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He has to be one of the unluckiest players in the world with the cruciate ligament, then the injury just when he won a place at Valencia, then the changing of the manager while he was injured...etc.

Assuming he stays away from injury and earns starting spot. Another Valencia loan and he'll most probably be sold cheap next summer (not that he did badly there, but was just desperately unlucky).

Lost a bit of weight, @Ollie?

Hey, don't use your Twitter account to fan-girl over Jonas if you don't want to be called a Jonas fan-girl...

@, do you know/watch Chi-N-N? :lol: Not only is he a Belieber, but he's also a Jonas fan-girl!

Expected despite the contract renewal. I still have hope for Oriol, so I wish him the best of luck. Looks like we'll need to start following the Bundes Liga this season. Is this our fourth loanee there, now?

OMG Those poor people in Israel are getting startled by the by the evil Hamas rockets? And those devils are doing all this just because their people have been thrown out of their homes, lost their land, been thrown into a huge concentration camp with no basic human rights where a racist army monitors and limits all their consumption and where they are subjected to daily racist abuse and harassment and where they are slaughtered by the hundreds using the most advanced weapons in the world every other year?! :o The fiends! You can post all the YouTube videos you want, but the reality is there for the whole word to see. There can be no more excuses for this ongoing massacre. Even the Israeli boys aren't showing their faces on here anymore.

Hello Rachel and welcome to TC. I take it you're Jake's gf? You have my utmost sympathies if that is the case! To answer the question in your thread tags, no I don't think Spike is gay, but he does seem to have a lot of homosexual fantasies about @Jason... Don't let Lord Ashburner's 'blessing' throw you off. Let me know if you have any questions about the forum

PS: Today the IOF admitted that the Israeli soldier that they said was kidnapped (and had half the world leaders slate Hamas for like the little puppets they are) was never kidnapped and had been killed (before the ceasefire came into effect, I might add) and that they just found out after the DNA testing that they have had his remains this whole time. So the collapse of the ceasefire and the hundreds of civilians killed in Rafah with their 'Hannibal Directive' was all for nothing. Meanwhile the massacres continue in Gaza. Another school hit today to raise the total to 7 schools directly targeted by the IOF. And another two ambulances as well to make it 36 ambulances hit by the IOF and 19 paramedics killed since the start of this assault. On the other side, you have things like this: I could almost feel my brain cells dying listening to that! Btw, that guy labels himself as a "philosopher"!

This is brilliant. Very rarely do you see such honesty and true passion by a politician. Irish Senator David Norris:

Good to see Thibaut, Mikel, Hazard and Drogba in action and getting some minutes under their belt.

Yeah, but what is astonishing is that it is now a military plan. A tactic they teach and train their soldiers on. And a plan they make public and are not ashamed of!

IOF commander explaining the real objective of the attack, what he calls the "Dahiya doctrine": 6. (S) Eisenkot labeled any Israeli response to resumed conflict the "Dahiya doctrine" in reference to the leveled Dahiya quarter in Beirut during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. He said Israel will use disproportionate force upon any village that fires upon Israel, "causing great damage and destruction." Eisenkot made very clear: this is not a recommendation, but an already approved plan -- from the Israeli perspective, these are "not civilian villages, they are military bases." Eisenkot in this statement echoed earlier private statements made by IDF Chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, who said the next fight in Southern Lebanon would come at a much higher cost for both sides -- and that the IDF would not hold back. 7. (SBU) Eisenkot stated that Damascus fully understands what the Israelis did in Dahiya, and that the Israelis have the capability of doing the same to Syria. He suggested the possibility of harm to the population has been Hizballah leader Nasrallah's main constraint, and the reason for the quiet over the past two years. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08TELAVIV2329_a.html#efmBOyBhT Basically, the plan is to cause as much damage and kill as much civilians as possible using "indiscriminate force" and disproportional power in hope that the huge loss of civilians will be a constraint for the resistance in the future. "Most moral army in the world"....

So the funniest thing happened yesterday in Gaza. There was supposed to be a 72 hour ceasefire while the sides debated an Israeli retreat from Gaza in Egypt. Minutes into ceasefire, an Israeli force advanced into Rafah which until yesterday had not been invaded by land yet (in a clear violation of the ceasefire, but that's expected from Israel). They wanted to destroy three buildings because they believed that there might be a tunnel in the area. They came up against a group from a resistance faction from "zero-range"; two of them got killed and they had to retreat. Once they retreated, they realized that they had a soldier missing at which point the IOF initiated what is known as the "Hannibal Directive": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive It is a military tactic that Israeli army trains and have used when one of it's soldiers is captured in the past including here in Lebanon. Basically, it says that it is better to kill the captured soldier than let the enemy have him. So they proceeded to bomb the shit out of the area. 80 corpses arrived at the hospital with an unknown number still under the rubble as more than 60 buildings were completely destroyed by over 700 strikes within an hour. And out came flying all the Israeli scenarios of the alleged capture including tunnels and suicide bombers. Then in came the Zionist wannabes. Obama called the resistance "barbaric" for capturing the soldier. Even Ban Ki Moon who usually at most "expresses his concern" when hundreds of Palestinians are killed, came out and slammed Hamas and the resistance. Today, the resistance came out and said that they know nothing of the soldier and said that he was probably killed in combat and his group forgot to evacuate him. It really would have been a funny cock up by the IOF if hundreds of people hadn't been murdered in the past 24 hours...

I meant "do it with Jason" of course!

^^ More importantly, can you do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke?!

Bremen are not the side they were a few years ago. I think Sociedad will be by far the toughest test.

Honestly, I have more faith in Israel than in the Arab league! They're all a bunch of over fed tyrants that know nothing and care nothing about the people. All they care about is power and sex. Just look up the quotes by Tzipi Livni where she said that she slept with some Arab leaders when she the minister of foreign affairs to get them to change their political stance including dropping their support for Lebanon during the 2006 assault. If there ever will be a change to the current 'equation' it would mostly likely come from the people themselves.

The KSA has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons. So has half the gulf countries.. But forget the weapons, even forget the oil card, which is one the most powerful cards on the world, no fat king or prince or even official from the gulf has so much as condemned the attack so far. We are all partners in the crime.

Very unlikely. There is a lot if sympathy and outrage in the region from the people, Muslim or otherwise, but all the governments don't come near living up to the peoples wishes when it comes to Palestine. Arab leaders are mostly traitors that would sell their own children for power. It's a bit more complicated than that though. Arabs are notoriously terrible at politics. Our cultures seem unable to see long term in anything so either decisions are made on current petty political issues. Right now, Qatar supports and fund Hamas because they are trying to buy their way into a political role in the region that is bigger than them. KSA naturally does the opposite and are most likely funding the Israeli army in secret. Under the table as well, Iran is arming some of the Palestinian resistance militias, including Hamas (or some parts of Hamas, at least). Hamas is coy of the Iranan support because their main sponsor, Qatar, are in a Cold War, a long with most of the gulf, with Iran. But the Iranians are much better at politics than us and can see the big long term picture so they are fine with arming them without getting the recognition. In Lebanon, Hezbollah has trained the Palestinian resistance before the war in Syria and even helped arming both directly and indirectly through teaching them how to manufacture the weapons themselves. This attack seems to have mended the broken relationship between Hezboullah and Hamas.

Not 'protests' because by our constitution Israel is an enemy; more like support rallies. I went to one, but there aren't many happening because car bombs are still a threat, so the gouvernment is wary of any crowded demonstrations. There have been a few gestures which probably psychelogically help more. The parliament had a special session in support of Gaza and Am Musil in Iraq, and the names if all the martyrs were hung on the iconic Rawshe rock in Beirut. But the gesture that really moved me, was all the news stations of all the political parties in Lebanon, the parties that have been fighting since forever, came together and broadcasted a unified news bulliten in support of Gaza. If you know the depth of the political disagreements in Lebanon, you'd know how big a step that is. Social media and on forums is where I let off steam. I think exposing the truth to the whole world, especially people in the west, can make a difference. Tjanks to social media, this has been one of the best covered attack on Gaza I have witnessed, and this has helped sway the opinions of a lot of people, especially in Europe.

Another two massacres today. Another attack on an UNRWA school in the morning killed 19; almost all women and children. Then during the 4-hour "ceasefire" in the afternoon, when people went out to the market to restock, the IOF targeted the crowded market place. 17 people killed including a journalist and cameraman and two paramedics and about 200 injured. I don't have words anymore. Sigh...

How do you explain the homosexual fantasies you have about Jason?

Fernando, I'm out of town, I'll reply when I get home or get my hands on laptop. On a different note, The Times of Israel leaked this call between Obama and Netanyahu: Barack Obama: I demand that Israel agrees to an immediate, unilateral ceasefire and halt all offensive activities, in particular airstrikes. Benjamin Netanyahu: And what will Israel receive in exchange for a ceasefire? BO: I believe that Hamas will cease its rocket fire — silence will be met with silence. BN: Hamas broke all five previous ceasefires. It’s a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel. BO: I repeat and expect Israel to stop all its military activities unilaterally. The pictures of destruction in Gaza distance the world from Israel’s position. BN: Kerry’s proposal was completely unrealistic and gives Hamas military and diplomatic advantages. BO: Within a week of the end of Israel’s military activities, Qatar and Turkey will begin negotiations with Hamas based on the 2012 understandings, including Israel’s commitment to removing the siege and restrictions on Gaza. BN: Qatar and Turkey are the biggest supporters of Hamas. It’s impossible to rely on them to be fair mediators. BO: I trust Qatar and Turkey. Israel is not in the position that it can choose its mediators. BN: I protest because Hamas can continue to launch rockets and use tunnels for terror attacks – BO: (interrupting Netanyahu) The ball’s in Israel’s court, and it must end all its military activities. Very interesting if true.

Today is is the Muslim 'Futr Eid'. It celebrated the end of Ramadan. One of the traditions of the Eid is building a playground just for the two days for the children to play for free. Just a few swings and slides and rides that usually are no where near the required level of safety. But kids lineup by the dozens for a turn. This I'd a tradition throughout the Arab world as far as I'm aware and Gaza is no different. The only difference is that, in Gaza, the IOF targeted the 'Eid Park' with an airstrike. 10 children massacred and more than 45 severely injured.