Village Idiot

FWIW I distinctly recall reading Colo saying that he didn't like playing in midfield, when he was played there at Depor.

At times yesterday he seemed almost surprised to be at the end of a through ball, was so slow to react.

David Villa, Spain's new all time goalscorer

Torres just won't score. Great move, though.

Customary Marchena late sub when we are ahead

Villa's on fire, hope he also regains his form with us

Class pen

Playing Navas is so pointless without somebody like Llorente to get at the end of those crosses.

Suck it Raúl.

Villa maravilla!

Torres...

He's there, he's chosen Cazorla though (/pokemon).

Well, I wasn't watching during HT so probably missed it.

Who'd be the lass on Channel 1 in the glasses pitchside talk 100mph? Have no idea what this means. I'm on a few beers mind.

Spain is far less agressive than Barça, despite using the same philosophy.

Yes. Torres benched.

The team has been utter tosh since we won the WC, we actually need some hungrier players and people like Capdevila, Puyol or Xavi will be way too old in 2012 anyway.

Get in.

What? Wasn't he capped for Brazil while he played for us?

Gervinho linked to Atlético today in "As". No quotes or anything.

Figures haven't been made public yet (and I presume they won't), but I expect our local press to find out. AFAIK the last time around he was asking the same salary as David Villa. La Liga has called a strike for the first week of April. That means the first Clásico (out of possibly many) to be played that month will be postponed.

Wouldn't be surprised if they (and a host of others) frontloaded expenses/financial housekeeping before the financial fair play rules came in.

Luque didn't seem to have any kind of desire after leaving you, to be frank. Barely played for Ajax and he just had a good (actually quite good) season at Málaga before sitting on his arse picking up wages until they released him this January. But I stand by what I said, Deportivo/Mallorca Luque was a brilliant player. His mobility and overall nippiness was a big asset so probably the injury hurt him a lot.

Then why did you pay €14m for him?