Village Idiot

Dida -> Dindane -> Zidane

Incidentally my "all Spanish" team is 301 in the NUFC league. Fuck you Mourinho Took Mata out and brought Silva in, but I need cheap defenders/midfielders that play reliably and will play my wildcard next week to do some refurnishing once I get a better picture of whom starts for whom. Captain Soldado is allright though.

Same here. Waiting until the window shuts and then I'll do all the refurnishing. I had two transfers stored up and that's enough to take care of the Chelsea/AV problem.

Was never going to happen. Blaming Wenger for not winning cups is like blaming George Best for never winning a World Cup, incidentally. I know Laudrup/Martinez got Swansea/Wigan trophies, but cup draws involve an element of luck and Wenger has a very good record (only lost once or twice against lower division sides in 15+ years or something like that). Really hope Arsenal win something this year, he deserves it for slogging out with clubs with a lot more resources year-after-year. Well... yes and no. On the cup business Birmingham might have something to say, and 10 years ago Arsenal were in ManU's position. While neither can compete financially with the oil clubs (it's been long since ManU truly broke the bank), ManU has been able to keep winning trophies while Arsenal have been in a slow slide. Just 3-4 seasons ago they were still mounting a title challenge; now that doesn't look remotely possible. And I'm sure they didn't lose players like Cesc or Van Persie because they couldn't meet their wage demands. I'm not sure how the new stadium affected them financially, if the reports about their cash in hand are true, though, it seems they have thrifted their way into irrelevancy.

Can't find the current Serie A thread. Do we have one? Anyway, Rossi scored for Fiore in his Serie A debut, hope he can pull his career back together after those two horrible years

They already have Ba if they look for a good finisher that will do the job against the poor teams in the league though. Mou just loves grizzled veterans. I hope this means Lukaku will get another loan so I can pick him up in the Fantasy League.

Al "score 1000000 goals in Netherlands but don't get a look anywhere else" Hamdaoui to Málaga.

He was at the Calderón this weekend, he must be making a tour.

M'bia on loan from QPR to Sevilla, with a buyout clause. Presumably this is to replace Kondogbia who will be sold to Monaco tomorrow.

Naples to raise more transfer funds: http://www.football-italia.net/38834/napoli-sue-after-higuain-stitches

Higuaín's injury in pictures. http://estaticos01.marca.com/albumes/2013/08/27/accidente_higuain/1377608898_extras_albumes_0.jpg http://estaticos01.marca.com/albumes/2013/08/27/accidente_higuain/1377609005_extras_albumes_0.jpg http://estaticos01.marca.com/albumes/2013/08/27/accidente_higuain/1377608979_extras_albumes_0.jpg http://estaticos01.marca.com/albumes/2013/08/27/accidente_higuain/1377608958_extras_albumes_0.jpg http://estaticos01.marca.com/albumes/2013/08/27/accidente_higuain/1377608929_extras_albumes_0.jpg%5D Most posh football injury of all time?

That's just trolling, he'd never come to Barça I was surprised to see Ancelotti dropping him again, as you say, something's going on behind the stages. Personally I think there's very little between him and DL, and I still have Casillas as the best of the lot.

Casillas linked with a move away from Madrid after being dropped against Málaga. Arsenal and City linked.

Closest country to England -> Cheaper air fares.

I'm keeping track of my own predictions, in VI's league you'd be 5th with 4 points... I'm always optimistic...

Shopping window. You sold a player to Chelsea last window and are about to sell another to Arsenal. It's not too bad if managed well; Spurs have thrived on it.

Apparently PSG has bid €40m for Pedro. We won't sell him but we should, ridiculous money

All my 5 midfielders have played in 0-0 games 52 points, could be worse.

Cattermole is definitely one

I used to work for the telly that airs it, I actually know a few of the writers. Even they consider it's s***.

It scares me that you know that Fair enough that you like our football, but stay away from our shit television man, it will hurt you.

Deulofeu Messy Chaby

Ramos has just made a tweet congratulating our Women Waterpolo team for winning the gold medal in the World Championships... ...which happened a month ago but they just repeated it on the Spanish telly and he apparently thought it was live. Ramos, what a legend

Deco was massively influential for us; personally I believe that our midfielders in general and Xavi in particular took a lot from his game.

He's done very well in preseason, according to my RM friends. But going off them they'll need to give 11 Ballon's D'or to their players after this season.