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Zidane will be RM manager as long as Florentino Pérez remains president.

FIFA rules state a minimum of 5 year of residence before becoming eligible, so you can't create "six months and you're a proud member of our nation" rules to buy yourself a NT so quickly.

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually. Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue.

The Brazil FA has objected to Diego Costa being allowed to play for Spain, the matter will go to the Players' Statutory Commission. Can't wait for the reactions of the Brazilian crowds when we play over there for Summerslam the World Cup.

That has David O'dreary all over it that. Curbishley.

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My boss is from Torino and a huge Juve fan. Went into his office this wednesday and he has a ball signed by all the Juve team from the late 90s, and a match-worn Marchisio shirt from this season hanging above his desk.

To be honest I don't see the need to second-guess how honest/dishonest are the intentions behind footballers doing altruistic things. If it makes somebody happy/helps ameliorate the situation of somebody, somewhere, I couldn't care less if it's PR.

Getafe have signed Marica on a free. However since "Marica" is slur for "Gay" in Spain, they have changed the name in his shirt to "Ciprian"

I've only seen bits, but my impression wasn't that he was technically deficient, more that he didn't seem aware of the tactical plan (if any). AVB had expressly designed our play after the first few weeks of the season to maximize his freedom, at the expense of others. That's clearly not going to happen at Real Madrid. Problem with Bale is that he's too similar to Ronaldo, and they already have Ronaldo in their team. Their "partnership" isn't going to work at all, imho, and I fully expect one of them to be played upfront soon to give room to the other to make those runs while still having some on the ball creativity (Isco/Modric) behind the forwards.

Was a rubbish distance for CR7 to hit it, went miles over Enjoying Real's poor start, similar to last season? Yeah, enjoying it. Mostly enjoying all the hair-pulling from RM fans after all the at their summer window. Early days, mind. Clásico in 4 weeks.

Need to revive my midfield though, besides Ramsey they are producing sweet FA. Hazard

75 points thanks to my Sturridge-Suárez-© Lukaku forward line, plus Ramsey. Everybody else scored 2 or less

Marca just released a Casillas wallpaper... What the hell

You are winning 0-1 since HBA was taken off, expect him to start next game on the bench

Just got home and wanted to watch the second half of this...

Sitting down and "deciding" upon which team to support. So yank At least you took the most irrational decision

The only time I have seen NUFC live Ameobi scored.

Truth is that Ancelotti's narrow system is very ill-suited to the players they have, even the players they bought (hello Bale). Given that Carlo probably had fuck all say in recruitment it smells of Pérez going back to old ways after he tried letting a manager do his thing with Mourinho. Still early days, but I can't see RM clicking unless they change to another system.

Finger is firmly pointed at Ancelotti right now, with some blame to players (Pepe mostly, but he's a favorite for finger-pointing given how hateable he is - even for RM fans).

Lots of "Ancelotti is shit" with a smaaaaaall side of "Atlético are doing really well". But in this country the narrative will always be centered around the two greats.

They replayed an hilarious clip today of Bale and Cronaldo in the derby. Cronaldo goes to take a FK, Bale comes to whisper into his ear and Cronaldo nods. Then when the ref signals for the FK to be taken Bale makes a dashing run through the right - obviously expecting Cronaldo to pass it - but Cronaldo just smashes it over the goal.

You should support Accrington Stanley, then. Our success is a quite recent thing, more than 50% of our trophies have been won in the past 20 years actually - after Cruyff took over. Talking a bit more seriously Shearer was one of my favorite players when I started following the PL in the 90s. But I didn't really take to the team until I found this place. Not a really convincing reason, but NUFC are certainly my favorite English team. I sort of bought on the deluded Geordies media image (shame on me), and found out it to be very untrue.

I actually considered writing "four" but then I thought somebody might make the same comment you did, and provide a bit of banter.

I think Altidore is a mediocre player, and I lived in the US 4 years!