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    Why are you a Barcelona fan?

    With all due respect, Barcelona lost at least 10 years of hard work at La Masia becuse of stupid politics by our executive board. Already in the mid 90s there were several players that could have been much more than they were had in not been because of reckless spending on useless players...
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    Seung Woo Lee

    I think this is just a stupid rule, if say the family of the kid decide to move abroad, then he should be able to play for whatever local team in that country. All the club should have to do is ensure the parents have a work permit and help them find some simple job.
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    Gerard Deulofeu

    Tito really needs to start thinking about giving Deulofeu some taste of playing with the first team, now that the league is practically won I don't see any problem with giving him 30 minutes at least 5-6 games and 1 or 2 starts. Next season I expect Tito to play him 15-20 games with the A-squad...
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    Penal Madrid

    Today Marca will probably beat their sales record in Catalonia, the front page is a bomb, it is an open declaration of war with Real Madrid :xavi:
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    Maybe it is really overstated, but remember, this is coming directly from the people that made Barcelona successful in the first place, people such as Frank Rijkaard, Hek Ten Cate, Pep Guardiola, Tito Vilanova, Juan Carlos Unzué etc. For sure, maybe they are overestimating his value to the club...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    For the simple reason that they have no alternative, they can bring in X keeper and they will still end up with Pinto as first choice keeper for next season because the Barcelona model is so complicated to learn. The club really have no choice. The little money the club will get for Valdes in...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    One thing is that he himself want to leave, another thing is that the club has no intention to sell him. The public announcement was a really stupid move as the club has no intention to let him go before his contract end. He might end up buying out his contract but Sandro Rosell will not run...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    The club will not sell him, it is not going to happen, if he leave it will be him buying out his remaining year, there is no chance the club will take the risk of ending up with a first choice GK illiterate to the Barcelona model. Already this fall the rumor was that he would leave and the only...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    Victor Valdes will not leave this summer unless he buys out his own contract, the club will definitely not let him go before his contract end. What will happen is that the club will buy a GK this summer and then train him up during the next season while Valdes remain first choice GK. Even if...
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    Sergio Busquets

    This is not about being a fanboy but accepting simple fact. 20 years on and the players and the game have evolved. We could do an extensive analysis of both but I find that a waste of time, no matter how we tackle both the conclusion will be the same, Busi is simply better and more decisive than...
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    Sergio Busquets

    I think Busquets is already better than Guardiola ever came close to be, Busquets simply raise the players around him in a way Guardiola never really was able to do. Guardiola could do everything Busi can do save or for his slightly worse technique but Guardiola did not have the same impact on...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    The club certainly think it is THAT big of an issue. One option that is on the table is to buy in an established keeper this summer and then school him during a full year while Valdes remain as the first choice keeper. Even the best keepers in the world will struggle a lot to adapt to Barcelona...
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    1 - Victor Valdes

    I think we'll have to sit this one out, until Valdes himself declare on the subject, as far as I'm concerned it is just a journalist ego trying to climb the media ladder in Madrid. Quim is a small player among the big hawks in Spanish sports journalism, he sees a chance to make a name for...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    You can question pretty much every single year since the start of the award in 1956. I don't think there is any good way to judge a player based on subjective criteria. If the system was based on some kind of points based on performance but that can be ridiculed to, see Castrol for example. I...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    This one is interesting: Fermin De La Calle, Terra, Spain Messi, Klopp, Real Madrid Casillas – Maggio, Sergio Ramos, Barzagli, Alba – Xabi Alonso, Gotze, Silva – Messi, Falcao, Cristiano. Safe to say he tried hard to avoid Barcelona players even omitting the national team, I'm surprised he...
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    Andrés Iniesta

    I'd say Deschamps, he was so overlooked by fans of the game that it's not even funny. He was consistently the best player on the pitch for France throughout the WC, if ever there was a player carrying his team it was Deschamps in the 98 WC, but since his contribution to the team was in the...
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    Records to beat - Leo Messi

    Of cause not, it is impossible. Barcelona average around a goal less per game in the league compared to Santos, how on earth is Messi supposed to bridge that huge gap? If the team scored more goals then obviously Pelé benefited from that, right? Barcelona: 2008/09 105 goals /38 rounds = 2,76...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    I love that picture, even when just taking a picture Puyol gives 150%, look at that face, he's ready to eat the cameraman alive ROFL. The day when Puyol retires will be even worse than the day when Messi retires, i fear that day more than anything else really.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v2

    Well if we are to believe RSSSF who is the only source online, Gerd Muller scored 146 goals including friendlies in 1976-77 and 137 goals including friendlies in 1971-72 so the 126 by Pele in not a record by any means. http://www.rsssf.com/players/prolific.html#gmueller
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    Records to beat - Leo Messi

    The next two records within striking distance for for Messi are the goalscoring records for 4 consecutive seasons and 5 consecutive seasons. 1 season 1. Messi 73 2 Archie Stark 70 2 Seasons 1. Messi 126 2. Jimmy McGrory 121 3 Seasons 1. Messi 173 2. Jimmy McGrory 170 4 Seasons 1. Jimmy...

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