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Decent, but they still need a good centre back. Assuming rodgers does his job they will be fifth or maybe even fourth.

Herrera is a decent player. Don't lump all premier league players in the same overrated bracket.

i just don't want the same mistake as last time like with xavi. that wasn't a smooth transion. iniesta will still be good for some seasons but i want his replacement here ahead of time.

nice, that was one position they needed seeing as gabi and tiago are getting older. him along with saul niguez will develop well under cholo.

haven't seen much of denis suarez but is it possible he could take over from iniesta and we don't need a midfielder at all? we could focus on a backup forward and our lineup will be complete.

I agree the "laporta is our saviour" talk is annoying as is the sentimentality regarding things like sponsorship and even abidal (he might be a bust as a member of senior staff, no guarantees). Still he is preferrable to bartomeu from what I've seen. Btw it's kinda like real politics, the good...

Yeah bringing him and rotating them would be ideal but someone might complain about their minutes. The good thing is we could play different styles Iniesta/rakitic - how we play now Verratti/rakitic - give rakitic more freedom and express his full talents, most defensively solid...

Do you want us too keep him? He would hardly play.

if we get Verratti our midfield would be a bit unbalanced. We have rakitic in that role. If we did get him we'd have to tell rakitic to move forward more and give him freedom, because we still need a link player. I feel the same way about bringing someone like Koke.

I know Pogba is physical and can defend, but these are bonuses. His main skills for me are his dribbling and ability to play the iniesta role of moving the team forward and being a link between the midfield and front three.

Oh yeah, lol. I was joking around with Bertus.

Which one did you not like? Vermaelen?

We need to think ahead and think about replacing Iniesta over the next few years. Pogba plays his role and is going to be one of the best in the world for years to come, he also has defensive skills to add to his attacking skills even if he is a bit undisciplined at the moment. Obviously...

he has a similar role to iniesta, who doesn't get too many assists himself. A lot of great players in that role don't have great stats but make a massive impact on the teams play. And there is nothing wrong with galacticos per se as long as they are valuable additions to your team and make...

bringing in a young guy and making him play and succeed for the first team is very hard and there are many steps and stages where the player could go off track. Maybe we just had bad luck for various reasons lately? For example bojan was a success in terms of scouting him, developing him at...

Sterling is a decent young player, I'm not denying that, but he isn't and probably won't be world class. He isn't worth 50 million. I didn't say sterling and Walcott are English so they must be overrated. I just gave examples of two English players who happen to be overrated by media and fans.

You don't like the anti English bias but it's true, players like sterling are overrated, they are less tactically and technically gifted than their continental counter parts. I give credit where it's due to English players like Scholes, terry and carrick who actually have football brains, but...

I remember playing football in school, the midfield would be totally cut out and a hoofball that one time out of three reaches the striker, the midfield just runs up and down and occasionally somone makes a horrible tackle (people like that though around here). Just the culture of football in...

British players need to actually care about technical skills and keeping posession. I think now that all the leagues can be easily watched this will get better, maybe younger fans will see continental football which is more technical and has tactically smarter players. tbh the problem is the...

Sounds familiar