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Hope it gets his confidence up. Even if some of us don't rate him, if you've played organised football, you know how awful it is when just nothing goes right and all the shots go into Row Z. Hopefully this goal is a relief for him and helps bring his confidence back.

Another thumping with Busquets out of lineup.

Not his fault. Been given no alternatives when main players are out of form. Looks over at his bench and sees Tsimkas and Bajcetic.

Well that's better than Dest who wasn't even getting called. At the least tells you he thought he could have added something.

Xavi seemed to indicate at the last press conference he didn't want Pjanic to leave, and said he would have played if he stayed.

Sevilla are absolutely terrible. It's so sad to see what LaLiga is becoming just because of money and Tebas's 'salary cap' rules.

'Bad feelings' around Benzema's injury says Marca... If he's out long term we've been gifted the league.

Most of the LaLiga teams are notably worse than last season due to these salary cap rules. Could even be an 100 point season. Become a lot easier to beat these teams, in the past they put up much more of a fight.

Physically in terms of his body and size he looks okay. I think he lacks fight and grit. Has no desire.

His player profile is a goalscoring forward, but he can't finish. Fatal flaw. He isn't good at dribbling or beating his man out wide, we know that, but if he can't score goals, he has very little. A real concern.

Movement is his best quality but it means nothing if you can't bury your chances.

A very big part of these wins. Preventing many goals, which not only helps the scoresheet but it means these teams have to continue to attack and give us space. If he had conceded early against Sevilla/Valladolid they would have sat back and soaked up pressure for the 90, and could have gotten...

Would be funnier if it was genuine. :lol:

Refereeing in Prem is god awful. Every game the bigger team gets favoured with some crazy decisions.

La Masia account with another steaming hot take. @youngcules : 'IMHO, Clement Lenglet is better than all centre backs at Barca currently. Spurs are really lucky to have got him. I hope Barca don't sell him to them next summer (even if they offer a very good fee) after the loan spends ends and...

I like the idea of a salary cap if implemented across Europe but LaLiga is the only top league with such a harsh salary cap/FFP rules, so all it does is hold the league back. Prem rules on spending are so lax they may as well not even be there. How are teams meant to compete with that, when...

Guys like Isak and Diego Carlos who were important players for European clubs in LaLiga went to mid-table clubs in EPL.

Did you even read what I said. I said other than the top teams. The mid-table to relegation teams have way better squads and outspend the La Liga ones by huge margins, that's where the difference is.

LaLiga is becoming really low quality other than the top teams. These repeated summers of teams spending no money and selling all their best players to EPL is lowering the level a lot. Madrid aren't going to drop many so we can't either.

They don't want him for 40m, they want us to lower the fee. Which of course is entirely within their rights as they signed a minutes clause as insurance for that reason, in case they decided they didn't want to pay the fee. Why'd you think that clause was in there? As an irrelevant formality...