It amazes me that people compare Gago to Redondo, he's not fit to lace Fernando's boots.

When fully fit, and playing in a 4-4-2, what would be Real's midfield, in your opinion?

For me it would line up a little like this:


LW - Robben

CM - de la Red

CM - Diarra? Maybe Garcia?

RW - Sneijder

I'd probably go with. I don't rate van der Vaart much either.

What, Barca would have lost then?

nope, after many reads still dont get your post

The weekend in full:

Valencia 2 - 1 Espanyol
Barcelona 2 - 0 Real Madrid
Athletic Bilbao 3 - 0 Sporting de Gijón
Getafe 4 - 1 Mallorca
Recreativo Huelva 1 - 0 Osasuna
Valladolid 3 - 0 Deportivo la Coruna
Málaga 2 - 0 C.D Numancia
Almeria 1 - 1 Racing Santander
Sevilla 1 - 0 Villarreal
Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Real Betis Balompié

On Sunday, A virtuoso display from Renato and Adriano lift an otherwise flat Sevilla into third, leapfrogging Villarreal in the process. The yellow submarine look rather out of touch, Senna seems fatigued and not his usual busy self. Joseba Llorente's sending off means he will miss next week's big game against Barcelona. With Nihat and Rossi still injury concerns, that gives Manuel Pellegrini a real headache. Just below them, goals from Maxi Rodriguez and Sergio Aguero see Atletico go above their hated city rivals after a 2-0 win over Betis.

Mallorca's drubbing in the capital sees them drop into the bottom three with Espanyol climbing out on goal difference. Athletic's priceless home win over Sporting lifts them to 14th, above Almeria and Numancia. Recreativo's late win over Osasuna opens up a gap at the foot of the table but more surprise towards the top as Valladolid hand a shallacking to Deportivo to close the gap. [iLa Pucela[/i now have the second best home record in the league - they've picked up 19 of their 23 points at home.

The table:

Barcelona 38
Valencia 30
Sevilla 30
Villarreal 29
Atletico Madrid 27
Real Madrid 26
Deportivo La Coruna 24
Valladolid 23
Getafe 21
Malaga 21
Real Betis 18
Sporting Gijon 18
Racing Santander 17
Athletic Bilbao 16
Almeria 16
Numancia 14
Espanyol 13
Mallorca 13
Recreativo Huelva 13
Osasuna 9

did you see the goals? try and see them if you can, well worth it!

'appen I'll catch 'em on Revista this week. Similarly, Garay's goal for us is supposed to be a cracker.

oh it was!

Lassana Diarra signing 'imminent' according to [url=http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/madrid-lleva-todo-dia-negociando/dasftb/20081216dasdasftb_17/TesAS[/url this afternoon.

Atletico Madrid interested in [url=http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/futbol-atleti-interesa-jovenes-witsel/dasftb/20081216dasdaiftb_46/TesStandard Liege[/url duo as well, they report.

I've changed my mind about the signing of Diarra, I agree I think it would be a very good signing. Apparently in the region of £9 million

They must have been playing Football Manager 09.

What a strike from Garay on Sunday!



[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/7787323.stmPompey accept Diarra bid[/url

They just better hope they get the Portsmouth Diarra and not that useless buffoon who played for Chelsea and Arsenal.