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Maradona was quite unfit by today's standards. He carried extra weight. If you see shirtless photos of him, you can see that there is no definition in his muscles. This is definitely not the case with Messi who is absolutely shredded by comparison. The comparison between Messi and Diego dies...

No, we wouldn't be playing with random Masia players, we would be able to have the best in Spain (the best of which were our canteranos) like Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique, Puyol, Pedro, Alba. We could also buy any number of other Spanish stars, such as David Villa (which we did) and David...

Real Madrid is very good in all around play, but average in terms of scoring. Unless you find goals from somewhere, then you have no chance of winning CL or even LL. Last night Real Madrid deserved 3 goals (xG) but scored 0. Barca, deserved 0.5 goals (remove the penaldo) but scored 3.

True. Messi destroys the competition during his era, while Diego almost never topped the scoring charts and 30% of his goals were penaldos.

If the CL was like the old European Cup, then it would have been much easier for Messi's Barca to win. Remember that we won the league in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. It would mean that teams that eliminated us like Chelsea (2012), Bayern (2013) Atletico (2014 &...

We actually made a show in both 2011 & 2015. So did Madrid a couple of times.

All of Barcelona, Juventus and maybe even Man Utd should have had more CLs. Real Madrid, AC Milan and Pool have more than they deserve.

I would say that Pep should have won at least one more. But, 4 out of 4 was more than possible. Also, last year it was even more in the bag after the first leg but we defended like a Segunda B team at Anfield. In times gone by, we lost to Steaua in Seville and could have easily also won in...

Are Napoli even better than Alaves?

I agree. It's just that Barca paid top money for him and threw him into that position. In terms of accomplishment in football, Dembele doesn't deserve to be there for sure.

As every cule knows, we have won the biggest club title in European football a total of 5 times (1992, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015) but we have also come very close on a number of occasions, many of which we were favored or even heavily favored to win the whole thing, but did not. From the 1961...

Just recall all the awesome players Barca has thrown into that left-attacking position in recent years: a) Henry, b) Iniesta (in a few big games as well), c) David Villa, d) Alexis Sanchez, e) Neymar, f) Dembele, g) Coutinho and now Greaseman! Surely I must be forgetting somebody. But, my...

I would love it if this current Pool were to play our prime MIX team. Imagine Wijnaldum and Hendo trying to press prime XavIniesta into mistakes. It would be a massacre for them. Even last year, if we had Neymar instead of Cou/Dembouz, it would have been a cakewalk for us, even with slow-ass...

No, in the previous round, Liverpool used mostly second string players, last night they used 4th string players.

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I want Pep to lose. I prefer facing Madrid than City.

ATM are an awesome team, except the scoring part. If (I know it's a rather big IF) they can find a couple of goals, then Pool will be in a lot of trouble.

I don't think that Juve's problem is Sarri, their problem is that they are not very good. As for who do we want to go through: We want Atleti to beat Pool, Real to beat Citeh, Chelsea to beat Bayern and BVB to beat PSG.

You left out the part in which they lost to Bologna, Cagliari, Parma, drew with Spal, Genoa, RBS and 9th team in Belgium Genk and are closer to the relegation zone than first place.