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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Garc%C3%ADa_Toral him? Good call, however unlikely. To be fair Keegan was completely out of the blue too and Kinnear. Lets be honest we could bloody appoint anyone from Dr Carlos Venglos to Ossie Ardilles. Mad times we live in. Talks to take over the Almería post last week broke down because the owner refused to make more funds available for transfer/wages, so...

Should've stayed at Santander for another couple of seasons. Yes, he would have been the first name in the team sheet there and would have developed further and gained experience in a competitive environment (Racing are relegation battlers so he would have learnt to deal with pressure too). There was talk of leaving him one season on loan at Racing but dunno why they rushed his move.

It's like in the movies when you expect somebody to show up with the pardon... but they don't.

Bolton and West Ham linked with Canales in a loan deal. Going to the Premier League would be a worse mistake than going to Real Madrid in the first place. He's very talented but too soft.

Love it how - according to the journal article - an united dressing room willing to play for the gaffer is taken for granted. Usually one of the hardest things to achieve in the ego-driven modern football.

Man, it's in times like this that I thank god for being fan owned and having the chance to vote out shit boards like in 2004. From the outside it just looks like your owner fired Hughton at the first (weak) chance he had to put his casino mate in charge.

wouldnt be like talksport to lie though to get idiots phoning and texting inin now would it. Strange that no other media outlet are so sure like talksport are trying to nake out. Just going by Ashleys previous, no one had a clue about appointments of KK, JFK or shearer. But Golfmag knows and, tbf, he's not been wrong about this situation so far. Alas, I fear he's telling the truth. He'll be the first Toon manager who I despise with an absolute passion. WHY? someone please enlighten me on the pardew hartred He was given free use of Mascherano and Tevez (combined value of £45m?) and managed to make them look s****. Encouraged the claims that they were spoiling the team spirit of his dogshit squad. What more does anyone need to know? He also takes spiritual guidance from Harry Potter books.

Hoodle's academy in Spain is starting to get some results, they even sort of own a 3rd division team now and have taken them to second in the table (he doesn't directly manage them, his academy supplies the players). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerez_Industrial_CF Pretty bizarre to see an Andalusian team made out almost entirely of English players.

This bit doesn't make any sense

Yes, the following season was a disaster and the wheels came off pretty quick for him. He also got in a row with Reo-Coker IIRC (although everybody seems to do that).

To be honest Pardew's first season in the top flight with Wham was pretty impressive. Harewood even looked world class. My Wham supporting mate was waxing lyrical about "Pards".

It was ridiculous watching it. Exactly the same as watching the first team, still had like 77% possession or something crazy. That's kinda the idea, all of our sides play the exact same football, from top to bottom. I just had a vision of us playing Inter again in the next round, by the way. Surely Benítez will have been sacked by that time and they'll be good again though.

Spanish journalist just said that our lineup today would have been illegal in La Liga because of using too many players from our B team

Would have loved to meet your lot in the next round tbf.

Pretty sure it was Pardew who benched Mascherano/Tévez. I cursed the damn useless c*** every weekend since I got Tévez on my FF team.

Víctor Vázquez nets the second. We have been unsuccessfully trying to break down this lot for two years, and it had to be with the kids...

Thiago

30 minutes on and Bojan and Jeffren already stretchered out and subbed. These russkies aren't joking.

http://estaticos.marca.com/marcador/futbol/2010_11/champions/1a_fase/jornada_6/grupo_d/bar_rub/images/01_300x303.jpg

Seems like we are playing 3-4-3 tonight, guess Pep fancies to experiment. Bunch of kids starting, let's see how they do. Now that he's favorite for the Ballon D'Or, I remember Iniesta's first European start was in one of these rubbish "already qualified so play the kids" CL games and he had a mare.

Mino Raiola represents Jol? Cunt of highest order, and has an easy mouth.

Wouldn't work. I'd love to see him managing in a big league again but he'd be too risky for you. He isn't a great motivator/man manager and your squad isn't really built to play the way he knows.

Atlético signed Elías from Corinthians for €7m. I admit to not knowing anything of him.

Xavi, Iniesta, Messi finalists. Surprised to see Sneijder miss on this. A Barça treble... time to lurk/troll Real Madrid boards.

Team UK!