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But competitive =/= Chelsea or one of the manc clubs winning it every time. The French league or the Bundesliga, for instance, are more competitive. In fact, aside from la Liga, the EPL is the second least competitive big League in the world.

Problem is that, most of the time, he wasn't playing CB at all. I suspect that analyzing his movements last night he would spend most of the time in front of Busquets. Now, we are a side made of midfielders, so we have to think less in terms of 4 man defense or 3 man defense and more in terms...

He was never woeful, our good old Corporal Jenkinson.

I said it before, Song has no acceleration, he can't react in time, and his tackles usually end up in yellows. That makes him strongly unsuited for the CB post. He'll be a midfielder playing deeper than usual, doing midfielder type things, never a CB, no matter how many matches he plays as such...

No, look. I hate to break this to you, but Puyol getting injured a lot last season and this one is not a crazy coincidence. He's got both an age and a lot of matches on his back. He's going to spend the rest of his career getting injured a lot... and having either Piqué or Masche out eventually...

Nest up is Sevilla (Michel is no great tactician, but even he can sense a weak link if it's as obvious as our defense) and Real Madrid without, excepting a surprise recovery, experienced natural CBs in our squad. If Tito can pull those two off he's a genius. If he can't, he's a moron and we're...

Chygro didn't change. He was exactly as slow in here as he was in Donetsk. So either he was not properly scouted or he was scouted by incompetents. Take your pick. About Agger and Skrtl, let's see if we agree on this: a player can be brilliant in one system. lousy on another. Right? The fact...

Were they? Not Chygro, he wasn't the best defender neither at Shaktar nor in the Ukranian NT. I remember watching a couple Shaktar games back when we were about to sing him and thinking... "Is Pep sure he didn't mean the Srna guy instead?"- Sure, some defenders are slow, and some are unsteady...

Maybe, you know, any of the many, many CB's in the world who can actually play with a ball instead of them would have sufficed?

Nope. Tito may be the stubbornest man alive, but sooner or later even he's going to have to own up to the fact that Song is not a CB. Honestly, he was an extra midfielder against a team without any bite... wait until he's found out a couple of times against a bigger club and we'll never see him...

Yeah, he even scored a goal. What else do you want from him? Sure, it was an own goal. But beautifully scored anyway, and that matters.

Or maybe he's an incompetent. We'll see. If I was a betting man, I'd be betting on Granada tonight.

To be fair, asking him to play the one player who's actually trained to be a CB isn't wanting him to be brave. More like using the only rational option left.

Don't know what you are trying to say, honestly. Are we supposed to just agree with everything a manager does? That would make for a really boring forum, then. Oh, wait. I get it. You mean that you believed Tito when he said that Bartra is incapable of playing more than 45 minutes. Yeah...

Except for Song being an unabashed disaster as a CB, you mean. Sounds like a petty excuse to me.

Quick! Somebody snatch the hasgiroudscoredforarsenalyet.com domain!

So Bartra can't play because he hasn't played? Shouldn't he start at some point, Tito?

No. It's impossible to do that, since that would involve including the sentences "Gervinho as a center forward" or "Diaby is our main DM" so let's not even try and just roll with it.

Prefering? Left without any other option, you mean.

If Milan and Barcelona are offering the same amount of money, I bet he'll pick us.