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Finally it's Chelsea for €40m .

People from Guadeloupe and French Guyana are French citizens not immigrants, unless it's their colour that's causing you a problem.

If given ultimatum why didn't RK say he was staying for the last year and wait for Saints to dismiss him ? Then Saints would have paid him compensation and he would have come out of it looking good.

IIRC Window Cleaner's daughter knows Puel (or something similar). Perhaps he can enlighten us.

And only half a dozen posts on TSW....

You mean gun control like they have in France?

If Everton can't get Koeman straight away they might try to gazump us on our new manager.

Didn't win the Champions League.

Don't get in a flap Jack.

The odds are short; be ready for him to go

is Laudrup a biscuit?

Tadic > Lovren

What about a category "Future ex-Saints"?

So it wasn't Cabaye...

Get your bets in before Zlatan signs!

Sign him up then send him on a worldwide shirt signing tour so he doesn't mess up the rest of the team.

Only if we win!

[vine]iQwTvhKbb66[/vine] Mane not appreciating a joke. If he was happy you would expect him to retaliate and have a good laugh. (Perhaps his bottle was empty)

What's happening after Christmas?

The9, you were't so keen on merging when you started thread on 5 May The first two threads were discussing qualification for the EL. Now we know we are in the group stage a new thread is a good idea. Discussing how to get 9 teams qualified for Europe can be left behind.

The coefficients in pot 3 were between 15 and 31 so we are more likely to drop to pot 4 than move up to pot 2.

Do you know the coefficients that corresponded with each pot last year?

i have found a simple way of working out who qualifies for what if there is an EL or CL winner in a league. First work out qualification based only on domestic results. Then award EL or CL winners their new status without modifying the status of any other team (in that league) So for Spain: Sevilla win the cup. Domestically they get the first EL place(for winning the cup)(group stage) Villarreal the second(group stage) and Celta Vigo the third (qualif round). Then Sevilla hop off to the CL leaving Villarreal and Celta viga in the same positions. Barcelona win the cup. Villareal get the first EL place (having finished 5th) Celta Vigo get the second and Sevilla get the third (having finished 7th). Sevilla hop off to the CL leaving Villarreal and Celta Viga with the top two EL qualification places

The fact that if Barcelona wins 1) does not happen implies that both Athletic Bilbao and Celta Vigo go into the group stage. So Barcelona wins 2 teams into group stage Sevilla wins 1 team into group stage ,1 team into 3rd qualifying round.

So now we are experts in European qualification rules let's have a look at La Liga: 1 Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 3 Atl Madrid 4 Villarreal 5 Ath Bilbao 6 Celta de Vigo 7 Sevilla 8 Malaga This weekend there is the cup final between Barcelona and Sevilla. The top 4 and Sevilla qualify for the CL but which teams go straight into the group stage? Does the 8th team get an EL place? Which teams get an EL group place and which have to qualify? Does the result of the cup final make any difference?