OUT: Rosell, IN: Second Place | The 2013-2014 Season Thread Pt. 2

Contract situations.
Age listed in parenthesis is the player's age when contract ends on June 30 of given year.

2014
Valdés (32)
Montoya (23)
Pinto (38)

2015
Piqué (28)
J. dos Santos (25)
Afellay (29)
Alves (32)
Cuenca (24)
S. Roberto (23)
Oier (25)

2016
Fàbregas (29)
Puyol (38)
Xavi (36)
Pedro (28)
Alexis (27)
Mascherano (32)

2017
Bartra (26)
Song (29)
Alba (28)
Adriano (32)

2018
Iniesta (34)
Messi (31)
Neymar (26)
Busquets (29)
Tello (26)

 

So Ronaldo and Neymar share a birthday.

It's also Hagi's birthday

 

Happy now ?

 

Any idea on ages ?

 

We'd better not mess up tonight , this is our only chance of a trophy this season , I feel .

 

hagi 49
teves 30
ronaldo 29
neymar 22
Adnan Januzaj 19

 

lol ok

 

Should be me laughing at your optimism

 

You think we have "no chance" in La Liga?

CL is tougher as it includes even more winner candidates, but even there I'd say we have a chance, even if I wouldn't say we're the biggest favourite.

 

Translated using google sorry

Wonder if the crowd will boo or whistle at alves the next time he plays

 

If that's the way you feel, then don't post in any more Liga or Champions League match threads this season.

 

What a strange reaction !

It's a forum .

 

Can't see us winning La Liga at all . Maybe third place as the two Madrid clubs appear to be getting stronger at the same time as we are getting weaker and playing poorer ....

 

True. But since you feel Barca can only win the Copa why bring your pessimism into Liga and Champions chat? What would that accomplish amongst others who believe the league is far from dead and buried?

Or do you just like trying to wind people up (trolling)?

 

I'm not a mod but I have no problem with a Barca fan posting pessimistic comments (about Barca players, coaches, game plans, likelihood of winning a match or a trophy) on any of our Barca threads, so long as the comments are not designed just to wind people up I think it is fine if not all of us wear rose colored glasses all the time.

FWIW right now Oddschecker shows Barca 13;10; Real 13:8; and Atletico 7:2 for winning Liga (with those odds considered I'd go for Atletico and the nice payout). In CdR we are also the slight favorite 9:10 vs. 21:20 for Real M, and 74:1 for Atletico and 350:1 for Real S.

For CL Real M takes the lead over us (given their much easier first elimination opponent):
Bayern Munich

13/5



Real Madrid

9/2



Barcelona

23/4



Manchester City

12



Chelsea

14

 

I have no problem either. Well, with four out of five of those things you list. For someone to suggest that the Liga (3 points behind first place) and Champions (have yet to play a KO match) are lost causes when we've only entered February is a bit too negative for my liking. A case of someone being spoiled with success.

 

Well "only chance" is certainly strong but that was tempered by "I feel" and frankly we've been playing pretty poorly in our last couple games, and there is the whole Messi has not scored from an open play in La Liga in over 4 months (sure, he was out injured for half that time). So it was a strong statement / feeling but I could understand feeling pessimistic given recent results. We started amazingly under Tata, we are spoiled, lately we've played a few poor matches. No need to panic, but OK if a fan feels nearly all (CL and Liga) is lost and wants to share that on here.

It is just a feeling, it may prove prescient or preposterous, time will tell.

 

I'll give the Zlatan fan this: The whole "I feel... only chance" losing mentality places himself in a future a win-win situation. I guess.
If Barca win La Liga or Champions, "Yippee!"
If they don't, "I told you so!"

 

I think I'm just being realistic to be honest considering that we will probably be 5 points behind A Madrid by Sunday

 

Ah ....playing the 'troll' card .... so predictable