Good luck to Sergi Roberto in his next chapter. Grateful for his time at Barça, but I think he served as another example of the club still learning how to make those tough but necessary decisions on players and knowing when to let go of them when their time is up. Remember that Roberto was supposedly getting a contract renewal in 2024 before Flick’s appointment. He went to Como afterwards but wasn’t able to make his mark there over the last two seasons, partly due to physical issues. If you recall his situation at the time, parts of the Barça fanbase were so reluctant to let him go and believed he was essential for the squad development. Not saying he wouldn’t have been helpful for his locker-room presence, but I believe that, way too often, this club is so loyal to the players to the point that it struggles to move on from them even when it should. The squad is a lot better now, but there are still some hard decisions that need to be made (and should’ve been made) this summer regarding certain players’ futures if the club wants to take the next step in the right direction.

Todo mundo por dentro, sem qualquer jogador aberto e pisando na linha lateral.

My opinion on Portugal. Roberto Martinez will have blood on his hands if Portugal exits the World Cup early. Secondly, the big Portuguese players did not step up. I’m trying to make excuse for Vitinha, maybe because he’s had a long season. He did not step up. Bruno did not step up. Joao Neves was their best player today, and he also put them ahead. Ronaldo had two good chances but fumbled it, overall I can’t blame him much because the whole team was not good. I understand the coach leaving him on because they needed a goal. How is Tomas Araujo and Renato Veiga the starting CBs? Let’s not forget to give DR Congo some credit, they made it difficult for Portugal. Anyways, what’s your opinion on the game?

اخر ظهور لفيرمين

🇳🇴 Haaland: 57 goals in 51 caps (1.12 per game) 🇭🇺 Puskás: 84 in 85 (0.99) 🇧🇷 Pelé: 77 in 92 (0.84) 🇦🇷 Batistuta: 54 in 77 (0.70) 🇵🇹 Ronaldo: 138 in 221 (0.62) 🇦🇷 Messi: 112 in 193 (0.58) The Norwegian’s scoring rate is unlike anything we’ve seen before. 🤯🔥⚽️

Throwback to Argentina first game at the World Cup when 3 of their goals were disallowed and they ended up losing 2-1 It wasn’t “rigged” for Messi then

🚨TRENDING: Iran player Mohammad Mohebi scores and immediately does the finger-gun shooting celebration towards the crowd in the USA.

I love De Jong and I think he has some qualities that are rare to find, but sometimes he can be annoying. He needs to understand the pace of the game better—when to move the ball fast and when to slow it down. There are moments when he receives the ball, and instead of playing it forward quickly for attackers, he'd rather slow it down and do these meaningless turns. For a player with his insane quality, at this age he should have understood all of this by now. Another thing is he's not daring enough to attack space, give final pass or try shooting from outside the box every once in a while. Being a DM doesn't mean you cant participate in attack and just be giving only sideways passes. Van der Vaart has called him out on this several times, and he still doesn't try to improve these aspects of his game. I am sure this is the aspect of his game Hansi Flick also doesn’t like.

a lot is made of brazil’s football culture where babies pop out the womb doing round the worlds but it has built an entire country of people too egotistical to play full back or scrappy poaching 9 and that’s why they’ll never win another WC

Germany winning 7-1, it makes you question what the point of opening up the tournament to 48 teams was?