Village Idiot

Our presentation looked very sloppy compared to this one, I hope it's because we've already bought out all the votes and we don't need to care.

That's the WC for England then.

Blackburn sending scouts to watch Espanyol's striker Osvaldo. Sign him Sam!

I still find it funny that Cronaldo had the gall to drop out of this, given how important it is for his country too.

Pot calling the kettle white then.

What did we do now?

The biggest news on that article is the fact that Tévez did that blond at the bottom. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ci9HbVh3IKE/R9B7Nhg07_I/AAAAAAAAEFc/ZDfvtycoeYg/s1600-h/TEVEZ.jpg

Would love to see some good old skool target men in La Liga to be honest, only Bilbao seems to develop and employ them nowadays.

Dzeko and Lukaku (with whom they had already been linked this summer) added to the list of possible Higuaín backups for Real Madrid.

That their best season in half a century still sees them behind us. Barcelona derby coming up, too. And yes, we lost to them today in that tin pot Catalan cup.

Atlético did their thing again and let go a 2-1 lead to lose 2-3 against Aris.

Yay gridiron stadiums. I love the Lucas Oil though. Does that one feature in the bid?

Mesmerizing. I like Savage myself, doesn't seem to take himself seriously at all.

Higuaín has been told he needs the op, but has requested another opinion. Huge blow for Madrid if true.

I think Laporta's management of the club would of had something to do with that perhaps, surely Roswell will be stopping such deals? I need to use this in the Barça forums. Regarding your point, I think it's more common than you think. Even though Laporta certainly did grow an habit of throwing money at troubles during his last years.

I hate English prepositions.

He dropped out after picking a knock in the Clásico. We can't do it without his pecs He dropped out of a meeting because of injury? I presume he's just pissed off. Poor form but he (or any other football celeb) wasn't going to make any difference at this point.

He dropped out after picking a knock in the Clásico. We can't do it without his pecs

Interesting bit of trivia I just realized about the last 3 times we beat Madrid 5-0: 1974: Reixach and Cruyff in the pitch 1994: Reixach and Cruyff manage, Guardiola in the pitch 2010: Guardiola manages

I know for certain that Mino Raiola was getting €1m/year of Zlatan's wages, paid directly by us, and other deals were structured like that. It could be for tax reasons too.

free transfers like sol will still have agent fees and contract renewals will also have agent fees They are still high anycase imo. Don't agents also take a % of the overall wage (in addition to any signing on bonus)? This may have been paid up front in some instances That is from the player. The club will pay a agent for the deal & will sometimes pay the agent as part of the deal on behalf of the player but the % per week is usually direct form the player. Yeah, clubs would be stupid and daft to pay agents a % of a players weekly wage. We do...

Don't think Russia will be scheduling games in Vladivostok, probably all will we arranged west of the Urals.

Apparently Sevilla asked about Park too, but gave up because of his wages at Manchester. Higuaín will know if he has to have an op today. He faces 3 months in the sidelines if that's the case. And Madrid will shop for a striker in January.

He has put up rather strong sides in it, I think he understands the opportunity and the importance of giving his players a taste of victory.

Arsenal just ended their trophy drought, then?