If it were up to me I'd keep Tello and promote Deulofeu of course getting g rid of Villa and Sanchez this summer. I just feel more comfortable with players that have the Barca DNA because they fit in better. Plus Delofeu is a player we have to carefully nurture he has good potential, same with Tello as he is developing that left foot of his.

Thiago is the main person we should try to keep. He's the only other midfielder that plays Xavi role so well, and Gaurdiola saw him as something really special which is why he is so important

Tello deserves to stay.... But I feel like his play time will be even less than before. For a good part of last season, Tello was our second best Forward, but unfortunately he got ignored consistently.

Now with Neymar coming to steal the position he wanted the most.... His chances might be even more limited and maybe it might be best if he left or loaned out as sad as that is

Thiago on the other hand, if he leaves, I may not be able to respect our management for a long time...

Thiago should stay and just be patient. If he stays fit this upcoming season, he will play even more than he did last season.

Tello was our most threatening and promising left attacker last season in my opinion. Unfortunately for him, Neymar just arrived and will be the starter in that position. I would seriously consider loaning Tello out to a team that needs a left winger so that he can get more time and experience. Upon his return, if there is a place for him, great. If not, at least his value will have increased if he does well

So as a whole, you guys like Tello, and are comfortable with him playinga bit-part role next season? I for one don't think he is very good, and he is about to be 22, and I believe he should be better than he is right now if he is to be Barcelona quality, but it's not really my place to say, is it?
I've said before that Thiago is my favorite of your players, and he strikes me as a humble guy, so I like him. I think La liga is better off with players like him in it.

Yousif, are you really ready to give up on Sanchez? Is this a sentinent that is generally shared amongst you guys? I don't watch much of him, but for that pricetag, do you think he could be put to better use?

Weegeez, how do you think Neymar will be deployed, and do you think he will have to settle for second fiddle? If so, how do you think he will cope with that, and how different will it really be from Sanchez, Villa, and the rest?

I got questions for days boys!

Thank you for your input, Alfrodo. As I said, I don't think much of Tello, and I am one of his harshest critics, but then again I don't watch as much of him as you lot do. I think you guys should consider the benefits of giving Tello away on loan as you said, and have Deulofeu taking part in the same manner as Tello did last season

@Madidista174,
No, Yousif's sentiments are his own. I would say the vast majority of us still have faith in Sanchez and he ended last season with a bang. I personally could care less if he is not scoring a ton of goals as long as he continues to pull defenders away from our other attackers and keeps up his awesome assist tally

I have followed football transfer windows long enough to know that if a player has a lot of public transfer rumors surrounding him for months and doesn't come out to state or comment about it, then it means he most likely wants to leave

And this was posted on the ManU forum:

"nos vemos EN manchester" means See ya in Manchester.

That was written on match ball Thiago got after his hatrick. Here is a pic.

^Most likely written by De Gea, who obviously wants his best friend to go to United to be with him. Doesn't necessarily mean that it will happen

I was so annoyed with Ginoboli, played so bad this game. I think he had like 8 turnovers and his decision making was so poor. This game was certainly the Spurs to lose and now its time to hit back

Can't watch basketball if my life depended on it haha anyways, just though I would share my amazing opinion. Carry on

Yeah but he did get some crucial blocks against Lebron, who wasn't on his best tonight, he lost possession horribly on multiple occasions, especially in the last quarter

I rarely watch Basketball as well Sanchez, but I do watch the Finals. Damn that was a really close game and pretty intense, I hope the Heat win it though, I love Lebron james. At the same time.... I want Duncan to get his ring and retire

Spurs need to win. It is the right way for any team sport to move. The collective > individuals. The Spurs are a team, they share the ball, they look for the pass, they all play defence for each other. Miami is just too individualistic

Amazing

Since he just typed a dot, I think what he was trying to say was,

"The full stop (British English, Hiberno-English, Australian English, Indian English, South African English and New Zealand English) or period (American English and Canadian English)symbol derives from Aristophanes of Byzantium who invented the system of punctuation where the height of placement of a dot on the line determined its meaning. The high dot (˙) was called a "periodos" and indicated a finished thought or sentence, the middle dot (·) was called a "kolon" and indicated part of a complete thought, while the low dot (.) was called a "telia" (from Greek τέλος "telos: end") and also indicated part of a complete thought. "

I think he was going to talk about Thiago.... I wonder where I coulda come up with that

A single dot.... That's probably the secret language of Man UTD fans. I have studied it and I can translate the text to you guys. It means:

"Thiago Thiago, thiago.... Thiago! Thiago thiago thiago. Thiago Thiago? Thiago thiago thiago thiago thiago. Thiago, Thiago Thiago!

PS. Thiago"

@maaza, lol.... But your comments are displaying after a hour. Why is it?

^I don't know but it's really annoying. I'd better contact MWY again....    (I wonder when will this comment be displayed lol)

Lol.... After 1 hour only.... You must contact a mod soon...

You are the first here to post Iniesta is a magnificent player

That's too after chelsea kissed mourincho's ass.... Incredible...

My favorite midfielder ever.... Might be the best ever too

LOL! Posted already two posts below, my bad

Lol the more the merrier. Btw I have to ask, whats the inspiration behind your user name?

There is a person name Zidane, if he was not born, inesta would be my all time favorite player

@barcelona2013, same here...

^ bitches please if the person with name of ronaldhino was more disciplined, then no one (apart from his own student aka Messi) would have been on number 1 position

It seems like Iniesta always play awesome after a little break. He was on fire against uruguay and was MOTM for me by far. I can't wait to see him play again

In my opinion, none were as significant as Llarramendi, but Thiago had a brilliant tournament too. I'd rank Thiago as the third best player of the tournament, just barely behind Isco. I thought those 3 were in a different league.

And if it weren't for some of Spain's senior players, you'd probably see them on the senior team

\white you to take into consideration that thiago was injured this season and didn't get much play time. While isco started every much. Personally I would prefer thiago in spain. But for madrid isco is the guy

I'm talking about the tournament Hunjisoo. In the tournament, I'd rank the players in the following order,

1. Llarramendi
2. Isco
3. Thiago

During the regular season, Thiago didn't get as much play time, and Isco was a prominent player for Malaga. Isco has improved whereas Thiago's development has stagnated.

But in the U21 tournament, they both had enough play time to be judged together, and I thought Isco was better than Thiago

@white I have to strongly disagree. I see Thiago as the future of midfield. We'll have to see in the future

If Thiago plays for a club that will give him the opportunities he needs, preferably Barcelona since Xavi is nearing his end, he'll definitely be the future of Spain. He might even lead them one day.

However, strictly speaking of the U21 tournament, Llarramendi and Isco performed at a better level than Thiago, especially Llarramendi - he was the engine of the Spanish team and contributed equally well in defence and attack

I think next season will be crucial to them all. All of them very good its hard to put number on them for me. But isco is magic like iniesta

Llarramendi was performing busquests role and he did pretty good job at that

@Hunjisoo

I remember comparing Isco to Iniesta and saying the main difference was in speed, but not many would agree with me. Surprised that you were the one who did.

As for Llarramendi, check the Real Madrid forum for my response on why he's more similar to Alonso and not Busquets

At white I really liked your writing on isco and gladly agreed but you are so wrong about Llarramendi. I did see what you wrote. I got a piece on Llarramendi for you on the forum

Thanks and I've given you my opinion on that matter again too.

For all the hype around isco he was invisible in the final. Other than the penalty, you wouldn't say he made a top contribution.

Illaramendi was the most consistent imo. Isco had a couple good games, and overall did very well. But thiago was just as impressive in his role of switching play, playing guys in forward, and splitting the defence with through balls

It's Illaramendi, not Llaramendi

^It's Illarramendi, not Illaramendi

Illaramendi because he is ill

After SAF left, they need something to get excited about. It will be interesting to see if they even finish in top four in the EPL next year lol

Lol.... True.... But if they get him, then we sucked...

Got it...

Who didn't think that? I don't think there is anyone here which doubted Thiago

I didn't and still don't think he is ready to be a starter, I don't think anyone ever thought he wasn't ready to play with the big boys though

I honestly think for the average game he has more to offer than Xavi. For bigger games Xavi is needed.
Thiago does pretty much what Xavi does just not as accurate and maybe doesn't have the ability to read the game just as well but he's really damn good at it.

He can play Xavis role with a few additions, quicker passing, more unpredictability, faster, better in the air, better at defending, has stamina to sprint up and down, and lastly he is over 10 years younger than Xavi, which only means he has so much time to become better.

Now no disrespect to Xavi but the above is clearly true. We can't keep saying oh Xavi is always the number 1 starter to sound more loyal of a fan, because don't get me wrong I love Xavi and watching him play but Thiago is far ahead of Xavi and Iniesta were when they were his age. With him training with them eventually the student beats the master. This is a case of what's nearly about to happen

Thiago is good.... BUT my oh my did you see Iniesta against Uruguay? .... Genuis!.... No better word to describe that fella

I feel if he wants to go let him go, who cares. We should try to keep him and pay him a bit more if he wants that, but common.... Tired of these players with no loyalty

".... Tired of these players with no loyalty. "    Tell me about it

He was injured, remember that. And Tito was out with cancer, he had other priorities for months. But I agree that the management replacing Tito and whose duty it was to alert Tito of a contract clause like Thiago's are to blame. He should've played him more, not just to make sure the clause couldn't take effect. Same for Montoya, who is a fantastic prospect, same for Bartra, even though I think Bartra won't be good enough for us in the end

Don't talk out of your ass. Thiago was some 5 months injured last year, missing the whole of the pre-season and a month during the season as well only 2 months in to the season. Once he regained fitness, he's played 90 minutes in most of the remaining matches, and played in all but one. If you want to blame anyone, blame those who made his contract, allowing his buy-out clause to drop even if he was injured

Why the hell is Bayern linked with him anyway?
Muller, Kroos, Schweini, Ribery, Robben, Shaqiri, Martinez, Gustavo, Tyomoshchuk, Can, Hojbjerg and Gotze not enough for you?

^I wouldn't be that sure that Bayern are actually interested in Thiago. It might just be another rumor

@7anzalla: I think out of all the top teams, Manchester United will be the best destination for him. Not because I'm a Manutd fan but because we got a weak midfield that he'll be a sure starter in.

Bayern, Juve, and City are overloaded with quality in the midfield

If Bayern are linked with him, it means he is available. Thiago would love to link up with Pep again I thik that much is certain. I don't think moving away is the best way to get noticed for the NT though

Kaiss69, United will be a good option for Thiago only if he will play at his favored position. But he will waste his talents at United if he has to play at double pivot, the position most United fans seem to want him to play

At least Pep would give him some playing time. If there is a buy-out clause Bayern shouldn't hesitate. They have the money and the coach to form a young and hungry team

@7anzalla:
Actually it's just Müller, Schweini, Ribéry, Robben, Shaqiri, Martinez and Gustavo. Kroos and Götze are presently injured and Can and Hojbjerg played for the second team most of the time

@GloryRedDays, Don't Matter, they will still be available for the team next year. Your midfield is already overcrowded

Don't think so. If that would be the case it has already been the last season and there it worked pretty well. Tymo has already been transferred to Zenit and the only player who came on board was Götze. So at the moment we have the same amount of players we had last season when we won the treple

@gloryreddays, woooo you think you guys still need a midfielder? I don't see Thiago getting much playing time then he got with us last season & we have already stress enough on why that wasn't all our fault.

Manu might gave him more playing time but I am still not convinced that they will alter their formation to play him in his best suited position & as what I understand he want more playing time because of next years WC but I think it's too late already & chances of him playing vital part is upcoming WC is slim

Why would Bayern need Thiago? He doesn't even play for Dortmund...

I thought he was the POTT in the U21 tourny two years ago as well. What a talent. What a shame he got injured so he didn't play all minutes needed this season. I'll be really upset with him AND with the Barça management if he leaves for next to nothing the way Kagawa, Sahin and Götze left Dortmund

If Thiago leaves, I'm jumping the wagon to wherever he goes

Really?! Dude, I'll always be a Barça fan in the first place. If a player leaves us when we need him, I'll just curse his name and carry on wearing my blaugrana scarf with pride

I'm sure Sanchez was joking, he won't dare put in a transfer request

Hahaha oh Jeroen, you crack me up

Sarcasm fail, by me for once!

But no really, I will lose all hope in our management. We have done some dumb mistakes over the year, but this one would be too much to bear

I think our management have done a very good job since Rosell took over and a good job in Laporta's days. Sure, we signed a few flops, but 2/3 signings and academy promoted kids turn out great. That's a MUCH better return than most top clubs. And the appointment of great staff and our marketing policy is great too.

But if Thiago leaves, it'll be a big stain on a stainless track record for Rosell so far

Not sure it is "stainless" the way which he treated Cruijff was a terrible start for him, and then cutting a couple of the amateur sports from the club wasn't looked upon well. He also closed the door to membership to the club, although later offered a much tougher route to becoming a Socio

I meant financially and sportively, but yes, not stainless overall

Not even one half played, Thiago hat-trick! Give him a €100, 000 a week contract Rosell, please

Tello is blistering always puts the defenders on the back foot