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"Is it true that Stephen Hunt is a legend?" - Liverpool fan in the replies Joke about a man nearly getting killed in a football match, Scousers keeping it classy as always. Fucking cunts.

Looks like 55 points was better than I thought it would be, the average score so far is just 22. I’m currently second with just one point behind the leader in a league where the prize for the winner of GW1 is a trip to England for a PL match including all costs so shit’s about to get real. I still have Costa and Hazard to score me some more points but it remains to be seen whether that’s enough to beat my competitors who have some different players left (mostly one or two players like Yaya, Dzeko, Fabregas etc.). None of the others have Hazard so a hat trick for Eden on Monday and I can start planning for my trip.

Shush, we don't want her to get a competitive edge over us.

I have both, Ramsey is even my captain. If I checked correctly I will have 55 points once the bonuses have been added. Not too bad for the first day.

For £5.5m I would go for Debuchy or Jones and at £5m there's also Ben Davies. For some reason Davies isn't playing today against West Ham but should be Tottenham's first choice ahead of Rose this season.

That's a pretty good looking team you got there. Doubling up on Everton's defense is probably not the best of ideas given their tough early fixtures but the midfield looks great. Won't be enough to beat me but you can take second place.

Time to quote myself.

http://imgur.com/B13ZDJ1 Now that the deadline is near I might as well post my team. Switched the armband from Rooney to Ramsey in the last minute, hope the decision won't bite me in the ass. Edit: I sent the codes for TX, Polo7 and jmarlow because the deadline is so near and there's no point for them to join at all if they miss the first round. I hope you won't ban me, Steve!

Why am I not surprised?

I think Matic could give a decent return for his £5.5m price tag. He's a guaranteed starter for a team that often gets clean sheets and will occasionally chip in with a goal or an assist. Haven't really checked the revised bonus point system but I would guess Matic will also get a pretty good amount of interceptions and tackles so he could be receiving a bonus point or two every once in a while. He's almost certain to score somewhere between 100-140 points over the course of the season and there are not many similarly priced options who will score more than that, maybe Sigurdsson, Shelvey, Henderson, Puncheon and Adam. Definitely not going to take Matic myself but I can see why he will be a tempting option for some.

Rather he'd take 9 after Torres is finally gone.

Yep, that's right. France didn't really have any other interesting teams aside from PSG so naturally they get the lion's share from the French broadcasting revenue.

I drink whatever's available. Not sure if that makes me an alcoholic...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/07/13/decrepit-four-years-after-hosting-the-beijing-olympics-this-is-what-chinas-40b-investment-looks-like/ Same thing happened in Beijing, pictures are from 2012 just four years after the Olympics.

http://web3.cmvm.pt/sdi2004/emitentes/docs/FR51732.pdf This is Porto's statement to the Portuguese stock exchange on the transfer, it confirms they owned just 56.67% of Mangala and received a total of €30.5m for their part. The rest of the player was owned by Jorge Mendes and I'm having a really hard time believing he would have valued his share low enough to sell the 43% for just €9.5m. Some media outlets, at least Independent, say the total amount was £42.9m which would mean that Mendes' share was valued the same as Porto's but without an official statement to support either of the claims I suppose we'll never get to know the truth.

Agent Didier trying to destroy Liverpool FC?

Costa: "It's a club with great history. That's the reason I chose Chelsea and why I want to defend this shirt." Not sure if he just joined Liverpool or Chelsea.

Would be a great signing. Cheap, versatile and PL proven. Could play out wide or up front where he'd offer a whole new dimension compared to Costa, DD and Torres. Already settled in London too.

Marca are saying 4-6 months, take that with a pinch of salt for now but gutted if true. If he really is out for most of the season we'll definitely have to go after another striker now.

Ridiculously overpriced though. Porto just announced to the stock exchange to have received €30.5m for 56.7% of Mangala's rights so in total City paid around €54m for Mangala. That equals almost 43 million pounds.

Javi Garcia is not in there but Nastasic still qualifies as U21 for the PL and can be registered on the B-list for Champions League so they've got a total of 18 non-HG players. For the Champions League they can only name 16 non-HG players due to their FFP sanctions so two of them have to go but for the Premier League they only need to sell one. Javi Garcia will probably be the first to go but after that they can't really afford to lose anyone so it will be interesting to see who will miss out on the CL squad.

It’s almost midnight here and I’m still hungover after consuming unspeakable amounts of alcohol over the last couple of days. Other than that the weekend was great. We had a gathering of over 30 friends from all over the country and did all kinds of fun stuff at a cabin. Hadn’t seen some of the people in a long time so it was nice. Drunken paintball was the best, I think my body will need a couple of weeks to recover from that.

Maybe the fact he went to Liverpool, praised their club's glorious fucking history and told everyone how he knew straight away they were going to win the league ahead of Chelsea has something to do with many of us disliking him. In his one season at Chelsea I would say he pretty much did what was asked of him. He was bought only as a squad player and was not completely useless but not very good either.

TX has already done that plenty of times and as they say, what has been seen cannot be unseen.

After Rodwell maybe they'd fancy another washed up injury-ravaged player, we got this kid they call the German Messi and I reckon Sunderland could get him for £15m.