Blue_Fox

Unsurprised, I nearly died of boredom myself.

He wants to stay on loan at West Brom next season. Probably the best option for his continued development if Falcao comes.

I think they've looked less intimidating in the Champons League this year. In the league they've looked good as they're winning their easy matches well (which is 99% of matches in La Liga), and Real Madrid have collapsed. You could argue he's living a charmed life off Guardiola's team still. I wouldn't offer him unequivocal praise until the meaty end of the season is done.

At Manchester City he'll be part of a project of nuking the wage bill and rebuilding with young talent, with his friends from Barcelona. You think that would be unappealing to him?

AC Milan supremo Silvio Berlusconi on trying to hire Guardiola: "So we contacted him, but then came the club that hires his friends" What could that mean?

Link? If this is true, perhaps he just hadn't built up the network of contacts he has now. I havn't really seen him get anything wrong in the past year or so I've followed him, at least not in the stuff he "knows". Granted he speculates a lot of crap.

I worry what will happen if no new stadium is built by the time he leaves... certainly won't be able to build anything as magnificent as what's been offered with his backing. Definitely impact on the club's ability to sustain itself as a superpower in the long run.

The most concrete thing I can offer is http://sulia.com/channel/soccer/f/24d2bf37-507c-40c4-afa2-28629911eb2e/ "with the information I have"... is key... Balague's information on anything La Liga is always very good.

Falcao is suspended. It's looking like he's going to Real Madrid.

I'm sure if there was something to this rumour we'd have heard more by now. Seems like the kind of thing The Mirror would report with little to no evidence simply for the hysteria and publicity it will create for them; people want to believe it, so try as hard as they can to, spreading it as far and wide as possible leading to a snowball effect. Probably old news (old shirt anyway), but just came across this: Can't see that it's shopped and the beard says it isn't too old.

"A" Barcelona or Real Madrid? I thought there was only 2? Regardless, the only reason a player has left English clubs for those 2 in recent years is because he has a reason to leave... supports the buying club, wants to fulfil his ambitions, falls out with personnel at the selling club etc. Of Chelsea's young players, I can't see Mata ever wanting to leave. Same with Piazon (supported Chelsea even before he came), Oscar (although he may start being groomed by Neymar at Barca at some point), obviously Bertrand, and Marin I can't see a situation like that arising with anyway. Hazard will definitely want to leave for Real Madrid, it was hinted in his "there was no point joining Real Madrid or Barcelona straight away as I wouldn't play every week" (or somethng to that effect) statement upon joining Chelsea, even before the Real Madrid "dream" story came out. Moses I think may move to Barcelona or Madrid if he gets the chance, don't know that they'd ever want him though... Courtois I don't know much about but I get a good feeling he will be happy to emulate Cech and stay here as long as possible.

More like poker imo

Ironic then that the same media circus now reporting this was reporting that Guardiola was United-bound a few days ago.

Athletico need to sell, eventually. I think a lot will depend on English club's performances in Europe this season. For example if Chelsea bomb in the Europa League and Real Madrid crush Manchester United, he'll look to stay in Spain.

He'll start as backup to Torres, oust him within a month or two, and by the end of the season no-one will even have noticed that Torres slipped out the back door to Athletico Madrid.