eni4real:
New Challenge crew are confused now!!!
They be like:
"Barcelona is nothing without Messi", "Messi is nothing without Barcelona"

Please pick a struggle... Which one is your opinion!!!

Loyalty and GOAT status belong to Leo Messi...

Other players can only try to be a Legend in different clubs but not Number 1 legend of that club or that League!!!


38 years old Aduritz is proving to us that age is just a number, just like 36 year old Quagrilera became the king of goals in SerieA last season!!!

Aging like Nigerian wine guys!!!

Both.

Messi is a system player. And the system at Barcelona thanks to the inept coach with his #PassToMessi tactics makes sure that the engine only functions when he is on the pitch.

That is why you'd see a team having Dembele, Griezmann, De Jong struggle to place a shot on target despite having 70+%. How do all those players become bad players simply because a certain fraud is unavailable.

All it'd take Barca to move on from Messi is one season. ONE.

Because when you don't perpetually have to pass to one player, your innate ability will come through.

-Lord

Lovely goal

Starhearts:


I won with
Hertha Berlin------ Handicap(0-2)2
Galatasaray------Handicap(1-0)1
Barcelona---------Handicap (1-0)1
Am happy die

I played Bayern over2.5
Galatasaray u3.5
Barcelona u2.5

They will lose next match too watch out

RyanD147:
Bayern draw, Galatasaray and Barca lost.

I dey pity bet9ja addicts!

I rather use my money to eat snacks than playing bet9ja.
It's a scam but the idiots won't know.

JimohMomoh:
Did anyone noticed that all Athletic Bilbao players are all Spanish, both the ones at the bench.
That's impressive.

Not just Spanish.

90% of the players are from the basque region of Spain

The club is known to sign players born in the region and also retain them for long periods

RyanD147:
Bayern draw, Galatasaray and Barca lost.

I dey pity bet9ja addicts!

Calm down. Barca caught me off guard. I played the game a day before the match, not until Velverde said he won't risk Messi. I checked the Barca squad and I realised back has no reliable attackers, only Messi and midfielders, that was when I realised I was in soup.

I had checked Bayern Munich squad earlier, and seen they have nothing to rely on too, so I avoided them.

As for Galatasaray, who bets on Turkish clubs? If NFF shows commitment, NPFL would be better than that league.

Even if you check last season, you will realise Bilbao and Hertha BSC gave Barca and Bayern serious problem last season.

HaryoBamex:
Chai Barca which way na...

First game of the season and you guy lost...

This Barca team are making me believe that without Messi, you guys can't win any game.

Messi should Sha heal fast fast.

They don't have wingers. Only Messi and a bunch of midfielders working for him.

Barcelona just proved us right with Messi's absence.

Serves them right

fredoooooo:
If I lost with such goal, i will just clap, go home and re strategize for the next game ... #Whatagoal

Barca is trash in the absence of Messi. Seems like that club was intentionally built around Messi. No wingers. Just a bunch of midfielders. All they did yesterday was pass, pass, pass. No meaningful threat to the opposition. Only one shot on target.

LordAdamX:


Both.

Messi is a system player. And the system at Barcelona thanks to the inept coach with his #PassToMessi tactics makes sure that the engine only functions when he is on the pitch.

That is why you'd see a team having Dembele, Griezmann, De Jong struggle to place a shot on target despite having 70+%. How do all those players become bad players simply because a certain fraud is unavailable.

All it'd take Barca to move on from Messi is one season. ONE.

Because when you don't perpetually have to pass to one player, your innate ability will come through.

-Lord

Bros you're were making sense when you talked about the coach being inept and technically deficient but Messi isn't a fraud. He has played under at least 5 coaches and he was Barca's best player under almost all of them. So don't include Messi in the problem of barca. The problem is the coach and the board.. whether they all pass to Messi or not messi's class will still shine through

JimohMomoh:
Did anyone noticed that all Athletic Bilbao players are all Spanish, both the ones at the bench.
That's impressive.

If you must be Spanish to play for Bilbao, you must be Basque....
Even the coaches too....you must be Basque,if you must be from Spain..

The club carry that Basque thing for head.....

if this Barcelona team meet Manchester city now, with or without messi they will be beaten blue/black in and out. the first half was interesting and the second only when athletic got that goal courtesy aduriz

fergie001:

If you must be Spanish to play for Bilbao, you must be Basque....
Even the coaches too....you must be Basque,if you must be from Spain..

The club carry that Basque thing for head.....

Nawa oo,so a player from any other European country can't play for them,so wat will happen if a player as important as inaki Williams decides to switch allegiance to Ghana since he still eligible

Bet9ja fans, how market?

JimohMomoh:
Did anyone noticed that all Athletic Bilbao players are all Spanish, both the ones at the bench.
That's impressive.

Cos they use only basque(region) born or citizen, this was also practised before by real sociedad. Know that before cos im la liga fan.

simiife:


Nawa oo,so a player from any other European country can't play for them,so wat will happen if a player as important as inaki Williams decides to switch allegiance to Ghana since he still eligible

Even if you are Basque,and have played for any Madrid club, they won't buy you!

Owaincouncil:
And messi was there, he couldn't score a toy kick

who did this to you? I want to know

GreenWhiteGreen:
And how's coach the problem?

the coach is the problem , if I have all these players and u still play like shit? Then u ain't good . Ajax with a less better squad plays better football , same as Lyon . Barcelona without Messi is like Huddersfield

zang:



How can a coach drop Busquet and rakitic on the bench

Valverd should just take a walk away

Roberto and Alena and fdj are still pretty decent , that's not an excuse , it's not like busi or rakitic have been any good of late . Valverde needs to leave , with valverde still in Barcelona , I swear make Barca sign everybody both dead legends and living ones them no go still win UCL with this man , and it seems like he has instilled that loser mentality in all his players , just listen to what pique said after the game . Such a loser


Luis Enrique: if psg can score 4 we can score 6


Valverde : if we can score 3 , they can score 4


Valverde : if they don't score at all , we don't need to score .


This man is not fit for a super club like Barca , maybe for teams like Sevilla , Westhampton ,wolves.

Sedonxavi:
The goal was so sweer

Very sweet

JimohMomoh:
Did anyone noticed that all Athletic Bilbao players are all Spanish, both the ones at the bench.
That's impressive.

Not all.

They are all Basque though.

The club only signs Basque players.

fergie001:

Even if you are Basque,and have played for any Madrid club, they won't buy you!

That's not true.

If Alonso were to come from retirement today, he can play for Bilbao.

The requirement is simple: you must either have Basque parents/grandparents or must have spent years in your youth in the Basque Country. Even someone like Griezman qualifies

fergie001:

If you must be Spanish to play for Bilbao, you must be Basque....
Even the coaches too....you must be Basque,if you must be from Spain..

The club carry that Basque thing for head.....

The Basque region is in both France and Spain, plus there are many Basque descendants in South America. It's not a Spanish thing.

fergie001:

Even if you are Basque,and have played for any Madrid club, they won't buy you!

Datz ridiculous, even LA liga sef get some stupid rules,imagine no club is allowed to have more than 3 non European in their match day squad, not even starting line up

TheEmpire304:

einsteine:


That's not true.

If Alonso were to come from retirement today, he can play for Bilbao.

The requirement is simple: you must either have Basque parents/grandparents or must have spent years in your youth in the Basque Country. Even someone like Griezman qualifies

Thanks...

For Alonso,maybe or maybe not...but this rule is unwritten, and is sometimes neither here nor there as in Antoine and Laporte.

Madrid in most terms is technically seen as a rival.
I doubt if there is a player that have moved from Real to Athletic, though.

simiife:




Datz ridiculous, even LA liga sef get some stupid rules,imagine no club is allowed to have more than 3 non European in their match day squad, not even starting line up

They know most of their players don't leave Spain nah, and want to grow the home stars that they have.
Perhaps,that's why they aren't short of talent.

einsteine:



The Basque region is in both France and Spain, plus there are many Basque descendants in South America. It's not a Spanish thing.

But the club seems to be the only loyalist of that rule for now.

fergie001:

They know most of their players don't leave Spain nah, and want to grow the home stars that they have.
Perhaps,that's why they aren't short of talent.

True,inaki Williams and dat dia no 10 are 2 very crazy guys in dat team,barca vs athletic Bilbao last sewson dat d guy came off d bench, c hw d guy was just enjoying himself in d midfield

I pity griezmann in that Barcelona team..
He don't know what he has gotten himself into..
To me barca is not d right team for him to be

If you watched this team during preseason you'd agree with me that there was nothing shocking about the defeat, they are as disjointed as a pack of chips on the floor.