Village Idiot

So he's a free agent now?

He has had more chances than he deserves, imho. Barcelona, Inter, Chelsea, Porto...

Didn't the former owner of Crystal palace end up owning Brentford and made himself manager at some point? Ron Noads I think he was called We had a Russian millionaire attempting to do the same at several Spanish clubs. Since he didn't have UEFA badges he even posed as a photographer in order to be in the bench.

Front one is Quaresma, second one is Toñito, a Spanish journeyman that was at Sporting at the time. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UmfUuAMXoiA/S2rkOiRtixI/AAAAAAAAEII/V5-o3B13ipg/s400/Tonito+Sporting.JPG

I thought he looked promising in his first year at NUFC. Very daring and confident for a lad his age. Then he disappeared.

You wish, the Pozzos actually buy loads of players.

Can somebody point me towards the "photos of footballers when they were young" thread? I'm drawing a blank with search and a friend of mine has just sent me this gem: http://36.media.tumblr.com/3ff4c6f517aaa67bb5480cbec647535e/tumblr_nj5okdS9m61s9y3qio1_500.jpg

He's been absent from today's training

Ashley wants to go full Pozzo? You never go full Pozzo.

Reports in our press that Ings has signed a pre-contract with Real Sociedad. Seems Moyes fancies him.

Eto'o, such a legend http://asia.eurosport.com/football/serie-a/2011-2012/samuel-eto-o-storms-out-of-sampdoria-training-days-after-move-from-everton_sto4587056/story.shtml

Well, not a particularly good game from us, but a win's a win. Happy to see Rafinha getting a good game, we were characteristically fragile at the back.

60 and dropped one place

Off to meet with some mates and then watch us play Villarreal. Should be a fun game, they are in great form and haven't lost since November.

Bah, Leicester look hopeless at the moment, too.

Villa look like a broken toy.

It's a bit choosing the tallest of a tribe of pygmies, but Gil and Delph were both actually good today. The team as a whole should be doing better than this.

Yeah, hated it when he left Barça. What's more aggravating is seeing him play well while we have a gigantic hole at RB.

Fair enough then, the highlights might have been misleading. Made it look like you were just more clinical.

I don't know how the f*** they managed that, like. Same bloke who edited North Korea's World Cup win over Brazil? As I said, I didn't watch the game, but whoscored has Krul with 7 saves, which is a lot more than your average.

I didn't watch the game but the highlights they showed in Spain made Krul look one of the better players. Not that great a sign. Still, Carver is certainly more positive than Pardew. That alone is nice enough to go by.

Love how his two attacking signings have been two strikers above 1.90, and then shoved Gayle to the wing.

Loved these quotes before the game myself: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/422878/Crystal-Palace-Alan-Pardew-Everton-unfair-Europa-League

Unsurprisingly, the game's been shit so far.

Pity the bottom three look so utterly hopeless.