Village Idiot

http://estaticos04.marca.com/albumes/2010/06/09/fotogaleria_nueve_junio/1276101611_extras_albumes_0.jpg This is so not going to end well.

Who? Actually updated reports say that they are giving them *four* youngsters Marcos Alonso, Alipio, Rodrigo and Sarabia. The latter two are supposedly the bees knees, great record at youth level. I suppose they are including buyback clauses in all of them. But still it's funny how little they care.

They can use a natural left winger, however. It's a good signing. Funny how quick they are in getting rid of what supposedly were two of their most promising youngsters though.

Marca reports Real Madrid are about to sign Di María for €30m plus a couple of Madrid's youth prospects.

Atlético have sold their third keeper Roberto to Benfica, and there's a rumor they are talking a swap deal Simao-Luisao.

The head of the consortium that's trying to buy Mallorca has said that Luís Enrique is their first choice for the managerial post

Gotta love how they add Henry in the list even though he still has a year of contract and they write down "but for the right club the Catalans are willing to negotiate" which is the definition of a non-free transfer

Any of the New Yorkers in the board that can recommend me a pub to watch the USA - England game that is *not* Nevada Smiths? That place is going to be unbearably crowded and I want to take some American friends that are not football fans to a good pub experience. I mostly go to Spanish places to watch football so I really don't know many.

Hungary are actually going forward, they hadn't really been decent in decades and made a decent show in WC qualifying in a pretty strong group. At the same time you got teams like Bosnia, Slovenia and Slovakia - who were a joke - being decent nowadays. It comes and goes, the fact is that without a strong domestic league is hard to mantain continued success.

Can King play twice a week with his dodgy knees?

Cesc is seen more as an impact sub since he's more forward going that Xavi and Iniesta, who control games better.

According to Valencia's coach, they are "close" to sign Soldado. Best replacement for Villa they can get in my opinion.

Good sendoff. Now let's do the business when it counts for once.

Pedro with his first international goal

Aye, we're fucked if he misses out, we'll be forced to start Fàbregas instead

Iniesta going to get a scan tomorrow

No, he's felt some pain it seems and asked for the sub. But he's sitting on the bench without medical attention so I guess it's just caution. He's had a season blighted by injury, but he's played so well in these friendlies.

Silva is going to be terribly good. He's started to get himself into scoring positions and shooting more this season.

The Villa-Xavi-Iniesta triumvirate strikes early Go David, beat Raúl's record soon. EDIT: Silva scores a beautiful second. Iniesta's ball

Adriano has said he wants to leave Sevilla and go to Italy. Milan are rumored to be interested.

They'll probably think they won't get their current wages at any other team, so no reason to move.

It was our first treble and our first CWC.

This is promotion to the second division. Our first and second divisions ("Liga BBVA" and "Liga Adelante") form La Liga. The lower tiers are organized by the FA.

You'd have walked 4th spot had Torres remained fit the entire season, if you ask me. There was a very interesting study by UEFA in one of our rags about how the amount of injuries corresponds to a team's performance. Saying that if you had 50+ injuries you were headed to a bad season, and how the last 3 winners of the CL had less than 25 injuries in the whole season. I'll see if I can find it in English.