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Real Sociedad look stupidly strong this season. Might challenge for the CL.

Jorge Mendes has been added as "necessary accomplice" to the court case of Ronaldo's tax fraud. Will appear in front of the judge in about a month. He's also listed as one of the accused in Falcao's tax fraud case, and the Spanish police is investigating whether he might have set up a structure to help the footballers he represents to illegally avoid tax. Oh please please please jail him.

That was decent. Pity it's a holiday this Monday, nothing like the first day at work after a derby win.

2. Marcelo they can do without. The other 2 expose the fact that not replacing Morata was a mistake. Benzema is their only senior centreforward.

If the only way you're getting there is through dangerous play, then don't go in there.

Valencia - Atlético coming up. This should be tasty, I fancy Valencia to do well this season with Marcelino in charge.

Just seen the Mané replay. How can people say that's not a red, have I stumbled into RAWK by mistake?

Seems confirmed that Dembelé will start for us tonight in the derby. I know we need to give him time, but I'm really excited to see him play.

Also, Real Madrid drawing at home with Ronaldo banned and Benzema injured. That's when you'd like to have somebody like Morata to call on. I still don't understand why they haven't signed a striker this window. I guess they'll still win the game, though.

I just transferred Mané this week into my FF team. This is ridiculous

La Liga have confirmed that they are studying the possiblity of playing "one or two" league games in USA or China :anguish: :anguish:

I've only bought Barça kits, except for a PSG kit I bought in 1996 while holidaying in Paris. The ones I still own: Stoichkov 1994-1995 (not sure I still have this one, should check my parents' place) Vitor Baía 1996-1997 Figo 1997-1998 (yup, didn't burn it or anything) Rivaldo 1998-1999 Deco 2004-2005 Larsson (away) 2005-2006 Blank (away) 2006-2007 Iniesta 2007-2008 Eto'o 2008-2009 Xavi 2010-2011 Stopped buying kits after we got Qatar on the shirt.

Digging a little it seems he's retiring because of issues with his knee. That makes more sense.

He's only 31 Strange how his career when totally down the drain after moving to Liverpool. I thought he would be able to secure a contract in the Spanish second division.

Odegaard signs a new contract with Madrid. Totally forgot he existed.

Argentina are playing Perú at home and Ecuador away next. They *should* be fine... Chile has Ecuador at home but then Brazil away... The group is really tight though, only Bolivia and Venezuela are out, and only Brazil are in at this point. CONMEBOL qualifying being exciting for once.

Simeone's new salary is going to be €15m. That's gonna vault him into the top 3 highest paid managers for sure.

Poor Villa. This was supposed to be his game.

Source is Sport. Ignore it. Don't doubt Coutinho is disappointed, but he isn't an idiot.

Your midfield had no guile whatsoever against Slovakia, just good ole fret. Looking at the roster, there's not many options in there that could bring that. England really needs Wilshere to remove his head from his arse end.

Esto Esta Bien Totally stealing this

Simeone signs a new contract with Atlético, running until 2020.

According to our president, Messi's dad (his agent) already signed the new contract back in June. Only Messi's signature is missing but they will get it done "in the coming weeks". To be frank, I don't doubt that he'll sign. Even if he ends up walking at the end of the season because we suck, he won't do it on a free.

For what it's worth, 19.45 (20.45 local time) is *the* KO time for La Liga. Usually one of Real Madrid and Barça will always play there. I think what's happening is something similar to what happened to us. Rather than appealing to a particular market, they want to spread out the games as much as possible to avoid overlaps and maximize total audience. The PL still has many games being played at the same time, something that almost never happens in La Liga anymore (which pisses fans off as their games get moved to shitty KO times).

Southgate really needs to uncheck "shoot on sight" on the tactics page.