Village Idiot

We should just sell Ibiza to the UK and solve our sovereign debt problem. You have already spoiled it anyway.

Italy - Spain is too old hat already, we seem to play them every f***ing tournament. Would really love to play Brazil, so I hope we both get to the final.

How highly do you rate Spanish Segunda as a league mate? Considering he scored 11, and had 17 assists at that level, I don't know how the league compares to Championship for example. Never seen him play, so can't judge. But he'll be replacing Shelvey in the squad whom I expect to be sold for a similar figure. Thing about Spanish Segunda is that there's acres of space, teams mostly stand off. It makes for some very watchable and technical games compared to, say, the C'ship, but the adjustment for players going up can be brutal. I often see people racking up 20+ goals in Segunda having Heskey-esque records in our first division. Alberto is a decent player, I'd have him for a midtable or lower team, I suppose that if he's just meant to be around the squad it'll be fine, but young players have to play.

One of our newspapers is reporting that Stoichkov has bought CSKA Sofia. Him as a club owner

They are quite different, although they play in the same position. Anyway, he's just 21 and it's a bit premature, he's a hell of a prospect though.

Luís Alberto to Liverpool. He was on loan at Barça B this season, he did quite well but I really don't think he's good enough for this level. Isco to RM was obvious but still pisses me off. He's too good.

I really hope that doesn't mean we are buying Reina.

That's shocking They were talking about that yesterday, his 3 international hattricks are against San Marino, New Zealand and Tahiti

Personally I think going to you is the wrong choice, but oh well...

He will change the tide of their season.

Reina; Azpilicueta, Ramos, Albiol, Monreal; Javi Martínez, Cazorla; Silva, Mata, Villa; y Torres. Our second XI bar Ramos, he's even rotated Casillas out

Where does this "I'd be honored" meme come from?

Everyone around here taking for granted Thiago is leaving for ManU, by the way.

A Japanese friend of mine told me he's pretty much "Mr Japanese football" and that they had done whatever it took to keep him in the league. Endo Donovan Good comparison, probably. He told me he's the most popular player over there, over people like Kagawa or Honda.

A Japanese friend of mine told me he's pretty much "Mr Japanese football" and that they had done whatever it took to keep him in the league.

Squillaci was so awful in La Liga, still don't get what possessed Wenger to sign him. He's weak as piss, I remember Messi outmuscling him for a goal a few seasons ago. Messi

Really hope Wilshere puts all those fitness issues aside, get the feeling a lot of it has been a bit of a snowball effect after spending almost a year without playing. The less you get your body used to play football every week, the more likely it'll break somewhere.

I agree with that but towards the end of last season(Bayern away win onwards) they solved a lot of their issues by changing the system and dropping Vermealen. ( who was pretty much the reason they lost to Spurs) *Higuaín makes a sideways pass to Cronaldo* *Cronaldo blasts it top corner from outside the box* *Higuaín notches an assist* I'm not saying all have been like this one, but I have seen this play more than once, twice or thrice His overall play isn't much, but as I said his workrate is great. He's the kind of player that is always making runs and popping up in several positions upfront to make himself available, he should do well for them with the creativity Arsenal have. While that is true, you compared him to Darren Bent man. Darren Bent wouldn't be able to rack that amount up regardless of how it happened. Man, read again, I said that he's a poacher but that he isn't Darren Bent

Word is that VDB will put out the second string to rest players for the knockout rounds. But that means people like Mata, Villa, Martínez, Cazorla or Silva getting the nod...

I agree with that but towards the end of last season(Bayern away win onwards) they solved a lot of their issues by changing the system and dropping Vermealen. ( who was pretty much the reason they lost to Spurs) *Higuaín makes a sideways pass to Cronaldo* *Cronaldo blasts it top corner from outside the box* *Higuaín notches an assist* I'm not saying all have been like this one, but I have seen this play more than once, twice or thrice His overall play isn't much, but as I said his workrate is great. He's the kind of player that is always making runs and popping up in several positions upfront to make himself available, he should do well for them with the creativity Arsenal have.

Higuaín is a top class poacher, but nothing else than that. His work rate is great, mind, he's not the kind of Darrent Bent-esque striker that lazies it up and camps near the box. But he isn't creative or somebody that will often fashion his own chances, he isn't Robin Van Persie. I suppose he'll do well at Arsenal, just give him the ball in a threatening position and he'll do the job.

That's managed to depress me and I'm not even a real fan. He sounds either drunk or senile.

JFK was referred to in one of the papers as a "xxxxxxxx grenade", can't remember what, but for me this is where the logic lies...it's the only thing that makes sense due to some fallout MA wants DL and AP gone so he's wheeled out a court jester to publicly ridicule and undermine AP at every turn...thrown him in like a grenade i'd say we're basically waiting to see if AP's pride is stronger than his desire to hang onto the wage packet/prestige job MA isn't this stupid, you don't make his type of money by being stupid, you just don't That's silly though, as you say Mike (the owner, not the poster) hasn't become rich by being an idiot, and that's just a too roundabout way to just fire a guy you lost trust in (I really doubt his 8 year deal is ironclad).

I still haven't figured out the logic behind all of this. Have you? It's the kind of thing people on here would joke about a couple months ago. "Of course it can be worse, imagine if we appointed Kinnear, LOL".

Didn't watch the game to be frank, but it looked like a good win for Nigeria. Are Tahiti *that* bad then?