Village Idiot

They weren't nearly the biggest spenders in the C'ship. They pass muster for me.

Bournemouth represent the "football dream" imho, the idea that if you do well, no matter your station there's a chance you'll get to the top. What's not to love?

If only HBA had the million second chances Obertan has enjoyed at the club...

I've decided (probably wrongly) to hold off until next gameweek and have 2 transfers.

We have confirmed the transfer of Adama to Villa. €10m+2m with a buyback clause and first option for 3 seasons. I can live with that.

Lorik Cana played for Sunderland.

Since it's Leicester he can don a fox mask this time.

I like Sturridge, but he really looked far from being his old self when he returned from injury last season. I hope he can make a full recovery.

I think most of Spurs signing made sense on paper; Lamela was a rising star in Italy, Soldado was banging them for fun... Eriksen has done well, I believe.

It has been leaked that Valencia have hired a law firm to perform tax optimization on an eventual Otamendi sale. Looks like he may be off, City strongly linked.

Villarreal, by the looks of it.

Wasn't aware of this; after Casillas and Xavi left this season, Iniesta for Barça and Gurpegi for Athletic are the players that have been the longest at their clubs (14 seasons).

Barcelona media say he's already had a medical for Villa.

I fondly remember his tweets in broken English while he was at NUFC. Incredibly loveable dude.

Several reports that we're loaning Halilovic to Hamburg.

Heh, this was Pedro's 99th senior goal for Barça. What a pity. He's just given an interview with the Catalan TV and he looked pretty angry at the club's board, btw. He's off.

Deulofeu cheering Sevilla on twitter. Bitter much?

He's had some quite good games, but he's been very timid today. Bravo has clearly been better than him.

Our defence man

What a way to go

A confident Bojan is a very good player, to be frank. Not too sure he's worse than Shaqiri.

We haven't been in a penalty shootout in Europe since 1988. That's some stat.

In the long term it would probably help prop up the bigger ROTW teams. However, with 8+ hour travel times and time differences, it's just impractical.

Pedro coming on I hope he gets a very mild injury so his transfer is called off.

Must be nice. As a fanbase we're fishing dimes from under the vending machine and you drop folding money like It may look like sour grapes (we haven't lost yet, but we look spent), but these Supercups/Community Shields/whatever are pointless, man. What's not pointless is the proper trophies you have to win to qualify for them. The only one I mildly care about is the Club World Cup, and only because of the patch you get to wear if you win. I wish there could be a proper Club World Cup. Like a FIFA Champions League or some s***. Would be glorious, always make one on FM. There is, it's called the UEFA Champions League. Yeah, at the moment there aren't any non-European sides that could mount a meaningful contest.