Maybe, can see the reason why him and Pique want to play, even if I don't agree. I mean Madrid is with respect to all other teams our biggest match left in 2012, so they probably feel its worth playing in it and then being injured for the next 3 months. My biggest worry is that a limping Pique...
Puyol said on a tweet yesterday something translates as: "Taking risks involves provoking fear, but taking them also means feeling more alive than ever..."
Not sure what to make of Pique's wish if its true. I mean, its great he'd do that for the team, but if he isn't near 100% then it could be as bad as playing Masch and Song, as you have to know Real would target him and really test him. Plus there is the risk he would do himself a worse injury...
Some absolutely abysmal defending in these videos posted up, so he'd probably be amazing in training with us, going up against Alves, Song, and Mascherano, but in matches...I have my doubts.
You're all falling for it hook line and sinker. Jose is an expert at the fake injury stunt. I'll believe it when I see the players on the pitch and Higuain isn't amongst them.
Wouldn't surprise me if Higuain plays. Generally Mourinho plays a stunt like this. If I recall Sneijder wasn't going to be able to start the second leg of the CL semi last year due to injury, but he did.
I find it funny that people think a performance against a shit team means Thiago is fantastic and Afellay no longer needed, tbh. Thiago is a great player, but the opposition he was playing against was below the level of opposition he would play in the B team.
I dunno, I fear Lennon as well, but it is all too easy for people to just say "Oh Maicon wasn't trying!" about this. Its so easy to just do that whenever a player you like comes off worst, its almost like the super hero arguments people have when they are kids. Like "Superman owned Batman!" -...
Cescs persistant hamstring problems probably put us off really. Bear in mind the cost, 40+ million at least for Cesc and I think Rosell is looking at it in three scenarios:
1) We buy Cesc for 40+ million and give him huge wages. His hamstring problems haven't gone away, he cannot play every...
In all fairness though he is far from the best in the world it isn't just the English media hyping him up, as shown in a European press review here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/03/gareth-bale-hailed-european-press
The guys simplistic style is what is great. It is one of the...
Because there is no guarantee that we are getting Cesc?
The point you have missed is that putting teenagers in our first team has been the exception not the rule. We've always preferred down the years to wait till players are at least 20 before making them regular first team players. Bit part...
Rafa Alcantara seems to be the ready made xavi replacement in our Cantera, hes even called mini Xavi. But of those ready probably only Fabregas or Thiago, though Thiago strikes me as being more similar to how Deco was.
We rushed Bojan too much and we all saw what happened with him, he never truly stepped up. I'd say Afellay is a good option as i'm not too keen on getting Pastore and Cesc as neither would be content with less minutes, whilst I can definitely see Afellay being willing to play a similar squad...