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Valencia v Stoke Class.

Fucking hell man, was thinking the same.

those 4 along with Danilo makes them a good team.

Heavily criticized in Brazil for their performance. Says it was one of their worst performance whole season.

Absolutely if you by B mean players like Adriano, Maxwell, thiago, Keita and so on. Still think without the regular defenders theyd have problem against Neymar, Borges, Ganso and Elano. And whats the point in not bringing the best when youll win it with them. Because of other priorities. The same reason why any players are rested.. ever. I understand that you obviously love this cup, but the majority of European fans don't. I would imagine many don't even know the cup is on right now. Playing your best players, risking injury for the important competitions, is something that I wouldn't be doing. Let me give it straight to you. I do not love this cup. I however do not understand why Pep would rest his players when he hasnt done it the other time he played it. Pep will be bigger the more he wins. this is creme de la creme of the supercups. It *may* well be the creme de la creme, but given that nobody actually cares about any Supercup, it's not really a ringing endorsement. I don't believe this will not increase Pep's stock 1 iota, he's already crafted a Barcelona side that has brutally raped everyone in Europe, so beating some two bit Arabian team and a mediocre Brazilian team means absolutely nothing. I'm not saying Pep will rest anyone, but are you actually saying you can't understand that it might cross his mind, given he just had a player ruled out for the entire season in a pointless game against some godawful Arabian team? Mediocre? South Americas best team is mediocre? Get a grip of yourself. Dont forget that the value of 2 santos players is almost €100million (basically the value of NUFC acouple of years ago).

Absolutely if you by B mean players like Adriano, Maxwell, thiago, Keita and so on. Still think without the regular defenders theyd have problem against Neymar, Borges, Ganso and Elano. And whats the point in not bringing the best when youll win it with them. Because of other priorities. The same reason why any players are rested.. ever. I understand that you obviously love this cup, but the majority of European fans don't. I would imagine many don't even know the cup is on right now. Playing your best players, risking injury for the important competitions, is something that I wouldn't be doing. Let me give it straight to you. I do not love this cup. I however do not understand why Pep would rest his players when he hasnt done it the other time he played it. Pep will be bigger the more he wins. this is creme de la creme of the supercups.

Absolutely if you by B mean players like Adriano, Maxwell, thiago, Keita and so on. Still think without the regular defenders theyd have problem against Neymar, Borges, Ganso and Elano. And whats the point in not bringing the best when youll win it with them.

Semtex. Without his top 10 players they wouldnt win. And if they dont win what is the point of even flying there?

Well said, also Pep is not a guy who likes losing anything. Neymar will only have a good game if Ganso, Elano and him can keep possession along wih Borges. Rest of team is pretty awful.

Barcelona will take this very seriously. Beat Al Saad 4-0 with Messi, Villa, Pedro and so on all playing along with resting Alves, Cesc and Pique for the final. Obviously, as I'm not the manager of Barcelona, I don't know for certain either way... but surely Pep may be a smidge apprehensive about playing his top stars, given the fate of David Villa last night... "Nice players you got there, would be a pity if something happened to them". Still doubt Pep will put a weaker side Sbecause of what happened to Villa. Its still a final, and its surely bigger than all the supercups going on. Neymar will dominae from the off

Id sell him if his price is 10 times what we bought him for.

Barcelona will take this very seriously. Beat Al Saad 4-0 with Messi, Villa, Pedro and so on all playing along with resting Alves, Cesc and Pique for the final.

Agree VI, its not the biggest but 2 extremely fun teams to watch!

Yes sir. Will be a good game.

Aye

No, but Neymar was like Pele. His goal shows why he is class, two-footed.

they will. Check Santos goals today though. Neymar scored a beautiful goal.

Didn t find a thread on this subject. Going on right now in Japan. Extremely huge in South America but never really had the same reputation in Europe. Santos just beat 3 - 1 Kashiwa after Neymar scored a very good goal. Barcelona playing Al-Saad tomorrow and Sunday probably a final between Santos and Barcelona. Will be great seeing Neymar and Ganso going ahead against the best in the world. Ganso was back to a normal performance today, been a long time since he had a good game. Neymar will show his quality and his value will raise another €15million.

Fact is. Without game time against the lesser teams we will never get to know how good he really is. We can't rely on him only playing the big teams because the other sides are more physical or whatever. Pardew got it completely wrong not playing him no Saturday.

Krul Danny Willy Colo Santon Obertan Tiote Cabaye Jonas Ba Best Is what I think we'll see although I'd rather start Ben Arfa than Obertan.

£25 on City. Returns a profit of £50. That said City won't win, I jinxed it.

Be a much better option at LB and its not like we would be losing a set piece expert if Taylor is drooped, as Taiwo is a fine taker of free kicks. We also have Cabaye who can take freekicks as well. I hope Raylor is back to the good form he started the season with against Norwich and that he only had problems because the players were much better than him and not that hes completely shit.

Would be really happy with that, even if I don't rate Taiwo particularly high. he's better than Danny and Ryan to be fair.

Ben Arfas best position is clearly a free role, where he can roam into whatever space he wants. That said, I think behind the striker is the only place where I see Pardew willing to risk to have such a player. Personally I'd play him out wide especially with Ba having tracked back so much before when playing with Best and think both of them coming from deep would cause teams all kinds of problems with Best or Shola winning headers and outmuscling defender.