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He is one of the few physical beasts in our defensive setup.1.86m who was actually the quickest in terms of top speed last year, strong and no nonsense player. Is actually a good passer if you leave him room. OTOH, he is a stiff when it comes to change of direction, and not the best in passing...

Maldini has the CV to back it up, though. 20 something years at extremely high level, early bloomer who lasted for eternity. It is a bit like Messi or CR7 who both hit the perfect storm, starting their careers at top clubs, having great coaches, having great work ethic, no career ending...

He is unlikely to ever have the amount of accomplishments to get that title, which matters a lot in those discussing. Maybe if he continues at high level for another hallf decade and win a couple of CL or something, but odds are against him. Best of his generation is the most likely answer.

Real sold some other levers, but not TV rights. But their official statement is that they have 12M non-stadium in debt, Barca hasn't been as transparent with their numbers, but estimated to be anything around 1B to 1.5B, tge difference itself is staggering. You have to wonder what is the plan...

I don't want to get dragged into the Laporta great or he sucks, but the numbers are ugly and actually bad. I expected us to be in a better shape this year, but it is worse. We can't keep operating like this, and it seems we are putting all our eggs on the Camp Nou elevating us. I hope it works...

Because they prohibted such way of calculations now. They put a minimum number related to income, something like one 3rd of your income or whatever.

Anyone follows OGC Nice? They have 2 young players in the positions we need the most. Jérémy Jacquet, CB, quick and knows how to play with the ball, long legs, 1.9m, 20 years of age. Arsenal was interested in him but the deal didn't go through, he returned from loan and is cementing himself as...

Honestly, this might be the year that he should be backup rather than a starter. Things could change, but past weeks feels like we are there

His contract ends in 2027 according to transfermarket, let's see what they could get for him before launching all those hypothesis. Sporting are the worst in sales among the top 3 in Portugal, so I won't hold my breath for anything more than 50M for him, at most

He is in good form in Brazil, good for him. He has gone through some shit in the past 2 years (on both career and personal level), getting back on track is always good for such young player. Good for us that we moved on too.

He will surely be integrated with B team before getting a chance to train with the first team.

Da fuck :ROFLMAO: Halilovic is a Barca B signing, Deulofeu and Rafinha were players who returned from loans and Gerard got loaned back. So yes, 7 signings is the accurate number. 3 great signings, 2 very good short term signings, 2 underwhelming. It is absolutely a great mercato on any...

WTF are you onto? Barca made 7 signings that summer in total. Suarez, Rakitic, Bravo, MATS, Mathieue, Vermaelen and Douglas. That was an absolutely elite transfer market. Mathieue was old and gave us only 2 very good years, but was worth 20M and low wages. Was solid addition. Vermaelen and...

Slot isn't that far below him, he is just a more pragmatic coach. A bit like Madrid type of coach. Football will always be inferior to the ones they used to play, but I think results is comparable. Real was getting annihilated before that year, though. Sure, there core is old, but again his...

I would say anything below 2 EPL and a CL within next 5 years is a failure for this side. They were the EPL winning side last year and top of league phase in CL and only beaten by penalties by the eventual champions. This type of transfermarket usually happens in a club that is trying to fix...

The World Cup thing remains a theory from folks who never saw the medical reports of his. Just like many sided with the club later about him not doing an operation, and same with Fati. There is a lot of question marks about our medical staff in that period. I doubt he has any regrets, he got...

Much better depth than what we had before, still below what we need. So far, fulfilling my exact expectation.

I was ok with his performance tbh. Below Barca standard, but seems to be a player who belongs to the league. Better than Pau Victor or Fati from last year

No way, it is a recent construction and it doesn't make sense to redo stuff at this point. Maybe in a decade or so, future presidents might try to score points by doing it.

I never understood this argument. Most football SD didn't have a prior experience, or at most they were assisting like Bojan doing now. Txiki is one of the GOAT SD we had, and even in EPL too, and he had barely any experience before joining us, same Zubi who times proven he was actually fairly...