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bandely:
Well, I wasn't aware of that. Nevertheless, it is a gone deal already.
For me, Laporta would have made a better president. The Barca of today is now shrouded in controversy while also chasing players with exorbitant fee, thereby neglecting and depleting their renowned La Masia (an academy we all wished was ours). I think last season's success "clouded" their reasoning, however, Bartomeu isn't a bad choice either.
All in all, I wish them luck, but not at the expense of Chelsea

The way Barto handled the disastrous reign of Rosell is what really endeared me to him. I believe he has great plans for La Masia, and we are trying to bring forth young players into our midfield now that the legendary Xavi is gone.

Despite the controversies of last season, Barto steadied the ship and led us to another TREBLE.

Can we win another treble this coming season? Nothing is impossible.

I feel Laporta chose to contest at a wrong timing. No matter the initial errors of Barto, he has corrected them plus the fact that he has a treble to back up his good works.

O boy, Terry don suffer.

Bimffo:
Who cares if he played in the EPL or not.. Nobody spoke about any league here.. Sometimes You will just jump into matters that you don't know the origin and say rubbish as Usual..

He is rated than Sanchez in the NT? ehn ehn, See talk..

And who said he is not better than Ramires.. So I cannot say Ramires and Vidal has the same style of play.?

I never mentioned your name or quoted you. However, stop mentioning Vidal and Ramires in the same breath. One is the most combative CM in European football, the other runs like a headless fowl. And yes, Vidal is rated higher than Sanchez in the NT. You wanna dispute this?

jimmy4x:
Thanks jare Egbon, actually, I wanted seeing Hazard's rating and no one else....hahaha
Hazard actually got rated higher than some guys
wow!!!

You and Hazard ehn. If Hazard wins the epl POTY again without Chelsea going far in UCL, the 'Spanish Sharks' will come calling, and he won't have the power to say NO.

To many Chelsea fans here, if a player has not played in EPL before, then he is average. Same was said of Neymar, now it's Vidal's turn.

Comparing Vidal with Ramires is an insult. A player who is rated higher than Sanchez in the NT.

Please, make una dey reason abeg.

jimmy4x:
Lmao....now the tune has changed, didn't yall opined he was a loyal champion, now he's proved yall wrong....made top 10 among elites....Messi, Ronaldo.....where's Muller, where's Gotze..? hahahahaha

He's still a local champion. He's the only one in the list who didn't really inspire in Europe last season.

Hazard is EPL's best. EPL's among the top 3 leagues in Europe, so I don't see any reason why he won't make UEFA's top 10. But can he make top 3? NEVER!

I doubt if he makes top 5.

nonsoroyalty:
Pedro presser live...

Pedro: After staying in the bench last season at
barca I have finally decided to destroy what's left of my career by coming to chelsea just like torres shevchenko crespo etc

Reporter: hazard or neymar whose better?

Pedro: well both are good but one just scored in the ucl final receiving the ucl golden boot ahead of messi and ronaldo in lesser minutes and also inspired his country to the 2013 confederations cup with fred gustavo etc
While the other is still receiving pfa awards


Reporter: your future if u sign for chelsea?

Pedro : well honestly I can't tell but I know I will be loaned to vitesse after 2 seasons

Reporter : do u like chelsea?

Pedro: lol who doesn't love money?

Reporter: what do u think of the chelsea players

Pedro: well they are good guys fun to be with
Terry almost slept with my wife costa and I had a fight soooooooo its all good

Reporter: mourinho?

Pedro: mourinho? Well each time I remember that name I remember the 5-0 at the camp nou

Mourinho called me we talked about prices of buses and molues sekpe kai kai etc
Am beginning to like him he is a born winner

Reporter: will your family come with you to london?

Pedro: my sons? Yes my daughter and wife? As long as john terry is still in london, ABSOLUTELY F*CKING NOT

OH my God!

coogar:
but you cannot compare the level of opposition ribery faced to the ones hazard faced. we have to be fair & i am going by FIFA ratings. hazard is rated better than ribery but ribery is better than willian & robben is the father of all of them.

Are you intentionally covering up Hazard's woeful output in Europe?

coogar:
a competent goalscorer is my only fear. it's highly impossible for all our central midfielders to get crocked around the same time.

if we don't address the striker situation, we sill not win a spoon. we need a top tier striker & rooney cannot give us that quality any more. this is not 2010.

Man United needs to get a true striker to bench Rooney. A guy who can finish off the good works of the midfielders; just like Neymar is doing for Barcelona.

Man United is the torch bearer of epl clubs in UCL. You need to return to your elite position in Europe as a true member of the big 4 in European football.

Tval:
Pedro to Chelsea

Pedro to Chelsea is like Gudjohnsen to Barcelona. #lowoutput

Pedro will add bite to Chelsea's attack? I just dey LOL.

Pedro is not better than Jesus Navas. A guy who can't take a player one on one.


Anyway, Chelsea should go ahead and buy him. After all, he may help them win the epl title, but forget ucl.

koredex4love:
Mehn!!!!!
This game na ultimate then oooo,e get one guy wet dey bear fuerte for inside Argentina team then wet get bald hair,d guy dey score from midfield like mad .

The baddest Argentine was REDONA

afrodoc2:
Lol i will never forget that tackle. I was supporting Argentina because of beef from Maroc 88. That tackle was hip level!

I actually rooted for Cameroon in that match because of my hatred for Maradona then. Those Cameroonians actually silenced Maradona in that match despite the fact that Maradona was showboating before kickoff of the match.

I miss Italian Serie A. A league of badass defenders plus the best of strikers.

homesteady:
And he did not make the tournament best XI

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And 5 of his teammates made the team!

Thank you very much. A striker who has zero goal and zero MOTM is their main man?

I tire oh.

elampiro:
I saw the VCR cassete, 'boys from Brazil' and others with matches of world cup to 1982. Pele might never have a rival in football. He was the best to me in his first world cup but he was too young and people thought was a fluke. When they saw him the following in Copa America, they gave up and crowned him best player.

Why do you think Brazil won nothing in the world cup 30 years before him and nothing 24 YEARS AFTER ? Every football follower who lived in PELE 'S time to date all agreed he has no match.

I heard he averaged 1 goal per match despite playing over a thousand matches. You cannot know better than people who played football in Pele`s time and who keep saying he is the best. Also those are fans before his era till now.

Good you admitted Maradona shits on messi. If Maradona played in Barca team of today........ He alone would have created 6 of the seven wonders of the world. The ARGENTINE team of today, Maradona would have won a world cup with it already with a striker like AGUERO , Tevez is there. Mascherano, Di Maria, Zabeleta , Otameldi.

Messi is trying but l can't understand why he has failed to do whether Sanchez just did so easily. Inspire your colleagues to national team glory.

How precisely did Sanchez inspire his country to glory? He scored a penalty, so what? How many MOTM did he win?

From your analogy, Sanchez is better than Maradona and Pele because he won a trophy the duo never won.

MrTA:
Higuain is a very good player. He just had an absolutely shocking tournament.

Please tell how good Higuain is? A player who was responsible for his team's loss to Dni Prino (not the correct spelling) in Europa?

A player who was responsible for his team's loss @ 2014 world cup final?

The guy is Mr Bad Luck personified.

MrLouisVanGaal:
Lol at the questions. Lets not start the ronaldo and messi argument.

Messi has to win something with the national team. Its becoming shameful. He was too quiet in that match and it kinda affected the rest, there is no excuse for the way he goes hiding in finals sometimes. Maradona nor dey talk to am That said if higuain gets sold by Napoli for 1million pounds, the manager of the club that buys him at that very very expensive price should be hung upside down.

And what if he ends up winning nothing for his NT? Does that make him and Ronaldo be on the same level?

Higuain has cost Argentina 2 major trophies in less than 1 year.

The guy is Mr Bad Luck to any aspiration team.

What the hell. Higuain's misses keep reminding me of 2014 final.

jimmy4x:
lol....how was he a flop, do u even know aside goals scored, he had a better stat than Neymar at the world cup, why is he a flop??

Ahmed Musa had a better memorable world cup than Ikedia Hazard.

Deal with this fact

raumdeuter:
Well said

He wants to compare Messi who already has 6 assist to that failure called Ikedia Hazard

LOL

jimmy4x:
How many international competitive tourney has Hazard featured in for Belgium sef?

I know of one... World Cup.

What was his reputation after the tourney?

A big flop.

jimmy4x:
abi o, I tire for people like Debroslink nd co, since Messi scored only a goal in d Copa, would u now tag him a failure cos of that??
if na Hazard now, chai....den for don kill am, even if na Belgium win, dem go say How many goals did he score sef.

It's goals and assists that win games. Messi has got about 6 assists(highest in the tournament) and 1 goal in 5 matches in playmaking position. That is about 70% of real output. He has about 3 MOTM awards already(more than anyone else) Whenever he's not scoring, he's providing direct assists.

I've not seen Ronaldo or Hazard perform to get such stats in international tournaments.

Show us the contribution of Hazard for Belgium in world cup or Euros, and I'll shut up forever.

What will become the fate of haters and critics if Messi wins Copa America?

What will be their next words of hate? Does the guy need a world Cup trophy to still cement his status as the G. O.A.T?

Danhumprey:
@bolded,are you for real? What sorta Barca fan are you? It's not surprising people like you will do or say anything just to win an argument.

Messi had little impacts in those matches in which Neymar scored and his goals decided the games? If you said god-Messi had little impacts in those games,who made it possible and created those clear-cut chances for Neymar to score those goals? Was it not Messi's unselfishness and willingness to drop deep and playmake for people like Neymar to score goals and shine?

Because didn't score goals in those matches that Neymar's goals decided,so it invariably means he(Messi) had little impacts? Smh. You are absolutely disappointing with that statement.

Please understand my position on god-Messi.

Mind you, I called him god-Messi. His little impact in those games is regarded as great for other players if they pull such stunts.

It is an insult to compare his true impacts in games with other players.

jimmy4x:
Bro, u forgot to add Ribery (Ballon D'or finalist : 81 appearances 16 goals

Robben 86 appearances. 28 goals

Iniesta. 105 appearances. 12 goals

Nice research.

They have similar stats with Hazard's, yet no one has ever hype them to the level of Messi and Ronaldo.

Hype Hazard to that level(Messi), and we will reduce him to Musa's and Ikedia's.

dmcdad:
You know it's Messi when this happens...

That was epic. I replayed that jaw dropping move like 5 times, with eyes wide open.

hensben:
They are double standard men just ignore them.
Watch, he will come up with hazard n neymar are wingers

No, Hazard is a CM like Arda Turan.

timbros:
And yet you are comparing Hazard and Neymar forgetting their respective positions and team tactics?

I'm not going into an argument with you BTW.

Neither am I.

Fact is, both of them are wingers.

The more you overrate that local champion as the next big thing after Messi and Ronaldo, the more I'll keep stressing that he's below Neymar, Mueller and James.