£35 million for Higuain!

I know he's young, skillful and will turn out to be an excellent player. But £35 million for a 21 year old or whatever he is. Is crazy!

With the new vote thing happening at Madrid next year, I'm expecting them to sign big in the summer. Huntelaar and Di Maria in January, Benzema and a few others in the summer, possibly a new manager along the way as well?

Schuster can only save himself by winning the league or the CL, neither of which he currently looks like doing. He'll be gone by next summer at the latest.

rlOh dear. Match fixing allegations.rl

Oh bloody hell.

Not much going right for Real recently

Only good news Real have had all season is the signing of Huntelaar. Now here's hoping for a left back (Clichy ).

Another fascinating weekend in prospect in Spain.

Saturday December 6
6 Dec, 19:00 Villarreal v Getafe
6 Dec, 19:00 Sporting de Gijón v Atlético de Madrid
6 Dec, 21:00 Barcelona v Valencia

Sunday December 7
7 Dec, 16:00 Racing Santander v Athletic Bilbao
7 Dec, 16:00 Mallorca v Recreativo Huelva
7 Dec, 16:00 Osasuna v Valladolid
7 Dec, 16:00 Deportivo la Coruna v Málaga
7 Dec, 16:00 C.D Numancia v Almeria
7 Dec, 18:00 Real Betis Balompié v Espanyol
7 Dec, 20:00 Real Madrid v Sevilla

On saturday Getafe, full of confidence having taken 4 points from matches against Barcelona and Real Madrid, visit El Madrigal to see if they can cause Villarreal some problems. The yellow submarine are going through a bit of an odd patch of form and fairly squeezed past rock bottom Recre last weekend. Should be an interesting encounter. Atlético Madrid visit Sporting Gijon, who have the second-worst home record in the league but whose away form sees them safely ensconsed in mid-table. Barcelona, whose sensational 40 goals already this season has seen them outstrip their rivals, host Valencia who historically have a decent record at the Nou Camp. With Renan between the sticks, however, Barca have always got a chance and I predict a home win.

Real Madrid and Sevilla, both coming off the back of defeats last week, go head to head at the Bernabau. The visitors have not been at their free-scoring best so far this season, and would fancy their chances had Luis Fabiano not played to type and got himself sent off against Barcelona. A really tough one to call but I reckon El Real will scrape through.

Elsewhere there's going to be some nuggety action at the bottom as Racing face scandal-hit Athletic and Mallorca host Recreativo Huelva. Should results go their way, Barcelona could find themselves 7 points clear come Monday morning.

Are Valencia without Marchena?

I believe so. I've seen no news to indicate his red card has been rescinded.

Villarreal have a fully fit squad apart from top socrer Joseba Llorente, expect Rossi and Nihat to start up front. Mane is without Raul Tamudo and Luis Garcia for his first game in charge ay Espanyol.

That guy is a liability. Why oh why oh why do otherwise sane football managers keep signing Brazilian keepers?


Bring it on

Have you got a link to that?

It looked like he got a bit of the ball, not sure how the rules work with cards in Spain, but you could argue it was similar to Habib Beye's challenge earlier this year, which got rescinded.


Espanyol look likely to struggle, where will the goals come from without those two?!