Village Idiot

Seems ridiculous to pay so much for an untested young player with 12 months left on his deal. Ah well, hope the hype is worth it. We *do* need another credible striker.

Some day you'll finish 3rd or 4th and feel my pain

We've never finished outside the top 6 in my lifetime actually. But what I meant is that those two managers did a terrible job with the resources they had, which were obviously far superior to most of the league. Serra-Ferrer in particular was eye-cancer inducing stuff.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8rxckxM6W1r9rdxs.gif Get the f*** out of here with that bullshit VI. "We had xxxx and we finished...THIRD " Worse... Fourth

Is Mou your dad, David?

Marca dropping the ball and saying he will go to Barça. €50m total (sigh), 5-year and 7m per year.

Serra Ferrer man, stuff of nightmares. There's Reixach too, but the players mostly just ignored him. Those two I rate less as managers than Pardew, as incredible as it may seem. Reixach gets a pass for signing Messi though.

We've had worse.

I'm only 6'0, but that makes me a giant in Barça standards. Anyhow, those quotes about being the best team are mystifying but it's a good change to see him be a bit more upbeat for a change.

Plus Klopp looks like a cooler, thinner and trendier version of me. I want to be him.

Hope Dortmund wins, their side are going to be picked apart and I'm afraid it'll be long since they get another chance. Plus Klopp is immensely entertaining.

Casillas dropped from the Real Madrid squad. Mou wants to leave in style (EDIT: "slight pain in the back")

More of an attacking mid than a true central midfielder though. What I mean is that if Cabaye is injuried or off-form, you have no playmaker. Even bringing somebody in to just fill up the Guthrie role would help. Great if he could even challenge Yohan.

The problem is that there's only one genuinely creative player in all that list (well, I'm not familiar enough with Abeid to know what kind of player he is).

I remember being genuinely excited when we were linked with Arshavin back in 2008 after the Euros, and was so p*ssed off when Arsenal got him in January for what seemed a bargain price...

"As" says it's Real Madrid, but Real Madrid can't formally bid for players since they have no board until the elections are held.

That's why I made you my favorite English team. Balances my karma.

Globo Esporte are saying its 23m euros going up to 30 if Barca win CL in next 3 years. I know he's in last year of his contract but considering his ability, potential and quite frankly hype you have to say Barca have done very well there. If its all true of course. We love doing that for some reason, last time we won it we had to pay €30m in assorted bonuses and transfer clauses. And it would've been €20m this year.

Some names being throwed around; Filipe Luiz and Iñigo Martínez. I'd love Martínez, loathe Luiz. We most definitely needed another credible goal threat though.

Having been hearing that every 1-2 days for the last weeks. I'll believe it when I see it.

http://estaticos03.marca.com/imagenes/2013/05/24/futbol/liga_campeones/1369423313_extras_portada_0.jpg

To be honest, this is easily the best U21 side we've ever had.

Deportivo aren't going to offer Valerón a new contract, and there's talk that he could retire at the end of the season. Absolute legend.

That's just for 55% of the rights, though, the whole thing would go to 35m-40m which is a ridiculous amount for a player with 12 months left on his contract.

Thiago has supposedly left every transfer window since he got promoted to the senior team. We'll see, I hope it's their usual bollocks.