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Taking a starting striker from Sporting in Portugal is a big risk. That league is really easy to score in and he's also playing for the best team in it, decent strikers will rack up tons of goals. For example, Seferovic scored like 30 in one league season for Benfica. Even if this guy turns...

There is a long-running rumour in Italian football that Atalanta ran a doping program since around 2017 or 2018. To keep it short, their team had/has incredible physicality and running numbers, and a couple of their players tested positive in 2022. I don't necessarily believe it but your post...

Then we should swoop, where's the harm in signing him for free. We can use him as a backup/rotation player first and evaluate his ability, if his transfer doesn't work out, he's young and we can get at least around 40m for him in a sale, though I think it could be more given the difficult...

Lewa is a better goalscorer though, a much more consistent one. Although we can't keep Lewa for much longer due to age his replacement needs to be a guaranteed top striker. I would love to bring Isak for rotation and to develop him into our starting striker, he's a great player, but Newcastle...

So what was the context? Is there an original interview?

Great - means we are on track for a league win and will not get grouped in the CL either.

What's important is that he's getting into a lot of scoring positions, which is the main thing you look for from strikers in terms of potential. He may be missing those big chances but the fact he's got the skills to get into position for a lot of big chances means that if his finishing...

I think what seems to have happened is Nayef stood on Lewandowski's boot and squished the front end of it, enlarging it, and that is why VAR got confused or the position is hard to model? Agree with you their decision was way too quick given the low quality of the evidence produced. Either...

There is a patch of green boot in the area you highlighted as Nayefs boot. I'm not saying you are wrong but it's true that this is not that clear from this angle.

Djimsiti is my countryman, his rise has been incredible. Started from the Swiss league and didn't play in a top league till about 25/26. In fact, he wasn't able to get a place in our Euro 2016 squad (a decision heavily criticised at the time though). Now he's being mentioned as one of the...

It's clear that the foot was incorrectly replicated, because if you look closely, in the replica, his foot is like half a meter long. If this was technology, that tech needs to be removed permanently, if it was human error, they shouldn't be refereeing any more in LaLiga. Let's see what happens.

I hope so, it's about time we became more cynical with protecting our players given how many injuries we've had recently. My only concern is it would require the player to be involved, but to be fair, something more vague like muscular fatigue is also a valid reason to rest a player and I...

Ah, I didn't get what you meant at first, I didn't see there was an injury announcement today, it's strange they would post so late. In that case injury would be most obvious reason, no point speculating about if it was a lie or not because we can never know.

Usually putting someone in the stands doesn't happen unless they're either injured or it's a disciplinary measure, because if Yamal was fit to play a little he would keep him on the bench at least to sub him on towards the end. So I agree with Barcaman that whatever happened there is probably...

Hopefully Laporta and the club will publicly demand explanations for the VAR debacle today because it's genuinely hard to explain how a 3d recreation can be that wrong. I struggle to believe in conspiracies usually but that image is absolutely laughable and those who created it to annul that...

I don't think it is that simple, and I definitely don't think any manager of a top club plans to win 1-0 every game, that is pathetic. It's also important for the confidence and chemistry of the players that they know how to attack and combine to score because that leads to sustainable...

He scored a very clearly legal goal, so I am not going to trash him for today as the comments would be very different if it had been allowed surely. The game opens up after that.

If Xavi was manager, would you be mentioning how Yamal was injured and they stole a legit goal from us? I think so, even under Xavi legitimate red cards by the players were excuses for the losses. This was a bad game but I wouldn't make too much of it because I don't think the team is as before...

That VAR decision is genuinely insane. https://x.com/ArchivoVAR/status/1855729367885795651 They literally created the 3d replicas of the players incorrectly, they thought Lewandowski's arm was Nayef's :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: Incompetence or corruption, whichever, this is absurd in a...

He's just nice to them, I think that's basically it. A lot was made about Xavi's relationship with the players but the reality is that he was blaming them for the losses after most games and you could see him shouting abuse at the players from the sidelines every so often. In particular there...