That's not so easy to say who's been our best player imo.
Without Tiote we might have conceded far more goals and without Barton we wouldn't have scored that many. You can add Carroll to that sort of 'most important player' as well.
Fuck, I'm probably the most stupid person on that planet. Just realized that this is only the 2nd leg with Real having won the 1st leg 8-0. Would have never put any money on that.
We must surely be quite far down the line in negotiations with one of our targets if he is coming out and saying this.
Remember Kinnear and how many we apparently had down the line that time...