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Yea he just scored yet another free kick. Remember when Messi couldn't score free kicks, or "play well" for Argentina? Scratch those off already. There's nothing this player can't do.

I thought Leo D was banging her.

I would like to commend him though for the guts to give a performance in a foreign position against a difficult opponent. But please, this is no reason for hope. Gimme a damn CB.

Another guy that's not a CB if you ask me. Sure he could pull it off, more or less, but no. I don't know why, but I feel a CB or defensive player needs to have this draconian nature, this hierarchy of.. perhaps power isn't the right word, but maybe intimidation as opposed to the other players...

Definitely. This is kid is SOLID, and a little bit more. I doubt he'll steal Dani's position so quickly, but he'll be threat to Alves for sure in the future.

I love how he doesn't clear those long passes Madrid sends to their forwards, but instead does the difficult thing which is to control the ball and keep possession even with the attacker right on him. He is very talented and ballsy.

I agree to an extent with Richard. EPL games in general have an energy and an electricity that the Spanish games don't, well, most of them don't. In turn the Spanish play a much more satisfying football for the eye, so it's a give and take.

Alba's style is much more rooted in the Barca way. He's a much more consistent tiki-taka player, a better crosser (he's got some sexy low crosses), and his positioning is far more solid than Adriano. Though Adriano can give you some great moments of brilliance- it's that Brazilian flair in him-...

Defensively underrated. It's that, he is small and looks somewhat weak so he isn't a great defender assumption. He is no Abidal, but he is quite alright if you ask me.

I wanna cry. Our defensive problems are bullshit. There's no reason this should be happening. Two natural, experienced CB's is all we got. TWO! and they're both injured.

Why do you guys insist on him going to small club first? Santos is his platform for proving his worth, this is his "small club." No other small club in the world can afford him to begin with, and do you really believe one of the big ones is going to pay 40+ million, to loan him out? If you pay...

That's awesome. Loved how they explain that with Cesc on, Tito found Messi a position further back where he can be more involved in the build up. As a result, Cesc then fills the false 9 role in lieu of Messi. It works great because Leo now has more freedom to create plays and deliver deadly...

lol bastard.

He is much too old to go in like his life depends on him. I mean he really goes in for the ball like a lion.. I just wish he would be more careful. This is shit.

Read the whole damn thing. I feel a lot of the times he's too formal in his interviews, which is the safe way most footballers go, and reasonably so considering one miss-phrased sentence and the press will destroy you. But he is much more open in that one. He should be like that all the time...

Pep, I miss the shit outta him. But permit me to note one crucial thing I do find that Tito brings that he did not. Pep was idealistic and fire-spirited to the bone, and that's one of the reasons this team won so much and still plays such heavenly football, because he instilled in them such...

He ain't no damn centreback that's for sure. Despite his strength and decent tackling skills, he does look uncomfortable out there. He's a perfect replacement for Keita, so in that regard I'm not against his signing. But two experienced, natural Centrebacks is all we got? I love Masch and the...

I agree, and none of the other choices are any better. I remember in this very forum we talked about him being the obvious choice, but that seemed to have changed post-shakira since people seem to blame everything on her. You know, Shakira or not, I can admit that he has softened up a bit since...

I want to get that blissful feeling again of seeing the starting eleven and the back four reads Alves-Pique-Puyol-Abidal. How huge a difference it's been since he left. Our defense has been a roller coaster ride since then.

I guess now we can stop calling him... Pedrito.