Spanish, German, Italian et.al football leagues

[Bamboo Grove]

Given how much the different national leagues have "foreign" managers and players and how the leagues are interlocked nowadays, I thought a separate thread might be handy to discuss and speculate what's happening outside the Blighty's football frontier.

With Gardiola going to Bayern Munchen and also considering the recent success of that team plus the financial power that they have, they might well become the next Barcelona of Europe. Now it looks like there will be a new manager at Barcelona as well, with Tito Vilanova probably stepping aside, due to a serious illness.

Although, I don't really care for Barcelona, I feel sad for Vilanova as he must give up what he most likely loves to do and wish him a speedy recovery. However, the new situation will make it interesting for me and I believe, for my fellow Gooners, to watch what will happen with Cesc. He didn't quite make it under Vilanova, Guardiola is his childhood hero but Arsenal have a great buy back clause concerning Fabregas. I don't think anything will happen this summer but next year, who knows. Also, will Barcelona go after AVB as the rumours have already started to circulate?

[Bamboo Grove]

No big surprises in European leagues: Juventus and Napoli leading in Italy, Bayern Munchen and Dortmund in Germany, Monaco, PSG and Marseille in France and Barcelona and Real Madrid off to a flying start in Spain.

Interesting to see how Pukki will do in Celtic. I know there are quite a lot Celtic supporters in Hua Hin so maybe someone could give us a view of that.

[Bamboo Grove]

Have you ever felt, your team should have bagged the game and then in the end...no win? I'm sure so did the players and supporters of this team with yellow shirts in the third tier of Finnish football. The green shirts are actually the nearest team playing where I live now but I haven't been to watch them play. 94th minute and the yellows have a chance to make it 4-2 and what a chance. Then 97th minute comes the equalizer....

[caller]

Cracking last goal there! Wonder goal indeed. But, dear oh dear, that was some miss to make the game safe. What I couldn't understand is that although he made a complete mess of his 'pass' into the empty net, he still has time to correct himself, but then continues to run away from the ball - bloody hysterical!