Congratulations to Guangzhou Evergrande, who are mental enough to pay 17m for Paulinho

[Classic Jorge]

The only other team that mental were spurs.

17m :hehe:

[Luis Anaconda]

that some people are so fond of talking up

[Classic Jorge]

Shouldve bid 22m

[Luis Anaconda]

[7evens]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But then history aside they can tend to be a rather silly club, especially with respect to annual recruitment.

Mind you the fee for Bale does not seem that bad when compared with the fee for James Hamez Rogriduez.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

63m for Di Maria, and if they get Ramos it will probably be close to 40m. Ridicules :hehe:

[7evens]

[7evens]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Linked and linked and linked then miraculously signs new contract with Madrid.

It is probably of some importance to them as a club that they retain some kind of link with actually being Spanish so the likes of him and Casillas were very important from that respect.

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Simply put that is how I roll.

[Luis Anaconda]

you have a large wad in your pocket so to speak, but doesn't say much for his skills

[Classic Jorge]

Not disagreeing, just pointing out they take the same approach to remaining spanish as they do to remaining the number one destination for footballers who like being paid ridiculously well.

Ramos himself was a big money signing from Sevilla

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sites/explore.bfi.org.uk/files/styles/gallery_full/public/bfi_stills/bfi-00m-zp3.jpg?itok=EEV8p5mL

[Luis Anaconda]

Which is about a tenner these days :cry:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Hardly first team fixtures all the same. Illiaramendi will go this summer for one.

[barrybueno]

[Classic Jorge]

You can take the lad out of london...

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Luis Anaconda]

for awimb's idiosyncrasies. Honestly I have umlauts and funny esses here I can't use, j


It's Zenophobia, I tell ya ;-)

[Classic Jorge]

Still, I'll be going to the Bernie Bow in a month or so nonetheless

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

probably cheaper in some of the real local bars. Five for a Guinness

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Of course I have been there already for "that game".

:cloud9:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Though we pay a lot more than 5 for an Erdinger so yet again we are screwed.

Note: not that i drink it in a pub.

[Classic Jorge]

Of course, I shall be tapasing it up and wandering around the Velasquez section of the Prado but it'd be remiss of me not to pop over to the old santiago for a walk round the museum, and if the wife and daughter dont mind I might go to the calderon too.

Then it's off to Cadiz, Ronda and eventually Cordoba.

[Luis Anaconda]

http://www.cafepress.com/+congo_dog_stein,202382021

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

KA went there recentlty and did the tour, highly recommended.

I did same at Camp Nou, superb.

Mind you I once did our museum in the old NB with the cardboard open top bus etc.

:-|

[Classic Jorge]

I met Johann Neeskens during it, which frankly made the entire thing worth it.

It was a step up from staring at Charlie George's missing finger in the old NB won, I concur.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Foreign players who had played for the club, back when they still had restrictions per season etc. Mind blowing to see the who’s who of players they had.

And Steve Archibald.