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"Tranquilo" means calm in Spanish, probably the same in Italian. Never been too much impressed the (admittedly few) times I have seen him play.

It's a loan, there's just no risk in it unless he finally breaks down and goes on a rampage taking out half your squad while blaming the pink bunnies that speak to him.

Coyle tried to get him on loan in the summer, got knocked back ofc. Would imagine there's no chance seeing as he's had more exposure to first-team football than before. We just don't do developmental loans. If a player shows promise he's kept inhouse, if we are loaning somebody out it means we've given up on him and we are putting him in the shopping window. Our B team provides first team football at an acceptable level so there's no need to loan people out to teams that probably won't play with the system we have.

He signed the contract back in the summer though, but there was a clause that we had to promote him to our first squad in order for it to take effect, which we just did.

Leo Messi to NUFC

Alves has refused yet another contract. We offered him to be paid roughly at the Xavi/Iniesta level (€6m), but - according to "sources" he demands €9m which would make him the second highest earner under Leo Messi.

Give me a link if you can, I can only find multitude of "news" linking him to an assortment of clubs but no interview. I'll translate the juicier bits for you lot.

The guy has been revealed to be one Ahsan Ali Syed, who apparently tried to buy Blackburn before the current Indian lot did it. He's promised to invest €90m in 5 years, which is a godsend for Racing who are crippled by debt.

Can't find it there, but As search engine is awful.

Bent had more PL goals last season than Ric Fuller in his entire career. Don't be daft, this is an abysmal signing.

That link was from a week ago and Juve have stopped their interest I think, at least for a january move.

Both Barça and Real Madrid in the semis. We haven't had a Barça - Madrid cup final since I was a wee kid (Cruyff's first trophy), it's time for another one imho.

That's a f***ing creepy statue http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2005/stokoehand.gif The teeth man, the teeth.

brummie, Sidwell has really scarred you.

Tackles flying high, this could end being fun.

They also took out Reyes. The white man wants to make the indians pay tonight.

Looks like Mou is lining up with a 3-4-3 again. He's been doing this quite a bit lately, was it a common feature at Inter?

Elías Mendes handed his first start for Atlético tonight. Curious to see him, the guy's already a legend for the Indians before kicking a ball. EDIT: I was wrong, his first game was against Mallorca this past weekend.

The miscarriage story is pretty solid evidence, imho. Mind, I do think there's still a good player in there and for a loan it'd be worthy to take a punt. Permanent transfer would be more iffy.

The Irelandmobile http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/Stephen%20Ireland%20Range%20Rover.jpg

Yes. Backup player for them though. Doesn't look like Depor can't pay, they just don't want to (the contract termination wasn't friendly at all) and make a point of paying every installment on the last day it's possible.

Depor have been slapped with a transfer embargo for their withstanding debt with former player Sergio González.

Yeah I quite never got that, as if a miscarriage wouldn't have been valid grounds for being released.

You know who plays in that wing for us, do you? Excellent little player though, lucky club whoever gets him. Pretty sure FCB in this case stands for Fat Cockney b******. Ah, the magical world of acronyms

You know who plays in that wing for us, do you? Excellent little player though, lucky club whoever gets him.