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Valencia: Valencia: Valencia supporters have decided after their first few weeks of training, and after the 2-0 victory yesterday in their first friendly against Al-Hilal, that of all the signings midfielder Mehmet Topal has been the best of the bunch. Villareal: after being offered to Real Madrid, which explains the tardiness of the signing, has finally signed with Atletico Madrid, which means that the Carlos Marchena signing is imminent. Levante: Christian Stuani, the Uruguayan forward that played for Reggina, finally signed. [...]

I am still trying to grasp the fact that Raul will no longer be wearing a Real Madrid. Even as a Barca fan, there was something very unsettling about seeing him in a Schalke jersey. Fortunately, there is enough activity in the Segunda this summer to get my head back where it belongs. This is the second part of our series of meeting the new teams in the Segunda Division and this week and we turn our attention to Ponferradina [...]

Athletic Bilbao has released their new 2010-2011Umbro kits, and while only their first team’s kit and their keeper’s kits were presented, it looked very much a nod to tradition with the bold red and white stripes with the black shorts and the stylish full, red collar. The keeper’s kit is a very nice blue kit with dark blue accents. The entire squad was present, except for World Cup winners Javi Martinez and Fernando Llorente, but on the whole it was [...]

Goodbye, Raul (With apologies again to the original composers: Kander & Ebb’s, Cabaret) What good is sitting alone on the bench?Come watch Ze Germans playYour life’s in disarray, Raul. You’re just a castaway. Don’t think of quitting. It’s time to resume.After your holiday. Deutchland’s not far away, old man,You won’t have to fade away Come taste the beer. Hear the oompah band.Come score your goals, Start celebrating;Close your eyes, Jose is hating No use just quitting. You’re king of the [...]

One door closes and another opens for a bonafide La Liga superstar as Raúl González was presented today for Schalke 04 of the German Bundesliga. Raul scored 323 goals in 741 games for Los Merengues. This included a record 66 UEFA Champions League goals. The Real Madrid striker is also Spain’s all-time leading goalscorer. He follows former Real Madrid partners Ruud van Nistelrooy and Arjen Robben to the Bundesliga. The prior left Real in January to sign with Hamburg SV [...]

The entire world is in the 3rd year of a recession. The football world has not been spared and the most recent victim are the giants from Catalonia, FC Barcelona. A recent audit into FC Barcelona’s finances have revealed the club’s debt is a staggering 442m Euros (£369.5m) after a loss of more than 77m Euros (£64.36m) last season!! You may say, “Who cares?” Or “All I care is about what happens on the pitch.” The problem is these footballing [...]

More joy for Spain and more pain for Italy as the Iberians cruise to a 3-0 win last Saturday. This is the ninth edition of UEFA’s Under-19 Football Championship since it was renamed from the original under-18 event, in 2001. Ezequiel Calvente scored the final goal (penalty) during the Spain-Italy match which ended 3-0 to Spain. Watch this tantalizing teaser scored at the U19′s European Championships below. Notice the penalty was strange and perhaps questionable to begin with, but what [...]

While Mando is spelling out for you the major player transfer news of found on the covers of Marca, As, Sport and El Mundo Deportivo, teams in the Segunda division are quietly and unassumingly undergoing a rapid-fire succession of moves in order to strengthen their own squads. Look no further than our friends at Betis who are desperate to return to the Primera and have brought in a whole slew of players. Of note are players such as Jorge Molina [...]

As.comReal Madrid: Raul will announce his goodbye today from the Bernabeu. Yesterday was Guti’s. Until always: The Captain: “To play in Madrid has been a dream come true.” Florentino Perez: “This is no goodbye, just ‘see you later.” Maicon will be on the traveling squad for Inter Milan as it makes its way through the United States. Turkey doubles itself over to welcome Guti. Marca.comReal Madrid: Ozil, everyday much closer to Real Madrid. Raul: “I leave, but it’s with a [...]

While we are not necessarily a Real Madrid blog, we cover los blancos extensively and starting today and throughout the season, we will have a weekly update on the richest club in the world from our unique perspective. As the Cesc saga continues on the other side of the pond, a veritable facsimile marches on at the Bernabeu. Maicon, the want-away Inter fullback keeps pressuring Inter to sell him to his merengue suitors, Morrati quotes Don Florentino one price who [...]

This is a new feature here on Laligaweekly.com called The Barça Observer 2010. While we are not necessarily an FC Barcelona blog, we cover the blaugrana extensively and throughout the season, we will have a weekly update on them from our unique perspective. New Signing: Adriano Correia, the versatile midfielder who has played most recently at Sevilla FC, has signed for four years with the club, joining former teammates Seydou Keita and Dani Alves, making the Nervionenses a bit of [...]

Getafe rolled out their new designs for kits in the 2010-2011 season. The kit manufacturer remains Joma Designs and for another year, Burger King’s logo remains smack at the center of the azulones’s kit. All the kits have the badge of the community of Madrid on the back as well. First Kit: remains their traditional all-blue kit, but there has also been added a white rectangular bar across the front of all the kits encompassing the Joma loga on the [...]