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Penalties are already pretty heavily favoring the attacking player, anyways. If a keeper can make a tactical foul and save the spot kick, fair play to them.

He's nowhere near Barca quality and he's nowhere near good enough to be a backup player here. Masche made mistakes against Alaves, yes, but you're really fooling yourself if you're convinced everyone has given up on Vidal just because of the Alaves match. Since arriving here he's been Douglas...

Masche really hasn't been very good on the whole this season. I think he was good in the first leg of the Supercopa and that's basically it.

The triple punishment is no longer a requirement. If the player is making a legitimate effort to get the ball, they get a yellow, instead of straight red. Even if they're the goalkeeper. I work as a ref and that's one of the biggest rule changes from last season to now, along with not having to...

Huh?

Maybe if Munir costed 30m that'd somehow be relevant. It's almost as if you think I'm claiming Munir is better.

Define "breakthrough". Being promoted basically directly from Juvenil A to the first team and watching all your peers fizzle out and vanish is quite a huge breakthrough, don't you think?

Well, if Munir's form is really that good and Paco remains as mediocre as he has been his entire career I don't see why Munir would have to worry about being behind him. Being 4th option behind MSN is what Munir has always wanted all along, anyways, and it's not like he'll be riding the bench...

LMAO I love going through your posts and seeing what you have to say about Neymar. I'm not judging Paco after 66 minutes. I've always maintained I didn't like this guy or the fact that we brought him in at the expense of Munir. I've also always said that he needs to be better than Munir was...

This is what I'm saying. Valencia activating their buy option wouldn't mean anything if Munir himself doesn't want to go, and I really doubt he'd hear Barca calling him back and go "Nah, I'm happy at Valencia".

Masche will start. I'd make a bet with you but Flavia serves as a permanent reminder that I should never do that.

If Valencia wants to activate the clause how are they going to make him sign without holding him at gunpoint?

He was bought to be a good upgrade to Munir right now. Not next season or the season after that. Someone actually said once that "We have four good forwards" now with Paco. Huh? Where? Arda is another case entirely in that he had a dramatic change in attitude and also had his position...

You really think Munir will do so well at Valencia that he'll choose them over us? :lol:

Celtic will probably park the bus against us again anyways. Barring any natural disasters from Mascherano our keeper shouldn't be tested too much. Best to give Mats the rest so he can be fresh for next weekend.

What the hell is the point of him being here if his first season is expected to be shit and Munir was loaned out for one season? I was under the impression we signed him with the intent of him being the 4th forward we've been so desperate for. But Munir didn't cost us 30m and wasn't brought in...

This is precisely why I won't be giving him time before I expect anything. If he's going to come in and replace our young striker who was playing pretty well for 30m he had better be a damn good upgrade and I am still waiting to see that happen.

Suarez had a crazy assist in his first game in El Clasico and Neymar scored against Atletico in his first game. Arda's issues were more down to mentality than ability as well.

The same logic could have been used when comparing Neymar to Pedro.

Me too man.