Village Idiot

Marcus McGuane in our squad for today's Catalan SuperCup match against Espanyol. First Englishman to play for Barça since Lineker if he takes the field tonight.

I know you're being sarcastic but all of that sounds wonderful imo. I know you're being sarcastic but seriously fuck off yanks.

Imho it's almost certain this sale is part of the deal that saw Wanda sell their Atlético shares, it's being rumored that they'll take over the Chinese club that just bought Carrasco/Gaitán. Meanwhile, Atlético are left with 17 senior outfield players. Really their board seems to be Atlético's worst enemy.

That ball looks like it's got blood on it. MURDER ON THE SNOW.

Guardiola can go f*** himself with the yellow ribbon. Those people he admires so much tried to rob me of my constitutional rights as a Spanish citizen. I get no particular joy of them being in jail, but they are far from being saints. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Beautiful.

No, they were fined because tifos have to be pre-approved by the Anti-Violence Commission. Of course, the "pre-approval of tifos" rule is there to avoid nasty racist/violent s*** in them, which makes this more beffuddling Fine is not final, hope it gets forfeited.

Around 20 people arrested in relation to match fixing in the Spanish Tercera División, with ties to China.

84 assists in La Liga throughout his career. He's in the top 5 since records are kept IIRC. A legend.

It's in all our papers, I don't think WBA will have a particularly good reputation after this Man, had no idea Pardew was stinking up my city.

Attendances are way down this season. Most people are blaming the political instability.

In other China-Spain related news, Wanda are selling their Atlético shares (20%) to some Israel investor.

A Chinese conglomerate has bought one of Spain's top media companies. They are heavily involved in football and it looks like they'll bid aggressively for the next 3 seasons of La Liga, which will be awarded in a few weeks.

Back to 6, was at 8 before this weekend.

They crashed out badly in the CL, but Atlético are quietly putting together a great league season. We're undefeated yet they are still close. If they sack the EL they may still challenge us.

Muntari on trial at Depor.

As manager.

Deportivo sign Seedorf until the end of season. Odd. His record isn't really all that, and Deportivo are facing relegation.

In a derby match as well. Mind, when you have that much of a gap you can probably rotate a bit more with the CL coming up. The derbies this year have been pretty feisty. Piqué has been a boss or a total cunt depending on your side of the aisle

That the Watford lot? Yeah. At one point they owned Watford, Granada and Udinese. The Spanish Police's Financial Crimes Unit has been investigating them for over a year, and it seems they got enough evidence to at least arrest Pina, who was their business partner in Spain.

Quique Pina - former GM of Granada and currently GM of Cádiz - has been arrested under accusations of money laundering related to footballer transfers while he worked with the Pozzo family. Color me surprised... not.

We need a cover/alternate to Rakitic, since André Gomes is pish. I assume Arthur is in the typical Brazilian attacking midfielder mold rather than a #6-#8?

He's superb, he'd be an excellent signing. Thanks, I'll allow myself to get moderately excited then. We seem unable to sign good players "at the source", just overpay when they have already proven themselves.

We are reportedly in talks with Gremio over Arthur. He'd sign in the summer, after the World Cup. Know him, Flip?

Iñigo Martínez is one of those "I'd never sign for Athletic" types, though. Ah well, money's money I guess.