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They are saying that Uruguay made a blunder and registered him for the game as "injured" even though he was healthy so he was barred from playing. I'm fine with them crashing out, more rest for him this summer.

We'll see. I honestly can't see him as a top tier player at all.

But we suck in the transfer market. We only get right the "pay loads of money for obviously great player" buys.

He's decent, but nowhere a €40m player. It's one of those cases where great coaching has made him look better than he actually is - Villarreal's defensive coaching is probably second best in the league after Atlético. He's a physical beast, very intense, so I can see why Mou would dig him, but he's prone to moments of madness and far from the finished article. Honestly I don't think he's shown anything to command that pricetag, but I guess ManU have way too much money. I will take solace on my Espanyol friends pulling out their hairs since they sold him for merely €5m last season, though (they'll be getting just €2.5m for this, it seems.)

Absolutely flabbergasted that somebody would pay €40m for Bailly... Bailly!

Colombia didn't get out of second gear and was never in trouble. It was a pretty dispiriting performance by the US, to be frank. Yay my insomnia

Bartra to Dortmund, €8m. We are such shitty sellers. Great club for him anyhow.

Got paid €600k in bonus for Madrid winning the CL

decent reputation as a coach? Not really to be frank. He only coached in some minor Spanish clubs before going to work in Qatar. I guess Benítez is interested in the methods he may have learnt/applied there. It's supposed to be state-of-the-art stuff.

Always had a soft spot for Antía as a player, one of those working class globetrotter defenders that played for like 20000 La Liga clubs.

Barça's DoF has confirmed that Alves is leaving.

Do you believe I have suddenly started to believe that Robbie Keane is the best forward in the world? (even though he is).

Yeah, his knack is signing unknowns and getting an insane return from (some) of them, buying some more unknowns, rinse and repeat, win several trophies down the line. Not big ticket signings. Anyway, Sevilla have said that they are not letting Monchi go without paying €5m release fee.

Man, South Korea are poor nowadays. Spain steamrolled them today, and Spain hadn't steamrolled anything since 2014.

Show off f***ing hell, that avatar Extreme. Got absolutely nothing against Spain, beautiful country. Google image search is a b****** I mean that pic's from a far right demo, the nazi salute should have been hint

Sorry for the lad, he loves playing for Brazil and this would've been momentous for him. That said, you really should be able to do much better than him. I hope he gets to play in the Olympics at least.

Which government, theirs or yours? EDIT: Googled it, so the Argie government are looking into FA corruption and they are pulling a tantrum. Same as Spain. Like father, like son indeed.

Show off Fucking hell, that avatar Extreme.

I'm not taking Portugal, that's for sho'

Monchi leaving Sevilla, wonder where he's headed. He's responsible for a lot of their success these years.

Three times champions league winner mendieta? I guess it's some kind of obscure joke I don't get? He never won it.

Barça was once outbid by f***ing Middlesbrough for Mendieta, so I should know.

Can't blame West Ham for chronic mismanagement at Milan like. Even if they are West Ham. It was mostly a "how the mighty have fallen" comment, certainly won't chastise West Ham for trying to get a good player for themselves.

West Ham buying Milan's top goalscorer. Man, what has the world come to.

Nah, RoI is a decent team to fake-support. I don't find them objectionable. Tough group, but there's an outside chance of qualifying if we win our first game against Sweden.