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You should see RedCafe Thiago and Fabregas threads :lol:.

At least you always get entertainment with Barca :lol:.

He needs to test his mettle in the best league in the world, the Barclays Premier League.

Make a bid for Arbeloa quickly...

Unfortunately for him he lacks the elusive Barça DNA.

:lol:

Verm might surprise you guys...

I love it. I hate them even more than I hate Real Madrid. Chelsea is the only team I hate more...

Have you heard of this thing called Europa League. Something Aberdeen won't be entering anytime soon.

Di Maria is a different kind of player but world class for sure, I'd pick him over silva in my team.

Well at that time a lot of big teams were wanting cbs, and David Luiz just went for 50m, maybe they thought they could pull it off. In hindsight we could have waited till later in the window (because nobody went for him in the end) but it was very risky because we could have ended up with...

Look it up, they wanted 60m. And come on, you know we wouldn't have been able to lower it with our negotiating team.

Well they were wanting 60m earlier on. It's only low now for the reasons I already mentioned in my posts last couple of pages. Even if we went for him now it'd be more than 30m because we are desperate unlike Bayern. I agree we could have waited a bit longer though because Verm was going...

I've been given that argument already. There is a cut off point obviously. The players do need to be at least a little good. In my opinion Mathieu and Verm are more than good enough. Unlike the Bagnack and Douglas of this world.

Obviously Benatia would have been the best option but his price was too high. So we ended up with two cbs who are good enough and fit the style for combined about 30m, not bad at all.

Teams always did that against us. We were just better at dealing with it because stopped counters before they started with positioning and pressing. Let's assume what I'm saying is bullshit for a second, even if tactics have no relevance then you think Benatia would single handedly stop all...

douglas would never be good enough while mathieu/verm are/can be. i already said that benatia was preferrable but have pointed out that we couldn't have got him for 30m early in the window. even if we went for him now he'd cost more because unlike bayern we are desperate and we'd get into a bid...

obviously getting benatia is preferrable nobody is denying that. but people are refusing to see the positives for our defence from this window, it's not IDEAL but it is good enough, when it clearly wasn't good enough before. i'm confident about next season.

benatia at that point in time would have cost much more than 30m and priced us out of other signings.

don't you get his point? with proper pressing and tactics our defence was solid and won the champions league even with masch back there. now imagine how we'd get on with mathieu who is an actual cb and very good (assuming lucho sorts out everything else). we will also have better depth in those...