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f*** you! Who are Barcelona? Some tin pot club that has only just recently been able to get someone to sponsor your shirt, and your best forward is a midget. Mickey mouse team. http://discussions.ghanaweb.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13567&p=20114

With all due respect to you lot, I'll believe that Benítez would have rather taken a sabbatical if he was so intent of staying in England and no "big club" job became available.

Valdés' agent denying he's gone to Montecarlo.

http://estaticos.sport.es/resources/jpg/6/9/1369677860396.jpg Next season's training kit with an aerial view of the city. Definitely getting that.

How much do you think it would cost to get both? Does ter Stegen get loaned out? Reina plays the league and the CL, Ter Stegen plays the cup. Pinto gets more time to do his cornrows. No idea about cost, but it's unlikely we'd be able to afford both given we should buy CBs.

Reina's been long past his best, imho. But would be safe bet, Ter Stegen is very young.

Bothers me a lot that Falcao and Valdés are having medicals while their clubs' season isn't over, by the way. Even if the last game is meaningless.

Shevchenko at the Nou Camp. Vitor Baia in the same game. Different game that, we got well beaten that time.

Reina or Ter Stegen. Or both.

Barça 4 - Kiev 1 was my favorite Barça match up until our current era - Guardiola, Laudrup, Romario, etc... at their absolute finest.

Potentially WOAT, imho. Barça: 2-6 at the Bernabéu in 2008. Obvious motives, also a cracking game of football where Real Madrid started winning and would have jumped above us in the table in Guardiola's first year. The game that started it all for us. Spain: 4-0 against Italy in the Euros. Best performance against a top tier side I have witnessed. Neutral: so many to chose from... the Istanbul final possibly. No other way to look at it, easily one of the most memorable finals of all time. I watched the 5-0 a few seasons ago (can't remember when). That Barca performance was just untrue, pretty much everyone in the pub said it was the best club team they'd ever seen. That's a very close runner-up, and we were probably better. But the 2-6 had more drama to it, in the 5-0 we just strolled around and dicked them.

Both of them have rarely ever been in London. De Bruyne signed in Jan. 2012 and has spent the entirety of that time with Genk or Bremen. They will loan the guy out elsewhere and only bring him to Chelsea if he is developed into a good player by the other club. It's become the "Chelsea way". Courtois has been a Chelsea player for two years and likely hasn't even wore their training gear. Love how he doesn't want to go back to Chelsea next season. Atlético will have got a world-class player for 3 years, which is pretty much the average amount of time they can keep a player of his caliber if bought "for real".

Shouldn't give out a cup to a second placed team. Plaque, shield, etc... would be better.

So it's Hull, Palace and Cardiff. I guess Cardiff will be fun, always had a soft spot for Bellamy. The other two I couldn't care less about.

Will take a great offer in order to convince him to leave Sevilla, absolutely loves the place and has married a local girl, even opened some businesses.

Mourinho's at the game, according to our media.

Although an incredible game, the fact that 2 of the goals were penalties, takes the shine off for me a little. Also, if Nolan had scored that golden chance at the end to win it. Of course I also watched a certain CL game but I'm not having that.

Every time I have seen you play (20-30 games in the last 3 seasons), I've only seen you lose twice: against Arsenal last year and against Reading this one. My favorite NUFC game is the 4-4 draw against Arsenal. Magic stuff.

No, but they would still be in the Spanish Segunda B without Udinese's players. And of course their fans are over the moon about it, but it's cheating against other modest clubs that don't spend and don't have half their squad given for free from Italy. This is the Segunda B that's filled with self-sufficient, modest-spending clubs like Mallorca B, Espanol B, Real Sociedad B etc etc? And kept out of the next division up by Real Madrid B, Barca B etc etc.? I've always been proud of the way the English leagues have avoided letting, say, Spurs B play - even though that runs counter to my own interests. Watford are corrupting that, in a slightly obscure way. And I say that as someone who almost certainly has more of an interest in Watford doing well than anyone on here bar GG - my Dad goes regularly with a mate, and I've been to dozens of games at Vicarage Rd. It just feels wrong to me, in the same way as the loan system (as currently practiced) feels wrong. Well, the way our system evolved the feeder teams were genuinely independent teams that entered loan agreements with big teams, over time they were absorbed. A lot of those B sides have huge traditions that harken back to the 1950s or even before. Barça B even played in Primera División one year (the team was split off Barça for obvious reasons). I agree that B teams shouldn't be allowed in Segunda in place of proper teams, but the Segunda B is so huge (80 teams) that I have less problems with that. It helps us develop our youngsters immensely, one of the reasons loans aren't as prevalent in Spain I guess.

Potentially WOAT, imho. Barça: 2-6 at the Bernabéu in 2008. Obvious motives, also a cracking game of football where Real Madrid started winning and would have jumped above us in the table in Guardiola's first year. The game that started it all for us. Spain: 4-0 against Italy in the Euros. Best performance against a top tier side I have witnessed. Neutral: so many to chose from... the Istanbul final possibly. No other way to look at it, easily one of the most memorable finals of all time.

That's what I mean, Atlético fans are proud about their striker lineage, Negredo won't be enough.

Negredo isn't shiny enough to replace Falcao. Shallow, but the board is universally hated by the fans and I'm sure they'll go for somebody more glamorous to appease them. Same happened when they sold Agüero.

Aye, he's been great for country. That's why I think he'll still start in the ConfeCup, with Mata probably thrown in later on. VdB rarely makes much changes. He understands the strength of team cohesion in international tournaments and usually edges that over player form, evolving the side rather slowly.

Busquets has looked tired towards the end of the season and has nursed injuries, but he's had a great year until that.