Village Idiot

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

Fabio Aurelio with real bones instead of chalk is a CL caliber fullback

The only thing I really know about Taiwo is that he shared podium with Messi and Mikel as best players in that U20 WC

Thanks for taking Gio off our hands, thought we'd not sell him

Lots of teams play outside their regions of origin. Pretty sure the Rebook isn't inside Bolton city limits for example. Doesn't stop me giving s*** to Espanyol for moving out of Barcelona, mind. At least we don't have to put up with the stench.

Betis have entered administration.

They have just agreed to sell Adrián to Atlético, so they'll need another forward. Plus they just can't score and have nothing going forward.

How the fuck can they be imploding in such a way while they are knocking on the doors of Europe?

Hoffenheim are hilarious. Such good players for such a small team. Villarreal Mark II then.

Weird player him, seems to good for the Championship yet always been pants at this level, despite his early spell. Still looks a bit early to give up on him, in my opinion. I'd have waited until the summer.