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  1. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Our team downhill part 2: Players we sold for less than the 40 million we just payed for Paulinho: Thiago (25 million), Pedro (27 million), Fabregas (33 million), Alves (free transfer), players that we sold for 100 million less than we're going to end up paying for Dembele: Alexis Sanchez (42...
  2. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Mistakes have been made over the years that have led to this very moment and while Madrid has been building a team, we've been burning money on players that are neither young nor starter material. Modric and Isco were 10 million more expensive than Song and 5 millions cheaper than Arda Turan or...
  3. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Im actually starting to believe the brazilian player and money laundering conspiracy. Its weird how we keep signing players that are clearly not good enough for a top tier European team. Its not just the main team either, just 8 months ago the board loaned a Brazilian player (Gonçalves) for...
  4. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Another name to the long "waste of money" list: 40 million for Arda 20 million for Song , 20 million for Mathieu, 20 million for Vermalen and now, 40 million euros for a semi-retired player. I don't get it.
  5. gvt2000

    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Apparently we're about to pay 40 million for Paulinho, a 29 year old player that has been away from top competition for 3 years. Are there really no better options?
  6. gvt2000

    Worst FCB buy of the decade

    The fact that Ibra is winning by such a wide margin only shows how long most of the voters have followed barcelona OR how short their memory is. Ibrahimovich, as expensive as he was, was crusial in a decent number of matches. I don't believe Chygro should be second either, considering he was...
  7. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    so it was a match of the has-beens...?
  8. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    my point through all this has always been that Lass can reliably play as a RB and should therefore be considered when talking about the amount of defenders madrid has, your counter "argument" compared lass as a RB to keita as a LB. So i ask you: how many times has keita played LB for Barcelona...
  9. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    exactly how many times do you need to see Lass playing as a RB to admit that you comparing lass as a RB to Keita as a LB was nothing short of mentally retarded?
  10. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    And yet, Arbeloa just came in for lass...
  11. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    Lass starts ahead of Arbeloa as a RB and Marca reckons Mourinho's done experimenting. They even suggest Lass has beaten Arbeloa for the RB starting spot (this match)
  12. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    I think his size has a lot to do with this. Refs seem to think no defender can bring zlatan down and that every time he disputes a ball and the defender falls, its a Zlatan foul.
  13. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    Thats not it at all. We have a great youth system, no one's denying that, but adopting a policy in which the competition for our starters is the cantera is radically dangerous.
  14. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    It has nothing to do with the board and everything to do with pep. Pep doesn't want the club to spend 20 million for players that would land straight on the bench and block our canteranos progress to boot. The board had agreed terms with Ozil and pep rejected his transfer, Mascherano offered...
  15. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    I guess Mourinho doesn't consider Lass playing RB as an emergency fix after all, beast.
  16. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    And im not denying that. Of course the coaches deserve a lot of credit but i wouldn't go as far as saying Mourinho or Rijkaard are/were so great that they could've achieved the same result with any set of players. If forced to choose, I'd go with players. Although i completely agree on coaches...
  17. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    The thing is, a good coach without players will have a hard time reaching the top. Pelegrini's villarreal was great for Villareal's standards, but they didn't win la liga, uefa, copa del rey,etc. Mourinho's Porto had GREAT players, Mourinho's inter had a great players, Rijkaard's barcelona had...
  18. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    I was talking about new canteranos, not current ones, hence not counting granero, arbeloa, and Casillas. I counted adan cause he's not exactly a first team regular . Lass has actually played as a RB a lot more often than Keita LB. He wouldn't be first option, but he can still play and HAS...
  19. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    He's not exactly young and he's never played in La liga. Can he adapt to la liga at his age? only time will tell. He's a quality player, no doubt, but don't rule anything out just yet. Doubt Real will play with 3 defenders ---Ramos---Pepe--Albiol/Carval--Arbeloa---...
  20. gvt2000

    Real Madrid (old thread)

    The canterano comment was before the Carvalho deal, its directed at the fact that you guys have all 25 spots taken with the only canterano getting a "shot" being Adan. As for 2 players for each position, you have more than enough capable players in each position: RB: Ramos Arbeloa Lass CB...

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