Village Idiot

90k? Are you sure? That's roughly what he's at Real Madrid (even a bit less)...

Reina Johnson Agger Skrtel New LB Kuyt Lucas Gerrard Cole Torres Huntelaar It's pretty tasty. If they somehow kept Mascherano I'd put money on them regaining top 4.

The Fairs Cup was the equivalent to the UEFA Cup we have today, just a different trophy. Whatever people say about it I'm immensely proud of our success in it. And you may as well be. Black and white photographs of your team competing for European trophies just proves you've been there from the start.

I know because the original is in our museum, we played a "final" against Leeds to decide who kept the trophy after it was replaced with the UEFA Cup. And no mocking the Fairs Cup anyway. Love vintage European competitions.

It's not.

Yes, but that's different to returning the product because you change your mind.

No. He still has his knack for getting in goalscoring positions and feeding off scraps, but his legs are gone and can't keep that intensity during a whole match. And due to his kind of game he isn't much of an impact sub. He's 33... To his credit though, he looked finished 4-5 years ago and still produced a couple great seasons.

Still believe that Raúl is secretly still an Atlético fan.

Same in Spain. Most stores only do credit. USA they refund you most of the time, though, in my experience.

I know it's shit, but I just wanted to post it here as soon as I read it

He's said that he wants to keep playing football at the best level he can, instead of warming the bench.

Still weird though, since in the same article they link Mahmadou to Villa (used my camera to upload it) http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7256/img4854n.jpg Again, it's an awful newspaper.

They printed Lass Diarra. Might have it wrong since Mahmadou has been linked with a move away for quite a while. If my scanner wasn't broken I'd scan the article, since "Sport" don't publish all their articles in their website.

I will point out, that a blind boy drawing names off a hat probably has more credibility than "Sport". These are the same guys that brought you the "Puyol to Newcastle" rumor.

Man, I can finally contribute to this thread meaningfully "Sport" reports today that Real Madrid are close to sell Lassana Diarra to Newcastle for €6m.

To be honest, I don't think Ben Arfa would be a good signing in your predicament. Too much risk and you don't seem to have the money to make these kind of bets. But I admit is always nice to have *that* player in the pitch that can always do something fun when the ball reaches his feet. Until Carroll twats him (Arfa seems to get in a row with all his teammates).

De La Red is back in light training, although he still doesn't have the medical go-ahead to do full training.

Remember when Madrid won 0-1 at your turf, you gave them quite a game And when you won 2-0 of course , but that feels like a century ago.

Málaga's new Qatari owner has come out and said he intends to have Málaga playing the EL in two years and the CL in five. He has replaced the manager with Jesualdo Ferreira from Porto, but hasn't really flashed the cash yet, though.

Damn, I love fudge.

True true. Must admit I enjoyed watching Bramble as a neutral (I'm sorry)

Lots of goals against in games always effect a team goal against column. What I mean is, take those two games out, or leave them at more modest 4-0 drubbings, and their stat looks more in line with other teams around them.

The two games against Tottingham and Chelsea sort of disrupt that stat though. 17 in 180 minutes...

I personally don't have much time for the usual "manager X won this with the previous manager's team" talk. That's only one part of the managing job, the biggest challenge is turning those players into an unit that wins games and trophies.

Several Catalan media claiming that Arsenal has finally accepted to enter talks for Cesc Fábregas...