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Being completely fair, Xavi deserves another season to show the culmination of his project after winning LaLiga. There is big question marks over knockout games and if our title this year was very lucky or not etc but winning a league title in this fashion is a great achievement and he should...

Bayern's net spend per year pretty much never surpasses 60 or 70m and is frequently close to zero. They don't spend that much, they aren't a great example if you want to talk about big financial giants who we can't compete against. A lot of their players were very cheap too.

More athletic players tend to get injured more. It is usually the slower and weaker players that tend to stay injury-free.

He's talented - he can do things with the ball some players wouldn't dream of, that is precisely the problem. He has a lot of ability yet is never showing it and just playing like a standard workhorse midfielder with some extra square ups and hard man acts. He can do a lot more than he's doing...

Frenkie and Christensen played in both legs. Those are their best players other than Rashford and Casimero. Should have been a cakewalk to knock them out if you think their most important players are 'random'. Also not sure why you're playing up Dembele after calling him shit the entire season.

Yes, he gave away the pen, but otherwise had a good game and a great first half. I don't think we lost because of the pen, we were being flooded after the 2nd goal. For rotation he's more than fine, there are better teams with worse backups than him. Fair point about mistakes, he seems to lack...

The argument about injuries continually assumes that all our opponents have their squads fit 100% of the time and never have injury issues. When United were missing Eriksen, Martial, Antony, Sabitzer, Lisandro, 4 of those are key players when fit, and we missed Pedri and Dembele. Is injuries an...

What team has ever pumped billions in investment in years in the history of LaLiga?

In total agreement if it was showing the signs of a great rebuild. But it isn't. For the most part, we play resultadisimo football. Feels more like this will be the last title than the first if performances like this continue. Busquets, Lewandowski and Messi is apparently going to be next...

Best chances? We created almost nothing. Unless you mean first half, which we were decent in but they still ended up with the best chance. All goals can be chalked down to 'players fault' if you are that way inclined, if the players always played perfectly the opponents wouldn't score...

Kessie was fine and even impressive in the first half. Only seeing praise for him on socials too. Roberto not so much at all, but still, It was Gavi who was the worst on the pitch out of the midfielders.

Just got to be worried about what level he will show next season. The 2nd half of the season for him has been absolutely catastrophic. Aware that our more defensive shape and the higher pressing demands that Xavi switched to don't help him but he looks physically done. Really slow off the mark...

Yeah. It was quite obvious that we severely declined after the second goal, like directly afterwards. I don't think we crumbled or that 'the replacements folded' but simply, it is a repetition of what we saw against United, once we have to come out and play and be proactive in looking for goals...

They're not great, but there is no excuse for losing like that. It could have been more than 4-0.

A few of us have been saying it since last year, he is far too obsessed with acting a big guy instead of playing football. Napoleon syndrome type behaviour. Runs around diving into tackles and throwing himself at people, randomly starting fights for no reason and squaring up to people but when...

What happened is they found a couple goals and then we had to start playing instead of this super conservative approach we always start with. It works vast majority of the time in Spain but a lot harder when facing the quality that Madrid have. He fucked up today even if there was injuries but...

Madrid played off him hugely this game and gave him acres of space against Camavinga knowing he wouldn't be able to do much with it. His technique is a bit poor. Not great first touch and not very crisp dribbling.

Yes... but why? Its like as soon as it moves to a cup format the defense become cones.

Stop it... we got destroyed. That's never acceptable even if missing those key players. And we have proven we can beat them with this same 11 only a couple weeks ago. You're right though, shouldn't overreact to it.

That Kroos Modric midfield has been pressed off the pitch 3 times in a row now and he keeps going with it. When Tchouameni was crucial in their win against us this season and Kroos's legs are gone vs a much more intense team. Carvajal there again after his shockers. One positive is Camavinga...