Village Idiot

Your two cups always confuse me. You're right.

Good club for him. I hope that with the EC and cup games he'll get enough playing time for him. A couple of rough PL tackles will teach him one thing or two too. Who will he be competing in Everton's left wing with? I admit I haven't watched them this season. Will probably have to start doing so. He plays on the RW doesn't he? in any case Everton had Pienaar and Mirallas on the wings last year but with Martinez coming in i wouldn't be surprised if he changes things a bit. Deulofeu's natural position is LW, he's played RW too, but he isn't as effective there. He'll probably have more chances as RW at Barça though, given we just bought Neymar.

Good club for him. I hope that with the EL and cup games he'll get enough playing time. A couple of rough PL tackles will teach him one thing or two too. Who will he be competing in Everton's left wing with? I admit I haven't watched them this season. Will probably have to start doing so.

It still hamstrings your progress. Conmebol and UEFA teams play the kind of opposition they'll face in the WC several times in a year, even the UEFA groups have pretty strong qual groups when you take out the couple minnows. You only do when you get to the real thing.

Demichelis to Atlético on a free.

Saw Pellegrini give a tactical presentation in a UEFA event a few years ago, his English was great back then.

They deserve a trashy sitcom, with that Terry tranny lookalike too.

Rayo have signed Nery Castillo; he used to be an FM legend in several saves for me back in 2001/2002

Did he want the role? He could have got it if he hadn't been a daft cunt and pushed that ref.

Racing-Hércules game from last season's Liga Adelante was fixed for betting purposes (there was nothing in play), according to La Liga's president. Police has been investigating the match since suspicions arose.

A pretty astute manager would just not play them together, surely?

Deulofeu close to Everton according to our press. Now that he's back from the U20 WC, his loan should be resolved soon.

The fact they parted with the best part of 10 million to land them? Daft c***s obviously for building a squad but maybe even their 'woe is financially stricken us' isn't as strong anymore now the TV money has increased hugely. Everton spend years penny-pinching and then splash the cash on that lot? That's like a nun breaking their chastity vows in order to have sex with Rupert Murdock.

Joel was a huge prospect years ago at Atlético but got leapfrogged by De Gea. Injuries and lack of playing time have stalled his development ever since... he's still reasonably young though.

I don't know, we're talking a guy that's had one very good season (and he didn't manage to become a starter for RM), and a bunch of average-to-decent ones. I think the outlier is the title-winning season; lots of players overperformed that year.

It is the equivalent of there being corruption in the race for promotion in the Conference or something like that. Nigerian football names are usually odd to the European ear, anyway though. There's corruption at far higher levels in Europe, it's just the stupid blatantness of it that's so funny.

Still coming to terms with the fact that selling Joel covers Atlético's purchase of Villa. Callejón to Napoli done, apparently, for €10m. Decent player, but don't think he's good enough for that level.

Loan? Transfer. €4m-€5m according to some other media that are picking it up.

Really want the Nigerian league to be playable in FM now.

Joel to Everton according to Marca. Martínez definitely reassembling his all-conquering Wigan side, Neil will be happy.

Fucking hell, I had not noticed Scholes' sickly twisted ankle and there's now way I can unsee it now So that's why he can't tackle.

Mine had paragraphs!

Indeed, it's been done earlier this year. Draw's just been made and you can check the fixtures over at Marca if you wish: http://www.marca.com/futbol/primera/calendario.html

To be frank I had a Snake Plissken moment when I saw his name again.

I trust Lambert far more than any Villa manager of recent years. It's great how upbeat all Brum fans I met (ok, all two of you and a lad I met in the US) are about Lambert, despite a supposedly disappointing season table-wise.