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World class GKs cost lots of money, in transfer fees and salary. When did Barca spent money on that? Stegen might not be legendary level, but he is not worse than most GKs at current top clubs. And who might be world class that would warrant spending big bucks on?

I was talking about the latest overreaction related to his performance vs Valencia. Go a page back and he is dismantled. Not saying he didn't have a good breakthrough season, but is he that good to be a starter? I think not. Maybe I'm wrong, we'll see in the future.

Who?

Well, depends on what we do regarding Lewa. GK - probably we'll assess the situation for the reserve GK CB - depends if anyone leaves, but don't expect to spend transfer money there RB - need cover for Kounde LB - need starter CM/AM - we have enough players, some issues regarding...

Casado is certainly not good enough to start for us. Plays a good game in a match everyone looked good and suddenly he's great. I would keep him for rotation, but objective should be to bring in a starter at DM.

Career move my ass. The guy just wants back to be close to friends and family, party as much as he wants and act like a footballer from time to time. Made bank in Saudi and now he is living it up. Strange though that he didn't hook up with Messi and Suarez in Miami.

Szczesny had blunders whenever he started. Made no sense to suddenly drop Pena. The only advantage the polak has is that the team didn't lose, despite his blunders. From a sporting sense - weird decision. Dunno about other stuff, like contract, transfer etc.

Comfortably the best player in the world. If he keeps this up he'll get the Ballon D'or.

He does the same stuff as Neymar on social media. Dancing with friends and all that. Not that there's something wrong with it. He's more Brazilian than any Brazilian we've had since Neymar left.

I think it's about how he carries himself on and off the pitch. Sometimes tries useless tricks or is too greedy. Also his playing style and lifestyle off the pitch is mirroring Neymar's. Neymar didn't start jetting off to his sister's birthday until later in his career. Can't remember that...

It was a volcano and Dembele that derailed us from breaking records in CL.

Tbf we would have competed with Qatar over his signature. Dunno if we would have won. But agreed that Mbappe was already tearing up both Ligue 1 and CL heavy hitters at the time.

Biggest issue was Neymar leaving and us scrambling to cover his departure by signing players not fit for the squad we had. All signings that theoretically should have kept us in contention for trophies post 2016, failed - Coutinho, Dembele, Mina, Paulinho, Griezmann, Semedo, Gomes, Alcacer, FDJ...

The Neymar, R9, Riquelme one seems good value at 40k :lol: The Gavi one is a rip-off at 23k :tata:

That was a good thing. And I think the new format as a whole is a good idea, even for the sake of change. But at the end of the day I can't see how a Superleague will be stopped.

I thought the incentive is to get as much money as one can win. Finishing first in group never guaranteed a weak opponent in the KOs. Sure, it increases the possibility, but there were still lots of big teams finishing second place. The Superleague is inevitable as the small clubs will never...

That's what I was thinking about. Why not dispose of brackets and go the previous route of having draws for each KO phase?

Too early to tell. Yeah, we play more entertaining football now, but is it sustainable and does it bring results? We'll have to see.

Seems like the new format increases the possibility of teams losing/drawing games on purpose? Like it happens in international tournaments.

Tf you're talking about? The Superleague debacle? Negreira? Barca or Real weren't affected one bit by any of that. Justice for what? So justice is getting favourable refereeing decisions but at the same time whining every week that Madrid are committing robbery?