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Have people seen Shaqiri's legs? Sign him and Juve will have another drug scandal on their hands.

:boh: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/jul/22/james-rodriguez-real-madrid-masterplan

I would say so. Very Gallaini-esque deal. Old player, low transfer fee and big wages. I think this transfer is probably fine for this coming season, but I'll be surprised if Evra is still a player worth that wage in the second year of his contract.

Provide a source or both of you are getting infractions.

Yeah, he's a decent, versatile, attacking player. Seen him have good games as trequartista, breaking forward from deeper in midfield and playing from wider. Not knowing what shape or tactics Allegri plans to play, can't really say what his role will be. Could be anything from taking...

Only interesting thing there is the idea that there may be fewer teams playing with a back three than there have been in recent years.

But the Hummels rumour was so obviously not true (the cost part, possible he'd go to Utd) that it makes for a really stupid argument against Marotta. There are plenty ways to criticise Marotta, but you harm your case if you pick the wrong opportunities to criticise.

Just how cheap would Osvaldo have to be for people to consider signing him? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28419258

'Ruthless' isn't the word I would use.

Good post, Pedro. I would only point out that there were an awful lot of people against the 'no-brainer' Pirlo deal.

I rather like the apparent lack of organised, public grieving. Leave people who want to grieve to do it in their own private way rather than shoving it down everyone's throats. All public grieving seems to do is compell people to put on big shows of grief and then people who are reserved about...

Don't know about that. Really depends on whether Roma had planned for the sale of Benatia or not. If they didn't plan to sell him, more signings may be possible. If they did plan to sell him, they probably don't have the cash to do anything else after how much they spent on Iturbe...

No.

Rafael Cabral would be No. 1 as things stand, I think. He looked decent enough when he played last season, but injured his knee when Napoli were playing Swansea.

Yes, I'm sure Real Madrid will be leaving that 20m sitting in their Morata account. It's not like there is anything else Real Madrid are likely to spend money on.

Wonderful. I wish more posters on here would openly admit their lack of interest in logic and reason.

Indeed. Symbolic value. A key problem of fans of so-called top clubs is that they are frequently more interested in posturing and shouting 'we are whoever' as if that matters, instead of looking at things more practically. Won a trophy last season. Never been relegated.

Anyway, people must be pretty excited about Morata if they are all so convinced he'll do well enough to make the clause a relevant part of the deal.

That's super. Chelsea, apparently, want 40m for Lukaku. http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercato/18-07-2014/juventus-mercato-lukaku-chelsea-nani-pastore-lamela-shaqiri-candreva-801271213639.shtml

I think people are underestimating just how well Morata would have to do to make Real Madrid inclined to use the buy-back clause. Morata can very probably do well for Juve and improve a lot and still not come close to improving enough to make Real Madrid think it'd be worth spending 30m+ on him...