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Ronaldo does have excellent off-ball movement, positioning, timing, is one of the best headers of the ball in the world, is constantly making runs, is great at losing his defender etc. Yes, at the end of the day he is still reliant on good service, but he certainly makes it a lot easier. He is...

Christophe Dugarry (former French international and ex-Barca): "Griezmann is afraid of whom? Of a kid who's 1.50m and half autistic (Messi)? He just has to slap him in the face if there is a problem." [rmc] :rofl1:

Fitness issues under EV are a valid concern, but considering the age of our core players and the amount of power the have in the dressing room I very much doubt they would have been willing to do more training work under any coach. Setien did not have a transfer window, but most managers under...

-Setien is on pace for 81 points over a full season with Messi available for every match. -Lost La Liga -Out in the Copa del Rey QFs -Out in the CL R16? -Valverde was on pace for 80 points over all full season while missing Messi for two months. -Was sacked while the club was sitting atop of...

Dybala has been good, but this just isn't true. Ronaldo has 24 goals and 4 assists in 25 Serie A matches this season with an average rating of 7.95. Dybala has 10 goals and 5 assists in 20 matches with a rating of 7.47. Ronaldo has 9 MotM, Dybala has 2. Even if you remove penalties Ronaldo still...

Last season was one of his best ever. A top 5 season in his career at age 32. He has not reached half of that level this season. I know he has had injuries and lots of time off, but still. Most of his goals this season are against minnows and through penalties.

Aging players still comfortable with their abilities and still at a world class level don't have any issue with being rested on occasion. See Ronaldo, Ramos, Lewandowski etc. Even Messi was sat on the bench a fair bit last season before big matches. Suarez is not confident in his level anymore...

Just a rumour from an unreliable source. Don't get carried away mate. Either way, not sure why Griezmann would want to go from getting benched by Messi to getting benched by Dybala.

It always like that with players of Busi's nature whose best qualities don't show up on the stat sheet. Criminally underrated for a while until/if their club finally wins something. After which point the pundits start raving about their genius like they had known about it all along and they...

Next season will be worse. 34 year old Messi 34 year old Suarez 34 year old Pique 34 year old Vidal 33 year old Rakitic 32 year old Busquets 32 year old Alba 31 year old Pjanic Griezmann will turn 30 and Roberto 29 and will only be a few years out from entering geriatric status as well...

Apart from Pjanic being swapped in for Arthur and Trincao arriving the squad should be practically identical to this year's. The financial situation in football is not good right now and there is such a quick turnaround from the CL in August to the new season in September meaning no proper...

Look at how our players listen to Setien vs. how Atleti players listen to Simeone.

Don't touch this guy for even 50m. 1.74m CF? 18 goals in 52 Serie A apps? Not going to pretend I have watched this player that much, but no thank you.

He should just retire if he suffers another major hamstring injury. Won't be worth it at that point and as much as I don't like the kid as a player this repeated process cannot be good for his mental health. He has a WC, Copa del Rey and a few Liga titles. He has earned enough money for multiple...

He has shown nothing on the pitch and we're now supposed to feel bad for the bloke because of the antics of Suarez? What absolute rubbish. Worst transfer out of the lot of Coutinho, Dembele and him. Most people were optimistic about Coutinho when he arrived. There was hope for Dembele, at...

It is a bloody joke we try to pass the ball into the net with zero off-ball movement with 5 minutes remaining in a must-win match. It is very difficult to win anything these days if you are not competent in the air on the counter etc.

Of course he still has great moments. That is inarguable. The issue is that he is not producing enough goal contributions for us to put up with him completely disrupting our attack and the entire setup of the team. This has been going on before the COVID break too. For Leo to continue playing...

His legs are gone and ideally the lad should be moved on from, but look at our other CF options. False 9 Messi is not an option in 2020 and Griezmann has even worse production. Lautaro won't solve anything either. I am for signing Aubameyang this summer as a stop-gap. Only got a year left on his...

He's too old and the team is too poor for him to carry us to Liga titles anymore. Need a new plan.