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+6 after 4 games did sound too good to be true.

It's actually crazy Mbappe will be goalless in 4 league starts. When is the last time that happened to him, in fact, it's probably never happened to him in his career.

Can't find the post from @fergus90 from a couple seasons ago but it's still relevant, he pointed out how useless Madrid are at defending titles. These guys almost never repeat LaLiga titles, ever.

Betis have been on a sharp decline, squad getting a lot worse over the last few years.

True, they needed healing after last season's football.

@serghei Was hyping up Antony after we played them.

True, they need Xavi.

Investment in junk, though. Their team is fucking crap. I don't think I would give Yamal for their entire starting 11. Still, he should be doing better in the league with what he has.

Haaland being poor outside of goal threat is well remarked upon. But it doesn't matter. His movement and his finishing is such a big threat that he can succeed as a one trick pony. He also isn't as bad as people claim with the ball. Not amazing but not awful either.

They just spend way too much money on mid players that you should get for cheap or for free. These types of fees of 60m, 70m, 80m, should only be spent on top players, not Antony, Hojlund, even Ugarte for 50 was absurd.

This is again a reminder that our squad was always way better than United's despite the money.

Felix is not a top player. Just a street footballer with no physical or mental talent.

Puig is in MLS at 25. At that point he already gave up his ambitions of being a top player. Even Dinamo Zagreb (which was Olmo's club at a very young age) are better than almost all the teams in MLS, perhaps better than all of them except Inter Miami. I don't think if Puig went to Zagreb now...

He is a decent player and will show it this season.

The transfer came at an absolutely perfect moment in his career.

^ A lot of the injury problems the squad currently has predate him.

I mean, we could do it, it's just a really serious step that's typically only taken when relations completely break down and the club has no interest in keeping the player. We're still trying to renew him and would think Flick still sees him as an important player. I don't think he would...

We should be preparing an offer for the winter/summer, possibly a swap deal or make a sale of one of our good players to facilitate it. Lewandowski is good for now but he's really old and won't last that much longer, whilst we need to secure a striker for the future. This is the perfect...

I agree he's better so far, part of it is also the game scheme, Flick as a coach is far more focused on getting the ball up quickly and attacking, with lots of freedom to move and make runs, whilst Xavi setup was a lot more conservative and focused on not conceding so attackers especially didn't...

I don't think Raphinha was bad last season, actually he had a really solid season with plenty of goal contributions even not playing that many minutes. You could definitely say the new system seems to bring out his qualities much more, though.