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He's pretty low on the list for me. I don't think in fifty years time we'll even remember Neymar, nor talk about him alongside the really great players in Brazilian history. He has a lot of goals for Brazil, yeah, but everyone is stat padding in international football nowadays and records are...

I think it's fine to be pissed with the club for not signing a replacement forward, but selling Suarez specifically wasn't a mistake. He was performing extremely poorly for us, it's total hindsight to say 'look what he did elsewhere' when none of what he's done at Atletico this year was apparent...

If he stayed at Barca we just wouldn't have seen this Suarez. He'd become fat and complacent - Barca showing him the door motivated him to prove us wrong, and good for him. Regardless of what he's done at Atletico, we made the right decision to sell. You can only make choices based on current...

While it certainly would have been nice to have a president just stand up and take responsibility and say "Barca will work out our debts, even if we'll have a few rough years", this is top level football. Everyone's an opportunistic POS, Laporta included. That's why they voted him over Font -...

100%. All of this "better for football" stuff is total BS, they're just trying to save their own skin. We both deserve to go into insolvency and in some way, even as a Barca fan, I hope we do. Yesterday summed it up perfectly, when Real signed Alaba on a five year deal, and Barca continued...

It's disappointing but we probably shouldn't be surprised. At the end of the day, both Barca and Madrid are over 800 million euros in debt. Laporta is a politician and a pragmatist, so he's doing the only thing he can to get us out of the hole. All that being said, this is why I wanted Font...

I can appreciate all of this, but at the same time, don't you think that Barca and Madrid have created that situation themselves? We've cannibalised and monopolised the league to such an extent, that it's almost impossible for other genuinely competitive sides to grow. Sevilla and Valencia have...

The financial situation being that Barca and Madrid have run themselves into apocalyptic levels of debt, by making terrible financial decisions for over a decade. Not just in terms of transfers and contracts, but also in monopolising the league - to the extent that nobody is watching anymore...

Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but given how enormously they miscalculated what the reaction in England would be, it's questionable as to whether they even did their due diligence. Perez and Agnelli were spot on about Spain and Italy - they did nothing - but they were so far off base here. If...

You could put it that way, I suppose...Boris is an awful, opportunistic person, but he's still the Prime Minister of the UK, and when so much of the country is so viscerally united against one common cause, he's pretty much obligated to get involved (whether that represents an opportunity to...

It wasn't as transparently terrible as ESL, no. Big Picture was pretty horrendous but they tried to hide plenty of the aspects behind the veneer of giving Championship Clubs and lower league teams more money. In Big Picture, the only teams getting shafted were the other 14 sides in the Premier...

Agnelli still doesn't get it, maybe none of them do. If you're going to blame Boris, then just point the finger at the entire UK, because there was no way they were gonna let this go down without a fight (unlike Spain, who just shrugged and bent over for Papa Perez like normal). It's not about...

Since we still have to vote - what are the chances that we don't actually join this league? I mean it is up to the socios at the end of the day. Most likely Laporta will just swing it as saving us from extinction, but there is still a chance...no?

If it does come down to a vote, unfortunately I think the sheer amount of money (3.5 billion euros) is going to swing it. Laporta will just sell it as saving us from destruction (which I guess to an extent it is) and the socios will vote yes. So 99% we're in.

When it comes to Barca, do the socios get a vote first before we join any such league? I know we've "signed up" but surely it can't go through unless there's a vote. Or, am I completely off the mark?

Really good post. I remember that season like it was yesterday, and it did very much feel like a modern tragedy. Two quotes from The Barcelona Legacy, by Jonathon Wilson (amazing book by the way, highly recommend) basically sum it up for me: 'There was a weariness about Barcelona towards the...

Does anyone else just find this to be one of the most baffling transfer sagas of all time? I know good defenders are hard to come by these days, but we're so in on this random fifth choice CB for City. He's played 16 games for them in total, and in none of those games has he ever looked like the...

[Bartomeu has held the position for two terms but he will nominate a continuity candidate who is close to the incumbent and comes from a side of the clubs board which is viewed as more conservative.] Like I said before, if we kick Barto out then he just gets to pick whoever is in charge till...

I thought it was okay - not too disheartened. Sevilla are a good team and even if we should be beating them (especially at home) it's going to take time for everything to come together. Biggest negatives would be that Griezmann really just looks totally lost and out of place (I can't really...

Imo it's the latter. I don't think he's a bad kid, but he joined a team that had 3 or 4 days off a week and numerous holidays, which only exasperated his bad habits. Young players need guidance, and he got none of that from Ernie, and none of that from our unprofessional, lazy, seniors. Of...