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I've actually heard Javier Tebas (LFP President) say that the early morning game is for British viewers funnily enough so as to bypass the protection 3pm gate. But on the whole the reason behind it is the Asian market. Hence (coupled with the Premier League situation) why I protest so much.

Oh right... Yeah, we're actually into the third season with that situation and clubs like Barça, Athletic Bilbao, Atlético Madrid and Valencia have made themselves heard on it. Funnily enough, Real Madrid have kept silent.

Haven't heard anything about that but to be honest it wouldn't surprise me.

Agree with that! All the stories emanating from the Barcelona based press on Dybala and Griezmann are crazy to be honest. Why in hell would any of those two want to go there and be on the bench? The crazier part is Dybala's constant messages on social media lauding Barça in one way or another. Verratti is the man that looks to be perfect for Barça's midfield but negotiating with PSG is extremely difficult unless they want rid of a player which isn't the case here. But on the other hand it seems Verratti wants to leave and his agent is doing a good job of causing havoc with contradicting messages every week.

Yea mate... Get strong soon!

On a serious note, that is ridiculous. Where do we draw the line!

€100m is what's being talked about where Verratti is in question. The important part is that in the past two weeks his agent has actually been in contact with Barça but I doubt they'll pay that amount.

Verratti or Coutinho? Speculating on possible future signings for any club is a part of football nowadays, as much as talking about tactics, team selections or results. Nowadays in a pub you can listen to friends commenting on who they would love or who they think they'll end up getting.... Even speculating on who may be leaving. It's no secret Barça want to boost the midfield next summer and add a central midfielder that is versatile. There are many, but the names that have been consistently on the media's mouth where Barcelona is concerned for over two years are Marco Verratti and Philippe Coutinho... Both are very different but both add tremendous values to any midfield. Both players have personal friends within the Barça camp with Liverpool's Coutinho having a close relationship with compatriot Neymar and obviously Luis Suárez from his time at Liverpool. Paris Saint-Germain's Verratti is a close friend of Andrés Iniesta, Puyol and Xavi (the two latter no longer at the club). Infact it is Xavi who has constantly validated Verratti's possible qualities for Barça vocally on many an occasion and it's also known that both Demetrio Albertini and Andrea Pirlo have said many times in the Italian press that Verratti at Barça would be great not only for the player but also for Italian football itself. So who will it be?... One or the other, maybe even both or it could even be that none of the two. I can't choose because both add tremendous qualities to the midfield but both are very different. El Barça quiere un crack para la media: Verratti o Coutinho Verratti, la debilidad de Xavi Coutinho, el amigo y fan de Neymar

A library? What's a library? Becoming extinct... Although I'm sure that blonde would've been chucked out of The Emirates for being so loud!

These kids eat, drink and only think football. They're children at the end of the day mate! When I was a kid I dreamt about being things with the only difference being that whatever I wanted to be I wasn't living in an environment so focussed on what I wanted. Adults have the benefit of understanding and evolved reasoning where as children live in an unorthodox fantasy world.

That @ thing threw me off and I didn't even know what thread I was on. Like I said in a post above... These academies are very harsh environments for young kids even though their every need is catered for. It changes them completely and they lose their youth. The worst part is that a very very low percentage get to actually become a main feature in the ultimate side in the future. If I remember rightly, I read an article on an interview with Atlético Madrid's Saúl who was originally a Real Madrid academy kid and he had terrible stories to tell about that experience.

Agreed mate! He'd be a greedy git if he asked for money playing for Barça... He actually pays them for the privilege. There's too many greedy characters in football these days.

Academies at that level of club are always difficult places to reside in. If anyone wants to understand in full detail all of these happenings and more then they should read Andrés Iniesta's autobiography "The Artist". It tells of how he cried every day for two years, tried to run away two times and was found in a cinema in central Barcelona... The stories are endless! The pressure is massive and the responsibility felt at such a young age coming from humble families is extraordinary. We're talking institutions here, and the hope of one day being able to come out in the strip playing for the home team.

It's Britain which has the least happy children in the developed world, the highest infant mortality rate in Western Europe and some of the worst child poverty in the industrialised world. It's British elderly people who are the fourth poorest pensioners in the EU. It's Britain which has the eighth biggest gender pay gap in Europe and child care costs much higher than most European countries. I've taken that excerpt out because I've seen things in London (of all places, so imagine other parts of England) that verify this and I'm not even talking about underpaid migrants with children. I'm talking about white English people... The stats on mortality are also shocking.

What Spanish threads?

A mate I have on Facebook (obviously a Scott) wrote this a few days back... The entire Westminster establishment is all too happy to lie to Scotland just as it's lied to the people of England for so long, the English genuinely believe they subsidise this wonderful payment free life we enjoy here because that's EXACTLY what they've been told for generations. Since the birth of the Union Scotland has been a cash cow for England and they have lived really quite well off the milk of that cow, not all of England of course just the ruling classes and those fortunate enough to live in the South East and other Tory heartlands. The rest of England i.e everything north of Watford has been told that they can't have the same fabulous life as London etc because the government just can't afford it ... so those people see themselves being forced to pay for prescriptions and student tuition fees while us "subsidised Scots" don't .... hell if it was me I'd be pissed off to .... but these people aren't being told the real truth, they are being lied to just as we are about how poor and helpless Scotland is when the whole time Westminster KNOWS the truth and they know what will happen if and when that truth gets out and the English people see what they've done to them, not because Scotland was having all the extra cash in subsidies but because they have been creaming off the top for decades, making themselves richer and more powerful without a single shit being given about anyone else. That is what they fear most, their lie being exposed and their greed being laid out for all to see because that's when the pitchforks really will come out and a proper French style revolution will take place ..... THAT my friends is why Westminster and it's cohorts and other allies will do and say absolutely ANYTHING to maintain the status quo ..... because their very existence depends on it.

I agree, she's used the EU issue as the reason to call the referendum. But in fairness Scotland voted to stay and under her ideological standpoint she's seen it as a nation's vote that has gone unheared at Westminster.

I never said I agreed with it although at the same time it doesn't concern me as it's an issue for the Scottish people. Infact I don't agree with it and from a personal standpoint it would be sad, but that's personal and I'm only voicing it because you have assumed I am for some strange reason pro-Scottish Independence. What I am in favour of is that for a set of people to decide their own future and that also includes the Catalans, Basques and Galicians if they so wish. In saying this, they're not actually countries where as Scotland actually is. But to cut it all short... All I was saying is that I don't understand the jibes being thrown at Sturgeon when all she's doing is complying with her ideology and the political standpoint she believes in and was voted in for. She hasn't betrayed anyone and neither did Farage.

Mate I don't get it... She's doing EXACTLY the same thing Farage was working towards for years. She's working for what she sees as her people's wishes... The people that voted for her. Why else would you vote for a nationalist party which in essence is what UKIP were when he done all of his work.

All this surprise I'm listening too everywhere over the past two days as to Sturgeon's stance is hilarious. I had to rip into a friend of mine too! She is the leader of the SNP for god's sake! She's doing her job! If Scotland go independent they'll be ripped into by Europe and used as an example tool for all those splinter regions elsewhere in Europe that are thinking the same thing. Too much power lies in other bigger ponds.

Very few coaches have an inbred system mate. Athletic players are brought up on a more direct style of football and Valverde has had a job of harnessing that and not trying to change the players. He knows Barça and won't want to change it.

Valverde knows Barça. He played there and learned much of his coaching skills while working at La Masia. Plus his temperament is good for Barça... A calming figure. The fact he trusts youth is also a plus.

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