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Barca will be back - You can probably get a good price on them to win the CL next year |
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Anyway, imo no they are not. Yes certain players are coming to an end, but they still have some great players (obviously) and because of these players / the last few years they will not struggle to sign new players. In other words i think if Barcelona want you, they get you. |
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He was the highest scorer and next big thing in Brazilian football, Barca bought him for a lot of money and yet he failed to break the first team and how at the age of 24 Barca farm him out to whoever will take him and the only place he's managed to make any waves at all is back in Brazil. And you don't think that should be a warning? |
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As for the decline of Barca....yes Not decline in terms of results or it being the end of the Barca success world, simply that the fashion has moved on. That doesn't mean Barca will be less effective - just that there will be a new model in town. Remember 1998? Everybody wanted the French model with powerful fullbacks, 2 crunchy giant powerhouses in the middle and a sulky, black, fast striker up front. Then along comes Barca with its penchant for swarthy,quick passing midgets. Now - the German model of handsome keepers, small mobile fast midfielders and giant, lumbering (preferably Slavic or Eastern European) white guys strikers is the model to which we aspire. Bratwurst > Chorizo > frogs legs |
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I think the 'fashion' thing is a good point. To further it go back about 10 years, maybe a little bit longer. Everyone's fashionable team was Real Madrid, the Galacticos. They have Raul, Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, and later on Beckham. They were supposed to dominate world football for years with this buy the best player once a year policy.
But they didn't. Between 2000 and 2004 they won one European Cup, two League Titles and two Spanish Super Cups. That isn't bad, but it certainly isn't dominating. I think that, amongst other things, is why the 'Galactico phenomenom' faded. Barcelona will come again, it's just that most have divorced them and moved onto a German wife. |
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I watched the 2008 euro final in a packed pub full of men and women who thought it was 'fashionable' to want spain to win. I was along with one other guy, the only one who wanted the germans to win. I am the original hipster here. This time next year I'll have another country in my sights. It's the way I roll. It's like a sick sense. A twinkle in the shaft when I see something about to get great. |
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Except they didn't really. They kept the ball and choked, smothered and drained the opposition. Like a python. Which is ironic because if a spanish person tried to say 'python' it would sound ridiculous. |
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