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Huh? Where are you getting your sources from?
No way he's leaving this summer for free, unless we do a swap.

gonna be so hard not to see him between the sticks next season..

Valdes can't demand anything other than a transfer. Barca won't let him go unless they get a fair market price for him.

Lol I thought you're a Madrid fan

Im definately picking that jersey up soon too.

i enjoy madrid's football more but i have got nothing against barca. i love to watch both teams. i have barca's Ronaldinho jersey too

At least Pulis is a respectable individual who doesn't shy away from being honest about his tactics though.

Yes after Tito's reign and Klopp's project in BVB they should swap places.... really really would love to see him as a Barca Boss :D

Of course no disrespect to Tito. However if he were to step down due to his cancer or any case, then I'd love if Klopp gets the job. I feel like he can make great additions to our Tiki Taka style.

Klopp at Barca makes no sense.
Barca has its own identity of possession-based Tiki-Taka football. This gamestyle is not changeable!

Klopp let his teams play a total different style

Marcelo bielsa will come if tito step down..

Robbery, I agree that Klopp would introduce a different style of football, but it CAN make sense. We're not obliged to play Guardiola's football forever. And Klopp's style varies a lot too, he adapts the team to the situation if needed. The fast style of Klopp could work well at Barça too.

Of course I just hope he'll stay at Dortmund for a long time and that Tito can stay at Barça (in good health) for a long time too. And if you've read his interview TBS posted, you will have noticed he said he hopes to stay at Dortmund for another 3-4 years.

Since we are speculating about Tito if and when he decides to step down. I sure hope we take a serious look at Frank De Boer. He is one of the best coaches in the world right now.

I don't see him coming unless Rosell is out of office though. Rosell mistreated Cruijff and I don't think that will be easily forgiven

The amount of money they spend is shocking but this analysis is unfair. Real Madrid has one of the largest revenue streams in world football (and indeed world sport). On top of that they take care to buy players whose popularity leadsto higher revenues still (Kaka, Ronaldo..). So it isn't that bad a model. We spend a lot of money on our youth academy, they on more established players. Both are viable business models as long as you raise enough money.

Yeah, you can't say Pérez throws his money down the drain. But it's still a fact Madrid under his leadership stands for buying huge stars and winning preciously little with them. That much is a fact only stubborn Madrid fans who want to disagree with us will deny. Both 'Galacticos' eras have been disappointing Madrid eras.

The real shame in all of this is that they actually produce good youths, but never ever give them a chance.

Just 10 trophies in 10 years? There are some clubs that haven't won any in that time, lol. Okay they spent a lot, but even when they aren't winning trophies they've still been reaching finals, semi-finals and consistently being in the top 2 of La Liga. So you can't say the money is being wasted, that's unfair.

It's really only 5 trophies. The UCl once, the Liga 3 times, the Copa once. The rest are what you'd call Mickey Mouse trophies.

And Real Madrid are used to winning (much) more than half a trophy a season. If you know the amount of money spent, it makes it all even worse.

A lot of that has to go down to Barca's amazing run under Guardiola. And as I said its not as if Real have done badly, they've consistently reached the CL semi's and remain top 2 in the league. I guess they can just blame Messi for being too good.

how is the CDR a dressing trophy? its a long time pride and tradition of spanish football! it means alot! its a mahor cup with major signifigance and major prize money! and if your a smaller club, A SPOT IN EUROPE!

^ Nobody said CDR is a dressing trophy. "Considering that Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup are mere dressing trophies"
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I am not questioning Madrid's business model. Of course, Madrid has the largest revenue stream out of all football clubs in the world. Maybe United is the other one with similar football revenue and Barca is now getting close to them. So there is nothing wrong per se, about their spending. However, Perez prides himself with the galacticos.

He has literally thrown money down the drain with some of his signings. Of course, that's a lot of talk coming from a Barca fan considering Barca itself isn't necessarily the best spenders of money. But imagine, he bought Beckham even though they had Figo playing the same position. Beckham was bought to market the club in Asia. So the club did financially well but suffered on the field. He had the chance to sign Ronaldinho but some board members thought he was too ugly to carry Madrid's brand. lol

Of course his Zidanes and Pavons strategy ended up with just "Zidanes" being brought to the club every year costing them a billion dollars in 10 years and very little in terms of trophies.

Messingwtya:

"We spend a lot of money on our youth academy, they on more established players."

We spend €8 m per year on our youth system. Madrid and Bayern spend about 5 or 6m per year. That is nowhere even close to what "Perez" spends on buying players. I know Madridistas who dislike the fact that Madrid youth aren't getting promoted like they do at La Masia. As for the financial model, yes its viable. Did you know Madrid made about €100m selling its youth players in the past 10 years. lol Imagine if they had allowed "some" of those players to play for Madrid first team, they could have saved some of those millions. Well maybe.

Frankly, the galactico system is what makes Madrid Madrid, and is why I paid them any attention in the first place. It may not have reaped the trophies, but the idea is an appealing one. Even Calderon who took over Perez had a Galactico system in mind with the Dutch revolution. That model will never disappear whether or not Perez remains. Yeah sure, we spend a great deal on players, but it's like a real life Fifa game. Whenever you play those video games, you'd always want to assemble the best in a single team. Madrid is like a real life version of that, which is why unlike most of my fellow Madrid fans, I love that system.

Secondly, I am highly against Madrid youths playing for the first team. I'm aware I'm alone on this, but I have an ideal that only the best gets to play at Madrid. Meaning, you have to be an established player elsewhere before setting foot onto the Madrid first team. It's an elitist train of thought, but at one point, I was expecting to see this of every top club. Buying the best players off other teams, and winning titles and getting revenue from shirt sales.

http://www.fcbarcelona.cat/club/detall/noticia/els-jugadors-amb-la-nova-samarreta

Loving the Catalan colours on the away kit, getting that for sure.

Yeah i'm getting both, much better design than previous years...

This passing season we had decent kits, though too simple in my opinion. These kits look so awesome though. About time we have kits that look this intimidating.

ohhh that senyara kit will be wanting that.... and also found a retro kit in our nike store here in PI, the 1999-00 kit i believe.

Awesome, I love the yellow/red stripes. Might even buy one, though it's rather expensive.