The point about Messi 'stat padding' is that argument only came about with Neymar scoring goals...coincidence? I dont think so.
That was only a few weeks saying he shouldnt go five games without a goal as its his job to score goals.
Anyway if this team wins/loses it is on them as a group as a whole and not just on the boots of the new players.
Please, I really have to go
I wasn't here 2-3 years ago to post that Messi is also statpadding.
I wasn't interested in checking numbers until Ney started to score too much and get too much praise for his Goals.
Even though, Ronaldo's 40-50 league goals were always too suspicious for me.
So, yes, I checked only because of Ney, and since then my opinion is that goals from ALL La liga's and similar current leagues are not realistic anymore.
It is not stat padding if you score against big teams is it? If you compare how often he scores against big team against another player of same age. You would be surprised how good neymar actually is. Not saying he is messi good, but he sure deserves doesn't deserve the hate if barca somehow loses.
To be honest, world football is not too reach with world class attackers currently, so Ney surely is the best, I agree.
Also, Ney is by far the best Brasilian player, but again, is it because he is sooo good or because this is the worst Brasil side since 1982 and 1986?
Also, I am not actually "hating" him that much.
I am more pissed with overhyping how he is soooo good.
You know how CR7 is a good player, but not as good as Real's fans think that he is.
So, we, Barca fans are pissed of with unrealistic Madrid's fans.
The same is with me and Ney.
Our fans are overhyping him the same as Madrid's fans with CR7.
Ney is good, I agree.
Ney is awesome.
But some posts here are over the top.
Again, even I, as a Neyhater thinks that he is in top5 players in the world.
But I expect more from him, and I want trophies, and not only youtube videos and meaningless La liga goals and goals in 1/8 and QF of a CL.
Again, I can't force you to slightly lover the love for Neymar.
You also can't force me to "praise" him even more.
But since 90% of people here are, imo, slightly overatting him, there is no point in fighting.
Again, I just posted what he needs to do for me, to get some love and praise.
And look at this, we can easily fill the 20 pages in the next 3-4 hours with: but why this, why that and 100s of offtopic comparisons and analysis.
Please, nooooot again