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Serious question, how can xavi influence that, other than by underperforming in trainings on purpose? If the coach decides to play him, that's that. And i'll be perfectly honest here, I'd rather watch xavi play for one more season and not be the 100 % super sharp team who wins all the titles...

First of all in terms of not being recognized by future generations, i'm far more worried about xavi tbh because the barca success will be linked to "messi/pep" and the spanish success will be linked to "tici taca/iniesta" because of the goal ursegor, i think it's a legitimate approach to base...

agreed, seems fabricated or at least blown way out of proportion. can you imagine him giving those nationalistic tirades "the catalans players hate you, all catalans hate spaniards, they are treacherous disloyal scum. yes, the catalans and the basques *notices xabi alonso standing next to...

I'm not saying you're wrong, but you should also consider that watching someone playing in an unfamilar position once or twice will not show you the extend of his potential. If i trust any play to adapt to a new position, it's busquets. He has the required technique and vision, but also the work...

and hell, don't use your left foot again. show some variety, for crying out loud!

imo, having cesc in our squad is still better than not having him. Once xavi really can't keep up anymore, I'll be glad to play cesc. he can't replace xavi, true, but who could, in all honesty? xavi will be missed and our play will have to adapt to that, no matter what. Cesc has his merits, he...

it's funny there is always a lot of talk about how dirty a player busquets is supposed to be, and you hear even barca fans say that he's an enforcer and a master of gamesmanship, but to be honest i never see that when he plays. I'd even say that his style of play which is based on timing and...

He was a hurrican of awesome today. also, i loved how physically aggressive he played. after the yellow card i thought he'd slow it down a bit, but the don was like "nope" and continued with the sliding tackles :lol:

I wouldn't say he was bad, he was just taken out of the game by atleticos superb effort. bad in my book means to squander chances, lose balls, make the wrong decisions. He still had some nice moments, so i don't really know what's with all the outrage. Was it his best game? no. Did he cost us...

I'd say the last 3 - 4 years have made it generally difficult to like players from real madrid from our point of view, but i rather blame one certain Jose Mourinho for all the gamesmanship and rough play than the players themselves. especially since i've seen most of them before madrid, or...

I loved messi's reaction after the goal, it was all like "dawww, i knew you could do it one more time, you pale magic man!" you can call me crazy, but i'm at a point now where seeing those guys playing fantastically like that and being happy is worth more to me than trophies or records.

He would have deserved to be spain's goal keeper this summer so much, not only for his great performance this season, but also for all the crap that he's been given all this years as being "barca's weak link" and for the fact that he was always very loyal and suportive to casillas and never made...

In that case, casillas would be incredible loyal to madrid to not have signed with another club in the meantime. Possible, but i think it's simply that diego lopez was performing so well, there was no reason to bench him for casillas, legend status or not. there's no doubt about who's the...

hmm to me at least there's nothing malicious about alonso's play. He's a premier league veteran and a basque in the bargain, so it's obvious he plays more physical, and he is pretty slow which explains why more often than not he clumsily hits a player. The foul on iniesta was just that, a badly...

I think it's save to say they are just as bad. or good depending on how you view it. it's biased sensationalist sport journalism, made entirely for the supporters of the respective teams, but apparently that's just what a lot of people want to read. but barca can't claim the morale high ground...

yep well written article. iniesta is tough as nails characterwise and he's also one of the mentally strongest professional athletes i've seen, he seems to be completely immune to pressure. btw, on the subject of why he shoots so well all of a sudden with his left foot: I always had the...

What i love about Iniesta, but basically every barca player, is that they "respond" when a team mate starts something like this, you know, just for the beauty of it. Same here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llr5PpALqeo That they can actually pull it off so skillfully at this speed is another...

I'd say sport sciences is possible for a football player. I dunno how much they train at barca per week but generally it is said that in comparison to other sports, football players train the least and earn the most ^^ There is also the fact that being a professional athlete has a nice synergy...

Those Brazilian fools! Don't they realize that was the spanish plan all along? Now spain has ditched the confed cup curse and brazil is doomed for 2014...

because it's no intelligent discussion when people say iniesta is like messi without the finishing skills (which is actually a compliment for messi) and you come along and say "wrong, he's also worse in dribbling than messi". it's like you cannot stand the thought that someone might not give...