Village Idiot

Albiol to Napoli for €12m, according to the Italian press. Watch Benítez piss away the Cavani money on average footballers

Yep, it looks like she'll only be there in a consultant status. Which is fine, most of the time what you need is somebody to review training routines and food habits of players to improve this kind of thing, instead of being in the training pitch every day.

If anything, Guardiola takes no s*** from no one. I'm not sure he has the pliability to navigate FC Hollywood and the poisonous German press successfully. I don't give him more than two seasons. We aren't the most easy club either, but here he was already a club legend and a tremendously popular figure, so backstabbing and political bickering was kept at a minimum until he left.

Sevilla have agreed to sell Negredo to City for €28m, according to Marca. High fee for a player whose role Dzeko could easily fulfill, but well, they're City.

You have to inform the club of any bid that you've accepted for the player, and accept a matching bid they might make. It's stupid since you'd most likely do that anyway, and it doesn't force the player in any way. So they have next to zero practical effect. In Spanish basketball a refusal/first option *does* force a player to go to the club that uses it, for example. That leads to the fun situation of clubs paying other clubs so they don't use the option on a player they want to sign.

Of course not, that's less that we paid for him. They do have a first refusal, that's been alluded to by all parts. I have heard that sell-on fee claimed by a lot of Arse fans for some reason, though. Even our board can't be that idiotic. Or maybe they can. However the version I've heard needs them to put on a matching bid and Cesc then turn them down in order to be eligible.

We won't sell Fàbregas and Thiago in the same transfer window. Not unless he himself wants to go, which he's always said he doesn't wish to do. Marquinhos' agent confirms we've bid for him.

Adama has been promoted to our B team. Always wanted him to make it as soon as I read his name the youth squads (yeah, he's a black lad with Mali roots, but who cares)

Fix'd.

€20m+a friendly. Not bad given the circumstances. We'll use it for a CB and trust Sergi Roberto comes good to fill Thiago's role. Still a bitter taste, in good hands Thiago's going to be great. But I prefer it to happen under Guardiola that at ManU or somewhere else.

Campaña to Palace for a mere €2m (had 12 months on his contract and refused to sign). Great coup, biggest prospect from Sevilla since Navas.

I think we've finally unlocked this feature. Needs some betatesting though, so we might end up with another DM instead.

Bound to happen if the likes of PSG get involved. We'll see. Most of the CBs we've been linked to have been pretty uninspiring, at least this guy is shiny and new.

We are apparently racing against PSG to sign Roma's Marquinhos. People that watch Serie A, how good is he?

You'd think someone that supports Barca would be a better winner than this. I'm a pretty good winner I think, I get lots of practice.

The beauty of it is that Spain was shit until it mirrored our style, so I get to blame all the decades of bottling to them not doing it before.

Yeah, I'm drunk.

Actually our league debuted in 1929, so not the entire time

Just learnt today that the American FA is actually a few months older than the Spanish one. Yet in 100 years they only have managed to beat some communist rabble and draw against England.

Pens!

¡Hasta la victoria siempre! ¡Viva Fidel!

¡Viva Cuba! http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbwMnjAXBBoOv9GofkHEyCsxN5BC-oSutbnzv4mxhfbWL134uJTw http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSskWOnWK9SJZ1hHSOd9jtIXm90GJvelTIjENf0wsPb2rIaZ57lvA http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-NbiCnhj1_iAOwZcluqG2o-y2VEKsPrQ_34rPg_fEW67FNtrY Yankee go home! (ok, you're at home already)

The Portuguese league is awful outside the top spots, a few of those teams wouldn't look out of place in the Spanish or English third tiers...

Villarreal have made an enquiry for Julio César, according to Marca.

German press taking the piss already http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp143/ricardomb00/1373710394697_zps55017ca6.jpg