Recent content by De Portago

It was more or less that throughout history, otherwise Ronaldo 2002 and especially Cannavaro 2006 would have never happened.

Well, modern football has tolerated Lionel Messi just fine. Now obviously it is a matter of personal opinion whether he belongs with the likes of players you have mentioned.

Putting Guardiola and Heynckes in the same sentence is just bonkers, one has spent 15+ years coaching top of the line teams and the other's career highlight is he ended up at Bayern twice during a period spanning almost forty years. There must have been a reason for that I guess.

Well, whomever wanted to upstage him then (or now, there's minimal difference) has a breeze of a job if all that is true. Get appointed as Manchester City manager and just reap the rewards. I wonder why Ancelotti for example didn't already come up with that.

They'd have to be absolute morons though, if I had to pick one player and call him the best in Barca currently that's him (not based solely on performance though, but a combination of talent, influence and contribution). They've made their share of cretinous blunders though historically so it's...

Well thanks for the honest opinion, for whatever it's worth I agree completely and I would have done the same. However the awards are political and arbitrary to a large extent and if one spends enough time following football one gets used to it to a certain extent unfortunately. My opinion as...

Yeah, the poor old Van Persie sending off, what a travesty it was. Let's disregard the fact that with a competent referee during the first leg Barcelona would have probably been 4-0 up during the first half in England. Honestly whenever somebody even mentions that sending off it is a literal...

Well Cannavaro won it even if he was practically on vacation throughout the whole 2006 disregarding the month WC took place? Is there any difference really?

Let me ask if I got this right. Javier Tebas (who very obviously hates Barcelona and goes against them within his professional purview every time he possibly can for whatever reason) has conspired to elect Soler (a former Barcelona VP) into the position of RFEF president? To what end may I ask...

The only plausible explanation for Barcelona conceding only six goals in the league with pharaoh Busquets starting every game and the revolving door of defenders featuring so far is some sort of voodoo magic. Perhaps Xavi found Zidane's stash lying around somewhere? :)

Well that's only natural and has nothing to do with bias, the longer he goes on being the player he currently is style wise, the less the people are going to remember that he was quite different once upon a time. If he wanted to be remembered as an elite dribbler, he could have retired when his...

That's absolutely brutal. And to think it was commissioned for TV boggles the mind.

Nope, Euro 2000 was easily his best tournament performance and worthy of all the accolades. 1998 and 2006 tend to be blown way out of proportion for various reasons.

Yet another Busquets masterclass in the making. It seems I overestimated him thinking that he can still be somewhat serviceable against weaker La Liga sides.

That falls under the category "damning with faint praise" unfortunately, I'd personally rather have Ancelotti than Xavi obviously but he still historically is a borderline atrocious league manager everything taken into account. Him being better than Xavi isn't really being much of a praise to be...