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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Difficult ties? Coutinho has been far more of a factor this spring--3 classicos, CL elimination stage matches, Atletico. Dembele was brilliant this fall. But over the course of the 2 years that hasn't been where Barca was won/lost trophies. I am not saying this to knock Dembele--but he hasn't...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Again Messi thinks it is counter-productive to the team goals. If fans can't check themselves when the best Barca player ever and the player responsible for the best Barca achievements says they should, they got issues and they are not much a fan in my book. Its clear the GOAT thinks that...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    I totally agree with you. I think Coutinho out to finance Griezmann or another top winger/striker who can operate in different positions than PC and/or can spell Suarez, is the smart move.
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    Malcom

    I would have swore Lenglet, Arthur, and Dembele got all the minutes they could physicialy handle. Seems like if your young, and very very good, there are plenty of opps.
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    Malcom

    Hit a nerve did he huh, didn't see a point in what you wrote.
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    Luka Jović

    The longer it is not official the greater the doubt and the more chances he has to keep watching Messi and Barca in the CL and decide that is really what I want to be a part of. I still want Jovic or Griezmann among forwards, I think these two are most ready to help in a significant way right...
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    Mohamed Salah

    I think this relates to what I was saying. If they have the league in their hands I would expect the priority for Firmino and others is the weekend. If City wins monday, their best chance for a trophy is comeback Tuesday at Anfeld. As unlikely as that is they do have the Roma and PSG away legs...
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    Mohamed Salah

    No way he took a big blow, just i the end not of medical significance. I think a lot of how Liverpool will approach it is dependent on the City-Leicester result. If Leicester gets any kind of result I think Klopp would place more emphasis on the league with it much more in his control and...
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    Mohamed Salah

    Is this a discussion on Salah? Two seasons leading goal scorer in EPL and top 3 in the CL yet somehow "not clinical". His goal to shot rate is a lot better than CR7. Maybe he isn't clinical either. I guess if the definition of clinical is Messi-like, than yes he ain't clinical. He also has 29...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    If fans are doing things to decrease the home advantage and counter productive to their club winning they are the fair weather, plastic, type. Supporting the team and players through a rough patch (and again Coutinho has been good and contributing player most of his season and half--really was...
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Messi politely told yall and the minority whiney fans to stfu. Yeah yall are right, he is wrong. Booing a player or team not trying hard is fine, booing out of form but effort is counterproductive, as the goat mist diplomatically and simply explained. And in truth coutinho has been an important...
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    Antoine Griezmann

    Replace Malcom for Rakitic and you well could be right. AG essentially makes Coutinho and Malcom obsolete. Rakitic is our most used and co-top (with Busi depending on the metric--e.g., sofascore/whoscored) performing MF this year. He is also the only MF capable to play all 3 spots--from pivot...
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    Virgil van Dijk

    I wouldn't argue against this, I think Puyol is the most underrated defender of all time and was incredible defensively and offensively. A blend of special technique, athleticism, best split 2nd judgement I have seen, great leadership and focus.
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    The vast majority fans support Coutinho and all Barca wearing players who put in a shift. Yes those that don't, paying or not, are being sucky fans, and Messi called them out in a much more polite way--which you responded as "I don't give a "f*ck about Messi's message". What were you on about...
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    Arthur

    Very accurate. I'll add two more elements. One, as you pointed out he never plays a full game. That is just fine, with his muscular issues in his 1st year in Europe and how much he works--this is reasonable and may even be on physio orders. With our depth in midfielders not a problem. Playing...
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    Virgil van Dijk

    There is a difference between legacy/career achievements and high performance or dominating play a short time. Of course vvd does not deserve mention with puyol/ramos/pique in terms of career. But i cant say i have seen any one defender transform a defense like he has, i dont think overhype. His...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - V6

    Well george i dont say we would be great without messi--multiple trophy winning type squad, but believe we would be very very good. I think there are only 3 great teams this year. But we did shut out one of them, aside from messi dicing them like noone else could. We have actually given up very...
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    Arthur

    It may even be the physio telling EV that under no circumstance play Arthur more than x minutes. He has had a lot of muscle injuries this year, to be fair this is his 1st year anywhere near the intensity of what he experienced.
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    7 - Philippe Coutinho - V1

    Agreed. Sorin's post has the dignity of a plastic Real fan. Coutinho has been combining well with Suarez and Messi for months now for those with a critical eye, and has been more effective than Dembele since his last injury. Fans seem to be booing the price and not the performance of the player...
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    Ivan Rakitić

    Nah every bit as true for American football, baseball and basketball. The former has phrases like "monday morning quarterbacking" and "the most popular guy in town is the back up quarterback". Because if the idiot manager/coach had only put in the back up quarterback everything would have been...

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