mou's tactics involve trying to hit the front men as quickly as possible..

this makes it impossible to control matches imo
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Agreed.

Isco's bit of skill tonight:
http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/tekkers-isco-unbelievable-control-malaga-v-valencia/

Btw Pinky, no, that's not Javier Portillo. Francisco Portillo's a kid Pellegrini's fished out of Málaga's academy.

Mourinho will join Chelsea for next season.

AU

not sure he'll go to chelsea if abrahamovich wants a "barca" style of play

not sure he'll go to chelsea if abrahamovich wants a "barca" style of play
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True, it'll be an interesting summer at Real and Chelsea.

Mourinho will end up at City imo.

MARCA and AS both leading with fairly anti-mou headlines today

question:

when Mou leaves at the end of the season, who do you think should be the new madrid manager and why ?

I haven't given it much though yet, but it would definitely have to be a manager who favours creative, elaborate football that likes to have the ball in midfield. That bloke in charge at Dortmund seems to be doing an excellent job, but I honestly don't know much about him.

Something else I was thinking last night is that it's a crying shame that in a day and age when Spain's midfielders are the best in the world (we could probably form 3 midfields that most countries would take in the bat of an eyelid), that RM have only got 1 Spanish midfielder.

Also, if it wasn't for how much it would cost us, I'd much rather Mourinho was sacked than see him walk.

Getafe beating Espanyol 1-0 at HT at Cornellá. Pedro León scored.

You should get Pellegri.....oh wait.

I'll never respect Mourinho as one of the great managers. Can never sustain success at one club.

And he's a complete towel.

We won't get Pellegrini, but he's well worth a 2nd chance imo.

Deulofeu on target twice for Barça B today. There'll be clubs sniffing around him v soon if Tito doesn't start giving him more minutes with the first team.

Pellegrini was the right man at the wrong time. Not his fault Barca were on drugs that season.

Deulofeu will get his chance, Messi, Pedro, Alexis, Cesc etc are all getting on a bit.

Balague reckons in two years Barca front three will be

Neymar - Messi - Deulofeu

Barça would've retained the CL if they hadn't done the Eto'o/Ibra deal. Pep thought the team shouldn't stand still, but they'd left everyone with so much catching up to do that they could've won it comfortably imo. Even so, it's hard to factor a volcano erupting in Iceland into your season plan.

Don't know why, because a lot of the press seems to consider it almost a given, but I can't see Neymar joining Barça.

IOAG - Me neither. I just don't think he'd suit their style of play. The only thing more important than the style of play at Barca is Messi, and i can see him having a negative effect on both.

I think they're just trying to get him so that Madrid don't.

Will be interesting to see who takes over at Madrid and whether he completely rehauls the MF or is capable to get roughly the same players playing a different game.

Unai Emery sacked

You made a very difficult choice Kent


IOAG - The day you stop playing both Alonso and Khedira is the day you start having a touch in the midfield.

Always get confused between CSKA and Spartak Moscow. Was it Spartak he was at? They lost 5-1 at home to Torpedo Moscow earlier today.

Looking at Marca's livetext, Deulofeu seems to be running riot vs Racing. 2 goals and an assist plus a large number of other chances created.

Do....do you think Real would have the balls to approach Pep?

Spartak

I hope Deulpfeu isn't another Bojan/Gio/Jeffren