That's just nature telling Barcelona that their star striker is 33 fucking years old next week, and they need to sort this nonsense out.
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Sid Lowe's column today saying that both Xavi and Koeman turned them down, leading to all sorts of wild speculation in the Spanish press -- Thierry Henry's name has come up!Comment
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This whole Xavi thing leaves me very cold. He's been in qatar a long time. He says a lot of nice things about them. There's something a little offputting about some of these Barcelona lads, who put in a lot of effort to come across a certain way, but then you realize that they would happily fire a cruise missile into a school full of children, for a fist full of that sweet sweet oil money, and then tell you that the sheikh is a lovely person. I Know he's in japan now, but if you look closely at the scenes in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi, you will see andres iniesta juggling a ball for cash, and making PR appearances on his employers behalf.Comment
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Valverde finally sacked. Quique Setien has signed a two and a half year deal.Comment
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Barca is back to being the joke club so, this guy as the Very Tenables of his age.Comment
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Erm, didn't venables win a league title, and reach a european cup final? When neither was normally on the cards for barcelona?Comment
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This is something of a niche alert but Rayo v Lugo is being transmitted live on youtube right now. About 30 minutes to go.Comment
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1 - 0 Rayo. Utterly awful game.Comment
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First game under Setien is in the books, Barcelona with 85% of the possession and win one-nil on a late Messi goal after Grenada went down to 10 men on a fairly harsh second yellow. Loads and loads of tippy-tappy combination play on display, as well as a setup that saw Jordi Alba playing very high-up the field and Sergi Roberto pinching inside (very much like what Arsenal have been doing with Saka/Maitland-Niles under Arteta) and a "front 3" of Griezmann, Messi playing centrally, and Ansu Fati wide right. It'll be interesting to see if this is the very defensive possession-as-defense tiki-taka (Betis often had problems with this) or whether we'll see something more explosive as the players get more used to the system.Comment
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Turns out Granada at home is a lot easier than, say, Valencia on the road. Barcelona again pile up a gigantic amount of possession against a home team that set up in a low-block 4-4-2 and while the Catalans had a handful of decent chances, Los Ches had much better ones, scoring two and spurning three times that many, with a saved penalty off of a Pique challenge that got nowhere near the ball and a third goal chalked off for a ridiculous Busquets dive on a corner to boot.
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La Real absolutely roasting Madrid at the Bernabeu in the Cops
0-3 after 57 minutes
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1-4 as I type.Comment
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It's better when we keep schtumComment
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2-4. Never write off Madrid when it comes to remontadas.Comment
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SorryComment
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What's the story with Messi? He seems to have gone nuclear at Abidal, and he doesn't seem to be able to train any more. Is this all spiralling out of control?Comment
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He's sick of the players being blamed for the board's utter incompetenceComment
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I must say, I thought that that was extraordinarily "Brave" of abidal.
Did the players have something to do with it? We have been lead to believe that a certain someone has a lot more influence on managerial appointments than other players.Comment
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Don't confuse him with factsComment
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I went out of the room for a minute believing the score was 2-4. When I came back they were scoring another goal. 3-,4, I thought but I didn't realise that the previous one had been VAR'd outOriginally posted by Sporting View PostComment
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Ends 3-4 with a red to la Real
Three of the semi-finalists are Mirandes, Granada and La Real
The winner of Athletic Club-Barcelona will be an immediate favourite for the trophyComment
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I'm not sure that Athletic would be favourites against La Real.Comment
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I may have been over-influenced by La Real's run of poor form in the league.
Madrid's defence tonight was just atrocious.Comment
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