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I heard this team is playing well nowadays. Might watch the game tn dk

I think I hated him. He was very poor when the team was poor, one of the reasons the team was poor to be honest. Then Alves arrived and he and Messi (and Xavi) overloaded the right side, which meant Henry got so, so much space, it was the ideal situation for him, but he messed up almost all of...

he is playing?

me on the left... although I do believe this has to be shopped, I can tell from the pixels

Quite nice to see Getafe trying to get Balde sent off I thought. I like the tension

Great passes from Pedri there in the end.......

Yeah Ray Hudson had a similar footballing view as mine. He was obviously a bit over the top with his pre-planned metaphors and similes, but I think it was light-hearted and fun. At the same time, he was obviously very passionate about football, and could enjoy different styles of play as well...

This was very sad news, had just remembered the final was today and thought I'd cancel all my plans only to watch the game. Without Puig, I can't.

Amazing, did not know Reus was drafted to Puig's team! Will be even more fun to watch. I do not really enjoy his lack of defensive work to be quite honest, but him and Reus will surely combine very nicely offensively, it will be fantastic to watch! I also remember those pictures with Reus and...

Curious, what is your team?

When Zidane was the best, consensus was that physicality would become more and more of a necessity, even for the play makers (a need to be 1.85+ and so on, they speculated). Then came Xavi-Iniesta domination, Modric etc. The meta changes all the time and tends to go in waves or circles :)

I mostly agree, but at the same time, that Barcelona team of 2008-2012 or something was so great because they had very few specialists, it was almost as if they daringly said no to this "need of specialists". It was very synergistic though, they all made each other much better, because they kept...

It is not everything, but it is very much! Especially environment though, they are so, so dependent on it. Xavi said it about himself, he was nothing without his team mates (he couldn't dribble and so on), and his career path is really telling as well, the way it turned around when he was 28...

Hm, I believe you both (ajnotheith and Maradona37) seem to make good, if a little trivial, points. Although I mostly skimmed through your posts here tbh. I believe it is much more interesting to see your analyses regarding the player, his games, the potential thought processes of those who has...

Some of the most stupid posters here and elsewhere would compare him to these athletic americans with perhaps a better 30m dash and stuff like this and say he is a bit slow - despite st. Johan having told them already 30 years ago that it is all about when you start your run etc. I mean they...

Just look at that pass from the last game that was linked ITT (in this thread) and ask yourself how often you see passes like that, on ANY level. It doesn't happen that often, and this was from Puig, one of FC Barcelonas (the team most of you claim to support) own products. If Puig has some...

Please remind yourself again that I hold Xavi as the no 1 midfielder of all time. Of course he could play much more creatively and more daring if he wanted to, but he didn't, especially not in his greatest years. His assists in those years came as a result of him not looking for the final ball...

He of course wasn't, at least not since after Rijkaard. It is mostly a stylistic trait, though. Check how many times Xavi got the ball in those games, how many players of brilliant quality he had in front of him, how many goals Messi scored and so on. The amount of assists say close to nothing...

Yeah, Cescs flaws were very apparent then (a lovely player of course, and him getting the false 9/10, often in tandem with Messi, was a bit genius). Back then, I thought that Thiago should maybe get a little bit more playing minutes on Iniestas behalf. He was less sloppy with the ball but just...

I am not waiting for any transfer. I enjoy watching these clips where he makes brilliant stuff every week over there. I don't care about the level. Since you didn't seem to understand what was stupid about your post, it was comparing assists with Xavi.