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Pep and Luis Enrique MADE the squad look good, it's not like they inherited the best squads ever while Eusebio was handed the worst players to work with. Pep started in the Tercera division ffs

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8764865/Romelu-Lukaku-returning-to-Chelsea-next-season-with-vow-to-prove-his-worth If Mourinho goes back to his lone target man ways, Lukaku will likely perform amazingly. Honestly I'd expect him to be the best forward at Chelsea next season. I wish...

:( Canos is the only one of them that I've heard is really talented

Every defender on Spain looked mediocre during the Olympics. Watch him in Sociedad and you'll see his talent.

Aguero is such a heavy runner these days

Eriksen or maybe Lamela?

Di Maria with the dive of the century

:lol:

It's not like those ratings or stats are completely concrete justifications of a player's performance. They give you an overview of numbers that are sometimes useful but if you're really going to decide who a better player is in sports completely off of a numeric system created by a computer...

Game-specific replacement, not overall succeeding him.

That's why rating systems can't always be trusted. They're sporadic in accuracy and don't take into account all the factors. It's really a testament to how wildly stupid those systems are when a player like Naldo is considered better than Thiago Silva because of statistics. Gameplay shows that...

That's the thing with Bielsa. He's wasn't given the nickname "El Loco" for nothing :lol: He's either hit or miss with his managerial prowess and it didn't work out with Athletic in the long run. It was a good fit initially because he had players with insane stamina and could play the...

If you're looking at ratings/motm awards, those really have many flaws in what they consider to be a good game. Mostly they tend to favor attacking players and defenders get defaulted low ratings even if they didn't have much to do during the games (yet still played well overall). Also compared...

Assuming Cesc replaces Iniesta, he'd be in a much more advanced position at default. That leaves him with Alexis and Pedro to play direct passes to. Alexis we know links up well with him and continuously works to find a way behind the defense, Pedro is more inconsistent at it. And whenever the...

Amorebieta as a primary signing? Hell no. I wouldn't be opposed to having him considering he was free at the time, but I never suggested that the club should put in any true effort or go to any real lengths to bring him in instead of focusing on someone who'd be a regular. Adding a free backup...

I never said "dominant" I said strong in the air, meaning as good in the air as he needs to be. Almost every argument you've made tries to point to the fact that he's not aerially dominant when in reality that's not completely true nor a decent reason to say he's a bad player.

Even stronger opinions considering I doubt you've watched more than 3-4 games of his. He's not the fastest of CB's but he isn't Hummels slow either. Why anyone expects a CB to be at Alba speed is beyond me.

Not being a primarily aerial player doesn't mean he's shit in the air. He's much better than anyone on our team at it. Is aerial ability all that one should be looking for in a defender? That's really narrow-minded. If being a good header is all that would constitute a good transfer to you, we...

Numbers don't always tell the entire story, any true footballing fan should know that.

So when we say that his actual gameplay shows he's strong in the air despite not being tall, you point towards stats. When stats justify that he's been "better" than one of the best headers in the world, you throw that evidence out too and say nothing suggests that he's good in the air.