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"Robinho move blocked = Baptista to Madrid"

[URL]http://soccernet.espn.go.com/section?id=europe&cc=5739[/URL]

Turns out that the deal for Robinho is never going to happen due to the confusion over the amount of money Real Madrid would have to pay to Santos.

So instead they've opted to sign Julio Baptista. Admittedly only Marca seem to have picked up this so far, but by what they're writing, it seems pretty much like a done deal for 20 million Euros.

Edit - just confirmed on the BBC. £13.8 million to Sevilla, and Baptista signs for Real.
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4714437.stm[/URL]


Wonder where Robinho will go, then, if anywhere.

Hmm, maybe it wasn't you who said it. I'm sure someone said it in all seriousness, but whatever.

Guys, guys. Let's be happy, c'mon.

Tell you what - you're both my favourite. How about that?

We should not argue amongst ourselves, brothers. It is Lil Bro we should rally upon. And failing him, Colourless. But Lil Bro is usually about.

Indeed, that's why i usually stick :-D after everything after i got in trouble a while back from someone who couldn't tell i was joking and ended up having a long tedious row about it.

And for the record, i wasn't being serious with the multi-ball idea either whenever i said that

I really didn't mean to sound defensive, but in text-only conversations it's hard to tell I suppose.

And following on from that? quite defensive serious sounding posts when i joked about America being better than England.

Meh let's just drop it, pretty pathetic thing to argue about. You seem not to like me as it is, ah well i have my Ruud doll to keep me happy :-D

Kawada wrote:
> I totally agree it was a ridiculous argument, can't believe it started
> from a quite blatant joke about Iker carrying the Madrid defence.
> Teach him the ways of the banter like you did me sensai (or just the
> ways of being able to spot a blindingly obvious non-serious statement
> like that and the multi-ball post from ages back)

Christ on a bike, I got the joke. Look back, you can see from my post afterwards. What it amounts to is basically:

You: Joke about Real's defence being crap.
Me: Sarcastic comment about American teams being a bag of balls on toast.

My tolerance has been huge, but every dam has its bursting point.

I totally agree it was a ridiculous argument, can't believe it started from a quite blatant joke about Iker carrying the Madrid defence. Teach him the ways of the banter like you did me sensai (or just the ways of being able to spot a blindingly obvious non-serious statement like that and the multi-ball post from ages back)

Ah, Milan. I went for a meal tonight with my family and I actually mentioned him in some so-very-lame joke that only you guys and a handful of my uni friends would get. Something about the service being fast and only one man could make it faster...I forget, it was very bad.

They looked at me, so I told my dad he was going bald and my sister she was fat. Haha.

Anyway, Kawada and Blank. This was a ridiculous argument, consisting of Blank having surprisinly little tolerance for Sports-standard humour and Kawada wanting me to touch him so much it must make his girlfriend leave him. Suck it up, man. Not in a gay way, though.

Stryke wrote:
> Namechecking me thrice, you must be desperate.


Well i used to name drop Neo but after that incident involving the badger and Rio Ferdinand he kind of dropped down the social ladder. Thus my love for the Stryke and your Baros loving ways. Now Milan there's a wholesome footballer, a man of dignity.