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As much fun as it this sounds, I have my suspicions over Balague's knowledge of what's going inside the capital club.

This is an enormous problem with EPL fans. They seem to largely base their evaluation of Busquets on the handful of games they've seen in the CL. The problem is, though, that stigmas in general stay longer with their bearers than any sort of greatness they come up with. It's an easy option to...

What media says is irrelevant, and they're mostly just hyping their own as a countermeasure for the current dominance of Southern European and Latin Americans. What comes to fans, most of the Arsenal fans I know have never claimed him to be on par with any of the worldclass mids out there. They...

I never said he IS a ball-hog or that it has gone worse. I'm just pointing out that due to certain change of dynamics within the team there MIGHT be a possibility of that happening. It's just a scenario I'm entertaining in terms of how it would affect the team. I know Messi's a smart player...

It's not necessarily his ego per se I am afraid of. He still seems quite a decent guy and naturally with the position he enjoys on the field, he can get frustrated or angry (occasionally, rightly so). He is also much older now than he was back then and with that comes a certain degree of...

I am honestly being slightly put off by the Messi we have now. He is one monster of a player that seems to suck the living hell out of each and every other forward playing alongside him. The more the team is built around him, the more we face risking entering into a period where the team will be...

The way I see it, the function of our other forwards has changed quite a bit from the times of Henry - Eto'o - Messi, where the goal-scoring threat came from all of the three. The better Messi has become, the more auxiliary have our other forwards turned. It's as if they are there as mere...

I don't think its too ambiguous that when you have gross exaggerations being made, people respond with equally gross exaggerations just to prove a point. Alexis has been quite off his game in terms of scoring and it seems that even the last shreds of his confidence have gone to tatters. He still...

At least that should BE the problem, as playing both Alexis and Pedro simultaneously negates the whole purpose of having them on the team. Villa should've been starting instead one or the other of the two.

Nolan: let me share a well-know fact with you... the majority of modern day fans are spoilt petty children. moreover, this affects how certain players are valued within the club. apparently it's the stats that matter, despite of us being 16 points clear of RM, having a 6 point difference...

On topic: Get IN! You hero, you!

Same. Guess, there's something special about us Finns lol.

I bet he is. His current club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, is sitting comfortably in second place in Ligat Ha'Al and could easily progress to Ligat Leumit.

In so far as we are discussing levels of performance below Barça B, I do agree that there is a certain degree of rawness in the talent pool available. However, when you have two players (the ones I singled out) perform to a nigh perfection under previous coaches (Sergi Roberto was actually...

Would love to see Villa at Arsenal, just because I'm a selfish git and would be able to see him play live week in week out :lol:

Saying that Wilshere is average is ridiculous and, quite frankly, daft. Given he has been injured for lord knows how long, he has done quite well for himself. I really like his style of play and hope to see him live sometime in late January - early February.

I very much agree with everything said, but there is one slight statement I cannot simply neglect. In terms of raw talent, Rafinha has plenty of it and the fact that he has not excelled, and / or his development has stalled, has a lot to do with how Eusebio has built the current Barça B and how...

Except Malaga HAS settled on the issue of their outstanding bills and they are being paid as we speak. What riles me up here, is that FFP should be applicable to all of the teams competing any of the two UEFA competitions. Málaga are being singled out in an disproportionate manner and made an...

Pretty much this. "Este es el texto íntegro de la resolución de la UEFA: 'El Málaga será excluido de la siguiente competición de clubes de la UEFA si se clasificara en alguna de las cuatro próximas temporadas (por ejemplo, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17)'. Translation: This is the whole...

Haha, Mel Slade looks like a carbon copy of Caroline Flack, 10 years younger though :p