Village Idiot

Literally the player you don't need; who gave the green light for all your crap signings last season? Barca don't half sign some crap players 'at times' Roberto Fernández, our current DoF. We've just appointed a new General Manager though (Pep Segura), he's supposedly Valverde's man inside the board. Incidentally, he managed Liverpool's youth football under Benítez.

So, apparently we're deadly serious about Paulinho and close to finalise the signing

Stealing Fulham's signings

Still remember the fuss when Mou tried to strip Casillas of the captaincy. The whole thing went against tradition (in Spain managers don't chose captains), and was just a way to show he had the biggest dick in the dressing room.

That net figure is dire. Thriftiness can bite back at you. Even disregarding relegation (and that's a biggie), the players Ashley should have bought for 20m 2-3 years ago, now cost double that.

I thought Mitrovic looked promising enough in his first season, 9 goals in a first season ain't shabby at all for a young striker that's just arrived to the league, but he managed to go backwards in the C'ship. I have soured on him a little, tbf, I thought somebody with his attributes would dominate that league, yet if Benítez hadn't struck gold with Gayle we'd have been f***ed.

Not Newcastle though.

I suspect many clubs will have spent more in transfers fees in the last 5 years than in their entire history.

Truth be said, "As" supports Bild's numbers. We'll see I guess.

Cheaper than Sigurdsson Marcla claims it's €60m total and the option is mandatory. Still, James was brilliant under Ancelotti, it's a steal in today's market.

We're not supposed to be able to. We got relegated at the worst possible time. Yep. The system is very clearly stacked in favor of a select few teams. Time for a transfer fee cap across UEFA. I agree with that, would love to see not only a transfer cap but a squad size cap, including how many youth players to stop the top elite hoovering up all the talent and loaning them out, that or a maximum number of players any team can loan out, say 2. that will put a lot of young players off joining them. A transfer fee cap will be pointless unless you add a wage cap too. Money saved on transfers will end up on wages as that's how clubs will compete. Anyway, not gonna happen. But it's getting ludicrous.

That's not true. The dynamics of the position change a lot when you're on your wrong foot. Navas in particular was terrible on the left for Sevilla.

His delivery has always been erratic, but if used well Navas can be really effective. Also, how is 1.5m a problem in this day and age? Even assuming AS is reporting after tax wages (as is the Spanish custom), that's like 50k a week?

Adama Traoré was an extremely frustating player. Scary pace and power, but plays with the blinders on. Given the fact that he hasn't even nailed a starting spot for Boro I don't think he's changed much from the player he was at Barça B. I can see his sheer athleticism being an asset to throw from the bench, but not somebody I'd feel comfortable starting in the Premier League, really.

To be fair we were pretty far from being best in the world when he turned us down.

Valencia have bought Neto from Juve, which means that Alves is gonna get sold.

Espanyol have signed Granero. That's a great addition for them, they've been crying for a creative force in midfield for ages. We have released Mathieu who's now going to sign for Sporting CP. Even though he's awful, this leaves us a little thin in the CB department.

He always seemed to me a guy with a good technical ability but with actually not that much of a football brain to use it. For a midfielder that's an awful trait, he never seemed to read games correctly. That's why he was moderately more successful as an RB I guess.

Most reports say it is a loan move? It is, but appallingly no loan fee. In other news Roque Mesa in Swansea having his medical, his brother tweeting photo's of himself with Llorente and Makelele. Amat off to Betis, another loan deal it looks like. and of course, ignore all rumours, Siggy's going nowhere. I see, it was reported as a transfer in early reports. You should be able to move him on for decent money if he recaptures his form at Málaga, which are a great team for him imho.

Borja Bastón to Málaga for €5m. That's a steal for a young goalscorer with a proven record in La Liga. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk

El Larguero has linked us with Ayoze. Wouldn't pay much attention to it though, El Larguero is a bullshit factory.

Some weird shit that Sevilla/Las Palmas/Atlético deal for Vitolo.

Can't say I have watched many Eibar games this year, but he was definitely one of the standouts of that team this season. Strong and really good in the air, seemed a bit of a rash tackler if I had to put down a negative.

Their entire turnover is €32m which means you just covered a third of their budget.

What's going on with clubs being cute when announcing their signings all of a sudden? My favorite's still Inler wearing a lion mask when signing for Napoli.