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With Suarez declining, with 0 good CF available on transfer market. We should give Munir opportunity. First season under Lucho he was a beast (in first Liga match). I think he could be revelation of the season. On his day, Mbappé has nothing for this kid. If managed correctly, he’ll become a...

Hope he’ll have fair competition with Alba for starting spot. When he gets in a good form, coach sends him to bench for weeks in order to protect Alba. I believe he’s potentially better than Jordi. Could become best LB in the world this season. France would have won the WC with him starting at...

Hope he finally gets his deserved starting spot at RB this season. Top 3 RB in the world on his day.

Hope a chance this season he gets to prove that the man we need he is. I believe this season will be the season of Gomes breakthrough. Btw his number we need to change. Number 8 give him. A handsome man he is, should be the marketing face of the club. With number 8 better it will be.

Lol dude you're talking about Alena as if I told somewhere that he'll be the guy for sure. I said we'll have decent midfielders (unlike Gomes & Paulinho) this season including Alena, Arthur and one more midfielder. I don't know Alena so well but I doubt he's an Ozil in defensive aspects. One...

Ok then what happened when he played in 433 ? Did you see him create some crazy amount of chances ? As a pivot Busquets is 1000 times better. As a central or attacking midfielder, there are lots of better players especially for Barca style football. Why are you talking about FIFA man btw ?

Still an awful midfielder for pure Barca style football. And this WC proves it even more: in a team with only one creative midfielder (Modric) he’s nowhere to be seen in the build up. Modric who is supposed to play n10, goes down till his defenders to touch the ball because Rakitic isn’t able to...

You have all the rights in the world to have preferences. But to be honest there is no urgency with a profile like Eriksen (AM) since we have Coutinho who’s not inferior to Eriksen and plays same positions. Thiago on the other hand is different from these 2 and we need his kind of player.

Maybe you're right about Thiago's case and I have nothing against Bayern. I actually would have loved if they had all their players to knock out Real Madrid... But fact is: every year Bayern goes to the CL semi-finals and every year when they get there, half of the starting 11 is injured. Who's...

He missed approximately 110 games in 4 seasons at Bayern. If you watch his injuries list, more than half of those missed matches were due to a problem with a knee. He had one big injury that provoked a lot of little other injuries and that made him miss a ton of matches between 2013 and...

I hate being the stats guy but now that I started... I checked stats on whoscored. Per game: 1. Tackles. Rakitic: 1.4 Messi: 0.6 Dembelé: 0.5 Denis: 0.6 Arda: 2 Iniesta: 1 Thiago: 2.4 2. Interceptions Rakitic: 1.3 Messi: 0.2 Dembelé: 0.3 Denis: 0.1 Arda: 0.4 Iniesta: 0.5 Thiago: 1.4 3...

JamDav1982 dude I'm done with you, you don't know how to debate. I misread at first and said Cesc was better (which he is in a particular defensive aspect), yeah cool mea culpa. What's you got now ? "They have different roles" so Rakitic's role is unique in the world, EV created a new position...

"Midfielders going about with similar stats to Thiago that are not great defensively" as there are plenty of them apparently...

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You have some reading problems. Not my fault so I won't repeat myself any longer. Ok maybe. Could you give us the names of those players please ?

Dude seriously ? I'm not comparing these players with Thiago. I was comparing Gabi's and Raki's defensive contribution after you said Thiago has good stats cause he's pressing earlier. I went and looked at players who don't press early to compare with the Croatian. Fabregas has similar stats to...

And that's not true btw. Atletico's Gabi is playing in a super defensive team, he has same stats as Thiago, clearly better than Raki's. Ander Herrera's has better stats than Raki. Even Fabregas has slightly better stats. All these players are playing in defensive teams.

Yeah but who started to compare the 2 players' defensive work ? BBZ. Stats say Thiago is better but BBZ8800 claims that Rakitic is a better defensive player and take it as an established fact. Stats say Thiago is better but I'm not a stats fan I prefer to watch the whole 90 minutes...

BBZ8800 knows that perfectly well because he's been told about it many times. But he'll just continue to ignore that fact because it doesn't match with his fake stories. Thiago has better defensive stats than Rakitic while playing higher on the pitch in a more attacking team playing a more...

Well obviously I should have made it clear: he'll be top 3 if he manages to stay healthy. But he is, was, and will always be a better player than Digne. That's for sure. Injury or no injury.