The video! I’m ready to play RIGHT NOW!!!!
By: Kevin | June 1st, 2009TV3 showed it today, and a very helpful Barca fan posted it to YouTube. Enjoy, everyone, and lovelymofo has lived up to his her! screen name!
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Hey, Ciaran. Knock it off with the being right and stuff!
Great points all, and so true. I’ll go you one farther: Henry is impossible to replace, something we won’t realize until we actually have to. And that isn’t an Henry fan talking, it’s just the reality, as stated by Ciaran, of what he does for us. Soft or hard, a for-real scoring and passing threat from the left wing makes the lives of everyone easy as pie.
And I’ll say what Ciaran wouldn’t. The day might come when Iniesta will score 26 goals from the left wing, but that force field has to come down first. This year wasn’t it, and next year won’t be it. And I love me some Ghostface.
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Just because he hasn’t tried a bicycle kick doesn’t mean he lacks flair. Remember when Messi and Alves established that really tight relationship around December? That was pure flair. Back heel passes galore and some of the best chip passes ever.
Iniesta can do the same thing, and his dribbling is full of flair as well.
Moving on..at least this Kaka transfer saga is taking place within the day. The City saga was over the course of what, 2 weeks? Dreadful!
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ya it was so surprisingly quick already they seem moments away from making it official. Thats wats wierd about tranfers and transfer rumours. Sagas go on for months but when it comes to the actual deal thats done in a couple of hours. Like the last minute deal with robinho.
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Woah its like goal.com has centered all of its interests around the kaka saga. They’ve been firing up articles minute after minute. lol
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Lol, goal. com lives for these sagas. they must probably salivate when tis summer time.
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I dont understand why so many want to part ways with Marquez. I think Pique has learned a lot from him, and can continue to. Yes, Pique is better now because of his youthand athleticism, and Puyol has some edges on him, like his heart of a lion, and his crazy passion. But i think Marquez is our smartest and most technically sound defender. Not as fast or powerful as pique anymore, not as passionate or crazy as Puyol, but he can sniff out a through ball faster than them. He has a way better read on the game then them. His passing ability is also the best out of our backline. And he is also good defending and attacking in set peices, which is not something that most of our squad can boast.
Im not saying to start him 38 games. I am saying keep him at the club. He can be a great influence on Muniesa and Botia and VicSan, the Way Henry is for Bojan, the way Dinho was for Messi, and the way Xavi is for Iniesta. They can learn alot from their different team-mates. I think that if our young defenders like Caceres, Botia, and Muniesa learn from Puyol AND Marquez, they will be very formidable. We’ll be producing Pique’s left and right.
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I like the point about Marquez. I think the biggest issue is how many of those players do you carry? We could, in theory, have Puyol, Marquez and Milito.
That’s a lot of player-coaches.
I agree with the virtues of Marquez, but when you start thinking about roster spots….
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I agree with Jason, I think Marquez should get at least a season or two more. And, unless my memory is totally failing me, I don’t recall being overly impressed with Milito. He seemed to me to be Puyol-lite, with a tendency to get himself in trouble.
I will say tho, that I think we wouldn’t be having this discussion if Pique hadn’t developed into such a dependable fixture in Barça’s defensive line. Pique seems to have a good relationship going with Puyol and Marquez and has clearly learned from them. I think it would be great that some of the other defenders would benefit from the same exposure.
So, is Kaka really signing for Real Madrid? Hmm. Things sure are going to be interesting next season.
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And tutomate makes a good point about Eto’o. I said as much last summer about his negotiating position. Then he proved himself and said he didn’t want to talk about a new contract until the season ended.
It’s over. So start talking. Yes, I worry about him screwing the side. I still don’t think he’s forgiven the side trying to sell him last summer. I have nightmares about him stalling, having the season start and leaving on a free at the end of it.
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Argh, I meant to write “I think some of the other defenders would benefit from the same exposure.” My brain is on stutter today.
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kaka — his name goes well with the rest of the poo poo wearing RM shirts…
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Hey Hey Hey, a big shout out to all the fans of beautiful football! Seems like a certain Catalan team did the damage!
I love Samuel Eto’o (as a footballer..ahem) and I’ve hated Titi Henry for years. I want neither of them to leave but both of them to go :S
Eto’o has an inconsistent first touch, lacks the class (who remembers Henry’s goal away to Celtic last yr?) and distance finishing of say a Forlan or Messi. However he is gritty and can get off a powerful shot from almost any angle VERY quickly with a high degree of accuracy.
Henry isn’t the fastest but my word he has a first touch, height and oozes class (I don’t particularly like french nationals…particularly ones that send Brazil packing…I know this is blasphemy but I nearly cried when he scored vs Madrid in 2006 to send home Madrid…Ronaldo shot down again by Henry). Henry also lacks that little bit of killer instinct that Benzema, Eto’o and Ibra possess.
They are both so wonderful but Ribery + Ibra seem so much better on paper. Conversely Bojan being groomed for LF and Keirisson being groomed for CF this and next season seems better for the team. With Forlan, Ronaldo (R9) or Trezeguet for this one season to buffer the Cup of Nations period and ease the transition should there be any injuries.
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Marquez/Pique was, statistically, our best center-back pairing this season. look at the numbers, i believe it was like 8 goals allowed in 22 starts together.
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And the best in possession, BA.
I don’t understand the Bruno Alves rumours that have popped up a few times this spring/summer.
We’ll have Pique, Puyol, Marquez, Henrique, Caceres, Milito, and maybe one of Botia or Muniesa. Unless we play with 4 central defenders I don’t see where all of them will fit, not including any additional transfers in.I suggest we quickly snap-up Bruno Saltor & Filipe Luis and move further up the pitch…
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@kxevin. i’d keep Cap’n & Kaiser. no doubt that milito, but he offers nothing we dont have in pique, puyol or marquez. and i would rather spend fringe minutes on youth prospects than trying to get milito back to form. i have nothin but respect for milito, but i think its time. same with guddy. love him, but thnx for the effort and good luck with future endeavors…
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I’ve seen Ribery play a fair amount and I think he is a great finisher. I think he can potentially score 20+ goals on LW, but more than that, he will create plenty of goals. Henry creates plenty of goals, but Ribery is more explosive, more direct and will not mess around like Henry does sometimes on the wing. I really think if Henry was to leave and Ribery was to come (not saying they can’t be on the same team, just hypothetical), he would probably surpass the production of Henry. That’s the only player I can say would fill Henry’s shoes and then some. Everybody else is blah.
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Xavi has played about 196 games for spain and barca over the last 3 seasons. I dont know how much longer he can do i without rest and rotation, especially considering the increased games we’ll play next season, and the fact that after that is a world cup.
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“can do it”- that should read.
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Henry is the one that seems to like helping out the kids the most.
Especially Bojan. You can’t say his goal in the Copa del Rey final didn’t stink of Henry.
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Aww Bojan was sad that he didn’t get to be in the CL final.
I can understand. He did play in a bunch of the group stage games, though.
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@OhYes
To be fair, who was gonna come off for him? With 2 goals on the board an attacking sub woulda been a strange one, that said…Guardiola subbed on Pedro!! he could have easily subbed Messi/Eto’o/Xavi for the last minute of the game to let Bojan at least taste the grass.
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I thought it was a strange sub as well. I’d say he was wasting time but he still had another sub left so that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Imo it was just his way of saying that Pedro and/or the other kids will play a bigger role next season.
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“Pellegrini Can Do The Job
Vicente del Bosque, the coach of the Spanish national team, has expressed his confidence in Mauricio Pellegrini’s ability to lead Real Madrid back to the top. The former Blancos boss has even gone as far as to dub the Chilean as “the most brilliant overseas coach over the last few years”..”yeah… that was from goal.com. they just called him “Mauricio Pellegrini”… how do they have jobs?!?!?
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ramzi:
I hope your comment concerning my job was just a joke
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It was, mku. For sure.
Goal.com isn’t staffed by real journalists in most cases, Jason, and trust me….even real journos make errors of the most boneheaded variety. I can’t begin to tell you some of the howlers papers have tossed off in the States.
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