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Great game from Pedro and great finish. Hope this signals a return to his best and the end of all the injuries. We need him.

Also: Are you going to end you career at Barca? It depends. You know, football (is unpredictable)... I've played at Llorient, Lens, Sevilla and now Barcelona. No one knows how things might evolve and what will happen tomorrow. I don't know either. It's my fourth year at Barcelona, it's been...

How can you explain the fact that Pep Guardiola seems to like you so much? I believe it all began when we played the Champions League Final in the first season (2008-2009). Everyone wanted to play. The manager asked me to play as a fullback, a position where I had never played before. I said...

This proves nothing though. Who do Real Madrid have on their bench who is of the same class as Mascherano, Villa, Pedro, Thiago... all players who haven't played on Wednesday at the Bernabeu. The only position where they really have two great options is striker with Higuain and Benzema. With...

The same applies to Barcelona, our squad is also infinitely superior to the other 18 teams in La Liga. Yet we haven't been able to do so, and Real have. This is exactly the same stupid arguments some people use to diminish Pep's achievements, claiming that it's easy to do so with such a great...

If the best team in the world had frequent screw ups and his team didn't it's because he's doing something right. And yes, they'd have really beaten Barca to the La Liga title. There's no two ways about it: head-to-head is only relevant in a league in case both teams finish with the same number...

Indeed. They're not just beating teams, though. At this point, they have scored more goals and have better GD than any team in La Liga history after 18 games. They've been convincingly dominating La Liga so far. You say they are first because we were complacent and dropped some points. Well...

It'd actually be extra credit to Mourinho if he won the league without being the best team. It is more difficult to succeed when your team isn't the best. I'm pretty sure Mourinho and the Real fans will celebrate (and with good reason) if they win the league even if they lost both Clásicos...

Very few teams have won the treble, of course Inter will be remembered. They will probably even get special praise because they did it in the era of this amazing Barcelona side. And who said anything about legacy anyway? This is nothing about legacy or all-time greatness. Winning the league...

They will be remembered as the best team of the 2009/2010 season, as the treble confirms. Barcelona's spot as the greatest team of this generation is secure. As the best team of this season, no way, there's a lot to do.

No, it's not. If we had lost to Madrid, but beaten Getafe, Sociedad, Sevilla, Espanyol and Bilbao, we'd be at the top. The three points against Madrid are not any more valuable than against other teams. I dare say that if we win all our games till the end of the season except El Clásico, we'll...

I have to agree with this. It's not El Clásico league, it's a league with 20 teams. 3 points against Real Madrid are worth exactly the same for the league standings as three points against Getafe. This "You need to win El Clásico to be the best team" thing is frankly quite bizarre, never...

The most consistent team is the best. Being the best team has nothing to do with whose peak level is higher, but whose level is higher over a season. It cannot be judged on individual matches. Using a tennis analogy, for four consecutive years Roger Federer lost almost every single big match to...

Can't say I'm surprised. Most Arsenal fans I've come across have a ridiculously inflated view of their players. If I didn't know any better, I'd be led to believe that they have been winning trophies left, right and center in these past few years.

You clearly haven't been in the Messi thread lately :)

Are people here for real? I can't believe what I'm reading in the last few pages. If the Villa thread was absolutely nonsensical on its day, this takes the cake. There's not a single player on this planet as good as Messi. The last few pages of this thread are downright embarrassing, I can't...

2 trophies > 1 trophy Not to mention that the 2 trophies option includes the Champions League, which is the pinnacle of European football, so the choice is really a no brainer here. However, we should fight to win all trophies if possible.

I don't like talking about referees but yesterday's decision (the offside) was shocking. If it had been the other way round, we'd now be hearing about "The Scandal of Mallorca".

Calm down. People expecting Madrid to just win every game until the next Clásico are crazy. That'd be 18 consecutive wins; the all-time La Liga is 16 (from Pep's Barca last season). This Madrid team is pretty good, but let's not exaggerate, they'll definitely drop points outside El Clásico. It...

Come on guys, enough complaining about the refs. That's a factor that's out of our control, we just need to focus on what we can control, namely performing well and winning games. If we were playing like last season, no amount of bad refereeing would have derailed us. We just need to play every...