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I'm pretty sure MARCA gave it to Cristiano.

Xavi will be irreplaceable.

The thing about Sergio is that he makes what he does look so easy that many so-called football fans actually think it is easy, when it's anything but. His reading of the match is second only to Xavi's.

Not quite! But he's one of those players who has an innate understanding of the game. The subtle things he does, easily, in every match to help his team win is every coach's wet dream. People who don't understand his greatness don't understand football, in my opinion.

Pastore would not be a good buy. I think there are maybe 2-3 midfielders in the world who could plug right into Barça's midfield. Cesc is at the top of the list, then David Silva, maybe Santi Cazorla. It's not a question of talent, Pastore has tons of talent obviously, but in the videos you...

30 million is too much for a bench player, but you want to spend €40m for Cesc to come off the bench? Which is it? It's not £30m. it's €30m, which is around £23m. I think he's worth it, given his skills, age and his personality. If you have ever watched him play for Villarreal you will know...

Messi has easily been the most consistent player on the team this season, how do you think he managed 52 goals and 24 assists? He didn't score them all in one game!

LOL, I like the anteater meme..

It's really a situation that is open for interpretation. First of all it's clear that Ronaldo rolls over Mascherano's ankle, causing him to go down. At this point we have to ascertain if Piqué fouled Cristiano or not. I think that the contact between he and Piqué was pretty minor, but it could...

I can't remember Madrid's goal exactly but I thought it was Mascherano who made a bad decision and passed it out to a player (Pedro?) who was covered by two blancos. He even had time on the ball, Javier should have punted it up the pitch in that situation.

Jeffren is definitely a good fit for us as far as skill, speed and Masía training, but he has a fatal flaw: he is too injury prone. He started the match against La Real pretty strong, but he had a minor collision with a player in the second half and he looked like he was in pain or something and...

Oh brother. Nobody can tell what he says from that video clip, it's the Madrid Press that has spread the rumor that he called him a mono. If he did use a racial slur, Marcelo would have said something about it, don't you think? It's not like the Madrid players are keeping quiet about their...

Yes. I think at this stage in his career Carles needs to play less games, so Pep should use him intelligently. There's no need for him wear out his knees playing every match against Osasuna, Almería and Málaga. He's also the only player we have who can play all 4 defensive spots, so he'd be a...

Mediocre and expendable? I guess that's why he started in the CL final against Man Utd at age 20. I guess that's why the team was able to sell a beast like Yaya Toure for a profit and at the same time get better defensively with him in the line up. I guess that's why he started every match for...

Exactly right. Motta was playing wild that match. He had already received a warning, a yellow and he just kept on playing on the edge. Busquets was smart to go down when he caught him in the face with his hand. He was dumb to do the peekaboo though ;)

So far I think that Rafinha has not done anything to be rated over his brother, although he's very good as well. I think that Thiago needs to stay, because there are few other midfields in the world that play anything like ours; Villarreal, maybe. So he's only going to continue to grow the...

Totally agree. Like Xavi said, he's a little bit "puto", street smart. He draws fouls like nobody I've ever seen at his age, which is an art all by itself. In normal matches, he's very subtle, placing his body in the way of other players so that they are forced to plow into him, that kind of...

Mascherano is decent at CB, but he's still an emergency back up. I think that next season we should start a back line of Alves - Piqué - Abidal - Adriano. Honestly, as great as Puyol has been in the two clásicos, Abidal was fucking amazing when he was playing there during the captain's injury...

This is so ridiculous, Madrid has gone from the gentleman's club, to the anti-football club and now the club that tries to win by complaining to authorities. Pathetic.

No way is Afellay going to take Pedro's spot in the starting XI. The big difference is work rate and positional sense. Nobody on the team comes close to Pedro's work rate, although he's been playing injured since the Arsenal tie and it's slowed him down. Positioning is a big weakness for Ibi. I...