aside from pique, we don't have realistic competitors for the oldies in our squad. so yeah, it can get worse if you just play the bench warmers for the sake of change.
laporta can't do anything right now than to ask for pay cuts. do you think he could of came in here and told them to fuck off...
realistically, who do you think we could field?
Mats
Emerson-Pique-Kounde/Laporte-Alba
Busquets
if araujo is healthy and performs well enough he could rotate with pique. otherwise, who would be starter material? lenglet, dest, mingueza, firpo? :lol:
at this rate it will be a terrible tournament from the quality of football played perspective. and we might have another surprise winner, which wouldn't be bad.
don't know mate, but you always manage to grind out wins. and you do it without having great teams(from individuals point of view) most of the time.
spain or italy on the other hand, had to have very good teams to win something.
hmm, they could try neymar-depay-mbappe as a sort of mane-firmino-salah type of trident. after all the three of them can switch positions and alternate sides depending on play.
at the end of the day neither depay, wijnaldum, aguero or eric garcia were/are players that would change our club in the future. these are stop-gaps that were feasible from a financial point of view and in line with what the club can do right now.
FDJ on the other hand was the most promising...
Yeah, we had to go the distance with PSG. We offered a comparable figure, which was huge anyway.
It's not like we offered half and FDJ chose Barcelona because he liked the club/city.
yeah, at this point i would like us to get him.
griezmann is a better player if you have a defensive team and your manager is simeone or deschamps. otherwise depay has more talent and is better suited to a club like barcelona.
can't say that i "want" us to sign him. as in i'm not really thrilled on the transfer. but he's free at least.
but i do recognize he has above average technique and is smart enough to link-up with the other attackers. surely better than braithwaite and more talented than griezmann.
would be...
are you going to haunt me forever with this question?
i've already said that i prefer depay over wijnaldum. so it's a yes, but a cautios one.
for me it seems he's a luxury player, like fekir for example. a guy that when in the mood can be very good, but otherwise he disappoints when you're...
starter for netherlands 10 or 20 years ago would have meant something. starter for the current side? not so much.
can't even remember when they've last had a national team this bad.
The area around Paris has the biggest talent pool in Europe. If they do build that academy they'll attract some top talent. They have only to keep Mbappe as their star, the rest will follow
players have the option to go to court if they feel they've been threatened, their contract is not respected or they are deprived from the right to work.
just watch us handle the dembele case if he doesn't want to renew :lol:
let's be honest, psg didn't do anything illegal from what we know. player has a contract and he must fulfill it.
they've happily signed for bags of cash that not many clubs would have payed them. so it's normal that psg don't want to get fucked over by some clowns like neymar and mbappe.