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Can you make it clear that Suarez has far eclipsed anything Thierry Henry achieved in his career? Remember not to let your nostalgic feelings get the better of you.
Even Dinho struggled to make Barca successful before likes of Etoo, Deco were added (Davids in a loan spell also played a role in turning them around). But yes, the overall quality of Barca was poorer than it is now, that is well reflected by the trophy hauls of the 2 eras. Barca team that won the CL under Dinho was still the best in Europe for about 3 seasons.
In addition to Puyol, Deco, Xavi, Iniesta, Henry (last season) and Eto'o.
Those 3 wiped the competition clean last season playing some of the most outstanding football Barca have played in years, these 3 put the whole Madrid dream team to shame apart from zidane, in history hard to say, but the past few decades Barca's current front 3 I would rank them has the best, because of the longevity these 3 can have in the next few season's to come of atleast 2 to 3 season's, possibly another CL or 2, and certain la liga titles are the for the taken for Barca
Henry-Eto'o-Messi were incredible, but personally I'd only have them as the 3rd best Barcelona front three of the last decade. The current trio plus Villa-Messi-Pedro (2010/11) are ahead in my view - if we're talking about collective performances rather than individual ability.
If they perform to their best they won't be stopped in Europe. No team is perfect though, they just need an off day (or an injury crisis) and they'll be knocked out.
There's always a fine line between being eliminated from the Champions League and going through. Even last season in the final, after Juventus equalised, they were on top for the ten minutes following their goal. They could have scored again and won the cup despite Barcelona dominating the other 80 minutes.
I don't think it's nailed on. They've not been all that impressive in la liga this season dropping plenty of silly points. Their defending seems worse than last season and that will be key to whether they can be stopped. They'll fancy their chances against everyone of course, but I don't think they look invincible right now. I thought Jan 15 to May 15 was far more impressive and when they truly looked unstoppable.
You seem to forget how stronger the top clubs are now relative to 15 years ago or longer. They can now call on almost endless resources and stockpile the best players like never before. Plonk Ronaldo into an attack alongside Messi with midfield support from Iniesta and Busquets, rather than the likes of Benoit Cauet and Ze Elias, and watch the carnage.
I don't get that vibe from Neymar, I think he will be much more consistent than Ronaldinho.
Suárez' 2013/14 at Liverpool is the only one out of those 5 seasons you mention that could be argued to come close to or perhaps even match Ronaldo's 1996/97, in my opinion. Their other seasons are a level below (though probably on par with Ronaldo's 1997/98), I feel -- Neymar this season was on course to having an equally impressive season as Ronaldo's and Suárez' best, but he's dropped off a bit in the past month.
Never really played as a front three...
(probably not when they were at Milan 
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In fact we speak in terms of BPN and APN (before Philip Neville and after Philip Neville)
This was in April the 16th last season. Currently the trio is at 100 goals at the beginning of March.
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That's a misleading title! Excellent goals no doubt but that's far from the best 'counter attack' goals I've seen and I'm sure MSN themselves have scored better counter attack goals than the ones in that video. Few of them wouldn't even fall under the category, let alone being anywhere near something like this:
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could argue Raúl-Morientes and Zidane, more so than Del Piero-Inzaghi and Zidane
Some awesome front fours (Zagallo-Pelé-Vavá-Garrincha, or Rivelino-Tostao-Pelé-Jairzinho, or Boniek-Rossi-Bettega with Platini behind them) and fives before that.
It is largely correct to say the great teams moved from front 5s to front 4s, then suddenly dropped to 2/or 1-2, and 3 has been more common since the 00s.
