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    Hakan Çalhanoğlu

    I know Gündogan very well. I have only watched Hakan 2-3 times so not enough material to compare with. Hence why I asked the question. Anyway thanks for the reply. Why do you say that he is not good enough? Do you not see him improving? He is significantly younger than Gündogan for instance...
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    Diego Maradona

    Madre mia.:lol: What an embarrassment! Still the best player to date pound for pound IMO. A shame that he did not stay longer at FCB and that he did not take his career as seriously as most modern day stars do. He could have been even better. Interview with another legend, Ronaldo.
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    Eric Bailly

    Villarreal star Eric Bailly an Africa Cup of Nations hero with a bright future Eric Bertrand Bailly is an African Cup of Nations champion with Ivory Coast and tipped for a bright future at Villarreal. Ivory Coast's success in the African Cup of Nations has been widely characterised as the...
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    Eric Bailly

    Still a penalty regardless of what. You can make excuses all day long. Are you trolling? Yes, I watched 2-3 of his games for Espanyol (including the one against FCB), a few of his games in the AFC (including the final where he did well and kept a clean sheet) and his 2 games for Villarreal...
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    Eric Bailly

    Shirt-pulling occurs in every single game. The shirt-pulling varies in nature but shirt-pulling in the box is illegal regardless. The referees are just not punishing it enough. You for example often see Pepe and Ramos doing this and it mostly goes unpunished. Bailly committed a penalty but so...
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    Eric Bailly

    You are exaggerating. Yes, it's seen very often. No, it's not irrelevant. It just shows how often it occurs. Even a 100 times as experienced player as Carvajal (and many other top defenders) commit such mistakes from time to time. I saw many people praise him in local Spanish media. You have...
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    Eric Bailly

    How many times do I need to tell you that it was a mistake? We DON'T disagree. Carvajal made a similar foul. Had the referee seen it he should have whistled it. Such shirt-pulling is seen in every single game. You cannot base your opinion of a player based on 1 single game. I have seen Bailly...
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    Eric Bailly

    No, he was not. Did you see the final? I did and he performed very well. Do you really think that the coach of the Ivory Coast would have selected him in EVERY single game if he was this bad? Especially considering the fact that he was totally unknown just 6 months ago. Ivory Coast actually won...
  9. Leo_Messi

    Eric Bailly

    I know but you still wrote that he is "below average". I don't agree with that. You are not "below average" if you play every single game for your national team (Côte d'Ivoire are a strong national team) during the ACN winning the tournament in the process. You are not "below average" if you...
  10. Leo_Messi

    Premier League 2014/15

    Hopefully Man Utd are going to miss the CL but they are up against Arsenal, Southampton, Tottenham and Liverpool. Hardly world-beaters. I think that Arsenal and Liverpool will take the two final CL spots.
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    Daniel Alves

    No, but currently Montoya and Douglas are the only alternatives to Alves. Fair to say that both are much poorer. There is no obsession about Douglas. It was just an embarrassing transfer and many of us like the banter that involves him. Outside of Montoya and Adriano (not his favorite position...
  12. Leo_Messi

    Hakan Çalhanoğlu

    Yes, apparently a offensive midfielder but I guess that he can play as a central midfielder too. Other than that?
  13. Leo_Messi

    Xavi Hernández

    I would want him to stay for another season (final) if he was willing to lower his wages significantly. I think that he has been useful this season. A type of player like Xavi still has 1-2 good seasons in him on the highest level. Obviously he cannot expect to be a irreplaceable piece of the...
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    Daniel Alves

    But, but Zubinútil gave us Lord Douglas as his last gift before he departed! The problem is apparently that Alves is not going to accept a 1 year extension. He wants at least a 2 years extension. Seriously I would offer Alves a 2 years extension. He is not as bad as people make it out. In a...
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    Hakan Çalhanoğlu

    He seems to score quite a lot of goals for a central midfielder. Just turned 21 recently as well. To those that say that he is average. What do you base that on? Considering his age there should IMO be a lot of room for improvement. I have not watched him at all almost. How does he...
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    Daniel Alves

    I think that the club should wait as long as possible before they make a decision. Hopefully this will motivate Alves so he can be able to prove himself that he deserves 1-2 seasons more. I read in the local media that they are going to make a decision after the Man City game. Let us see. Had...
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    Eric Bailly

    He made 2 mistakes. One of which was the penalty. You see such scenes in every match whenever there is a standard situation. Ronaldo, as the experienced diver he is, knew how to take advantage of that. Definitely a mistake but it's more down to his inexperience. A RM player committed the exact...
  18. Leo_Messi

    24 - Thomas Vermaelen

    He is not going to feature in any important games this season unless the entire defense will be sidelined. Nor should he. I don't see him gaining sufficient match fitness before 2 months time at least. Meaning early May. If everything goes according to the plan we will have a CdR final to win...
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    Barça's Transfers and Rumors

    RM's supposed interest in Danilo makes little sense when they have Carvajal for that position. A homegrown Spanish, younger and arguably a better right back than Danilo. I find it hard to believe I must say. Yes, Fabinho (who is still owned by the tiny Portuguese club Rio Ave) would be a good...
  20. Leo_Messi

    Eric Bailly

    20 year old Ivorian central defender (1.87 cm) that recently won the African Cup of Nations 2015 with Côte d'Ivoire. In that tournament he was a regular and did very well. Especially in the final against Ghana. In January this year he secured a transfer (€5.7 million) to Villarreal from Espanyol...
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