Village Idiot

The first headline is pure

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The way it's presented here it's mostly De Gea's lass who wants him to move back to Spain, so she can pursue her music career and benefit from the increased exposure of Real Madrid WAGness. If they break up within the year, ManU could maybe get him to resign.

Casilla to Real Madrid done. I guess Florentino Pérez expects people to read his name wrong and not boo him for selling Casillas. Good keeper, but has no chance of playing if they sign De Gea.

No, he isn't. I'm surprised that Ferguson might think that either, you probably don't remember correctly. His grandfather was a Barça board member for 25 years, though.

We didn't.

Usually a month before the game. You won't be able to get any unless you want to pay silly amounts of money to touts or reselling sites.

Elche have appealed their relegation to the regular Spanish courts, this Monday they have to rule on a suspension of the relegation while the matter is adjudicated.

Scoring 15 goals for a team like last season's Villa (dunno how many of them were under Sherwood) is probably a superheroic feat. Benteke is a very good player. Not completely sure about him partnering with Sturridge though.

http://i.imgur.com/tORk83e.png To be frank, I have always wondered whether parties close to a transfer do that. Seems a pretty easy way to make money and it's not like you will get done for insider trading.

Sherwood is correctly saluting the British way, at least. I don't know what that awful effort from Ramsay is, though. Fair enough then. I need to see more British war movies.

That picture makes me want to slap everybody in it Also, I hope they don't intend to join the SAS with that shitty saluting form.

Did he make some terrible pun or slated the young WBA defenders while scoring? Ah sorry, not that Kaka.

You probably haven't even replaced Perch or Leon Best.

Valdés just tweeted this. Last photo is him with the reserve squad, so I guess he means he did play for the reserves.

Not for long. That empty #1 shirt isn't gonna make many saves.

It's almost like one has been there over ten years and is one of our greatest ever players while the other is someone we brought in to help them rehabilitate less than a year ago. Oh, different managers too. It's not like Valdes was brought in under false pretense as well. It was clear as day he was #2. Do #2 stuff. Play for the f***ing reserves, you shitfucker. LVG is in the right here. Valdés - as much as I love him - has just got out of very lengthy layoff and he's the #2, asking him to play reserve games to get match fitness back is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

He was shit for us, too.

Same thing happened 12 years ago at Barça when Valdés was starting his senior career and LVG was manager. Valdés refused to be dropped back to Barça B, and LVG tried to get him sold (but was sacked before he could do it). Full circle.

They have massive running costs IIRC. Is it not because they only own a fraction of the player themselves, with agents and investors owning a majority stake, in many cases? Benfica do that a lot. Not sure about Porto. Swissramble had a pretty good article on Porto's finance. They really have massive costs compared to their turnover without player sales: http://swissramble.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/portos-buy-low-sell-high-strategy.html http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jLlqDrcSYeQ/TP9z0R2p5hI/AAAAAAAACoI/3z7ycl-0O-w/s400/3%2BPorto%2BProfit.jpg

Doesn't seem the most informed view. He'll probably end up being right though. They already sold Bacca and Vidal, two of their best performers. So they don't need the money, nor are they willing to further weaken the team before a CL campaign.

They have massive running costs IIRC.

What's this supposed fee?

Got hold of a friend from Sevilla and reckons the Banega rumor is bullshit since there's no way they'd sell him unless it's for a shitload.

Ajax youth manager responds to allegations nobody has ever made, about a player he's never worked with.