Village Idiot

What did they do to Falcao up at Monaco? That injury seems to have hurt his game more than I expected.

Dafuq is that? A tribe of Nicholas Cage clones worshiping Adrian Chiles?

I love KaKa's knack for hyperbole tbf.

Honestly, I think there's a "global" trend in football towards efficiency rather than flair. Even Messi and Ronaldo aren't as flamboyant as, say, Ronaldinho or Rivaldo.

Getafe. And it's a serious prediction

He's not as tood as you're making out VI. Reading their forums there are quite a few Ajax fans who can't wait to see the back of him (too defensive minded for their liking). That's like us complaining about dropping below 65% possession though. Fair enough, but I've really been impressed by them in Europe. They've outplayed us often, at our own game.

If and that's a huge IF, De Boer is really interested or could tie up, it would be a massive. I can't stretch enough how much I have loved his Ajax side every time we've played them in the past two seasons. That said, there's lots of rumours that he will be approached by one of the candidates to our presidency.

They get quite a bit of criticism, tempered by the fact that one can't argue with the results, but that fuels into their fortress mentality imho.

Alba's been great this season tbf, one of our standout players. I despise him, myself

Yep. Him and Tuchel appear the standout candidates. I don't believe De Boer would even be remotely interested. Wouldn't surprise me if he's eyeing our bench, to be frank (de boer).

I really can't see your board looking at Laudrup given his proven record of not getting along well with most chairmen he's worked with.

Atlético's chairman has just said that they needed the investment to sustain day-to-day operations. They are so fucked.

Anyway, Atlético went full Atlético tonight and, contrary to past seasons, we managed to win. Slightly optimistic. I miss when playing Atlético was always a guaranteed goal fest, they are such s*** storms of a game nowadays.

As a player I think he's incredible. Absolute prick though of course. I kinda like that nob head element, it's like classic WWE heel Nah man, Busi has the charisma and mic skills of The Great Khali. We can rally behind Alves because he's so great at being a c***, Busquets is just dull.

His Málaga side was turgid, but he used to be a pretty positive manager.

Athletic Club - Real Sociedad rivalry really isn't that vicious. It's strong, but pretty civil. Just watch the atmosphere in any derby game. Illarra is already hated anyway, that move can't make him less popular than he already is.

Marca reporting that Athletic Club have bid €20m for Illarramendi.

Up to 40th in the NO league, and in the top 200 among all Spanish players. Pity that next week looks a bit grim; most of my best performers are having hard fixtures.

73 . Mirallas has made me a happy camper.

Footballing-wise, Laudrup was a success in every team he managed in Spain, and he dealt with some shithouse setups. Problem is, as said, that he never seems to be able to stay longer than a season without falling out with somebody.

Needs an airport sighting or two.

Could have easily ruled himself out. That actually made me think he's still in the running.

Fucking hell, it's been nearly a month. Taking the piss.

Nihil notitiae/Sine notitiis? My latin is rusty.

Spanish media aren't giving a fuck, tbf