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Oh aye.

Real Madrid will be without Ramos, Carvalho and Pepe when they play Valencia next week. Ouch.

Yep, when I think most would have considered 40 as our target before the season began.

It's incredible. Goes up about 100 every time

Yep, spot on.

Already changed Dave, you t***. Edit: You've probably spent a good few minutes thinking of a pun for that one, haven't you?

I really liked Vieri and Recoba, though. At the time Inter weren't annoyingly all-conquering, either.

I actually got given a Viola shirt with Batistuta on the back by a local, but since it was fake I wanted to buy a real shirt. The sports store we went to didn't sell Fiorentina shirts (just a few miles from Firenze, go figure) so I went with Inter instead cuz I liked the colours.

I'm utterly bemused how you can hate someone that won you everything he possibly could. Well, I don't hate him. But like I said earlier in the thread, the man cares for no club, just himself. I'd happily take that. It's evident that it's that that makes him so good. Oh aye, imagine him here? Think I'd jizz solidly for his entire tenure.

I'm utterly bemused how you can hate someone that won you everything he possibly could. Well, I don't hate him. But like I said earlier in the thread, the man cares for no club, just himself.

Haha. Thoroughly enjoyed that raping, Mourinho, I can hate you now you're gone.

Get the fuck in.

Yeah, what devious bastards.

He joined when he was like 12 ffs. It's not as if they bought him in

Homegrown players in bold. Barcelona 8-1 Real Madrid.

Fair point. I still think it's a case of spending for spendings sake because you have cash floating around.

Yes but like I said it's sort of because your team (youth development) is so good you feel the need to spend on World Class players. There's no point investing in smart cheap deals of South American players etc because you already have players coming through. I liken it to playing as a big team on FM. You start with a massive budget and an awesome team so I am often just clueless who to buy, so end up spending the entire budget on getting a genuinely World Class player from another team just so it is actually an improvement. Stupid logic, probably, I don't really know how to explain my point.

He's been quality under Mourinho this season, one of their best performers.

Zlatan is still a quality player. He is the SOLE reason for Milan's revival this season. Simply a very good squad peg in a round hole at Barca. Plus he fell out with Pep.

Infact Barca's youth system has been the cause of their financial problems in some ways. Because half of their team over recent years has basically been produced 'for free' they've had a lot of spare cash floating round to blow on marquee names or stupid signings.

bs To be fair, Barca's financial problems have come from sheer stupidity in the transfer market. By ideology I mean the core of their team and manager are homegrown, whereas it is quite the opposite for Madrid. I am not talking about finances here.

Actually, didn't Holden get quite brutally attacked last time he visited Newcastle?

Strange. It is, isn't it? Especially Stu Holden, he plays for Bolton. Why the need to go see NUFC - Chelsea? Unless of course it was Bobby that wanted to go and he went with him, which sounds logical. But still! Various Media articles tomorrow: 'Bolton's Holden on Newcastle radar'

Messi and Guardiola cost: € 0 Ronaldo and Mourinho cost: € 110 million Nice summary of the ideology behind both clubs.