Danelka

I think Xavi is past it, his performances are becoming worse and worse. Some years ago he was the best midfielder in the world, now he is just an arrogant, bitter mug who can't handle defeats.

Both Torres+Mata and Luiz+Oscar start tonight.

All right, maybe the word "worship" wasn't the best, but I just wanted to point out the difference between the evaluation of the 2 of them. You are absolutely right that performance should be the only criteria, but we are talking about club and national team, which are a bit different. Torres contributed more to the WC and Euro wins than Mata in my opinion, but I haven't seen anyone questioning the level of Mata's contribution towards them, whereas from time to time, you can see bitter remarks about Torres's. This is actually understandable, because Mata is playing exceptionally on club level, while Torres is utter shit most of the time, so people base their opinion on that. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, I just wanted to say that I find this phenomenon interesting. Again, sorry if that wasn't clear for the first time.

Yeah, I think we could easily pay that 63M, we just don't want to.

Guys, guys, I think you misunderstood me, I didn't phrase it very well. The point I was trying to make is that it's interesting to see that how people's attitude towards two player's same achievements are affected by their other performances. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Also, I don't worship Mata because of his trophy collection, there is really no need to put words in my mouth.

Actually, I don't think that FFP is that big of a problem, because if we were to sign Cavani for 63M on a say, 5 year contract, the transfer fee could be amortised over the 5 years, so the expense for this year would be only around 12.6M, which is not that much for a club like us.

What I find funny is that although he and Mata won the same things, (save for the 08 EC/11 U21 WC) Torres is the only one who is constantly "mocked" with not contributing anything to those achievements, whereas Mata - who was, let's say, gifted a WC and an Euro, (and except his assist in the final, he was at most average in the CL as well) - is worshipped because of his trophy collection. [And this is coming from someone whose favourite player is Mata]

If you wanna have a good laugh, look at his thread at RedCafe. Brilliant.

3 matches against good opponents. I like this little tourney.

What are you on about? I never said he didn't say those things, I only highlighted the part of your comment where you said he blamed the fans. On the contrary, he said many times he can't thank them enough for their support.

That's just not true.

Actually, we are exactly one cut-inside and shoot the ball into the 9th row away from the trademark Robben performance.

Oh yeah, another standard big cup finale performance by Robben. A joy to watch.

Let the Robben bottle job begin!

WestBrom-MU 5:5

They don't need to if they don't concede, a 2-0 win for them would make their goal difference +36 compared to our +35.

Us. We scored more goals.

They only need 2 if they don't concede.

The look on Platini's face was like "Not these bunch again". Fuck off you cunt.

We all know it's gonna come down to the 5th penalty shot taken by Torres.

McManaman is class.

He could be sent off in about every second match. Too bad this is the match when he got the red.

Benítez to be an interim manager at United until Fergie has his hip surgery done?

Maybe you should try to express yourself more clearly? Because, you know, it's possible that "before Roman time" means 5-10/15-20 years ago for you, but for others it probably means 1/2 years ago, and that time the club clearly wasn't "hovering in the middle of PL standings".

1. Arsenal finished lower in the Premier League than United, so they earned less money from the TV pool than United, plus United did better points wise in the groupstages. 2. Similarly to 1, since City won the league, they got more money from the TV pool than Arse + United, and since every English club crashed out of the CL early, the another half of the allocated TV money which is given out based on progress (43.3 million, 28 matches played by Engish clubs, thats about 1,5 million per match) were split kinda evenly, they only got about 3 million more than City from that.