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Good Lord, how some people imagine a football game... "The mighty war-lord-general is standing on the pitch in the middle, enthusing his soldiers with words and steary looks, in the locker-room he gives enthusiastic speeches - often mentioning the fruits of heaven - and the teammates are so...

I'm glad that someone is capable of seeing more into Valverde, even compared to his own mirror. So he should stick to his own ideas? Fantastic. Tell me pls. what those ideas are? Believe me, I have no intention of lecturing you or anyone else here, specially here, I just simply and merely try...

and You seem to be belonging to the category of typical fans, who think in terms of player vs coach relations, just as if it would be the 1920's or 1930's in football. - You are tall, you will be the center-back - said the coach back then, while constantly touching and setting his brand new...

There's one question related to Suarez, but it is not a question about Suarez. How many single goalscorers does a team need? That is the question. No, not players who are capable to score occasionally, but a typical goalscorer, who has no other major task in the team. One or two? Go and have a...

Got no time for checks like that. I rather watch again some nice games under Lucho...:cheers:

Yes but I doubt dribbles are directly proportional to his buying price my friend... He is speedy like a bullet, a very unpredictable dribbler, has a good shot, absolutely multi-footed, etc. Features that many players and coaches just dream for. If you look at his best period at Barca, you will...

Intentional deflection??? He was glad to somehow touch it before it went out, there was nothing intentional about it, it's not a snooker game.

I'm also guessing that might be the case. Therein we could easily agree upon that it was a human's contribution to the equation. Messi got a 9.8 a 9.3 and a 8.3 (I was lazy to check more, and highly uninterested anyway because I saw the game) so believe me, it's the young enthusiast's hand in...

Well, okay. So please tell me which are the possible actual variables summed up in SUAREZ's performance that gives him 7.3 yesterday? Are there any significant variables that make Suarez's performance way higher than Arthur's or FDJ's?

Well, everyone knows your result-oriented world BBZ. I said it several times but seems it needs to be repeated again: There are LOST games played with pride and your favorites still played WELL, and there are games they WIN but play BADLY. Until you make the distinction, you are able to see...

That's how you imagine it in this century. But if you dig it a bit deeper, you can also see these sites looking for volunteers for the purpose. But the trend is towards the algorithms, no doubt, which makes it even more questionable, specially that someone HAS TO PRESS the "T" button for a...

You need to understand that these rates and stats are done by 18-20 years old volunteers, who usually have to observe both teams, so don't even look at these numbers, and also observe that the other stats are also way off sometimes. Nice pseudo-metrics that say very little about the actual game.

Sorry to say but mere nominations mean very little. It is anything but an objective list. During my own footballing carrier I had been nominated for the Ballon D'or three times, and the best ranking I got was the 9th place. I don't even remember the other two, and the nomination in itself was...

Why? Because for some interesting and strange reason the club adhered to the type of football that is played with EASE, that is enjoyable, airy, technical, delightful, rejoicing and perhaps it sound really strange: but simply meant for football "hedonists". Barca have never preferred a dull...

Ah... Pressure is so high, that mediocre players (like Roberto, Rakitic, Rafinha, even Mathieu) play for years, just until a luckily better signing doesn't hit the doors? Patience is so low, that almost eternal patience is provided for the untouchable favorites, regardless their consequently...

Continuity is good for the elderly, who love to gossip and remember great days, while sitting in lukewarm water...

Good explanation? So both you and BBZ come up with the ancient myth of different expectations at different clubs. Expectations can be slightly different naturally. But is it NOT like writing novels in a different language or playing music on different instruments. You consider Barca being an...

That's fine, I mention Messi just as a kind of "quality token", that most people compare Barca to. You can ask though, if Messi weren't born to this planet at all, how would have Barca looked for over a decade? Not by just measuring the quantities of titles and trophies, but that typical...

Griezmann is an excellent footballer but counting his goals and assists is a bit misleading. Finding his place would be more important than counting. Reminds me of Arda Turan's 16/17 season when he scored 13 goals but... Just watch his goal yesterday. Nice ball from Lenglet, quite bad...

Me too. But we are dreamers. It will be a solid 4-4-2 as usual.