Village Idiot

Rumours pointing to an Özil sale are spreading. Just saw Juan Carlos Rivero (who I have as a non-wum pundit) tweeting he could be "London bound".

54 before Captain Sturridge's boni. 3 weeks over 50 points, not bad at all. Will check my Spanish team later, I'll probably shed a tear

I'm always torn when I see Villa score for Atlético. For one, I love him to bits and I'm happy to see him getting his career back on track, for the other, it shows us up as the mugs we are.

Despite Giroud's class goal, this game's been a bit shit. Spurs definitely looking less than the sum of its parts.

Based on what? After he came back from Bolton, he spent another season and a half as a bit part player at Chelsea. We should have laid down £15-20m that summer and got him. Sturridge was on obscene wages at Chelsea though. Absolutely no chance we'd pay close to what he's now on at Liverpool. I agree but that's because we're run by a detestable penny pinching c***. In this case wages are a relatively valid concern though; if you give a 22 year old with half a decent season in the PL the highest wages in the squad, that's going to upset the entire apple cart.

Was benched today and there's been rumours around him for a few weeks. I doubt the figure but the link isn't crazy talk.

Spanish Cadena COPE claiming that ManU have bid €55m for Özil.

Mourinho certainly wasn't the answer imho, too short-termist. Still the squad certainly isn't up to it, and that's partly SAF's fault too.

Don't fuck off Oakie.

Every time I see Mertesacker I'm reminded of that youtube song and I just can't stop laughing. "He's 6,5 - 6,6 he makes people look like dicks!"

I'd bin Henderson and move Aspas out right. This is without knowing how good Aspas is and if he can play there or not I've seen him play on the left, upfront or off another striker... dunno about the right. Aspas is a very decent player with a good mix of ability and mobility, but I really don't think he's top 4 material by a long shot. Good player to have in a squad though. Regarding his punchability, he's the charva version of John Hannah.

Wenger in full cunt mode

Wonder what will happen when Suárez is no longer banned, there's just no reason to displace Sturridge from the CF position at the moment.

Need to compete for that Asian market... The Friday/Monday games are much worse, imho. The odd noon start isn't too terrible if it doesn't become the norm (no way I'm getting up early for football on a Sunday )

If it makes you feel better, Herrera has been benched against Real Madrid after ManU bid for him.

Yeah, I've been using FISO, just checked their log and a few players changed price this morning. So that's my question asnwered. Definitely grabbing Redmond, seems he has enough to perform at this level and will free up quite a bit of cash.

Can prices move while the squads are locked? Or only after they unfreeze?

Aye, Liverpool are well stocked in his position, imho. He's a bit different to what they have, I suppose. Chelsea are such a football player meat-grinder.

Real Madrid had already erected the stage for Bale's unveiling a week ago at the Bernabéu. They had to take it down today since they have a home game

29 points myself, thanks mostly to Zab and Barfa. 5 players tomorrow including captain Sturridge (should probably have taken it off him).

That only seems to be reliable for price rises though (but it works very well for that).

Tbf, Ben Arfa's FF productivity has always been excellent, fitness has always been his problem. I plan on keeping him.

I'm waiting until the day before the next lot of games, injuries in the internationals and all that Ugh. You're right, but I want to change it NOW. f***ing dire. The Wildcard is active the whole time until the games start, if I'm not mistaken?

Would love it if he managed to get in the squad for the WC, legend Germany are way too good for him nowadays, though.

Celta are playing some delicious stuff. Luís Enrique