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Laporta's first major signing and Xavi adores the bloke. He will continue starting unless he reaches Coutinho levels of shite.

Was calling for him since 2019. Class player, hope his legs can last for a bit longer.

Ah, my apologies. Still a waste of money and I doubt we purchase if he wasn't a Spain international. We are not in the position of oil clubs to throw this kind of money around on projects.

People were defending this dirt-poor club splashing 60m on this City reject. :lol: Laporta and Xavi's Catalan fetish will waste whatever funds are available to us this summer.

Being saved by tall and physical players while the horde of Catalan midgets he brought to the club do nothing but play side passes.

Pointless to ponder. We would have either ruined his development or sold after 2 years because he wasn't a Ballon D'or contender yet.

No, of course not. I prefer Luuk De Jong.

Cannot help but feel we should have kept this money until the summer market to see what other opportunities opened up. We can get top 4 without Torres.

He is being passed up by players half a decade younger than him. Time to make something of his career, and soon.

Outclassed by 50 year old Rakitic and 60 year old Busquets.

Can hardly beat his man clean 1v1 anymore. Not that he was ever that great at it, but he used to do it with some frequency in previous seasons. Now the best he can do is create a few yards of space to put in a cross or cut to the middle.

It's over for him at this club. I still maintain lad has some talent, not nearly as much as initially advertised, but he can be a good player elsewhere. FDJ, like Ter Stegen is mentally shot and needs a reset.

He is a very good player in his prime, so naturally this club would not take him for free. We only go after over the hill veterans and finished 2nd division level players.

I will concede Pep, Tuchel and Klopp. A reasonable argument for the likes of Flick and Nagelsmann to occupy the final 2 spots could be made, but they are by no means nailed on top 5 managers in the world. The 4-5 positions can be debated among half a dozen names. Conte, EV, Carlo, Simeone etc...

How does one make such comments with a straight face? Sounds like the words of a man that is never challenged by anyone is his footballing life.

Let it go mate. He is in England and Messi is in France. Weird schadenfreude cult in this thread.

Sell quickly! FdJ and MaTs still have a good enough reputation in European football to be sold for decent sums. I am afraid if we allow them to expose their degradation for much longer they will turn into negative assets like Coutinho and Umtiti.

Possesses neither the tactical nous of a Valverde or bravery of a Koeman. Not a serious manager.

Sure he is sipping a glass of fine wine on his beautiful estate laughing his arse off at what we've become without him. Laporta should do the right thing, get on his knees and beg for this top 5 manager in the world to make a comeback. "EV is ruining our great talents like Semedo, Arthur and...

Remember the vitriol I received when I pointed out he was an average player back in 2019. "It's just EV holding the poor lad back", I was told.