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Three things are certain at this point: 1. The smoke is real. Whether he leaves or not, there is definite contact between Neymar's people and PSG, this is no longer just media speculation, and Neymar is likely deciding if he takes PSG's buyout money. 2. The longer he takes without coming out...

Intriguing signing. Semedo shows good basic skills and plenty of offensive projection with tools to be solid defensively. From what I've seen he shows excellent pace, good ability to take on players, and is very adept at one-twos and give and gos, this last part specifically will be a very...

The court ruled in favor of Laporta and threw away the case being made by Rosell/Bartomeu that he left a loss. The above document is from the court transcript in which the highlighted texts say there were losses amounting to 26.8M but there were earnings of 30.9M, thus leaving a net benefit of...

Those fees were paid last summer transfer window. You're saying the inflation rate has nearly doubled the transfer fees in the span of less than a year? That's crazy talk. And no, Countinho might have some flashy goals, but he is neither consistent, nor particularly exceptionally talented in...

The fee of course is ridiculous. That kind of fee is reserved for world class players and high caliber young talent, not for above average to good type of players like Coutinho. He is worth maybe slight more than half of that fee. Similar players to Coutinho cost in the €40-50M range this...

Nonsense. Barca aren't doing badly because they play too much tiki taka, but because they don't play it anymore. Barca haven't played that tiki taka style in 4 seasons. Since the Tito season this play has been eroding to this current iteration where current team can't triangulate and string...

It's both. If you hear his words after the game, you can see he feels Pique's words have influenced the referees to somehow hurt RM. So to me, he is clapping at both Pique for influencing the ref, and the ref himself for being influenced. In any case, it clearly a reaction to the refereeing...

RM will get their 12th UCL and in a couple of years no one will remember this atrocity. Such is the nature of things. It sucks. They cheat/get away with shit/get favored. This is the way things have been, are and will be. All that being said, Bayern came up real small. So much for a...

Casemiro penalty on Robben in one of his 10000000000000000000 fouls

I guess if you can get that kind of money for him might as well do a clean sweep and deal with lack of depth for a season. Key here is if they can actually get that much for him, big doubt. What a shitshow they've reduced this midfield unit.

You still need 2 starters. The team is hardly in a position to replace not only both starting midfielders but also the backup ones. Ideally yes, you'd want a backup with more upside than Rakitic, who is what he is at this point and perhaps a better manager can squeeze more juice out of his...

Rakitic is still a decent backup. You can't sell over 50% of your midfield in 1 season, specially when you plan to keep an Iniesta who you'd be lucky if he gives you 50% worth of games in a season. I'd be happy with Arda, Rafinha and Gomes being replaced with 2 WC starting CMs. Rest I'm ok...

That's effing terrible.

He is getting worse. Until today I thought he should be given one more season to turn it around but I don't think he can do it on this team. Pressure is eating him alive and it's only going to get worse. Andre Gomes is not as bad as he has played for Barca, so this is definitely an...

That was a lovely chip.

Di Maria is so infuriating. Utterly brainless. I wish I could reach through the screen and strangle him. I swear if I see him one more time dribble into the corner with three defenders on him I might get an aneurysm.

I'll just say this. These Barca management people supposedly worship at the altar of common sense, yet can't use common sense to answer simple questions in a satisfactory and non-inflammatory manner. That speaks to either arrogance or incompetence.

I think even that tactic has devolved this season. Last couple of seasons the midfield-fullback dynamic was good enough to do that wing play, plus support and feed MSN. This season however the dynamic is lost. Perhaps because Iniesta and Alba have been injured and their replacements either...

Luis Enrique is tactically deficient. At this point to argue otherwise is to ignore the facts. He may have other strength, which may or may not have influenced the team's 5 major titles in the last 2 years, but he has two huge weaknesses that are, at this point, very evident: He is incredibly...