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If this was a normal edition of the competition with home and away legs with fans and other teams at top fitness I would agree, but that is not the case this year. There isn't any 2nd away leg for us to bottle this season and every team is out of rhythm. Anything can happen. PSG will not have...

Winning this year's half-baked CL competition is our most likely path to a trophy this season. We should see off Napoli at home and then it's only 3 victories needed for the title. Some luck here and Messi magic there and we very well could see ourselves hoisting the trophy at August's end. Not...

Nice assist to be fair.

:lol: This bloke is actually starting to live up to the meme now.

He is still the best player in the world, I just don't consider him alien level anymore. Also the time for putting a better team around him has passed. Leo is 33 years old now. It's too late for us to build a new project around him and for him to adapt to a completely new set of teammates and...

That and he's also declining.

Setien: "In general, and not only with Arthur, he is not the first or the last player with high expectations from which in the end things do not turn out as expected of him." Imagine if EV said this, this board would have had a collective stroke. :lol:

He is dead weight. No club in their right mind is going to touch this glass player and his wages. His legs' muscles are giving out on him. A few more pulled or torn hamstrings/calves and his career will be over. He will be here ready to "prove himself" until his contract runs out in 2022. Best...

He won't set the world on fire or anything, but I'm sure he'll be a useful player for us. He also only just turned 30 and is not a very injury prone. Reading some of the comments here you'd think the lad is 35 with shot knees. Pjanic instantly become our best progressive passer and will also...

People have spent hours upon hours over the years defending this mediocre player to death on this forum. It is only natural for some to have issues letting go. Who knows, Arthur could leave this environment and turn out to be a gem, but it's far more likely the bloke slowly fades into relevance...

Won't believe it until I see it's official. Might fall apart in the end like Dembele to PSG transfer because Arthur wants to "prove his worth."

All that hype and bluster for nothing. Just as subservient to the seniors as EV, but far more tactically naive. Said at the time sacking EV mid-season would prove to be a mistake and regrettably it has. Setien took over a club at the top of the table in the league, still in the Copa del Rey and...

Wow, Valverde saved by individual brilliance yet again..... I'm sick to my stomach.

Might be Arthur's final appearance that.

About to be 24 soon and has shown very little for me to indicate he can be one of our midfielders of the future. His fitness and injury issues won't get better with age. Maybe he can make it somewhere else, but this club is still years away from transitioning into a proper, functional team...

Doubt we'll find a better LB on the market today than Alba, but he's 31 and heavily reliant on pace. That can go at anytime then we'll be left with a one-trick pony incapable of performing his one trick. Pique and Suarez would be good super-subs, but I very much doubt those lads will simply...

It's time to dump the whole lot of Pique, Busquets, Rakitic, Suarez, Alba and probably Roberto too. Leo should follow in their footsteps in two years. The aforementioned core was good enough to at least contend for and win the league for a while even if they didn't have what it took to deliver...

Messi didn't train today due to muscle problems in his adductor. The Argentine underwent an MRI test yesterday to find out the exact extent of the injury that makes him doubtful for the game against Real Mallorca. [cat radio] Shame. Hopefully not another nagging injury that keeps him out two...

Ivan Rakitić: "I have still got a contract, when I sign a contract I always intend to fulfil it, and if that cannot happen for any reason, then we'll sit down together and talk about it." [sky germany] Incredible persistence and resolve from Ivan here. Media rags at his throat and he is...

I see Pep's influence is rubbing off on him.