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I miss our 2014-15 team.

Fiore fans http://estaticos.sport.es/resources/jpg/8/7/pancarta-los-aficionados-italianos-fiorentina-fcbarcelona-1438546999878.jpg I know we're still missing all the non-biting SA players, but it's been an abysmal preseason so far. Will try no to give it too much importance.

Barring Arsenal with Wenger, I don't get the feeling that there's a strong vision behind the big English teams. When Ferguson was at ManU, you certainly got what they stood for, and what you could expect from them (the good and the bad), same from us and Real Madrid nowadays. Or you under Keegan. City, Chelsea and ManU seem to be drifting nowadays, looking for a football identity to rally around and drive the club. Even this Chelsea side seems devoid of that cuntish unbridled energy that other Mourinho sides had.

With the silly TV contract you now have in England, I'm not sure the CL prize money is going to be that big of an advantage anymore. Players and sponsors will still value it, though.

I don't think it has lost any importance, but the format has killed the goose that laid the golden egg IMO. Time was a fixture like, to pick an example out of thin air, Barcelona vs. Bayern would have a proper sense of occasion to it. Now these kind of games happen most seasons. Let alone that getting rid of straight knockout minimises the chance of owt exciting like Marseille/Ajax/Villa etc. winning the thing. The format is appalling, the group stage is always 95% dross. Group stage is crap, and it's only there to guarantee TV games from Europe's top teams right until January. But a few of the knockouts usually produce some of the best football on show every year, imho.

Dani Güiza has signed for Cádiz. This is slightly noteworthy for two things: 1) Back in the time when he was at his peak he swore he'd never play for them (he's from rival town Jerez) 2) The photo Cádiz have released of his medical http://estaticos04.marca.com/imagenes/2015/07/31/futbol/mas_futbol/1438334962_extras_noticia_foton_7_3.jpg

When does Di María's contract end? Considering amortisation ManU might be turning a profit here, never underestimate the magic of accounting.

Johan Cruyff, Thierry Henry, Gabriel Obertan.

Fantastic

The bars are the range of ST prices for each club. So our cheapest season ticket is €200 and our most expensive is around €1100.

What's Wickham ever done besides looking good in youth tournaments? He's still quite young but I have never seen anything remarkable about him.

La Liga ST price ranges for this season. Cyan clubs are from the second division: http://i.imgur.com/FC96Hldl.jpg Zaragoza charging like a Top 6 club while in the second division. The gall of it.

We don't want to sell Pedro, but he wants to leave in order to get playing time before the Euros. Both Munir and Sandro will be promoted to the senior squad. I'm confident at least one of them can make the step up.

Pedro and Ayoze have known each other for a while. Pedro even nominated him for the ice bucket challenge back in the time.

I love Pedro, but if we indeed sell him for €30m it will be good business. We never do good business.

Apparently we're close to agree a fee with ManU for Pedro, but we'll ask the player to wait and play in the European Supercup Final. €30-32 million after addons.

Love Sandro myself. Have been following him since he was a bairn and I hope he can make the step up.

Jaén sign some fella from Portugal. Dude shows up at his unveiling with a Franco t-shirt: http://sia1.subirimagenes.net/img/2015/07/29/150729010505500436.jpg Hilarity ensues.

terrible Yeah, an injudicious post.

Swansea got the best Ayew bro. I've always liked André, I'm happy to see him in a league were I'll be able to watch him more often.

Is Flip around? We are strongly linked with Gerson from Fluminense.

Yeah, poor lad. Whenever he looked like putting on a run for us he would fuck himself up. Still, will never forget that cross.

Yeah, no way Pérez will sell Bale; it would be a personal defeat for him, and Pérez doesn't do that kind of thing.

We'll probably finish second in our group, tbf. We still haven't found ourselves since the last WC, the team is pretty much stuck in a transitional phase.

We'll probably sub off a bunch of starters in the second half, I wouldn't expect much.