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Sakho must sign for a Spanish team, the pun possibilities in Spanish are virtually endless... ("Sacó", among other things, means both to make a clearance or to take a throw-in/kick off).

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I missed all this "selective with their goals" craic. Where does it come from?

? Actually thinking about it, there's not ONE GREAT #9 in the whole world. There is, and he'll play in a recently promoted team next season

That team is far worse than this team though in general. It's actually one of the worst World Cup winning sides ever. It is, that was the topic of our conversation But that side still looked far more assured than this current one. You have one year...

I just was talking about the 1994 WC with a friend this morning, Brazil had the likes of Ronaldo and Bebeto warming the bench back then...

The only thing I can see Jô doing at any decent level is bullying defences, which is Costa's main strength in addition to not being an useless lump of meat.

I actually don't give much a damn about this tournament, but competitive summer football is always welcome. I'm probably more excited about checking out Neymar because of the "shiny new toy" factor than anything else.

Good counter. Way better from Brazil.

He'd need to be rated to begin with. He's a good option, but he just doesn't have the ability to go with his pace. There's a reason why our staff hasn't played him in big games, just to murder s*** defences with pace.

There's got to be something less s*** than Jô, surely? Diego Costa for starters.

Dafuq, Jô's on Brazil's bench

Pity there won't be anything to play for in Netherlands - Spain, would've been a cracker.

David Luiz

Fret not, Real Madrid will buy Cavani or Suárez and Morata will watch it all from the sidelines.

Scolari's tactics seem limited to "pass it to the guys forward and let them figure out something". No movement, nous or anything.

Brazil's attacking play is awful. Never thought I'd ever say that.

Neymar outmuscled off the ball, I'm afraid this gonna happen often; I have seen matchsticks with more bulk than him. Heck, Iniesta will look like a bouncer next to him.

Really looking forward Brazil-France tonight, even if it's just a friendly.

Joining the ManU coaching staff, I presume?

"The little hospital", suppose it's funny for an English speaker, not a weird town name around here. Hope they can win the promotion playoff to Liga Adelante, haven't had a good start though.

Eh? Why?

Radio Marca has tribal football-ish levels of reliability though, it has far less fact-checking and journalistic integrity than the newspaper. People just show up in front of the mike and make shit up. Same with their TV channel.

The Mata rumor originated in England, the Spanish press has just rolled with it. EDIT: I was wrong, just traced it and it was started by Marca. Suits them, I guess.

Would be an amazing signing for Chelsea despite his age, a good playmaker behind all those AM's is something they lacked this season. He only has a couple years left in the tank, though. He's started to have some fitness problems this year already. But it's a standard "old experienced player" Mou signing.