Village Idiot

I think this the best game we've played since Guardiola left imho. I know we've won bigger games, but we never got such quite a dominating performance against a big European side, not even Bayern at home last season.

Munir has terrible composure, if he could shake that off he would be a very decent forward. His movement off the ball is really good.

Piqué wants to score the 5th himself so badly

Four forwards right now, Lucho is gunning for the 5th or bust He hates them so much since they got rid of him, bless the man

Fuck me sideways.

Warning shot by Messi.

:fwap: Totally surprised by this. I wasn't expecting Madrid to be so shit.

I always thought that Ney was "just" a very good striker, but certainly in the past 12 months he's made the step-up to Ballon D'Or contender quality. And he's still 23.

Why in the hell would he leave Barcelona? Money, getting out of Messi's shadow... there's also the matter of his troubles with the Spanish taxman (not that leaving the country would mean that they drop the case...)

Better get Neymar signed on a new fucking deal. 2 years left this summer and I'm already nervous.

Damn! Should have put that one away.

Casemiro is the only bonafide DM they have, and he has been dropped for this game so all the stars could be featured. That's the Madrid malaise in a nutshell.

Real Madrid have been awful so far. Running with no sense of purpose.

Favorite racist: Richard Wagner

I'm Spanish, I don't go to away matches

Messi in the squad for El Clásico. Unsure about the game. We haven't been that great, but the dudes upfront are in magnificent form. On paper, Real Madrid have a better team, but Benítez seems to be hamstringing the team so far.

I researched a bit the "merger" news and indeed it seems that the Portuguese League is pushing for it. However, I really can't see La Liga going for it for the reasons I mentioned. I'm really against the whole superleague concept, even if it would be class from a big club fan standpoint - since we would make the cut - it would totally suck for the small, storied clubs that would be sacked off as a result. We should work towards propping up the small clubs in big leagues and the smaller leagues in general. UEFA should be more socialist and spread the wealth. For starters, redirecting CL money to the EL so clubs playing in the European second tier could seize it as a chance to grow, would be something easy and with meaningful results.

There's nothing on our media about this. As a fan it would be really cool, but it would suck for all the teams that would find themselves relegated because of it. Also I don't think UEFA would give us more CL/EL slots so big clubs wouldn't probably want it either. For these reasons, I doubt this is real.

Those two events are not compatible.

Looks like they averted a massacre. And a terror attack too.

Shocking stuff that. Grim times. In other news, Messi was back in training yesterday. I guess he'll be on the bench for El Clásico.

Odegaard has been pretty shit for Castilla too. The insane hype is doing him more harm than good.

32 is not even the beginning. Sad news.

Martin Jol was a good riot too. Didn't he use to open entire new threads around Spurs buying youngsters and such?