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I'm discussing Lucas Piazon. This is the Lucas Piazon topic. Other people seem to be discussing in-game moments though which surely should be in the La Liga section in "Football Banter", no?

I guess I'll post it then. Surprised no-one's jizzed or even noticed the fact he's made the 2nd-most tackles in his team.

People can criticize Torres for being shit (check his goals/assists stats for this season though, eh?) but the moment I even hint that a different player is nowhere near good enough (which he's not. suck my big hairy toe) people get butt-hurt? Double standards? Or...

He got an assist, which I stated. I mocked (if you could even call it that, but I wouldn't) Athletic Bilbao if anything for being crap this season. Then added the final comment before the inevitable (not so much now) comments about him being our future by delusional people who think football is such a simple thing where flair and being Brazilian means you're the next big thing. The final comment on my original post could be considered sarcasm aimed at fans, not mocking of Piazon. Now if we're to take sarcasm away from the world, won't it be a bit of a dull place?

I did nothing of the sort in regards to mocking him. No one's posting updates anyway aside from "ASSIST!!!!!".

I don't understand how anyone could take offence from my posts above unless of course there's some truth to them. I didn't criticize him at all. The fact is so many people, despite not admitting it, take half their opinions on a player from the media, Youtube videos or websites like WhoScored.com. Unless it applies to you, no one should be taking offence.

Because I like Malaga.

HIS CURRENT RATING ON WHOSCORED.COM IS 6.7!!! I REALLY THINK HE COULD BE THE NEXT MESSI BUT FROM BRAZIL!

Yep. That settles it. An assist vs. a team which has been utter shite this season and just 6 points above relegation. Next Kaka for sure!!!

Just checked some real-time stats. Piazon has touched the ball the least (2) amount of times compared with any other player on the pitch.

We didn't damage football ffs lol. Prices for players were always going to go up, weren't they? If anything we saved football, especially in England. Tell me, how many teams were competing for the Premier League title before Roman came along? How many English teams were a threat in the Champions League? Which team made the game in general up their safety etc. and get ambulances in place around the stadiums just incase something happened? (It could be argued that Muamba would be dead right now if not for us.) Which team set the blueprint for teams like PSG (who have now made Ligue 1 actually exciting) or Manchester City who've now also upped the excitement of football in the Premier League? If the argument for us damaging football is 'we made the prices of players go up', err, no, we didn't. The clubs who sell off those players choose to sell said players at high prices because everything increases in time, especially in the recession. Players had gone for way bigger fees than the ones we paid before we were a top club. I think saying we damaged football is just going along with the popular, deluded and ignorant opinion which has been adopted by many of our opposition's fans due to the media needing a scapegoat which has been us for a decade.

Balotelli tonight got his 3rd MOTM award in a row. He's only even played 3 games for Milan so far I believe. 4 goals. Looks like he's finally found a home.

Maybe we loaned Piazon to Malaga to entice them into selling Isco to us, so that he'd fit into the team with Pellegrini's eventual arrival, hm?

Pellegrini has been in management for what, 3 decades? He turned Villarreal (remember them?) into pretenders, so much so that casual fans were like "WHAT THE FUCK?!" when they eventually got relegated. They never should have been as good as he made them. Oh and look at Malaga. How are they doing in the CL this season? A bit better than us, I must say. He uses a 4-2-3-1 formation really well and has implemented 4-4-2's into his teams too which I've loved watching. However, with that said, all his managerial tenures have been in typically hot climates which somehow seems to coincide with a slower tempo than the PL. I believe he's great though. I truly do. He just really does understand the game like few current managers seem to show.

Ronaldo's jump alone proved to me personally that he's the greatest athlete to ever play football. Not greatest footballer; greatest athlete to play football. Key.

MOYES. JOSE. PELLEGRINI. ANY OF THOSE 3 AND I WILL JIZZ. I personally feel though that Manchester City would be best for Moyes. I genuinely could see him creating a proper legacy there which would (unfortunately) elevate Manchester City quite a bit higher than us in terms of 'big clubs' within a decade.

Well that's my named ruined. Sigh. What even is this?

Well that was unexpected.

Well this has been embarrassing.

@Rmpr, Bitch.

Yes. I'd like him. People will obviously post "WE HAVE MOSES AND OSCAR AND MATA AND HAZARD AND MARIN AND PIAZON AND YOU WANT HIM TOO? WOW!" but they've clearly not seen enough of this guy. I think he can become a great player (right now I'd say he's VERY good.)

Every time someone plays absolutely shit, shitter than the rest of the team and is criticized for it, doesn't mean they're being the 'scapegoat'.

Why start with such a strong line-up if you're not going to instruct the players to press hard and get as many goals as possible meaning they can be rested for the return leg you FSR ("R" meaning "Retard", of course.)

What a pass/cross/piece of magic/whatever that was from them