Village Idiot

The way I look at it: under Pérez presidency (10 seasons not including this one), as he's the one behind the galáctico policy. - 3 league titles - 1 CL - 1 Spanish Cup

Can't trust our transfer deals after the Neymar fracas, but this boy's contract was running out this summer so the low fee is understandable.

We've confirmed a deal for that Halilovic lad. €2,2m

We are well stocked with wing players, so I think it's likely Deulofeu will spend another year away on loan. What's the talk of him in Barcelona? I think he looks like a fantastic prospect. To be frank, he's been largely ignored this season (which I think it's good, let him do his thing away from our hype machines). He is acknowledged as one of our biggest prospects, mind.

He's right if you take the past 10 seasons, though. Their record in big games is not too good. And their trophy haul despite their on paper squad quality and spending levels is a bit disappointing. This season they have just taken 1 point in 12 against games versus us or Atlético.

Been given the official go-ahead now, all member FAs support the project: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uefa-approve-launch-nations-league-replace-major-international-friendlies-1442043 I like the idea of giving out 4 EC berths through it. All big FAs will already secure it through normal QF, so it will give an incentive to smaller FAs to give this tournament a go in order to secure a place.

Just been through the calendar, if Atlético win this weekend against Athletic, they have a very good chance to get to the Camp Nou on top, or being able to win the league by beating us at the very least. All their home games look like bankers to me, leaving Valencia, Levante and Athletic as the tougher away ones. They need to win two of those. We have the derby, away at Villarreal and away at Granada as the tough ones. Madrid only have Anoeta as the game where I could see them dropping further points. That's on paper, of course.

True, but it's made harder by the fact that they need two teams to fail now (and Atlético can actually drop points once and still stay ahead), not just one.

Will be reorganized as the United Football Nations after the Germans and Italians leave and try to take over FIFA.

Valdés out for 8 months, misses the WC. Wonder who'll sign him now...

Games come thick and fast now, I believe they'll start to crumble. Still, truly amazing job.

If we beat Espanyol away (they are in good form and always go 200% against us), I think we'll have a decent shot at winning this.

We are well stocked with wing players, so I think it's likely Deulofeu will spend another year away on loan.

Out for season going by first reports. Pinto for the CL

My only "but" - besides the fact that I'm not sure where they'll get enough dates from for a proper league competition - is that seeing competitive games between the likes of Germany, Spain, England, Italy, etc... every year would be great, but it can diminish the EC.

It would follow a league format, and be played in current friendly dates. Pro-rel and play-offs. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/league-of-nations-new-uefa-tournament-will-see-countries-win-qualifying-places-for-world-cup-9216138.html Friendlies suck, so I'm willing to give this a chance. Not sure how they can shoehorn a whole league competition in the current international dates, while still keeping some for friendlies against non-UEFA teams.

One of my friends is an awful gloryhunting ManU fan (he's Basque FFS). This season's been great talking football with him

You should rather be pissed off at the two Real Madrid players that chose to turn Iniesta into a sandwich due to their awful positioning.

You know you can disregard the away at Barcelona game if we are out of the race by then, right?

Missed this fantastic article by Sid Lowe on Rayo Vallecano: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/mar/17/rayo-vallecano-all-or-nothing-approach-sid-lowe Jémez Makes me happy to see that in this day an age a s***-poor team still can be successful by playing cavalier football. Hope they can stay in the division again. Best of all is how the fans have stayed firmly behind him all these years despite the occasional drubbings and the relegation danger.

Wonder if Sergio Ramos collects his red cards like other players collect hat trick balls.

Gonna get drunk. Have fun in here!

Fuck yeah.

Don't think they'll annihilate Man U to be fair. They'll give them a gentle spanking a la same way they did to Arsenal. Arsenal are clearly a better team than Man U though, plus they'll miss van Persie badly. We'll see I guess. Think Bayern won't have any troubles, but don't expect them to win 7,8-0 in aggregate either. Yeah, no team is s**** enough to lose 7-0 in aggregate in the later rounds of the CL. Even against Bayern. Oh wai---

He hates Bayern.