Village Idiot

Two most expensive sides in the world? Or is Madrid's first XI worth more?

Too early still, but Suárez and Carroll are on completely different wavelengths as players.

Howay Luís Suárez (my FF captain)

His release fee is just €5m, and Hércules are skint. His wife is very rich, iirc.

Marca's director and Real Madrid jihadist, Eduardo Inda, has been axed. Maybe they'll be the great Spanish sports newspaper they once where. Actually most Real Madrid fans I know are elated, Marca was poisonous and a source of constant unstability for them.

But do bigger teams have more structure or more greatly defined roles? Surely greater ability leads to more movement hence more liberation? I think he'd continue to display good ability at a bigger club. Although I tend to agree he does overdo it at times. Blackpool's gameplan is built around him, would - say - Liverpool give him such a role? It's easier to shine when every ball goes through you because you're the most talented player of a limited team, and you can dwell and lose the ball because you're the only one that can make things happen. Play on a team that has Gerrard and Meireles alongside you, and it's another matter.

Forgot to post this, Sevilla's president José María Del Nido faces a possible 30(!) years in jail after being charged for several felonies during his time as lawyer working for the Marbella city council (possibly the most corrupt city council in Spain).

Ander Herrera is going to become an insane player. Bilbao made some great business.

Hum, was that "My heart will go on" being played over the homage to Japan's victims on the Mallorca-Zaragoza game? :? Nice fk from De Guzmán for the goal, btw.

http://estaticos04.marca.com/imagenes/2011/03/19/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1300571433_extras_portada_0.jpg

He spent his career mostly on loan to 2nd division/bottom feeder 1st division teams.

They just showed Cronaldo complaining to the ref for something while the others were celebrating Ozil's goal, that guy is priceless

We only took three...

Seems like Real Madrid and us played the exact same game.

Hate that this s**** still goes on in Spanish football. Meh, it's pretty isolated nowadays. Frente Atlético are some of the biggest culprits, the tossers.

Racist chants. Stay classy colchoneros.

Same shirt color and all. But it's starting to become comical.

You got your wish. Now they should sub in Gago as keeper, Casillas could use the rest.

Cronaldo doesn't really look fit, they should sub him off given this is sealed and he's having a bit of a shocker.

From As.com, La Liga's top scoring teams. Barça 79 goals, 461 shots - 5'8 shots/goal Real Madrid 67 goals, 531 shots - 7'9 shots/goal Villarreal 47 goals, 415 shots - 8'8 shots/goal Athletic Bilbao 44 goals, 376 shots - 8'5 shots/goal Sevilla 42 goals, 383 shots - 9'1 shots/goal

Real Madrid have a worse conversion rate than us. Personally I think you're wrong. I'll look up the stats.

Undefeated in the last 20 meetings IIRC. Atlético are massive derby bottlers. What did you make of earlier? Very last 30 minutes IMO. Yes, it was still pretty decent since it's Barca but some of your finishing was atrocious. Win's a win, I guess. Not bothered, their late goal made it look worse than it was. Xavi missing the Villarreal game was the worst news. Also want to remind everybody saying we should score more that we are the top scoring team across all major European leagues by some distance.

Undefeated in the last 20 meetings IIRC. Atlético are massive derby bottlers.

Jonny Evans has been really shit this season.

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