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didn't you ask that question before? I root for German teams internationally. I feel like I should include this in my signature proactively considered how often it is being asked. uhh.. thanks?

as smug as i may sound, this was Barca at their recent best Bayern at their recent worst. The best chance you had in a decade, and in fact you outplayed them fairly and should've won, but it wasn't enough. It may just not meant to be.

zanela After his 2nd goal the immediate thing he did was to run over to Demb?l? to thank him as he played the pass that Lewandowski was demanding the whole time. Link: https://streamff.com/v/7morce Now on the other 2 goals, those were basically all him. It's not really the norm to hype a...

isnt he.. im happy u guys get to see the dude isnt some polish tapin lord. Hes a complete package, with elite discipline and motivation and you can be assured that dude wont slack off anytime soon. You have a striker at 34 that wants to play till 40.and does everything to keep his level.

I think shitting on Haaland on barcaforum is a massive waste of peoples time. Because chances are this thread is up every week cause he scored another 2-3 goals, and you'll be here every time defending yourself ellaborating about how you meant it totally different and how you're still somehow...

Haaland struggling with 9 goals in 5 games.

Yes, but the original comment that gave birth to the argument we had was "Mid 2000's was a much higher quality period for football compared to today" and not "would 2011 Barca stomp todays teams". He used 2011 Barca just as an example to make a point and I disagreed with it.

Aside from Barcelona there's 97 other professional football clubs in the top 5 leagues. When I say "football evolves" I mean that the average quality of the sum (aswell as the avarage quality of all the others) has naturally progressed from 2011, as it has also done so throughout any decade for...

You really just have to look at the 2003/2004 season to see a CL KO round that will never repeat.

You are looking at 10 years of football in which I'd say around 6-7 super clubs exist and you named idk 10 games in all that time in which this larger pool of consistent teams to pick from got upset. How is that not cherrypicking? Why ignore all the other games and the obvious trend? Without...

You are talking about teams having bad days in R16s or quarterfinals. These aren't new, nor are they sustainable. Which is why these teams that have done the upsets did not go on to play in the final. That still happened regularly in the 2000s. Noone is arguing big teams never lose. But there's...

They are different, which is why the "historical argument" makes no sense here. City and PSG have the 1st and 2nd most valuable squad in world football, Chelsea is No 5, they are/were the favourites to win. Leverkusen, Porto, Marseille, Dortmund etc were not even close to something like that...

But you can clearly see that there has been a consistent concentration at the top, because top teams just are better now. Ancelotti's Milan spend more time outside the top 3 in Italy than inside it. They won the CL twice, but they were certainly no all time great side, just like the Galacticos...

Heynckes Bayern from the 2000s? You mean with Van Buyten and Demichelis in defense? Well yeah, I'm sure they'd have fun defending Mane, Sane, Coman and co. No, but that is because it's only 10 years rather than 20 years ago. The CL winner Bayern from 2001 would probably lose to todays Bayern...

Agreed, the 2000s was a decade full of individual wonders and flair and beauty which is why people nostalgically reminisce it as the best era. The problem is though that those magicians would be eaten alive today by modern pressing machines. There's no "scarcity of individual talent", whoever...

Cheerleader effect. Half of the names are your average top team players today.

What is this based on? Every decade football has evolved from a physical and infrastructural point. Much more kids also playing the sport than 20 years ago, meaning the pool from where the best players emerge is much bigger and competetive than back then. This is generally a theme for any sport...

You already know this kid gonna end up at 30-35+ goals in the league alone but his thread will still tryna defend how he doesnt stepover enough.

has to be scripted at this point. its them hot balls

players are employees at first and the way I see it Braithwaite is 31 and entering the last 2 years of his lifes greatest payday. Nothing that comes after it will come close, let alone top it. Meaning that Barca holds no leverage here and there is not a single argument speaking as to why...