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homesteady:
So I can't say Messi is better than Gbolami Salami because they play in different leagues? Ohh hensbrain, you never fail to disappoint me.

BTW, how does number of tackles made concern league? don't they tackle in all leagues?

D guy keeps saying that nonsense on every thread. I've never read that kind of trash in my life

dmcdad:
Can someone remind me of how many goals Hazard and Neymar have scored in Europe respectively?

Neymar has 5 goals against PSG alone but hazard has 5 goals in his ucl career (pks included oh) yet some demented goat will still come here and saying nonsense as if his life depends on it

lekankolade:
Let me clear u...The now English premier League was called The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, they adopted the name English Premier League in 1992 and Premier League titles Club
Manchester United 13 times
Chelsea 4 times
Arsenal 3 times
Manchester City 2 times
Blackburn Rovers 1time.....has anyone of them relegated d season after winning the league?

U never said the epl champion since it was renamed in the early 90s. U said no champion of England has been relegated the season after winning d league. Anyways like I earlier said there's always a first time for everything

mcdreeezy:
So una still dey for dis hazard/neymar argument? Ok oh

That hensben dude is a pest. He was d same person dat said team harmony is responsible for neymar's good form

hensben:
Cr7 scored 30 goals in epl the season he won world best player. Show me his epl goal stat in the remaining 5 seasons?

So that's ur definition of only excellent season? Go search for his goal stat yourself. Can't believe what am reading

hensben:
You've turned "one fantastic/excellent season" to " 1 good season" just to win argument. Smh. Hope you know the difference between good and excellent? I doubt.

Stop lying. Cr7 had more than 1 fantastic season in the epl

hensben:
Last two? Like English club didn't dominate in the past.

Stop living in d past. We talking about d present

hensben:
You are the stubborn goat here because refuse to admit hazard and Neymar play in differen league and club why the comparison in the first place. Even cr7 only had one fantastic season in epl out of 6 seasons he played.
You lack football knowledge.

Dude u have a big problem. So because dey play different leagues dey can't be compared? What d hell kind of burukutu logic is dis ? How can any right thinking person say cr7 had just 1 good season at man utd. Fvck off dude

Dhellake:
The same tactics Hazard excelled with last season?? Una go dey alright

No mind dem. Dey r out of excuses

Happy new month cules

hensben:
I don't want to be comparing Neymar to hazard anymore after all, they play in different league and club. At iheanacho's age hazard was already raping French league defense. A league were barca and Real Madrid share 80% tv right and revenue. With this marginalization, other teams have been defeated psychologically when meeting this two clubs. Only Atletico is trying to compete but every end of seasons they sell their best players.

Real madrid and barca have won the last 2 ucl titles playing against other European teams. Are dey sharing 80% of the tv rights and defeating them psychologically there 2? Or did atletico madrid not win d league last 2 seasons? Keep blabbing

hensben:
[s] Why would I be pained huh I support barca in la Liga but I have to be objective when analyzing players ability or rather comparing players. I can't just say Neymar is better than hazard considering they in different league and club, that would be unfair to hazard. After scoring loads of goals last season show me any individual award Neymar won, he wasn't even included in la Liga team of year. [/s]

All cöck and bull crap. You support barca in la liga and u still comparing hazard to his superior ? dude u can lie for Africa. Every normal thinking person knows who is better but u keep arguing like a stubborn goat

sheddo619:
Champions finally (1937)
City finally claimed their maiden First Division title
in 1937 after being runners-up twice in 1903–04
and in 1920–21 and third-place finished thrice in
1904–05 , 1907–08 and 1929–30 . City strolled to
victory as they scored over 100 goals, the only
team to do so during the season and were
unbeaten for 22 matches in the league.
Reigning champions relegated (1938)
However they were relegated the following
season, despite scoring more goals than any other
team in the division. [12] This event has been
attributed to typical City syndrome and City remain
the only reigning champions to be relegated in
English football.

Oh so city were relegated the season after winning the league? . I thought lekankolade said it has never happened before

hensben:
I don't need to be comparing hazard to Neymar anymore. Moreover, they play in different league and club. Where is Pedro now? Same way robinho went into tin air at man city, to tell you the competitiveness and doggedness of epl. I'll still repeat it here, Neymar can't do jack in epl playing for Chelsea fc, at least hazard did something which awarded him Epl best player last season. Epl is not the best league at the moment but you can't take away the competitiveness unlike in la Liga where barca and Real Madrid share 85% tv right and revenue.

Hahahahaha

Which epl club jersey suits messi ? Lmao

lekankolade:
Don't panic Chelsea fans. No team in @premierleague history has won the title and been relegated the following season.

There's always a first time for everything

bykebyke:
"It's Halloween! And it looks like they gave Iniesta the Sergi Roberto costume."-Ray Hudson.

Bwahahahahaha

Dat pass was truly iniesta-esque

Throwback …

mcdreeezy:
BarcaBlood u dey try jare, one can of orijin for you!


Una welldone oh I dey greet una


Meanwhile no weapon fashioned against us shall prosper. They know themselves, real Madrid and co

Thanks boss

Add suya for me so the thing will continue 2 dey flow

13 years since Andrés
Iniesta's debut in Bruges

The current FC Barcelona captain wore the first team
jersey for the first time in a Champions League
match in Belgium way back in 2002. He's worn it
another 557 times since and counting...




Recovering from injury
Iniesta celebrated his 13th anniversary as a first
team player by joining the squad for Thursday’s
training session following their 0-0 draw in
Villanovense. He suffered a hamstring injury in the
Champions League game with Bayer Leverkusen, but
is back playing football again and should be declared
fully fit very shortly.


It was Tuesday 29 October 2002, thirteen years ago
today, that Andrés Iniesta made his first team debut
for FC Barcelona in a Champions League match
against Bruges. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The 18-year-old would go on to be one of the
artifices of the greatest Barça team ever assembled,
as well as being one of the finest players ever to
wear the Spanish national jersey. First team captain
following the retirement of his long-term colleague
in midfield, Xavi Hernandez, it was Iniesta who
lifted the last of many trophies that he was won over
the years – the European Super Cup in Tbilisi.


Andrés Iniesta has scored 59 goals in 558 games for
Barcelona in that time, putting him behind only Xavi
(767) and Puyol (593) in the all-time ranking for
appearances. He has played a huge role in the many
successes that the club has enjoyed in recent years,
perhaps the most outstanding memory of all being
his last second goal at Stamford Bridge that ensured
passage to the 2009 Champions League Final.

Carles Naval: 'Van Gaal just told him to get
out there and play!'

Iniesta hails from the village of Fuentealbilla in
Castile la Mancha, but at the age of just 12 he left his
family to become a resident of La Masia at FC
Barcelona. He rose up through the youth ranks and
on 5 February 2001 was invited for the first time, by
then manager Serra Ferrer, to join a first team
training session. A year later, with Louis Van Gaal on
the bench, his big chance finally arrived. As he
remembered in an interview published several years
later in Barça Magazine, “I felt very comfortable that
day. A lot of B players went on that trip because the
team had already qualified for the next round. It was
a dream come true to make my first team debut and
I thank Van Gaal. I had been training with them for
most of the season, and I think I did pretty well in
that game”.


He was named in the starting line-up and was an
immediate hit as he helped Barça to a win in Belgium
thanks to a goal from Riquelme. “He wore the
number 34 and the boss just told him to get out on
the pitch and play’ remembers FCB delegate Carles
Naval. And Iniesta did what he was told and came
very close to marking his debut with a goal from a
fine strike that hit the Bruges crossbar.


Iniesta was not the only youngster on the field that
day. Van Gaal also handed a debut to Tortolero, while
also opting to field Sergio Garcia and David
Sánchez. And the team also included a number of
fellow ex-residents of La Masia, namely Puyol, Gabri,
Fernando Navarro and the current manager of
Barça B Gerard López, who recalls how “there were a
lot of homebred players that day and that was good
for him. And we won the game, which was important
too.”

Wrote this on their Facebook fan page

My team Chelsea will definitely bounce back After
calling us Chelshit, now Manchester united are being
referred to as Chivita fc Naija Una no go kill
person

Happy birthday Matthieu

chrisley024:
Meanwhile, Chelsea winger Pedro has told friends he regrets ever leaving Barcelona.


Take heart bro, we know you're not used to this position.

I sympathize with him tho he's been so used 2 success

mithel:
Na Madrid fan in waiting. Not a Chelsea fan, you can refer to him as a hazard fanboy too.

No wonder

Debroslink:
They have already compared him to Messi. E remain Lucifer.

Footballing blasphemy

Debroslink:
You left Neymar to now compare ikebe with Don Iniesta? How dare you?

How is ikebe Super similar to Iniesta? Do you think it's useless dribbles with no end results we are saying here?

Quote me again if Hidden Ikebe can have an 3 assists in 3 UCL finals and 1 assist in world cup final.

Iniesta actually scored the wc winning goal not d assist.

Hazard will pray 2 achieve half of what iniesta has achieved in football. The guts of some Chelsea fan sef

Mourinholic:
I don't really wanna tackle you about Neymar's performance without Messi......2 penalties, 1 really cool tap-in.............What assist are you talking about? defence splitting passes? sure not.....

Since Iniesta is in that Barca team,isn't he the most similar to Hazard in style in that team? How many goals and assists?
M waiting, don't ignore that Iniesta question

So the comparison is now with iniesta not neymar again? Hahahahaha talk of being confused. The poor season Chelsea is having is really having its effect on you. Iniesta of all people. Why not just compare to messi?

Chelseafan1:
Smh....actually your people are those comparing both players not me, I was talking about Neymar being wasteful at times but still manages to score important goals for Barca, is that a snide remark or how is this related to comparison?

Come back here and tell me.

D argument began with these statement

Chelseafan1:
We shouldn't be too quick to judge Traore, I personally think he has an eye for goals and also likes shooting, these 2 qualities are really lacking in that team, if he's gonna offer those, let the dude get a run of games.

Not to forget that, Neymar is a very wasteful forward but he still somehow manages to score important goals for Barca, Traore can improve if he's given game time.

And d bold part is really baffling given neymar's impressive stat this season especially since messi got injured. Nobody calls such a player wasteful; it's a very wrong word even in dat context. You were even showed stats by raumdeuter showing you were wrong to term neymar wasteful

There's no shame in admitting you were wrong. You even corrected that moniker 'Dhelake' on a mistake


NB: you seem 2 be the only Chelsea fan that still praises hazard despite his poor output this season

Chelseafan1 always talking about neymar and comparing him to hazard when it's clear who d better player is. Well its trying times 4 Chelsea especially hazard and I'd feel bad too if I were him

raumdeuter:
[size=28pt]EYIN OMO WOBE[/size]

Wobe!

Chelsea fans right now especially hazard fans

its d copa del rey guys

The magic of the Cup comes
to Villanovense


Villanueva de la Serena's other claims to fame
The small town in Extremadura will host FC
Barcelona's first leg last 32 tie on Wednesday at
8.30pm CET against CF Villanovense, but that is not
their only claim to fame. Spanish basketball star José
Manuel Calderon, who currently plays for the New
York Knicks of the NBA, was born there.
Furthermore, there's evidence that one of the most
Spanish of gastronomic delights, the tortilla de
patatas, was invented in Villanueva de la Serena on
27 February 1798.

‘CF Villanovense will play FC Barcelona’, the roar of
delight could probably have been heard some 130
kilometres away in Portugal. The squad had gathered
to follow the live draw for the last 32 of the Copa del
Rey in the home side’s dressing room at the Romero
Cuerda Stadium via the Spanish Football Federation’s
website, with the exception of coach Julio Cobos,
who had opted to follow events from home. The
reaction was immediate, the squad and club officials
pouring out on the pitch to crack open the
champagne to celebrate what will be the biggest day
in CF Villanovense’s history since its foundation in
1992.

The chance to dream
The last 32 of the Copa del Rey is traditionally when
the top teams enter the competition and so for
smaller clubs like CF Villanovense, who play in
Spain’s regionalised third tier of football, the Segunda
B, it is an opportunity to dream of a tie against top
flight opposition. Victories against Peña Sport and
Racing Ferrol put the club from the town of
Villaneuva de la Serena into the draw and the rest, as
they say, is history. Club president José Maria Tapia
was in the dressing room with the squad when the
draw brought his team together with Barça:

“For us it
was an immensely joyous moment, to come up
against the current European, League and Cup
champions, whilst we are one of the most modest
teams in the Segunda B, it is a great challenge.”

The man who leads the board at the club is unable to
overestimate the importance of the visit of the
blaugranes to a CF Villanovense who are yet to make
it to Spain’s second tier of football, the Segunda A, in
their history. “For our city it is an historic event
because we have not made it out of the Segunda B.
We expect a huge influx of fans both of CF
Villanovense and FC Barcelona.” The tie against the
current Copa del Rey champions has served to
strengthen the links between the football club and
the town: “The Club has always had a good
relationship with the community, but now anyone
from here identifies more with Villanovense…on
every corner people are talking about the match.”


Not getting carried away is key
One of the beauties of football is that it throws up
these occasions when a club with an annual budget of
300,000 Euros gets the chance to measure up to one
of the biggest clubs in the world. Nevertheless,
president Tapia is keeping his feet on the ground:
“Our dream is to keep on the path we set for
ourselves when we took over the club. That is none
other than to pay our employees on time and to be
able to sleep at night.”
Knowing that Barça fans from all over the world will
be focusing on the town of Villanueva de la Serena
and Villanovense on Wednesday evening at 8.30pm
CET, Tapia is keen to present to a wider public a true
picture of “a modest club who try to things in the
right way, both on and off the field, we don’t want, or
try to look beyond that, as that would be a mistake.
This humility and the ability to take things as they
come without losing our head has given us the chance
to enjoy a place in the promotion play offs to the
Segunda A last season for the very first time, and
now the chance to welcome none other than FC
Barcelona.”