It's official...

[flywoman]

After months of speculation concerning at least four major clubs in the Premier League, FC Barcelona have announced that David Villa will be sold to Atletico Madrid for a measly 5M euros paid out in three installments, plus 50% of his next transfer fee. Makes perfect sense for Atletico since they just made a hefty profit off Radamel Falcao and needed a new striker, makes good sense for Villa since he can stay in Spain, presumably with an eye towards playing in Brazil next summer, and makes the kind of business sense for Barcelona that we've seen over and over in the past few years :P.

Let the Messilla break-up fics begin!

Comments

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, yeah, I don't think it will exactly be a shocker when Xavi and Iker get together at the end...

I know, right? This year has been full of surprises.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

No, I'd be shocked if anyone else was shocked. I'm not even really one for first time fics for that reason, but just love them so it's grand.

lol totally, well they should calm down a bit now that most of them have new babies.
Think I'm going to be ok now until/unless Busi hooks up with anyone. Mostly because I'm pretty much convinced that he is actually gay.

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

I've come to prefer established to first time, but I'm willing to make exceptions ;).

Yeah, nothing causes one's libido to plummet quite like a new baby ;).

And yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Busi turned out to be gay (and Xavi knew - obviously, he knows everything - which was why he agreed to be Busi's plus one for Andres' wedding).

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

It's a very noble cause. ;)

Well that's probably a good thing; but then I know plenty of people with tiny age gaps between their kids and wonder what they were thinking.

Good to know it's not just me. Oh of course, he's such a sweetie (and being Xavi's plus one anywhere is probably a great laugh).
I really hope one day things will change and it will be a norm for footballers to be openly gay.