Village Idiot

How far is he from becoming your all time top foreign goalscorer? Can't be much*. *Assuming there's no random Irish dude that scored like 100 goals for you in the 1930s or some shit.

Tadic was a monster yesterday. Happy to see him flourish in Europe, always liked him and thought he was underrated at Southampton.

The opening theme from Total Recall. It was played during the TV broadcast of La Liga games when I was a teen, as the players lined up in the pitch. It kicked ass.

1: You are given a 1-0 this season, which game do you chose to win? (Has to be a league game): Real Madrid away. Oh wait, we won that 0-3 2: You are given 1 club to be relegated from the Premier League, who do you chose?: Can't really muster significant amounts of hatred for anyone... whoever signs Pardew next I guess, if ever 3: You are given one club to win the Champions League, who do you chose? (Club has to be in the Champions League or Champions League regular): Us 4: Would you rather win the Europa Leauge of the FA Cup?: Ahem... 5: One club to be promoted from the Championship?: Leeds or Blackburn. Clubs that were big when I started following the PL and that I always feel like they belong in there. 6: Who would you prefer to win the SPL, Celtic or Rangers?: Let's declare the title vacant 7: You are asked for 1 manager to be sacked?: Pardew, whenever he gets a job again 8: A club other than the club you support to win their respective league?: Newcastle United I realise that some of these are a bit shit, feel free to add better questions if you wish.

We are pretty unreliable this season so not sure we can go all the way - we could if we got some consistency though. I think this is one of our last chances to win the thing since once Messi retires we'll find ourselves in Real Madrid's position - Messi carries us so often. Excited about De Jong though!

Well, that was nice. We never pull off smash and grabs like this.

A pleasant afternoon of football. Been watching Sevilla-Barça so I only was able to catch the score updates on this one. I see it's been a nice performance, even though Huddersfield are shit so I will remain cautiously optimistic.

Pisses me off that we're still a one man team after all these years, but what a man that is

The Spanish FA have advanced plans to turn the Spanish Supercopa into a "final four" format that would be played between the Cup finalists and the top 2 in La Liga. Aka "how can we make it so Barça and Madrid always play this thing".

Levante's Toño has been arrested and sent to jail without bail with a list of charges that makes him look like a Narcos supporting character. The club had extended his contract just a few days before the arrest.

Platko Martino Herrera Aragonés Rijkaard Guardiola Kubala Rifé Luís Enrique Cruyff Reixach We should have signed Koeman as coach to shore up that defence.

I'm going to go with 7 on purely the basis of Almirón being the first exciting attacking talent the club has bought since... Wijnaldum? Not saying he's going to succeed, just that it's the first player in years that looks like could be something different.

Sulley Muntari to Albacete in Spanish Second Division. Love this kind of signings - which almost never work out.

Espanyol signed Facundo Ferreyra right before the deadline. Wonder if he'll fate better than Doumbia at Girona.

We have also brought in Todibo now instead of at the end of the season. Now we'll have too many CBs, when a couple months ago we were playing Rakitic there...

It wouldn't be a Barça window without a weird/shady deal for a Brazilian player, so we have announced the purchase of Emerson from Atlético Mineiro in a weird co-ownership deal alongside Betis, where he'll play for the next two seasons.

Today was nice. Messi

VI what’s the deal with Barca on transfers? You should get a lot of money via Suarez, Digne and Gomes You definitely need a LB if Miranda isn’t ready, a CF and a winger as priority for me (assuming Rabiot comes alone with FDJ) And will Valverde leave? That's indeed our shopping list for next season, although I would like Miranda to get promoted to the senior team. No names yet, which I actually consider a good thing given how much we telegraph our transfers. Our president has confirmed that Valverde will be manager next season, but I guess that could change if we have a poor finish to the season.

So Depay has said he'd love to move to one of Europe's great clubs. Now our media are running shite "Depay to Madrid or Barça" clickbait headlines. God I hate the age of internet sports press

I zoomed in for you guys: That huge orange headless torso will haunt my dreams now.

Tbf Luque was unplayable before you signed him. A white Ronaldinho. It has surfaced over the years that he had shite professionalism, so I think he can only blame himself for not living up to those Depor years.

That's why I said "of his mold". I haven't seen any lightweight playmakers from the MLS making it at this level - unless I'm forgetting somebody. This Almirón guy seems to have pace, which at least is something that's always going to be useful.

Not many players of his mold have managed the jump from the MLS to the PL though. That worries me a bit.

Yeah but you could put nearly any human being’s name on the end of that sentence. Joselu OUT Hitler IN Joselu OUT Pol Pot IN Joselu OUT Voldemort IN Joselu OUT Pardew IN 3/4 ain't bad, I guess.

What did you have to say that for? I'd like Santon right now, tbf. For NUFC, I mean.