Village Idiot

Sevilla have still to play us and Mallorca have only an away game against Depor (who are currently through the worst streak in their whole history), and Espanyol at home. Mallorca has a chance even if they lose tomorrow.

Pedro seals it

The Old Firm seems to play every month anyway.

Bojan get the fuck in!!

Ah hell

Tenerife are La Liga's West Brom. They play nice open football, and they probably shouldn't. I wish they scraped 17th place, though.

Spoilsport.

We were in for Arshavin in the summer of 2008 but balked at Zenit's demands, was really surprised (and slightly annoyed) when I saw that Arsenal got him for a very reasonable fee in winter. He's not been up to his best this season, but would be a mistake to get rid of him. His quotes to the media are either brilliant or extremely irresponsible, depending on how you look at it. I'll take brilliant because I don't support Arsenal

Corriere Dello Sport linking Chelsea with Pato, Thiago Silva... and Kaká. We linked with Torres for the first time this transfer window ( )

Di María linked to both Barça and Madrid today. One busy fella.

David Whelan didn't get rich through his football career, might stick Mike Ashley as well in there.

its funny as f***, but i can only think if people are talking to you like that all day every day its only human to pick up the accent. A Spanish friend of mine has been living in Texas for 10 years and he speaks Spanish like this, I shit you not.

Am I correct in thinking that Wham is the only team to ever be relegated with more than 40 points in the current format?

I still find ludicrous that no English manager has won the Premier League. Can't see any of the title contenders employing one anytime soon either.

He has this "Ask Andrey" section in his website, which is an absolute cracker. Not only his answers since some of the questions are absolutely mental http://www.arshavin.eu/en/news.php

I think that he has earnt his own thread throughout the season. Guy's a quote machine. Now he's publicly whored himself out to Barça again. Ignore the fact it's me posting this or the Barça link, I just love his big mouth. http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/tm_headline=arshavin-i-m-on-my-way-to-barca%26method=full%26objectid=22227489%26siteid=93463-name_page.html Love how he casually drags Clichy into it What do your lot think of him, Fabregash?

Zigic is for sale. Interested? He's always said he wants to go to England at some point. He'll be 30 next season but I think he would be ridiculously effective in the Prem. You have Carroll already, though.

like the look of Bilbao's Julio Llorente but is highly rated and maybe out of our price range. Soldado is rumoured to be going to Valencia if/when Villa is sold. Llorente's a good one, but as you said he's out of your range at this point. Good thing about Soldado is that his buyout clause is rather low. I think the link with Atlético is more solid, although if Valencia go for him he'd rather go there due to CL football. Both teams are completely broke, and will only buy him if they sell Villa/Agüero (which is likely). This Valencia talk reminds me that Zigic is for sale (we'll he's been for 2 years now), gonna post it in your transfer thread.

You don't know how many "Are you a gloryhunter?" PMs I have had to answer Regulars know me well and I love this place, mind.

Anyhow, a lot of people seem to think I'm a gloryhunter so a profile adjustment seems necessary.

Just like Village Idiot stays off the terraces? he's not allowed a view because of it ? No, but I find it funny that he's happy enough to slag off Leicester as "the boring option" when I bet he's never ever been to see us in his entire life, he supports a side from another country for f*** sake. leicester are the boring option as a club. this season they've been solid if unspectacular and out of the four choices leicester#s the last one i'd want to have a night out in. When I said "boring" I meant as they have been in the prem pretty recently so they aren't fresh/new, and they aren't a particularly storied club with interesting/fun rivalries (I miss the ManU-Leeds games for example). When they were in the premiership they were also rather unspectacular side. Heck, even sides like Stoke/Blackburn have some twisted entertainment value as avatars of footballing Satan because of how ugly they play. Yeah, I have only watched a live PL game once in my life, so I'm pretty happy to admit that my reasons to like/dislike a side are extremely petty and solely based on my private entertainment value, and I think I have said so in this board already. So what?

I'm torn. As a neutral I'd rather have a storied team like Forest, but Holloway would be so much fun in the premiership. It's going to be Leicester probably, the most boring option.

Wow, I sound like Soldado's agent in that post. EDIT: Did some research, Soldado's release clause is €10m.

All the La Liga strikers that I would recommend without hesitation are probably out of your price range, or just too old. To be honest there's a bit of a dearth of quality mid-range strikers in La Liga nowadays. Soldado is probably the best bet without a doubt. He's always scored 10+ in La Liga every season he's been a starter. He doesn't have great technique or pace, but I think he's just a very smart player: he's always making intelligent runs and getting himself into goalscoring positions, and has a tremendous work rate. Reminds me a lot of Raúl on that regard, without being as good as he was of course. I think the Osasuna fans nicknamed him "Gudari" which means "soldier" in Basque. Sums him up I think, as I believe he has the necessary steel to impose himself in the English game.