed. But fuck me was this guy a player. Impossible to take the ball from him and was really complete. What made him so good too was that he thrived in important matches. Cried my eyes out the day we lost to them in 2006, but after that I just enjoy watching clips from that game. Masterclass from a player three games away from ending his career. Legend, pure legend. Was looking at the FIFA Best player award and the new FIFA Ballon d'Or and as far as that goes its right at the moment. Zidane at first with 3 wins, 2 runners up and 1 third. Ronaldo second with 3 wins, 1 runnerup 1 third. Messi third with 2 wins, 2runners up. Messi still behind those two but won't be behind for much longer Immense player.

It all started in the last 16 against Spain. Was immense from there on.

I lolled. I lol'd badly again. Been some amusing stuff on this board lately.

Absolutely, I initially thought there was minimal contact but that youtube video (can I link it, it's a Frech football show with replay?) shows that there was absolutely no contact coz Alves withdrew his leg. Might still be classified as dangerous coz the foot was raised but no way is that a red card. The way Alves then rolls around holding his shin and knee makes it clear as ever that Barcelona was not just diving and cheating but were looking to get Madrid players sent off. And we have some donkey (hint: has an avatar of an ex world player of the year now more commonly known as fatty) saying that the 'tackle' was worse than De Jong's leg breaker on HBA! Give over alpal78 honestly. Calling people donkey and stuff. Looking at the images from the tackle, it really does look like Pepe doesn't touch him at all. But fuck me, those images are either manipulating or Alves is a very good actor, and since we all know he's a bad diver Pepe must have touched him. Also, most non-Newcastle fans think de Jong tackle was a normal tackle and Ben Arfa was unlucky. In my opinion both deserved red cards, remember Ronaldinho on Danny Mills? Doubt many of you were complaining when he was rolling around like (was red card, but that bald guy still overacted). There's diving everywhere and players always try to get other players sent off. In the end its all about winning and whatever helps one to do it will be done. I'm not for diving/cheating, but I can say that if that would benefit my team in an important game, hell yes would I do it. There's no moral in a game against your archrivals and I doubt many here would be complaining if Barton or Nolan dived and got us a penalty to beat Sunderland 1-0 away to them in the last minute. It's part of the game whether you like it or not. And until FIFA/UEFA starts banning it, it will still be here. Real did the same a week and a half ago in Valencia against Barcelona also btw

for all its an astonishing achievement the gulf in class between the big 2 teams and everyone else sours it slightly imo, i'd absolutely love to see him playing over here but its never gonna happen It's overplayed IMO. The rest of La Liga isn't that bad. Atletico are current holders of the UEFA Cup, Villarreal are in the semis of that same competition this year, Sevilla and Valencia both decent as are Athletic. Comparing the top 9 in La Liga compared to the Premier League Barcelona v Man Utd - Barcelona - We'll see! Would you wager p*ss on it?! Real Madrid v Chelsea - Madrid - Close one. Valencia v Arsenal - Arsenal shade it - No shading about this one Villarreal v City - Villarreal shade it - Not a chance in hell! Bilbao v Spurs - Spurs - Agree Sevilla v Liverpool - Sevilla - Disagree Atletico Madrid v Everton - Atletico - Close one Espanyol v Bolton - Espanyol - Don't know Mallorca v Fulham - Mallorca - Don't know What about the bottom 10? There is no way La Liga is vastly better than the PL. So basically you agreed to every single one of them where a PL team was better and disagreed or didn't know when a La Liga team was better. Barcelona is better than Man Utd and Real is better than Chelsea. Agree with you that I do think City is better than Villarreal though. The rest is really true. Sevilla is better than Liverpool and Atletico better than Everton.

They were very different type of players, hard to compare. Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were more striker type scoring lots of goals whereas Zidane to me was a midfield maestro bar none Ronaldinho wasn't a striker.