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Most prolific goalscorer doesn't necessarily mean better goalscorer. Higuain is more prolific goalscorer while Dybala is better goalscorer. In 1974 WC tournaments Muller was more prolific goalscorer while Cruyff was better goal scorer. In 1986 WC Lineker was more prolific goalscorer but Maradona...

Don't think so. Bale is the one who would leave considering his huge wage. Isco will be a winger or attacking midfielder.

Someone tell him this is not 1970s or 1980s where you can take the ball and run all the way towards the goal while the clueless "tough tackling" defenders eating grass in the name of two footed tackle. Just watch the space Maradona had and the clueless tackles from defenders against England. I...

I might have to disagree. Bayern under Pep and Heynckes are completely two different teams. Pep's Bayern is just excellent on paper and against mediocre teams. While, Heynckes Bayern is similar to Lucho's 2015 Barca and current RM. And regarding RM, you might estimate them based on their league...

People want to sell Rakitic? Yes, according to them Rakitic is crap, Pique is crap, Roberto is crap but still we have the best defensive stat in Europe only because of umtiti. I have to remind everyone that the toughest game we played in this season had Vermaelen and Pique in defense and not...

Also important is how much contribution Ronaldo has on the goal. A rough estimation would be Messi's contribution 90% and Ronaldo's contribution is 10%. Ronaldo scored a lot in CL knock out stages doesn't imply he's more influential than Messi in CL knock out stages.

The concern is not about Physical players. All your posts are insisting the contribution of physical players. The original post of mine and Messi CAM is not about Physical players. It's about Paulinho. What does he exactly does apart from those 8 liga goals? Most of those who criticize Paulinho...

For Manchester United and PSG money is the only factor for world class players to play. Not for Barca, Bayern and Real. It's not like Bayern is offering him. Infact, they would never offer such a wage for Umtiti. Playing for Manchester and Barca cannot be comparable at all for a footballer's career.

Nzonzi is what valverde advocates think Paulinho is. But he certainly is not.

True to some extent. But it says how good Alcacer has been now. And we shouldn't count on Dembele yet. He needs 3 more years to become a proper world class player as Asensio, Correa and Dybala.

This has been repeated here more often. This is a misguided opinion about Alcacer. He has been very good in the last few matches he played. Valverde can never claim himself as youth developer considering how little Alena has played and Samper wasn't even given chance.

I might have to disagree. Ronaldinho and Kaka both won one ballon d'or but not considered as same. I've never seen anyone who've put Platini or Zidane or Cristiano over Cruyff in their all time greatest rankings. Even though Cristiano has won 4 Ballon d'ors while Messi just had 1 can you...

On paper they were great. But not really. Pep's Bayern was outlclassed by RM, Barca and Atletico. They scrapped their win against Juventus too. Real Madrid were very poor under Ancelloti despite their very good squad. Juve even though is stronger, is nothing compared to the RM, Bayern and City...

This is the actual question of my original post, asking what he exactly does that makes him a starter. No one other than Joan Laporta has answered it.

Add to that Arthur, De Jong, Hazard (possibly for Madrid). La liga would be invincible in terms of quality. Valverde would still play Paulinho though :(

Not necessarily be true. Falcao, Costa, Correa, Griezmann are the examples. Simeone is excellent at developing players.

But both of them play similar position as a secondary striker. Also, if they buy Dybala to replace Griezmann they would buy few more players considering that his wage is less than that of Griezmann. As you said, it would be really good to see Atletico emerging as super power with three world...

It's good that he goes for attacking passes, considering that our team is dependent solely on Messi for chance creation. But he should be a substitute in La Liga matches and he's not ready yet for Champions League knock out stages.

True. In addition to be improving under Simeone, Dybala can massively profit by playing in the best league. I like Dybala. He's the only footballer at the moment whose left foot shot is as lethal as of Messi. Both holds the record for most goals from outside the box for this season.