Village Idiot

I did some dirty math and I got 235000 pw

Marca reporting Rooney wants €14m wages, which would make him the highest paid in the world.

I think the point is that those in the image above are actually Newcastle ads with the sponsors added. That's how I have seen it done on other stadiums (Camp Nou included). That's how you want to do it anyway, linking your brand with something your potential customers love/want.

Both were meant as starters. What I say is that I don't think HBA is good enough to take the risk. Surely he's better than the Ezquerros, Fauberts or Drenthes of this world, but he's a riskier player regarding squad disruption, for what would ultimately be a sub role.

Barça and Madrid would never take a punt on a player with a story of such volatile personality for sitting on the bench. Still hoping he recovers and turns out well for you, mind.

Just back from the Camp Nou. It's really taking a bit to get us going this year. Well, 3 points in the bag I guess. We still have some flashes of brilliance, and we are being woeful when taking our chances, so I'm confident we'll pick up.

Hey, he hasn't even trained with us Actually I think we did fine given the circumstances. The loan to Benfica wasn't a good one since he wasn't getting a game there so we recalled him and loaned him to Fiorentina. They chose to terminate the loan early, so I guess he just isn't adapting well to Europe. Now, I think we should have taken him in preseason with us this year before dumping him back to Brazil. It was just a puzzling signing. I'm damn sure that it was brown-enveloped since Henrique had the same agency repping him and it was an equally pointless buy.

Henrique looked pants in the preseason games he played for us, but always wondered why we never took Keirrison for a spin at least. Well, both were signed behind Guardiola's back and I think it's obvious he doesn't want anything to do with them.

Keirrison and Henrique.

Their finances do have improved, but they still lost 50m last year (I think) and their revenue is nowhere near the place needed to keep the team challenging for trophies when the likes of Drogba, Anelka, Lampard, Cole... are on the wrong side of 30.

Chelsea are actually not in a good shape financially. They keep losing money and need a major investment to rejuvenate their squad.

Showbusiness talent are actually not nearly as well paid compared to the total production cost as they were 10 years ago (salaries aren't lower, just they haven't risen as much as the average production cost has ballooned). It's becoming more common for them to get a share of the profits, though. (It's my area of expertise )

To be honest I think Rijkaard would still be a great club manager with a good Assistant that takes care of this stuff (like Ten Cate did at Barça)

Valdés out of tonight's game with flu.

I love it how in this whole saga the way he left Everton is conveniently swept under the carpet.

Hopefully he'll get a post in a bigger league, lots of proper managers have done badly in Turkey and I would love to see him more in the spotlight. He does need a good Assistant to manage the squad, though. People seem to think that we won the 2006 double by giving the ball to Ronaldinho and letting him do his thing alone, but Guardiola is just using the same tactics and philosophy Frank implemented.

Plus Cadamarteri isn't a scouse.

http://soccerlens.com/files/2007/12/gary_lineker_barcelona.jpg Legend

On what charge, of mis-management. I know Laporta was known for his dodgy dealings though? According to our sports law, the boards of fan-owned clubs are responsible for the losses incurred during their stewardship of a club. In this case the debt has increased €50m in 6 years (actually negligible for today's standards). This provision was introduced so elected presidents would have a degree of accountability, however I believe this is the first time in 20+ years it is called upon. Laporta's stewardship of the club had been good until the last couple seasons where he truly lost the plot. Some of the stuff that came off the audit regarding private parties, spying on rivals inside the board, etc... is pretty damning. That said, I think this is a very bad idea, as it will divide the club.

Rijkaard did some very sound stuff with us, I guess he needs to manage a team where he can get the kind of players he needs to implement his philosophy. And he's not a very good man manager.

Like when Figo went to Real? Different. Would be if Figo had gone to Espanyol

I said several times that I don't like ManCity's way of doing things, but I'll confess that if Rooney pulls off the switcheroo, it'd be beautiful

I guess at some point the genie will get out of the bottle regarding the Webster ruling. Just what football needs, more player/agent power.

Just daunted on me that the 1990s are "retro". I feel old

Agreed, I'm still in shock about this. Its great though isnt it..There has been plenty of drama this season so far. Definitely. So entertaining. Going over to RedCafe every hour or so is also great. This whole thing is fantastic. Place is in a complete meltdown, fragmented into 200000000000 threads of panicking reds. Made me think of what would happen if Messi ever wanted to leave!