Negative

Lenglet and Umtiti haven’t been terrible, although Umtiti form has fallen off a cliff and he’ll probably leave this summer.

Surely Pjanic will work out for them? Griezmann, Dembele and Coutinho have been unmitigated disasters.

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 4 minutes ago
With Kung Fu in this one, we may manage top 4 next season if we manage to keep our first 11 fit and firing all year, but every team gets injuries and fatigue.

We need another attacker, a CB, LB and sign Ighalo, think we’d be a shoe in for top 4 and can start to think about keeping pace with City or Liverpool.
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Top four is going to be interesting next season. You’d have to assume ourselves and city are in it, then Chelsea are looking strong and adding quality players, spurs and arsenal seem to be trying to outdo the other on who is more shiiiiiiiit, Leicester have hit a wall, but Wolves look here to stay in the European spots of the league and another couple shrewd signings this summer could see them battling all the way.

Then there’s the matter of whether city will be allowed in Europe...

I don’t think they’re really good signings, though. Umtiti looked like he could have been then become a crock. I don’t really see Lenglet as a particularly good player.

Fack knows with Pjanic. I’ve always really liked him as a player but by all accounts he’s not been at his best the last couple of seasons.

Barca’s presidential elections can’t come soon enough.

Mad to think it was only a few years ago they had Suarez in his prime, Messi and Neymar as a front 3.

They’re in danger of Real running away from them, despite real having lost Ronaldo and Barca still having Messi

Barca are a mess at the moment, sh-t manager who no one listens to, Messi ageing and being too relied upon which he shouldn’t be, terrible transfer business, I’ve heard that La Masia’s quality has dropped significantly as well. Luckily for them however they exist in a 2 team league so while they’re currently poor and Real will most likely win the league, they should be able to fix things without the added pressure of competition from too many other domestic clubs. Think they need a new president but don’t think elections are for another year, Abidal probably needs replacing too.

Messi hasn’t covered himself in glory with some of his ko round performances, but you’ve gotta feel for him that complete fack ups at board level has potentially lost him a couple more CL titles.

Madrid are weird, they don’t seem to bother that much with domestic domination. Fixated with the CL.

I guess Real’s legacy is build round those first 5 European Cups so they feel it’s theirs.

Yeah but they’ve had periods of domestic dominance since then. Though you needed to win the league to get in so maybe that fuelled it. Since the CL came in it’s like they don’t care that much about titles as they’ll always qualify for the CL.

Though in their defence, it’s hard to win the league when your rivals have the most consistent footballer to ever play the game.

It’s strange that in the future when people look back at this period they’ll probably see Real’s 3 in a row (and 4 in 5) and consider they were the best side but they weren’t anywhere near as good as Pep’s Barca imo.

They weren’t even as good as Valverde or Enrique’s Barca.