Village Idiot

Except Fantasy Football.

I know it's Pardew, but almost nothing can tarnish a Mourinho defeat.

Lots of red cards today. Stoke

Ryan Babel is so bitter

Impeccable grammar and bad pronunciation, probably memorized or cue sheet. Haha fair enough then. He's saying he's proud to wear the shirt and play for the fans. It's really common down here to feed some phrases to foreign players to endear the fans. I'm sure he's learnt some Spanish but that was too clean.

Impeccable grammar and bad pronunciation, probably memorized or cue sheet.

Could see Dortmund winning the EL and Bayern will probably get to at least a CL semi I would imagine I can't see the other German clubs outperforming the English ones in the CL, though. Might do better in the EL since they tend to go for that trophy.

Relatively remote, I think? Italy would need to have another banner year coupled with England failing badly. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/ You actually have a good chance of jumping back to second if you outperform Germany this season.

Do you mean in general or Schurrle in particular? There's lots of players that are better as impact subs than as a starters.

Neymar finished fifth in the first round voting, behind Buffon. Neymar was better than Suárez overall - mostly because of Suárez's ban and the time he needed to get up and running after that. But Suárez scored some damn big goals this season. Real Madrid in the league, the PSG brace, the winning goal in the final...

Would be hilarious if, say, Liverpool or Spurs got 4th the season the PL loses its fourth spot because of teams like them fucking up the EL so badly.

Won the Best Player in Europe award. Surprisingly, Suárez finished second above Cristiano Ronaldo (just by one vote though). Although Suárez had a damn great run in the CL.

All groups are easy. Only D seems competitive.

Can't complain, Roma were possibly the worst 3rd seed we could get, but we avoided the tough teams in pot 2.

I think Arsenal can take 'em. Bayern don't seem as strong as they once were. On paper anyway. I think they look ridiculous on paper. Douglas Costa and Vidal are great buys.

Tough group for Sevilla. They can always win their third EL in a row I guess.

Says a man who soils himself at the sight of a mildly attractive female or minor football news. Anyone opinions on Silva? I don't think I have ever seen him play. Neither have I or Real Madrid fans for that matter, wasn't given the time of the day after a disappointing start.

I'm starting to be convinced that with enough time and funding, Jorge Mendes could slash Portugal's unemployment.

Valencia have signed Aderlan Santos from Braga. Repped by Mendes, of course.

Lucas Silva loaned out to OM, official.

Thiago signs a new contract with Bayern, I suspect this means Guardiola is signing too.

Wew. What's the story there? Juve agreed to terminate his contract, apparently. There's rumours that it's all part of a "Made in Italy" type of deal and that Sevilla will buy Isla off them now.

Llorente signs for Sevilla on a free.

Coentrao to Monaco on loan. Madrid clearing the deadwood.

Yeah, pretty much nobody but Guardiola (who'd managed him) thought much of Busquets while he was in our youth teams.