Village Idiot

Thoroughly entertaining game. Levante never gave up but Sevilla are just better.

If Rossi can put his injuries behind him (which is a huge ask given the nightmare he's been through these years), he will be a magnificent player for them. I was just going to ask, how much did he go for? Wouldn't have mind him here. He's there on loan. Rossi on loan to NUFC? Need to get that jumanji gif out.

If Rossi can put his injuries behind him (which is a huge ask given the nightmare he's been through these years), he will be a magnificent player for them.

My biggest worry regarding that, is the fact that the Russian league is in the middle of its 3-month winter break, so dunno what kind of form he will be in. I thought he was at Roma currently? Wiki says he's been on loan in Russia since the summer.

My biggest worry regarding that, is the fact that the Russian league is in the middle of its 3-month winter break, so dunno what kind of form he will be in.

Hardly our fault is it that Valencia came in for him? Would be a no brainer for anybody in his positon. Absolutely.

Loan with an option to buy is being mentioned over here.

Apparently this is not (yet) official as Valencia have to get rid of Orban first. They are in talks with Granada regarding that.

I absolutely know owt about this guy, but getting pace upfront makes sense given your current striker options.

I know I shouldn't, but I'm loving Chelsea trolling the remainder of the top 4 by loaning Remy to Leicester. Machiavellian stuff

Can't recall Borja Bastón until the end of the season. They are probably kicking their teeth at the moment but the lad has been better off on loan.

Which was the question?

Atlético have had a €45m bid for Diego Costa turned down. Jackson has been a failure so far, and they are really missing some more firepower upfront. Griezmann can't do it all.

This was discussed a few days ago. You don't go to jail in Spain for a first offence, if it's less than 2 years of prison time. The article is crap, I guess they didn't bother checking how our legal system works.

Villarreal are very well run - no questioning that, but they are backed by a Spanish billionaire. That's how they afforded to keep most of their squad when they went down.

Atlético always seem to lose their shit playing us.

Filipe Luís blatantly taking one for the team here.

Which one? Moussa.

That's ridiculous. They have conceded only 8 goals in the league so far. It's really silly. And we've scored 25% of those goals, in the only game where they conceded more than one goal this season. 14 clean sheets in 21 games.

The fact there's another one genuinely confused me for a while. Like Spurs kept loaning him back to Fulham for a couple of weeks at a time. When the news first broke I genuinely thought that Spurs had sold back the first Dembele to Fulham and were now pulling a Robbie Keane.

That's the kind of shit I do in FM just for the giggles, buying players with the same name

Huge game for us in a bit. Atlético have only conceded 3 away goals in the league so far this season. Unreal stat.

They surely intend him as a backup for Gayá, since Orbán has been a bit of a liability and Neville doesn't seem to rate him. Siqueira would probably be a better fit too if he wants to try 5-3-2 again.

VI has it covered. Only saw him for Atletico. Average player, which in other words would mean he walks straight into our starting eleven. Yeah, he hasn't been too good for them. But he was great before that. We'll see if he still has it in him.

Siqueira was great before going to Atlético, one of la Liga's best fullbacks while playing for Granada; he never seemed to get Simeone's confidence, and always looked nervous playing for them - which is understandable since his style doesn't fit Atlético at all. But it is a good signing if true. He's an attacking fullback, very spirited, always causes a great deal of problems going forward - both to the opposition and to his team.