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If that happens, we have no business being in a cl quarterfinal anyhow. 2:1 away is a fantastic result. ManCity, having to attack and give us lots of space in the camp nou? what else could barca want?

I'm almost certain that if you sell iniesta to bayern right now and he plays under pep with those quality team mates, you'd have prime iniesta back. But imo that's not the point, the question is can barca, with it's current resources successfully field a team like that and should they even do...

oh, touchy doesn't even begin to describe it, i'm livid with rage here, you know. especially the last remark really got to me, not gonna lie. The problem with your argument is that you equate "i personally think iniesta is playing like total crap" with "iniesta playing is hurting the team"...

That's probably the most stupid thing i've heard in 2015, and we're already 2 months in, mind! If your coach picks you for the starting line up and you play, that's not "butting in" that's doing your job, which you're contractually obligated to do as a professional athlete. And if you need...

If you look for some serious iniesta criticism, just check the last 50 + pages of this thread, you'll find bashing a plenty. Just blank out spring 2014 when everybody was cyber fellating him again like the fencesitting bastards we all are. Bojan is right that no player is bigger than the...

yeah wolfe's right on this one. In the camp nou they chant "ese portugues, que hijo puta es" instead. We can (could) claim the morale high ground in some things, but not our fan behavior. btw even though it's probably a token effort, it's still a step in the right direction from real to punish...

I don't know, empathizing with people comes quite naturally to me, especially if they play for the club i support. but i suppose the daily struggle for survival in cold sweden has made you harder than that, hm? Bojan, if you don't mind me asking, are you a confident person with self respect...

Because he is not underperforming, he is playing at his current limits. If people give pique shit for playing several levels below his peak standards, they are mad because he has the potential but lacks focus and discipline, so his bad performance is largely self inflicted. Douglas...

i don't think the issue is that pep left or that he has goals beyond coaching barca. It's just when he says he never wants to coach fc barcelona again, that is quite a strong statement. He could have easily said "in the forseeable future", and everybody is satisfied, but when he explicitly says...

And that's the reason why i personally would never want mourinho to coach barca. he does everything to win, including antics that are morally disgusting. I'm quite surprised so many have already forgotten what real was like 2 years ago. every press conference a new conspiracy theory with...

true, but they were already champions at that point, which makes it more of a trolling of the other german teams than anything else. also, a lot of the players were probably "saving themselves for the world cup" what's the ol' cueball supposed to do about that? nothing, that's what.

I'm not disagreeing with you in principle, but isn't it also true that not even a quarter of the starting..."core" i guess, are actually la masia kids nowadays? I totally agree that luis enrique has yet to find/implement his system with this team. But the whole pathos about barca dna and...

the last three posts +1 a decline is what happened to fernando torres after 2010, in that case with an obvious reason in his knee injury and rushed surgery. a completely agree with dinhoR10, he displayed vision, tecnique, acceleration all not six days ago against ajax. He had imo one of...

eh, löw doesn't have to enforce such rules because the german players behave like that by default btw brazil is playing us in a friendly in three weeks time. and i'll have you know, we just entered the top 30 in fifa ranking for the first time in... before the second world war or something...

that is complete nonsense. of course there is a difference between throwing a balloon on the pitch and landing a flag with an extremely provocative political message to the home crowd. in hindsight the fss should have excluded all fans, not only the albanians and they are definitely to blame...

somehow, this fits so well into the whole direction the generation 2.0 is going. the jimmy jump of the future will be a fat troll on his coach with a remote If the brother of the prime minister really is responsible he's one of the most pathetic scumbags on the continent. Either the whole thing...

Even when he plays very badly, iniesta's one redeeming quality has been that he always tries to bring his a-game. being lazy is really the one thing iniesta can't be accused of. by the way, what a horrible award! it's a cool idea as a career recognition for the football legends, but don't give...

So, he could come to the board meetings wearing a real madrid jersey and drawing dickbutts all day and he'd still be on the payroll?

yup, pretty much. but in all fairness, i can completely understand that for him it was much harder to quit the national team after the world cup since he's synonymous with spain's debacle, much more than xavi, alonso or villa. He obviously wanted to retire on a more positive note, and i respect...

The local kids, for which these games are the only chance to watch their idols live in their prime, will disagree with you