Village Idiot

Atlético have completed the signing of U21 EC Golden Ball winner Adrián on a free, after rescinding his contract with Depor. They have also been linked with Diego from Wolfsburg.

Think it'll close on €40m plus trinkets myself.

Then why are you not making sensible offers? It seems to me you are making an offer to be seen making an effort but you actually couldn't give a s*** if you had him. €35m is sensible. Plus we are waiting on closing the Alexis deal to see what's left in the bank before making an improved one.

I think it's mostly his injuries that are holding him back lately, which I agree may be caused by the fact that he has been playing 40 games a season since age 18. That's the only reason why I don't want us to pay more than €40m for him.

Nah, we do.

Was there a buyout fee in the Ben Arfa loan deal?

Every time they report on the Capel deal they further lower the transfer fee. It's €3.5m now

Can see why QPR would only sell for an insane price if they have to give such a large chunk to Spurs, but 15m... jesus christ.

Sevilla have confirmed they have accepted a €4m bid for Diego Capel, not €6m as initially rumored. They were asking €24m a few years ago...

They were great at that in their WC tie against us.

Not when you consider his knees are f***ed. If the lad has any sense he'll be conditioning his lower, not his upper body. Actually that's not completely true. If you have ligament damage the last thing you want is excessively strengthening the muscles that insert themselves into such ligament too early. Although increasing your bodyweight isn't advisable either (I f***ed up my knee ligaments when I was 16). Anyhow, I expect his fitness is monitored by the club doctors, don't think he has went on a weight lifting rampage by himself.

Don't think there's snowball chance in hell that Chelsea would sanction a buyout fee in a loan for Sturridge.

Aye, he's behaved like a cunt towards the Atlético fans but he really needed to get out of there and play in a more competitive team.

€6m? He's s****. Lots of hype when he broke through the ranks but he's essentially a headless chicken on the pitch.

Also, on the back of Tévez leaving ManCity, our press considers it a given that Agüero will head there and could be finalised this week.

Sporting CP has had a €6m bid for Diego Capel accepted, according to Portuguese media.

Jeffren is a pretty player. I don't think he's good enough for us but he'd be a good asset to a midtable team. I think he should adapt well to the Prem.

Digging themselves deeper into debt then. You do realise 90% of that debt is to our owner? Anyway, if he rejected Udinese, he's going to reject us. Unless we offer him megabucks. Nice to see we're showing some ambition though. Coyle does seem to like Barca and Real fringe players. He rejected Udinese because he didn't want to live there, not on sporting reasons. Not sure how he'd like England/Greater Manchester though.

Arango was boss for Mallorca, I hear he isn't faring well in Germany though.

The Chilean anthem is so ace.

Fuck yeah. http://img.wihe.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hugo-chavez.jpg

Chile-Uruguay would be a cracking final all the same. Paraguay - Perú would be utter shit.

Brazil just couldn't score today

Long run up = s*** pen

Way too many pens in international footie these past two days.