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    Kevin De Bruyne

    Your forwards should always be creative. There's been nothing creative about the midfield for years now though. Messi has increasingly had to drop back to make anything happen.
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    Mohamed Salah

    Flopped at Chelsea. He was good in Serie A but that turn of pace really stands out there and there's some real shit in that league (Higuain bangs in 30 a season). Mane is better.
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    Kevin De Bruyne

    I wouldn't have gone for him particularly but he's an improvement on worthless shit like Arda and Gomes and would offer more than Paulinho.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    I hope his stays from a Barca point of view but why should he stay and carry this team and have 5 defenders on him all the time and have to put with a fading team? It'd be good to see what he could do in that City side at the moment. He'd absolutely rip up the EPL.
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    Kevin De Bruyne

    How have Barca missed out on all these creative players that have gone to England (De Bruyne, Bernardo, Eriksen, Coutinho, Hazard, Mikhitaryan etc) and ended up with such a rank bad midfield despite all the money spent on it?
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    Luis Suárez

    We need more from a Barca striker than that overall but yeah it's much better from him as he's looked like a pub player for months. At least that's a top flight performance.
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    USA

    In a country where you need to be a college boy to make it pro (which in the US means a lot of $) then it doesn't blend well with a sport that's roots have always been blue collar. They need merit based academies in every state and major city with high level scouting and coaching. And the best...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    The youth development has been shocking since Messi's generation which is the problem. Brazil have Ederson (24), Alisson (25), Danilo (26) Alex Sandro (26), Jemerson (25) Marquinhos (23), Casemiro (25), Coutinho (25), Douglas Costa (27), Jesus (20), Neymar (25), Firmino (26) all established at...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    As long as they do at least as well as Penaldo's Portugal and then win the Copa in Brazil a year later. Ronaldo's still got 2016 over him. Huge importance last night and Messi was always going to have to do it on his own. His critics would have always held it over him had Argentina not...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    It simplifies his job but that's predominantly what his role now is, a more traditional striker. Okay his movement and runs are key but relying on service and waiting for defenders to make a mistake is basically his role now in the Real team. If Messi copied that for Argentina then the chances...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    This is the big problem with Messi for Argentina and now Barcelona, he's having to take too much on and do everything with the ball. With Argentina he's failing because he can't get on the end of his own crosses and passes. Penaldo has one job now. To goal hang and wait for service and/or a...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    One of his biggest problems (whether his or theirs) is how attackers who play alongside him tend to struggle. Higuain is absolutely useless in Argentina shirt as is Aguero. These have been the best strikers in Serie A and EPL for the last few years. Dybala is left out the team for some crap...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    You wonder how not qualifying will affect him. Particularly with his contract unsigned. It might make him want to try something different rather than having to carry club and country on his back every week.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    Ronaldo 6-5 ballon dor if Argentina don't win on Tuesday. No way Messi wins in 2018 if no World Cup.
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    His career is starting to resemble a tragedy.
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    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    I think he's ideal for Serie A while he's slowing down (Juve and Tevez as a template as they're similar players). Italian teams are cheapskates though. The reality is with Suarez we can't sell him next year if he's best mates with Messi if we want Messi to renew. And if Messi doesn't renew then...
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    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    Agree we should but that's assuming you've got a sensible balance in terms of a squad age. We already had too many players in their late 20s and early 30s and Suarez along with Rakitic and Arda (and now Paulinho) increased that. We've been forced to address this with the likes of Umtiti, MATS...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    Messi wasn't fit at that World Cup and had come off his poorest club season under Tata Martino certainly from 08/09 onwards. Barca fans were complaining he was saving himself for the World Cup and wasn't bothered but he wasn't right physically after his injury problems in 2013. He'd come to...
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    10 - Lionel Messi - v5

    I remember Alcantara's record 369 goals being a target for Messi (including all kinds of friendlies) and he broke that a couple of years ago. Now he's ready to break it just in league games. I hope he stays to get 500 Barcelona La Liga goals.
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    Barca Transfers and Rumors

    We need to stop signing players approaching 30 who are after a last big contract and then you're stuck with them until they're mid 30s. You never know when the decline starts either, look at Suarez. And if they're not good enough in the first place (Paulinho, Arda) then it's even worse.
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