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I was Schumi. Just check the posts in the Champions League thread circa October/November/December. Or after the CL loss to PSG, or the defeat vs Celta. This is just one of my posts replying to claims that our team is nothing special at all. Allegedly, other European sides were easily better...

Not exactly everyone.

What you are doing here is reductio ad absurdum. Of course there are a million things involved in football, but it's as if you believe that some managers know how to do all those things you have listed, and others have no clue. Again, the fundamental problem with appreciating the contribution of...

Xavi was player of the tournament in Euro 2008. Iniesta was in the best XI. Xavi was also coming off a great season the year before. Although we had those players before, they only hit their peak at that time. How much of it was down to Pep, we cannot possibly know. But I would say this. Pep...

First of all we have to establish the degree of their of their inferiority and then try and account for the factors making up for it. Moreover, deviation is always part of life. All teams/players overshoot their potential at some stage of their careers. But in the case of Simeone I would...

But I agree that what Pep did that summer was correct. But none of it would have made any difference had we the same injuries as before, or if Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Eto'o, Alves, Henry, Puyol, Yaya etc etc did not play the football of their lives. Think about it as hard as you like and try to...

Yes, that emoticon has clearly demonstrated the superiority of your argument. Take care yourself.

What you are saying here is that the only factor that changed between 07/08 and 08/09 was Pep. But it was not so, many washed-out players left, new came in (prime Alves) we had less injuries, Messi, Eto'o and Henry had many injuries the previous season, and our MIX came for the first time into...

Our players are more important than the coach. Players in general are far more decisive than managers in deciding the outcomes of football matches. Give Pep the players that Stoke have, and Jose the players that Cordoba have and let's see what they can do. I don't think that this point is...

They got that fluky Essien goal. It was what allowed them to sit deep and hit us on the counter. People also completely forget that both times we faced Chelsea (09 and 12) we were fighting for a league title while Chelsea were completely indifferent. Moreover, in both cases, we had a Clasico...

I prefer reading you lovely posts: So, again, the implications are clear. If only Alaba was there man! Barca would be doomed! In any case, I 'll wager that your next post will contain the following words: straw+man, but no attempt at explaining what you are/were trying to say. This is a...

Did you, or did you not say: If you did, then the implications of such a statement are as clear as they are inescapable. Or, are you gonna throw "straw-man" into your next post as well? When you say that Messi and Lucho were more important in this season's success than Neymar and Suarez, you...

No he did not and that was exactly my point. He only implies that they are. While he will say things such as: "Barcelona deserve to be in the final" he (and many others) will also mix that up with a myriad of qualifications, "ifs" "buts" He also came up things like: Both Ryu and footy...

Well that is your opinion, and just like Ryu, you back it up with absolutely zero. Let's be more concrete here. I told him (repeatedly) that from his posts on this forum, the implications are that Bayern are more or less, far and away, the best team in the world. I disagree with that and I...

No way. Just the usual BS from the English press trying to make their league sound more important than it really is. Real Madrid brought Jose in to win them the CL and he failed. Since then, he has kept failing, why would they be at all interested?

During the 3 years under Pep (I exclude 11/12 in which I feel we were not very good) we were a most unique team, no doubt about that. Never outplayed, won 2 CLs in 3 years, only lost after a bus ride from Barcelona through the Alps and into Milan etc... The opposing team (no matter how big)...

You never answer the questions I pose to you. You merely assert that I am wrong and you are right. With absolutely zero to back your opinions with.

OK. Where do you rate Bayern vis a vis the rest of the big European clubs. And how is that reflected in your posts? Do not avoid this question.

1. Overrating/underrating opponents for any reason is mistaken and must stop. 2. Well, they should have taken Suarez/Neymar into account. Again, it was a grave mistake not to do so. 3. No team has ever done the Treble more than once. Would be epic if we were the first.

Lucho was trying things out. And he only attempted some genuinely risky formations/rotations in only a couple of games. People totally ignored that and exploded in hysterical Lucho-bashing after every single negative result. Not only that, but they also tended to overrate rival teams out of all...