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  1. Messi983

    Champions League 25/26

    At least Spanish clubs in EL and ECL did their job this week. Rayo with a great comeback (from 0-2 to 3-2 with a last minute winner) while Celta and Betis won relatively easy. La Liga is currently 3rd in this season's UEFA coefficient behind PL and BL. Cyprus is 4th though not far behind so...
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    Vitor Roque

    Would like to see him back in Europe, wouldn't mind him at Barca too tbf. He's a great tactician, flexible and can adapt to his team (so everything that Bumsi is not). Also used to losing his best players every year and integrating new ones. Has smoothly transitiioned from 4-2-3-1 to 4-4-2 when...
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    Vitor Roque

    Just another day in the office, two more class finishes. 11 goals in last 9 starts.
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    Europa Conference League

    Rayo from 0-2 to last minute 3-2 win, fantastic 2nd half. :worthy:
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    La Liga Round 12: Celta - Barca 2-4

    They are killing Dinamo 3-0 at HT.
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    Champions League 25/26

    Meh, I don't care about the standings right now. Just finish in top 24 and hope we'll find some kind of form by March. If we won't then it won't really matter who we will play anyway. As we've seen last season you can easily get a bad draw and go out in Round of 16 even if you win the league stage.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Unlikely. We don't have money to sack him and Laporta also won't want to admit he was wrong.
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    16 - Fermín López

    Don't think I am. He's a good player who can become very good but don't think he'll ever be truly elite (top 5 at his positon for example). Which ofc is fine, you can never have a team full of WC players. Pep's team came the closest to that but that's more an exception to the rule. I think he's...
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Also same group of players that conceded like 13 goals in 35 goals a season before? I think if MATS would stay fit we would win the 23/24 La Liga too. Pena being a starter for 3 months ruined us.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    I don't expect or want Flick to turn into a prime Mourinho over night. No coach will ever change his philosophy so dramatically. I think just setting the backline 5 or 10m deeper would help a lot but we'll probably never see that.
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    16 - Fermín López

    That's the best response you could come up with? I like Fermin but can you seriously tell me he would start for RM, PSG, Bayern or any of the PL clubs playing in the CL? Well, he probably would for Spurs with Maddison and Kulu out but do we really want us to be compared with them, lol?
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    He's taking the Cruyff mantra score one goal more than the opponents way too seriously. :flick2: As I've said last year Flick is a sprint manager (so no wonder he won a CL in that Covid season) but football is a marathon. Sometimes you have to learn how to get through tough times when not...
  13. Messi983

    Brazilian Serie A

    Flamengo drew with Sao Paulo. We can go 3 points clear at the top of the table if we beat Santos today.
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    16 - Fermín López

    Fermin wouldn't be a starter for any of the current top 8-10 teams.
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    Ernesto Valverde

    He would clearly do better with current Barca team than Bumsi.
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    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Among the critical voices about Barça's game plan, one of the loudest was that of Ruud Gullit. The legendary former Dutch footballer and current television commentator on 'Bein Sports' did not bite his tongue when analyzing the match: “Why persist with a plan doomed to failure?” And he insisted...
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    23 - Jules Kounde

    To him? Or to almost entire team? It's known as Bumsi's second season snydrome.
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    23 - Jules Kounde

    People criticizing him really have no clue.
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    Marc-Andre ter Stegen (loaned to Girona)

    You are not really a wise man, are you?
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    Joan Laporta

    Bojan still shitting on Deco and defending the German bum, lol.

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