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Lahoz is good. Yes, every ref makes mistakes (he did big fuck up with that Bilbao game), but he's probably the hardest Spanish ref to get intimidated by crowd or players and tends to be totally immune to playacting and milking fouls. Who's your current Spanish number one ref? :p

Cesc: "In Spain the referees do not let you talk to them, they take it personally. The best is Mateu Lahoz"

Assuming Barcelona doesn't want to sell him, yes, that's the cost of his transfer (release clause + taxes). I don't believe the contract forbids Barcelona from negotiating his sale below the price in his clause. Source?

Fabregas had 200m clause and went for 35. If Messi expresses his desire to leave, they'd have to negotiate.

That requires midfield reapproach. There's just too much midfield dwelling on the ball in build-ups (+Alves who always have more touches with the ball than needed) so the forward trio always have fully set up defensive wall in front of opponent box.

Tbh I never percieved him as a central midfielder till he got here. He was amazing as #10 in 4231 at Sevilla. At his NT he does play deeper, I remember him being utilized as a wide midfielder too. I don't remember Schalke, think he had Sevilla role there.

And in 3 days a tough game against Atletico.

Exactly.

He's world class quality no doubt (probably top 3), but "Alexis out, Suarez in" was fixing something that wasn't broken. That ridiculous amount could have been used to address midfield + right back issue. I guess his transfer makes sense if they were planning for Messi to leave in near future.

That's his buyout clause, doesn't mean he'd go for that amount. If Messi insisted on leaving I don't think the club would strictly insist on buyout price. I believe Cesc wasn't sold for his buyout clause price too.

Why is this last discussion about Iniesta deleted? Seriously, why?

Not that I'm trying to derail thread from this disgrace of a performance but if this was Madrid I have no doubt they'd get two penaldos (that handball and Busquets being shoved from the back).

Resting them for Elche. :neymar: He just ruined a fine day for me.

Draw? :neymar:

Some of Tottenham fast build-ups under Chelsea midfield pressure were almost Barca prime tier. Too bad for the 2nd and 3rd goal they amateurishly conceded.

I didn't see there was any significant difference between his performances and that of Iniesta/Xavi/[insert almost any other player] in big games. I mentioned here some time ago 8 big games (both club and int.) from only last season in which Iniesta failed to deliver. Would you consider him a...

Similiar to the situation of Guardiola in Bayern. Both came to teams that won everything and were seen as invincible, new guys are the first in line to get shat on when they fail to win CL.

No Halilović?

Getafe made 24 fouls and got only 1 card for it. It's hard to play fast football when they're allowed to obstruct the game like this. I'm under the impression refs aren't that tolerant on this systematic fouling when Real Madrid is playing.

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