Village Idiot

I smell more like Marcelino.

Well, Depor have managed to come back into this, but they need a couple more goals to get through. Adrián looks like a real handy player lately, looks like Atlético have got another good signing on paper. But they always have great transfer windows on paper.

How has Maschereno performed btw? Not bad, but hasn't been trusted into a game of any importance to be frank. He's just a rotation player for us. Master of the cheeky foul though.

Almería really looking classy these past weeks, not only the Madrid game. I hope they stay up instead of Spain's Stoke and Blackburn Rovers aka Racing Santander and Osasuna.

I see that Depor has dropped that torrid 5-4-1 too.

Xavi is unlikely to start. If he does he'll be rested in the weekend, he can't play 3 games a week regularly.

No, but they have a bunch of directors: Pelé, Cantona, Rick Parry... make your pick!

As much a c*** as Mou is, having one member of the board criticizing your team selection on the media right after a game is a big no-no. Come on, imagine Llambias coming on and saying to the BBC that Pardew shouldn't have brought on Tiote after the Stevenage game. That place is a circus.

Baba, stop fooling around and head off to the Ameobi thread.

Isn't he ancient anyway? Surely bound for retirement / low leagues.

Rakitic has been linked with Atlético. Víctor Vázquez wants to go abroad indeed. As I said before in this thread, he was expected to be the dog's bollocks until he did his knee, and is still a handy player. It's hardly likely that we'll extend his contract.

Seamus Coleman was linked to ManU and Chelsea last year, no way he would go to NUFC with all due respect.

There's a lot of football grassroots audience in the Queens area that completely ignored the NYRB, but that I can see coming out for the Cosmos. Football is pretty vibrant there and hauling your ass off to NJ to watch a cringeworthily branded team wasn't an option. NYRB was never seen as a local team there.

"As" reporting that Mou has told close associates that he's meditating leaving Madrid in June, tired of the infighting inside the club and being overruled in several areas. Actually I think - if this were true which is a big if - he's just making an ultimatum to bring the board in line with him given the public bad blood between him and some board members. Madrid politics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9366577.stm If I were still in NYC I'd support the Cosmos, mind. Only yank team I was aware of during my childhood. Never could bring myself to pay any serious attention to the NYRB.

It's because of his asking price. He wont go until summer. How much they wanting? £10m. That seems fair to me. Indeed. 23 years old, 25 goals and 10 assists in his last 52 appearances. I remember talking about a friend about this guy and he was mystified (probably because of my *thick* accent) that there was so much fuss about a guy playing for Leyton Orient in League 1

Been linked with moves to Turkey for a while, but they never seem to come to pass.

Haven't seen much of him but he looked s**** when we beat them at the Bridge. He is. I know he's only young and it's harsh to write him off but there's no way he's good enough for a club like Chelsea. Chelsea won't be good enough for Chelsea by the time he matures.

Ah yes, mixed it up with ours, since we both played on Sunday in La Liga.

Amongst other things, Mou's just blasted the Madrid press for trying to influence the team ahead of this afternoon's cup clash with Atlético. I'm fine the way it is, but darned time somebody from the club called them out on it, cancer they are. With any luck, the clueless cunts will put him in their crosshairs

His time at Racing was riddled with reports that he didn't give a shit.

Hum... Spanish guys in sexual innuendo while drunk non-shocker.

This. I'm not even English so couldn't care less who gets it, but this sounds incredibly wasteful.

I barely read any forum south of this one, tbf.

Aye, weird one. Wonder if they got cash injection or something. Terek Grozny, man, I managed them to back-to-back CL titles back when FM was still CM