Village Idiot

Palace succeeding, Derby succeeding, HBA back in the French national team... Sometimes it feels as if the entire world conspires to make NUFC fans miserable.

Lazy t***s. Does anyone know if football clubs charter their own plane, or they go on Ba or Easyjet or what? Charter or have their own for short haul, regular flights in the posh seats long haul I think. I know NUFC used charter planes for European games a while back. We charter flights. There's even a lottery for club members where winners can buy tickets and fill out the plane, travelling with the squad.

Fair enough

Atlético, Real Madrid and "other big European clubs" to be fined/banned by FIFA for illegal youth player transfers (same thing we got our ban for) - according to "As" and "Mundo Deportivo". Apparently the current situation at FIFA - with everybody and their mothers facing corruption charges - is holding up the punishment until a new FIFA board is elected and can move forward with the paperwork.

Nah, Casillas got done by the taxman too.

€180m. I hope he stays. In a couple years he can easily rise to top man as Messi heads into his 30s and drops to #10 to feed him balls.

There are rumors that we are close to get Neymar to extend his contract; runs until 2021, €15m year net, 3rd best paid player in the world. We have "been close to" extend Neymar's contract like half a dozen times during the past year though, so I will still take this rumor with a pinch of salt. Our DoF said last week that he was a priority though.

Ronaldo says, "Rafa or me." The board backs Rafa. Ronaldo to Old Trafford. Book it. Would you really want him back? I personally think he's gonna be off at the end of the season, but he would still cost an arm and a leg and he will be 31.

I'm starting to believe Real Madrid players want Benítez sacked. Yesterday's game stunk of "look how good we can be if we want, and look how s*** we can be if we want...". Would fit with all the reports of dressing room strife between players and manager.

He's cloned Badstuber? Why wouldn't you clone Lewandowki if you could? That's probably a typo, must be Lahm on the right.

It's weird because he looks shaky most of the time yet he's performed well in big games. He's strong in the air, something we don't have much of. All in all he's a decent backup, but we should have never paid what we did for him (€20m).

Poor form to name the lad. He could have complained about the service without naming names.

There were lots of talk of strengthening a couple months ago, but suddenly we're awesome again and it's all quieted down. Vidal and Arda coming in it's probably all we'll see. Sergi Roberto's form has made another midfield signing unlikely. The lad has definitely stepped up when we needed him (I had given up on him, myself). I'd feel better with a quality defender in myself. We have lots of defenders, but few really good ones. But we are not likely to find that kind of player in January, so probably not worth it.

I haven't seen the game, but looks like Pep has gone full 1930s against Olympiakos http://estaticos04.marca.com/imagenes/2015/11/25/futbol/futbol_internacional/1448444008_extras_noticia_foton_7_2.jpg He played that formation ocasionally at Barça, too.

Yeah. Unless this is dressing room bantz, I think it's poor form from one of the squad's heavyweights to call out a kid like that, though.

Roma can't catch a break. Ter Stegen needed this, too.

What the fuck was than pen from Ney

Tooj's favorite Sergi Samper coming in.

Suárez This is ridiculous, I'm starting to feel guilty.

2-0 Messi

Goal Suárez, it was a matter of time - Roma's defence has looked paper thin all game long.

I know I'm partial here, but I find it really puzzling that he almost never makes any of the end of the year best XIs and award shortlists. I guess he has too much of a bad rap (even though he's toned down the cuntishness massively as he's aged).

Keita back at the Camp Nou

That Garth Crooks clip Becoming a parody now, I'm pretty sure that's half-intended.

The pun power of Isaac Success is so wasted in the Spanish league. The Pozzos should send him to Watford. Good talent, too.