Two very brief items:
1) El Tribunal de Justicia de las Comunidades Europeas (TJCE) ruled that Turkish players (or at least those in Nihat's situation) will permanently not be counted against the non-European numbers for teams playing in the EU.
2) Villarreal will matchup against Sevilla in its semi-final in the Trofeo Carranza on August 15. The championship is the following day, the 16th.