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The "New Robinho"...they said. :neymar:

It is also a fact that you won the mother 'effing Tenth with Ancellotti, destroying Bayern on the way to boot. You also won the Copa by beating both Atletico and Barca. This season, still made the CL semis (narrow defeat to a better rested and prepared Juventus) finished only two points behind...

It's not all over the place, it's highly biased towards a very particular direction. Hazard more valuable than CR7 and Neymar! Sterling more valuable than Bale/James/Muller/Pogba/Suarez/Griezmann etc, Yaya Toure higher than Modric, Oscar higher than Verratti, Coutinho higher than Koke...

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The Football Observatory’s top 50 most expensive players 1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) £205m 2. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) £109m 3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) £92m 4. Neymar (Barcelona) £72m 5. Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) £63m 6. Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) £60m 7. Paul Pogba (Juventus) £57m...

And all of them regret the fact. Anyone claiming that the CL is not the biggest thing by far in club football are heavily deluded.

No. Bravo is good enough for the league (until proven otherwise) and Mats is good enough for all the rest. And since you rightly note that we are going to have even more non-Liga games next season, then Mats will get even more playing time. He played something like 20 games last season (which...

City and PSG have become big all of a sudden thanks to petrodollars. But still do not enjoy the global popularity of Barca/Real/United or even Liverpool/Milan/Arsenal.

That is extremely valid and quite possible. But for Nike as a global brand, is it viable for them to exit the football shirt business? Despite being American, they know full well that soccer (ahem) is the one truly global sport. In any case, we should be getting top dollar from all our...

Not everything, but it's quite a big deal, wouldn't you agree?

So Ibra has finally realized that he is never winning the CL?

Yes, I forgot that for a second, and that should make our hand stronger in any future negotiations. Nike are bigger than Adidas but what big clubs remain with them? If I am not mistaken, we are the only truly global team they have left.

It is a good deal (again the euro/pound FX rate skews things a lot) but we could be getting even more. And on your final point, you hit the nail with a sledgehammer! It is inconceivable and nigh sacrilegious that United are getting much more money from Adidas than we are from Nike.

You are 100% correct in that the EPL is the most popular league around the planet for mainly two reasons: a) People are stupid and b) The kick-off times of the EPL suit the Asian market much better than ours. The fact of the matter is that we have been head and shoulders the best team in...

Young players trying to break through, do not care whether a club had a great time in the 60s or the 80s. They care about the money on the contract. Liverpool can pay higher wages than Inter, so the move makes sense for Kovacic. If this move ultimately goes through, then it just shows that there...

Messi was very good in both 2010 and 2014. Of course, not as good as he can be, but still. What stood out for me, was how utterly inept the rest of the team were (minus a couple of exceptions such as Mascherano in the last World Cup) especially in midfield and attack which meant that Messi had...

The ITV commentator said it best:

Does Eurosport televise these games?

The captain should be a canterano and an old-timer and a legend, which very simply means: The Don! After the Don, is Messi, then Pique, then maybe Mascherano or Biscuits.

LordLichtenstein The funny thing is that none of those quotes on Messi are required to argue for his brilliance as well as his undisputed GOAT status. His absurd collection of outrageous games is more than good enough. Edit: "Sport" reports that Messi has played over 5000 minutes this season...