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Thank you Finally someone understands what i'm trying to say here!!!!!!

Well of course they didn't want to sell him for peanuts, but if Di Maria really showed intent of going Benfica would have no power over placing a gigantic price-tag on his head. Or considerably less power.

Yes that is very true, there is considerable inflation facing certain clubs when it comes to transfers - Barca included, but more so Madrid, Chelsea, now City... Thing is Calderon did damage to that with the signing of Cronaldo as well. But, Benfica will surely be laughing their way to the bank...

LOOOOOOOLLLLL :lol: Man there's been a considerable amount of gold standard stuff nowadays, including Fourteen's Spain/Xavi/Cesc joke, and this is good too. And of course Sergi's Madrid football/gay pick-up post.

Cesc (and later Thiago). Of course it will never be the same, but the same can be said about El Capitan, and, one day, the Messiah.

He's fine though, i mean he played (and scored) yesterday!

We let Beletti go for a reason - he had done an honourable duty, but he was too old to play a major role in the team. He won't come back cause his Barca career is over, he finished on a high, why would you want to go down from there? He's a club legend to a large extent; if he were to come back...

Ok well it took me about 2 seconds to come up with that, and I'm sure if i had thought it through i could've come up with much more reliable players. The thing is, Hulk is not meh, he's 2 years older than Di Maria but he's been consistently good in Portugal for years. Better than Di Maria. Could...

Add Iniesta, but he'll recover soon.

Anyway, Pedro's better, and certainly for us. Especially if we buy Cesc, Pedro will be playing a largely substitute role and we certainly wouldn't want to take that away from him.

Truth be told they didn't really extend his contract. His current contract ran until 2014, and as GJ said, they made this one conditional. So what he's signed up to is that if he plays 50% of matches in 2014, he will have a year extension, and if in that year extension he plays 50% of games, he...

I don't know, I always get the impression that he's overrated, because he's about as far as England go with on-the-ball (dribbling) skill.

Yeah, i mean the first team rarely battles for survival, it comes along once every 10 years or even less frequently :p So seeing barca (b) battle might be a new dimension of Barca watching. But in all honesty, if we do go up, then i would much rather see us comfortable mid-table than struggling ;)

And I'm pretty sure i've agreed with you for that long :) But yes, it isn't my argument, dunno why i said it lol, i was just typing selfishly i guess. Anyway, What the hell with Andres' injury again... Just when a few weeks ago I was having a discussion with Nolan about his injury-proneness...

Yeah, he was talking in the past tense, describing a story - as in, he used to think there wasnt a difference until he tried the Uruguayan type :p

Have I? No i haven't... Remember how we were discussing how you and Ed thought that 40 mil for him was a bargain, but i said that while i admire him, 40 mil is a ripoff...? I've always had the exact same stance on Di Maria. Top top talent, CAN make it big, but 40 mil (or 30 + 2 player...

I LOVE Andrey. Seriously, what a man. What a lad. Don't diss the GOD that is Arshavin. He is the epitome of honesty, and he is a pure man.

:rofl1: Anyway 30m + two canteranos (is it?) is still a ludicrous deal for Di Maria, or so I insist until proven wrong. And I don't mean proven wrong in 5 years' time when he becomes a world beater, i mean in the next season. If he goes to Madrid as a backup for 30m + 2 players with potential...

Or is it? Mancunians actually pronounce City like "Citeh", but i've not heard a Catalan saying "Farsa" before tbh :p

So true! The godly CL final, my goodness, what a performance.