Is it necessary to talk about Ole in every thread. It's like if someone says X the manager has flaws, but Ole is worse.It is his fault. He’s a better coach than Ole though. Ole would have Leipzig midtable.
Is it necessary to talk about Ole in every thread. It's like if someone says X the manager has flaws, but Ole is worse.It is his fault. He’s a better coach than Ole though. Ole would have Leipzig midtable.
Pedri the worst of the lot unless he's playing world champions Alaves.Pedri is
Pedri has been brilliant, Puig has not been given the minutes he deserves (Koeman has a weird dislike of of him) and Trincao has only recently started showing promise. Araujo has been pretty decent in defense but he was out injured.Don’t know much about these guys Puig, Mingeza, Trincao and Pedri, any of them considered big talents?
Dest has been fairly decent this season. But there will be lots of knee jerk reactions around todayGosh how poor are Barca?! Totally dominated. Messi anonymous. Sergino Dest is a laugh and a half.
His man-crush on Messi is really quite vomit inducing.Linekar sounds so depressed there talking about his precious Barca and Messi being smashed. Could barely hear him. Shit night for him, can't go tweeting tonight trying to stir up shit speculation about Klopp either. Dickhead.
I agree. I’m actually more convinced by Nagelsmann now than before the game, that he should be our next manager. Not just tonight, save for PSG in the CL semi, they never look like they are inferior to another team despite not having a single player anyone would consider top class bar the CBs. Under Nagelsmann, when they play Bayern, they are never outclassed despite Bayern being an amazing team. They got beat 1-3 by Dortmund and 5-0 by us, but I still didn’t think they anywhere near deserved those results, although I was delighted we hammered them.This. Leipzig actually had the better chances. They lack some proper quality in that side though
Vidic career was over as soon as he had injury while Rio was still regular for us in 34, 35 won the PL. Either way, the point is not about discredit Pique anyway.To be fair he deserves some credit for still playing at this level, neither Rio nor Vida were exactly pretty in their twilight years. Its the clubs fault for failing to replace them properly
He's still good, but not top 2-3 anymore.Take a good look at Messi in a Barcelona shirt while you. Pray to the gods he goes to PSG and not City. He's past peak, but his peak was so high he's still in the top 2-3 footballers on the planet.
Fair enough, my comment relates to just this game. I haven't really watched him much. Horrible display.Dest has been fairly decent this season. But there will be lots of knee jerk reactions around today
Never mind me! Just your comment reminded me of Darren Fletcher on commentary for BT Sports. He’s always saying that during games: “What a goal that is!”Remind me again what this is reference to?
True, but Messi isn't blameless for their impotence in big UCL games the past few years.Barca without Messi would be only slightly above the relegation zone. You think I'm kidding but Ansu Fati is the top 3 scorer of the squad and he got injured in November after playing 6 games total.
Barca were slightly above the relegation zone before Messi picked up form again recently. Without his influence they will be back there with the current players and coach no doubt. Likes of Pique, Busquets, Alba, Griezmann are completely done and Pedri, Dest etc. don't even get into Sevilla's squad.
Fair enough. How about top 5?He's still good, but not top 2-3 anymore.
Not for me atleast.
Should we instead compare Martial favorably to Mbappe, so that we don’t hurt his feelings?Martial cost 36m. Mbappe cost 170m. But good job - finding new ways to slate Martial.
Top 10Fair enough. How about top 5?
while it may be true, it's easy to say that now. Chelsea fans could also say the same for Morata given how poor Werner is, or Juve fans for Allegri if they knew they would end up with Pirlo.Should have kept Valverde after all. Will admit he's a much better manager than I gave him credit for.
Something like that maybe yes, I also find it very hard ranking him now. The current situation at Barcelona seems to me a mess.Fair enough. How about top 5?
You can’t really say they’re our bogey team because we lost 2 finals against their best, and possibly the best team of all time. We had a great record against them before. 1984, 1991, 2008...Do people really think if we would have rocked up against Barcelona, we would have won? We could be playing Messi plus 10 randoms from La Masia and I wouldn't be confident against these Spanish cnuts! They are our bogey team.
We lost to them twice recently when they were still pretty shit. We drew against them twice in 1998 despite being the better team. In 2008, we were very lucky to get away with a 1-0 aggregate win.You can’t really say they’re our bogey team because we lost 2 finals against their best, and possibly the best team of all time. We had a great record against them before. 1984, 1991, 2008...
We could definitely have beaten them they’re shite.
I’ll take that. Messi has a mediocre squad around him now so it’s a bit easier to defend him but he’s still a deadly threat.Something like that maybe yes, I also find it very hard ranking him now. The current situation at Barcelona seems to me a mess.
we beat you in 2019. We aren’t good but united have been losing to Sheffield and dropping points against west brom. PSG would’ve beaten united as well.You can’t really say they’re our bogey team because we lost 2 finals against their best, and possibly the best team of all time. We had a great record against them before. 1984, 1991, 2008...
We could definitely have beaten them they’re shite.
We generally have a terrible record against Spanish teams and our record against RM is worse than against Barca. At least we won a few relevant games against Barca, whereas against RM we only knocked them out once in 1967/68.Do people really think if we would have rocked up against Barcelona, we would have won? We could be playing Messi plus 10 randoms from La Masia and I wouldn't be confident against these Spanish cnuts! They are our bogey team.
Na, we beat them when we were a lower ebb than now. We literally got outplayed by Brighton a game week earlier.we beat you in 2019. We aren’t good but united have been losing to Sheffield and dropping points against west brom. PSG would’ve beaten united as well.
Common knowledge. PSG in this form would smash Pool and Mbappe in that mood would even tear through this excellent City defence. My concern is that I genuinely feel Barca would have romped us yesterday. AWB and Lindelof have made Messi look like the Messi who played us in 2009 and 2011.Given our current state, PSG would have destroyed us. No debate whatsoever.
"Whataboutoleism" is real on this site.Is it necessary to talk about Ole in every thread. It's like if someone says X the manager has flaws, but Ole is worse.
Liverpool will get the winners from this tie. You just know it.
Horrible starting midfield from Dortmund, too passive and bereft of technical quality. They'll be dominated there and lack and control of the match.