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The last few years have been really crazy, haven't they? I mean Between Rio Ferdinand/Zinidine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo there was about an eight year span of 30/40mil being the absolute maximum for blockbuster deals.

I'm sure Liverpool could do the same. You lot could probably hock Lucas Leiva for about that much to some retarded Chinese businessman. It's the not the amount that concerns me the most, it's the precedent of those prices becoming the norm.

You're 100% correct, it's the minor slips up that lose a title. Although, 70mil?

I can't wait for Lukaku to score 70% of his goals against relegation fodder.

So, how do you Bundesliga fans feel about Rasenballsport Leipzig? On one hand they are an 'artificial' creation but at the same time, they are incredibly well run and managed; it's hard to not be impressed.

That being said it wasn't as bad as all the people living in shanty towns on top of graveyards.

When I was on the island of Palawan I witnessed something quite disturbing. I was standing on a road adjacent to the bench. There were many people around, it was almost a makeshift village on the docks. I was waiting for our boat and an 'aso' (that is a Filipine street-dog) walked passed me. I didn't pay it any mind till I saw something in my peripheral vision. It still send shivers through my skin, the dog was missing half of it's skull. The brain was visible and infested with maggots. This wouldn't not have bothered me if it was simply a dead dog lying on the ground but this thing was very much alive and nonchalantly walking through the street.

The Philippines is on of the most beautiful places in the world; if you can you can stomach wading through the disgusting stench and rubbish to get to the beauty.

I'm white, I can't tell you darkies apart.

The opening splash screen makes Rashford look like he is working the balls and shaft.

@Cannabis doesn't really have a lady. It's just his family's foreign house-keeper. She doesn't speak a word of English so he takes her around town and introduces her as his 'missus' and since she doesn't understand she just smiles and nods.

Thriller is the best Pop album of all time and one of the best albums of all time. Even the worst song on the album (This Girl Is Mine) is fantastic. Hell, MJ makes a better Prince song than Prince with P.Y.T.

German isn't even the best Germanic language

That boy is quick, nimble, and clever. He looks to be playing against boys years older than him but size and age doesn't matter, if he is playing against players less intelligent than him he will always shine. What happens when plays against a midfielder that knows how to mark, when to press, and when to intercept? Is there anyone a little closer!? Like in the next one or two years.

Denis Suarez is an oddity to me. He jumped around so many academies I wonder who he owes the most to. Probably Man City (he was there during those crucial late-teen years), anyway I don't look at players as 'products' of one place if they've been to several academies. They all play a part whether positive or negative. For instance, the ground work for a pre-pubescent Lionel Messi has to be given to Newell's Old Boys. People are quick to say things like 'John Terry is a Chelsea graduate', well it's true but he did play at West Ham for a long time. It's really just semantics, you say Nolito is a Barcelona graduate, I say that the reserve team isn't the same as the academy. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day, whether they were there for ten years or one, it's more important which club took a gamble on them to be a professional first team player. For instance, is Olympique Lyon more important in the development of Anthony Martial, or is Monaco (the team that payed a pretty penny for a teenager and took a gamble on him in the first team)? You could say he learnt how to play at OL but Moncao is the team that 'made' him. And if that is the case surely it'd apply to Nolito as well, Algaida is where he learned, Barcelona is where he made it (...or was it Benfica...hmmm?). What other players are due to appear from La Maisa?

What fucking street? Lord Street off Southport, Scouse skum?

Haha, gotta love that cheeky little dig at other clubs not using their academies But yes, Barca are doing a great job using Fluminese youth graduates Semantics, aside Barcelona does try to use youth despite the fact none have really stuck around since Busquets. Though it has to be said that Real has taken over in the last three or so years with Nacho, Lucas, Carvajal, and Morata. La Maisa's dry spell better kick it!

I don't recall Lell and Conteno receiving send offs.

One moment sticks out in my head. I will probably never see it again, nor remember who it was against. Guti was doing nothing and then split the entire team open with one pass, it must have been a forty metre pass, gracefull and effortless, it looked like something that Xavi would dream of. It really seemed like he had no right doing such a thing!

@SirBalon I only caught the tail end of his career but was Guti simply a case of 'world class' talent unfulfilled due to a poor attitude? I remember moments of magic but other than that nothing.

How I learnt to count

I read that sentence at least ten times and I still don't get it. Is that Galician?

I don't 'add'. I get added.