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Do you mean that's the price Liverpool are asking for?

Whose valuation is that?

I'd say Athletic is certainly more than just a club, they have a very similar significance to the Basques as Barça does to the Catalans which is why Athletic - Barça games are usually giant love-ins :D

No te preocupes Tonio, I'm not planning on a political debate!

I'm waiting for the analogy between 11 years of Margaret Thatcher and 36 years of Francisco Franco :lol:

Yes, but it's the choice of others to willfully misinterpret that phrase to suit their own agenda.

Brentmeister has been reading too much of the Brit media who love to distort the meaning of "mes que un club" so that they can hold us to false moral values. MQUC relates to our political significance for Catalunya as a surrogate national team and the wider social significance of the club, it...

Are you competing in a "state the obvious" competition? I'm not saying we shouldn't sign Mascherano, I'm just defending Rosell against the criticism some have levied at him because he has veered from the bull in a china shop approach of Laporta & Txiki where the club rushed in, showed no...

You're not wrong, clearly Sandro is trying to balance his presidential need for a marquee signing with his desire to come across as the embodiment of financial sense and reason.

No, the papers have promised a lot, Rosell hasn't. Rosell said that he would try to get Cesc, we couldn't afford Arsenal's extremely high demands, that's fair enough surely? I think most of us would expect a certain amount of flexibility in terms of how much we're prepared to spend on a...

We should be happy that the days of spending money we don't have to may be over. Surely it's better to wait a day or two and save a few million than rush in and waste the club's money. Fiscal responsibility isn't a fault, it's an attribute.

Could you at least do us the favour of recognising that many of us didn't criticise him? Unfortunately it seems all too common that opposition fans take the comments of an ignorant minority and seek to tar the rest of cules on here with the same brush.

I'd dispute that actually, I think he excels in the system in place at Fulham and clearly carries out his role extremely well but I don't think he's any more talented than the rest of that squad and I don't think he's an exceptional individual.

He's found his level, at a bigger club than Fulham he just wouldn't cut the mustard.

It all comes down to whether he gets enough minutes to satisfy him and I think he will. As you point out we're coming off the back of a world cup and Iniesta especially will need to be handled very carefully to avoid injuries at key times. The competition for all three midfielders will be very...

I'm not disputing why Dimi was sold but if the books need balancing and we can sell a no-mark like the Ukranian for €15m to do so then the board has the right to do that.

It's not really food for thought because most of the culés who contribute regularly on this forum are better informed about Barça issues than Tim Stannard is. We all know that this season will be a pivotal one in terms of the relationship between Pep and the new board but Rosell has demonstrated...

There are several glaring inaccuracies in this article, which undermine the writer's argument. Firstly Yaya wasn't "sneakily sold", nor was he a "Pep favourite", we all know why Yaya left and it had nothing to do with Rosell. Secondly Rosell didn't dismiss Txiki, the Basque had already announced...

LOL, there was obviously some banter going on in training!

Promise delivered, by a President who doesn't take the piss ;)