Village Idiot

didn't see that one coming Effectively signed a one-year extension which doubles his pay to 40kpw. Villa had all the cards with Benteke on a long-term contract and it being a WC year. Benteke was never going to win, at least for now. That's the thing, his agent played it totally wrong. Hence last week us saying "he can leave if someone offers us enough", "enough" being a stupid sum. Well done, Lambert, played a bit of a blinder on this one. Nobody expected us to keep him after a second good season and a decent world cup, anyway. Do you come from the future? If so, who should I bet for in the CL?

Personally I think Tito wasn't up to it either, but he offered continuity with our style of play. To me, he was the example of good assistant, average manager. He didn't have the charisma or courage to make big decisions, or to lift the players like Guardiola did. Still remember, in the Munich game, him standing there like a deer caught in the headlights while Bayern was tearing us a new one. Heck, even Luís Enrique found a club already

They have just made quite a few signings already, I just can't see Klopp jumping ship right now.

Personally I think it will affect us a great deal. All gettable good managers have already found clubs, only Heynckes remains available. Now, I'd if Klopp came, but that's not going to happen. Still, genuinely worried for Tito. That's too many relapses for a cancer

Wouldn't surprise me that new deal now has a release fee or an escape clause of some kind.

It's everywhere now, so I guess it's true. Fuck it. Not even having just signed Neymar can make up for this now.

Sport are usually full of BS, but this is a bold claim. He just gave a presser this Monday, things can't change so much in so little.

Personally wouldn't mind if the FA had the same approach last season. Life sentence for Pards.

13 months for pushing a linesman FFS, do they hang you if you stamp on a ref in France?

We'll get Agger, mark my words.

€35m? We'd never be able to compete with that. Pity, since it was my favorite CB target due to age and potential.

Except Messi, he's welcome to pay anybody else's clause, they are all ridiculous (€100m+) and we could buy anybody with that money to replace them. I had no idea Thiago Silva has a buyout clause, wonder how much it is; but surely it's ridiculous given the amount of money they paid for him.

They are already mistreating him, typical Germans.

Couldn't tell from that grainy gif tbf. Thought the body language and the dribble were Romárioesque, and he played for some Adidas teams.

Ah yeah, definitely Ronnie.

That's 4 big ticket strikers at City. Madness. Pellegrini loves his 4-4-2s, so I guess they'll all get time.

Romário?

Just had a talk with an Atlético fan in another forum, who was crowing that the team was "black-free" after selling Thomas. After I pointed to Diego Costa, he told me that "he isn't black" and that I was a racist. I'm so confused now.

To be frank, even while I'm happy of regulations like these (We have similar in Spain), from a neutral standpoint I don't understand what's so important about international football for a society that it *must* be shown in free to air. Panem et circenses comes to mind.

Over here they say it's a hazing.

Aye, we with a crashing economy and a dysfunctional league we have loads of clubs that absolutely need to sell to survive. And it's not like 10 years ago, where there were hardly examples of Spanish players being successful in England.

Hope Mineiro pulls it back, really want Ronaldinho to win the Libertadores Two-leg finals are so oldskool too.

At that price you should have been in for him, he's Sevilla's hottest prospect since Navas. Lots of talk that he likes partying a bit too much though, which might hinder his promise.

Technically FIFA can ban players that refuse to be called up. I expect most FAs to quietly accept FIFA's bidding. But I really can't see clubs accepting this. Not in the slightest.

Always had Ginola down as a right footer. This He's the only Premier League footballer I've seen take a corner with one foot, then take another with the opposite. I think he's brilliant, can only see him being better next season too with Wilshere being able to take some of the creative load off and linking up with him. It's been rubbished by the Atleti owner and Arsenal btw. Small technicality, but Cerezo isn't the owner, just the chairman. And I say that because it wouldn't be the first time where chairman and owners go separate ways in transfer deals