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This guy not only looks like the real deal (already beating several Bundesliga records) but also a self-confessed cul?. Will likely cost a fortune but the club has to keep a close track of him.

I really don?t like the local rumors of Jordi Cruyff (talk about being relevant mostly due to your surname alone), a long-term friend and compatriot of Koeman apparently persuading Laporta not to fire Koeman. The current setup at the club appears to be rather chaotic from the outside in the...

Curious to see how a legend like Jes?s Velasco will improve the team. The team should be competing for every title again and as usual (recent years) the Portuguese teams (Sporting and Benfica) are likely to be the greatest rivals in the Champions League.

If there were ever a perfect season in any team sport to date last season probably was it. Winning every single trophy that the club competed for (6) while winning every single game in every competition is insanity regardless of the domestic competition as no other team had ever won all their...

It has been great to witness the turnaround of the team since the arrival of Saras. A EuroLeague title (always a shame losing in the final) away from registrering the perfect season. In other news Pau Gasol just announced his retirement. The greatest Spanish player of all-time and one of the...

Not everything is doom and gloom. Depending on what the general assembly will entail there are plenty of reasons for optimism in the immediate future as well. For starters the financial situation of the club, while serious, is not irreversible. As I recall Laporta presented 1350M+ of gross...

Busquets had his fair share of good to great performances in the spring (indeed) as did the entire team as a whole. Not a coincidence. However none of those performances occured against the heavyweights in the league. His performances in the CL (as usual) are better left ignored. The main...

What is exactly the agenda of denying the obvious decline of Busquets? His level has been declining each season since the 2016-17 season and he has been a constant problem in our neverending CL humiliations in the past 4.5 years with no exception. This is obviously not solely the fault of...

Since 2017. Just added that before your reply. Yes, Neymar is the greater talent, had the higher career peak (MSN and all), is the bigger brand, won many more trophies etc. Which makes his decision to go to QSG and him flopping for club and country ever since even more tragicomic. The fool...

Salah is not lacking media exposure at all, lol. He is a huge figure in the Arab/Muslim world and the main star of Liverpool which is a heawyweight in terms of having a truly global fanbase. Sporting wise he has been way ahead of Neymar since 2017. Anyway exposure should not matter at all...

Atl?tico has the strongest squad in the league by some distance (IMO) and only injuries and the usual overly conservative chicken-shit tactics of Simeone away from home (mostly) against minnows will prevent them from winning the league again. De Paul should be a great addition to their midfield...

Man City and Pep will likely win the league for the fourth time in six years. They have had the by far toughest schedule so far and Chelsea’s lead amounts to just 2 points. They have already played against Tottenham, Chelsea and Liverpool away from home 7 games into the league. A Haaland away...

The club won’t be converted into a SAD as that would require the socis to willingly relinquish the current ownership model. Something that I for instance would never agree to along with the vast majority of socis. However what I could see happening, in a worst case scenario, is that an external...

Another Spain-Italy high-profile game on paper. A win-win situation one way or another although a final match would have been preferable. I expect the end result to be the same as during the EURO’s. My gut feeling tells me that Belgium will win it. In any case this Nations League tournament is...

They will walk Ligue 1 as expected but the CL is always a lottery and it would surprise me if PSG could pull it off. It is still early days but they were thoroughly outplayed by Man City. Helps having a freak of nature such as Donnarumma in goal obviously. They will struggle a lot against...

I am yet to watch a single minute of Messi in action outside of the Man City match. I can?t make myself cheer for an despicable and insecure club like QSG and the whole idea of Messi wasting his time in the Ligue 1 does not sit well with me. The divorce was not pretty and unfortunate but in...

What are you blabbering about? Busquets and Piqu? are done at the highest level as I see it. The ‘sufflering’ is their own fault by large. They are both, contrary to their own hypocritical public discourses, unwilling to step aside when the time has been ripe for doing so. You have to be out...

The current version of Busquets is a pain to watch given his prior performances, achievements and arguably legendary status. For starters he is 10 times slower in terms of thought-execution and the less is said about his athleticism (which was never his forte to begin with) the better. He has...

Indeed. There is no other sane explanation than Koeman?s potential sacking having unwanted financial implications. At least to a degree. However the longer the current unsustainable situation is allowed to continue the bigger the long-term damage, sporting as well as financial (ironically), will...

PTSD fraud in goal. Might as well line up with a small unmovable concrete block in goal from now on. Not fit to even clean the boots of Neuer. Can’t stand the guy (the goalkeeper that is, not the person) quite frankly. Yet to learn how to command his goalkeeping area and now with messed up...