CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 David Villa has scored 20 goals or more (league and cups) in every season since 2001-2002... :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Good game, better than our cup final. They mentioned during the commentary that each team got 40k tickets. English FA take note... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted May 20, 2010 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 20, 2010 David Villa has scored 20 goals or more (league and cups) in every season since 2001-2002... :shock: That's because he's the best out-and-out striker in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Jose Manuel 'Pepe' Reina (Liverpool), Victor Valdes (Barcelona). Defenders: Raul Albiol (Real Madrid), Alvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Carlos Marchena (Valencia), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid). Midfielders: Xabier Alonso (Real Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Javier Martinez (Athletic Bilbao), David Silva (Valencia), Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona). Forwards: Jesus Navas (Sevilla), Juan Manuel Mata (Valencia), Pedro Rodriguez (Barcelona), Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao), Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Valencia). Not a bad old squad is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Alonso Xavi Iniesta Fabregas Villa Torres. It scares me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Alonso Xavi Iniesta Fabregas Villa Torres. It scares me What's scary is that Fabregas is not exactly first choice. David Silva nearly always starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 Casillas Alves Pique Puyol Marcelo Alonso Iniesta Xavi Messi Ronaldo Villa. From what I saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 Casillas Alves Pique Puyol Marcelo Alonso Iniesta Xavi Messi Ronaldo Villa. From what I saw. Marcelo :shock: a terrible left back. Watch the Sevilla game in October and Navas smoked him about 9 or 10 times. Iniesta hasnt played enough for team of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 27, 2010 Moderator Share Posted August 27, 2010 La Liga is back this weekend. Hércules - Athletic Bilbao Málaga - Valencia Levante - Sevilla Deportivo La Coruna - Real Zaragoza Espanyol - Getafe Real Sociedad - Villarreal Osasuna - Almería Racing Santander - Barcelona Mallorca - Real Madrid Atlético Madrid - Sporting Gijón I find it remarkable that they managed to avoid having any remotely interesting fixtures on the opening weekend Well done you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 I cant wait. i really fancy Atleti to do something big this year. to me Mallorca vs Real Madrid is a fascinating game with laudrup managing vs his old club. A guy i wanted at Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Bilbao ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 Casillas Alves Pique Puyol Marcelo Alonso Iniesta Xavi Messi Ronaldo Villa. From what I saw. Marcelo :shock: a terrible left back. Watch the Sevilla game in October and Navas smoked him about 9 or 10 times. Iniesta hasnt played enough for team of the year I said from what I saw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 This is an interesting read. Yes, it's more Barcelona vs Real Madrid stuff, very much from the point of Barcelona. While Barça do a lot of things in the right way, they are very very good at blowing their own trumpet, aren't they? They suddenly seem very keen to promote the idea that they fill their first XI with youth team players despite having a net spend of about €40m every year for the best part of a decade. Just because your star players came out of the academy doesn't mean we think the rest of your team did Barça. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 I have said that for years. The club has great PR and have for a while and not just about youth policy but about other things like Franco loving Real Madrid and how Di Stafano was stolen from them etc and makes casual onlookers feel sorry for their situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 They do harp on about it, but you only have to look at how many players in the WC final came through their system to see how successful it is. Personally I don't see the reason for them spending 69 million on Ibrahimovic when they had Pedro/Messi/Bojan from their academy and Eto'o from outside. I understand why they took Villa and for a decent fee though as he's the best striker in the world. What is for sure is that their approach is far more preferable to the outrageous spending of Madrid which is subsidised not by buisness practice but from taxpayers money. I would bet any money if Madrid didn't have those egotistical rocket polishers in charge, and spend more money developing their youth system (that has produced brilliant players through the years), Spanish football would be in a far healthier state instead of having two egotisitical clubs play silly buggers with stupid amounts of money in order to out do eachother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 The politics in Spain are hugely different though. Barcelona are unofficially the national side of Catalonia and they can call on people to dig deep for that reason alone. There is no real equivalent to it here, the only way of describing it would be to imagine what the world would be like if Rugby had never been invented and Football was the national sport in Wales. Cardiff City would probably be as big as Barcelona are because they would have an entire country behind them. Thankfully, everybody to the west of the river Severn prefers egg chasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Or that like Wales, Catalonia has more than one football club and so cardiff wouldn't get all the support. You really see the wrexham boys travelling down? There aren't any direct trains to start with. I have said that for years. The club has great PR and have for a while and not just about youth policy but about other things like Franco loving Real Madrid and how Di Stafano was stolen from them etc and makes casual onlookers feel sorry for their situation Yada yada. You really don't understand regional politics. For an irishman that's sad. When the british tried to wipe out the irish language they clung to things they understood and with the catalans it was the same. Franco forced the populous into the arms of the football club and yes franco did help underwrite funds for madrid and did help skew things. These things did happen. Where does your irrational dislike for barca come from? You have repeated it (a lot a lot a lot) so why? Why so bitter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 Barcelona win 3-0. Iniesta, Messi and Villa score. Iniestas goal was a peach too. Watching Madrid, they have to improve ten fold if they are to stand a chance of stopping them. Canales looks a player though, Ramos is a bit suspect at CB. ----------------------------------Casillas----------------------------------------- Arbeloa---------------Ramos--------------Carvalho------------------Marcelo -----------------------Diarra----------------Alonso--------------------------- Ronaldo-----------------------Canales----------------------------Di Maria --------------------------------Higuain---------------------------------------- Replace Canales with a fit Kaka/Ozil and that'll be their team. Weak in defence still IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villianusa Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 Barcelona win 3-0. Iniesta, Messi and Villa score. Iniestas goal was a peach too. Watching Madrid, they have to improve ten fold if they are to stand a chance of stopping them. Canales looks a player though, Ramos is a bit suspect at CB. ----------------------------------Casillas----------------------------------------- Arbeloa---------------Ramos--------------Carvalho------------------Marcelo -----------------------Diarra----------------Alonso--------------------------- Ronaldo-----------------------Canales----------------------------Di Maria --------------------------------Higuain---------------------------------------- Replace Canales with a fit Kaka/Ozil and that'll be their team. Weak in defence still IMO. Still time for them to buy Dunne and Collins. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 As Spain is a civilised country, you can actually upload the goals to Youtube without getting sued. Santander 0-3 Barcelona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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