Village Idiot

KPB isn't great by any stretch of the animation. Replacing him with Kaká wouldn't be an improvement though... Still at them signing Matri too.

To be honest VDB never seemed to fancy Mata much. He hasn't hesitated to drop him certainly.

It's been a month since Neymar and Messi first met? Everybody seems to expect they'll fall out but give them some time to do it FFS

Mata left out of the Spain squad. Not a good week for him.

That's pure Atlético nowadays though, all their purchase are so utterly weird nobody has an idea what's going on I suppose it's a way to make the accounts look good, avoid tax or skirt around La Liga's FFP rules.

Nah, I agree that Messi's losing his way a bit behavior-wise. Thing is that Guardiola had a huge ascendancy over him that kept the ego of being the best player in the world in check, Tito didn't, and I'm not sure this Argie fella will either.

It's pretty well known that Messi's not a people's person; barely talks with other members of the squad and mostly keeps to himself. Pinto and Mascherano are the only ones he has a relationship off the pitch. Those quotes are a bit strong though, if true. Fully agree with him on Alexis though

Yeah, it's far more balanced. Problem is that only one of those strikers is guaranteed to play. Problem with an all-Spanish squad is that you have either big money players or bottom feeders that barely score or play, I lack the 6-8m million players that are the bread and butter of a fantasy team.

Their board is very Ashley-esque actually. They always go for frees or cheap sneaky deals like these.

Kaká has said he wants to leave Real Madrid. Damn time.

If you think Man Yoo's group is easy you are in for a massive shock. Leverkusen are a very good team and the only team in Germany to get something from the Allianz last year, anyone that watches Spanish football will say how good Sociedad are and Shakhtar are obviously a very good team. Honestly Arsenal and Man Utd groups are the only competitive ones there the rest are boring. Well, I wouldn't say it's a really competitive group top to bottom, but ManU has to take those opponents seriously. It will be a very exciting race for the second place though.

Love how Cronaldo didn't even come to the ceremony since he knew he wasn't winning

Groundhog Day group

Eto'o will fuck up my Fantasy team, because I *must* get him now (and honestly, should do well enough if he starts) and he'll probably be worth 9+

I really really want to see a BVB-Barça matchup before our current generation completely falls to pieces.

Meelan, so predictable

Messi wasn't even on the bench for Arsenal (injuried, but I doubt he'd have played). Although Valdés, Iniesta and Puyol played in all 3.

I fucking love Eto'o myself, I even will go past my Mou dislike and back Chelsea to win so he can boast an even more impressive trophy cabinet 3 CLs, scoring in two finals, how many current players can claim that?

It should be that way, we used to have such a policy back in the 90s (Messi was a big exception at the time) but now we are signing way too many foreigners. It's not a "SPANISH FIRST!!!!" thing, it's just that's nearly immoral to snatch these children (the parents are as guilty mind) from their countries and bring them into a foreign culture with a different language, disrupting their education, with vague and for the most part unfulfilled promises of making it as a footballer.

Real Madrid were interested in him last season which kinda surprised me, but he's looked lively whenever I've seen him. But that's probably 3-4 games .

Posting that list has made me realize that Heskey has more than 100 PL goals...

Jesus, hopefully! Can he put in a tackle? Good at crosses Always nails them.

Regarding Torres: http://www.premiersoccerstats.com/Fastest.cfm He was a monster in his first 3 seasons really.

Such a disappointment. Eto'o used to be class, like. But from Falcao to Rooney to Eto'o They shouldve gone for Suarez. Imagine a team with Suarez, Terry and Cole in man. pure Hatred FC. Torres was never brilliant at Athletico. He tended to look good against Barca but he certainly wasn't anywhere near as good as he was for those first few years at Liverpool. It's weird, but we do have a penchant for letting Atlético centrestrikers through on goal; Torres, Agüero, Falcao... I don't think Valdés has had more one-on-ones with another team than them But Torres looked extremely impressive at Atlético; he only lacked a bit more muscle and better composure, but you saw there was a great striker in there waiting to explode once he sorted that out. Something that happened at Liverpool.

And he scored some big goals too, like the one in the 2008 EC final. Hierro's record is ridiculous for a defender, not only internationally. I think he's one of the defenders with highest goals-per-game in recent times.