New Season of Soccer!

Ah, August. The peak of summer, the last month before you have to go back to the dreadfully boring sludge of school. And the start of the new European soccer season!
Well, a few things happened in the summer that I wasn't aware about. For one, Sergio "Kun" Aguero is now at the trillionaires under the name of Manchester City. I thought Aguero's transfer was just to make Tevez stop threatening to leave unless he gets a $10000000000/week salary or something...



but now it turns out that Tevez actually DOES want to leave, despite him getting easy money that even David Beckham would envy. In City's first game Tevez wasn't even on the bench, while Aguero came on to score twice and lay an assist for David Silva and City romped a pretty solid Swansea side 4-0.
Speaking of transfers, Cesc Fabregas finally did the move he'd been threatening to do for the last 5 years or so and went from the Gooners to Barcelona. Mistake? Maybe since Arsenal needs a playmaker so much that Fabregas is virtually guaranteed a starting place there while Barcelona has enough center midfielders already (Xavi, Iniesta, Keita etc.).
The latest pre-season managerial sacking really caught me by surprise. Carlo Ancelotti, despite doing such a good job with Chelsea the season before last has been SACKED. Yeah, Chelsea finished second to Manchester United again, but give the guy a chance! He probably didn't speak English the first season and STILL dethroned United as the champions of England and I think they won the FA Cup too last season. Again, Abromavich's Champions League expectations/personal relations with the club has pulled another manager under the bus. Jose Mourinho left Chelsea and won the Treble or something with Inter Milan right after, Avram Grant did much better than I expected with a West Ham side that looked destined to go down without a fight (they did go down, but not without a fight...) and Guus Hiddink really turned Chelsea around after that wastrel Scolari completely screwed up the Chelsea team. Why didn't he stay? And now Ancelotti is gone to manage Bayern Munich or something and will probably end up beating Chelsea in the knockout phases again in this year's Champions' League. Who's the new manager's name anyway?
And rounding it off with my personal pre-season highlights is the new Man Red goalkeeper De Gea. Looking at his performances against Man City and West Brom I feared he would become another Fabian Barthez. But it's early days, who knows? I think VDS screwed up plenty of times too at Man United. But the goalkeeper spot has always been United's trouble spot ever since Schmichael left.