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Hart Sagna Clichy Wright That's it for their HG brigade right? Not counting token youth players.

Celta Vigo have signed Guidetti on a free.

Apparently when Pedro signed a new contract (he only had one year remaining), we lowered his release clause to €30m. It makes sense, since rumor was that he wanted to leave and it was a bit surprising when he suddenly extended his contract. Liverpool and Arsenal linked. He's a great player to have in any squad in the world, I hope he stays this season at least.

A Spanish court has given back control of Betis to Manuel Ruíz de Lopera. This is as good a chance as any to post a photo of the press room he built http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUVzHGJtOsqYpsAul7mxaOzlJDPEL-PMbhjr-2HO5O85yOJZxHuHjUXdX6cIyEWHM2b45kjrRWB-0sA1Vu1fIAQ/esperpento.jpg Not good news for Betis fans, anyhow.

I have recently started telling close acquaintances that I follow you.

Yes, please, as a Spaniard I fully endorse Alan Pardew to become England's next manager.

And that's why we pair him with Mascherano. Masch gets such a bad rap as CB, but he's been integral to our success since Puyol's legs fell off. That said, Piqué is actually deceptively pacy. He just has a bad acceleration, so his burst response is bad.

Jack Grealish looks like he could play The Joker.

La Liga has closed its first domestic collective TV deal with Telefónica for €600m. Given that La Liga expects to get €400 for international rights, that would be around €1000 million, which is about 25% higher than before. The deal will only run for the 2015-2016 season.

Yeah, that's what I mean. We still are in talks to sell him; it probably won't get finalised until after the election.

I hope they don't want to hype up the transfer of a player they already had in the squad

So it's now Dutch Newcastle instead of French Newcastle? Won't complain like. As a Barça fan I have a fetish for Dutch footballers And Janmat wouldn't be out of place in a WC semi.

I saw an interview with the board and players of the team Wham are playing. It happens that it's the team of the Portuguese community living in Andorra, and half the team is actually Portuguese, plus manager and board. Weird.

He's way too good for Palace, ffs. Lots of other better clubs should be in.

KaKa's puns are so horrid I can't even understand them anymore Local rags report that Boro bid 3,5m for Espanyol's Stuani.

That works out to about 60k/week. 14 goals from midfield, even if it's the Dutch league, sounds very nice. Much better if he indeed can play in central midfield (whoscored suggests he's played there the majority of the season), since I have always thought you needed somebody there with a clue.

I'm surprised to see Downing going down a division to play for Boro, even if he's a local. Before Wham decided their season was over he had been stellar for them.

Real Madrid linked to Kiko Casilla from Espanyol - it's all over our media today. Decent keeper, but not RM level. I assume it's one of those signings they do to meet UEFA's HG requirement, since he comes from their youth setup.

A month? That's more than I earn in years

Looks like Casillas is about to go to Porto. They need to make room for De Gea.

Even 11 novices would surely try and park the bus after a while?! Bet they're just attention whores doing it on purpose. It amounts to 1 goal every 2 minutes, it's insane Even the most basic timewasting would have yielded a smaller score.

No worries, puns will keep the NUFC rumours thread ticking.

Atlético threatened to sell him to another club if we didn't sign off on the transfer. "We have other buyers for this item you really want, and will sell to them if you can't commit on the spot. Oh btw, you can't use the item for the next six months, and could refund if you find you don't like it." Don't try to make sense of what we do in the transfer market. I stopped years ago.

Atlético threatened to sell him to another club if we didn't sign off on the transfer.

Yeah, that's the only way they were going to sign off on him. The current board is already running afoul of our statutes by signing players during an election I'm not sure why do we want Turan for, but Luís Enrique has asked for him.