Village Idiot

But you won't have €100m to buy them.

8-0. Santos Will people back at Brazil care about this? I'd be fuming if my team made such an embarrassing showing even in a friendly.

7-0 now, Adriano with a thundershot.

To be honest I put that down to the fact that Santos aren't putting up much of a fight and aren't forcing them to track back much.

I'm not going to get optimistic until he plays proper games, but Alexis has easily been our best player this preseason, like.

Legend. 4-0 after half an hour, Santos are awful.

Now that I see Santos, what the hell happened to Ganso? He seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth since he went to Sao Paulo.

Bale not travelling to Monaco, they say over here.

What's the story between them?

Just because of Neymar? It's going to be a sucky year. Most of star players of teams not named FC Barcelona or Real Madrid have been sold abroad.

No, I'm out of town right now.

Barça B stadium will host a Colombia-Serbia next thursday. So, so random. Nailed on I'll go though

We shouldn't sign a CB.

The Poles roughed him up.

There's a strike over at the Catalan TV, and they are broadcasting this game without commentary. They should be careful with that, since the experience is 10000 times better without their platter.

Any of the new signings playing?

Gdansk - Barça in 10min. They say Neymar will get a runout towards the end of the game, now that we've signed him.

Nobody respects intellectual property in the web

Is Desailly in this? For months after the Athens final, whenever I played football with the mates we'd be terrified that he would show up and rob us the ball too.

Most Real Madrid presidents of the past 15 years would have wiped Marca from the earth if they could. They really drive their own agenda and since they are the top selling Spanish newspaper, Madrid presidents find themselves forced to go with the flow. Fan owned clubs, - and that includes us and Athletic too - have become hugely political throughout the years. Marca is a powerful opinion-maker. The beast needs to be appeased, they already forced one president (Calderón) out. Pérez is obsessed with his legacy and popularity in particular - it is well known that he orders incessant opinion polls on signings, managerial appointments, etc... so he's pretty malleable in that regard.

Marca don't work that way, they aim to direct Real Madrid's policy, not the opposite. Always been that way, they just believe they know better. LaSexta is closer to Pérez (the channel's director used to be in his board).

What happened to the Fat Sam account? That one used to be utterly brilliant.

Yeah, I know, was trying to highlight the ridiculousness of it.

Every time I turn on the telly, Bale's asking price rises 20m more. Now it's €167m according to LaSexta.

Surely our plan of attack would be shelling mortars? You'd float them to the tallest zombie.