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    Champions League 2022/2023

    Funny how Ederson commits a possible red card foul and somehow Werner ends up with the yellow card. Does VAR not enter to review that action? What are they even doing up there if not reversing idiocy like that?
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    Champions League 2022/2023

    Changes the course of games for what basically is a lottery. Will you be lucky enough to graze someone's hand with your cross? Bingo, you've got a penalty and therefore a free goal!! Should have to earn goals not get them through cheap pens like that.
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    The Negreira case

    2018 was when he lost his position as VP of refs committee. Negreira even states himself after we cut the payments that we 'did not fulfill the contract' meaning we ended it early for some reason (he lost his position...). Its obvious for me why we were paying him. I don't think it worked and...
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    The Negreira case

    Something Porque said the other day is extremely relevant and a good observation - There is no way, through so many different presidents and through so many financial audits, that this service would have lasted all the way to 2018 (when he lost his position) if it wasn't deemed important.
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    The Negreira case

    Mostly agree with something like this. Unless he had a network of corrupt refs, which is not proven at all, he didn't have a significant amount of influence to the point where he could affect games in favour of us. He would decide who is demoted and promoted, so I guess he had the power to get...
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    The Negreira case

    Mate, 'We paid them to be fair!' is not a legal defense. If the payments were related to refereeing decisions in any way it is a bribe. Courts don't care about if Barca paid to 'even the score '. The only defense we have is convincing that the payments were only to do with technical advice...
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    7 - Ferran Torres

    He's just shattered mentally and has a weak mindset. One of those players who needs to be given a lot of time to work things out and to be coddled but you just can't get that at a club where every game matters. What summed it up for me is a sequence last game where he was 1v1 with the last man...
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    The Negreira case

    I really hope that's fiction because that would therefore imply we paid to influence refereeing decisions. Bribing to counteract (presumably) other perceived bribes makes Barca guilty.
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    Xavi Hernández

    He loves what he's watching. Its obvious because we are using the exact same approach practically every game, same players, same formation, same subs - if he thought there was a problem why keep doing the exact same thing every game? He is being a little manipulative with his media image. Who...
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    Xavi Hernández

    Handball rules updated in 2021 : 'If a player accidentally touches the ball with their arm or hand, and it is then played by another player before ending in a goal, the goal is legal'. 'If a player accidentally touches the ball with their arm or hand and immediately scores, it is not legal'.
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    Xavi Hernández

    No, it's a choice, and quite obviously one at that. We score every game yet are regularly not finding a 2nd. If our offense was that bad we would be getting shut out sometimes but we always find the first goal, literally always. Then it is obvious to see that we start shelling up a bit, and...
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    Xavi Hernández

    I guess here's the thing : Xavi has hacked LaLiga, at least this season. He's cracked the code. The attackers in LL are poor and on top of that much slower than our very athletic backline, on top of it. Xavi, I think, understands that defending a lead in LL is probably better than going for a...
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    1 - Marc-Andre ter Ansplant

    Will end up being MVP of the season, I'm sure. It's hard to get past our defense anyway, then you have to get past MATS..
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    Liga Round 25: Athletic Bilbao - FC Barcelona 0-1

    Even you are making jokes about it now :lol: We are a defensive team, but nothing wrong with it, it's in fact really interesting to see. We've gone from a team that was basically ultra-offense and zero defense to being a defensive masterclass team.
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    Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

    Serie A is probably the 2nd strongest league in the world at the moment. So much talent there even at lower clubs but what they are lacking in recent years is that 'frontrunner' like a Bayern, Madrid, City that fans need to consider the league high quality - Napoli is becoming that. With...
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    11 - Raphinha

    I feel bad about Ferran because he's got some talents but clearly is too mentally fragile to play at a top club at this point.
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    11 - Raphinha

    Agree. Raphinha has been pretty good recently. He's making a lot of crucial goals and assists to win points but people are judging him because he isn't that aesthetic. He gives his all every game and can press for 90 minutes too. Not a bad fit for Xavi's system and I don't think it was too bad...
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    11 - Raphinha

    Ferran has two big problems - technique and mentality. His technique is pretty poor for the level he wants to play at and he's always screwing up touches and shooting poorly etc. But he would be a pretty good player if he wasn't so mentally weak. Sometimes I think he absorbs what people say...
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    11 - Raphinha

    To be honest, most of those are not better than Raphinha/Ferran.
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    The Negreira case

    In this guy's case, yes... Lol. The business this guy owned only had payments from one client - Barca.

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