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Mark my words. Gundogan will flop wherever he goes in the future. Let's be patient and see who's right in the end.

OK, I stop right here. Some of those things I felt were at least partly relevant. Time for a full-stop though.

"Conspiracy theory"? More like geopolitical reality I would say. Qatar is best buddies with all three of the US, UK and France. They own PSG, they buy US Treasuries by the bucketload, they buy weapons from all those countries, they own Harrods in London as well as super-premium property in...

Well, maybe China could take their place: :mou:

The North Sea oil & gas production has been declining non-stop for over a decade now, and that is for all countries concerned, in fact the relative decline has been even worse for the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark than it was for Norway. Sure there is more oil up there, but it is not nearly...

Yes really! Even with the price at over $100, Norway's crude production plummeted from the peak circa 2000 by around 50%. Those oilfields you are referring to are far more marginal than the old ones (which is the reason why they were not drilled all this time) and hence far more expensive to...

I take it you are from Norway. Your oil is fast running out by the way. One of the main reasons why the West is foaming at the mouth against Russia/Iran/Venezuela.

How do you know those countries do not bribe? Why would FIFA choose them over rival bids? There is always lots of competition and money to be made out of organizing World Cups etc... But yes, I agree with you that England and Germany (and Spain and Italy) are big football nations, while Russia...

All the Gulf kingdoms operate as slave-states-light (and I am being too polite) The "democratic world" never really complains, since money is constantly flowing from KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait to the western financial markets and arms corporations. So much "win" for the free world and its...

I am sure there was corruption in both cases. Both countries must have bribed extensively to get those World Cup bids though. This happens everytime though, neither the Russians nor the Qataris invented bribing.

If you mean popular opinion, then yes, I totally agree with you. Qatar is vile through and through, Russia merely stands for her interests and this is understood even by some people in the brainwashed West. But the US deep state (or any other western government for that matter) are at all...

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The only reason the Anglo-powers are kicking up a fuss over FIFA at present is because the next World Cup is to be hosted by Russia and they want to stain that as much as possible, ideally, even to have it cancelled altogether or at least have a partial boycott. Things do not happen in the abstract.

Yes, but the gap is growing and that is significant. It's one thing to be richer than all others by a factor of 1.5, and it is quite another to be richer than any other by a factor of 3, or 4.

Yes, he was used as a super-sub in several games in both 04/05 and 05/06 but still clocked well over 2000 minutes per season. By 06/07 he was playing all the time. But yeah, this is not about Iniesta. First of all I am not saying that he will be playing at an extremely high level at age 33. He...

I doubt that is true. Can he be that much of an idiot?

Improvement! Good to hear, good to hear. :suarez: Still, let Pedro play against Bilbao.

United (or any other club for that matter) offering better wages is a wholly different matter than him wanting to play the first half of the season no matter what. If he really wants Barca, then I am sure he can be patient for a few months or so. He can also be loaned back to Dortmund (or some...

Very good list, nigh excellent in fact. But I would also add that absurd long-range curler against Getafe. If somebody told me that NASA satellites guided that ball into the net, then I wouldn't be at all surprised. His second goal vs Espanyol this season was also outrageous. The way he skipped...

But wasn't it the case that he has been training normally all along, but with some minor but persistent discomfort?