El Gato
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Useless fact governed by a fact of having a rival who prefers La Liga over cup ties.
Champions League 2017/18
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Useless fact governed by a fact of having a rival who prefers La Liga over cup ties.
Cule For Life
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BM board is retarded. They spent 40m on Rento and 50m on Tolissio or whatever, but when Pep asked them to sign KdB for 55m they said no.
Whatever helps you cope with Madrid's European domination I guess.
hellsangel1
New member
Injury problems might be a concern for Liverpool as well but they definitely have the forward line to score goals.
Madrid were definitely trying very hard to win liga for a few years and finally won last season. The only year you can say they didn’t give full effort was this season.
hellsangel1
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If Real win this year, they will win 3 in a row. So many great teams in the past never even managed to win back to back. They will deservedly get their accolades. They’ve had better starting 11 during the Galacticos era but they were an older side that wasn’t guaranteed to last long, whereas this Madrid side is a bit younger and has greater bench strength and commitment when their team doesn’t have the ball
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serghei
Senior Member
Preference has nothing to do with it. It's about strenghts and weaknesses. Madrid have problems with motivation and consistency in the long run (they do eventually regroup, but it's already difficult for La Liga once that happens), Barca have problems matching their peaks with the period in which CL top games are played.
Very true.
If Barcelona beats Madrid on aggregate this year in La Liga, then Barca is better (not objective, check your logic)
If Barcelona and Madrid play against the same exact teams, but overall Barcelona performs better, then Barcelona is the better team (not objective, check your logic)
If Barcelona play a set of teams and Madrid plays another set of teams that are completely different and Madrid end up going further in the compition, then Madrid is the better team (very objective statement, don't dare to say otherwise or else you are delusional)
jairzinho
Senior Member
Puts them in contention for being one of the greatest European teams ever.
El Gato
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I don't even know if it's about effort. Since Pintus took over fitness coaching we look like shit in early autumn with checkered results and we look really good in spring from February onwards. Add the fact our #9 had a nightmare and the actual guy wearing the #9 shirt is kind of a waste of space in a situation that doesn't revolve around creating space for partners. Put Firmino in that spot and we'd probably have a much better spring.
But yeah, there is something about La Liga that for even me as a supporter is like "aaah, we can afford to pick and choose when we want to win it, so long as it doesn't seem like we don't care about home trophies". There's no obsession as much as there is about CL. CL results and prestige go global. If you embarrass yourself in the CL the whole world sees it, not so much with the league. Less consequential to have no regularity.
KingLeo10
Senior Member
not sure you (not you) held the same zeal for CL as a fanbase and team when you guys were struggling between 02-12. or for 30 some years between 60s and 90s. you guys have had your peaks and lows, like every other elite club
the problem is you're at a peak now, hence the "CL is in our DNA" talk and everything else is meh.hellsangel1
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I told my brother last year this was probably the greatest squad that Real have ever had. Only on one or two occasions have they had a better starting XI, but in terms of overall bench strength in variety of position, I don’t think they’ve ever had it better. And their squad is still strong this year despite Morata and the RB leaving. I mean they dominated Juventus is the Cl final last year and Bale barely played a part in the match.
Luftstalag14
Culé de Celestial Empire
The sense I get from browsing multiple forums is that general football fans watch much less La Liga than some had expected, I think it wouldn't be far off base to claim very few outside Spain watch any La Liga game without one of the big three playing. And seriously, nobody really cares about how many league titles we won (still less than Real Madrid by the way). CL is where the eyes are.
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