Village Idiot

So fucking infuriating. Ashley buys a Formula One engine and then tries to fit it inside a shitty old Volkswagen. Will be such a wasted opportunity for the club once he leaves.

Dat's a monster SUV.

A Spanish newspaper now claims that Zidane will join Juve in the autumn. It's a rather shitty source (below tribal football level) but it would be fun if it happened.

Why the hell did I chose you as my second club? Ah well, need to balance my karma I guess.

Rondón has a far better overall game than Mitrovic. I can certainly see why Benítez would prefer him - personal problems with Mitrovic aside. If Benítez can make him look like the player he was in Spain, Rondón will be a great signing. He was much hungrier back then compared to how he's looked in England.

These kind of signings always improve the commercial value of the club though, Juventus can get some nice sponsorships on the back of Ronaldo's signing.

Unless they changed it, these awards are decided before the final. They just hold the announcement until the trophy presentation.

Man, I'm so gonna miss this shit. Euro in 2 years will have to do.

Guivarc'h subbed off.

Seen this doing the rounds in Barça forums... 2010 - Guardiola manages Barça - Spain wins the WC 2014 - Guardiola manages Bayern - Germany wins the WC 2018 - Guardiola manages City - .....

We have received a bid for Rafinha from a "midtable Premier league club" It's not going to be you, since he'll move for €30-40m, but I'd love it if it was you.

The Spanish play-by-play commentator really really really wants Real Madrid to buy Hazard. It's embarrassing

I don't think they are as good a team as Belgium are , but France are a great countering side. Loads of pace and ability going forward, that can always win you a game.

So, if France wins the WC are you going to buy the most irrelevant player from the team again?

Looks like Roma is a bit salty, although I appreciate the sentiment

€600m in transfers to put those 3 together, give or take!

We were never seriously linked with him though. It was always Dembelé, and Mbappé only being mentioned when Dortmund played hardball.

Bollocks. London clubs pay more seeing as it costs 2 grand a month to live in a shed, here. Its well known Northern clubs have had to pay more to get bigger players. Foreign players mostly, as they have more amenities available, don't think British players are as bothered. I think plenty of British players are bothered, but I think it's more the ones who have never spent more than 10 minutes in Newcastle that just assume it's a barren wasteland full of dole monkeys and bh home bargains's's. Basically they think the North is just an array of Sunderlands. I really don't agree, most Brits from other parts of the country see Newcastle as the premier northern city, the sunderlands and middlesbroughs are like the bogs and marshes on the way. Or maybe that's just my perception, I always thought we were a little bit special and everyone else saw us like Kevin Keegan did. He did great when managing Málaga and Villarreal, but struggled at really big clubs like Madrid or City. I'm not sure what went wrong for him at City (although he did win stuff), but at Madrid he just couldn't handle the politics. He's very tactically-minded - he's not called "the engineer" for nowt - but I don't mean that as an euphemism for "defensive", his teams always had a fair bit of flair. Think of him as a less extreme, non-insane, version of Bielsa.

Random jocularity.

"on the verge"? We cancelled his signing at the very last minute last season!

Our track record signing unknown Brazilians (in Europe) is downright awful. Hope we buck the trend for once. He's one of the reasons we sold Paulinho, since we had to free up a non-EU player slot.

You might win the WC...

Knowing him, he probably sees managing his country as a great honor. He can always snatch a bench at a decent Spanish club, the national team only rings once.

It was probably the best option among available Spanish managers.

€400m is the release fee. Not really much to do if PSG matches that. We reportedly turned down the €270m.