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It was all about Ronaldinho, he brought the magic back to the Camp Nou.

No, that's not right. Players can have an impact on all pretty much areas of income. More people might come to the matches to watch them. More people might support the club and want to watch them enabling the club to sign better tv rights deals. Maybe more companies would be willing to pay more...

It's hard to measure the impact of a single player. But you can see the annual revenue, and Madrid have increased theirs significantly and consistently every year. In that respect the overall financial strategy has paid off, although how much of that is because of Galacticos and how much is...

It's working great so far :tito:

Judging by previous experience in the Champions League, we won't win away to Milan. We've failed to that with Messi in the team, this includes against the likes of Milan, Inter, Lyon, Chelsea, Liverpool and more. Counter-intuitively, a Barca without Messi might even get a better result, since a...

The only thing I hope is they don't rush him back for the Clasico and he gets injured again.

Next 3 league games: Vallodolid(home) Osasuna(away) Real Madrid(home) I definitely expect them to beat Vallodolid at home. Osasuna away might be a bit tricky and El Clasico will be interesting. I would say 98% chance of getting to 8 wins, 68% to 9 wins and 38% of setting a new record of 10 wins...

Maybe we could just keep quoting for weekly or monthly giggles ...

No Neymar, Messi getting injured, Xavi starting on the bench, weak opponent, Champions League away game coming up, comfortable victory and record-breaking Liga start for the club, it's fine. Apart from maybe the fact that when Xavi isn't playing, yes they do need someone to take responsibility...

My alternative theory on the injuries is that he's reduced his workrate and is just standing or walking around. This has an advantage of reducing the stress on his stamina but this will cool his body and tighten his muscles. So then when he does explode into action and burst into a sprint he's...

He made a few errors but he seemed to improve and increase in confident as the game progressed. In fact by the end he seemed fairly assured and not out of place.

He got the assist and Barca had complete control of the game. It was just like watching Spain. Cesc is just fine at false 9. If he has Neymar to supply he'll be even better.

I would disagree certainly in saying that he's average in attack. For a left back he is pretty good, his shooting is amazing and he can also get in the box to score the odd goal. He also has an excellent, excellent mentality and he can score the big goals when the team needs them. Defensively he...

He did ok, he had a couple of good dribbles to the byline and getting balls in. Passing and ball control was a bit rough (a lot of the team seemed to do that though). Pressing and off the ball movement was good as usual. Definitely more confident than he was a year ago.

I think Tello is going to be sold either this summer or next. Either Deulofeu progresses enough to be at least fourth choice or Barca might look to bring someone else in.

Exactly. And the Pique error was at 3-0 up and a mere consolation goal rather than a sign of Sociedad fighting back effectively.

World cup 86, in place of Maradona.

After Cesc rejected their approach, English club Man United made this summer a 13M bid for Barcelona midfielder Sergi Roberto (21). [latdp] Sorry if this shits on the thread, but this is too funny. :lol:

I'm referring to when they talk about refereeing of Madrid games. As for on pitch talking to refs, every single team does that.

Yeah, but that's what I mean. Pep was reported to be unhappy with how the board/Rosell were not defending him and leaving him to do the dirty work which he didn't want to do. The players also would tow the diplomatic line and say the refs have a difficult job or similar. This made it safe for...