Yes Chelsea are the Champions of Europe, and they deserve to be that, and yes Real Madrid are the Champions of Spain, and they also deserve to be that, but in my opinion Barcelona are still the strongest team in the world. The thing is Barca had a relatively good season, people talk like barcelona's era is over, but thing is they just had an off season, specially the 3 consecute games against Madrid and Chelsea made their season look like a failure. Just 3 games. luck plays a huge role in football, and chelsea and madrid worked their asses off to be what they are today, but deserve every credit for their accomplishments, but if Barcelona were a little more clinical in the semifinals against Chelsea, they would most likely have been European Champs now, and nobody would say they are not the best tam in the world.

I am not a Barcelona fan, but
i think Barcelona are still the strongest team in the world. 3 games can't change that, or can it?

wat do u think?

Xavi's too old. They will never find another Xavi.

PS : Real Madrid had more chances than Barca at Camp Mou

agree or disagree with this:

barcelona would win 8 out of 10 games against chelsea, they played 10 games against each other like in a month. in 2 legged afairs one team can have on off game, and that's why not always the strongest team wins the champions league. but in 10 straight games i don't think chelsea could be very succesful against barcelona.

barcelona would win 6 out of 10 against madrid. now i rate madrid very highly and they are with bayern the closest teams to barca technical level. but barcelona could possible still be superior over 10 straight games with madrid.

I still think they are.

However, Madrid certainly are getting closer.

Chelsea however, are the best team in Europe

Kick wrote:I still think they are.

However, Madrid certainly are getting closer.

Chelsea however, are the best team in Europe

i did see what u did there

juanamo wrote: in 2 legged afairs one team can have on off game, and that's why not always the strongest team wins the champions league.

Urm, teams can have an off day once but twice in a week means you aren't good enough. That's why it is a two legged affair. If you don't do well on one day, you do have a chance to make a come back on the other. Barca played the attractive football, Chelsea were smart. They deserve the Cup. Also, why would you play the same team 10 times? Lol.

And as far as being the best team is concerned, they are under Tito now so things are going to be different. With teams looking to strengthen left, right and center.. its a pretty even field now.

Kizu wrote:Xavi's too old. They will never find another Xavi.

PS : Real Madrid had more chances than Barca at Camp Mou

In the copa, true
In the league, not so much..

Blanco wrote:

juanamo wrote: in 2 legged afairs one team can have on off game, and that's why not always the strongest team wins the champions league.

Urm, teams can have an off day once but twice in a week means you aren't good enough. That's why it is a two legged affair. If you don't do well on one day, you do have a chance to make a come back on the other. Barca played the attractive football, Chelsea were smart. They deserve the Cup. Also, why would you play the same team 10 times? Lol.

And as far as being the best team is concerned, they are under Tito now so things are going to be different. With teams looking to strengthen left, right and center.. its a pretty even field now.

How were chelsea smart? Is it smart to give barca(and bayern) so many clear cut chances? Were they expecting on both messi and robben missing a penalty?

Chelsea were lucky throughout the whole CL campaign in the way that all of their opponent forgot their shooting boots at home..

Barcelona is the 2nd best team in the world, after Real Madrid. IMHO

harhar11 wrote: How were chelsea smart? Is it smart to give barca(and bayern) so many clear cut chances? Were they expecting on both messi and robben missing a penalty?

Chelsea were lucky throughout the whole CL campaign in the way that all of their opponent forgot their shooting boots at home..

Well, its not Chelsea's fault Barca and Bayern screwed up their chances right? They stuck to their game plan and got the reward. Both FCB's were woeful with their attacking and Chelsea were clinical with the chances they got. That's what matters.

On the other hand, Real Madrid were second best to Bayern, who in turn were second best to both Dortmund and Chelsea. I think we should scrap the notion of "best overall", at least for this season

rwo power wrote:On the other hand, Real Madrid were second best to Bayern, who in turn were second best to both Dortmund and Chelsea. I think we should scrap the notion of "best overall", at least for this season

It doesn't work that way, Arsenal beat Dortmund so Arsenal are the best - Arsenal beat the European Champions aswell

Real Madrid is the best team atm, even though they lost to Bayern in penalties.

bayern barca madrid are top 3. dont know in what order. going by this season you can't say there's an outright best team. all 3 tops teams have their flaws. it's too hard to say which one is better than the other. before 2009 there wasn't a team known as the "best team", a team a level above the rest. imo a couple of games into next season and a couple of good performances from barca early next season, will see fans and pundits rating them the best again.

Well, it will sure be interesting whether Barca can actually perform as good as they did the last years - Guardiola left, and Xavi isn't getting younger either.

time for barca to fail to qualify from group stages

Barcelona are still the best team in the world, but never had the best squad in the world so it was always going to be injuries that ended our era, we will be back next season though to spank Madrid a few times.

Yep, barca finally got some injuries, boo hoo cry me a river, they dont look so great now they dont get to play their best 11 all the time

Kick wrote:I still think they are.

However, Madrid certainly are getting closer.

Chelsea however, are the best team in Europe

Can't deny this.

NO they arent.

They have the best midfield in the world and thats it.

I personally think this season has ended with no true best team....

Chelsea won the CL but finished 6th in the league.....

Bayern got to the final but were easily bested by Dortmund in the cup and league.

Madrid won thier league but lost to the only decent opposition that they faced.

City won the league in England but were knocked out in group stages of CL.

Juventus went through thier entire league campaign unbeaten and won the league but wasnt even involved in european competition.

And Barca were 2nd to Madrid in Spain and lost to Chelsea in the CL who as already pointed out were 6th in the PL how can you be the best if you finish 6th in your league?

Theres no outstanding candidate this season to decide who is the best for me.

Real Madrid are the best team in the World, since we won the league and lost the semi final on pens.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I personally think this season has ended with no true best team....

Chelsea won the CL but finished 6th in the league.....

Bayern got to the final but were easily bested by Dortmund in the cup and league.

Madrid won thier league but lost to the only decent opposition that they faced.

City won the league in England but were knocked out in group stages of CL.

Juventus went through thier entire league campaign unbeaten and won the league but wasnt even involved in european competition.

And Barca were 2nd to Madrid in Spain and lost to Chelsea in the CL who as already pointed out were 6th in the PL how can you be the best if you finish 6th in your league?

Theres no outstanding candidate this season to decide who is the best for me.

Stop copying my posts

Based on my understanding unless Barcelona finds proper replacement for Puyol and Abidal , Its possible that they can never recover and go back to their dominance days , I found Barcelona defence rather Shaky without Puyol but he is getting Old and finding the replacement might be the hardest task Barcelona faces , its the same story about Abidal for different reason

Disagree. This whole idea of best in the world is becoming very tedious. End of the day they are out of the champions league and are not even the best in their own league. So no. They are not the best. Inter were better than them in 2010 as well.

The truth is people just like the idea of calling them #1 because of the rubbish we are being fed by the media. Guardiola said that Barcelona play wining football. They didn't win, hence they are not the best. The excuses people would find is incredible. Madrid are better than them, the La liga table doesn't lie. They were not in the cl final. End of story. Trophies are the only objective measuremnt of a teams strength. in before supercups and CWC.

At the moment there is no 'best' as some people have pointed out. MAdrid got outclassed by Bayern, who in turn were demolished by Dortmund and lost the league by a margin as well. Chelsea finish 6th although they came under new management now so that is a bit hard to define in that respects. Barcelona came a distant second to Madrid.

So no, Barcelona are not the best team in the world, they are not the best team in Europe and they are 100% not the best team in Spain.

Yes. Who's better, Chellol, Moudlol, Baylol? lol

jiopsi wrote:Yes. Who's better, Chellol, Moudlol, Baylol? lol

Madrid are better than you. They battered you in the league. Chelsea beat you over 2 legs. LOL you're not even the best in ypur own copuntry ffs.,