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View Poll Results: Pick your 2017-18 winners!
Bayern
40 71.43%
Not Bayern
6 10.71%
Real
25 44.64%
Barca
21 37.50%
PSG
36 64.29%
Not PSG
7 12.50%
Juve
33 58.93%
Not Juve
9 16.07%
Celtic
38 67.86%
Not Celtic
7 12.50%

08-16-2017 , 06:27 PM
When did I miss Deluofeu to Barca?
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08-16-2017 , 06:31 PM
Lol suarez is so in the over it zone
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08-16-2017 , 06:52 PM
pretty disappointing match from barca that didnt was in the game most of the time, and madrid that should have gone for the kill.
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08-16-2017 , 07:18 PM
We're flying and it's only August, my God
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08-16-2017 , 08:30 PM
Barca looks miles behind. They should've been ready for this ..... the last time Madrid went and bought up the best young Spanish players they kinda ran bad with guys not panning out (ie. the Illarramendi era signings).

Now they look so much deeper and younger than Barca
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08-16-2017 , 08:42 PM
madrid are so far ahead of everyone else it's absurd.
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08-16-2017 , 09:14 PM
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08-16-2017 , 09:19 PM
Last 5 days of August, Bale to United, Mbappe to Madrid and we've completely ended the football game.



Spoiler:
not happening tho
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08-16-2017 , 10:33 PM
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08-17-2017 , 02:56 AM
just done watching the highlights.

asensio > ronaldo
benzema also lookin' good again now that he doesn't have to pass it to ronaldo every time
messi&saurez need to find their finishing boots

overall a positive result imo, although would have really preferred a 5-0 to maximize the likelihood that the vote of no confidence against the current barca board goes through.
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08-17-2017 , 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by rainbowsinthesky
Today he told me Asensio is the 2nd best player at RM after Ronaldo
see?

definitely a positive result and today is the big day, Paulinho's presentation
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08-17-2017 , 09:11 AM
suarez out for 4-5 weeks.

o boy. let us paco.
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08-17-2017 , 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by rainbowsinthesky
Asensio is the 2nd best player at RM after Ronaldo
just here for the lolz@farsa fans

But on Asensio, maybe not yet, but he's been touted as the next superstar of Spanish football for a long time.

And here's where you should wager 2/3 of your liquid assets:

Spain will win the World Cup in 2022, and Asensio will win the Balon D'or. That's as sure a thing as the night follows the day.
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08-17-2017 , 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by MediocrePlayer2.0


Must be great to be a PSG fan rn ..... can troll Barca & Real Madrid fans like they're feeder clubs
lol Asensio to PSG - that's hilarious. The minute a top Spanish player leaves Barsa or Madrid for PSG I promise I will cut off my dobber.
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08-17-2017 , 09:30 AM
thankfully Bundesliga starts tomorrow
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08-17-2017 , 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Pummi81
qsg wanted a top5 player.

while madrid do indeed have top shelf quality all over the pitch, they don't really have any top5 players anymore now that ronaldo has declined.

about the power-rankings. let's see:

rm have isco, ronaldo, kroos, modric, benzema, asensio all in top100. maaaaybe kovacic too.
(+ james and morata last season)
-> 6-7 top100 players

barca have the undisputed #1 in the world in messi, but other than him they really only have two other top100 players now - suarez and iniesta. maaaaybe umtiti as well as he really is a beast of a cb.
(+ neymar last season)
-> 3-4 top100 players

buyern might actually be the strongest of them all, on paper at least:
thiago, robben, ribery, james, kimmich, hummels, martinez, lewandowski, alaba, vidal all top100. and neuer i guess but lol keepers.
(+ lahm, alonso, costa last season)
-> 10-11 top100 players
This place never fails to provide the lolz. Ronaldo will get his 2nd Balon D'or running this year, and has reinvented himself as a penalty box assassin, while his great rival struggles to make an impact now that those who cleared the way for him are either gone or over the hill.

No one will agree, but Keylor is number 1 in the world for me. Name any who are better.

Dani Carvajal - the best right back in the world.
Marcelo - the best left back in the world.
Ramos - easily top 5 CBs.
Varane - this is the year we see him become rated as one of the best in the world.
Casemiro - forget the little guy who won the league for Chelsea and Leicester. Casemiro is every bit as good.
Modric - the Xavi Hernandez of his time. Who is better than Luca Modric?
Kroos - easily top 5. for all the stats lovers, find me a midfielder with better stats than Toni.
Isco - quite simply the best number 10 in the world. Who's a better 10 than the bandy legged bearded little beauty?
Asensio - the best young player in Europe right now.
Bale - needs a haircut before we can talk about him.
Ronaldo - proves his haters wrong time and time again. Has a new lease of life and has learned a new position, and will be banging in goals for 5/6/7 more seasons.
Benzema - top 5. Does the dirty work and is underrated by the fans.

Then you look at the 'reserves' - Kovacic/Ceballos/Theo/Vallejo - all top rated young players, with Kovacic obviously a bit ahead of the rest.

pffff, this is the greatest club side in football history.
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08-17-2017 , 09:50 AM
neuer
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08-17-2017 , 09:56 AM
let's make 1 thing clear:
A team with such offensive dominance that still manages to concede goals every week from bottom opposition simply DOES NOT have the best CB, RB, LB and GK in the world.

I mean, Carvajal? Seriously?

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08-17-2017 , 11:19 AM
"I'm a serious fitba analyst on the twoplustwo poker forums. Ronaldo isn't top 5 in the world, and Asensio is better."

lol
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08-17-2017 , 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by vruuuuk
let's make 1 thing clear:
A team with such offensive dominance that still manages to concede goals every week from bottom opposition simply DOES NOT have the best CB, RB, LB and GK in the world.

I mean, Carvajal? Seriously?

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That's right, Dani Carvajal - the best right back in world football, and the reason Madrid turned the corner from consistently losing semi-finals to lifting Champions Leagues.

I see he and Marcelo are the only full backs to make it onto the 24 man FIFA best player short list for 2017.
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08-17-2017 , 12:02 PM
Well, I can not argue against a list that has Zlatan Top10 for 2017.
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08-17-2017 , 12:05 PM
are we supposed to be surprised that Real Madrid is the best team in the world with the amount of $ they spend
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08-17-2017 , 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by JudgeHoldem
are we supposed to be surprised that Real Madrid is the best team in the world with the amount of $ they spend
yeah, Suarez and Neymar were free of charge, gifted to Barça for their brave commitment to the cantera
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08-17-2017 , 12:21 PM
well i'm not surprised that barca is right up there too. now if you want to compare those two and argue that real is superior have at it. but comparing them to the rest of the world? no surprises there
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08-17-2017 , 12:21 PM
noticing a lack of zidane GOAT

needs to do some weird stuff like play ramos up front for the first 3 minutes of each game and then put him back at CB if he's gonna get any credit
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