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Pinto needs to end his career here.

Santa Cruz is certainly the game breaker Barca needs. He scores more goals than Alexis after all.

Villa already spent his prime years at Spain's version of Arsenal, Valencia. There's no reason for him to take such a massive step down in his career when Chelsea or Juventus would kill for him (unlike some ungrateful Catalan club, cough cough) :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yes. I just don't enjoy the rivalry right now. There should be good old fashioned hate, but Mourinho has brought out the worst - the hypocrisy, the nonstop whining, and so on, in both clubs. Also Madrid should not be playing such awful football.

He's no Roque Santa Cruz though.

Lamela is definitely knocking on the NT's door..he has the pace someone like Pastore lacks so he might finally be the player who can keep up with Argentina's forwards and organize them.

I tend to like Iker more than Mourinho, because well that's easy, though I do find it amusing how he pretty much morphed into Raul at this point.

Wow.

Being the second coming of Ricardo Quaresma isn't enough for him, so he's trying to be the second coming of Abel Xavier too. Instagram really brings out the worst of people, doesn't it?

Sergio Ramos: "Nos ha sorprendido lo de Iker porque es un grandísimo portero". The revolt is on...

And I think a lot of Alexis hate is misplaced because of how David is being treated. I really don't like starting both Alexis and Pedro at the expense of Villa. As up and down as Villa has been, he's still getting goals this year.

I'm not sure if it goes this far but I've long suspected Mourinho has his eyes on the Portuguese NT job and has over the years made decisions that will benefit Portugal over the rest of Europe.

This I agree with, he doesn't need to be an elite goalscorer but right now he lacks even basic composure in the box and it's something that needs to be worked on. He's better than that. But I suspect the problem goes beyond Alexis because Pedro is afraid to shoot right now too.

The guy Barca truly needs is Roque Santa Cruz.

I agree about getting the best out of Messi not being a bad thing, and there's no reason to panic, but like Plip said, you do wonder how sustainable this will be, and I'm not sure indulging Messi like this will have a good effect on his ego long term. And that's the thing, he has clear flaws...

Yeah, reminds me a lot of how the team indulged Ronaldinho's every move and the team declined with him...but Ronnie was much more removed from the general pace of the game and so he never sucked out the confidence of the forwards he played with - it was easy enough to bounce back with a prime...

A better example of a player Madrid ruined was Canales.

This I agree with, and I have the same concern, especially if these guys have no confidence. But everyone expecting the second coming of Eto'o or even Giuly really needs to temper their expectations. This Messi is a different beast from the Messi back then, we haven't had such a...

I think there is valid concern because it's clear this current system is doing a lot to kill the confidence of Alexis, Pedro and Villa. It's successful and that's why the Messi dependence fear is a bit overblown for now, but I'm not sure I like the idea of killing the careers of other forwards...

Don't let facts get in the way of the shrill hyperbole that describes 90% of Pepe Silivia's posts in this topic. Sorry Herman but while I might not be objective when it comes to Alexis, you are obsessed with Alexis not being what you want. Except for his embarassing shooting Alexis was quite...