Village Idiot

I'm not watching that game, but how many English youngsters are in the Arsenal lineup? Just 3. Walcott, Wilshere and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas. That's not going to help England much Wilshere is class though. Looking forward to his career.

Man, you know you're a brat when even Eto'o is calling you out http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/08/01/SOCCER_Balotelli_Etoo.html&TEAMHD=soccer

I'm not watching that game, but how many English youngsters are in the Arsenal lineup?

Madrid has sold another one of their youth products. Rodrigo to Benfica for €6m. He scored Spain's lonely goal in the U19 final. Watched him play for Celta and he looked good, maybe not Real Madrid level though.

wtf i thought he'd never leave Espanyol. Actually he put in a transfer request earlier this season, had a very bad relationship with the current manager.

Tamudo is 32. Should be able to do a job for a promoted side.

Raúl Tamudo has signed for Real Sociedad on a free.

Pareja left Espanyol for Spartak Moscow. Canny defender, would have preferred him to stay in La Liga (not at Espanyol though!)

Our lower table teams are technically pretty good. I don't know if they would survive in a physical league but they do play football well.

I'm still not conviced that Raúl outside of Real Madrid will work. So odd. It won't. He was a great player but he's completely past it and he won't get the protection he got at Madrid in his late years.

In other news Marca reporting today that Schalke might go for Mario Gómez to be Raúl's partner (that would work... not).

Didn't beat Xavi FC though

Aye, he honestly looked a great prospect in the WC. Hopefully he'll catch the German sickness of doing sweet FA until the next major tournament.

Khedira finished his medical in Madrid. Seems they paid €15m.

And subsequently, he signed an extended contract with Arsenal, something that your club don't seem to respect at all. Well, he himself has said he wants to leave so you should take it with Cesc too. He shouldn't have signed that contract if he wanted to leave. I personally don't think he's dying to play with us so much, he's just seen Arsenal is a lost cause trophy-wise. @Shearergol We settled 1m in tribunal fees for Cesc which is exactly what we owed for Overmars. Hardly broke Arsenal's bank there.

Really though, you got like 28mil for a player that maybe had two great years left in him? Pretty good deal from Arsenal's side. £28m? It was more like £16m i think Also, i'm saying the Cesc deal isn't what Arsene wants, not the Henry one. €24m+addons, I don't know how many pounds it was at the time.

Henry to Barça was a friendly transfer. You played hard to get but as you say Wenger wanted to sell him. Actually the Chamakh transfer has probably more grounds for wrongdoing. Players and board venting out in the press is meaningless. You got that player for free after obviously agreeing to wait his contract out last season, screwing Bordeaux in the process. And yes we are being pretty annoying with Cesc. But I think that's the only case of us being arsehats (and a big deal of it it's because we still consider him to be one of us, that's not our general modus operandi).

And you made good business and sold us a dud. Hence, suckers. Henry wasn't even starting for you.

Honestly, apart from the Cesc saga, I don't think we haven't been cuntish in the transfer market (more like suckers).

Happens pretty often. There's a difference of one year where British clubs are allowed to offer professional contracts and Spanish ones can't. I have to say that I think that Cesc is a bit of a c***. When he left us Arsenal were a bigger fish than Barça, and now that things are reversed and we are the ones racking in the trophies he wants back.

Arsenal poached him from our academy before we were allowed to offer a professional contract under our labor laws.

Over here we still consider him stolen property so yeah, we have been a little arsey.

Cronaldo isn't anyone though. It's not like they would formally retire it anyway, and other big Madrid legends have worn it in the past (Amancio, Juanito, Butragueño...), so it's more a case of finding somebody big enough to fill in. Khedira is sadly a very good signing for that lot. I hope they at least pay him that rumored €7m wage.

Villarreal have agreed a fee of €8m with Atlético for Godín. They still have to reach an agreement with his agent who holds 30% of the player's rights, however. Him and Filipe Luís are/would be great signings, considering how much of a joke their backline has been.

"As" claiming Khedira's signing for Madrid is done too (but Marca said the same like two weeks ago). On other news, Cronaldo has quickly grabbed Raúl's #7, so they'll call him CR7 again.