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Well he was incredible in Italy when the league wasn't yet in decline and still competitively. Already the best in the world there. Has been incredible every time he played Barca as well. Remember his last minute header with Milan at the Camp Nou or his excellent performance in 12/13 in PSG's...

But those are very rare or due to unusual circumstances tbh. TS' development was halted for many years due to sickness for example.

Not for me. I feel we can do better than that.

Shame his first goal was offside.

Best, second best... Doesn't matter. One hell of a player, fits Barca like a glove. But lets hopelessly chase Verratti in the summer instead. :facepalm:

Other than subbing out Neymar it's hard to fault Lucho for anything tbh. This time individual mistakes cost us, not bad tactical decisions.

That's pretty much his role though. He's basically stripped of any creativity and only placks as a 'blocker' to occupy the two CBs. Ofc he has to be better at converting his chances but his general play is what the coach wants him to do.

His mistake started giving Sevilla hope. They were practically dead until they scored that fluke goal.

Enter the next scapegoat, it seems.

Hopefully it'll turn out like pretty much every other match against an Emery team. They take the lead and we somehow come back to win the match from behind.

A bargain if true. Wait for Barca to hopelessly go after him in 2016. Another player our club doesn't seem to know.

Sounds like a certain Italian player :pep: Full interview here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/managers/jose-mourinho/11519921/Jose-Mourinho-I-have-a-problem.-Im-getting-better-at-everything.html A bit long but quite fascinating read. Some very thoughtful reponses, especially that...

You mean young players like Di Maria or Higuain who were sold when they were about the same age as Cesc or Alexis? We got about 40M for Alexis but gave Arsenal 15M back a few weeks later for nothing, so 25M is about right.

We sell: Alexis for 25M Fabregas for 30M Ibrahimovic for 25M Villa for 2M (Pedro for 15M?) while Madrid sell: Di Maria for 75M Morata for 20M Özil for 50M Higuain for 40M Albiol for 15M 'cuz that's how we roll. :masip:

Good match. Looks like a real alternative in home matches against smaller teams, in order to rest Busquets. If he keeps it up, I'd rather much prefer Roberto in DM than Mascherano. Way better in ball circulation and movement. Although having Xavi helps massively as well.

Overrated, but unfortunately will always be a legend because of 'that' goal... He can do an Özil and no one will really care.

Yeah, typical. At least Bayern won't get home advantage when they play Bielefeld :lol:

Another poor game in terms of actual build up play...

Hopefully we won't overpay for him. About 10M would sound reasonable, considering that Torino isn't really a big club. I can see us overpay though, and spend more than 20M.

How much would he cost? Not really sure if he's really good enough to be a permanent starter for us... With 26 he isn't the youngest either, although not too old.