2013-14 Spanish La Liga Discussion Thread

[Slava]

Last season's champions:






Notable departure:



Notable Arrival:



Other transfers:

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    Aritz Aduriz
    Attacker
    Spain
    Athletic Bilbao
    Valencia
    2.5million

    Daniel Diaz
    Defender
    Argentina
    Atletico Madrid
    Getafe
    1million

    Emre Belezoglu
    Midfielder
    Turkey
    Atletico Madrid
    Fenerbahce
    Free

    Cristian Rodriguez
    Midfielder
    Uruguay
    Atletico Madrid
    Porto
    Free

    Jordi Alba`
    Defender
    Spain
    Barcelona
    Valencia
    14million

    Joan Angel Roman
    Midfielder
    Spain
    Barcelona
    Manchester City
    undisclosed

    Javi Varas
    Goalkeeper
    Spain
    Celta
    Sevilla
    Loan

    Alberto Rodriguez
    Defender
    Peru
    Deportivo La Coruna
    Sporting Lisbon
    Loan

    Diego Colotto
    Defender
    Argentina
    Espanyol
    Deportivo La Coruna
    Free

    Wakaso Mubarak
    Midfielder
    Ghana
    Espanyol
    Villarreal
    undisclosed

    Angel Lafita
    Midfielder
    Spain
    Getafe
    Real Zaragoza
    Free

    Antonio Floro Flores
    Attacker
    Italy
    Granada
    Udinese
    Loan

    Joel Campbell
    Attacker
    Costa Rica
    Real Betis
    Arsenal
    Loan

    Bryan Rabello
    Midfielder
    Chile
    Sevilla
    Colo Colo
    Free

    Javi Hervas
    Midfielder
    Spain
    Sevilla
    Cordoba
    undisclosed

    Hedwiges Maduro
    Defender
    Netherlands
    Sevilla
    Valencia
    Free

    Diego Lopez
    Goalkeeper
    Spain
    Sevilla
    Villarreal
    3.5million

    Alban Bunjaku
    Midfielder
    England
    Sevilla
    Arsenal
    undisclosed

    Sergio Canales
    Midfielder
    Spain
    Valencia
    Real Madrid
    7.5million

    Fernando Gago
    Midfielder
    Argentina
    Valencia
    Real Madrid
    3.5million

    Jonathan Viera
    Midfielder
    Spain
    Valencia
    Las Palmas
    2.5million

    Joao Pereira
    Defender
    Portugal
    Valencia
    Sporting Lisbon
    3.6million

    Andres Guardado
    Midfielder
    Mexico
    Valencia
    Deportivo La Coruna
    Free

[LittleOzzy]

Fantastic thread, thanks for creating.

[Man of Steel]

Didn't know where to ask this but I was watching the Eusébio Cup and when Mourinho took Kaka off for Benzema, I saw him take off his shirt and then the camera panned away from the dugout. A friend told me he threw his shirt as he walked toward the bench. I didn't see it and was wondering if anyone could confirm or deny this.

Seemed like a lock to leave the team even before I heard this.

[Slava]

They could actually use him to unlock games after 60 mins or so off the bench and he did that very well last season and he is an excellent cover for Ozil.

I think they want to reduce the wage bell to get Modric in and may be another defender or a right back.

[sorokii]

Kaka is done

[Man of Steel]

For what he is still capable of producing (as we saw in flashes this year) the going rate is highway robbery right now. As good as Modric is, I think we'd be better suited keeping Kaka around both financially and in terms of team performance. His wages are high for his production but the most recent deal has ACM taking him on loan with RM paying half his wages anyway, and there haven't been many serious (non-low balling) offers for him aside from PSG.

[VicG]

Was getting psyched for this weekend's fixtures when disaster struck. GolTV is not showing La Liga anymore! In the US the games will be exclusively shown on BeIn, a new channel which is apparently ONLY available on DirecTV.

Even worse, there is NO LA LIGA COVERAGE in Canada.

F me.

[5DOM]

At least we don't have to listen to Ray Hudson

[edfmx86]

Damn, Im gonna miss La Liga on ESPN3

[5DOM]

Real drop 2 points in their season opener

[AdamTheGreek]

That Casillas-Pepe collision was scary. Valencia played a great match on the road.

[_SRV_]

Real missed a lot for this draw to stay, and it was a bad day for Ronaldo and Uzil.
it's sad what has happened with Kaka, even in such game no place for him, another brazillian to touch the top and drop off quickly.
Villa scores on his first game back after a brilliant pass from Iniesta.

[Man of Steel]

no matter how bad the guy lashes out at times, you never want to see something like this happen.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ma ... 799618.php

Supercopa's going to be tough without Pepe. Ronaldo and Ozil seemed off their game. Four days left.

[SunKing]

Bad game for Madrid. In this 2 team race, every points drop is hard to make for.

I hope Benzema was on the bench because of his late comeback from Euro plus Higuain scored...

[Man of Steel]

Looks like we might take a drubbing at the Camp Nou. Pepe's scans came back negative but they are sitting him Thursday as a precautionary measure.

[MaliBrah]

At least we don't have to listen to Ray Hudson

is that the guy that always yells when someone scores "MAGICCCCCC!!!" , and he makes the most random calls and he's always moaning , ahahah man it was hard listening to that guy

[SunKing]

Anybody knows the name of the american (?) commentator on GoalTV (a channel on sopcast I don't know if it's a real one) ? The dude was just living the game as it comes with some over enthousiastic comment me and my friends here in France when we didn't have channel to see Barcelona games 2-3 years ago where ROFL at him

[MaliBrah]

yeah that dude was wild lol i think it's the ray hudson as 5DOM mentioned. after every nice pass he'd moan , and after ever goal he'd ramble and say some of the most random things lol

[5DOM]

Ronaldo strikes first and Pedro responds. He was offside

[5DOM]

3-1

Iniesta's better than both Messi and Ronaldo