Village Idiot

No. IIRC there are no seeds in the Spanish Cup, but they have tinkered the competition format so much these past years that I won't say it for sure.

Just realized that the Cup final is played 3 days after the Bernabéu Clásico, so we'll most probably have two Barça - Real Madrid games in a row

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Won't be as easy as people think. Arsenal are a good team and currently in very good form. Our best bet is Squillaci starting and doing his pants-shitting routine every time he faces Messi.

Hell on earth, man. I really need this win. How much?

Man, first Messi and now Xavi limping. We can be winning 4-0 but this game is still killing my nerves.

Zigic used to boss it at Racing. So strange. Guess he's given up. He's never been a target man though, despite the appearance.

I just don't want to jinx it!

Wonder how hard it would be to get tickets for the cup final. Probably a lottery system like the CL. Would love to go if we qualify.

Aye, the last one was also a rather shitty game that we won 1-0 with a set piece goal by Alexanko. Saved Cruyff's ass and set us on our run of the early 90s.

We bought Mascherano to start in cup games apparently.

Singing our anthem before every match at the Camp Nou. It rocks. Probably one of the things I missed the most from not living in BCN. Again I'll hate myself for not going tonight. But I need to f***ing finish this project.

Depends on how strong is the side we put out really. Rumour is that it's going to be a strong one but we'll see.

Insanely hostile atmosphere at the Pizjuán. Probably better than ours for the Clásico...

Jesus christ. Shall I? Or Brummie? O'Neil was deemed (and rightly so) to have wasted a lot of money on high wages for players who weren't really doing anything. He was told to get rid of some of these players before he could have any more money. He also, apparently, went to Lerner and had this conversation: MON: "I want to sign Aiden McGeady" RL: "What sort of price are we looking at?" MON: "Whatever it takes" Poor, wronged Saint Martin. Ha. I'll stand corrected. Didn't realize those were the players he was spending on. Sometimes it's tough to get the whole story over here in the States. That being said, I think the guy can flat out manage. Maybe not as good an evaluator of talent though? From the outside - and brummie feel free to correct me -, MoN's player cycle looked like this: 1.Buy player of average ability for a non-average price 2.Player of said average ability naturally performs averagely 3.MoN feels betrayed by the averageness and chucks the player into the pits of oblivion 4. Go to 1 He seemed to have an obsession with fullbacks in particular.

Depor's president had agreed to sign Málaga's Baha but Lotina has blocked it as reportedly Xisco is his first option. Wages are the main problem. (According to Marca).

I guess Milan staff have finally watched some videos of Emanuelson playing at LB, then.

When I broke up with my ex she confessed that she lied to me all along and didn't care one bit about Barça. Spiteful b*****

Yeah, I love them too, just that with such tiny talent pool available they get mugged in every transfer deal. €10m is a huge deal nowadays for any club not in our Top 4.

Nice, that's what I did on FM with Bilbao. There isn't much to choose from to be frank Bilbao always splash big for Basque players. €12m for Roberto Ríos in the mid-90

He will be a good player, in my opinion. If he will be a great one, though, I have more doubts.

Bilbao ready to spunk €8m rising to €10m in wonderkid Ander Herrera. Villarreal also in the running. This kid can be a star but needs a move.

That opening paragraph/sentence. LookslikehowmyIrishfriendswouldtalk.

Mahmadou Diarra has been left out of Madrid's 25 man squad to make space for Adebayor. So I guess he'll be off somewhere soon.