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Still the best academy in the world. Even to this day, we can still drag in B team players who are 16, 17, 18, and have them put in performances of seasoned veterans. Fantastic.

I think a lot of it is just putting players in positions that suit them and not forcing some dumb positional play system. He is trying to suit the tactics more to the players attributes and not putting square pegs into round holes. End result : 3/3 with great performance so far. The only thing...

3/3, 9 points, FLICK is at the wheel

You're discounting the possibility he does well and then we have options to sell him elsewhere for a good price. If the article is correct we could be stuck giving at least 5m to them in a future sale. This practise of giving the club a development percentage is so uncommon, other clubs don't...

Can't really blame him though, he is getting serious injuries every few months, he could simply just make a decision to protect his body even if it means playing at a lower level.

Pique is soaking wet in shadiness and dishonesty. Keep him away from the club. Fantastic player, legend, but all good things come to an end.

Crazy. Have to wonder how far we are from 1:1 still.

It's the 26th of August and we still don't have our only signing registered. Something tells me that we probably won't be able to sign a guy on an 11m gross contract unless we have a big sale coming up.

Bernal is 17 years old Catalan and starting for one of the biggest clubs in the world, that he has been with since he was a child. He won't get that anywhere else and I doubt he'll ever want to leave whilst he's playing in the first team.

LaLiga is definitely an underrated league. I've been coming around to that conclusion. The main issue is the lack of attacking talent here but the teams are generally well set up and tactically astute.

Could also be simply financial, I mean, we already have 4 good center backs (excluding Kounde) - Araujo, Cubarsi, Inigo, Christensen when he returns, and possibly Kounde if we bring a right back in. That should be enough cover for the season. It will probably push us over the line to register...

Take a touch FFS!

He was an early bloomer but that peak was still really good even if he's slightly worse now. Question more seems to be that they aren't gelling well together in these opening games and that gives us a huge chance.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

If David was available on a free it's a no brainer even if simply from a business standpoint. He's only 24, has an outstanding goalscoring record in Ligue 1 and will likely have many teams in for him. We would easily be able to move him on for a big fee after he comes here and scores some...

His switches are really nice and has surprisingly accurate long passing.

People need to listen to Jammie more. He was insisting Raphinha should play AM from the start.

I think the fact he has less pressing duties under Flick helps him a lot, the other players pick up the slack and he can focus on running for attacks. He looks less leggy and is getting into more positions generally.

He's really really young for the DM position so to come in and have mature performances immediately is very impressive. I really like him as a future talent, if he speeds up some of his movements and works athletically to improve he can be a great player. Particularly he is very composed, no...

Really nice game against a very solid team. We try to attack much more rather than aimlessly passing and are also physically outmatching our opponents. Nice to see it and if certain holes in the team were fixed we could do even better. Flick also has not had that much time to implement his...