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Decent prospect, but surprised to see the likes of Roma or Inter after him.

Racing doing a decent job of it. They never spent much though. The "YOU'LL DO A PORTSMOUTH!!!" tantrum is about spending so much that it will cripple your finances and send you to football oblivion. Depor were close to do that, but they steadied the ship.

Without La Liga money and their debts, they will do a Portsmouth (I need to find a Spanish equivalent for that).

CAS has upheld Elche's relegation to Liga Adelante, due to outstanding tax and wage debt.

One of the things I love (I shouldn't) about Messi, is how he won't pass the ball to somebody if he thinks he's s*** Took two seasons for Alexis to get out of Messi's "you're shit" list.

I haven't seen as many games as you but for example, against Stoke he ran like a headless chicken trying to win the game by himself (and to his credit, he scored).

He tries to do more than he is able to, to the detriment of the team. I see him lose position often and try to many risky moves from midfield. He would be fine if his play was more restrained.

Because he's a decent player. So you'd have him start over anyone else we have at CM? What I meant was, with everyone fit, he'd have a place in McClaren's first team. That's how I interpreted 'first choice'. I could see him and Wijnaldum working well together. Are you high? About 5'11. Quite tall if I lived in Southern Spain. Duh, I'm 6'0. But you're from the North (Barcelona I assume, or are you like our own prawn sandwich parade-manu?)... Yup, Barcelona born and bred, but nowadays average height is pretty much the same all over Spain. I'm tall for a Spaniard, though.

Yeah, and then the captaincy will go to Colback.

Because he's a decent player. So you'd have him start over anyone else we have at CM? What I meant was, with everyone fit, he'd have a place in McClaren's first team. That's how I interpreted 'first choice'. I could see him and Wijnaldum working well together. Are you high? About 5'11. Quite tall if I lived in Southern Spain. Duh, I'm 6'0.

Just realized that if you went by Spanish captaincy customs (seniority), Shola would have been club captain during most of the current era. It would stay on Coloccini now.

Big scary fucker, I like that. Anybody seen him play for Forest? http://i.gyazo.com/12195e3f5e680a559d21132721456e94.jpg

It looks ludicrous in hindsight; but SWP was s*** hot back then. 2005 is when Chelsea paid a shitload for him IIRC. Cronaldo wasn't still Cronaldo either.

No, August 22nd. They tried to move it to the 15th, but the Spanish FA vetoed it.

Fixed the link. Anyhow. Draw this tuesday. Can't wait for football to be back.

Wouldn't surprise me if they agreed to sell him for 40m and then added QPR's share on top.

Liverpool linked with a move for Madrid's Tcheryshev as a replacement, which wouldn't be too bad.

Oh so your saying it's a dodgy deal, gotcha. No, just a moronic one. The same guy that is buying Sterling paid Eto'o+€45m for Zlatan.

It's a ludicrous amount; but you have to take into account that you have former Barça people running City nowadays.

That's a lot of coon.

They've got Bueno from Rayo... I hope they aren't planning on him to lead the line though. Massive stepdown.

Yep. As it always happens, you have to watch them play.

And for every Robben there's a Ryan Babel. I just don't think Mole's assertion that Eredivisie strikers doing worse than average in the PL holds water. What happens - and to a degree Portugal has a similar situation - is that the Eredivisie is in general a poor league, but it also has a few quite good clubs that are able to attract and develop good talent. So you'll find some wasters able to look way better than they are (hello Altidore) mixed up with genuine top talent like Suárez or Ibrahimovic.

Romario, Ronaldo, Van Basten, Bergkamp, Van Nistelrooij, Zlatan, Kluivert, Van Persie amongst others say hi. I was talking about PL transfers, majority of strikers from Eredivisie have struggled but midfielders and wingers have had more success. http://www.defensacentral.com/userfiles/2014/May_13/luis_suarez.jpg "WHAT?"

Sevilla sign Immobile on loan.