Village Idiot

Looks like we will play closed doors. Some fan groups have threatened a pitch invasion if the game is played.

You voting? I don't believe in this referendum. But this police violence is absurd, they are fucking nuts.

Barcelona - Las Palmas off due to all the bother in Barcelona. It's going to be a very long day.

I work in the media, and I can tell you this: broadcasters absolutely don't want a single superleague. If there's a superleague, it will be controlled by a single or small group of broadcasters, leaving others without lunch. As new media platforms are emerging, there's a demand for *more* sports content that's attractive to viewers, not less. Killing the domestic leagues, which offer hundreds of attractive games they can market every year, in exchange of a much smaller premium superleague, just doesn't make sense to broadcasters as a whole.

Barça and Madrid managed to play off the rest of the La Liga clubs against each other for years until they finally agreed and forced through our current collective TV deal. How did they actually manage it though? It was Littlefinger business of the highest caliber. While most clubs bar the big 2 agreed on the principle of a collective deal, they disagreed on the details (i.e. clubs like Sevilla, Valencia or Atlético wanted the new system to be more merit-based than the smaller clubs, who wanted it to be more egalitarian), and Barçadrid feasted on that division.

Barça and Madrid managed to play off the rest of the La Liga clubs against each other for years until they finally agreed and forced through our current collective TV deal.

Villarreal sack Escrivá after losing to Getafe. That's the second good manager in a row they jump the gun on after firing Marcelino at the start of last season. They kinda deserve whatever they get this year.

He is, but he's not a club employee anymore so we can hardly do anything about it. He's free to take whatever bribe he wants.

Barça have chosen not to renew the contract with Qatar Airlines as the official club airline. With that, the club will finally become 100% Qatar-free.

That's Santi Canizares next to him?? No, that's Rubén Uría, Marcelino's Assistant Manager since long. Cañizares is a rally car racer nowadays

Own Goal our second best goalscorer after Leo Messi this season.

We're winning 0-2, all own goals. Weird game this.

Alavés spoiled their record by scoring against Real Madrid today, otherwise their record would be the same (0 points, 0 goals, in six games).

Alavés hit the post twice while being 1-2 down. Madrid running it close.

What's the reason for the Leicester-Liverpool scarf love-in?

Real Madrid starting a decidedly rotated squad against Alavés. No Modric, no Kroos, no Bale. Benzema and Marcelo out with injury. Alavés are extremely poor, though, so Zidane should get away with it. Incidentally Enzo Zidane doesn't even make the bench for Alavés.

Gio and Larsson both played in a CL final for us. Class players both. Yeah, Scottish football has taken a vertical dive in little over a decade. Rangers and Celtic saw the writing on the wall though, that's why they tried to jump over to the EPL.

I have honestly always envied English football for one single reason: the crowds a lot of teams pull even in the lower divisions. Only half a dozen Spanish teams will consistently pull 10,000+ outside of the top division.

Yeah, Emery certainly isn't one to cower before his star players. He's probably seen as easily replaceable though.

Costa to Atlético done, 55+10. I guess he will train with Atlético until January.

I'm afraid to change my avatar now.

They are reporting from Sport. Sport is usually bullshit, but they consistently got it spot on during his transfer saga to PSG, so I believe they got a contact in his inner circle.

Paulingoal GOAT.

Loving Semedo, we've finally found a right back.

Neymar should have never left, Messi always let him take pens. The whole affair is hilarious tbf. I wish I could get odds on Cavani being sold this summer.