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Roque Santa Cruz manages a start and quickly resumes business as usual getting injuried 10 minutes in...

Everton - ManCity incoming... and this is something very strange, today I dreamt that City put 5 past the toffees (why I would dream such a thing I don't understand...)

Not in the Premier League.

By the way, Gareth Bale started for Tottenham and they are being held 0-0 at home with 15 minutes to go

Wolves are really a poor team. No fight in them, either.

Quite funny how Ancelotti just took off Terry and Cole at half time and got Alex and Zhirkov out, which have played fuck all this season, he would probably subbed in the entire youth team if he could at this point

Sunderland should really be doing better with the squad they amassed this season.

Liverpool really don't seem to even make it to Europe next year at this pace.

We and Real have been linked with Victor Moses.

That's pretty close, yeah. Thanks.

Phil Brown having to deal with Zaki? I can't miss this.

Yeah, I envy you too, I absolutely adore Camp Nou but it is a very old stadium and it shows, the costs of remodelling it are so huge that we don't know how we can finance it even with selling all the land we own around it.

couldnt get permission to increase the east stand (the buildings behind it are listed) and problems with reinforcing the gallowgate making it hard to expand it. Thanks!

Question for brummie: is Aston Villa's debt sugar-daddy 0% interest loans ala Abramovich or Al-Fayed or is he owed interest?

Saint James' Park always stood out to me for how weird it looks, with those asymmetrical stands. It gives the venue a lot of personality that most identikit stadiums lack, but is there a particular reason for it?

Would certainly like to see us sign him. We need a right sided player and from what I've seen of him he could tear this division apart with his dribbling ability. I saw him play at Camp Nou during our preseason match against City and I was impressed. He can be something.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/10/01/15/SOCCER_Man_City_Weiss.html&TEAMHD=soccer He is a very canny player. Pretty sure there would be the possibility of a loan for next season too, since he has little chance of breaking into ManCity's XI at this time.

Sometimes it reminds me of FM when I try to sign some sod on a lower division that's on 500/week and he goes out and asks for 5000. Maybe that game is more realistic than I thought.

I have watched Nolan play *lots* (I have mentioned on occasion I like Bolton), and he just doesn't work on a midfield of 2. Allardyce got the best out of him in a 4-5-1, where he could be carried by the other midfielders and he was free to pop from behind with goals. He used to have a certain industry back at Bolton that for your comments seems to have deserted him (I have only seen him play a couple times for you), although he wasn't the smartest player regarding positioning and tackling. Anyway, if you're going to play 4-4-2 he's going to be a liability at the top flight. But if you pack the midfield he's a very reasonable player for a promoted side.

Wonder where Hiddink will end up, although I don't think he'd come to you at this point. Schuster I think is a very good manager, and has a very good record with promoted sides in Spain. He also gets his clubs to play nice enough football (which admittedly is easier to get away with in La Liga). However he seems to want to stay and live in Spain for now. Frank Rijkaard I still rate immensely, stick a tough assistant manager to handle discipline (like Hen Ten Cate at Barça during his first years) and enjoy the show. Pretty sure he'll get sacked this season in Turkey if he doesn't win the league A bit of idle talk though, unless you falter massively in the coming months (god forbid), you are starting next season with Hughton.

If Alonso had his head turned he really couldn't do anything, can't keep a player that wants out and sure as hell the club couldn't meet the kind of wages he's at Real. However he is at fault for a) not having another playmaker in the squad (Lucas Leiva, don't make me laugh) b) signing a crocked player that's going to be useless this season.

Heh, I opened the PDF and the first page says is that I am not allowed to view it if I'm in the USA. Now I'll get deported FFS

Maybe they want to have the sacked managers' multiple honeymoon periods and thus guarantee promotion?

http://content.liverpoolfc.tv/?9MaPrLxQbm0AA0oNb9slecpdtpHjJGCu9 Looks legit