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ddippset:
same way the referee denied barca all 3 points just last week against malaga after ruling out pique's legitimate goal for offside. that was just 7 days ago, how come you didn't remember? or maybe you did, just that in the case of barca you're wired to always used the clause 'without the help of referees'

foladara777:
If I was Enrique, I will use Messi as an attacking midfielder to play the iniesta role until either iniesta comes back or we get a creative midfielder in January.. Maybe fabregas... He is out of favor at Chelsea and he could be a short term fix... But for the moment, identify d best midfielder and stick with them, so that they develop chemistry

rozayx5:
the only relief is messi in the line up

and trust me if suarez does not come with his scoring boots today and neymar does not grow up and stop joking... you can as well handover the league to madrid

BarcaBlood:
Chelsea sold Mata to man u

Arsenal sold clichy, adebayor, nasri, sagna and kolo toure to man city

Man city sold sturridge to chelsea, den chelsea sold him to liverpool

Liverpool sold Torres to chelsea

Chelseafan1:
I have addressed the bolded on this same thread few days ago, refer to the quote below pls.

mcdreeezy:
I wonder what is so difficult to understand here. I can see you're trying so hard to be polite with him because the way the argument is going, I'm already feeling irritated by his argument cuz it's obvious he's being sentimental.


Personally, I'm not even counting Liverpool cuz I have this feeling that they're doing initial gragra just like Arsenal. I'm tipping City and Chelsea for the title but it's okay if you add Liverpool. It's safe to say it's a three-horse race in both la liga and EPL, simple. I don't understand all these epistle I'm seeing here.

Chelseafan1:
Thank God u are seeing what I was telling you guys on your thread, the league is so unpredictable, who would have thought Spurs that played and got beaten this Tuesday (while Chelsea were resting) will score first at the bridge and still looking this strong.

Cc Barackodam, sebod, ddippset et al

TRendlona:
Saw this in Bayern thread

Chelseafan1:
What you need to understand is that, Barca and Madrid are the two best teams with quality players (world stars) that no other team comes close, especially in the LaLiga, look at the number of games Barca has lost this season and they are still sitting second comfortably, Sevilla and these other teams don't have the quality and strength of these two powerhouse, they can only cause upsets once in a while and That's all, Barca or Madrid and at times, Atletico will definitely still win the league.
Barca has a very rich squad Plus MSN, Madrid has a very rich squad Plus BBC, these other teams just have few quality players.

Let's talk about the EPL, the star players aren't concentrated in just City and Chelsea, there was a time when Chelsea players were regarded as average players, Hazard is our best player, better than any of our wingers but most of us would even argue Neymar is way better than him, thats just Neymar o, we haven't included Messi, Suarez, Pique, Iniesta, Mascherano, Busquets etc

Man Utd and City spent almost the same amount this last transfer window, yet city is doing well, MAN UTD is failing, do Sevilla, Sociedad, Atm, Valencia have the same spending power of Barca and Madrid?

All these EPL top teams have almost equal spending power, talk about Spurs, Pool, Arsenal, City, MAN UTD, Chelsea, these guys have star players scattered all over hence the competitive nature of the league, none of them is a stand out performer just like Barca/Madrid is to the LaLiga, Bayern is to the BLiga or Juventus is the Serie A abi u don forget the number of parties wey hold for our thread last season, see parties wey dey hold for Man Utd thread now, see parties for Arsenal thread.

I dunno if you understand me well enough, but trust me, there will always be upsets once in a while, eg Alaves beating Barca, Liezpig beating Bayern but its not always easy for Chelsea/City winning the league....the struggle is always real.
You will find Spurs flogging City anyhow, Chelsea will disgrace the same Spurs but city will seriously deal with Chelsea, the same Arsenal that will flog Man city home and away will become toothless against a struggling Man utd/Chelsea, Chelsea will defeat Man Utd for example by a lone goal, but the same Everton that gets pummeled by Man Utd will get 3 unreplied goals against Chelsea, these are just examples of the crazy things that happen in the league, that's why we celebrate winning games and the league like we won the UCL and WC together


If you happen to be a punter, the odds these bookmakers give Barca, Madrid, Bayern is always very low just because these teams have a high probabilty of winning their games and they do it comfortably except for the once-in-a-while upsets.

I wont say there are 6 title contenders in the EPL but Barca/Madrid are the 'ogas at the top' in laliga, they are way above the others, there is no stand out 'oga at the top in the EPL', its a different ball game here. It was recently Man city became a top team when the Saudi guy took over, maybe when one of these arab guys take over Sevilla or atm and can match the spending power of Barca/Madrid....the story will change.


This is my submission sir.

BarcaBlood:
How would define a title challenging team in any league?
Is it a team that just makes d top 4 at d end of d season? Or a team that occupies the top 4 position for most weeks, irrespective of d position dey finish @ d end of d season? Or is it a team that can buy expensive players, whether or not dey win d league with dem?
Or would you define them as a team that can do all these (or some) and actually WIN THE LEAGUE @ least once in say maybe 2-4 years?
Cos i honestly dont consider Arsenal (last league win 2003), Everton (last league win ____), Tottenham (last league win ____), Liverpool (last league win 1990) as title contenders just because they're in fine form at a certain stage of d season, wen we know dat there z a very good chance dey wont win it eventually, and den to make it worse, EPL fans dat considers dem title favourites dont apply d same logic to other teams dat do d same or are in fine forms @ certain stages in other top leagues. That is unfair and hypocritical

BarcaBlood:
How would define a title challenging team in any league?
Is it a team that just makes d top 4 at d end of d season? Or a team that occupies the top 4 position for most weeks, irrespective of d position dey finish @ d end of d season? Or is it a team that can buy expensive players, whether or not dey win d league with dem?
Or would you define them as a team that can do all these (or some) and actually WIN THE LEAGUE @ least once in say maybe 2-4 years?
Cos i honestly dont consider Arsenal (last league win 2003), Everton (last league win ____), Tottenham (last league win ____), Liverpool (last league win 1990) as title contenders just because they're in fine form at a certain stage of d season, wen we know dat there z a very good chance dey wont win it eventually, and den to make it worse, EPL fans dat considers dem title favourites dont apply d same logic to other teams dat do d same or are in fine forms @ certain stages in other top leagues. That is unfair and hypocritical

BarcaBlood:
How would define a title challenging team in any league?
Is it a team that just makes d top 4 at d end of d season? Or a team that occupies the top 4 position for most weeks, irrespective of d position dey finish @ d end of d season? Or is it a team that can buy expensive players, whether or not dey win d league with dem?
Or would you define them as a team that can do all these (or some) and actually WIN THE LEAGUE @ least once in say maybe 2-4 years?
Cos i honestly dont consider Arsenal (last league win 2003), Everton (last league win ____), Tottenham (last league win ____), Liverpool (last league win 1990) as title contenders just because they're in fine form at a certain stage of d season, wen we know dat there z a very good chance dey wont win it eventually, and den to make it worse, EPL fans dat considers dem title favourites dont apply d same logic to other teams dat do d same or are in fine forms @ certain stages in other top leagues. That is unfair and hypocritical

coded01:
Sebod, Airmark, Dmcdad how far? See money...

airmark:
I never told you i used only one criterium to cancel out spurs. Go and check my previous posts and grab it in entirety. Last season they were title contenders. Liverpool has been superb this season and they are strong contenders. They won their matches convincingly this season unlike tottenham. I am not responsible for you misinterpreting my opinion. You should go back to the root of our arguements , tottenham are not contenders, they are pretenders, since their main defender went on injury they have been playing below expectation. Title conteders have depth to some extent in the team. For the past 4 seasons in la liga we have real, barca and atm sharing 1st to 3rd position among themselves while others couldn't lift a finger. Those who stated 6 in epl might be considering this kind of situation in epl among 6 teams that most times dominate the 1st to 6th positions. So you should understand their views.




Using question to answer question. Nice try.

coded01:
No make Airmark see this...

airmark:
Dayo will tell you more about him. He's a batty boy.



How many times have you seen Tottenham in 2nd or 3rd position at the end of the season in this decade apart from last season ? That should tell you more bro .

airmark:
Quote where i removed liverpool from the race?
Good profit there.

dmcdad:
And yet they say it's six! Then, what are the teams that make up the 6 then?

E be like say that question na GMAT ooooo.

raumdeuter:
Who was the poster that even claimed that there were 6 teams contending for Premier league every season

raumdeuter:
Let them tell us the 6 teams that compete for the EPL regularly

ddippset:
but what are the coach and players supposed to do when the officials decide to award an offside goal? in the first final real Madrid has to equalize after time added on. athletico[b] have only been extremely unfortunate against real Madrid.[/b]

bykebyke:
It's an Atletico fan doing the suing,not Atletico themselves.

bykebyke:
So Ramos scored an offside goal in the final?

Interesting how that didn't make waves,Imagine if it was Barca.

Chelseafan1:
Check the difference in points between these 3 EPL teams and that of the LaLiga teams, what can you deduce?

How can you tell me Atletico is still a title contender when Madrid is comfortably sitting at the top and leading them by 9 good points.

The ONLY contender I can see there is Barca, so I can authoritatively tell you that, this 2016/2017 LaLiga is between Barca and Madrid.

But for the EPL, the gap is still very close between doz 3 teams.

airmark:
Dayo will tell you more about him. He's a batty boy.



How many times have you seen Tottenham in 2nd or 3rd position at the end of the season in this decade apart from last season ? That should tell you more bro .

coded01:
No make Airmark see this...

Chelseafan1:
See as u dey throw am to me like say na u be prosecuting counsel...lol

I was clearly talking about this season by including Pool as a title contender, they have no European commitment and are still much better than Spurs over all....

I for one cannot say who is gonna win the league but I can tell you its gonna be either city, Pool or Chelsea.

ddippset:
lol. some people actually wanted messi sold sometime ago. can you believe that?

10d0ve:
with all due respect, Those players you mentioned there are not the only set out of form! Bar messi, pique n Umtiti, The whole team is out of form!

sebod:
Everyone in the team save Messi, Piqué, titi and maybe Stegen has been performing below expectation this season.

bykebyke:
It's the tactics,if majority of our players are playing shït..Then obviously the coach.

Marca asked some ex Barcelona players to give their thoughts on Busi's poor form.

Look at their replies.

Oh,and an added pic of yesterday's passmap.

dmcdad:
The same person you called into question just a fortnight ago? Huh? Issorait! I rest my case.