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Xavi just whines at every single decision made regardless of if its right or not thats why he's always getting yellow cards

Its probably not a coincidence Felix scored in both ties vs Atletico. Seems to be a player you have to get out of bed.

We randomly clicked into gear there for a couple minutes. Gundogan crucial as usual. Don't like Fermin so far. Not sure if he's good enough to be playing here.

Kvaras slow ass made Kounde look good.

What is squad cost? Is that net spend, transfermarkt value, total spend without sales etc.

The players you can attract matter as well. Likes of Barca can get players those clubs cant like how we signed Gundogan on a free... no chance he ever goes to any of those if he were free. United and Chelsea have been awfully mismanaged but Tottenham dont really spend much. Only recently they...

I said that because 85-88 points is usually what it takes to win the league in a normal year, of course the context of where those points were gained matters though, since the league ending early can affect those totals a lot.

It was 88 points in the end, of course because we lost some games when the league was over but that does usually happen when a team runs away with it. It will be much harder to get a context like that where Madrid are on a bad year and we have a lot of funds to spend. I think the goals should...

Agreed and that is equally one reason why we got grouped last year. We didn't win a very winnable Europa League and paid for it. Then the league title win helped us this year in Europe.

The minimum requirement for now or the next manager is CL quarter finals in the absence of a hugely unlucky draw. Other managers would also be expected to qualify as 1st over Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk and beat Napoli this year, that is not some super high standard applied exclusively to Xavi...

He's okay there but having him DM is not really ideal, he is a bit basic and just makes the simple pass all the time (better than Romeu though as at least he won't make fatal mistakes). I don't dislike Roque but I'm unsure why repeatedly new funds keep going to other positions when we have a...

People say this a lot but kids rarely grow after the age of 16, that usually only happens when they are behind developmentally.

This is why when Serghei says, oh, how could you even expect us to make a quarter final, we don't spend 500 million every summer, it is complete rubbish. To make the final this year : Finish above Porto, beat PSG, Napoli and Atletico or Dortmund. Does anyone need to spend 800 million every...

Strongly disagree. They arent a well rounded team. Pace and dribbling is much more dangerous when the team itself is good. But in isolation if we play our game we can limit those opportunities. They will be a hard tie, but its better than a number of others we could have gotten.

We must aim for the final with this draw

We are definitely going to draw a hard opponent any which way, there are so many good teams left, so its hard to say who we really want other than Dortmund and not City.

Sorry, I think I was meant to say you made a good take, my bad 😭

A Barca Madrid QF would be absolutely huge.

Even the difference between Premier and LaLiga is not that big despite the money, City and Liverpool are above all but City sort of pairs with Madrid, then the rest isn't that different other than Pool (for now), and they are losing Klopp.

It happens. I still think they were one of the best teams this year.