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  1. JackaL

    Cr150

    The atmosphere in here is pathetic, especially given it's a Barça forum and 99.9% are Messi fans. There is no doubt Messi is history's greatest player and believe me I hate Ronaldo too. But how the hell can people draw nonsense arguments out of their buttholes to kind of disregard a hattrick in...
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    Lliga | Round 10: FC Barcelona - Real Madrid 5-1

    Anybody knows where to get highlights with Carlos Martinez commentary? The guy from canal+ / movistar?
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    Ivan Rakitić

    It's funny how erratic people rate players these days, one day they are useless shit, the other day the best in the world... I think Modric is among the best midfielders in the world and clearly showed his edge within the last years, topping it with a superb performance at the WC. I love Rakitic...
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    Croatia

    Kind of a long and conspiracy theory driven post and as always with all conspiracy theories, there are bits and pieces that make sense, which is part of the fun of it. Econometric analyses of refree biases show that refrees do have a bias for home teams, but not for big teams. Although fans of...
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    World Cup 2018

    Sometimes I feel people can't be serious with what they're posting here, but apparently they are and they can... I would have liked Croatia to win today, because I really hated Dechamps conservative approach with such a gifted and talented team. The analogy is quite something here, and I'd...
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    CL Quarter Finals: Roma - Barca (4-4 agg.)

    Again, running statistics show nothing... You can list them all day, before you run some more sophisticated analysis with it, there is no conclusion to be made because of running statistics. People get crazy about it because it's there only proxy to see whether a team puts "effort" or not, but...
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    CL Quarter Finals: Roma - Barca (4-4 agg.)

    Distance covered is the most overrated statistics ever in football... it shows nothing, nothing!
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    Champions League 2017/18

    Don't want to bring this to ad absurdum but yeah exactly that's what I read, it does not matter whether it's on spanish turf or not, Barca vs. Madrid sells, unless one of the teams gets a winning percentage over 70% consecutively over the next 10 years. As for the EPL and other comparisons, the...
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    Champions League 2017/18

    Check back what you have written before. Barca has >50% chance of winning against Real Madrid but 80% of the world seems not to care about it. It's just factually wrong because El Clasico rights sell pretty well. You might have meant something else, as you pointed out obviously, but that post...
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    Champions League 2017/18

    Is that the reason why El Clasico TV rights are sold all over the world and they even played in the afternoon in December?
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    Pep Guardiola

    It is obvious that his job was pretty hard at Bayern Munich after Heynckes won the treble, the same goes for ManCity where everybody expects a better performance in the CL, especially when investing so much money. But people don't seem to get it when it comes to cup and knock-out competitions...
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    Penal Madrid

    Anybody watching their games lately? They are still able to create lots of chances so I wouldn't worry about quality, they just need to finish. But these lost points will give them a hard time later in the season... I wouldn't write them off so quickly, but it's nice to have some buffer.
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    Xavi Hernández

    Unfortunately, the such movies can not show his full capabilities. Nice that they didn't destroy the video and used Rodrigo y Gabriela.
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    Arda Turan

    I actually forgot his 6 months, but going with the Paulinho salary argument, you would end up right there :)
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    Arda Turan

    One would need to compare both of them at the times when theye were bought. I still don't know why Arda was bought and what Enrique's plan was with him, but I guess in terms of "hope", I personally thought Arda's absolute maximum (if he was lucky that is) would be a Rakitic performance. But he...
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    Arda Turan

    You mean the only thing you have for Paulinho is the fact that you can hope for him and have kind of an expected value that is still positive, while for Arda Turan, this expected value approached zero rather quickly?
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    Arda Turan

    Having followed him for more than a decade now, he is surely no alpha male, he would love to be one though. He has no leadership skills whatsoever. He's a media maniac, loves to talk and talks too much. And one thing: when he arrived at Barça he thought of himself as having achieved everything...
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    Arda Turan

    Kebab is actually a pretty decent fast food meal, so why don't you calm down with your bullshit post.
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    11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

    On a serious note, what's the fucking music selection on these football videos? Shit, think the makers are 12 year olds on average. Other than that, at least we have our front three now, which makes us competitive again. Not having solved the midfield issue, we will still struggle against main...
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    11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

    At this point prices mean nothing that bullshit. I think Neymar's price was even low for what he could have given us, but his 222m did destort the market, if it wasn't already. I am still baffled how this equation is never going to be in our favor, imagine Neymar goes for 222m and you get a...

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