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I know, they would need a translator. He won't be fluent enough in Spanish to communicate on any level above giving the OK sign and smiling for a while. You know, sort of like this: :dembele:

Messi should do it. He's pretty much the leader of the team, has good experience with hamstring issues and how to cope with pressure, and probably has a plethora of good contacts that can help him with diet and physical stuff outside of just the Barca system. That nutritionist in Italy who...

Arsenal's board have been running the club too much like a cold business, throwing the fans a small bone every season to keep them hopeful and then barely scrape by with results that sort of land them in the territory of a "top" club. Rinse and repeat for the following season. This tactic seems...

Yeah, but a good friend of mine who has played a lot of football told me that statistically younger players pull their muscles more often as muscles are a bit more fragile before you reach the physical peak of the mid and upper twenties. Of course, it could be that he was just speaking...

It's also a bit early to say that he's made of glass really. Did he ever get injured with Dortmund? Could just be really bad luck here. These type of injuries (pulled muscles) are also more common with younger players, if I'm not mistaken?

It sucks that he's injured, but it can be dealt with. We seem to be handling this season quite well with the squad we have right now, and Coutinho is coming in soon as well. I don't get why these two injuries have prompted some people to start doubting his talent or discussing his intelligence...

With his instinct for goal, I imagine he would like a time machine to go back to the start of his career and work on becoming a pure striker instead of a midfielder. Seems like that's where his biggest talents lie.

Not an argument, just a waste of bytes for the forum server and an extra turn on the scroll-wheel for everyone.

I don't care if he's considered the greatest physical coach of all time who craps bandages and sweats medicine. He seems to have dropped the ball big time. Dembele should not have played yesterday. End of. There is nothing immature about fans getting upset about a major screwup like this by...

How are they not to be blamed, if he felt discomfort 10 days ago in his left hamstring, yet was allowed to play on a shitty pitch like the Anoeta in the rain last night and was injured in that exact hamstring? Either they are 1. clueless and somehow did not pick up on the fact that he felt...

They need to go through his diet, aim to put on 10 pounds of pure muscle and also work on stretching to give his muscles more tolerance of movement. Once all that is done he should start getting a good match rhythm going and unleash his full potential with us. We shouldn't rush things with such...

Yeah, and I can excuse all that if he's been told that it should be fine by the medical staff, which has to be the case because there is just no way they haven't picked up on this and checked it out. And if that's the case they need to screw off back to Arsenal where they belong, throwing around...

So frustrating to watch, that is his left hamstring he's touching. How this was allowed to either go unchecked, or checked but considered safe enough to play at Anoeta in the rain, is beyond me.

Just have to accept that we likely won't see anything special from him this first season. Match rhythm will be completely off. We need to work on getting him less injury prone. He should put on some muscle weight to become more solid in duels as well, he seems pretty fragile in that regard.

Yeah, and not taking properly care of our players is worse than him being a moron who just plays while feeling pain that he doesn't inform the staff about. Did we hire staff from Arsenal or something? If he says he feels pain, then work on it and don't let him play in the rain on freaking...

Live shot of Messi evading tax collectors:

Oh man, seeing this thread in the "other players" section made my day.

Really frustrating loss for Norway against France yesterday. :( Edit: Handball is a great sport by the way. One of the few sports where the female version is great to watch as well, becoming more its own thing and not just a completely watered down version of what the men do.

40% of the payroll? Sounds appropriate, he is roughly 40% of the team. :messi:

Yeah, he's so good that watching him play every week is something that will never start feeling stale or normal. Even after watching more games with Messi than I would care to count, seeing him pull off one magic move after another never stops making my hair stand in awe. I keep thinking, as a...