CBarca wrote:

futbol wrote:Thiago Alcántara: "I would never sign the phrase 'I would never sign for Real Madrid' - it is still football and Madrid is a big club."

Yet some fans are still butthurt because Barca didn't bother with a character like this.

So we should just let one of the best young talents in football go because he doesn't hate Madrid like we do? Please go.

As long as he's playing for us and with 100% effort (which he would do), I don't see what the problem is. YES, it's preferable that he would hate the scum and not want to ever play for them or even think about it, but I fail to see the problem really.

But yeah let's just lose one of the biggest young talents in football instead.

I still think that the guys a massive talent, but he is a mercenary. He had every right to move away from the club if he thought that was the best for his career, but he has proven time and time again that he was just a mercenary. Even before singing Cesc, he was threatening to leave the club.

And while I blame Rosell, Tito(especially Tito for not playing him when we had won the league) & co for his exit, but wasn't it for his injury problems at the start of the season the reason why he didn't archieve that % of game play?

CBarca wrote:

futbol wrote:Thiago Alcántara: "I would never sign the phrase 'I would never sign for Real Madrid' - it is still football and Madrid is a big club."

Yet some fans are still butthurt because Barca didn't bother with a character like this.

So we should just let one of the best young talents in football go because he doesn't hate Madrid like we do? Please go.

As long as he's playing for us and with 100% effort (which he would do), I don't see what the problem is. YES, it's preferable that he would hate the scum and not want to ever play for them or even think about it, but I fail to see the problem really.

But yeah let's just lose one of the biggest young talents in football instead.

We let him go because he was a showboater who showed some Hollywood passes here and some flicks there against fodder but never really enough to oust Xavi, Iniesta or Cesc yet he demanded just that. The one game where he wasn't just riding along the team success and had to take some responsibility was against Malaga in the Copa del Rey last season and he did this (first 10 seconds of the video):



Yet Tito should have started him in even more important matches?

Once everyone is fit at Bayern, Pep too will realize very soon that Kroos and Schweinsteiger are superior players and must start but Kroos-Schweinsteiger-Thiago isn't a balanced midfield at all and Martinez complements them better. Basically back to what Heynckes did. Thiago will start to demand more playing time. Pep will get "tired" again and take a sabbatical after Bayern's dominances ends soon with Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Ribery, Robben entering their 30s. Pep's successor won't play Thiago. Pep will join new team, probably Real Madrid. He'll start to call Thiago a "super super Spieler" in his press conference". His brother who is Thiago's agent will get some nice transfer bonuses again. The end.

futbol you have got to be kidding.. thiago offers things that kroos and schweini don't have first of all, second of all quit being butthurt and accept the management made a huge mistake