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It was never even, but when the TV deals started being negotiated in 1996, Barcelona, Deportivo, Madrid and Valencia got something like 20-25 million, while the lowest earning clubs got something 5-10. For 6-7 years you had four teams who could win (and did win) the league every year, and many...

Here. Don't know if you understand Spanish, but all my sources on this matter are in Spanish, and this is the best one. Other clubs had no choice but to agree. Every club negotiated their own deal and with only one operator, therefore Barca and Madrid, being the most popular clubs, were always...

Pre 2004, pretty much every team earned the same; Deportivo actually had a great deal and won roughly the same as Barca, teams negotiated with different operators. In 2004, teams started negotiating millionaire deals with just one operator, with Barca/Madrid getting around 55 million and the...

If the current revenue sharing isn't changed... never. It's just impossible for anyone to beat Barca/Madrid to the title with the current distribution. Unless something changes, we'll never see a different champion. No, it shouldn't. The domination has little to do with Messi and Ronaldo and a...

Regardless of whether he's a great talent or not, why the hell did he win the Bronze Ball? There were several Barca players who were better than him in this tournament, him taking the Bronze Ball is baffling.

1 and 2- Xavi and Messi (really can't decide here) 3s - Andrés, Cesc, Busquets and Alves (they were all awesome, it's too hard to choose).

Muller >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Raul It's not close at all. Muller is one of the greatest scorers in football history and definitely an infinitely superior "fox in the box". And what if Raul has more European goals than him? He also played a lot more matches. His ratio is 0.47, while Muller's is...

--------------Neuer Alba---Thiago---Hummels---Lahm ---------Schweinsteiger-Touré ------Muller---Sneijder---Robben ----------------Aguero Why Neuer? Best keeper in the world at the moment. Alba? Very fast and solid defensively, needed to deal with Alves constant overlaps. Thiago and...

It is logical. They don't have the team to go all out against a full-strength Barcelona side. But I don't think they'll park the bus Mou-style, they'll just put more emphasis on defense and try to catch us on the break. They will not relinquish attacking, I think. They'll just be cautious, as...

It has the immediate effect of adding another international trophy to our cabinet. This shouldn't even be in discussion, a final is always infinitely more important than any single game in a 38-game league. Winning El Clásico is an amazing achievement for several reasons, but winning trophies is...

It is a lot more important. El Clásico was one game in a league with 38 games. Sunday's game is a final, decides a trophy. I think that our recent success has made people lose touch with how difficult and valuable winning a trophy (any trophy) is. With the unpredictable nature of football, for...

I hope this is a joke. How is a game that can give us an international trophy "not that big a deal"? It's the most important game of the season so far along with the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup. You might not realize this now, but you will when we go through a...

:rofl1: Come on, I like Silva a lot, he's a great player, but he'll never even come remotely close to Andrés. Some Premier League fans are really deluded. It does raise an interesting question, though. If lesser players like Silva, Mata or even Cesc look/looked so unplayable in the Premier...

Yeah, I'm assuming that we'll win the second Clásico, although I would by no means say it is a lock. That would in theory put us level with them, making the games vs the other teams decide the league. There are 63 more points left to play, and right now Madrid look more likely to get the...

Eh fair enough, I could have explained better. Claiming that we'll win the second Clásico and that Real remain in the pole position is no contradiction. Real are in the pole position because they are having a far easier time dealing with the other 18 teams so far. They have been better than us...

I don't think I did but if that's the case do let me know where the contradictions lie so I can clarify what I meant.

How so? I don't think it is very debatable that we've been performing way below the standards we set last season (even in El Clásico) and that unless we improve a lot we will not retain the league title. Last season we had lost 11 points after the second Clásico. This season we've lost 11...

This was a great victory, but I'm afraid Real Madrid are still in the pole position to win La Liga. We are clearly not as ominous as last season, when we trashed every team in our path from October to January and continued dominating afterwards. I kind of expected this, as I believed at the...

Oui, bien sûr. Le Français est ma deuxième langue, et l'Anglais ma troisième :D Tout le monde doit avoir au moins trois années de Français à l'école. So yeah, we do. English is the most people's second language around here, but everyone has at least three years of French at school, where we...

Hopefully Xavi.