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Please no! Good technical ability, very dynamic, but completely brainless footballer. He's a step down from Ramires.

I know the feel bro. I just finished an exam and have my last mid-term on Friday. I couldn't study a thing today! First thing I read when I woke up this morning. Put a big smile on my face. So that's how it feels to have someone in the media sticking up for you!

I read somewhere that Platini was considering instead of banning teams who breach FFP completely from European competitions, to have a limit on the wages of the players who can play in Europe from those teams. So if you breach FFP you can't play all your stars in European competitions. I think that's a very practical and achievable idea. I hope they implement it because let's face it, banning big clubs from the CL was never realistic.

You should really have a look in the Traore thread and see the comments there Some people wanted him thrown right into the first team when he got his license!

*bump*

Currently Arturo is playing much better than Bastian. To be fair, Pep's system doesn't highlight Bastian's strengths. I agree with Ryan, Kroos has been much more important for Bayern this season than Bastian.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1s515s_jose-mourinho-press-conference-on-atletico-madrid-home_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1s5bb0_john-terry-press-conference-on-atletico-madrid-home_sport

Love this:

Real defended excellently and showed that they can a great defense when they keep their organisation and focus. Factor in their lightening quick attack and they are by far the favourites to win it regardless of who goes through tonight.

I think all Bayern players will require butt surgery after tonight's match as well

Come on, Ramos. Just do something stupid, we all know you want to!

Don't you just love happy endings where everyone gets what they want? Real got the goals and win they wanted and Bayern got the 70% possession they care so much about. So technically, by their respective standards, both teams won! It's just so beautiful to see.. :')

Haha, I think it's pretty clear what Garry Neville thinks of Tiki-Taka:

No questions about Eto'o?

HAHAHAHAHA Pep you wanker!

That was red for me. He knew exactly what he was doing there!

Game over.

It is because they sold Ozil in the last couple of weeks and without prior planing of doing so. They looked for a long time, and could have easily, ended the window with spending over 100 million pounds than what they've received. Besides, why should they care about FFP? Can yuo really imagine UEFA banning them from the CL?!

Carvajal? Casemiro? Come on, they gave a huge FU to FFP last summer.

They bought Illaramendi for 40m. Ozil left because he knew he won't be a starter when they signed Bale.

Do they? I mean it's pretty obvious they won't ever comply with FFP and it's even more obvious that they aren't even trying to.

Last time Athletico were at the bridge: http://vimeo.com/92682057

Just one question: Why are we assuming the Real are willing to sell? I mean he's their first choice striker and he's still pretty young. And even if they do buy another striker, the talk is that they're going to sell or at least loan out Morata in the summer, not Benzema.