Village Idiot

Higuaín injuries his jaw after slipping in a yacht in the coast of Capri. Up there with Banega's being rolled over by his own sports car. Fuck footballers and their luxurious lives

Ancelotti has been using a 4-2-2-2 with Ronaldo pretty much playing upfront behind Benzema, and Isco and Özil behind him. Bale would replace one of those, supposedly Isco (both play on the left side) who so far has been brilliant.

For all the transfer noise around ManU this summer, they haven't signed anybody of note yet. ManU's squad has been slowly declining for a few years, bar the signing of Van Persie none of their additions has really made a big impact. Lots of respect for SAF for still managing to produce the goods, but I wonder if Moyes will be able to do the same.

Real Madrid's last spending spree net them a meager league and a cup after 4 years. Pérez is just throwing more money into the problem before the fans realize his policies are shit.

It might be more the manager's fault, but you certainly don't have many players that get into the box.

He doesn't have much of a cross in him that I recall, he's more a guy that cuts inside.

All our heavy-hitters bar Atlético played away this weekend, but it's certainly commendable I really really need an MLS team to give two f***s about. I can't commit to the league without that

Can I get excited about you signing André Ayew? Always loved him as a player. Think he has lots of potential.

I still don't understand why Arsenal want to buy him given what they already have in midfield. Sidegrade at best.

Immediately. Any transfer point deductions come out of the next gameweek. So if (say) I transferred Hazard out now, it would happen at his current price? And I would still get his points for this week? Sorry to be a bore about this. Yep, you'd get the 9.5m and whatever points he earns tomorrow. Cheers, it's making sense . You can see how much research I've done... That's not true. Hazard won't be active for your team until the next gameweek (when Chelsea don't play IIRC). Squads are frozen at the gameweek deadline (usually around 11.30 of Saturday).

Very easy to concede a goal when you're comfortably ahead and ruin your weekend. On average defenders earn much fewer points than your best attacking players.

Ronaldo has yet to resign and has 24 months left on his contract. I wouldn't be surprised if RM are covering themselves there.

Don't worry kids, 36 year old Puyol will save our defence... really Neymar was great in that 30 min cameo.

Man, I can't wait for both Messi and Neymar to be fit and linking up.

He's looked poor fitness-wise so far. He was sick in preseason and lost a lot of weight, etc... and it's affected his fitness a lot.

There, Martino has read your complaint Flip.

On the bench, obviously

Never captain a defender. NEVER.

I haven't watched the game, but somehow Walker fetched me 3 bonus points, won't complain like.

Do agree with that, problem with that set up though is it lacks width and defensively a bit fragile so big teams could get some joy from it. It was never really used against Madrid or a CL big hitter though to find out i suppose, also with Neymar now its a bit difficult to use the same set up. I much prefer a proper forward as our LW, that's why I liked that we bought Neymar (as a player type, before you go "no shit" with me ). With so many midfielder types we lacked bite against teams that defended deep (which is the majority of teams that play against us nowadays).

Man, it's always the same with Cesc as #9. He keeps putting some great through balls... for our #9 to pick.

Our best football last year was played with Busquets/Xavi/Iniesta/Cesc in a 4-4-2ish with Alba filling up the LW role. Vilanova got ill right after that and we never were the same team after it.

No. He always seems to start the season strongly (he's been doing well so far too), and disappear as the season goes on. It doesn't help that he's often played outside of his favored position, but he doesn't impose himself in games as he should.

Neymar not starting yet. Understandable since his fitness still looks way off.

Costa's on fire. Seems Falcao leaving has unleashed him as a force inside the box, since Villa tends to fall back more and drop into the channels.