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Amazing, did not know Reus was drafted to Puig's team! Will be even more fun to watch. I do not really enjoy his lack of defensive work to be quite honest, but him and Reus will surely combine very nicely offensively, it will be fantastic to watch! I also remember those pictures with Reus and...

Curious, what is your team?

When Zidane was the best, consensus was that physicality would become more and more of a necessity, even for the play makers (a need to be 1.85+ and so on, they speculated). Then came Xavi-Iniesta domination, Modric etc. The meta changes all the time and tends to go in waves or circles :)

I mostly agree, but at the same time, that Barcelona team of 2008-2012 or something was so great because they had very few specialists, it was almost as if they daringly said no to this "need of specialists". It was very synergistic though, they all made each other much better, because they kept...

It is not everything, but it is very much! Especially environment though, they are so, so dependent on it. Xavi said it about himself, he was nothing without his team mates (he couldn't dribble and so on), and his career path is really telling as well, the way it turned around when he was 28...

Hm, I believe you both (ajnotheith and Maradona37) seem to make good, if a little trivial, points. Although I mostly skimmed through your posts here tbh. I believe it is much more interesting to see your analyses regarding the player, his games, the potential thought processes of those who has...

Some of the most stupid posters here and elsewhere would compare him to these athletic americans with perhaps a better 30m dash and stuff like this and say he is a bit slow - despite st. Johan having told them already 30 years ago that it is all about when you start your run etc. I mean they...

Just look at that pass from the last game that was linked ITT (in this thread) and ask yourself how often you see passes like that, on ANY level. It doesn't happen that often, and this was from Puig, one of FC Barcelonas (the team most of you claim to support) own products. If Puig has some...

Please remind yourself again that I hold Xavi as the no 1 midfielder of all time. Of course he could play much more creatively and more daring if he wanted to, but he didn't, especially not in his greatest years. His assists in those years came as a result of him not looking for the final ball...

He of course wasn't, at least not since after Rijkaard. It is mostly a stylistic trait, though. Check how many times Xavi got the ball in those games, how many players of brilliant quality he had in front of him, how many goals Messi scored and so on. The amount of assists say close to nothing...

Yeah, Cescs flaws were very apparent then (a lovely player of course, and him getting the false 9/10, often in tandem with Messi, was a bit genius). Back then, I thought that Thiago should maybe get a little bit more playing minutes on Iniestas behalf. He was less sloppy with the ball but just...

I am not waiting for any transfer. I enjoy watching these clips where he makes brilliant stuff every week over there. I don't care about the level. Since you didn't seem to understand what was stupid about your post, it was comparing assists with Xavi.

I felt you were sometimes almost as vicious and angry as some of the worst posters on this forum, but I never thought you were as stupid.

Xavi was almost perfect (and perhaps a bit boring), Busquets was a genius while making no errors almost, and Messi too of course. Alves was creative while having a low error percentage, and players like Pedro, Villa and Maxwell were very competent and rarely looked silly. Iniesta attempted a lot...

In hindsight it looks a little bit silly to have complained about Iniesta, but back then we had pretty much the perfect team and not so much else to be annoyed about. He was perhaps the one with the best technique and vision (apart from Messi) but made a lot of silly mistakes, because he played...

Agree completely, but with Iniesta I often felt he was a little bit sloppy, especially in his later years. A genius but a bit too fearless for me sometimes. They are three great players :)

Hm perhaps apart from Xavi v Iniesta I agree with him on every question. I wonder if it's about personal stuff...

Yeah, I think Puig unironically could improve that team when at his best, by subbing Villa and putting Iniesta at LW, sometimes. If I was to build an improved 2012 squad, I think I'd have Puig there, in order to have the option for that tactical switch with a bit more control up front and more...

I enjoyed Thuram as well. He had some of that calmness that Pep later got out of Abidal, I think he was truly a good player, even after his physique was gone, and perhaps we can make a case for him taking a CB spot in 2012 Barcelona when he was in his prime? I remember (although I was pretty...

Perhaps you were a bit curious to see Zambrotta and Thuram, too? Of course they were not in their prime then (as Buffon wasn't neither), but I believe it was the right decision to let Valdes play, I believe he did better than Buffon would've. Both faster off his line, better with the ball, and...