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  1. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    That's such a cliché. Plenty of instances of South American players succeeding immediately and plenty of instances of transfers between European leagues failing miserably.
  2. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    It's not like the Brazilian league is particularly weak. Plenty of Brazilian rookies have been successful lately, like Oscar, or Lucas Moura.
  3. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    Rumour has it Vasco de Gama is pimping Dedé all over Europe. Tall, fairly fast, with Puyol-like strength when facing opponents...
  4. Arachnid

    Alex Song

    Song is not particularly physical, though. Well, he tried to be sometimes at Arsenal, and then he got carded because you have to know what you are doing when using your body for that.
  5. Arachnid

    Gerard Deulofeu

    You can't really use the inexperience as an excuse, he's been a starter in a professional second division side (against plenty of clubs who were performing in la Primera just a season or two ago) for two seasons now. He's just... he doesn't seems to have the brains to go along with his talent...
  6. Arachnid

    Should we sign Neymar this summer?

    To quote the movie Moneyball: "Okay, people who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins and in order to buy wins, you need to buy your run." There's no doubt that Neymar is a superb player. The problem I have...
  7. Arachnid

    Marc Bartra

    You are wrong. Alexis is awful attacking from the wing, but he was that when in Italy, too. He does help out defensively, like Pedro, so he's hardly a disaster, but in any case his lack of goals and need to play a central role was obvious before he was signed... for everybody but Zubi. Why is...
  8. Arachnid

    Marc Bartra

    Then why complain that we whine too much? We aren't whining enough, I say!
  9. Arachnid

    Marc Bartra

    This is bullshit. Zubi had two options this summer: buy somebody good for defensive cover or make sure the managers trust Bartra enough so he's given enough minutes to become said defensive cover. He choose option 3: neither. That is a level of incompetence unheard of in any football club. I...
  10. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    Problem is that things need time to work out in the long term. At least one top notch defender should have been in the club for two or three season already, so we can count on him for the next.
  11. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    One thing doesn't imply the other. Piqué came back home for just about 5 mil. That same season, Caceres costed us 17 mil-
  12. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    It wasn't actually a post to support the Hummels signing, honestly just saying that if we are going to sign somebody, it's going to be from a slightly poorer club, not from one with twenty times more dough than us. So yeah, somebody from a club like Dortmund (Subotic, Hummels), Real Sociedad...
  13. Arachnid

    Who should replace Valdés?

    Well, Neymar is pretty much playing as an attacking midfielder nowadays. And he's quite agile. See? Two birds, one stone. Now we just need to find a midfielder to use at the CB spot.
  14. Arachnid

    Which CB would you sign for Barça?

    First, don't believe anything the media says. Every season is just one string of celebrity names after another, particularly during international breaks, and then we end up signing Song completely out of the blue and no newspaper ever had a clue. Second, we are probably not going to sign Sakho...
  15. Arachnid

    Martin Montoya

    Neither is Alba. Alba tends to move forward quite a lot more, actually. I believe in Montoya. Sure, he's never going to be at his 100% when playing in the left, but he can still do the job.
  16. Arachnid

    FC Barcelona B (Barça Atlètic)

    Eusebio is just not very good at training the defense.
  17. Arachnid

    Arsenal

    So close. Would have been the most epic comeback in CL history,
  18. Arachnid

    Jordi Roura

    Please. The whole gameplan had 'Tito' written all over.
  19. Arachnid

    Jan Vertonghen

    For what I remember from the newspapers last summer, Tito was pushing hard for Javi Martinez, who, while not particularly amazing when playing CB, did make some more sense as a signing.
  20. Arachnid

    Jan Vertonghen

    The impression I got from the presser was that Tito wasn't particularly aware of who Song was, but he had been told by Zubi that he could play CB. And it's true, he can play CB. He actually started as CB in France. He's just terrible at it and the first thing Wenger did was placing him further...

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