For real. Wouldn't want anybody associated with their player recruitment regime associated with our clu...oh
What a pathetic Barca squad. Not a single club in the world that's done a worse job of recruitment in the past decade.
Awful. That second leg would be painful to watch. Honestly, this neutral site single-game knockout thing rules. I know it can't stick in the Champions League, but hopefully teams take the Club World Cup seriously when the expanded tournament happens, because it'll be two weeks of this.
Just watched the highlights. Wow. Also, Jordi Alba threw the ball at the ref and got a yellow card. That should be automatic red.
like, y'know, you know the annual buys and stuff but that's dribs and drabs. you don't feel the full impact. actually seeing the full list of names in that ESPN article and the money amount was absolutely insane.
schadenfreude is not my jam but coutinho with 2 goals and 1 assist to finish out the last 15 minutes of the game was kinda gold.
Barcelona are old and slow and were shredded by a much more athletic team. They should be an object lesson for Arsenal in their rebuild. Arsenal has speed on the on the wings and at the fullbacks, but to get to the top level, they need to be much quicker through the middle.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/philippe-coutinho-barcelona-liverpool-transfer-22525250 It just gets better and better for Barca if this is true. We screwed the pooch with the Ozil and Luiz deals, but this is disastrous.