I’ve clicked Isaiah’s link to Centric Point and, on screen, it looks quite good, specially if you haven’t been to BCN before and have a day or two, or even a few hours, to take a walk and catch the essence of the city just inside a square mile. Moreover, it’s well connected with the Camp Nou, especially by subway (”metro”).

€25 a night is very cheap for BCN. Just follow this link for hotels in the vicinity of Camp Nou:

http://www.booking.com/landmark/es/nou-camp.html?sid=0bd72654d3bde48a28cdf04d377791c0

Note that a TWO star hotel, w/o Internet, w/o parking and with a mean score of 5.8, is €53.50 per night (and, surely, per person)…

If I still had my flat in BCN…

Centric Point is supposed to be nice, but I’ve never stayed there (and it’s like 25euros a night per person at the cheapest). No doubt there are other ones that are cheaper.

You can always try to book hostels through Hostel World but I just use that site to find a place, then I look for its direct website in order to get the best deal (HW charges a commission, of course).

And then there’s always couchsurfing.

EMD is, indeed, getting ridiculous. I used to respect it more as the less tabloid-y of the two (Sport and EMD), but now it’s got such an agenda it makes me sick.

In important league news, both David Villa and Santi Cazorla have renewed their contracts with their respective teams. Take that, Madrid, and take that, Marca, who reported the Cazorla deal with signed, sealed, and delivered. What a rag of a newspaper.

I thought that it was the other way around, Genis, that the EMD copies were retracted when everything was already underway and that this was explained as Laporta acting like some dictator.

Anyway, EMD is behaving in a ridiculous way with their irrational anti-Laporta (and anti-Eto’o) stands and are losing credibility each day that goes by. I really don’t know how they can repare the damage, does anyone can take them serious ever again? Is this journalism? Can all their writers think by themselves or are they just following the orders? And in general again very disappointing to see how the Catalan press keeps on “boycoting” their star club.

Genis, I just don’t get why folks won’t leave well enough alone. Laporta has done some good things, and some bad. I still find it hard to believe that this isn’t all tied into the fact that the football side hasn’t won silver in two seasons.

http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/web/gen/20080827/noticia_53527926453.html

I’ll just translate the headlines and the first paragraph; the asterisks are mine.

«The voting on Laporta continuity can be disputed/repugned.

When there is a proposal to vote on, socis have also the right to say but only the president spoke.

The already famous fourth point in the agenda of last Sunday’s Assembly concerning the continuity of the president, might have infringed the regulations *according to the opinion of some experts consulted by El Mundo Deportivo*, based on the fact that socis were not allowed to exercise the right to say before voting.»

Well, they will not desist…

So if Zenit is willing to drop 30million euros on Danny, a poor man’s Arshavin, if you will, then it makes sense that Zenit is appraising Arshavin at too-high a price as well. It just means they’re totally bonkers in St. Petersburg…