Village Idiot

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 mean, I don't particularly care about this tin cup, but if we end up losing in this way, it will be a bit embarrassing.

Fuck this I probably deserve it tbf.

Yeah.

Messi Thanks mom for not marrying an Espanyol fan.

Probably. I hope he comes off the bench and plays one last game for us tonight, I love Pedro. That's why I don't want us to sell him, btw. One of the front 3 misses out and we are down to the likes of Rafinha and Munir. That transfer ban will hurt us more than people think.

Shaqiri is decent, but he hasn't performed consistently since he left Basel. It will certainly improve Stoke, but it isn't such a coup. Better players have gone to middling PL teams this season.

I have never got the fuss about Shaqiri. There, I said it.

6. Newcastle United: 396 Top passer v Southampton: Massadio Haidara (48) Team average last season: 304 It's just a game (and a home one at that), but it's already a marked improvement.

And rightly so, a thing of beauty The one Shearer wore in his unveiling, right? That's the one I recall the most from you lot, together with that one with a blue star with the city's skyline (which was very nice too).

Sherwood manages to look even more punchable than he does now.

All Spain-based players have release clauses, it's the law. €6m is par for the course for one of our youth players that are not in the cards for the senior squad, but I think we are selling low. I can see him being a very effective player for Villa if Sherwood is able to channel his strengths.

They very rarely break transfer stories, they don't really have a good network for that. If they do have a source for this I'm inclined to believe them, though. They don't do much transfer clickbait unlike Marca or the Barcelona rags. Traoré is a beast, all pace and power. His glaring weakness is that he plays with the blinders on. It looks like we have given up on coaching some awareness on him, but it seems to me that he should fit well in the premier league.

According to Spanish press, ManCity are interested in Pedro too and would meet our €30m asking price.

Héctor Moreno from Espanyol, actually quite decent.

You should really buy Alex Song. Really cheep. Almost like new.

I think somebody showed him Pulis' playbook in between the two stills.

Espanyol have sold Héctor Moreno - their best defender - to PSV for €5m. That's yet another key player sold this season after losing Sergio García, Casilla, Vázquez and Stuani. That's why they can't have nice things.

I'm still amazed at how relatively mediocre ManCity squad is given the money they have poured into it.

First weekend and already sinking without a trace. FML.

Neymar has mumps. What's up with him and weird preseason illnesses? He'll be out two weeks.

A comic book publisher.

The glimpses I caught were decent; there's a whole new coaching team (thank god) and it's going to take a while until they get the team to click, so that was an encouraging result against a good side. f***er Long equalized right before I blew my birthday candles.

Those "stripes from the front, white shirts from behind" kits are truly unfortunate, though.

My brother and some friends showed up with a few beers to celebrate my birthday so I'm only half-watching. The glimpses I catch don't look too bad. EDIT: Except defending.