Village Idiot

Am I wrong in thinking that Mourinho has never won at SJP? Ridiculous if true.

Depends, he had a couple of two-monthers back in 2013, but he didn't miss that many games because one was at the end of the season, and another during the La Liga winter break.

Well, Messi out for 2 months. It's been a short season

Climate and culture. Culture of being shat on by the television networks, rather. People hate those late kickoffs when they have to work the following day. But 2200 is prime time for TV.

The Spanish FA has refused to register 11 year old Boris Tchako, from Hercules, in the youth league. They suspect him and the club are lying about his age. I wonder why.

That's best case scenario, it was a generic pet straw so it's possible he might even have a guinea pig. A guinea pig ffs. They are a delicacy in South America Here too. I love rabbit meat tbf.

Sevilla dead last in La Liga. What a torrid start they have had.

This exact thing happened in Spain in the 80s, which ushered our current release clause system. I don't think the EU can't wave through a system that fundamentally prevents workers from leaving their jobs, so I believe there's a big chance they will rule in FIFPro's favor. This doesn't automatically translate into the kind of system they seem to desire, though. I.e. in Spain it was ruled that sportsmen could indeed leave clubs freely. What clubs did is introduce release fees in their contracts, those "release fees" are actually compensation sportsmen agree to pay if they don't see the end of their contracts.

I would probably get a good laugh out of it if I were Mitrovic, tbf

ACL for Rafinha

Think we could've won this, but not a terrible result I guess. Worried about Rafinha, that didn't look good at all.

He's not key or anything, but we need every single player until Jan, terrible news.

Roma's defence is sinking without a trace. Hope we take those chances though.

The league isn't very strong though, although to be frank i think pretty much every major league is pretty crap tbh. It's genuinely like arguing which dog s*** smells the best, as all of them outside a small section of teams have extremely crap below them. So what you're basically saying is 99.9% of all football in the world is s****. Give over man. Most of the best players have been collected to a small group of teams, say 10 max so yes. While I understand where you're coming from, it's hyperbole. You can watch good entertaining football at plenty of grounds around the world.

Messi's so good... we could probably play with 10 cripples and still have a chance at silverware if he's up for it.

Espanyol are so shit.

We have plenty of hot but bland male singers too!

She rose to fame in Spain after winning a talent show. She's your usual hot but bland singer.

Keylor is good, but not as good as De Gea. I think De Gea is a better fit in the PL too.

The way it's being reported here it's his WAG who's pressuring him to go live in Madrid so they can be together while she pursues her music career.

Lol, even Rafinha scored against the US. Pleased that he got his first caps and goal this week, although Brazil are really f***ed if he's getting games for them. Was he #10?

Our forward line just can't score. We really need to find a way to make Costa tick, his international record is abysmal.

To me it is, I'm Spanish Are the big two Scottish clubs restricted to Glasgow?

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If you lot dare brave the waters of google translate, there's a fantastic interview with Sevilla's DoF Monchi. http://www.jotdown.es/2015/09/monchi-bilardo-es-la-persona-que-mas-me-ha-influido-en-el-futbol-y-en-la-vida/ Some fantastic memories of when he played alongside Maradona or Simeone.