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

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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

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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!

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?

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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

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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."