La Liga 2013/14 Discussion Mk. 2

Barcelona icon Johan Cruyff believes Neymar is the biggest problem at Camp Nou as a result of his extortionate salary.

The 22-year-old joined Barca from Santos ahead of the 2013-14 campaign and immediately became one of the Blaugrana's highest-paid players.

Cruyff feels the attacker has yet to prove himself at the highest level, though, and thinks his rivals up front could be unhappy with Neymar's high wages.

"Barcelona's problem is Neymar," Cruyff was quoted as saying by El Mundo Deportivo.

"He is a great player, let there be no doubt about that, but you cannot sign a 21-year-old and pay him more than players who have won it all. Nobody is god at the age of 21.

"Plus Barcelona already have the greatest player in the world [Lionel Messi] and a 21-year-old kid cannot be the key figure. This is impossible in football. At the age of 26, yes, but not at 21."

Khaled wrote:Real Madrid have the easiest schedule...
Atletico the toughest...

Barcelona have to play away against Espanyol on Saturday and away against Villarreal in the end of next month... If we manage to win these games, a draw in the final game vs Atletico might be enough to win the title... Although, none of the remaining 8 games is going to be easy...

Week 31, 35 and 38 are the most decisive ones...

LeSwagg James wrote:We need to get rid of every defender except Varane, then buy 3 Italian's..

Varane + 3 Italians at the back

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

The_Badger wrote:The kneejerk reactions on here from the experts is hilarious.

Nowhere near as hilarious as Madrid getting hyped every year when they go through a decent run of form and when crunch time arrives they fall like a pack of cards.

Happens every season, but still no one ever learns.... If they don't win anything this season you would think it would be lesson learnt but alas i doubt it.

The yearly Madrid hype rollercoster:

June-August: Purchase every star available for 12000 bazillion euros and the fans and press are predicting they will win the treble.

August-December: Team runs into trouble trying to get their dysfunctional team to actually work, hype decreases substantially but fans are still hopeful.

January-March: The coach finally finds a system that works and Madrid beat laligascrubs by 7 goals margins. THE TREBLE TEAM IS HERE.

April: As Madrid enters the decisive face of the campaign the team inevitably flops. The fans and press wonder how this team assembled by how marketable each player is could have possibly failed.

May: The coach & players are scapegoated and the hype reaches negative levels. The fans and press have set the way for yet another summer cleaning.

Repeat endlessly.

M99 wrote:Nerman to lead Barca to the title, it is known

And Barcalearning pls stfu

Arquitescu wrote:Lopez? Lopez is a nobody. As for De Gea I like him yet still don't trust him as for all his spectacular saves, he still must evolve his game beyond just shot-stopping.

Reina has been better than both as VDB will trust him to be the 2nd choice GK as per usual.

BarcaLearning wrote:

M99 wrote:Nerman to lead Barca to the title, it is known

And Barcalearning pls stfu

Awww what did I do? I sense strong Man U fans jealousy/envy

jibers wrote:De Gea has become a far more complete keeper. His aerial presence has vastly improved. His shot stopping is his main attribute and his distribution is improving. Please, he is a much better GK than Reina. Arq your Liverpool bias gets in the way. Reina is an okay gk, nothing more. I hope Napoli keep him. He won't ever get back into our starting 11.

Pippo wrote:I'd have to respectfully disagree with what you have to say regarding De Gea.

He's developed more into a complete goalkeeper with great distribution and control in aerial situations. He's also not error-prone at all -- the big one against Sunderland is the only one that has happened to him in the past year or so, I think -- and he has superb reflexes.

However, I have a thought that many of his spectacular saves comes from iffy positioning. I could be wrong at that, but I wouldn't go out of my way to analyse how he positions himself in goal all the time.

Yohan Modric wrote:1 - Raphael Varane picked up his first yellow card in La Liga after three seasons playing for Real Madrid.

M99 wrote:

BarcaLearning wrote:

M99 wrote:Nerman to lead Barca to the title, it is known

And Barcalearning pls stfu

Awww what did I do? I sense strong Man U fans jealousy/envy

lol everyone who knows me knows I am a Barca fan so yeah pls stfu with that WOHOOOO nonsense.