My bad about Xavi retiring from the NT..but Xavi did played through pain just liked he is playing now through pain and like he played in 2010 through pain(and there were more than rumours..there were also some statements from Zubi, Pep and Tito but I didn't think to save them at that time)...
Tello and Montoya shouldn't have complained, true..but Pique is also the last one to talk after the way he left Barca(and the scandal his grandfather did at the time) and the way he reacted after Pep benched him vs Leverkusen.
And what way is that? I thought that they only said that they might...
He also said:
"People shouldn't compare with the past, with the team that won 6 trophies in one year. As Tito said, we'd lose every comparison."
I guess Pique didn't saw Bartomeu's interview last night..
Also I wonder why barcastuff didn't translated this:
Piqué: "Creo sinceramente que cada...
I think Reina is a done deal..and until now I thought that we will also buy a young GK. But yesterday Bartomeu said that only one GK will come so I don't know what to believe anymore.
Why has the man who said to a referee to go party with Barca players won an award for Fair-Play?
According to Tebas, LFP's president, that was the most important prize. So..
1. Xavi is playing right now as much as he played 3 years ago, so like I said you don't know that Thiago would have been a starter be next season.
2. The one that wanted to retire was Puyol, not Xavi..so yes, I can't still make fun of his comments of "playing better when he plays every 3 days"...
Today VV is the best GK, in 2009 he was succeeding at Barca because he was catalan. I dislike Pepe Reina so much that I would rather see Pinto as our GK next year than him.
He also said that this team has evolved since Pep left and that Barca can win as many trophies as we did when Pep was the...
I've picked those 5 specific games because you said that Thiago wasn't benched in meaningless games, when in fact in the most meaningless games of the season an injured Xavi played before him.
This is a whole other discussion and I've already said my opinion on that.
Nothing, but absolutely...
But he was..after the games against Bayern in CL:
01/06 2013 Barcelona H- Malaga La Liga W 4-1 On 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26/05 2013 Barcelona A- Espanyol La Liga W 0-2 Started 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19/05 2013 Barcelona H- Valladolid La Liga W 2-1 On 63 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
12/05 2013 Barcelona A- Atletico La...
I honestly can't understand what Lahm has to do with our discussion about Song and Xavi..or Mascherano for that matter, who was bought to replace Yaya, not to play as a CB.
I was sure that you would bring up that game..his only world class performance after the game against Santos and it came...
What hindsight? Song was never a CB and Xavi hasn't been the same since the CWC final against Santos and in the last 2 seasons he had problems with his knees in the 2nd half of the season.
Tito played an injured Xavi over Thiago at the end of last season and Iniesta is not a CM and he will...
Pep said in that spot with Fernando Trueba that EVERY footballer needs to be treated differently and even "manipulated" so that you can bring the best out of him(from the 6th minute):
I can't believe that someone that wrote a book about Pep wouldn't know something like this. :rolleyes:
And...