Now officially more competitive than the SPL: La Primera División 12/13

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Superb title! Welcome back Nakh (if you've been gone that is and not just posting on threads I haven't read)

thank you......yeah i took a few weeks off, like messi i hadn't had an offseason in a while

which means he will score 100 goals this season

i will probably make 100 posts in this thread

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/primera-division/transferuebersicht/wettbewerb_ES1.html

the transfer market is absolutely dead, as one would expect given the general financial situation

still it's sort of sad that even atleti are running a profit by selling two good young players abroad

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32 yr old emre (consistently productive race relations antagonist and inconsistently productive playmaker) is about how it is these days

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vela to real sociedad a rare bit of expenditure in the midtable

valencia have signed gago and canales for relatively little and are now manager by former rafa era liverpool titan mauricio pellegrino

the vultures will temporarily depart malaga for their champions league qualifier vs panathanaikos, a fairly easy draw that they might even win

newcastle are supposedly sniffing around toulalan, who is an excellent boring defensive midfielder and along with cazorla their best player last season

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deulofeu is the latest barcelona b wing forward with rave notices who will probably play some sort of role for the first team this season

sid lowe in his preview raves about an atleti kid called oliver torres, and valencia have a new david villa

the actual david villa is back in training for which we can all be grateful

BBC Final Score summariser Garth Crooks on Swansea goalscorer Michu: "One of the things Michael Laudrup brings is that his network is a lot broader and he can go out and find people like Michu. If he can get goals like that, it's a fantastic signing. He really looks sharp."

awesome scouting network to be able to find someone who scored 15 goals a season from midfield in the spanish first division

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/first-team/detail/article/agreement-with-arsenal-for-song

Valencia v. Real is on at 6! Must see football right there ILF!

real talk

nice to see borja oubina back with celta

he was quite highly rated before he was loaned to birmingham and hurt his knee and then hurt it again

also a reminder that hristo stoichkov was the worst pretigious player turned execrable manager ever

after saying a reminder for people to watch it... i fell asleep at 5 and no-one commented on it. great start to the spanish season. off to 101gg i go!

i was going to watch it later but i've had enough fitba today already

seems like madrid were sluggish and messi &c outscored vela &c

David Villa scored!

I didn't even know he was fit! I thought it was like you said upthread, just 'back in training'.

bugger yr 5-0s and selling yr talented young midfielders for just 15m, athletic and betis show the premiership how to really start a season

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/athletic-bilbao-3-real-betis-5/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQj3pz4sVY

nice finish from villa too

idk what's happening at bilbao....nonsense between bielsa and the board earlier in the summer, now llorente is trying to leave

what's this madness of starting games at 11pm local time?

weird. Last season they were putting on matches earlier to suit the Asian market

to suit the spanish summer when people sleep in the afternoons and then stay up til the small hours?

there was a game that started after midnight a few years ago

malaga looking v good in the first half tonight vs panathinaikos. Toulalan running the show and i've been impressed withIsco, lovely set up play for the 2nd goal.

i see they're playing that 16 year old who score on the weekend.

also really like that they have two Nachos in the squad

super cup

callejon is playing

another retarded dive by sanchez

Well that all happened a bit quickly

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1312076/derpgoal.gif

seasons over then?

there's never any point in the spanish season at which it isn't over. which direction it's over in, that varies.

he's ready

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/27/article-2194029-14B62531000005DC-996_636x489.jpg

Was watching the reserve Classico in a bar in Santiago on Saturday night, immediately after the Real Sociedad-Celta Vigo game, on the same channel. That made me imagine that even the reserves of the bg two must be a big deal, but it looked like there were only about 10,000 there (still a second division game, of course).

Just turned on the battle of the Athletic teams... just after Falcao had scored. 1-0, the commentators make it seem like he did something special.

madrid are dominating. bilbao are a mess and seemingly reluctant to close down falcao for some boggling reason. arda turan is a beast.

2-0, guess who

crazy angle. possibly offside. bilbao seemingly love to lose more than they do local passports

two changes by the losing team, incl. munuian or however you spell it.

Nooooooooooooooooooo. Arda Turan looking like he may be stretchered off. Oh, he's up on his feet now. Not malicious or anything, in fact I don't think there was even a card.

pen!

handball!

falcao 3 - 0 bilbao

uefa cup final x2

i know madrid aren't a bad team but i'd love love love falcao to be at one of those teams that create 40 chances every game, ala us 2 or 3 seasons ago or barca today. holy crap this guy playing with xavi+andres would be insane.

some player freaking out being subbed by bilbao, punching and kicking the comfy chairs. (only half watching now means i have no idea of details).

so Turan came back on to... be able to come off to a well earned round of applause. he's been incredible tonight.

Madrid hit the post! It might only be 3-0 but this about more than the result, the whole game is embarrassing for Bilbao.

4-0, missed the goal completely. Tiago scored.

Bielsa needs to spend the next week looking for a big job because if they lose Martinez and Llorente, he is gonna look like the definition of one season wonder.

bielsa has a long & illustrious career before bilbao...

martinez signs for bayern

super cup II

Real: Casillas; Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Marcelo; Alonso, Khedira; Di María, Özil, Cristiano; Higuaín
Subs: Adán, Benzema, Albiol, Modric, Callejón, Diarra, Nacho

Barça: Valdés, Alves, Adriano, Mascherano, Piqué; Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta; Alexis, Messi y Pedro
Subs: Fábregas, Villa, Pinto, Bartra, Jordi Alba, Alex Song, Tello

uh, so what's going on here then?

Madrid is running them down like wounded deer. No idea why.

Messi can still shoot at least.

wow

that was a fascinating game

difficulties with the central defenders for barcelona which may or not be systemic, we'll have to see

one difference tito seems to have employed is an increased willingness to hit fast 30+yard passes over the defence, even mascherano was doing this with some success

this could be very effective vs entrenched defences where messi plays deeper, because pedro is great at controlling these long passes, switching feet and shooting quickly; tello and sanchez are lightning quick too

Victor Valdés
Javier Mascherano
Gerard Piqué
Adriano
Dani Alves
Alex Song
Cesc Fábregas
Xavi
Pedro
Lionel Messi
Alexis Sánchez

Valencia

Diego Alves
Victor Ruiz
Adil Rami
Aly Cissokho
Joao Pereira
Alberto Costa
David Albelda
Andrés Guardado
Sofiane Feghouli
Roberto Soldado
Jonas

two messi headers already

good big for a feet man

BOOOM

I've never really cared for Adriano but that was exquisite

hey valencia maybe you don't want to pass to barca in your own half

cesc goes and chips it against the post

commentators acting like 32% possession, no real chances, losing 1-0 and could be more if not for the post is something valencia should be proud of.

they have been dreadful, barca are just toying with them. three or four times messi has just decided to take on players at the halfway line with nothing on.

didn't watch the first half but that isn't bad really

u gotta remember they just lost one of their best players to barcelona, they don't have banega or canales who are probably their best technical players

i know we are supposed to trip all over any team that isn't losing 5-0 to barca but they just had no back bone. its not even 50-50 situations valencia were losing at, barca players would get to balls where they are 5 or 6 yards further away than valencia players

its just like they thought aw fuck it its barca at home without our two best players why bother really doing anything

my internet is being annoying so i'm not going to catch the second half. barca should just win everything this season.

barely offsides for the equalizer.

just watched the last 20 mins or so but valencia looked alright, even forced barca to defend for a bit

obv i didn't see them earlier but it's worth remembering the number of teams who chase after them and are then exhausted after an hour, nevermind the fact that they have three players who are incredibly hard to stop legally

getting to 80 mins at 1-0 and hoping for a break near the end is a lot closer than most

They really were poor, and deserved to lose by more than a few. Maybe I've been spoiled by the last few years of fascinating BAR-VAL matches, but Unai Emery would've been ashamed with how they capitulated so completely early on. Soldado looked to have given up on the match by 60'.

the good games between these two are all at the mestalla

their relative success vs barca last year was by overmatching them on the left flank with both alba and mathieu pushing really high

Ronaldo: "I didn't celebrate my goals because I'm unhappy with some people. They're in the club & know who they are"

does he get paid by marca to feed the ongoing telenovella that is real madrid

xxp Yes I recall. Mathieu must not have been fit, and Aly Cissokho didn't threaten. The opportunity was there as well since Dani Alves was hurting as well.

Adriano's goal was something though, it must have crossed the line at the same velocity as a well-taken penalty.

i wonder if CR7 really did tell perez that he wanted to leave RM

his transfer to city is going to be the best summer ever

why would u kick up a transfer story on the 3rd september? maybe to wallow in the attention without REALLYb destabilizing things

so who is it than ronaldo wants shot of anyway

*that*

according to espn he's fallen out with marcelo, among others, allegedly because marcelo said casillas would be a worthy winner of the ballon d'or!!!

i think they're just reporting what was said on madrid radio so 1% fact 99% hand rubbing with glee speculation.

that would be some sort of new low even for madrid

here it is nakh

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/feature/_/id/1150207/real-madrid-face-cristiano-ronaldo-conundrum?cc=5739

he probably hates marcelo anyway cuz he wants his compatriot coentrao playing all of the time

also sell khedira because he looked at him funny once

"Coentrao is the person responsible as he is a bad influence on CR7," reckoned Roncero. "He (Coentrao) puts lots of ideas in the head of our superstar because he is very close to him."

omg lady macbeth of castille

Are Ronaldo and Carvalho close? Maybe the former is unhappy with Mourinho's attitude toward the latter.

Kaka is a more likely canditate

or candidate even

carvalho wasn't named in that lusophone group so probably not

and yeah i don't think ronaldo and kaká get on that well, former is probably still pissed that he didn't win the ballon d'or in 2007

can readily believe this is 40% infantile pissyness and 60% wanting an even bigger contract while he can still ask for 5 years

I meant the opposite, thought they were total bros

WTF: The Spanish League (LFP) has granted Athletic Bilbao special dispensation of one month to sign a replacement for Javi Martinez. Martinez joined Bayern Munich before the end of the transfer deadline and Los Leones argued they had not been given sufficient time to find a suitable alternative to the Spanish international.

The knock-on effect is that if Monreal does move to San Mames then Malaga themselves will have permission to sign a player, with the selling club also being free to sign somebody and so on.

too much time wasted checking out if jay spearing's mother was indeed from donostia

is this because bilbao didn't choose to sell. ie bayern paid the buy-out clause and off martinez went without bilbao agreeing but within his contractual rights?

could be

did bayern get around the income tax problem in the end? surely they didn't spend nearly €50m on javi

no, as i understand it they decided that they weren't liable for the tax and paid €40m. Although there was also some talk of Martinez lowering his initially agreed contract to save Bayern some money as well??

Mourinho claims that Madrid raised more money than they spent this window? Is that right?

Martinez’ Spanish contract included a €40 million buyout clause, which ultimately made it possible for FCB to sign the 23-year-old. “Obviously it's a very large sum," said Rummenigge, “but the player has made an indirect contribution by foregoing a large sum of his salary. Our management is convinced the player will do very well with us."

http://www.fcbayern.telekom.de/en/news/news/2012/36655.php

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/real-madrid/transfers-alle/verein_418.html

yeah they saved €2m

Came on at the weekend with bayern already 6-1 up. Pressure debut.

xp

ah okay, thanks. I'm so suspicious of anything Mou says that I was disbelieving.

javi surrenders €2m pa for the 5 years of his contract

seems a bit artificial really, idk what his salary is supposed to be though

dying @ SAD RONALDO

I would imagine Ronaldo is pretty much stuck there because no one, even City, is going to stump up anywhere near £80m even for a dude who scores a goal a game and makes a shedload more. And Real aren't going to sell anyway.

he's not leaving but at £80m there would be takers

CL or bust for RM then?

well the thread title is looking less accurate by the day

Absolute cracker late in the game from Xavi.

I only tuned in at 80' but Barcelona-Granada has been thrilling, Xavi just hit a fantastic strike to make it 1-0 in the 88th.

xp what he said - has it all been this good?

It's been amazing defending from Granada, visible frustration from Barcelona, and some good chances on the counter from Granada that just haven't been enough.

Yeah they look to have been 'worth' a point, shame about that OG. 2-0.

Toño put on the best goalkeeping exhibition I've seen this season. He was absolutely stellar for Granada all game.

so... what the shit has happened to Real?

They've conceded some goals from set pieces, none of Ronaldo Benzema Higuain have found form yet. Barcelona hardly look untouchable, I'm sure an 8-point deficit can be made up.

they both look like they will lose more points than last year but will be intermittently great

Do you think Messi's irritation with Villa the other day comes out of frustration that the whole forward line is not on his level? Sanchez continues to fail to impress me.

he needs a reality check if that's the case

idk about villa, haven't been watching that closely since he returned

has he slowed after the injury? one of my favourite players of the the 2010s and would love to see him back

villanova seems to like to spread the play quite wide which probably favours tello and pedro over sanchez, who is better in a narrower inside forward role

i like sanchez' mix of talents but he look like a bit of a prick

or the 2000s

the supposed Villa Messi beef has come up before anyway

You probably watch more than I do. Michael Cox suggested Villa had 'forgotten' some of what he'd learned about playing w/ Messi, was making the wrong runs. I was alluding to this exchange vs Granada (not my translation obv):

Messi: pass the ball on the first touch
Villa: Leo, but I have given it to you!
Messi: pass the ball on the first touch.
Villa: how can I pass it on the first touch before I control the ball, dont f... with me. I always touch it once or twice and I pass it to you.
Mascherano: enough, enough.

Would like to tie this thread title / convo topic together with "if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly good" but can't quite do it.

i have hardly watched any of the league this season for one reason or another but it doesn't really look that engaging

complaining about imported stars hanging on to the ball for too long is an established barcelona theme & after 1/2 a year of bad form and 1/2 a year of injury villa probably needs time

'Now officially more competitive than ILX: Barca frontline beefs 12/13'.

villa is probably the humblest, most barcelona-friendly superstar forward they could hope to find

what the fuck is neymar going to be like if rosell has his way

I've only seen him about six times (plus highlights) but Neymar strikes me as astonishingly unselfish for a forward of his ability.

or maybe I mean "considering the gap between his ability and his teammates' "

it's not selfishness as such but the way he plays, always trying to isolate and beat a defender, barcelona have only messi who is like that and everyone else looks for the simplest option 90% of the time

he is not ronaldinho but barcelona haven't had a free-spirited player like him since ronnie in the rijkaard era

messi is so self-effacing and unshowy that it's neglected quite how much he demands the team to be set up around him, it can be justified because what's good for him has been good for barcelona but neymar would upset that dynamic, for better or worse

Only watched a few minutes of the first half of SEV-BAR, now following on Twitter - evidently he was at fault for the goal, but even before that I've wondered whether Alex Song enjoys playing CB, and whether he anticipated being used there when he signed, since he clearly offered much more as a creative passing midfielder than did Mascherano in '10.

This sounds like quite the game. What's with Barca and the late late goals now? Are they getting less competent, or is it just boredom? In other news:

Barcelona have invited three Palestinians to attend their home match against Real Madrid on 7 October in response to Hamas calling for a media boycott of the club after it gave a complimentary ticket to an Israeli soldier.

The soldier is Gilad Shalit; poor guy deserves a break imo.

wish id watched this game.barca come back from two goals down to win in stoppage time with a villa strike,tito joins van gaal as barca coach with best start to a league,cesc gets a brace.gary medel scores opener and is sent off for a headbutt.

Valdés, Alves, Mascherano, Adriano, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta; Pedro, Messi i Cesc

Casillas; Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Marcelo; Khedira, X.Alonso; Özil, Cristiano, Di María y Benzema

I can understand dropping Song but Adriano?

the could be over already

jesus christ Pepe

FUCKING HELL Ray Hudson is unbearable. He calls Ozil "Avatar Eyes" ffs. Messi and Ronaldo both on hat-tricks now

totally inept defending from Barca

ah now what is this?

5-4 what kind of a result is that? Guess I better watch Revista this week.

"On the morning of the game, he's friendly, open. At lunch time, you can see he's concentrating that bit more. And by the time you leave the hotel for the ground, he's completely different. The contrast is huge. He leaves the dressing room last. And if you see his face at that point, he's no longer Falcao; he's The Tiger. His only thought is the ball."

you want to marry him don't you

would fear the honeymoon tbh

real talk i dont wanna be corny like but how many players do you ever watch that make you just wanna go out and kick a ball? cos that is falcao man

Really struggling to name a current player tbh. Now Pippo's retired. Maybe Neymar.

He leaves the wedding reception last. And if you see his face at that point, he's no longer Falcao; he's The Tiger. His only thought is [REDACTED].

what was the trophy they gave to xavi

equalizer from celta!

boss 1 2 btw iniesta and villa who scores 2 1

Ha Ha only just found out that RM lost y'day to a Betis side that looked a complete an utter shambles against Sevilla last week no less.

boss save from caballero

trying to watch isco closely and he just got booked for diving like ever flair player seems to be these days

simeone would have appreciated nacho camacho

for £2m he really wasnt worth selling

UN AUTHENTICO GOLAZO DE SAVIOLA

seeing jav sav and joaquin running things is enough to bring a tear to the eye of an early 2000s kid

I feel for Joaquin. Aiui he never really declined as such, it's more that Spanish football passed him by. It's like if Andy Carroll had made his debut in 1970 and was still ploughing on today.

i think it's fair to say he declined from the player who abramovich bid 30m or something for

sanchez flores used to rotate his wings between him angulo vicente and silva and since one was old one was young and one was forever injured, he got games even while being underwhelming

then silva took off and mata and pablo came along and he didn't really pick up

but without fulfilling his early promise he has still become a pretty good player for malaga

i suppose as an old fashioned winger he has been overshadowed by lateral playmaker types like isco cazorla etc but then navas and pedro have continued excelling

hungry today

http://cadfael.tv/image/src/1355078674823.gif

Still ten minutes to play, he might beat Messi to Muller's record after all

There's a player of the year award in The ILF Awards 2012, brought to you in association with Mister Potato just sayin'

there it is

i thought he was injured

after twp's performance today messi obviously felt the need to up his game

Ray Hudson: "Falcao has an eye for goal that would make the Cyclops jealous"

When it comes to strikers, there are few like him. Probably none. Falcao, 26, calls himself a "specialist"; goals are an obsession, something he has worked on relentlessly. He recently told FourFourTwo that if you gave him a pen and a piece of paper, he could probably draw you a diagram of every goal he has ever scored. There would be many of them – he has scored 176 goals so far, finishing as the Europa League's top scorer two seasons in a row and with two different teams – and all different types, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/dec/14/radamel-falcao-atletico-madrid-barcelona

espanyol scored late equalizer at bernabeu

barcelona atletico madrid now

falcao should of scored

have some of that

Beautiful finish. Wonderful touch.

how high is a high foot in spain ffs, ref's blowing for everything

oh shit son

what a hit

falcao so boss

puyol v falcao is good fun

the little touch from Busquets sent guys flailing. Very calm to do that in that mass of people in the box.

even so, if you've gotta concede against barca then that's the poorest way to do it

be disappointed with that one bolo

ugh

That Messi dude has some potential.

Sid Lowe ‏@sidlowe
Vilanova, as you probably all know, had a tumour removed last year. According to EMD, has suffered a relapse.

barcastuff ‏@barcastuff
Barcelona are preparing a statement to give more information about Vilanova's relapse and about who will replace him during recovery

#prayfortito

studge_siren.gif (onimo) wrote this on thread Moneyball won't win the Premiership 2012-13 on board I Love Everything on 01-Dec-2012

Odds on Guardiola's next job. 40/1 shots looks worth a punt imo.

Chelsea 5/2
Man City 5/4
Man Utd 6
Arsenal 8
Bayern Munich 20
Spain 20
AC Milan 33
Qatar 33
Roma 33
Barcelona 40

That 40/1 is now 2/1.

, in which onimo profits from taking up that oncology residency in barcelona

ach it's not like I made it happen

(I didn't even bet on it)

from what i'm reading guardiola has a difficult relationship with rosell and it's far from certain he will be asked to return, let alone whether he wants to take up a caretaker role of indeterminate length

bayern @ 20 not too shabby at all

yeah i thought bayern was always more likely than chelsea and probably city too despite begiristan and the other cunts there

bayern = fresh = organic = traditional = spiritual = volkisch = every player is sufficiently precious to have their own tumblr, the only team outside arsenal and barcelona who can claim that honour

http://www.gomezbutton.de/

xp also last but not least lots of wonga to decadently waste every so often

pep trying to train big mario anything will be a treat

are bayern quite as twee as all that tho, isnt it more a ynahtid winners tradition

no matter anyway they would give themselves over to pep totally

tito definitely learning from him with £15m for song, straight out of the hleb/caceres/henrique/keirrison/txigrinski/ZLATAN playbook

i was reading keirrison's wiki the other day

what a fuck up

bayern in europe are definitely kinda twee, losing 3 out of 4 champions league finals in the modern era

they are multitudinous, elements of cold teutonic vigour but there aren't any kahns or effenbergs rutting about the place any more, even the lahm/schweini generation are serial second/third place finishers, next generation are a bit wet really, junior boateng, fatty kroos, badstuber has more than a tincture of jenks about him

in neuer we trust

This Malaga - Real Madrid game got crazy.

fantastic game

highlight either roque santa cruz turning into luiz ronaldo or casillas trying to conceal a rueful smirk

he's trying to get fired now.

i don't think he wants to get fired right now, but if he is let go at the end of the season then the next club won't have to pay compensation so he could end up earning even more

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1685647/0/florentino-perez/casillas/mourinho/

florentino perez takes off his glasses to see if that is really what the teamsheet says

although apparently this was rumoured inside madrid so who knows, the place is still a fucking shower

I have difficulty believing this to be true "At the moment, for me and my coaching staff, Adan is better than Iker," Mourinho said. I have difficulty believing that he even believes this to be true.

Adan sent off five minutes in

what do you think mourinho said to casillas as he was about to go on?

http://i.minus.com/ibj9PwNbulV7lY.gif

i really want to see villa having at least a season or two doing this stuff at barcelona before he makes the step down to the epl or bundesliga or whatever

Wha'?

eh

Barca cruise to 2-0 lead, get overwhelmed by Sociedad second half, lose 3-2

13
José Manuel Pinto G
5
Carles Puyol D
2
Dani Alves D
3
Gerard Piqué D
18
Jordi Alba D
6
Xavi M
8
Andrés Iniesta M
4
Cesc Fábregas M
10
Lionel Messi M
16
Sergio Busquets M
17
Pedro F

sort of flicking between this and the Arsenal - Liverpool game. Anyone been watching / is it any good? Haven't seen much to grab the attention in my brief glances, except for an early Ronaldo free kick

varane is the best 19 yr old central defender i have seen

awesome recovery challenges on messi and fabregas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0Ah8HASik

this is turning into a bit of a pasting

varane is the best 19 yr old central defender i have seen

― How many of these effluential surveys do you take? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:07 (3 weeks ago)

puyol is not the best 34 yr old central defender i have seen

Yeah, watching this. Real isn't that good, but Barca are clueless and in dire need of a real striker.

Curious to see if Barca are really losing it. Saturday it's RMA-BAR, next week CL.

they dont need a striker they won 2 european cups with messi playing like this

they need alexis, puyol, xavi etc

Barca only won 1 out of the 9 last Clasico's

Last 7 I mean

half of them are cdr or supercup and are of no great consequence, what matters is their cl performances and after they disgraced themselves by failing to destroy a shitty chelsea team at stamford bridge last season, they were even worse vs milan

there are serious problems and their summer 2011 transfers are the main culprit (failure to buy thiago silva as well as the purchases/misuse of alexis and cesc)

malaga atleti still 0-0 as it was last season

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/state-aid-for-madrids-bernabeu-stadium-its-all-about-the-real-estate-8557549.html

When the agreement in July 2011 between MCC and Real was finally signed, including land transactions and cancellation of fines, the outstanding balance between the two parties was just €8 in Real's favour. The club agreed to waive the debt.

I am not unhappy at Real Madrid, says José Mourinho

• I could be happier or less happy, says Real Madrid manager

Madrid Ultras singing "Casillas es el topo, Casillas vete ya." Translation: "Casillas is the mole, Casillas go now."