Barca ripped off yet again.

My initial thoughts aswell, £22m for somebody who's only played in the Premier-Liha is a lot of money no matter how highly rated he may be, Also with Gerard Piqué, Rafael Márquez, Carles Puyol & Gabriel Milito all Centre Backs and Martín Cáceres (Juventus) & Henrique (Racing Santander) out on Loan this season there is depth there for Barça...

To be honest, Caceres has the potential to be a better player Chygrynskiy. He has a lot of natural, physical attributes, he's just sloppy on the ball. He barely got a chance last year which was a little harsh because he's a good player. Hopefully, Juve give him his fair share of games this year so he can fully develop, hopefully at centre back and not at left back.

Not 100% about Marquez, but isn't Milito still out injured?
There were reports he may never play again at the end of last year.

I haven't really heard much in regards of both Márquez & Milito fitness wise to be honest which is quite strange...

To be honest I, like many Barcelona fans am not convinced by Caceres.
Hemnrique had a great season in Germany last year and I'd say he's ahead of the Uruguayan lad in the pecking order.

Am looking forward to see how Garay does at Madrid.

Just seen the highlights from Madrid-Depor. Not the most convincing of displays, but still think they'll take the title back this year.

Have you seen the Pitch at Estadio Mestalla...
With the Attacking quality of David Villa, David Silva & Juan Mata surely something has to be done otherwise your going to hamper that sort of talent.

You're telling me. They were dreadful at the back. Signing Albiol and Garay appears to have fixed nothing. And Pellegrini, despite being a smart man, is playing Marcelo at left back.

Thought Depor were worth a draw personally, and they might have got one had Valeron not missed a sitter at 2-2. Zaragoza - Tenerife wasn't the most exciting affair but Tenerife look like they'll struggle, lacking any real finishing product up front.

Something must be wrong with the Madrid coaching staff. I mean, they have the best centre back in la liga for me (Albiol), they have probably the best goalkeeper in the league in Casillas, as well as a quality right back in Ramos.

If you can't get players of this quality to form a tight defence then they can't be doing their jobs properly. I wouldn't mind if the problem wasn't just the defence, but they have Lass and Alonso in midfield as well, they're not lacking protection.

Oh and Casillas's face fungus - just say no Iker

I went to Betis/Cordoba on Saturday night, a pretty easy win for Betis but the fact they were playing was ridiculous, it was still touching 40 degrees in the stands, and the impact on the already fairly placid pace of the Segunda division was obvious.

After that there was no way I was going to shell out €65 to watch Atlético at Malaga, it was no weather for football and given the result I'm glad I didn't!

Glad we've managed to get £6m for Heitinga, I actually thought he started out OK at centre half last year, but as soon as he made a couple of mistakes he went rapidly downhill - and the move to full back didn't seem to make much difference either.