The 2011 - 2012 Season Thread | "Return of the moc!"

True, but that's still worrying statistic because remember that the team always had 65-80% of ball possession. How can opponent scored that much within very few chances?

 

Messi win El pichichi, 4 goals clear.

 

Good graphic for whose played the most games and minutes in Liga this season for Barca:

http://estaticos.sport.es/resources/jpg/2/7/1336941893072.jpg

 

I think Messi is set to win Ballon d'or again with champions league golden boots and el pichichi

 

Please tell me this monstrosity is not our new jersey.

 

Yeah, it's even worse than this season's jersey. How can their designers get it so wrong? Simple and traditional would do just fine at least for me. Have to admit though that their job is not made easier with the mandatory inclusion of the Qatar Foundation's ugly logo (what's with that we can't have that tree logo instead of that ugly font logo btw?) though I guess the deal was financially so good that it was worth making. Away kit looks sort of energetic by default because of its "energetic colours" but um yeah not a fan of fading colours. Just give us back the 2008-09 jerseys, man are these worse than those...

 

Barcelona traditionally wear red and claret. I don't get it, how can the designers not be able to make something cool and spontaneous with those colors?

 

I'm gonna guess though that it - again - looks better on players.

 

Okay, new home shirt is not as ugly as expected. But it doesn't look like a Barça kit at all to me.

Away shirt. Let's just say that it's keeping in the tradition of having the away shirt be as ugly and loud as possible.

 

Having seen the official (and not pirate) versions of the kits in good quality pics, I kinda like 'em. Will surely look even better against the green pitch, in motion and on players. Also like the new fonts in names and numbers.

Thought they were ugly but was wrong. Now let's win Copa, make smart summer moves and let's see us win some trophies in those shirts.

 

I think it's just that picture of the shirt that was on Sport that made it look like such a debacle. I've also seen the real thing in pictures and on players and feel a little relieved that it looks better. Still not crazy about it but not as horrifed either.

 

^ I would go as far as guessing that counterfeiters can produce a faded colour effect with not much difficulty (if they want; there are obviously a lot of counterfeiters who don't even aim for a design that resembles the genuine article in any observer fooling way). Nike's (and Barca's) profits come more from the fact that each season brings a new jersey, not from the particular designs of the jerseys I would guess.

 

Villa played with one of our youth squads today and declared himself no longer in the running for Euro 2012. Sad but seems safer and more realistic - keep training in controlled environments for a full recovery by August for Barca.

I also read we scheduled a friendly with PSG in Paris, August 4th I think.

 

sucks for spain, but that's good news for barca. hope to see him back to his best next season fully fit with something to prove.

 

The home jersey isn't bad on its own, but it doesn't look like Barcelona. For that reason I don't like it. The away jersey I think looks pretty cool when matched with the yellow shorts.

 

^ Nah. The 2012/13 jersey is a step not as far as this season's jersey was IMO.

 

http://sportige.com/lionel-messi-better-than-ronaldo-best-in-the-world/

Ronaldo set a new La Liga scoring record with 46 goals; Messi outdid him with an even better and hard to grasp 50. Ronaldo scored 10 goals in 10 champions league matches? Lionel Messi scored 14, topping the competitions scoring charts for a fourth straight season, on the way becoming the first player to score five goals in a UCL match.
In total? Ronaldo finished with a very impressive 60 goals, making it 146 for him in 144 matches for Real Madrid. Lionel Messi? He set a new record for most goals scored in a single season, ever, in the whole of Europe, currently with 72 goals. There’s still the final against Athletic Bilbao. Expect Messi to score. It’s the only title left for him and Barcelona this season.

Numbers aren’t a definitive way of measuring quality in the sport, but we’ll throw another one at you – Assists. We’ve already established that without Messi’s goals this would have been a very bad season for Barcelona. Don’t forget his assists. He had 15 in the league, 28 in all competitions. Directly involved with 100 of Barcelona’s goals. Cristiano Ronaldo has 12 in the league, 15 in all competitions. Great, but not out of this world like Messi.

 

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/88/s...ssi-confirmed-as-european-golden-shoe-winner#


Lionel Messi has been confirmed as the winner of the European Golden Shoe award for the continent's top scorer.
The mercurial Argentine scored an insurmountable 50 goals in Barcelona's La Liga campaign, finishing the season four goals ahead of the runnerup Cristiano Ronaldo.