do these fucks never learn

uhm

no

uhm

yes

yaya isn't a dmid, he was a playmaker at monaco and has just has his best season ever playing predominantly as a goalscoring box to box type

so... a creative player who is still better at dm than sergio buscunts

do u srsly think he is better than the player who has just replaced him

i mean i know it's a hoy but still

eduardo replaced henry doesn't mean he was better than him

yeah that's exactly the right comparison

Can't think why Barcelona would have replaced the African midfielder with the homegrown Catalan type.

jesus u ppl

like do u get anything about football

touré was patently inferior to busquets at dmid while they were still playing in the same side

toure is better than busquets, but not at dm, and certainly not as dm at barca

Song is also not a dm, and neither is thudd. They just hang round there while performing other functions

like do u get anything about football

― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:02 (5 minutes ago)

this is the one where they throw the ball, wear helmets and text pictures of their weiners, right?

touré will never be as good at any given role as busquets is at his

featuring delap, cech and shelvey, yeah xp

:-)

if u srsly believe barcelona overpromote their own youngsters at the expense of bought players u might want to consider former new messi bojan krkic whose agent is currently complaining he is getting shafted by barca who are trying to sell him to udinese against his will

DM at Barca is kinda different to being DM anywhere else though because they keep posession so well there just aren't as many opposition attacks to break up. Be interesting to see how Busquets would do behind midfielders that aren't Xavi and Iniesta.

In any other team Toure or Mascherano would be the better pick. Obviously Busquets is by miles a better passer of the ball than Mascherano, even if Masch is as good at positioning and better at tackling.

I mean obviously Barca are the best team in 20 years so who are we to judge but...

busquet's main attributes are his close control and positioning, his passing is usually pretty simple

How many simple passes have you seen Mascherano fuck up though?

i kinda hate busquets, wanted them to keep touré and thought mascherano would displace him this season, but the last season confirmed he is just insanely good at what he does, and i think 80% of that is transferrable to another top level side

then again my idea was that barca could do without without a dedicated deep lying, purely destructive midfielder hence my pref for touré as a kinda roving box to box type alongside x & i

but seeing busquets this season i doubt even fabregas is good enough to displace busquets and change the system of their midfield

cesc is going because xavi is getting on and iniesta hasn't the greatest injury record, not because of the cunt

idk if he is going

think arsenal would be happy to sell for a good price but barca have their own financial issues so

if it does happen, he will get enough games to keep him from bitching but assuming x & i are fit, their starting xi for big games will remain the same imo

xavi is getting on, is he

xavi could play for longer than scholes imo. He simply doesn't get tackled.

wouldn't mind seeing x & i vs xi england u-21 players in a possession competition

you'd want busquets there to keep the naughty stuff out of it, and alves there to run around a lot, dive and provide fuck-all end product

alves usually has one of the best assist records in la liga

he is one of those rare players whose obnoxiousness makes them even more useful, he is really exceptionally good at diving/feigning/sly fouls

the last time i played for barca i got six assists

Yeah but i created more "goal-scoring chances"

Didn't Xavi and Iniesta start out at Barca as deeper-lying mids, more about short distribution than "playmaking"? Could see Busquets expanding his passing range and becoming a direct heir to one or the other of them. He's a dick but really, really good.

true Number None but that was home to Oviedo in the cup...I wouldn't be giving up the day job

i lolled nn, i lolled

xavi was more of a guardiola type early in his career yeah

when iniesta was breaking through, rijkaard tended to favour a 2-1 midfield with deco as a dedicated attacking mid, so most of iniesta's opportunity's came in the '2' behind him, then by 2006 or so he got quite a few games at left wing

i don't think either of them played with as restricted a defensive role as busquets currently does, nor were they as good at retrieving possession

i can see him playing further ahead through his career, but i doubt he will ever be employed there on a permanent basis

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/273513/Theo-Walcott-to-be-new-Lionel-Messi

Walcott is confident he has the skill, pace and firepower to do for Arsenal what the little Argy does for Barcelona, playing as a striker rather than as a winger

made a nice cross for 2-0 today but Pique or Abidal would've finished the chances he missed

“The yellow cards are just a case of showing passion – and perhaps a little bit of frustration – with the way things have been going this season.

that article highlights the lack of any sense of how formations work, there was another bbc article a few weeks ago suggesting walcott be played in a free role behind van persie where he could flitter about and presumably fire off savicevic style sliderule passes every two minutes

France are over-rated. I was a bit disappointed with them. How many of their players would get into the England team?

jamie redknapp after one creditable result by england

to answer him, ferdinand, hart and ashley cole would get in an entente cordiale xi

i don't think you can make a reasonable case for any of the others, twp would get in as a supporting striker but most teams don't play one and as a #9 benzema is now above him

barry might be the closest, for all his limitations he is a regla in a title winning team

even then france have toulalan, alou diarra, lasanna diarra, yann m'vila, cabaye, flamini, matuidi etc

Pires goes for Hart, Terry and Rooney. Inclusion of Clichy is a puzzler

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jun/07/robert-pires-france-england-euro-2012

http://i.imgur.com/gMddhJA.jpg

MANCHESTER CITY could enter the fray to sign Real Madrid’s coveted youngster Raphael Varane.

The Frenchman has been given a more regular run out at the Bernebeu by Jose Mourinho this season, and he has been getting a number of alluring glances from Europe’s top clubs.

And his performance in last week’s Copa del Rey first-leg semi-final meeting against Barcelona, in which he headed home the equaliser, made many clubs sit up and take notice.

City may plot a move for him, as they are planning a major overhaul of the squad in the summer and Joleon Lescott is tipped to leave the Etihad.

I heard Jamie Redknapp say on Super Sunday that Bale is 'absolutely world class', that he's 'as good as Ronaldo'.

I don't often disagree with Jamie, but I think it's got to the stage where you can say that Bale is better than Ronaldo because he's simply unplayable.

That's not to denigrate Ronaldo, who has got all the tricks and dynamite in his boots - but so has Bale.

What Bale's got that Ronaldo hasn't is incredible strength and power; Ronaldo is quick but when Bale gets up a head of steam, there's no stopping him.

http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212,12088_8477969,00.html

stick to the shit puns Jeff