Village Idiot

Wigan complete the signing of Joel on loan from Atlético.

That headline...

Personally I think 2004-2005 was better than 2005-2006. But I do enjoy current Barça more than Rijkaard's. The flow of it when we are on song is just . But it's all about taste. I wish Rijkaard went to manage a proper team now.

The problem with Kaká is his humongous contract; Madrid are desperate enough to let him go on a free but nobody will match his crazy wages. And he still has two years on his contract...

Mike on loan to RAWK.

They say pounds, but it might be a typo on their part. I don't rate Jones at all, but it's true Laudrup has got mileage from powerful forwards in his past teams.

Rags in Spain saying that Swansea have upped their offer for Kenwyne Jones to 6m pounds.

Did any of you lot do this? (Because of the Pardew mention). It's doing the rounds in some Spanish forums.

Wowsers! Really?! *rushes to free up enough money in his FF team*

No wooden spoons then?

It's also that way in Spanish, "farolillo rojo". It comes from the red light that one would hang at the back of caboose cars.

Good, don't rate him to be frank.

4,2,3,4,4

He'll - and probably most of their current playing staff - won't get to see it. They don't even have a location or a definite plan yet, IIRC.

Which stadium would you chose to spend the next years of your career playing in? http://projets-architecte-urbanisme.fr/images-archi/stade-velodrome-marseille.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01740/newcastle2pa_1740987c.jpg http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/sports/gallery2/d/2715-2/QPRStadium-ea14151.jpg

79 points.

I think he's telling John Goodman that something owned by a replacement doesn't have to range between being like Leon Best to being like said replacement.

The Dream: Following Messi around, tweeting all day The Reality: You're Martin Petrov's drugs mule, shoving bags of coke up your arse every other day, whilst updating his myspace. That's my brother's branch of business, actually. I'll pass it to him, thanks.

Late Málaga equalizer. Will have to battle it out down there, then. It should be a cracking game.

He's on comical form lately, embarrassing miss after embarrassing miss. But well...

My captain

Yeah, reflection of the club, to be honest. Huge trouble, although it looks like they won't have problem avoiding relegation this year. A bore draw, sorry we've made such a poor impression on Vinkent

It's all evolutionary, really. Rijkaard did do a lot, but Guardiola refined and took it to a new level. I credit Rijkaard with updating the classic Cruyff/Van Gaal system that had been found out by then and building our platform for success. It was Rijkaard, for example, who finally axed the "Guardiola role", and started playing with a proper DM and moved Xavi to CM - saving his career and letting him become what he did become. But it was Guardiola, on the other hand, who played Xavi and Iniesta together in midfield, while it had always been claimed that it had to be one or the other alongside a more box to box player like Deco. Rijkaard was fond of more classical wingers, he played Messi on the left so he could put crosses in FFS, while Guardiola did away with them and relied on fullbacks for width (Alves was a key signing of his), and thus overloaded the final third... Also, contrary to popular belief, Rijkaard's side did press all over the pitch, but we lost that quality as the seasons went by. In general, Pep was more radical than Rijkaard in creating an uniform possession-based strategy, while the Dutch was more direct.

:anguish: f***ing hell man :lol: This always grates me. The name of our city isn't that hard.

He's always been a big fan of Javi Martínez, he could easily be the centerpiece of his team there.