Village Idiot

I think it's just for English cup competitions for now?

Really can't work out my team this year. If Guardiola wasn't such a tinkering f***er I'd have it easier with ManCity players.

I'm still not sure Neves is a player that will make the difference for them in the C'ship. Seems like spending all your savings on a 65' 4k tv when all you can get is Jersey Shore reruns.

Yeah, I'm backing City too unless Guardiola gets all crazy again. They seem to have targeted their weaknesses very well this transfer window (given how crazy the market is).

He was a bit of a sick note I seem to recall? He never got going and then Hodgson got rid of him the following season.

Aquilani was it? I made the same mistake as him and put him in my FF team that year

You made me check. How on heart is Barry still getting 20+ PL starts for Everton?

Benítez does have a pretty good track record of turning "Who?" signings into very solid performers though. Of course he's not gonna get everyone right, but from Marchena to Vázquez, he seems to be a master of turning what everybody thought were just average players into Spanish internationals.

Joselu is decent in the link up, tall striker role. I guess it's an option that Benítez wants to have.

Can't wait for the Jordi Gómez bid.

Yup, it looks like our first use of the Neymar money will be buying Iñigo Martínez from Real Sociedad. I approve.

I don't rate the Bundesliga at all either. Much, much rather watch Italian football.

If PSG matched or just slightly increased his wages instead of doubling them, nee chance he'd gone there. "Challenge and opportunity to lead" be damned. It's fine. I actually wish him well. More worried about what we'll do with the cash.

How about La Liga? You love re-writing history so it fits your point of view. Should become a politician. He only got one good season before he went all "I miss Brazil" and forced himself out. Class player though. Pity he was so unprofessional.

A few weeks ago I was thinking of starting a thread where you have to post a player's career from wikipedia and other users have to guess who the footballer is. Assumed it would die a death or we may already have a similar thread but this Hector one would have been a fun one Do it. Yeah. Class idea.

Nothing since he's buying up his contract and not a transfer. PSG has to pony up that. I'm sure it's pretty hefty.

Neymar's reps have paid the money straight to Barça and we've accepted it. The farce is over.

16 different senior clubs at 25. Still will probably fall short of Burridge's record.

I don't think getting the actual money now or Aug 31 will have any material effect on the transfers we can or cannot make. I'd expect this to be resolved soon, anyway. La Liga is being difficult because they aren't happy at all at how UEFA ruled on the Javi Martínez case - which made it far easier for foreign clubs to trigger release clauses - and will stir up trouble at any occasion on this issue. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

Don't see how they can refuse something on a contract. They can't. The long game here is to revise the release clause system entirely. It's pretty significant that La Liga is refusing payment for one, even if they will get overruled by UEFA.

Now talk is that we would use part of the money to buy Iñigo Martínez - which would be uncharacteristically sensible from us.

Yeah but they are reportedly asking 160m

Aye I feel so f***ing sorry for you. #Championsleaguetears Hath not a Barça fan hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as other fans are? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If we have a bad transfer window, do we not whine?

So we'll blow all the Neymar money on him, he'll end up being overhyped, and that will be it. Typical us.

Bale's great. His injury problems mask the fact he's been very good for Real Madrid these past 2 years when he's been available. Still think Neymar has much more to his game than him, but if Bale can put out a 40+ game season, he'll be up there.