Village Idiot

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I was there that night actually, he looked *very* promising.

Atlético de Madrid now have an organized opposition group. Headlined by nonetheless by the son of Vicente Calderón and the grandson of the club's founder. http://www.atleticosporelcambio.com/

Not sure if a player can register for 2 premier league clubs at the same time. Perhaps you are right on that count, although I doubt we will be bringing in any more strikers even if we have another slot open. Well, they have Caicedo/Adebayor on loan to La Liga clubs and they aren't on the list either (Adebayor's loan being pretty similar to Xisco's in timing). You're probably right, but still pretty sloppy from your staff to just lose those spaces for nothing.

Just looked up ManCity up and they have only 23 registered players despite - for example - loaning out Wayne Bridge to Wham.

Xisco and Foster aren't playing in the Football League though...

http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/62/69/0,,12306~158050,00.pdf We've still registered Xisco and Routledge regardless of loaning them out. Is that a rule in the PL? No, we're just stupid. Not even being sarcastic there. That's shambolic indeed. You even have Foster listed as part of your squad and he was loaned back in the summer.

http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/62/69/0,,12306~158050,00.pdf We've still registered Xisco and Routledge regardless of loaning them out. Is that a rule in the PL?

You just transferred Carroll, Xisco and Routledge while only taking on Ireland and Kuqi. Surely there should be a space left? Unless there's some of that homegrown shenanigans at work. EDIT: I see Carroll just turned 22 so I guess he didn't take a space?

Ilan was pretty decent for Wham on the tail end of last season.

And yet Scholes got shunted to the wing.

Sorry about that.

That was Petrov.

Let me think about it... pretty sure Beckham never scored at our place... Chelsea scored a few goals here over the years, but think it was Drogba/Essien. Will check that.

Does Bellamy count as Englishman?

La Liga clubs have agreed to go on strike April 3rd if the Spanish government doesn't remove the obligation to show one game in free on-air TV every week.

Just love how giddy he still is about it all. And he's past 30!

I have a hard time taking somebody called "Lord Sugar" seriously.

Also our press saying Liverpool will bid €20m for Bojan in the summer. If we weren't so thin upfront () I'd sell.

Elmander has just had 4 good months in the premiership, and currently hasn't scored in 11 games or something like that. I'm really not convinced.

I like to believe that Cesc would only leave us for you, I'd be very disappointed if it was for anybody else. It's just Marca stirring the pot, most probably. That said, don't think we'll (seriously) go for him this summer. If Carroll and Torres go for those amounts no way Arsenal would sell Cesc for any price we can afford. I'll blame Mike Ashley.

Hope he becomes a manager in the future. Love how they watered down the cursing in the translation

Txiki was our former DoF, Zubizarreta the current one. Pep isn't involved in the bartering but he usually okays all the deals or asks for particular areas to be covered. Some transfers, like Txygrynsky and Hleb, were direct petitions of him. He did want to get rid of Eto'o but don't think he chose the replacement. As usual sometimes it's hard to tell since the club always makes it appear that he's involved in everything. However when somebody has been signed behind his back (like Keirrison or Henrique) it's pretty easy to tell since he won't give them the time of the day.

Fair enough, guess that given his age he saw it as a last chance to get into the big boys club.

Its better to try and fail than settle for mediocrity. Its was his chance to manage a big club. He will work his way back. Dont blame him for trying. Were you trying for a Haiku there? And yes, I get what you mean, but he should have known better. Liverpool were never going to meet their fans' expectations this season and it was always a losing proposition. Surely he could have gone to a more stable club.