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Cazorla to Málaga for €20m. To be finalised today or tomorrow. Good player, but that's a lot of money. Maybe they can hold on Rossi now, though.

http://estaticos04.marca.com/imagenes/2011/07/24/futbol/equipos/valencia/1311539533_extras_portada_0.jpg Banega to Real Madrid This will have royally p*ssed off Valencia fans (they are big rivals with RM too).

2 McCarthy looked class though.

I know it's twitter, but he has the grammar and spelling of a 10-year old when writing in Spanish. Doesn't come across as a smart person at all.

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We have been linked with him in the press a couple times this transfer window, but I think it's a tenuous link. It's true we are looking for a LB though. What about the national team? Is he rated in Spain? No. I don't mean people think he's crap, just that he isn't very known.

Pundits that didn't notice, or talk as if he wasn't until then, that Forlán was a great player until last season. He won the f***ing European Golden Shoe twice playing for second tier Spanish clubs after leaving ManU you ignorant twats.

We have been linked with him in the press a couple times this transfer window, but I think it's a tenuous link. It's true we are looking for a LB though.

I don't know how you lot haven't died of cardiac arrests throughout the years. Seems you can't have 3 months without the wheels coming off. Hope it doesn't affect your season too much, most surely you'll have to sell him now though.

Ah, time to lurk redcafe and Bluemoon to see the fallout of this then, a nice way to finish a night on the piss. Balotelli, waht a legend.

Will he not just be having a break? Since he was at the Copa America n all that jazz? He was scheduled to return today. We have been linked with Araujo for a few weeks now, and it's picking up steam as Boca's coming to Barcelona to play Espanyol. Loan with an option to buy (since we can't afford him this year) and he would alternate our senior squad as fifth striker with the B team. EDIT: Just checked again and Atlético have given him permission to miss training, apparently.

Arsenal in for Cazorla. http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusive/2011/07/23/2588010/arsenal-deal-for-villarreals-santi-cazorla-depends-on Good player but certainly not a Cesc replacement and not at the prices quoted.

Agüero has missed his first day of training with Atlético. Man, is he behaving like kunt (see what I did here). He will get his transfer, he should show a bit of respect.

This is not the first "Forlán goes on a free to XXX" rumor I hear this season. Find it hard to believe (the free part, not the leaving).

If Cahill goes and they replace him with Ignasi Miquel on loan I fear the same and it's a shame because I have grown to like them a bit more since Wilshere and Coyle have been there. Switching Cahill for Miquel. Ugh. Bolton have always been one of my favorite English clubs (strange, I know).

Atlético have registered Agüero for the Europa League qualifying round.

Europa League quals? I don't know how strong this Hajduk lineup is, but they don't look able to cope with Stoke-football. Class atmosphere for a friendly, by the way.

He's implying that he isn't sure that he will play though. I'd translate it as "A little bored at the hotel, but I'll go to sleep soon, let's see if tomorrow I take part in my first game. I can't wait!" I didn't know José Enrique had such horrid spelling.

Hajduk is much better tahn Barca in first half. Well, no. We had more possession and more shots on goal. Still, this is a Barça B lineup, and not even the good Barça B players at that (they are with the Spanish U20/U19 teams)

Our first friendly of the season against Hajduk just started, very weak lineup though. Valdés, Fontàs, Armando, Lobato, Dalmau, Dos Santos, Thiago, Keita, Afellay, Villa, Carmona

Personally think it's just paper talk, but it's true we are looking for a LB.

José Enrique linked again with Barça (among several other defenders) in today's "El Mundo Deportivo"

Are you signing Jeffren off us, jukebox (pretty please)? Reckon would be a good player for you.

So Aquilani's back there? I thought Juve wanted to keep him.

Gotta say that both Chelsea and ManU were, in my opinion, rather poor challengers compared to other years and they might improve too. This is true. Let me make it clear that i don't think for 1 bit we're going to challenge for the league BUT we went the whole of last season with a non existant strike force and error prone GK and still were not far off (well not far off challenging not first). We've now got a more reliable GK and are activley looking to bringing in 2 forwards. It's unlikely but if we get the right players in you never know. I think you are really too optimistic regarding Brad Friedel. He's past it in my opinion. All in all I think you have a legitimate chance of challenging for 4th if you purchase a prolific striker, as Arsenal can really unravel this season if they lose both Cesc and Nasri (and even in they only lose one).