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    1 - Victor Valdes

    The club will not sell him, it is not going to happen, if he leave it will be him buying out his remaining year, there is no chance the club will take the risk of ending up with a first choice GK illiterate to the Barcelona model. Already this fall the rumor was that he would leave and the only...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    Victor Valdes will not leave this summer unless he buys out his own contract, the club will definitely not let him go before his contract end. What will happen is that the club will buy a GK this summer and then train him up during the next season while Valdes remain first choice GK. Even if...
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    Sergio Busquets

    This is not about being a fanboy but accepting simple fact. 20 years on and the players and the game have evolved. We could do an extensive analysis of both but I find that a waste of time, no matter how we tackle both the conclusion will be the same, Busi is simply better and more decisive than...
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    Sergio Busquets

    I think Busquets is already better than Guardiola ever came close to be, Busquets simply raise the players around him in a way Guardiola never really was able to do. Guardiola could do everything Busi can do save or for his slightly worse technique but Guardiola did not have the same impact on...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    The club certainly think it is THAT big of an issue. One option that is on the table is to buy in an established keeper this summer and then school him during a full year while Valdes remain as the first choice keeper. Even the best keepers in the world will struggle a lot to adapt to Barcelona...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    I think we'll have to sit this one out, until Valdes himself declare on the subject, as far as I'm concerned it is just a journalist ego trying to climb the media ladder in Madrid. Quim is a small player among the big hawks in Spanish sports journalism, he sees a chance to make a name for...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    You can question pretty much every single year since the start of the award in 1956. I don't think there is any good way to judge a player based on subjective criteria. If the system was based on some kind of points based on performance but that can be ridiculed to, see Castrol for example. I...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    This one is interesting: Fermin De La Calle, Terra, Spain Messi, Klopp, Real Madrid Casillas – Maggio, Sergio Ramos, Barzagli, Alba – Xabi Alonso, Gotze, Silva – Messi, Falcao, Cristiano. Safe to say he tried hard to avoid Barcelona players even omitting the national team, I'm surprised he...
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    Andrés Iniesta

    I'd say Deschamps, he was so overlooked by fans of the game that it's not even funny. He was consistently the best player on the pitch for France throughout the WC, if ever there was a player carrying his team it was Deschamps in the 98 WC, but since his contribution to the team was in the...
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    Records to beat - Leo Messi

    Of cause not, it is impossible. Barcelona average around a goal less per game in the league compared to Santos, how on earth is Messi supposed to bridge that huge gap? If the team scored more goals then obviously Pelé benefited from that, right? Barcelona: 2008/09 105 goals /38 rounds = 2,76...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I love that picture, even when just taking a picture Puyol gives 150%, look at that face, he's ready to eat the cameraman alive ROFL. The day when Puyol retires will be even worse than the day when Messi retires, i fear that day more than anything else really.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Well if we are to believe RSSSF who is the only source online, Gerd Muller scored 146 goals including friendlies in 1976-77 and 137 goals including friendlies in 1971-72 so the 126 by Pele in not a record by any means. http://www.rsssf.com/players/prolific.html#gmueller
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    Records to beat - Leo Messi

    The next two records within striking distance for for Messi are the goalscoring records for 4 consecutive seasons and 5 consecutive seasons. 1 season 1. Messi 73 2 Archie Stark 70 2 Seasons 1. Messi 126 2. Jimmy McGrory 121 3 Seasons 1. Messi 173 2. Jimmy McGrory 170 4 Seasons 1. Jimmy...
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    Pep Guardiola

    This one can be debated, Guardiola was the engine in Cruyffs vertical game so his skills in this regard were much more exposed (and error prone) than Busquets can ever dream of, his role is just so different. I do think that Busquets is an evolution of Guardiola, he is almost a version 2.0...
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    Pep Guardiola

    Let's say Pep decides to go to City, he asks the club to sign Busquest and with the help of his channels manage to convince him to join him in City outside of the clubs knolwedge. City offer Barcelona a deal and Busquets ask for a transfer, he also refuse to renew his contract. Now, Guardiola...
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    Pep Guardiola

    It would most certainly be a financial issue, we'll see how the club handles his contract renewal. Remember Guardiolas contract debacle (when he was a player), the club f***** ** majorly and he eventually left. Same thing can happen with Busquets.
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    Gerard Deulofeu

    2002-03, but he played mostly as rightback that season. 2003-04 was his first season as regular central defense.
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    Gerard Deulofeu

    Well each to his own as you say, but I was a Puyol fan from early on, he played with the same intensity back then as he does now. And I don't agree that he was mediocre, after all he was elected best newcomer in la liga 2000-01, and was elected the best rightback in la liga for the 2001-02...
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    Pep Guardiola

    My biggest fear is that he will bring with him Busi, I really hope Barcelona dig deeeeeeep to hold on to Busquets, some worrying signs have appeared on the horizon, among them a very close person to him (a relative) said on the radio not long ago that he hoped the club would show more...
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    Gerard Deulofeu

    This is getting of topic but...Xavi was approached by AC Milan right after the U20 WC in 1999, it was when Galliani offered him a contract about 14 times that of the one he had at Barcelona. In the case of Puyol he actually was a really good player early on, in fact he was one of the few players...

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