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We would suck ass. Like your mom does.

Are you being serious, wormy?

Haris should get a job as a journalist. What a massive exaggeration. Apologies if you got your info from another article but that article says nothing about it not happening.

Please post the article.

Which everyone would take.

Like it or not we've got a massive stadium, massive fanbase and a history that is attractive enough for foreign players. Any player picking other clubs over us at the moment better have a real good reason for doing it because apart from the top 6, weve got the most potential. Anyone who rejects us to stay in Scotland is a stupid cunt of the highest order

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Dave's just trying to put the reverse jinx on this transfer.

Eh? How is he set to join Valencia? Why would Lorient accept a lower bid for him? Have Valencia upped their bid?

alpal's definition of this Plan B is pretty precise. Read it. I'm not saying they don't dive; they do. They have Busquets who's a major cunt, and Alves who loves a tumble as well. I'm not saying they don't surround refs but I'm quite indifferent to players appealing (in any form) so I don't consider that as something to criticise them for.

So firstly you say that Barca plays clean football most of the time and they're not cheaters and divers in general: then you say this: err because Man Utd tried to play attacking football (with two strikers) which worked perfectly for Barcelona. The diving and cheating to get opponent sent off is Barcelona's Plan B, they only use it when they can't get past a flooded midfield. So what is it? How can it be Barca's Plan B if they've only ever used it once? They've played Real 5 times this season and only in that away semi did that shit happen. Does that sound like a Plan B to you? You've already made a lengthy post saying Mourinho's been successful against Barca yet Barca haven't resorted to this ingenious 'Plan B' in any other game.

If you think that it was only one match then why are you making such a big deal out of it? It was a dirty, ugly match which Barca won by actually trying to attack and score. The end. They also handled Real quite easily in the second leg, and this time without all the shenanigans.

Yes. He had the chance but blew it by thinking he had too much leverage. I suppose he let his first good season with us, and his first good season in football for a good 6 or 7 years, get to his head, and now he's going to pay for it. He'll never get the same money from another club and if he ends up leaving, I bet you he'll end up signing for less than what we offered (because we wouldn't have asked him to take a 50% paycut after a good season). I don't know what his agent is doing letting him signing up to twitter and venting like this. It's not exactly conducive to creating a good team spirit when you have a player openly criticising his boss, and every other manager/owner in the Premiership will be aware of this, and of course they're aware of his terrible past. I'm always for second chances but Barton's on his umpteenth and he still hasn't learnt the concept of 'doing the talking on the pitch'.

For fuck's sake, not the picture

Just read another report that says that he's going to stay.... Anyway, he's a great player and was so crucial to their play over the past 15 years. They'll struggle without a top class CM. Who do they replace him with? No one there is good enough. Maybe someone like Fabregas but Arsenal would never sell him to Man Utd. I think Modric will end up at Man Utd.

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Err, so tell me why Mourinho's teams always find themselves in controversy. Like I said, the common denominator in all this bullshit over the past 4 or 5 years has been Mourinho. He has always taken things to the extreme. No one is going to deny that Barca has some divers, with Alves and Busquets being the key offenders. But apart from them and maybe Pedro, who else in that team dives? Who else in that team 'cheats'? Puyol is quick to go down as well, but that's it from my perspective. Villa doesn't take ridiculous tumbles, Xavi never seems to get tackled, Messi shakes off challenges for fun... I don't see who else in their team apart from the two main offenders who are causing you so much angst. I think your love of Mourinho is clouding your judgment. Let's also not forget di Maria diving or Marcelo diving as well. Ramos and Cristiano routinely made the most of any challenges near them. Look, it's quite boring to talk about. Both teams played an ugly game. Both teams pressured the referee and tried their best to make the most of every situation, Real players included. You seem to painting a picture of Real playing football and Barca doing all the diving and moaning. From what I remember, it was an ugly game in which both sides participated. Maybe Real did a little less diving than Barca, but they sure as hell did a whole lot more kicking than Barca, and that is against the rules too. How you single out that game and incessantly go on about it like that one sole match is indicative of this Barca side's 'true' self is quite ridiculous. 'no connection between the tactics employed by Mourinho and what Barcelona did on that shameful night' - lol. Get a fucking grip. Mourinho employed those tactics and Barca played along. The fact that Barca don't usually resort to those tactics while Mourinho finds himself and his team in similar controversy year-in year-out should be a big fucking clue to you.

We'll just get drogba himself if we come close to the top 6 next year and chelsea eventually get aguero.

Holy shit these last few sporting days has been fucking brilliant. I'm going to quote everyone who laughed at me in the carroll thread for suggesting that we'll be as close to the CL as Liverpool are. If we actually get the players we seem to be wanting, we'll be closer than them. I will cherish the day we finish above Liverpool again and it seemingly will come a hell of a lot quicker than I ever expected. I suppose the only downside to all this is whether pardew can mould these exciting players into a good team. At least carver has the pedigree in that he must have learnt from SBR the way you organise an attack. It's ironic that Ashley didn't spend when KK was here because he would be salivating at the thought of coaching the players who are rumoured to be signing for us. I am getting way way way ahead of myself but fuck it, it looks like shit just got real and we just got good. Fast, too.

Gameiro Gervinho zoggy HBA Tiote cabaye We'd fuck barca up with this lineup. We'd fuck everyone up real bad with this line up. We'd be fucking bad ass with this line up.

I'm feeling pretty confident about this.

Madrid were equally disgraceful. They bring the worst out in Barca. I know barca got a lot of deserved shit for that but it's completely overblown. Froggy said that they dive and cheat when they lose... Er, no they dont. When they lost to man utd in '08 they lost fairly. When they were on the verge of losing to Chelsea they were losing fairly, only the ref had a complete meltdown. They lost to inter last year after having a goal ruled out and having an offside goal scored against them. And that was with inter wasting time from the fifth minute of the match. It is mourinho that is the common denominator. It is him who goes to extreme lengths to win, and he drags everyone else down to his level. His Chelsea side, as good as they were, was never a clean football team and their football, as effective as it was, was ugly as hell. Barca have pretty much always played it fairly. When they lost to arsenal this year they lost fairly. If you think this barca team cheat and dive to win then it's a shame that you think four matches against a mourinho team is indicative of their general style of play. I'm not saying they don't have divers; every team has divers. I'm saying they're not worse than anyone else so to form an entrenched opinion over something like this is pretty ridiculous.

Winning creates team spirit. When you win, players are happy. Get some quality players in and we'll be much better off than if we bring it nice lads who fit into the camp. As long as we don't have someone completely destructive, we'll be fine. Our CL team had a bunch of players who had a bad rep but they were damn good footballers and we fought hard and never gave up(feyenoord!).