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Thiago would be a huge upgrade for Liverpool over Wijnaldum.

Sahin comes to mind with Wijnaldum. Looks good in a Klopp system but not a particularly good player. He's not someone who will score and assist many over a season, he's not really creative, he's not a holding midfielder the way Busquets is/was, he tends to keep it simple in terms of passing...

A lot will depend on how things go on the pitch next season. If he gets on with Koeman and the team pushes on without Suarez, Vidal and Rakitic and there's a bit more energy, creativity and pace to the team then the title is achievable as long as Messi shows up. Just not being humiliated in CL...

Watching Suarez and Ronaldo will be hilarious. All they're really effective at now is scoring goals but they both miss stacks of chances, can't do the basics and their default mode in a match is to be pissed off. Ronaldo only keeps his name relevant as Juve get a penalty every game. Suarez...

He'll do well in Serie A because Juve are so much better than most of the teams in it and the league is slow. He might be more motivated as well after Barca forced him out. He's coasting through the last 2 or 3 seasons and been a waste of a shirt away in Europe.

It's probably part of why he's given in. He wouldn't have been happy in Manchester though, especially with Covid going on and the effect the move would have on his family. Even Neymar was desperate to go back to Barcelona soon after he left and Paris isn't a bad place to live.

Yes but Messi can be very emotive and drastic (he lost it with Argentina and retired) and that had been a long time coming from him to the board. He might sign a pre-contract agreement anyway in Jan but if he's wooed by the next board then he could settle down and sign a new deal. Suarez must...

He's 33, he's already wasted the start of his 30s with this garbage team. He hasn't got the time left at the top to wait for a new young team to develop.

It'd be interesting if Bart issued a statement tonight granting his request to leave.

He admitted his wife and kids didn't want to leave which was why I was surprised at what he did. I don't think it was a bluff so much as it was a tantrum after the Bayern game (as he's done before with Argentina). He's a very sensitive individual.

If he stays and Barca don't play him then who'll sign him at 34 after no football for a year?

If things can settle down within a month then he can be talked round, like with Argentina after he retired.. There'll be a new president next year who will want to keep him and then it's a fresh start for him and the club. Get the toxic Suarez away from him and some of the other old men and it...

It won't matter in Serie A. Suarez will flourish there. It won't help them in Europe though.

I said all along he won't uproot his family in the middle of a pandemic. He doesn't want to be here though.

Annoying thing is Messi would have benefited from the purging of his geriatric team mates. I wouldn't blame him wanting to leave a shit show of Barca but he's pissed off because his mates are being fucked off as much as anything. He's helped develop Barca into an old boys club the players rule...

It's posturing. Once a big offer comes in the club will happily let him go like Real with Ronaldo.

He'd make Maradona look like Pep.

Messi's always struggled in the quarter finals of the CL for some reason over the last decade or so. Whether it's the timing of the schedule (usually just after March internationals back from South America) or what. Last 16 he's usually very strong and Barca usually always have had tough ties...

It's about money for Barca as well. The club want to sell him for a decent fee and lose his wages. If they can actually do that then it'll be for the best if they can use that money to get good young players in.

Copa America next summer as well. He can't play in that if he hasn't played football for 12 months. Leave him in the stands. He'll agree to rip his contract up if not by October then by January. Suarez might be a twat but one thing he loves doing is playing football. He's not like Bale.