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Correlation vs causation. A logical fallacy. By the same logic: Teams who don't have Xavi (PSG, pre-Xavi Bar?a) collapse to RM, whereas Xavi teams get a W. And this one actually has more merit as the impact on team performance by a manager is generally higher than that of an individual player...

My all-time favourite player and now the (unexpected?) hero we needed. For him to not only return to us as manager but also emulate some of that 08/09 Pep raw enthusiasm in relatively short amount of time is just amazing. Felt a bit meh about football in the past two years, which had to do with...

This game felt weirdly nostalgic. We've been on a good run for a while but I'm only now starting to feel the old enthusiasm again. Great performance and hard not to gloat at Madrid.

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc. I'd wager the superior football we're playing has more to do with the superior coach and system than the absence or presence of Messi. Whether Messi would hamper or contribute to this current system is another question that has nothing to do with the question of...

The players he picked instead of Messi and Suarez just so happen to be his BFFs of many years and in their current state and form hardly represent his 'ideas' better than current Messi/Suarez. Same amigo attitude all of you hate. Btw, if you wanted to show how little you care about something so...

I didn't even clock he put Blaswich :lol: He is either a tad narcisstic or a bad troll.

When he was young, before he joined, German football media would create this image of him as being highly intelligent and intellectual because he was moderately educated (in comparison) and spoke several languages. I think that along with the 'first German player to make it at Barca' went up to...

I just never thought him having an amazing season this season was all that likely. All obvious decline as a footballer aside, I think this being his first move of club and country of his career, and an unexpected, hasty one at that, was a bigger thing for him than it would have been for other...

He's a different player type from Xavi and Iniesta, but an all time great. Also one of Madrid's most likeable players throughout.

I don't think he was as bad as people ITT are making him out to be, but don't wanna rain on the downfall parade. Don't feel the need to draw any 'is he finished or not' conclusions from tonight, time will tell.

My belief in Barcaforum was crushed when reading around in the Corona thread. On what you just said, it's such a bizarre development how recently there seems to be a movement that associates science and following science-based recommendations with "blindly following the herd", "sheeple", etc...

What's happened to BarcaOG? I remember him from years back as a pretty normal poster. Is my memory deceiving me or did he have a giant meltdown on the way, and why about Messi of all people?

Very happy for him. Find the whole Ballon D'Or ceremony cringe-worthy to watch but Pedri adds a whole layer of wholesomeness.

I genuinely didn't read it that way. He was prefacing this by talking about how the Bundesliga needs more international success for it to get the recognition it deserves (blah blah, he's been repeating this along with all Bayern people for years). Then said this should be motivation to get the...

He is the most punchable of people, but to be fair, he did add in the end: "With Lionel Messi the award was given to probably the best individual player that football has ever produced, so congratulations to Lionel for winning the Ballon D'Or. Even though I think Robert Lewandowski deserved it...

Even if Laporta was telling the truth, there was no need for him to come out and say this now, after the whole situation was accepted without hard feelings (mostly) by fans and Messi himself. The only thing this achieves is make Messi seem in a bad light and damage his legacy a tiny bit. You...

He was going to join Real sometime anyway. This way, PSG lose him, Real overspend - sounds decent enough. Barca's situation is bad anyway, with Mbapp? in Madrid or not. (Granted, it stings a bit to see them gaining a world-class attacking player and we lose the GOAT, but this is more sentimental.)

Nice. Didn't think a couple of weeks ago that seeing him registered would feel like a relief, but here we are.

Somehow this move with all its parts (the farewell tears and then the media frenzy in Paris) coupled with the Copa America glory have made him more-larger-than-life than ever before. The attention is crazy, not like anything I remember from his time here or from anyone. It genuinely manifested...

PSG represent the pinnacle of a development in football all of us despise, and represent it in a completely smug way too, but precisely because they have no history, I don't have any negative emotional connotation with them. Granted, I don't want football to be like this, I wish this development...