Monday Morning Papers 8.8

Sport.es: FC Barcelona: The Hour of Alexis and Messi: Two ¨signings¨ for the Supercopa that will start working out today. Alexis: ¨I can´t wait to start playing with Leo.¨ The Chilean arrived yesterday tired but hopeful to début on Sunday at the Bernabeu. Barca, Analysis of the Tour: Now everyone is at home. Lionel Messi: the Argentine wants to be decisive against Madrid. He has all week to put himself right. Cesc Fabregas: Cesc will not begin the Premier League, even Wenger confirms it. Real Madrid: Mourinho will have toconform with Adebayor. He will cost between 8 and 10 euros. Community Shield: City 2-3 Manchester United. De Gea won his first title and Kun did not play.

Marca.com: Real Madrid: 6...5...4...3..2...1... Supercopa!: At less than a week before the Clásico. euphoria at Real Madrid and doubts at Barca. The dressing room of the whites, unanimous: ¨We arrive stronger than they do.¨ Guardiola, preoccupied: ¨We are not at our maximum and we don´t have our tone.¨. The pre-season numbers don´t lie: Messi was missed and Benzema exploded. Without Messi, Real Madrid has scored 9 more goals than Barcelona.  Community Shield: City 2-3 Manchester United. De Gea won his first title and Kun did not premier.

Reaction: Ah, I love the whiff of football. Even with all the craziness in my life, all I have to read is crazy drivel from either dish-rag to get me pumped up. First of all for Sport: it will take more than a week for the best of both Alexis and Leo to take hold for FC Barcelona, so if Real Madrid have a hope to take any title from Barca this year it´s the equivalent of the Spanish Community Shield; a meaningless friendly in a certain sense. As for ¨El Caso Cesc¨, the clubs are posturing. Arsenal don´t really hope to retain the player do they? They had better not. I am sick of this story. Wenger, move on. Alright, on to Marca: Real Madrid do look to have been more impressive in their pre-season approach than Barcelona. They have scored more goals and their attack is sparkling, but don´t make the mistake of assuming that pre-season form necessarily translates into early season form once the whistle blows for the start of the new season. Real Madrid are still behind Barcelona even without Alexis Sanchez and if Cesc leaves Arsenal as expected? It will be a long season for Jose Mourinho´s charges. 

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