Village Idiot

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Still lower than ours, give them time I guess. Maybe not any more, what is yours? This guy usually makes for good reading (despite being an Arsenal fan): http://swissramble.blogspot.com/search/label/Manchester%20City Just edited my post, our wage bill is €220m euro (185m pounds). This, however, includes the wages of all our sporting sections (football, basketball, handball, roller hockey, etc...).

Still lower than ours (185m budgeted for this season), give them time I guess.

What's their wage bill? Any reliable data?

These are the same guys that are going to sponsor our shirt, we would be like brothers! We surely would play a friendly at some point. I'd fly to SJP to see that happen.

Glen Johnson linked to Real Madrid in Marca

Valencia is great, one of the best places in Spain to get on the piss.

67 vs 33 IIRC And the Barcelona derby this weekend, one of the great things of being back in town is feeling the heat of the derby again.

Benzema >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vela/Bendtner He's hardly a troublemaker in the dressing room. Seems to get in a fair bit of mess outside of it though. He just needs a caring manager, Wenger would be ideal for him.

There's no way Benzema will leave Madrid in January given their lack of depth there and Higuaín facing a potential long spell in the sidelines.

Larsson for 2m is a steal. You should hijack that move.

Lass.

tactile?

Apparently after the Clásico and the Ramos incident Xavi went out to Diarra inside the tunnel and gave him the ball of the match, telling him "since you haven't seen it the whole match now you can have it for a while". Sometimes he's such a magnificent c***

Spanish press reporting today it's Barça who has tied up Neymar. It's starting to sound like those bad sitcoms where the protagonist has agreed to a date with two girls the same night.

We would be like brothers/fellow harem wives.

Dunno, maybe it's different in Spain but when I was a kid it was just impossible to set up regular football during the summer months in the team I was in. Too many people left during july-august.

What about holidays? Summer is fine for the occasional football camp, but you won't muster enough attendance/focus with the kids being on holidays imho. Doing football during the school term is a great way to fit it into a routine and works as a great release from studying. At least is how it worked for me (granted, I didn't become a world class footballer).

Who is actually rating him at all? Funniest thing is that the Barça youth team they filched him from had a ton more talented players. Thiago, Bartra, Romeu... yet they ended up with Pacheco. They might not have agreed to a move, but it is still funny.

Who did they say that about?

Somebody needs to buy Rossi before too many people realize he's finally turning into a cracking forward.

He's much better in a central AM role though. He started his career as a winger but isn't his best position imho. Can imagine cos of his stature he'll never be given a run through the middle by a coach like Mancini but you look at players like Nasri who have been playing centrally after initially being played left wing for the same reason. He's been fantastic. I don't know about La Liga but in Premiership the smaller players are often used on the flanks. Silva has looked decent buzzing around the wings, I've probably only seen a diluted version of him in that case. The little I saw of him in Spain he was playing the wings. He still plays in the wing for Spain, given our glut of talent in the central midfield. He started as a winger, and Pep actually tried to sign him in the treble season to perform that function. Valencia started to give him more and more freedom until he became a central player when Mata broke through. He is more able to run play from that position than in the wing. Mata-Villa-Hernández with Silva in the hole was absolutely mouth-watering to watch when on song. The lithe number 10 isn't rare in Spain: Caminero, Valerón, De La Peña...

He's much better in a central AM role though. He started his career as a winger but isn't his best position imho.

I just can't see him operating alongside Silva though, they are so similar in so many aspects, unless they envisioned a pure CM role for him