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Kun Tévez Silva Sneijder Touré De Jong Jesus fucking Christ.

I haven't seen him play at all to be frank, but he's failed to make any impact while loaned to three different clubs in 3 different leagues so I don't think he's got much in him at this moment.

For what is worth, it is true that we were looking for another sucker team to offload Keirrison to.

I just read he cost you €14 million plus euros. Guardiola has signed his fare share of expensive duds along with Caceres (16.5m euros) and Chygrynskiy (25m euros)....christ ...but I suppose the overall success offsets that Him and Henrique weren't his signings though, one of the reasons he's always refused to give them the time of the day. Our signing policy under Laporta was a bit dodgy to be frank. It's not the success rate, for every Cáceres or Chygrynsky there was a Piqué or Dani Alves, but the stupid amounts of money we paid without hesitation. At least this current board seems reasonably stingy.

Funnily, I don't think I have ever seen Keirrison play, given he has never actually put on the Barça shirt. But by all reports he's been poor in all his loans so far. I wish we could get rid so.... errrr... he's fantastic! Get him signed Ashley!

To be fair, the Man U fan on here reckons he's turboshit, that's the only reason I'm concerned as he seems to have seen a fair bit of him. If I was just going off YT I'd say he looks a hell of a prospect. I hope he does well but the fact Fergie's letting him go suggests he might turn out to be an Ali Aliadere type, all fart and no s***. Fergie let go of Rossi, Forlán and Piqué. He isn't infallible. That said, Obertán has looked like a headless chicken when I have seen him take the pitch. But too early to count him out.

He is Barton's replacement! Obarton.

What are fans in Barca saying about this deal? 50-50 tbf. A lot would prefer to use the money to make signings at the back and wait another season to get him for less. He´s not such a popular figure as you'd think, either (remember he got booed at the CL Camp Nou leg), a lot of people consider him an hypocrite for leaving the club for owt when we were at one of our lowest points and now talking about "living the dream of playing for FC Barcelona" when we are successful.

Will give Tioté some competition for the squad's freakiest skull shape award. And well, he´s French so fits the theme.

Nope, most of our press now saying that there's still no deal, but our money men will stay in Europe and get back to it on Monday.

Our vicepresident Josep Maria Bartomeu (who's the one to usually sign off transfers) has left our preseason camp in Dallas and flown back to Europe. Seems it could be close.

Blatter´s craziness du jour: summer schedule all over football world. http://www.goal.com/en/news/745/fifa/2011/08/05/2606007/fifa-set-to-anger-clubs-by-proposing-switch-to-summer

Yep. http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/europa-league/2011-2012/sorteo/fase-previa.html

Their potential group: Aalesund - AZ Alkmaar Vaslui - Sparta Prague Omonia - Salzburg Zestafoni - Club Brugge Hannover - Sevilla

Aye, tough-ish draws for all the Spanish teams. Fucking Stoke.

Athletic - Trabzonspor

Atlético - Vitoria SC Dunno how Vitoria are nowadays, but unless Atlético drastically improve their form this could get ugly.

You get a base rating depending on the strength of your league, so they are seeded just because they're English.

Missed again on the Spanish squad, but to add insult to injury Del Bosque hasn't called a single natural left back after injuries to Capdevila and Monreal.

Excuse my ignorance here, but say Valencia buy him outright can they sell him a year or so later to say Barcelona for megabucks? Suppose Real Madrid would use their buyback clause if that was the case.

That probably paves the way for Sturridge going on loan?

Apparently we'll sign Argentina´s U20 goalie Andrada after the U20 WC finishes. Good long term deal, as we don't really have any outstanding goalie prospects to replace Valdés.

"El Mundo" (sort of our Daily Mail) reports that Madrid have a precontract with Neymar, with a €100m penalty clause if he intends to break it (very similar to what they did with Figo)

Working on that

We only won it twice during the 1966-1989 stretch, until Cruyff took over. More than half of our league titles have been won since then.