Village Idiot

Are UEFA playoffs seeded?

Agents don't negotiate contracts, they hire lawyers to do that. Agents have an important task - they separate the business and sporting side of things for the player. A player can focus on training and playing while the agent will take care of all business relationship with the club - relationship that's very complex in modern football. This is a valuable and important task, but the problem is all the perverse incentives that have emerged for agents, like the bonus payments for engineering transfers.

There's no way he's leaving until the end of the season imho, you all can relax. He's just not the kind of manager that bolts in the middle of the season.

Also, La Liga is far from Real Madrid and Barça's stooge. They only have 3 out of 42 votes in the council, and the other clubs have used that often to advance their interests (like the new shared TV deal, which is hurting Barça and Madrid quite a bit at the moment), when they manage to unite. The president is a self-confessed Real Madrid fan, but his actual power is mostly ambassadorial.

We paid dearly for that too. The Spanish IRS has been ruthless on that front. Actually that ruling is what moved the opposition to the board to trigger the vote of no confidence that's happening right now. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

What dodgy deals? You mean the youth stuff? We paid very dearly for that. Madrid got a slap on the wrist by the EU for that. At the end of the day, the big issue here is that FIFA are in rather flimsy grounds when it comes to regulating the business side of football. FFP would probably fall like a house of cards if PSG took it to court, very much like it happened with the Bosman ruling.

So we are at M-17, then? Gonna pray he doesn't get injured.

That's sensible. Our league doesn't do sensible.

So weird that the Spanish second division doesn't stop for international weeks. Some of those teams have plenty of internationals at this point.

25m Gates+matchday seems a bit low for a team that pulls 50k attendances consistently. Is that for the C'ship season?

Party like it's 2012 so far.

Truth be said, it's the first time we go out like this under Lopetegi.

I was damn sure we did, but I checked again. Yup, we also started 4-6-0 against Italy in the 2012 Euro Final. I hope Italy get into the tribute act.

We aren't starting a single natural forward against Italy Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Obviously your DoF is lying through his teeth to save face considering Liverpool never entered any negotiations. I think they did, LCF obviously dropped a figure they knew we'd never accept. That's okay, I just wish we had alternatives lined up. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk How would we drop a figure when we never even entered into any negotiations? Our stand all through the summer has been the same despite Barca and their board making up stuff all through the summer . Personally I think that you would have sold if you had landed Lemar, and the move collapsed because of Lemar staying put. You simply were not going to spend north of 100m for Ox and Lemar and keep also Coutinho in the team. Makes no sense for the squad. So yeah, Liverpool were fine with selling Coutinho, on their terms. Those just didn't happen. No need to pretend otherwise, Liverpool operated smartly. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Obviously your DoF is lying through his teeth to save face considering Liverpool never entered any negotiations. I think they did, LFC obviously dropped a figure they knew we'd never accept. That's okay, I just wish we had alternatives lined up. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Our DoF saying that Liverpool wanted €200m for Coutinho. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Also, the way I see it Wham will have to replace Bilic earlier than Benítez will be willing to leave. I'm certain that Rafa will stay the full season.

Owner undermining their own manager in public What arseholes, however good or bad Bilic might be.

Like a Byronic hero, he'll spend the rest of his life drowning himself in sadness, not thinking of what it was, but of what it could've been. Those who mock him will never get it, for he witnessed the face of true greatness and fatality let it slip away.

Valencia's "survivors" from last season's squad: http://eldesmarquevalencia.eldesmarqueporta.netdna-cdn.com/images/stories/201718/VALENCIA_CF/COMPETICION/FRanPlantilla.jpeg Radical, but probably warranted.

What's strange about it? Very common short form for his name.

Andrew Musgrove's effort isn't Pulitzer Prize winning material either. He at least manages more than one sentence per paragraph though

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Hasn't he suffered enough!!!!