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    Enrique equals Guardiola’s 28-match unbeaten run

    This is really poorly researched since Real Madrid went 31 straight without losing in 2013-14. That is not even 2 season ago.
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    Sergi Roberto

    Several of the present and future key players are still young. No need to panic, this team will be going strong for years. Ter Stegen 23 Jordi Alba 26 Aeix Vidal 26 Rafinha 22 Roberto 24 Neymar 24 Also, Busquets, Messi and Pique will all most likely still be around 7-8 years from now. Even...
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    Messi-Suarez-Neymar - famous MSN

    122 is the record, so they have to score 43 more goals in the 21 to 26 games that remain of the season. Should be doable :lucho:
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    11 - Neymar Jr. - v4

    It all depends on how you interpret the 40 million euros Barcelona paid Neymar, is it part of the tranfer or is it salary? Then you have to include tax on top of that so the end sum could be ridiculously high if it is part of his transfer. This is now being decided in the courts.
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    Luis Enrique

    excerpt Para que te hagas una idea, hace dos temporadas, su última en el Celta, el Madrid tenía que visitar Balaídos en la penúltima jornada y él lo tenía marcado en el calendario desde que se sorteó. Soñaba con fastidiarles el campeonato, que al final ganó el Atlético en la última jornada en...
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    Martin Odegaard

    This is Freddy Adu all over again. The guy will drop of the radar once he enters the 20s. A couple of flop season as a loan player and then it will be second, third and fourth division football for him until he retires at 28.
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    No, he has never revealed it, not even to his own family. These are my conclusions based on inside information coming from his own family. Victor Valdes 4 main reasons for leaving Barcelona in order of importance 1. Ginés Carvajal talking him into doing it. 2. Greed (60 million is more than...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v4

    No, you don't understand, the only number that matters is the EBITDA number (Earnings Before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation and Amortisation), as long as that is in check, it doesn't matter what the other numbers says. The important thing to remember here is Amortisation, every year that...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v4

    No, because it was budgeted and planned already. It is simply an exercise in moving around numbers, something this club has bee doing for ever, it is all about the ebitda being in check, as long as that number is controlled the rest doesn't matter.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v4

    No, the board has already budgeted for this, they already know how much the salary will increase over the summer, this is the reason the negotiation for new sponsors are taking longer than people are comfortable with. Barsa is negotiating knowing that both Messi and Neymar will stay over the...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v4

    The reality is that his salary was raised from the 2014/15 season through 2017/18 but the club negotiated to delay the payment for the first 2 years so he will receive the salary raise for all 4 years in his 2 last years. So the real salary raise is only half of what he will receive, (4 years of...
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    Sevilla

    So the season has been typical, great result mixed with shit matches. It started pretty bad and for a while I thought Emery was on his way packing, but he has been able to turn it around the last month. Wins over Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus should help boost the teams self confidence...
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    Camp Nou

    It is to easy without proper data to flog all season ticket holders. FC Barcelona is very complicated to analyze because a lot of season ticket holders live beyond the metropolitan area. So they stay home when games are played on inconvenient hours, like 22:00 on a Sunday, that means you won't...
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    Juan Carlos Unzue

    I'm thinking more about the antics of the pitch, he refused to work with the new GK coach he was asigned and behaved like a twat towards Zubi and the new board, also his performance in 2011-12 and 2012-13 were clearly worse than the years before, in fact Tito Vilanova wanted the club to sign a...
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    Claudio Bravo

    This guy is the best GK Barsa has had since sliced bread was invented, never commit suicide like some others I wish not to mention. I sure hope he will remain for the foreseeable future as Ter Stegen gives me Bambi on ice sensations every time he is playing.
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    Juan Carlos Unzue

    This guy is a genius, and after reading all the bashing in the first 2 pages even more :trampoline: I always knew Juan Carlos Unzue had something special, the fact he was the one that got that useless Victor Valdes to perform when he took over in 2003 even though everyone and their mother were...
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    Everything you would ever need to know about penalties in la liga

    The players that faced Real Madrid in those years all say the same, regardless if they are from FC Barcelona, Real Zaragoza, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao or any other team. Their statements combined with the data is quite compelling evidence of what was going on, i just wished someone did a similar...
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    Everything you would ever need to know about penalties in la liga

    In an idealistic world yes, but this is Spain, one of the most corrupt countries in Europe for most of the 20th century, and especially during the fascist dictatorship.
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    Everything you would ever need to know about penalties in la liga

    Thanks to Vidal Viñarás de Blas writing this exhaustive paper on every penalty in the history of la liga, we now have the data that definitely show how Real Madrid has been favoured in this regard almost constantly throughout the history of the Spanish league. Especially noteworthy are the...
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    Barca 2015 - Quintuple season!

    50 won matches in 2014-15 is a european club record. Also 34 clean sheets in 2014-15 is a spanish club record. There were a few other less significan records broken to, such as Messi-Suarez-Neymar breaking the scoring record.

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