~El Clasico~ Real vs. Barca

[Master]

Selling Alonso for £30 million was a good deal from Liverpool.

[Oggie]

Selling Alonso for £30 million was a good deal from Liverpool.

Any team that sells to Real Madrid are getting a good deal.

[Kirkland Laing]

Barcelona are just breathtaking. They're a joy to watch. I hopw they win the Champoins League again.

Brazil have two schools of football futbol de resuldad (playing to get a result) and futbol de something or other (Portuguese not my strong point ), the beautiful game football where it's a if you score 3 we'll score 4 all out attack attitude. Beautiful game football. Brazil abandoned beautiful game football after the 1986 world cup to play result football but their 1982 and 86 teams played the best football I've ever seen until this Barcelona team came along. And seven or eight of them came through the Barcelona youth system, players like Xavi and Iniesta. It's a privilege to be able to watch them every week.

[Oggie]

Barcelona are just breathtaking. They're a joy to watch. I hopw they win the Champoins League again.

Brazil have two schools of football futbol de resuldad (playing to get a result) and futbol de something or other (Portuguese not my strong point ), the beautiful game football where it's a if you score 3 we'll score 4 all out attack attitude. Beautiful game football. Brazil abandoned beautiful game football after the 1986 world cup to play result football but their 1982 and 86 teams played the best football I've ever seen until this Barcelona team came along. And seven or eight of them came through the Barcelona youth system, players like Xavi and Iniesta. It's a privilege to be able to watch them every week.

Yeah man, it really is total football they are playing. Usually you have teams that are either really exciting or really successful, rarely has there ever been a team that fills both criteria as much as the current Barcelona team do. The fact that a ton of their star players came up through their youth academy makes it all the more impressive! A proper club!

I honestly cannot think of any club team that I have seen in my life that could beat them at their best. Last year, they took the English champions (Man Utd) in the Champions League final and absolutely obliterated them, and United were highly impressive last year in their own right! This year again, Barcelona man-shame English title contenders Arsenal in a way I have never seen before. They did the same to Inter (Italian champions) earlier in the Champions League too! It's a different level they are at, when you see them against the other top European teams you realise just how big the gulf in class is between them.

Their assembly line of a youth system has a few potential wonderkids lurking in the shadows again now... remember these names for the coming years - Jonathan Dos Santos, Marc Bartra, Marc Muniesa, Thiago Alcantara, Victor Vazquez and Gai Assulin.
Each one has star potential, particularly Dos Santos and Assulin (whom Chelsea reportedly tried to buy in 2005 when he was only 15.)